Hi Ponyboy! Being in Oklahoma, have you ever seen a coyote?
"All the time!"
"There's lotsa coyotes around. They'll come into our yard at night, sometimes. They ain't scary, though. They just look like big 'ol dogs."
"I always wanted to keep on as a pet, when I was younger. But Pa told me if I ever tried to take one inside, it'd pee on my bed. 'Nd I didn't want it to do that, 'course, so I never tried!"
-- PB CURTIS '65
For those that are going to miss the eclipse on Monday, I have created a simulation of what the eclipse will look like along the path of totality
Tony, texting in the avengers group chat: Good morning people!
Thor: Morning human
Clint: Good morning
Steve: Good Morning!
Bruce: good morning.
Natasha: Good morningg
Tony: You guys are boring, spice it up a bit for God's sake.
Bucky: I hope you mfs fall off a rooftop and die.
Bucky: Not Steve though, good morning Steve.
Sometimes, if he doesn't get enough sleep or he gets too stressed, Pony sees Johnny and Dally.
Like, he barely slept the night before, the nightmares keeping him up most of the night. He's sitting there at the table, working on his homework, and he's stuck on this one problem. And he groans, banging his head on the table in frustration, and suddenly he hears "Don't do that, don't hurt yourself" and when he looks up, Johnny Cade is sitting across from his, his brows furrowed in concern as he watches Pony.
And Pony wants to scream, because Johnny is dead, but Johnny obviously isn't dead because he's right in front of Pony. And so instead of screaming, he just asks "where'd you go?"
And Johnny just smiled and shook his head, refusing to tell. And when Pony looked down at his paper to ask for help, Johnny was gone by the time his eyes drifted up again.
And one day, he's super overwhelmed because he's falling behind in English again and he has track right after school and some socs were giving him dirty looks and he just takes a break in the school bathroom, and then he hears "odd place to rest, don'cha think?" and he sees Dally is leaning against the sink, a cigarette between his lips as he looks down at Pony.
"What are you doing here?" Pony asks dumbly, and Dally just huffs, muttering about how kids these days have no real manners and a hello would be nice and he's in this disgusting school bathroom because he saw Pony run in and he can't even bother to say hi? And Pony can't help but grin at Dally's complaints, because despite everything, Dal is still just a kid.
He pulls out his own cigarette, preparing to ask for a light, but when he turns back, Dally's gone, and he remembers that he's been gone, and he'll stay gone, because he died that night.
But he still sees them when he's sleep deprived or too overwhelmed. And when it gets especially bad, he sees Bob and Johnny arguing in the distance. And he runs to them, but by the time he reaches where they were just moments before, they're gone, with no sign they were ever there.
And Pony doesn't tell anyone, so he ends up seeing his dead best friends for months, and each time he remembers he's just seeing things because they're dead, he breaks a little inside all over again
"He would not fucking say that" but it's "He would not handle someone having a breakdown in front of him like that."
It must be so bizarre for the gang to hear Ponyboy complaining that Darry hates him. Because compared to all their parents, compared to everyone else in their neighborhood, Darrel Curtis is the greatest guardian to ever exist.
Darry makes sure Ponyboy stays in school (he even checks his homework!), he always makes sure Ponyboy is safe, always worries when Pony doesn’t come home when he said he would. He actually keeps track of when Pony is supposed to be home! He works so hard and makes sure his paychecks go to his brothers before anything else.
He never hits Ponyboy. Ever. (Later he will, once and only once, and he’ll beat himself up about it so bad you’d think he’d killed the kid.) He never gets drunk in front of Pony. He never throws anything at him. He never puts out cigarettes on his skin. He never kicks him out of the house. Pony says Darry “hollers” at him. They know hollering. Darry Curtis might as well be singing lullabies.
And when Darry does yell at Pony, it’s always about doing his homework and coming home at curfew (he gives him a curfew!). Not for bothering him for rides home, but for not calling him for a ride. Because he wants to keep Ponyboy safe. He wants Ponyboy to stay safe so badly that he yells at him when he doesn’t. If Darry hated Pony, he’d yell at him to get the hell out of the house, not into it; to get out of his sight, not stay in it.
When Pony gripes about how “cold and hard and unfeeling” Darry is, they’re like, what the actual fuck is he talking about? No dad or big brother in their entire neighborhood is as affectionate as Darry is with his kid brothers. Only the gang is privy to Darry hugging or tickling or picking up and carrying his brothers, but anyone can see that he’s never rough or mean to them.
And when they try to point out all this hard evidence, Pony just…..doesn’t believe it. Like he can think of some other reason why Darry does what he does.
As if they didn’t need more proof that Darry isn’t a goddamn saint, he seems to go along with it! Shortly after Johnny and Dallas die, Darry says, “I’m trying to do like Soda said and be softer on the kid.”
And Steve and Two-Bit and maybe Tim are like, softer than what?
I want to thank everyone so much for the support on my timeskip bachelorette art!!! Glad you were all excited to see the boys. Hopefully I didn’t keep you all waiting too long and hopefully I did them justice! Here they are! (and Krobus)
(Also. If you like these and want me to draw your farmer smooching their spouse, I can! My commission info is here)
ok so we can agree that garrett and steve are gay right.
fresh out of theater review from someone with the no qualifications
Spoilers if you care⁉️
Genuinely enjoyed it so much??? Peak cinema actually it was so funny and didn't take itself seriously
Normally people sue me when I hit them with my jeep grand cherokee⁉️
CHICKEN JOCKEY🗣🔥
general chungus is peak fucking ON SCREEN KILL
Cgi was actually super good
POST CREDITS JENNIFER COOLIGE AND VILALGER SCENE
If Alex and Steve have a love story in a sequel I WILL kill myself
no straight explanation for the elytra scene.
Darry is such a 20-year-old boy. The fandom views him as this middle aged dad, but he is very much a 20-year-old big brother supervising his younger brothers while he himself is left unsupervised. He’s the embodiment of that quote “in my defense I was also left unsupervised.”
He eats chocolate cake for breakfast and lets his brothers do the same. He tells his brothers not to do anything that would land them in a boys home, but he fights in rumbles, lets them fight, hangs out with criminals, is ready to hide Dally from the cops, etc, because gang code and greaser code is sacrosanct in that ride-or-die, ritualized, romanticised way your social structure is at that age. (Also because that’s the only support system they have.) He has a rivalry with his high school best friend that they’re both still really hung up on. He shows off by flexing his muscles.
Darry Curtis is a hormonal, adolescent, barely-not-a-teenager who should absolutely not be solely responsible for his brothers.
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