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“Brody Grant ruins the ou—“

i am in your walls.

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POV: Curtis brothers after their parents die

Unironically tho… maybe not at the same time but… I mean…

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OH THANK GOD

y’all can rest october 8th was never called in the vietnam draft 👍

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They look like Stardew Valley characters omg I love 😭💞

I made some pixel art sprites of the gang

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you can’t tell me this isn’t at least a little soda and steve coded

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Soda calls him honey and Darry calls him baby and the gang calls him little brother and he dreams about the sunset and he draws horses on his homework and sketches his friend's faces and his hair is floppy and his eyes are big and I love him so much 🥹

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If you poured soup in Johnny's lap he would probably apologize to you

“I’m sorry we got you away from the party” Johnny man you just killed someone and need his help, I don’t think you have to worry about it

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i think davis!soda and joshua cade do quite a beautiful job imbuing the heart of this scene into their performances even though it doesn’t happen in the musical.

especially in ritfr and stay gold, and after the rumble too.

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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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The way Soda rushes to join the hug 😭💞

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You know your bf is the one when you have fun shopping at Walmart together

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they make me so unwell actually

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DARRY DIDNT CRY AT HIS PARENTS FUNERAL BUT HE CRIED WHEN HE SAW PONYBOY AFTER HE DISAPPEARED. HE HAD NO IDEA WHERE HIS BROTHER HAD GONE. HE THOUGHT THAT PONY HAD RUN AWAY BECAUSE HE HIT HIM AND IT TORE HIM UP INSIDE BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE HAD LOST HIS BROTHER AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS HIS FAULT. HE CRIED AND HUGGED HIM AND. AH. IM NOT OKAY

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daryl dallys height difference with brent during this scene actually means so much to me like it looks like darrel is bullying a kid which highlights dallys age and make his end scene even more devastating cuz ur reminded that he’s only 17 when he dies

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One of the things that exists at the forefront my personal Outsiders canon is that Soda’s always exhausted at the end of the day bc he’s so fidgety and a million places at once and a mile a minute that the second he lays down he’s done for

Source—the following book excerpts:

“Sodapop, who had already jumped into bed by this time, yelled sleepily for me to turn off the light…” (page 14)

“Sodapop was stretched out on the sofa, sound asleep.” (Page 42)

“Soda must have pulled my shoes and shirt off for me…He must have been too sleepy to undress himself, though.” (Page 87)

“Soda was dead to the world.” (Page 92)

“He put his head in Darry’s lap and went to sleep.” (Page 84)

(And the part where they hardly sleep while pony is gone and then he almost cuts himself with a razor so Darry sends him to bed) (page 134)

I feel this is just so important to me. Bros so sleepy

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Me, at the ripe age of 20 years old, starting to realize it is very probable that I have ADHD: this makes me even more of a Soda kinnie than I already was before!!

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dallas winston n this shirt. like. do we see the vision.