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Sodapop Curtis who is all the love languages at once. Sodapop Curtis who gives people cool rocks he found on the way to work and little doodles he drew, “I was thinking of you!” and soft head pats. Sodapop Curtis who’s only quiet when he’s listening, sitting in silence while his brothers pour out their griefs, a hand on their knee, a warm hug. “You’re doing good” and “I’m proud of you” and “that big brain of yours.” Sodapop Curtis who leaves dinner out for Darry and does odd jobs to buy Ponyboy that book he’s been eyeing in the shop window. Sodapop Curtis who cuddles his little brother to sleep and lays his head in his big brother’s lap, who stays out late helping Steve change a tire and races home with oil-smeared hands and an abandoned bird’s nest he found for Ponyboy. Sodapop Curtis who invites Ponyboy to tag along but never makes him feel like an imposition. Sodapop Curtis who is so full of love it bursts out of him, loud and explosive and silent and gentle. Sodapop Curtis who loves like a life’s calling. Sodapop Curtis.

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JASON SCHMIDT as SODAPOP CURTIS | The Outsiders on Broadway

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i'm gonna cry LOOK at him he's literally Sodapop 😭

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I should finish my WIPs. Unfortunately, Tumblr is oh so distracting. (It's fine, it's literally roughly 16 drafts. It's fine.)

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there’s gonna be more to this greasers story <3

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Obsessed with the photo from sky’s story today

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THIS FOOL

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PONYBOY MICHAEL CURTIS TO THE CHARACTER WHO MADE ME FEEL SEEN AND HEARD AND RELATABLE WE LOVE YOU YOU LITTLE RASCAL

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request from @cherrycolacowboy — the outsiders script cutout pngs

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Darry & Soda snuggles for the soul! Hinton said cuddling was canon and I’m going to make that everyone’s problem.

I used a pose reference on Pinterest and can no longer find the image, so credit to that artist, whoever they are 😬🙏

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the brothers ever (🎥 @mttztrading)

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MY FAVORITE BOOKS: PART ONE

So I'm making a series of illustrations of my fave books :D First - of course - The Outsiders which was the start of my digital art journey! And also I think the most fanart I've EVER drawn was The Outsiders <3 So it has a very special place in my heart and it always will.

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PONYBOY: I'm willing to do a lot of things.

PONYBOY: But admitting to Darry that I'm cold after he told me to wear a coat is not one of them.

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The Outsiders: The Next Generation!

Tulsa, 1985:

Meet mine and @just-a-leap-of-faith-away Outsiders OCs! Charlie, Chloe, Darrell, Susanna, Russell, Amelia, William and Daniel! The lineup for our OCs is finally done 😪😪 i hate rendering lowkey

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Things in the musical that I love. I’m sure everyone already pointed all of these out like a year ago, but whatever.

1) GGAH ends on a gospel sound, because its philosophy is literally their gospel

2) “great expectations” is in a major key, and “grave revelations” is in a minor key

3) ICTTYAL, “suddenly it seems…” it sounds like the next line will be the final line. Like the verse should end, “suddenly it seems, I could talk to you all night.” But then Cherry adds one more line. Then another. “I could talk to you for hours. But these hours go like minutes.” It mimics a conversation where you keep thinking of little things to add on just because you don’t want it to end. The song is drawn out like their conversation. Like their conversation, the verse should end but it doesn’t.

4) RRB sounds like one of those “legend of an outlaw” folk ballads

5) RRB does that thing I love when musical act one finales do, and when they do it well: it brings back multiple musical and lyrical motifs/leitmotifs from throughout act one and re-contextualizes them in the current circumstances. “You’re a greaser now and you ain’t goin’ back,” playful and prideful and celebratory in GGAH, now an ominous verdict. It seemed like a game before, but now shit just got real. (Of course it was never a game, that’s the point). There’s no coming back from this. “This town is a dead end road, let’s leave it behind let’s just get up a go,” is twisted from a fantasy into something they’re forced to do.

6) “little brother” and “stay gold” both end on unresolved notes. Two unresolved, unfinished lives. For Dallas it’s chaotic, a high note because he dies screaming. For Johnny it’s a more peaceful, premeditated choice to pass his final message onto Ponyboy, for Ponyboy to carry it forward in a way Johnny can’t. Both lives are cut short, but both live on through Ponyboy. Ponyboy picks up where their melodies left off, and finishes their stories.

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thinking about darry and the back breaking labor he is stuck in. the cycle that’ll always continue. his hands are dirty and calloused and every day he works and hopes and falls deeper in debt as he tries to work out the impossible. how every greaser is stuck

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Ponyboy getting triggered by his trauma while writing The Outsiders

him pausing to cry silently while writing about him getting jumped. he was barely 14 and he almost died.

Soda holding him while he writes about when the Socs try to drown him. Soda reminding him to breathe. that he was safe.

Pony reliving the most traumatic week of his life through writing, having to put words to his pain, having to acknowledge that some people were really gone.

Darry checking in on him, peeking through the door whenever Pony's breath would hitch.

Pony having Soda and Darry read over what he wrote every day, to check in on him, to fact check him, to be there for him.

Pony getting triggered while writing, and having Soda and Darry right there to pick him right back up.

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Rewatched The Outsiders so yous get the boys in the paper