#anyway I’ll probably finish this in a day or so

[littlestarbigsky]

a lil something inspired by this post by @trekkiehood :))

also at the end i used the dialogue from the musical so i threw ace into the mix, too :)

“darry, can you help us with something?” soda asked, poking his head through the front door.

“i thought you were fixing two-bit’s car,” darry called from the kitchen, where he was washing the dishes from the morning. “don’t you and steve have that under control?”

“gotta borrow your muscles, superman,” two-bit appeared next to soda in the doorway.

darry sighed heavily, wiping his hands on the dish towel and walked over to meet them at the door, cringing at the grease on their hands leaving marks where they were holding the door frame.

“you think you could wipe your hands down next time, pepsi?” darry rolled his eyes at them as they all started walking towards the driveway where car was parked.

“i’ll clean it up later,” soda laughed, jogging towards the car and checking something under the hood.

steve was lying on his back on a skateboard under the car, tool kit lying open next to his hip, and johnny was leaning against the hood, watching soda as he fitted pieces back into place under the hood. ace was stretched out, lying on the roof of the car.

steve bent his knee to pull himself back out from under the car and shouted to two-bit, “she’s not perfect, but she’ll run for now.”

“for now?” two-bit called back. “what do you mean for now? i thought you said you could fix it?”

“bring it to the dx and actually pay us to fix it and it’ll last longer,” soda laughed, tapping johnny on the back so he could close the hood.

darry rolled his eyes at their antics, “what did you need my muscles for again?”

“oh, yea!” soda came back around the car and kicked one of the tires laying on the ground. god, what wasn’t messed up with this car? “can you hold these in place while we put it back on?”

darry sighed, but picked up the first tire and held it in place while they reattached it to the car. it didn’t take too long, and darry was grateful to be doing something that wasn’t his chores for a few minutes. they had just finished putting the last tire back on to the car when it happened.

it was a blur, darry only really felt like he was there for fragments of it.

a familiar body came sprinting through their group, shouting at them to follow. clearly he had seen something the rest of them had missed. dally? what the hell was he doing out of the cooler? he hadn’t seen dally run like that in forever, which couldn’t mean anything good for where they were going, but his legs were sprinting underneath him anyways.

he wasn’t sure how he caught it over the noise of all their running footfalls, but it made his blood run cold.

“darry!”

it was ponyboy.

“soda! help!”

he hadn’t run like this since his football days, he could feel the unused muscles in his legs screaming in pain and his lungs felt like they were on fire, but he would die before he slowed down. it didn’t occur to him that he had left the rest of the group far behind him, including dally, meaning he had no idea where he was even going. all he knew was he had to get to pony. pony was the only thing that mattered.

he was painfully reminded of their conversation from that morning. they had argued.

“i told you to put your laundry away last night.”

“i was reading.”

“i need you to do it when you get home from school.”

“i’m gonna see a movie downtown, i’ll do it when i get back.”

god, the kid didn’t ever use his head. he was probably walking around town with his head in the clouds, not even thinking about how he was on soc territory, that they had class rings and blades and mustangs.

he thought of what happened last time the socs got ahold of one of them, he thought of johnny. how they didn’t even realize it was a human lying there on the ground, and how when they flipped him over, they could hardly even recognize him. he had only just started talking again.

get to pony. get to him right now.

there was a bang from the direction of the park and darry ran about ten feet before he could slow down enough to turn himself and see what he had passed. when he finally caught a glimpse, his stomach did an odd sort of somersault.

there was pony, his pony, his baby brother, knocked out cold on the gravel next to the corvette, left eye already swollen shut.

all he needed was one look at bob, class ring proudly glinting scarlet in the sunlight, before darry saw red. it was a good thing the rest of the gang had caught up with him. golly, how far ahead had he gotten? he pulled his fist back and sank it into the jaw of the first soc he could get his hands on, which happened to be clark brillstein. the fight didn’t last long, seven greasers out for blood against five socs just having a laugh meant they ran back to the car pretty fast.

darry made a beeline for pony, soda close behind him. he hoisted pony up by his shoulders, shaking him. he didn’t care that his hands were covered in motor oil, that they were getting all over pony’s shirt and it would be a nightmare to get the stains out. he was still completely limp and sickeningly pale.

god, kid, please wake up.

pony’s eyes fluttered open, and darry thought he could cry on the spot. instead, he dragged pony over to the fountain to start cleaning him up. soda was next to them in a heartbeat, pulling off his shirt to dip in the water and wipe the blood off his face.

“they didn’t get you too bad, did they?” he asked, maybe a little too harshly than was strictly necessary, grabbing pony’s face to look at his eye. it was already bruising, a couple of blood vessels popped in his eye.

“jesus christmas, go easy on him, darrel,” soda pushed his hands away and hugged ponyboy to him, both of them shaking.

“when i want my kid brother to tell me what to do with my other kid brother, i’ll ask you, kid brother,” darry practically shouted. he was having a hard time getting his heart to stop racing.

“pony, what’d you do to piss off the socs?”

“i didn’t do nothing,” pony spat back at him.

