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[smalltown-heroes]

⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ 2016 // 2026 ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻

[infermiterdoll]

I’ve 😂 been 😂 big 😂 and 😂 small 😂 and 😂big 😂 and 😂 small 😂 and 😂 big 😂 and 😂small 😂 again 😂 but 😂 still 😂 nobody 😂wants 😂 me 😂 still 😂 nobody 😂 wants 😂me

[moonliciousx]

“but hani you seem so happy?”

IM A MESS

[kayuekou]

giving that fanfic you had in your bookmarks a shot and suddenly you've been reading 5 hours nonstop

[burnbrightbaby]

Nobody wants to talk about it but fanfics are dying!!

I’ve read fanfics since 2018 and have everyday since then they’re is no more creativity at all and I’m scared for it I want to encourage people to start writing more and and if you want to start but scared just do it they will get better I promise and the people who used to make fics pick it back up again if you want to I really hope people will see this post and boost it please we need to bring attention to it I can’t be the only one who thinks it it’s all just smut and no story anymore

[tall]

[bee2124]

How I look after reading angst as if it was me personally in that situation

[grimnaru]

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖌𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖘

✦　　　.　　. 　 ˚　.　　　　　 . ✦

I don’t want to complain, but this picture took a whole week. I wanted to add more characters, but in the end it was a battle with my patience, to be honest.

[irayoeywa]

stayed up all night reading a fic bc it was just that good. welcome back 7th grade me

[dinaluv]

The worst feeling is when you finish an enormous … x reader masterpiece and have to go back to your boring ass life so now you suddenly feel terribly alone.

[curtisberzattos]

A collection of my favorite SE Hinton Outsiders tweets:

BONUS: the multitude of tweets correcting ppl that sodapops real name is just soda. pony was "exaggerating" when he made the birth certificate comment to cherry.

(rusty-james is 14 mind you 😭)

[fortheunsungheros]

Dis about you Ponyboy?

[hellothereimaloser]

Cherry, Marcia and Beverly!!! The iconic trio 💞

More musical fanart cause it deserves the best 😭💞

[sodapopboy]

ponyboy curtis who used to cry when his father, mother, or brothers talked to him with even the slightest tone of disappointment or raised their voice a decibel

ponyboy curtis, who can’t vocalize why he’s upset when he’s really upset— who confuses everyone (besides johnny, since he does it too) when he completely goes silent after arguing with darry a moment ago

sodapop curtis, who was thrown into high school and expected to be a second darry curtis but couldn’t learn anything that wasn’t hands on, his only a’s coming from gym class or that mandatory workshop class

sodapop curtis, who cannot lock in for the life of him unless you give him a puzzle he has to put together or a car that needs fixing (both are the same to him)

darry curtis, who couldn’t stop talking about football after getting his hands on one for the first time when he was nine, whether it was at the dinner table, the locker room, or with ponyboy (who was never the sporty type when he was smaller)

darry curtis, using the little amounts of money his parents gave him to go and buy books about sports, making the sunday game a mandatory watch (he can’t have his routines interrupted or else he’ll get MAD.), and knowing an abnormal amount of information about the dallas cowboys

the curtis brothers, who feel things differently, but love each other all the same

[alittlebitofloveliness]

"Once we even found Tim Shepard, leader of the Shepard gang and far from his own turf, reading the morning paper in the armchair. He merely looked up, said "Hi," and strolled out without staying for breakfast."

Guys I don't think you understand how often I think about this line from when Pony is explaining why they leave their door unlocked at night, if only because its so...almost out of place? It makes sense for Dally and Steve and Johnny to crash on the Curtis' couch, but Tim Shepard? Even Pony notes its odd. I just think about it. What was Tim doing so far from his own turf? What happened that he was desperate enough to crash at the curtis'? How did he know their door would be unlocked? Maybe Dally had let it slip once when they were hanging out, who knows. Were Angela and Curly worried about him? Why'd he bother to read the paper but not stay for breakfast? I get not wanting to intrude further or take food from the Curtis' when he knows they're struggling- but why the paper? Was he looking for something, wondering if a crime he'd committed was reported? Was it a way to calm himself down? Then there's the obvious parallel to Darry- Tim is sitting in Darry's armchair, reading Darry's paper, a setting and behaviour used over and over in the book to signify responsibility and male authority- but in this moment, far from his own turf, Tim is far from authoritative and more a wounded animal. From the way the passage is phrased it sounds like maybe Pony was the first one up and no one else saw Tim that morning, but perhaps he'd appeared sometime after Pony went to bed but maybe before Soda or Darry did, which opens up a whole other line of questioning. What was Tim there to do/talk/about sort out with Darry and Soda? Maybe he was JUST there to see Darry. We know those two are on friendly terms- maybe friendlier terms than Pony as the narrator or Tulsa as a whole is aware of. Maybe TIm being there wasn't for some dark reason and instead because he accidentally spent the night when he and Darry were 'hanging out' (Tarry nation I see you and I know why you ship them). That said, in that scenario he probably wouldn't be spending the night on the couch. Then again, Pony only thinks he slept on the couch- canonically we only see him in the armchair, we don't actually know where he slept. Maybe it had nothing to do with Darry. Maybe Tim got tossed out the way Steve usually does and his usual haunts wouldn't take him in for the night. Maybe he was on the run. Maybe he was trying to lie low. We don't know WE WILL NEVER KNOW and it kills me I'm so curious, I've been curious for years, WHAT WAS HE DOING THAT NIGHT, WHY DID HE CRASH THERE did it ever happen before or since and he was just sneakier about it I DON'T KNOW

[alittlebitofloveliness]

Underrated Sad Outsiders Moment

"I had to read Great Expectations for English, and that kid Pip, he reminded me of us--- the way he felt marked lousy because he wasn't a gentleman or anything, and the way that girl kept looking down on him. That happened to me once. One time in biology I had to dissect a worm, and the razor wouldn't cut, so I used my switchblade. The minute I flicked it out--- I forgot what I was doing or I would never have done it--- this girl right beside me kind of gasped, and said, "They are right. You are a hood." That didn't make me feel so hot. There were a lot of Socs in that class--- I get put into A classes because I'm supposed to be smart--- and most of them thought it was pretty funny. I didn't, though. She was a cute girl. She looked real good in yellow." (Hinton, 1967)

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This quote always KILLS me because this is a KID he's just a fourteen year old kid who is so used to being judged and looked down on that it is kind of an afterthought in his story, so normalized that he is no longer surprised and has begun to internalize it and just UGHHH it kills me. Every time something like this is mentioned it's quickly glossed over but I can FEEL his embarassment and that feeling of being inferior and the way that everyone he cares about and looks up to is treated exactly the same by society and its such an important and consistent and underrated part of the book because like everything else in the outsiders it applies to real life and SO many people in the world and much like in the the book it is overlooked and brushed off and never adressed because people want to pretend it isn't a problem when it IS. just...this is will always be one of the saddest parts of the book to me.

(also, kind of unrelated but this specific instance might be a contributing factor as to why Ponyboy 'doesn't care too much for girls' because of this interaction with a 'cute girl' and his own negative self image that she perpetuated)

[pumpkinsy0]

wym u dont wanna hear my character analysis???😕