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*cutely jumps into the pits of hell & faceplants onto the ground* I brought snacks.

IM LIVING IN HELL SOMEONE PLS GET ME OUT

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I JUST FINISHED READING IT AND IT WAS SOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOD MAN.

One sided parry; Darry slowly realises he likes Paul in a way he shouldn't like a man in!!@ this can work the other way too, they're just neat like that

IT’S BEGUN.

Sorry for the long wait for chapter one pookie..

#DINASOUR SCREECH #i'm mentally ill ._.

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I didn't read all of this bc of my attention span, but what I did read WAS SO TRUE, ISTG. PEOPLE LITERALLY HATE ON STEVE SM, WHY—

In defence of Steve Randle

Listen guys, Steve Randle gets a lot of hate in this fandom and as much as it pains me, it's valid. Everyone has their own interpretation of the source material, and fandom is supposed to be fun, so it is absolutely valid and ok to hate or love any character you want. You can hate Steve for many reasons or for no reason at all! This is fandom! That's ok! The story is for you interpret and love and play with and hate on to your hearts content. HOWEVER, to say that Steve Randle isn't an important character to the novel is simply not true, and to say that he hates Ponyboy requires ignoring or downplaying some pretty key moments of the book. This is especially true for those of you who love Dally but hate Steve, because Steve gets a lot of hate for being kind of a dickhead (which lbr, a lot of seventeen years old are, especially to their friend's little siblings) while Dally gets less for doing a lot worse (harassing Cherry, jumping kids, etc). This isn't to say that either character is better- they're both great, nuanced characters who have done bad things, but the fandoms attitudes towards them when they share a lot of characteristics is really telling. Even Ponyboy's narration about them is pretty similar- Pony doesn't particularly like Steve, and he was canonically scared of Dally, but they're both members of his gang and he doesn't hate either of them. You don't have to like Steve as a character, just like you don't have to like Dally or Darry or Tim Shepard or even Ponyboy, but he is important- and he doesn't hate Ponyboy, nor does Ponyboy hate him.

A really important moment in the book is when Ponyboy and Johnny defend Dally after he harasses Cherry and Marcia.

"Dally's okay," Johnny said defensively, and I nodded. You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stickup for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang any more. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering pack like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber."

This line here is super important. Pony and Johnny were willing to defend Dally after he sexually harrassed Cherry and Marcia- soc girls who they clearly liked and were intimidated by- in the name of being a good friend, because that is what's important to them and their gang. If they're willing to do it in this context for Dally, you'd best believe they'd do the same for Steve, and him for them. Steve can and will rag on Ponyboy within the gang, but he'd never dream of bad mouthing him to anyone else. Dependability is important to the gang, and Steve would never publicly shit talk Pony, and vice verca. Regardless of their squabbles within the gang, at the end of the day they've got each others backs. They're buddies. We see evidence of this at the end of the book, when Pony grabs the bottle and threatens the socs with it.

"You really would have used that bottle, wouldn't you?" Two-Bit had been watching from the storedoorway. "Steve and me were backing you, but I guess we didn't need to. You'd have really cut them up, huh?"

The important thing here is that along with Two-bit, Steve was backing Ponyboy, no questions asked. Sure most of it boils down to Pony being a member of the gang and that deep rooted loyalty to one another, but the context for this scene is that Ponyboy was sitting on Steve's car waiting for Steve and Two to stop flirting with some girls. The three of them were hanging out- without Darry, without Sodapop. It's their school lunch break. We know Ponyboy has middle class friend's at school, or that he could've spent time in the school library. It was a deliberate choice to hang out with Two and Steve. He wasn't forced into it. Canonically, Steve and Ponyboy hang out. Never alone, but they're decent enough friends to hang out together in a group. Doesn't everyone have friends like that? I do. This isn't the only textual instance either where they hang out without the entire gang being present. Early on, Pony offhandedly mentions that sometimes Steve and Soda will buy him pop and teach him about cars if he hangs around the DX.

"I had walked down to the DX station to get a bottle of pop and to see Steve and Soda, because they'll always buy me a couple of bottles and let me help work on the cars."

He could've just said Soda's name here but he didn't. Steve buys Pony pepsi and teaches him about cars, even though he gets annoyed with him when Soda invites him to hang around with them too often. And honestly, who wouldn't? I'd be annoyed if my best friend always invited her little brother along with us, even if I liked the kid. Wouldn't you?

Now, we do need to address the elephant in the room. I'm talking of course, about this quote;

"I'd never tell Soda, because he really likes Steve a lot, but sometimes I can't stand Steve Randle. I mean it. Sometimes I hate him."

I feel like very often people forget the context this quote comes from, and so it's magnitude is blown way out of proportion. Ponyboy has just been jumped and then immediately scolded by his brother who constantly makes him feel foolish and unwanted. He's already scared, embarassed, and defensive and then Steve goes and makes him feel even more unwanted. Of course he wants to lash out. Of COURSE he feels like he hates Steve in that moment. I did even reading it. But Ponyboy doesn't truly hate Steve. This moment is PEAK fourteen year old having a rough night energy, it's not truly representative of Steve as a character or of Ponyboy's feelings towards him. In truth, Steve actually kind of likes Ponyboy and is at very least protective over him. This is evidence by the previous quotes, but also when Ponyboy comes back from Windrixville, and is worried about the state placing him in foster care;

"'No, [Ponyboy said] 'they ain't goin' to put us in a boys' home.' 'Don't worry about it,' Steve said, cocksure that he and Sodapop could handle anything that came up. 'They don't do things like that to heroes.'"