“you were prolly on the west side again, weren’t you?”

“it’s the only place they’re showin’ the new paul newman movie!”

“you and your goddamn movies. you know those bastards’ll be waiting for you!”

it was lucky that the rest of the gang had gotten back from chasing the socs off, becuase once the two of them started going at each other, it never really ended well. johnny put an arm around pony and offered him a cigarette. darry let out a sound that might have been discouraging, but with the way pony looked up at him, he knew the damage had been done.

darry dragged himself over to the jungle gym, taking deep breaths and subtly trying to get himself together. the rest of the gang was crowding around pony, rooting for him and offering him what comfort they could.

he knew he’d messed up, been too hard on the kid. he should have hugged him, told him he was glad the socs didn’t hurt him that bad. hell, he should have dropped to his knees when pony woke up, but he didn’t. god, there wasn’t anything he wouldn’t do for pony but when he got too worked up it came off all wrong.

“two-bit, you got your grease?”

oh, god.

[fridaywashere]

A Luz piece because this finale is making me go absolutely feral

[otaku553]

The eventual kazuha and sanemi dynamic

[bibleofficial]

i’ve been up like 3hrs & 2/3 of each hour has been me shitting & suffering like

[nina-ya]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE HAPPY TUESDAY!!! Even if the day started off not so good it’s going to get better I’m sending lots of love to you all 💕💕

[nami-moittli]

What’s this? Another Twst x pkmn thing so soon? Wow! She must really like those guys!

(Anyway-)

Yes, I gave him seven pkmn. Either SandyShocks & Spiritomb switch out, or Idia is just a cheat 🤷‍♀️

Porygon Z is a stolen pick, admittedly, but it fits him so well so I stole it. Same with Silvally (tho from different people lol) Absol reminded me of Idia, so I gave him one and Umbreon is also a good one. Yes this means that he has two shinies, he’s rich and is thus allowed color coding in his partners. Spiritomb was another one that I was attached too and I feel like Chandelure is obligatory (esp since I didn’t give Ortho a Litwick 😰) As for SandyShocks, I gave Ortho a future paradox pkmn, so I decided to give Idia a past paradox pkmn to match, and I landed on SandyShocks!

(I couldn’t find the 10% form for Zygarde on the site I was using, so I looked it up instead. I also recolored the red to blue myself bc I didn’t feel like trying to find an actual blue version)

Ortho… also had 7 pkmn. Uh- sorry? You could get rid of Morelull to make it cleaner, or you could interpret her Rotom as Rotom(Ortho Form), thus technically there is nothing stopping her from stepping into the pkmn battle herself if all of her usual pkmn faint-

Anyway, Rotom, for obvious reasons, and I feel like Klinklang is another obvious choice. I chose Golurk and Iron Valiant for similar reasons, as both are like, “protection” pkmn, if you will? You get what I’m going for, right? Something ancient and mysterious yet futuristic that needs to have a guard dog. If that makes sense. Speaking of guard dogs, I gave her two Zygarde 10%s to represent the two dogs she has in canon! I originally gave her just one Mega Houndoom, but then I realized that there were much better fits. I still do think that Houndoom would be a great choice for her tho! As for Morelull, that’s mainly due to the fact that I like to give her Hypnos symbolism (who is the Greek god of sleep) but if you add on the fact that it’s a fairy type, then you also get a reference to Fairy Gala IF!

[shatterthefragments]

This is literally the only concert I’ve ever been excited for merch so I’m kinda hopeful I can get what I’m wanting (and also hoping they’re sold out of some stuff by the time I to my turn bc there’s too much I want) vibrating

[roys-our-boy]

Just started Moriarty the Patriot and currently my only takeaway is that William and Sherlock should kiss

[inkykeiji]

Wait, are you playing honkai star rail?

I AM, UNFORTUNATELY LMAOOOOOOOOO

i am playing it, finally, because boothill caught my eye! i’ve been staying updated on the characters within the game since it was released, just to see if there’d be anyone i found intriguing, and up until now no one piqued my interest! like gepard is cute but he’s so goddamn boring, blade is cute but i don’t care much for his story (maybe actually playing the game will change my mind? i don’t know too too much about him aside from general basics) but boothill???????? boothill seemed interesting right off the bat. too bad he’s locked behind, what, a full year’s worth of content??? ahahaha ._. anyway, rly hoping i’m not disappointed when i meet him haaaaaa ha ha

[kateandosgood]

I don’t actually know how to use tumblr anymore cos I haven’t used it properly since way back in the early 2010s but every other social media is just too overwhelming so I’m back here. Wanted to start fresh too and also I like that on tumblr you at least don’t have to lay out every single detail of your personal life

[tragedykery]

I FUCKING LOVE TRAGEDY <- I say, tears streaming down my face

[squiddtastic]

it’s funny suddenly posting about a new thing you’ve never posted about and some of your followers actually like and reblog it!!! anyway pleasantly surprised by the amount of resident evil fans here

[seventh-district]

oh my god i can’t decide what to do with my time today

[livvyofthelake]

how is it 3 weeks until my birthday. what.

[palms-upturned]

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