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thinking about how if darry hadn’t turned on soda, ponyboy might justve went to his room and cried. bc the thing is he thinks darry is being irrational but he knows how stupid he sounded he sounded saying he forgot (“It sounded dumb, even to me, when I stammered […]”)

up until this point, it’s a one sided argument all most. like in the musical i could argue (not very well) that pony eggs darry on the entire argument but in the book i think i’d say he’s more docile (?) meek (?? neither the right word but alas).

for example

“I ran home, trembling at the thought of facing Darry.”

“He was on his feet in a second. I stood there, chewing on my fingernail.”

““Where the heck have you been? Do you know what time it is?" He was madder than I'd seen him in a long time. I shook my head wordlessly.”

“It sounded dumb, even to me, when I stammered, "I... I went to sleep in the lot...”

“I didn't mean to." I pleaded with Darry.”

and then the most important part to this whole point i’m trying to make

“I felt hot tears of anger and frustration rising. "I said I didn't mean to...”

darry’s been hollering at him the entire time and it took this long for pony to finally get frustrated and angry too and even still. even still pony doesn’t yell back. even still pony bites his tongue and lets his words fizzle out. bc it would’ve been real easy to shout it but he doesn’t.

he’s likely mostly frustrated with himself. because yeah ok darrel maybe he hasn’t been using his head as much lately, but he doesn’t know why. all he knows is that he’s been forgetting things more and more and he does things like fall asleep in the lot with nothing but a sleeveless sweatshirt and here’s darry yelling like pony did it on purpose. but he didn’t do it on purpose he didn’t mean to.

and pony gets it, he has been saying that a lot lately. he gets why darry is starting to get upset at the repetitiveness of it; pony’s probably tired of saying it himself.

despite all this pony wasn’t going to engage in the argument until soda spoke up. until soda spoke up and darry shot him down. bc for all intent and purposes, in pony’s mind that is, soda is one connection to this family. soda is the only hint that the family he knows and love didn’t completely leave him eight months ago. bc he hardly recognizes darry and he’s half convinced himself that if not for soda darry would throw him in a home.

so no “no one should ever holler at my brother” bc in his mind, in his puberty stricken mind that’s still grieving his father and older brother, sodas the only real family he’s got left.

there's no such thing as heaven

and I'm the last girl on earth †

respectfully stare at you for some purly, pretty please. Thank you if you do.

Here ya go!! :3

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Omg wow that man on your pfp is the sweetest looking!!

that man is matt dillon hes my baby daddy

Hey um

The outspiders

darry got suspended one time in high school because one of the socs said something rude about his mom at a football game and he beat the living shit out of that kid.

They’re all happy right? Wrong.

(Curtis bros edition! 1/3)

1965 - Johnny and Dally are dead. Their parents are too. But it’s okay! They’ll get through it together.

1967 - At 19 years old, Soda is drafted into war. He goes MIA three months later, they find his body a month after that.

1970 - Pony’s off in college now, though the Curtises troubles are far from over. A heart condition they didn’t know he had ends up killing him after a track meet. He was 19, Darry was the only Curtis kid to reach his 20th birthday.

1975 - Darry’s thirty years old now, he has a wife and kids. He finally got out of the east side. He has everything he ever wanted. Except it’s not enough. He misses his brothers, he misses his parents, he misses his friends. He can’t do this anymore. After all, Ponyboy was supposed to be the one to get out of Tulsa. Not him. So he takes a reach for the bottle and never puts it down…

Darry’s kids are forced to grow up without a father figure, his wife has to raise them alone. Pony never made it out of Tulsa, Soda never got a chance to grow up. The Curtis brothers hadn’t seen Steve or Two-bit in years even before their deaths. The two weren’t expected their reunion with their former friends to be at a funeral. Everything went wrong, but soon the Curtis family is back together again. For good this time.

wow! Writing fluff is so much fun! 🎀

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If you start playing with Darry’s hair (running your fingers through it, massaging his scalp, etc.) that man will be out like a light in SECONDS. It’s how his Mama used to comfort him so now he associates it with being safe and secure.

The gang played truth or dare once and it ended with Dally in jail, a potential rumble between them and the Shepard gang, Ponyboy admitting to smoking pot with Curly underneath the school bleachers, and Darry drunkenly confessing to the gang his torrid love affair with Paul