It's subtle, and not immediately obvious to the traumatized fourteen year old who is used to Steve's cocky nature, but this is both a reassurance and a very bold claim. Not only is Steve trying to look out for Ponyboy the way the rest of the gang models- by treating him like a kid, letting the 'adults' worry about grown up issues in a misguided attempt to protect Pony- he is also throwing in his lot to make sure nothing does happen. Based on this quote and the rest of Steve's characterization throughout the book its not hard to infer that Steve would fight tooth and nail to make sure Ponyboy stays safe with his family. Sure, part of it is gang loyalty, part of it is his devotion to soda, but part of it is because he and Ponyboy are buddies in their own right, no matter how much they fight. They are friends- and Steve is an incredibly important character for many reasons, but particularly to add depth to Pony's character, to the bond between the Curtis gang, and to highlight how the Curtis gang differs from the other gangs in Tulsa. Steve is just as much an outsider as the rest of the gang, and it's disingenuous to say otherwise no matter how much you may hate him as a character.

#the outsiders #steve randle #ponyboy curtis #darry curtis #two bit mathews #sodapop curtis #johnny cade #dallas winston

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Sodapop: Y'know that Pony would die for you, right?

Johnny: Pony would die to save a fucking pigeon.

#the outsiders #sodapop curtis #ponyboy curtis #johnny cade #not johnnyboy but could be #incorrect quotes

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BAJSJSKKNAWQLJHSENKWOHWDLJBQSEJINQJSDNDKIEOS I AM COMPLETE—

I did it @marmaladedcroissant @chained-sweater @the anon who asked if he was in a crop top

#the outsiders #darry curtis #cutsie man #the outsiders fanart

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I'd like to see Darry in the crop top.

Please.

IS THAT DARRY IN A CROP TOP HOLD ON. HOLD ON

yes it is, and the power is mine to do it again

#the outsiders #darry curtis

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Not my dumbass headcanoning Dally to be drafted well, more like he voluntarily enlisted in the military & having that as a way of living since he can't for the life of him work a 9 to 5 job like his boyfriend Darry.

Wait Ik soda being drafted is like not cannon but what if Dally was drafted Instead and told nobody and just left for like two years just to come back with his head shaved and rocking a military fit, and like the whole gang fucking flipped there minds

Like please I have so many hcs for this I love giving dally the most terrible life it’s an addiction

#SECOND DALLY POST IN UNDER TEN MINUTES i think i dunno #WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #i literally have so many hcs for him #i need to write them down #°^° #the outsiders #dallas winston #i love the outsiders

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BOOK DALLY HAD ICE BLUE EYES THAT STARED INTO YOUR SOUL.

"Book Dally-"

BOOK DALLY HAD BLONDE HAIR.

BOOK DALLY HAD A LONG ELFISH FACE

BOOK DALLY HAD BIG ASS EARS.

BOOK DALLY IS NOT MATT DILLON.

#the outsiders #dallas winston

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Let's see if it works.

Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck

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Stranger: Gay people make me puke.

Dallas: Don't deepthroat so far then.

Stranger: *disgusted* Jesus hates homosexuals like you.

Dallas: I'm Jewish.

#THIS WAS LIVING RENT FREE IN MY HEAD ALL DAY #I WAS WAITING TO POST THIS #BUT I HAD SCHOOL #HHHHHHHHHHHHH #also yes i hc dally to be jewish #will explain in another post #the outsiders #dallas winston #incorrect quotes

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Steve, who was sitting next to Soda & trying to comfort him: DON'T HURT ME.

Dallas, popping up outta nowhere: NO MORE.

soda (reflecting on life and sandy): what is love? two-bit, running in screaming: BABY DONT HURT ME

#lol #ik that song didn't exist in the 60s but lets pretend it did okay #the outsiders #sodapop curtis #two-bit mathews #steve randle #dallas winston

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Me.

you gotta be shitting me

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Darry: Alright, and what do we do when we see trouble?

Everyone: We drag Ponyboy in the opposite direction.

Darry: Good.

Ponyboy: Hey!

#the outsiders #darry curtis #ponyboy curtis #steve randle #dallas winston #sodapop curtis #johnny cade #two bit mathews #incorrect quotes

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I say it all the time.

I DO IT FOR JOHNNY.

rip johnny cade you would've loved saying "im gonna kms" after every minor inconvenience

#i'll take my leave #the outsiders #johnny cade

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Two-Bit: Soda cancelled the night out.

Dallas: Blonds are the worst.

Two-Bit: You're blond.

Dallas: That's how I know.

#the outsiders #two bit mathews #dallas winston #sodapop curtis #incorrect quotes

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Here's what I got: "Johnny slapped you because he lives in your closet."

☝️👁️👄👁️

✊👁️—👁️

Well okay then. ಠ⁠>ಠ

Outsiders Game

Birth month: (person)

January: Johnny February: Darry March: Ponyboy April: Sodapop May: Steve June: Dallas July: Two-Bit August: Tim September: Curly October: Bob November: Randy December: Paul

Colour of shirt: (action)

Red: Waved to you Orange: Kissed you Yellow: Made out with you Green: Fucked you Blue: Killed you Purple: Licked you Pink: Slapped you Black: Stalked you Grey: Fingered you White: Watched you Brown: Babysat you

Favourite colour: (because he)

Red: Loves you Orange: Hates you Yellow: Lives in your closet Green: Wants to date you Blue: Wants to kill you Purple: Loves your grandma Pink: Kidnapped your dad Black: Likes your dog/cat Grey: Wants to be besties White: Ate all your food Brown: Did your taxes

I got "Sodapop slapped you because he wants to date you"

Let me know what you guys got!

#the outsiders #johnny cade

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Ponyboy: Of course I care about my brothers equally!

Darry: We were jumped while you and Johnny were away at the church.

Ponyboy: Is Soda okay?

#the outsiders #ponyboy curtis #darry curtis #sodapop curtis #the curtis brothers #incorrect quotes