#two-entire-bits

[trevination]

can you tell me about your transfem ponyboy hcs 👀

UGHHHHHH two-bit ily so much thank u for indulging me

for starters she keeps the name ponyboy. like. the name was never about being a Boy to her yknow. and most ppl call her pony anyway. it’s a connection to her brothers and her parents

she doesn’t start like. Questioning until after the events of canon, once things have started settling down (in my au, johnny and dally survive….. bc i can’t stand angst im sorry avsgsfsgfs) but once things are calm, johnny’s outta hospital and in a wheelchair, staying with dal at buck’s, once the tension dims down… it all comes rearing in her face

she fully believe smth about her is just wrong. someone fucked up when she was being mad because something inside of her hurts and aches and she just wants to scream and rip herself apart trying to find the problem

she doesn’t have a crush on cherry, it’s gender envy 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ literally just hanging out with cherry, their friendship, is when things start falling into place

she isn’t too keen on being like Soc girly like cherry, but she isn’t a tomboy either. she def looks up to evil and takes a lotttt of inspo from her lmao

when soda and or darry find out (idk how yet but pony doesn’t tell em) she panics so fucking hard and runs to johnny, just like she did that night darry slapped her

darry and soda (the whole gang) don’t really get it. it’s the 60s in oklahoma, they just don’t get it. they’re as supportive as they can be rand they love pony, but it’s a rough few months of trial and error, and pony and darry start arguing again before steve near kills em cause it’s upsetting soda again

pony goes grow her hair out, just to a tiny bob 🙂‍↕️ short and choppy enough it can be justified as an overgrown, regular greaser hair cut. and she DOES grease it

when ace finds out (through the grape vine bc no one can keep their mouth shut) she gives pony some of her oversized clothes, some more girly some more tomboy-ish and pony will never admit it but he SOBBED over the clothes and soda rocked him to sleep bc he was so emotional (his first ever dress)

oh speaking of i have this WHOLE idea of pony trying to find his mothers dresses and makeup and such… so so sad :(

pony talks a lotta shit abt greaser girls in the book (teenage boy misogyny…) only to immediately dress the same once she gets more comfortable in her skin LMAO. she keeps either her denim jacket or dally’s leather jacket on her 24/7

johnny is the most Immediately understanding (bc he is gay 🙂‍↕️) but he’s the first person pony tells of her own accord and she sobs and sobs and johnny rubs her back as silent support

it is def. Rough for her. really rough. there’s lots of scary moments with her mental health And her personal safety. she goes to college in nyc and thrives in the queer community there 🙂‍↕️

she 100% is not able to afford estrogen and she ain’t even sure if that’s what she wants, and it takes tears and tears for her to feel comfortable in her own skin and look in the mirror and see the woman she is (also she’s terrified of needles)

two bit u surprisingly is one of the most chill, but constantly asks random invasive questions just whenever, including searching for advice on how to score a woman (one of the biggest regrets abt coming out for pone 💔)

oh also uh. marbit would be canon ofc. and it’s a few months after pony comes out that two and marcia start dating. so she’s hanging around the curtis house and ppl are calling pony a girl so?? she does too because she doesn’t wanna seem rude but she couldn’t sworn pony was a boy and she’s so confused? meanwhile pony is sweating like crazy and terrified marcia will out her (she becomes pony’s girl figure for figuring out girl things 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ buys her her first sports bra)

uhhhhh that’s all i have tee hee

[cairafea]

my favourite genre of seventeen is when they're straight up lying

ref:

[s0up1ta]

markhelly fans get behind me

[gods-favorite-autistic]

To me there’s like a line between the Bad Kids who were always themselves extremely authentically and that fucked them up socially (Riz, Adaine, Gorgug) and the Bad Kids who spent a good portion of their lives playing a part and that fucked them up mentally (Fabian, Kristen, Fig)

[keferon]

Sorry but huhhhh-

GIANTS?!? YOU HAVE GIANTS IN THIS AU???

LIKE HELLO???

BANGER CONTENT RIGHT THERE I LUV THIS LOL

(I am a mimics au who is still trying to understand it even if I read spellbound and monster hunter au)

I HAVE GIANTS IN THIS AU YES

This lovely guy is Lost Light:D

(Also I highly recommend you look up monster hunter au bc it has a lot of other lore besides Lost Light )

((I generally recommend everyone to read all three of those comics because they’re meant to be perceived in context of each other))

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

This is my favorite crack take on Ponyboy and Steve’s relationship

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[egophiliac]

been a while since i've heard anything about ride kamens, how's that going

they're just doing Hamlet now APPARENTLY

[sophfandoms53]

Anyway shout out to Dewey who constantly looked like he was having the worst time of his fucking life in the pitches

Just an 11 year old pissed off at the world it seems😭

[kyurochurro]

small tribute to brian wilson, who changed music forever 🩷

[trevination]

mr. nation what does cowgirl look like. for. possible future artistic reasons.

