#sodapop curtis

[banjoboyscout]

1965 and 1975

#number 1 glasses darry truther #the outsiders #ponyboy curtis #sodapop curtis #darry curtis #the outsiders fanart #vicdraws

[alittlebitofloveliness]

Darry Curtis hc because this day is shit and he's my comfort character

-Does that thing where he kind of dances/shimmies to music unconsciously. Steve made fun of him for it once, and ever since Darry’s tried to tone it down, but never really succeeds. (Steve never bugged him about it again because Sodapop got so mad at him for it)

-Doesn’t laugh often but when he does it’s the kind of laugh that’s completely contagious. Surprisingly Ponyboy’s sarcasm and Johnny’s dry quips end up making him laugh more than any of the rest of the gang’s bawdy or situational humour

-Makes the best scalloped potatoes known to man. Both Soda and Ponyboy practically beg him to make them for their birthdays or special occasions

-Ponyboy went with him to the gym once after windrixville when they were trying to find an activity to bond over and it ended with Ponyboy attempting to keep up with him and Darry having to practically carry him to the car. They decided Darry would teach Pony to drive as a bonding activity instead

-Was up for a promotion to foreman at his job that would have had a decent pay raise and didn’t tell Soda or Ponyboy about it. He made it to the final round of interviews but ultimately didn’t get it and was SUPER crushed. (Same Darry, same)

-His eye twitches when he’s pissed off but trying not to show it

-Sometimes when Ponyboy is out with friends or goes to bed early, Darry and Soda will have a mini conference where they discuss whether they think he’s doing ok because Darry is terrified of messing Pony up and needs the reassurance he’s doing a good job as guardian

-Taught Pony to shave and it was actually a really emotional time for him because their dad had taught both him and Soda how but wasn’t there to teach Ponyboy. It hurt even more because Ponyboy was so excited about the fact he finally HAD enough facial hair to need to shave and Darry was kind of punched in the chest remembering that Ponyboy is only fourteen, and that he’d had so much less time with their parents than he himself had.

-Doesn’t talk about the gang or his brothers at work. Not because he’s ashamed of being greasy or anything (a lot of guys on his work crew are east side guys) but because work is his only escape from being a leader/grown up and having to take care of everyone. In fact, he’s one of the youngest full time guys on the crew, and because of that he gets a lot of ‘shut up and listen to your elders’ kind of jokes from the guys in their thirties and forties, which he finds ironically funny on good days, and gets lowkey pissed off about on bad ones

-Has skipped meals when money is tight so that his brothers have enough food

-Didn’t regret fighting Paul at the rumble even though they’d been good friends in high school, because after the Curtis parents died Paul told him to let Pony and Soda go into care and to look out for himself and not ‘kids who aren’t your problem Darry’ and Darry never forgave him for it

-The gang and his brothers think he doesn’t have time for girls, and he doesn’t, not really, but he goes to the same diner during his lunch break each day to flirt with one of the waitresses there- a girl he went to high school with who was also meant for bigger things but got stuck in Tulsa just like him.     (listen I’m multiship trash who also has a soft spot for tarry but this idea lives rent free in my head ok)

-His way of dealing with issues when he’s unsure is to just ask himself what his dad would do and if he doesn’t know what his dad would do he panics

-Is TERRIFIED of the dentist and so its the only thing he’s kind of lax about with Pony and Soda because he refuses to be a hypocrite and not go when he makes them go, but also…he’s terrified

#darry curtis #the outsiders #ponyboy curtis #sodapop curtis #steve randle #two bit mathews #johnny cade #dally winston #paul holden

[fuck-i-love-october]

So much of the Outsiders is just so sad altogether, but the utmost heartbreaking part of all of it for me is when Dally dies. While I value him as a character, I think the way his death is narrated makes it all the more tragic. Dally was never afraid to be selfish. He let everyone know that he would put his needs above their own in a heartbeat, regardless of class, status, or relationship. He was incredibly cold toward anyone and everyone. People feared him. He was mean and ruthless. Far crueler than any 17 year old should ever have to be. The book tells us that Johnny was the only thing Dallas ever, ever cared about. The only person he would have ever put before himself. The only person who he willingly and very really risked his life for.

And when the only thing he knew how to love was taken from him, it was like everything else in the world went with it. Dally, rather than being as cold and hard and unfeeling as he always was, Dallas could find no escape from his heartbreak than to lose his own life along with it.

It only ever hurts to hear the line

"Dally wanted to die. And Dallas Winston always got what he wanted."

To know that it means he, after years of imprisonment and gang violence and associating the streets with home, the only thing big enough to break Dallas Winston was the sheer volume of love he felt for Johnny Cade. And it literally killed him. Dally couldn't think to live in a world without that boy, so he didn't.

And damn the man who ever dared try to say Dally Winston didn't have a heart, because his heart bled darker and deeper than any greaser or soc in all of Tulsa.

