@QuintessentialNerd7 on ao3
Keeping a youthful mindset and a positive outlook? In this economy?
#i-survived-only-seeing-pinterest-screenshots-of-tumblr-for-three-years
sooooo this is my first post ig? Do people do this on tumblr? Idk I was raised on screenshots reposted to Pinterest (where we worship @i-am-a-fish and @biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist /patronuses and @pukicho as gods) I have seen Goncharov, though that was worth mentioning since this is its only fan base. I know a lot of old jokes that still circulate around on Pinterest, Moon moon, man door hand hook car gun, loss.jpg, then perish, the presidents shoelaces, none pizza left beef for instance. I am a teenager but that’s really all I want to say.
I’m in a bunch of book fandoms (PJO/Riordanverse, Maze Runner, Hunger Games, Lord of the Rings, The Outsiders, the Marauders side of HP mostly.
Musicals I like are EPIC the Musical, Hadestown, Ride the Cyclone, the Outsiders musical, and Hamilton (ooolld fandom tho, but I still like it)
Some of my favorite movies and tv shows are Stranger Things (Byler forever) Pitch Perfect, The Breakfast Club, Grease, Footloose, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Gilmore Girls, and Friends.
Some music I like is Taylor Swift (do NOT yell at me for this I am an unapologetic swiftie), Wallows, Djo, and various Alt/Rock bands I listen to like four songs each from (Cage the Elephant, Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala, Hippo Campus etc)
currently doing my third annual summer reread/watch of LotR and I’m watching the Battle of Helm’s Deep and absolutely MOURNING the way that night scenes in movies used to be done like the blue lighting they had for most of the battle made it look like it was nightttime but we could SEE what was ACTUALLY HAPPENING
honestly let’s just make every live-action movie the way they did the LotR movies, someone call Peter Jackson so that modern nighttime scenes are visible again
So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”
To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”
I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.
Oh! I forgot to mention! I saw him at lunch the same day, and he ran up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, pointed at this super sweet girl who comes to GSA and asked if she’s gay. I told him he should ask her because that’s not my place and he said he would.
I thought that would be the end of it.
Except ten minutes later he came back and told me he found out (she’s bi) and that both of us have a shot. I said “You more than me.” because he’s attractive and popular.
But this wholesome dumbass looked really confused and asked, “Because I’m tall?’
Update- after school today he saw me in the library and he didn’t say anything? He just pointed at the book he was holding and I gave him a thumbs up because it’s a pretty good book, and he went “Yes!” Really quiet and pumped his fist and then left
Okay so today he asked me if I know how to help people having a panic attack and I was like yeah? And he smiled at me and then went “cool I think I’m having one”
And I was like what the fuck Colin we’re in the middle of Tech class sit down and we went out in the hall and sat there for a while and he told me about the test he’s stressed about so we kind of went over his study guide and when he was feeling better he kind of like… smacked his head against mine gently? And I helped him up even though he’s almost a foot taller than me and yeah
Today at lunch we walked to the football field and laid in the grass and I told him thank you for being my friend (because I don’t have that many) and fistbumped me and said, “You always looked so nice and chill, how could I not want to be your friend?”
And honestly y’all, I would’ve started crying if he hadn’t sneezed and accidentally smacked me
if only wicked gave these losers a polaroid camera…
one day ill finish a sketch yall one day…
do we think the handwriting I picked for each of them on the right suits them? I feel like thomas and teresa were made to learn cursive and its like muscle memory, the rest idk tho.
chapter two of “5 Times Johnny Needed A Hug + One Time He Got It” is officially out on ao3!
I procrastinated so much on this because tbh the visualization was there but the words were not. Just one more chapter to go until I can post my beloved fourth chapter that I’ve had written for the last two months but 1) was waiting for my ao3 account and 2) have to actually write the 3 chapters leading up to it.
So yeah, go read it if you feel so inclined, my acc is QuintessentialNerd7. I introduced Tim/Dally in this chapter so that was nice. I’m really trying to get better at writing dialogue but I found myself going three paragraphs without any in a conversation which was a problem buuut whatever, I still think it’s good.
some outsiders headcanons i thought of when i should have been writing my fic
These are for most of the main characters, along with some twttin characters and my beloved purly, with a smidgen of Polysmoke/marlyboy that isn’t canon to my fics (long post)
Johnny is actually such a hopeless romantic, and I mean that in the way that he’s so delusional when he gets crushes
Johnny also hates the Shepards, mainly because Dally and Ponyboy are close to them and he doesn’t want them to become pretty much part of the Tulsa mafia (I tend to think of the Shepard gang a lot more like a mafia since I read @puermiles03’s Soc!Curtis au)
Ponyboy and Curly have known each other and been friends since they were like eight, but that was broken up a lot from the various times Curly was sent to a reformatory
The Cigarette Chicken Game Incident and Telephone Pole Incident were both Ponyboy and Curly’s ways of trying to to impress the other before they realized they liked each other after being apart for a little while
Curly absolutely adores their matching scars, especially when they get separated for a while, and sometimes when Pony was mad at him would trick him and say he would get fix his scar, but that only worked the first couple times
I have literally never watched a single second of the outsiders show that Scout came from, so I base all my headcanons and characterization off of fanfics lol
she is a MENACE though, in every sense of the word, the very archetype of “character is short and therefore closer to hell while also having less space to store their rage”. She’s basically Martin Freeman (coughsherlockcough WHO SAID THAT)
They identify as female, but uses she/they pronouns (say it with me: pronouns do not equal gender)
Ponyboy is the same but opposite as scout (he/they pronouns and identifies as male)
The two of them met after Scout slept on the Curtis couch for a night (pretty sure that’s how it happened in the show) but bonded more when she (along with Mark, Curly, and later Cherry) helped him when Socs jumped him a couple weeks or so after the Fountain Incident (I’m going to write a short fic about that once I’m done with my current one)
Cherry still absolutely despises Dally, even after his near death experience, but grew a bit more accepting of the Greasers and became better friends with Pony
Everything leading up to Johnny stabbing Bob is the same as described in the book, Johnny only stabbed Bob’s arm and he and Pony got away, went to find Dally and then he took them back to the Curtis house and everything was fine, Cherry broke up with Bob forever and then she and Pony trauma bonded
Soda used to get cavity’s all the time because of his sweets consumption combined with forgetting to brush his teeth
Darry and Two-Bit are both energy drink FIENDS like they are the people that will come close to legitimately overdosing on 5 Hour Energy
Darry however is because he is constantly tired from his jobs and runs on like 3 hours of sleep, twobit is just because he uses it as an alternative to drinking
Stevepop. That’s it that’s the headcanon
Polysmoke/Marlyboy isn’t canon to any of my fics as of now, but I love the concept of Ponyboy stressing because he really likes (insert one of them) but also really likes (insert the other) and Curly and Mark having a rivalry but then gaining a strange bond and then becoming closer and eventually being like “wait, why are we fighting, he has two hands!” And then they talk to Ponyboy and he almost melts from relief
Might make a part two later, for now, these are my headcanons