OH MY GOSHHHHH (tagging @broareweabouttoviberightnow so they can add anything i forget :)) butttt. AUGH okay so she’s still very much a tomboy and wears soda and darry’s hand me downs ofc but i also think she gets hand me downs from evie and ace after she comes out. and her style is very like. it’s similar but as she gets older it gets more hippie inspired yknow? cc isnt actually a Huge cowgirl but she’ll delve into it to be silly (soda loves having a cowgirl sister tee hee). and evie 100% taught her makeup LET HER HAVE BRIGHT EYESHADOWWW 🗣️🗣️ also uh. hair. i’m not so sure abt hair i think like the kinda . bangs straight across? and she grows it out yknow i think it stays at her shoulders for a while. oh and the blonde bleach stays for a while too. wait lemme add some stuff from her pinterest board ig LMAO

the 2 last one of the 2 girls r just for hair LMAO i think cc would have like. frizzy ass hair lowkey

[arcanegifs]

Here's more comparisons of Arcane Gifs before and after I color and sharpen em!

[bearglue]

Guys help I’m getting sucked into this fandom

Also, Im trying to feel out how I want to depict these characters in my style so it might be a little inconsistent.

[linkcharacter]

Oh I have so many thoughts on aroace Curly, I think it brings so much on the table when analyzing the game's story.

Amanormativity ties in with the reoccurring mentions of the nuclear family, from Wrong Organ making 1950s mock advert posters, to Swansea talking about how getting a wife and kids didn't bring him any fulfillment in life.

In the cake cutting nightmare sequence, where Jimmy talks with Dream Curly about the mediocre cake, Dream Curly begins to talk about how sometimes you can only get the subpar stuff in live. Sometimes he'll get promoted, buy a house, fall in love. But other times he'll just have some awful fucking cake with his friend.

I think there is that subtle implication that Jimmy does buy into Amanormativity, with him projecting his beliefs on Dream Curly that a platonic relationship is lesser then a romantic one. But we never see Curly suggesting that he wants such a thing in the pre-crash.

With Jimmy thinking that Curly has everything in life, except for the desire (although I think Jimmy would view it as Curly not having the skills for it) to get a romantic partner, he would heavily lean into getting the one thing that Curly couldn't get in life to one up him.

THATS EXACTLY WHAT IM THINKING!!! AMATONORMATIVITY BE DAMNED!!!!

Looking at Mouthwashing through an aroace lens is interesting

"Jimmy thinking that Curly has everything in life, except for the desire", well said, well said! And references to the nuclear family fit in very cleanly thematically for Mouthwashing.

Jimmy leaning into amatonormativity is a smart observation. Jim internalizes all the social norms and standards on what you have to do to have a normal and desirable life, who sees everything Curly has and what Jimmy wishes he had, and is offended that Curly isn't satisfied, that he has the "audacity" to be unhappy. Curly meanwhile only wishes for his life to be something he doesn't have to run from, because by all means, he has already reached a point where he should feel accomplished, but isn't. Curly doesn't want to be a freighter captain his whole life, he doesn't want to settle with his sustainable position, he just wants to be happy. Like Swansea who has reached the "ideal" outcome of his life, having a wife, kids and a good career, it will never feel as good as embracing all what society deems undesirable yet right for you.

Jimmy does imply to seeing himself as lesser as a friend, "fall in love" being a goal and a "cake with a friend" being something he "has to settle for", it's all in the subtleties with underlying themes of "what you're "supposed to want" by society's expectations" against "what feels right for you". Jimmy is frustrated that Curly is going to "leave the dirt behind him", when in actuality, letting the crew and him go is the last thing Curly wants. Curly wants to be with his friends, he deeply cares about his crew, and about his close friend.

Mouthwashing as a whole reads to me as platonic through and through. Swansea and Daisuke having such a meaningful familial bond, Curly and Anya being sweet, playful and caring without romance, Anya and Daisuke having something of a siblings dynamic are dear to me. Also it's really rare to get to see representations of "toxic friendship" in media. Its always toxic romance this, toxic yaoi that, toxic family there, however in reality, friendships aren't excluded from being as rotten and abusive as the others, yet they're often overlooked. Jim and Curly are especially unique in this way. It's very impressive how they managed to showcase Jimmy's mistreatment of Curly in such a platonic way (at least that how I read it). Jim too, like Curly, in general avoids hints at romance and attraction explicitly related to him during his gameplay, not with Curly, nor with Anya (dear god thanks for that at least). It's all spite, annoyance and parasitizing off of these two. (That man's dry and lowkey hates everyone and everything) No attraction attached, no desires except hoping it hurts.

Curly to me is very much aroace, or at least on the spectrum. Like, the trivia fact that one of Curly's fondest memories is that of his friends putting in effort to make a shitty awful cake, tells us all we need to know on how dear his friends are to him. Platonic relationships mean so much to Curly, even when it's Jimmy fucking Mouthwashing, the worst friend ever imaginable.

[pairingbrainrot]

[clumsypuppy]

(yes I know siffrins cloak grows sleeves when its convenient but I wanna play around with this)