That very same heart cost him his life.

#the outsiders #ponyboy curtis #sodapop curtis #johnny cade #dallas winston #dally winston #darry curtis #steve randle #two bit mathews

[the-herdier]

Darry: What did you two do?

Soda:

Ponyboy:

Darry: You’re not in trouble, I just need to know if I have to lie to the police again or not.

#the outsiders #incorrect outsiders quotes #incorrect quotes #darrel curtis #darry curtis #sodapop curtis #ponyboy curtis #source: perchance generator

[cherryvalances]

Mexican!Shepards are so fun to toy with. Few things make me giggle like the image of Curly and Pony begrudgingly watching a smoking dirt pit because Tim put them in charge of babysitting the barbacoa.

#and that’s how they learned to stand each other #let me indulge… #the outsiders #dallas winston #ponyboy curtis #curly shepard #darry curtis #sodapop curtis #steve randle #tim shepard #johnny cade #two-bit mathews #angela shepard

[sniffingsharpiesinachuckecheese]

Happy birthday to Steve!! one of the silliest greasers in the silliest gang

#the outsiders #the outsiders headcanons #steve randle #sodapop x steve #you cant handle the randle #two bit mathews #sodapop curtis #the outsiders steve #dallas winston #johnny cade #ponyboy curtis #darry curtis #happy birthday

[hellonearthtoday]

best friends vs little brothers

#the outsiders #ponyboy curtis #steve randle #sodapop curtis #hell on art #random doodle I did out of no free will #theyre like 10 and 7 here idk

[brainscrambl3r]

ITS HIS DAY TODAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BOY EVER !!

#steve randle #the outsiders #steve randle birthday #photo dump #the outsiders 1983 #i love him #sodapop curtis #dallas winston #dally #darry curtis #johnny cade #ponyboy michael curtis #ponyboy curtis #two bit mathews

[garlimcbread]

Pony and Darry would be having a civil conversation at dinner and then Darry would look over at Soda and

"..... You good soda???"

"*SHOVELING FOOD INTO HIS MOUTH* ONE MINUTE DARRY!!! *LOUD EATING NOISES*"

#the outsiders #darrel curtis #darry curtis #ponyboy curtis #sodapop curtis

[st-christopher-protect-us]

dallas winston in 30 years making a tik tok

#the outsiders #matt dillon #dallas winston #dally winston #darry curtis #two bit mathews #sodapop curtis #steve randle #ponyboy curtis

[marmaladedcroissant]

Where tf is the fic on FF.net where Darry gets hit by a red car at the movies when they try and hit Pony instead? And then the gang track down said car because, well, they tried to kill Pony and it ends up he relatively easy because there’s a Darry sized dent is the damn thing.

I need it back- it’s not in my vast collection of fics and I feel wronged-

#the outsiders #darry curtis #ponyboy curtis #two bit mathews #dallas winston #sodapop curtis #steve randle #johnny cade

[multifandom-lesbian09]

S.E. Hinton: no, the Greasers aren’t gay.

The entirety of the Outsiders fandom: so what I’m hearing is that they’re all gay.

#the outsiders #dally winston #darry curtis #ponyboy curtis #sodapop curtis #steve randle #two bit mathews #johnny cade

[alittlebitofloveliness]

The Outsiders and Attachment

Ohhhhhkay y'all I finished my human development final two hours ago (we love exams that end at 10pm) and I'm currently functioning on two hours of sleep and and a wee bit of hysteria but part of my cramming studying today was focused on attatchment styles and it was super easy for me to link these to the outsiders so here you go (Im sleep deprived and a psych nerd so this might get rambly and chaotic and hard to follow and LONG- you have been warned)

Ok SO first a shit ton of background info because I love psych. Basically there was this experiment conducted by this psychologist lady Mary Ainsworth and her goal was to measure and catalogue attatchment in infants so she set up this 'strange situation' experiment which (coles notes version) basically involved babies and their mothers being in a room and then leaving the kid alone with a stranger, mom returning, and then leaving the baby completely alone in the room, and they looked at all sorts of behaviour in these babies, things like levels of distress, whether they engaged with the stranger in the presence of their mom vs when they were alone, but the main thing they were interested in were the babies reactions upon being reunited with mom. Ainsworth observed 3 trends in babies and grouped them based on their behaviour.

Group A - babies who didn’t care if they were left with a stranger, and were uninterested in reunion with their mothers. A1 was babies with no interest with their mother, A2 was babies with slight interest in their mom and a desire to stay away from them

Group B—babies who may or may not have been distressed at separation, but were happy to be reunited with their mothers. B1 was babies not distressed at separation and slight interest at reunion, B2 was babies who were mildly distressed at separation, and approached caregiver at reunion, B3 was babies who were mildly distressed at separation and actively sought contact at reunion.

