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dally (impatient) tells ponyboy to “giddy up” and pony says “yeah man stop dilly dallying” and dally straight up smacks him

marmaladedcroissant

What the gang sees Vs what Darry's coworkers see

sunflower-chai

behold: my incomplete collection of lyrics from noah kahan’s “the great divide” album that remind me of the outsiders:

“end of august” - this immediately screamed darry to me because. he roofs houses. probably for the rich/socs.

“doors” - this is so dally-coded to me. very “you get tough like me and you don’t get hurt.”

“doors” - this is ponyboy. the thing that immediately grabbed me was “i scream in my sleep” because we know he wakes up screaming from nightmares all the time. and then the “i’m the trouble ahead” and “i’m a sure bet at a losin’ streak” just because of all of his bad luck in life, from losing his parents (and blaming himself for not remembering to get the frosting, which is why his parents were in the car in the first place) to johnny killing bob to protect him (his fault again, for running out of the house), to johnny dying from the church fire (which he blames himself for starting with his cigarette, and johnny only ran in because ponyboy ran in first), to dally’s death (because he couldn’t stand to live without johnny). and then the part from “i keep showing you doors” to the end very much reminds me of how darry tried so hard in the beginning to understand ponyboy without success.

“american cars” - to me this is how sodapop and ponyboy view darry. he’s their big brother and guardian, they and all their friends call him superman. he can handle anything, fix any problem, and will drop everything to be at their side. and again this works so well because darry works with tools for his roofing job, so he is literally always “fixing” things.

“the great divide” - ponyboy and curly bc of their cigarette chicken game (except they are friends. to me).

“willing and able” - DARRY AND PONYBOY WHILE PONY IS IN WINDRIXVILLE. they miss each other. they want to mend their relationship. they want to understand each other.

“porch light” - yeah this is darry during the Week From Hell. waiting up every night for pony to come home, for some news on his whereabouts. filled with self-loathing for pushing him away, thinking pony would be better off without him but still wanting him to come home anyway.

“headed north” - ponyboy about johnny after his death :((

“dan” - ponyboy about dally’s death. he immediately passed out afterward and was sick in the hospital for a while. convinced himself he killed bob and johnny wasn’t dead. went into a major depressive episode while the rest of his friends were trying to heal and move on. “quit living” because he lost someone.

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“Willing and Able” by Noah Kahan x The Curtis Brothers

thechimericalwriter

Oh I am sick

#the outsiders #the outsiders movie #ponyboy curtis #sodapop curtis #darry curtis #the curtis brothers #noah kahan #willing and able #the great divide #the last of the bugs

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Sodapop and Ponyboy core

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I love the musical dearly but I just got sad bc I realized it omitted the detail of Darry yelling at Soda and that being Pony's final straw... Pony could handle Darry yelling at him, but not at Soda... and that's the outburst that got Ponyboy slapped 😭😭

#every time i remember that detail i die a little #the outsiders #se hinton #curtis brothers #the outsiders musical

Sodapop and Ponyboy core

#the outsiders #se hinton #sodapop curtis #ponyboy curtis #curtis brothers #the outsiders ponyboy #the outsiders sodapop #the brothers of all time #courtesy of pinterest

ponybored

Darrel’s biggest fear when he was 16 was that his friends and family secretly hated him. By 20, he learns that sometimes parents don’t stick around to see you live. That it might be his fault his brothers don’t have parents anymore.

He learns his “best friend’s,” love was conditional, and that Darrel was never going to be enough, that years of friendship couldn’t wash away “greaser.”

He learns his baby brother, who he’d give up everything for, hates him enough to run away forever without saying bye. That it’s his fault.

Darrel, who thinks that maybe he wasn’t meant to be loved.

