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I was too scared to jump in…

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steve who tries to offer 'rent' money to darry for all the time he's been allowed to crash on their couch bc he thinks he's a burden <3

dude.

DUDE.

you CANNOT do this to me my god, this is canon, yall can go home this is the only thing ever that’s canon, my GOD, it’s just like what his dad does to him

darry never takes it though. no matter how mad he is at steve, no matter how tight money is, the five dollars on the table could get him and his baby brothers a nice, filling meal, it could let him take off another shift, it could help pay the bills…but that’s steve’s money. that’s sodapop’s best friends money. as much as he doesn’t always dig steve, that’s also his friend. they might not get along, but that money could’ve been steve’s dinner for the next week, or his gas money for cold nights when he needs to keep his car on just so he had a warm place to stay, it could’ve been steve’s blanket or pillow for when he’s stuck in the lot with nowhere to go and nothing but his pride, keeping him from going to two bits, or the curtsies.

that money could’ve been his, but it wasn’t. it wasn’t rightfully his and darry can’t bring himself to take it. he gives it to johnny to give back to steve. johnny tells steve he just “found it” so that he thinks darry used the money to again, “buy himself something nice”, but that’s not how it ends up going.

this has infested my brain thank you

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curly got jumped again and I’m pretty sure he was SUUUUUUPER greened out when it happened so

After a long day of doing nothing, a letter falls through the hole in the front door. Pony gets up and grabs it, unfolding the crudely folded piece of paper.

His eyes scan over the words in one swift motion. Then, there's a pause.

"You gotta be kiddin'."

The letter is dropped to the floor immediately, and Pony rushes out of the house. His mind was blank as his feet rush him to the DX. He slams open the door, his eyes frantically scanning for his brother.

But, all he was met with was his brother's best friend.

Steve's eyebrows furrowed at Pony's distressed state. He pushes himself up from the chair behind the counter. "Everything good, Pone?"

"No, everything ain't good--" He runs a hand through his messy hair. "I need to use your truck."

"Use my truck? Like hell you're--"

Pony interrupts. "Curly got jumped, 'nd I don't know where he is! 'Parently he's high outta his mind, 'nd if we don't find him now, he--"

" 'Kay, alright, Pone," Steve grabs his coat from a nearby chair and slides it on over his uniform. "C'mon, let's be quick."

The two of them hurry out of the DX, both piling into Steve's busted truck. The engine roars to life and keeps chugging for the whole trip, its only competition being the sound of Pony's nervous ramblings.

"Someone gave me a note 'bout this, I shoulda known-- Jesus, he was just gettin' over the last time, too,"

"Pone, kid,"

"I didn't even question where he was gettin' all that weed, from, neither! I just thought it was from his friend, or somethin'! No kid in their right mind should have that much pot,"

"Pony,"

"I bet he's beat up real bad. I can't even imagine what these guys would do to him, 'specially if he ripped them off--"

"Ponyboy!"

That finally snaps him out of it. "What? What is it?

"That your guy?"

Sitting in the entrance of an alleyway is a roughed up Curly. Blood trickles down his face from his nose and busted lip, twisting into a steady stream flowing down his neck. He looks half asleep, apart from the constant movement in his hands as they fidget against one another.

"Yes! That's him, that's Curly, pull over--"

The car screeches to a stop. Before the car is even settled, Pony is hopping out and running toward Curly.

"Jesus, Curly, you scared me half to death," Pony whines, immediately wrapping his friend into a tight hug. Curly reciprocates, only muttering a quiet: "Sorry."

Pony pulls away from him, holding onto his arms tightly. "The hell happened? Who jumped you, do I know 'em?"

He barely gives the poor guy a chance to respond before continuing. "Does it hurt real bad? Where's it hurt, Curly?"

" 'Kay, Pone, don't crowd the kid," Steve says, having finally left the car to approach the two. "Sorry." Pony pushes himself beside Curly, keeping a tight grasp on his friend's hand.

"You able to walk? You think you got it in you?"

Curly clicks his tongue thoughtfully, then grabs onto the wall to help push himself up. He manages to stand fully, but when he goes to take his first step, it's as if his legs give out on him.

Steve, thankfully close enough to catch him, darts his arms out to stop him from hitting the ground. "Good enough answer right there, I guess."

Then, with the ease of someone whose done this a thousand times before, Steve lifts Curly into his arms. He shifts uncomfortably.

