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i thought this was cute lol, rereading the series (i'm on the penultimate peril)

#ASoUE in the big 26 im blessed #thank you #asoue

When Pony was gone, Sodapop didn't know what to do. He couldn’t sleep, not in this empty bed, not in this great unknown of whether his brother was ok or not.

And he wouldn’t go sleep with Darry because he was awful mad with him. He knew it wasn’t really Darry's fault but glory, that didn’t stop him from being angry.

So he loses sleep, and he's up before Darry, making breakfast simply because he didn’t sleep more than an hour anyway. Working at the DX didn’t exhaust him in the way roofin houses exhausted Darry.

But one day, he falls asleep at the DX and Steve doesn't wake him up. Not when customers come in, not when he has to go fix up a car or two, not even when it's the end of their shifts and Soda needs to go home. Steve just picks him up and loads him up in his car. He drives him back to the Curtis house and carries Soda into his room and lays him gently in bed, all the while being careful not to wake his best friend.

But there's a hand around his wrist and Soda stares up at him, so sleepy, and so sad, and whispers "Please stay,"

And Steve can't say no to Sodapop.

curtis-brothers-hug

Ponyboy, chapter 1:

“Darry stared at him for a second, then cracked a grin. Sodapop isn't afraid of him like everyone else and enjoys teasing him. I'd just as soon tease a full-grown grizzly; but for some reason, Darry seems to like being teased by Soda.”

Ponyboy, chapter 7:

“‘You smoke more than a pack today and I'll skin you. Understood?’ ‘Yeah,’ I said, getting to my feet. ‘You carry more than one bundle of roofing at a time today and me and Soda'll skin you. Understood?’ He grinned one of his rare grins. ‘Yeah. See y'all this afternoon.’”

This is one of my favorite subtle moments of character/relationship growth and narrative payoff: Ponyboy going from being reluctant to tease Darry, to teasing him without reservation and being rewarded with the same grin Darry gives Soda.

Darry loves chocolate, but not the ice cream. he mixes vanilla and Herseys syrup together to make a sludge and eats that.

#and to treat himself he mixes cake w it #send tweet #the outsiders #darry curtis

In a modern AU Soda would totally own the emotional support highland cows

#that’s all #the outsiders #sodapop curtis

hollow-haywon

Brochacho does not want to be there (but he is because he loves them <3)

cry1ng-at-m1dnight

Sodapop after getting with Steve /joke

cherryharps

i CRAVE clingy ponyboy.

like johnny and pony laying down together and ponys wrapped himself onto johnny. and johnny not having the heart to tell his bf his entire body has gone numb (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

29prlsinyourkss

"I asked chat gpt" Well i asked Mr Anderson and he said "we accept the love we think we deserve"

printer-reads-505

While I was scared of being left…

You were scared of being seen, truly seen…

teagis17

“NO NO PLEASE DONT MAKE ME SHOWER”

johnnyzweig

"ponyboy is bisexual" i say to the crowd as they boo and throw rocks at me

"yes I am" says ponyboy as he walks to the stage with ghost johnny and a party hat on

this is my dumbest post 💔

spiteinstilettos

The Outsiders is about classism, but it’s also pain and grief and life after loss and the tiny moments of gold between the crippling waves of trauma. But maybe the gold was both the sunset and the ember in a cigarette shared with friends and the gold of the fire that tears it all apart. And maybe this time it could be different, but nothing gold can stay. The great expectations were nothing but expectations all along.