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No but also Darry knowing that Soda loves him even when he’s at his worst and thinking that he doesn’t deserve that love ☹️

ponybored

ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch

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Darry and Soda dynamics 🥹🥹

#i love them so much #i will never be normal about them #darry and soda #darry and Sodapop #darry curtis #sodapop curtis #the outsiders #the curtis brothers #courtesy of pinterest

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Darry checking on his brothers at night ❤️

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“I don’t like to see women swore at” and “I can’t stand to see girls cry”

Ponyboy is such a sweet kid I love him so much

juniiperstree

if you dont like all three curtis brothers i dont trust you

chemicalcyan

I know canonically Darry and Sodapop only called Ponyboy “honey/baby” in private, but I also don’t think the gang would make fun of them or be weird about terms of endearment like one might expect. I mean for one thing Darry and Soda would obviously start breaking jaws if they had anything smart to say about it, but also the gang all remembers how often Mrs. Curtis called them stuff like sweetie, baby, and honey too.

Steve still thinks about the first time he and his dad got into it bad enough that he got thrown out of the house, and when he showed up at the Curtis’s, she asked him “Oh Steve honey what’s wrong?” and he’s sure he hasn’t cried that hard in anyone’s arms before or since.

Or when Twobit’s dad left, Mrs. Curtis dropped off some food to help his mom out, and she squeezed his shoulders and told him “Don’t worry sweetheart, you still have us!”

And of course if Ponyboy was “baby,” so was Johnny. He’d never even heard his own mother say half the terms of endearment Mrs. Curtis called him so freely and easily.

Dally pretends that he didn’t ever notice her using pet names with them, though he still silently clings to the way she would call him “son” when they’d have their little chats on the back step.

So whenever they overhear Darry asking Pony “you want anything from the store, baby?” or Soda calling “c’mere for a sec honey, you missed a belt loop” down the hall, the memory of her overrides any urge to tease the kid about it.

(They’ve also just been around since Pony was an actual baby, so it’s not that odd or surprising to them that his bros would still call him stuff like that bc they also still kinda see him as a baby no matter how grown-up and tuff he gets)

leastfavperson-deactivated20260

the intellectual intimacy shared between ponyboy and johnny transcended any other kind of relationship and it needs to be talked about more.

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i don't really subscribe to the outsiders musical content specifically but i have a lot of thoughts about cherry, specifically the misogyny she experiences and how she's seen as a villian by greasers + socs, and extra specifically how the socs turn on her post bob's death in justice for tulsa.

she starts with asking questions rather than placing blame-- "could this have gone a different way?" and more importantly asks "what have we done?", acknowledging the fact that the socs played a role in bob's death.

this immediately gets downplayed--"we were only having fun, doing what we've always done"--this can't possibly be our fault!

then it gets turned on her as soon as she brings up their past violence towards johnny. deflecting away from their actions onto her-- "you held his hand at the concession stand/ you know just what you did"

she becomes villianized and blamed, yet simultaneously demeaned--"i don't think you understand"-- clearly she couldn't possibly know what she's talking about!

there's almost a mocking of her trying to bring some nuance into the situation-- "we could sit here asking why"

can't help but wonder how this would've played out if a man played cherry's role in all of this. would her opinions and questions be mocked and demeaned? would she be spoken to like a child, who doesn't understand the implications of her actions?

it's clear she admires both bob and dallas, and i've always interpreted that to be because of their confidence and status/power they hold within their respective groups-- they are respected, listened to, and revered, even.

meanwhile, cherry is only seen in terms of her relationships with men: she's just bob's girlfriend, she doesn't know what she's talking about. she's "flirting" with ponyboy, she doesn't understand what she's doing. she's not capable of making decisions for herself, obviously! this is all her fault. she's reduced to almost an accessory for the men she interacts with, it doesn't ever cross the socs minds that she is like. a full person who understands her actions.

when she tries to speak her mind and consider both sides, even in the most delicate of ways, she's immediately shot down. she can't have an opinion, she's just bob's girl.

oh i could rant about cherry for years!! cherry valance they will never make me hate you.

brody’s last GE ❤️‍🩹

one. last. time.

I'm about to sob

When I say Pony is the baby of the gang, I’m aware that “baby” is a very relative term in their circle. This is a kid who smoked and fought in rumbles probably since his age hit double digits.

“Ugh, my brothers still treat me like a baby. They only let me fight in rumbles if they’re there too. Specially if it’s with weapons. And last time Darry didn’t even let me wrap my own ribs after, even though the other guys do it all the time. He made me sit there while he did it for me.”

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“MY SONS! MY SONS!” i yell, jumping up and down pointing at fictional characters from the 60s

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