Group C – babies whose behaviour was not consistent at reunion (sometimes would engage with caregivers and then immediately run away). C1 was babies who were very distressed at separation, and C2 was babies who were very passive and did not respond at all to separation

*Note: mild distress would be whimpering and crying, very distressed would be like screaming and beating the ground with their fists kinda thing*

A N Y W A Y here's when things get interesting IMHO because these behavioural trends are the basis of our attachment styles

Group A babies have what's called an Anxious-Avoidant (also sometimes known as Dismissive) attachment style to their caregivers- these babies don't know if their caregiver will be retuning and they don't expect to be reunited. Parents of babies with this kind of attatchment style are visibly unhappy to be with their offspring and their resentment/displeasure is clear enough that babies as young as a few months old can pick up on it. Approximately 20% of babies fit this attatchment style

Group B babies have what's known as a secure attatchment style. They're your run of the mill happy babies, and their needs are met consistently enough by their caregiver that when their caregivers are out of sight, not only do they expect a reunion, they're happy to be reunited. This is most likely due to the aforementioned consistent care. A lucky 80% of babies fit this attatchment style.

Finally we have our Group C babies, who have an Anxious Ambivalent attachment style. Babies in this group have conflicting emotions to being left alone. (some babies might be screaming when the caregiver leaves, others are so apathetic as to have been considered unbothered by researchers). Babies with this attatchment style usually have caregivers who are unresponsive to their needs. These are babies who are abused or neglected, who have no sense of security or routine. apprximately 10% of babies fit this attatchment style.

*Also important to note that babies can have different attatchment styles with different people.*

ANYWAY so while I was studying earlier I sorted the outsiders characters based on what kind of attachment style I think they'd have as babies (fun fact- you often carry your initial attachment style with you throughout your life unless you consciously work to fix it)

Goup A (Anxious-Avoidant)- Steve & Tim Shepard

-Steve's mom split and we know his dad routinely kicks him out even though it isn't usually permanent. To me, it makes sense that his parents would do the bare minimum to make sure he was decently ok as a kid, but their resentment would be clear that even toddler steve could pick up on it. Thus we get sullen little Steve, who avoids or is indifferent to being left in a playpen by himself, and doesn't care when he is eventually picked up

-I like to think Tim Shepard's ma was a little different when he was a baby than when Curly and Angela were born, and while I don't think she was ever a great mom I think she might have given it a go, even though she wasn't the most attentive and was bitter about having him. Thus, Tim becomes another dismissive baby, who doesn't notice or care when he's left to his own devices

Group B (Secure) - The Curtis boys, Two-bit Matthews, Dallas Winston (to his mom)

-We know from the book the Curtis kids had a happy childhood, and that Two-bit's mom is lovely even though she works a lot. thus, we get healthy secure attatchments for these boys

-I like the headcannon Dally had a happy(ish) childhood and was a total mama's boy when his mom was still alive so I think he'd form a secure attachment to her at least.

Group C (Anxious-Ambivalent)- Curly & Angela Shepard, Johnny Cade, Dallas Winston (to his dad)

-This one involves little explanation. I think Curly and Angela (who I hc as twins) were definitely oops babies and by then the Shepards ma was too far into alcoholism and hatred to even attempt to parent, thus Angela and Curly never got used to her being around so the didn't notice when she wasn't. (The securest attatchment they formed was to Tim.)

-Johnny very clearly wouldn't form an attachment to either parent though I could see him being the type who's confused, especially when he was young, because I don't think the Cades were 100% horrible from day one. I think as a baby he would have never known if he was gonna get a cuddle or a kick, so he'd be the baby screaming when left alone, then running up to his parents and away when they came back to whatever room they'd left him in. Lots of turmoil and confusion poor thing, leading to the anxious-ambivalent attatchment

-We know Dally didn't like his dad, so I think an anxious ambivalent attachment, one characterized with a baby dally not noticing or caring when his father is around or when he leaves or returns to be the most likely of the attachment styles for him (i hc he was indifferent to him until dally got a bit older and mouthier and thats when the physical abuse started).

ANYWAY sorry this was so long I'm just a psych nerd who psychoanalyzes fictional characters for fun. If you actually read to the end of this bullshit you're a real one fr.

#the outsiders #ponyboy curtis #darry curtis #sodapop curtis #two bit mathews #steve randle #angela shepard #curly shepard #johnny cade #headcanon #dallas winston #dally winston #tim shepard

[caito-does-stuff]

more of the newsies au

#newsies #the outsiders #the outsiders fanart #darry curtis #sodapop curtis #steve randle

[guardedserum]

Basically what they were chanting before the rumble.

#the outsiders #ponyboy curtis #sodapop curtis #steve randle #darry curtis #two bit mathews

[cherryvalances]

Curly at the Curtis parents’ funeral

#he makes a to-go plate #the outsiders #dallas winston #ponyboy curtis #darry curtis #sodapop curtis #tim shepard #curly shepard