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I finally reached the point of The Darry Novel where the chapters and scenes will go by quicker because im at the part where it’s my reward after finishing the hell chapter part 2 that was chapter 29 in Part 3 and i finally get to write all the scenes that I’ve been so excited to write since Part 3 like Polk Salad Annie in chapter 38 and Elvis at the international hotel performing it and The Jacksons on the Carol Burnette show and KAKSJWJSJWJ I can’t wait for y’all to read this when I drop it late July im so ready for y’all’s reactions Darry I hope to do you justice🫡

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New favorite Tabloid Junkie - The Darry Novel quote:

“Elvis was in the dust and the Jackson 5 was rising to the charts.” —Darry Curtis, chapter 37

TJ soon to release on ao3 end of July get excity! One year later and it’s almost done

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Hardest things in Tabloid Junkie - The Darry Novel I had to do in honor of my most ambitious stories being almost completed:

- the research. TONS OF IT. Especially for weather and geographical. As a Virginian, I only been to Oklahoma once and not even in Tulsa! So I literally had no idea where place a, b, and c were and because this is fiction I can make places up like Williams & Co. Roofing Company but I also tried to be realistic about its location. I remembered having a map of Oklahoma right beside my word document and Texas too for Kennedy and Connie since she was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. I had to figure out where the oil plant was, how far it was, what Downtown Tulsa where Williams & Co. is looks like, how far Riverview, Oklahoma was from Tulsa (which is Connie’s neighborhood and not far), where the Arkansas River Bridge was etc etc

- weaving in historical anchors over 14 years of time through each president: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in between scenes as background

- Vietnam and seeing the Tet Offensive for imagery and gaining a sense of what Sodapop and Steve were going through in 1968, I also had a map of Vietnam as well

- when songs were released for those who have my playlist for the book, almost all those songs in that playlist is actually in the fic/book itself im not serious. Im serious when i say music is very symbolic

- when certain days of the year was

- Nixon’s presidency timeline because that was something I didn’t include in the first draft so weaving it through part 4: can you feel it

- Car prices and utility prices back then (I had to reteach myself mortages🥲 even tho im a college graduate, I thought I was done with math)

- being in a male’s head for a YEAR (im tired. Im a female btw)

- figuring out choreography/dance scenes throughout the fic/book whatever you want to call it because as a professional dancer too, studied hip hop for 5 years, tap for 1, musical theatre for about 3, was raised on Michael Jackson’s choreography and was self taught since childhood, it was HARD. For example, there’s a scene in chapter 28 when y’all read the fic/book late july that I really wanted Tim motherfucking Shepard to do beat it choreography bc that scene was inspired by the meaning behind beat it and I knew that choreography like the back of my own hand but I crashed out so many times when creating that choreography in that scene because the beat it choreo wouldn’t release until like 20 years or so later😭

- seeing the entire fic/book like a movie in my head and trying to keep the scenes “keep it simple” but im a detailed writer so 🤷🏻‍♀️

- trying to describe violence scenes and police brutality without being extremely graphic

- writing female characters

- writing slow burn romance

- keeping track of my characters ages (the amount of times I had to use the fucking calculator)

- combining all four pieces of the Outsiders media into one: the book, the movie, the musical, the 1990 show

- the rumble (thank god I knew how to do boxing a bit and Muay Thai)

- teen culture back then and women’s fashion and women culture back then

- 70s decade

- trying to be realistic and show the reality even tho it’s fiction so of course there’s gonna be a tad bit of historical inaccuracies

- trying to make Connie biggs relatable and human

- Building Darry’s relationships in his life

- building symbolism other than just music

- lowkey building found family dynamics

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I rlly wanna post a video of me singing ‘Runs in the Family Reprise’ but I’m a theatre kid, and feel the need to act with my face when I’m singing, so my facial expressions are so chopped in the video 😭✌️🥀

(I’m thinking maybe I’ll put the audio of me singing over a drawing or smthn? Idk)

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IME SORRY

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John x Darry commission for @thegetou 😋

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I feel like Darry being bisexual in my fanon maybe doesn’t register as “making sense” sometimes since it can feel very “why not just make him gay”. He almost exclusively bottoms with men and def has a pretty clear preference for men in my fanon too.

But from my pov there are some big reasons for this:

First off to me his preference is mostly just based on him finding masculinity the most sexually appealing. So even I think of John my oc—a man—presenting more androgynous or feminine at times was definitely something he kinda is a little offput by. He really finds femininity most attractive if something about it really stands out on a person. Like on someone who wouldn’t typically be expected to dress fem. Or if it’s very over the top and such

Additionally his attraction to women is definitely a lot less influenced by physical appeal cause again he is more sexually attracted to masculinity. With women he almost always has to have some existing relationship to find sex with her appealing. He also has a complex about feeling guilt around having sexual desires towards women he would assume it’s unwanted from… but really…. he just doesn’t think of women being capable of sexual desires like men 🫩So it’s very very rare he would willingly hookup as a one time deal with women over men. It makes more sense a little later in this post for why he in particular would assume women don’t enjoy sex. Sure religious teaching and society’s messaging doesn’t help

And then there are the societal pressures… If my Darry was born in modern times I don’t actually think he’d have almost any preference between women or men. But it’s like it’s been so instilled in him that he’s supposed to be having sex with women, that it causes a lot of internal conflict for him. It becomes really hard for him to tell where he’s ACTUALLY wanting things with a woman versus feeling like he just SHOULD want it. Does he really want to say yes to sex with this woman or does he feel less a proper man to say no?

Then there is the l added layer of his first and—depending on AU timeline—only, sexual experiences with women being mostly unwanted if not downright traumatic. I take his account of his first time in the outsiders tv show and put it in my fanon, but I treat it a lot more seriously. Even before I watched the tv show, I always wrote him from the standpoint of his first and coming experiences with women not fully being wanted. Explaining later-

In the tv show, they say his first time he was 15. I consider it an incident of peer pressure and he wanted to be a proper boy as taught who just always should want sex no matter what. I assume like pony it was with a grown woman. I think he really would talk about it crassly, as if nothing at all, like in the tv show. But really he does remember sobbing while she cleaned him up and not quite knowing why. He grinned and made over it highfiving them like everyone wanted with the rest of the football team. But that night his dad got onto him for wasting water while he sat under the shower head for almost an hour and couldn’t move. He would retell it fondly because that’s what everyone expects, and who is he to disappoint? He’s numb to it… or so he tells himself

And then his only others for a long time or maybe forever were girls he was only dating for the sake of he and Paul not raising suspicions. And he would try his hardest to avoid sex with them. But ofc it always came down to “you’re a guy? Something must be wrong if you don’t want it” and so he’d do it anyways just to keep the peace and all. It makes a lot of sense that the only woman he canonically falls in love with in my main fanon was one he dated that was ace 😕

Also adds another layer that considering these are his only sexual experiences outside of Paul until John and later more. Ofc if these were his only experiences with sex, then yeah sure he thinks sex should just always make him feel bad inside in a way he can’t quite explain. It makes sense that he doesn’t really know about appropriate consent. It makes sense he doesn’t really get why people like Two-Bit seem so gung ho about sex. If makes sense he never really questions the way Paul treats him in bed either. To him ofc sex feels fucking awful but he’s supposed to like it because he’s a man and that’s how relationships are apparently supposed to work

So yeah, “functionally” Darry mostly leans towards men in my fanon, but while it is a good bit one, it’s not so much JUST an inherent preference