The three walk back to Steve's truck. Curly gets slid onto the passenger seat while Pony climbs into the truck bed.

The ride back is quiet.

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I do enjoy this creature

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Sometimes you just need a modern au for fluffy, happy ending headcanons that are too unrealistic for canon.

Because let’s face it, the outsiders canon does not have a happy ending. Those characters’ endings are bittersweet at best. They may manage to rebuild themselves from the rubble of trauma and grief and poverty, but that will always be the foundation. Greasers and socs do not end up becoming friends. Maybe a couple of individuals have moments of unlikely understanding like Ponyboy and Randy, but that’s it. Pony and Cherry do not become besties. Darry and Paul do not mend their relationship. Two-Bit and Marcia don’t end up together. Even just in the musical-verse, canon era Bev does not marry a Jewish Brill. Maybe Pony makes it out of Tulsa, but Tulsa will always wake him up screaming. Bob, Johnny, and Dally are still dead. It’s nice to imagine otherwise, but a lot of times it’s just too much of a stretch.

So it’s fun to have a modern au where I can go “lalalala everything’s fine, nobody dies, everyone becomes friends, classism and racism and sexism and homophobia are still a thing obviously but teenagers have more tools to deal with them in 2025 than they did in 1965, and kids actually get therapy if their parents die.”

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when he was a kid (like a kid kid maybe 6-13) steve had a phase where he’d say things in three

“oh no no no,

“cmon sodapop pop pop let’s go to the park park park”

“mrs mrs mrs curtis look at my new matchbox!”

(and bc im incapable of happy hcs) steve hated this phase sm bc it wasn’t on purpose it kinda #just happened. their neighborhood got use to it pretty quickly even if most of them were a little impatient but his teachers and the soc kids never did and steve got teased and in trouble a lottt.

when he’s like seven or eight he stops talking as much to stop himself from speaking in threes. it worked he doesn’t do it anymore unless he’s like real worked up or excited

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Expanding on this; At 8 pm. As stupid fucking teenage greaser boys. Screaming at the top of their lungs. As Pony fucking DRAGGHEED him through the sidewalk. And he fell multiple times. And when pony turned back to leave Johnny in the backyard so he could take a piss, Johnny flipped over and he sat there so patheticallt on his back, when Darry came out to the backyard to fix laundry, he tried pushing him back up.

Not related to anything in my personal life (/s) but Ponyboy put Johnny in a wheelbarrow and left him on the side of the road.

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What a week man

Heree s some alts!!! ^_^ I'm really proud of this adn I want to show her around eeeverywherer smilee

I was scared about coloring it w (which I am to evaluate how well I did tomorrow) but it was surprisingly more fun than I expected!!!

I took a good moment designing the two of them prior and I wasn't really expecting to finish it

Which is so cool!!! I haven't made something colored in so long

I rpobrbal had something else I wanted to put down here but I forgot !!!

They deserve everyhting

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Not related to anything in my personal life (/s) but Ponyboy put Johnny in a wheelbarrow and left him on the side of the road.

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hheh. hey. hi what do we think

half these headcanons are stolen from @nutsackx 's server members and half are just straight from the nog

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🎶 “all the girls are pretty there and all the guys are mean……

🎶 “and that girl Bev is also really mean…..

🎶 meaner than a lotta the guys actually……

🎶 it’s a good thing it ain’t socially acceptable for girls to fight cuz yikes…..

🎶 I’d fight any of them soc boys before her any day…….” 🎵

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Now what’s on your nasty old mind?

What if, right after the Curtis parents died, before word got around. Darry took him and his brothers to visit some distant relatives, people they barely knew, halfway across the country. Claiming that they needed some “time away from Tulsa” but when they got there, the relatives confused Darry for his father, casually asking, “left the wife at home?” And not understanding why Soda immediately bursts into tears and Pony starts shaking intensely. Darry having to calmly explains that his parents are dead, that he’s Darry. Not Darrel. Darry. Not dad, or mom neither. Pony reminded him of that the night he ran off.

other than that? Not much, just this bitchass STATE TESTING 😭

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Fnc!!

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heres a jay drawing i did :3 pose credits goes to posemaniacs. click for better quality :D

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Chapter seven is up! This one and the next one actually took FOREVER to write but they ended up being some of my favorites. I'm really excited for you guys to read them🥰

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Emo ponyboy????