Angelina

the way fandom has treated angela's characterization in years also makes this stand out. she's been deeply sexualized in fandom in a way that doesn't seem thoughtful, she's been written as unstable mess without pity, and she's often written in a way that makes it clear a lot of the misogyny aimed towards sandy in the outsiders has now been transferred to her. and it's sad. this more than anything reminds me she's a teenage girl already in a bad situation being preyed upon by boys her age in a way that's utterly violating and i think people forget she's just that — a teenage girl in a bad situation.

In my head I know WHY they cast Matt Dillon as Dally but I wish more than anything else they had cast an actor more accurate to his book description. Like, give me an ugly ass dude with white blonde hair, not only because I feel like it would make the fandom take his character more seriously but because him being canonically described as ugly repeatedly is not just because Ponyboy is kind of a hater, it's actually narratively important. In the book the attractive characters are SEEN to get away with more, pretty privilege is a thing, even in the book (ie. Soda trying to lift a cop's gun and not getting in trouble, all the Curtis brother's being in the paper because it's 'good public appeal'). The whole point of Dally's character is that he had it rough and he has NOTHING, nothing has ever been easy for him or handed to him and because of that he's become cold and hardened and cutthroat. Ugly Dally in canon would never have a judge or jury go easy on him because of his looks (yes, this is actually something that happens- attractive people get more lenient sentences and often less jail time than unattractive people), he could never charm his way into ANYTHING, he would never be given the benefit of the doubt. Let's be real, if Dally actually looked like Matt Dillon he probably would have been able to do/get away with all those things. If canon Dally was handsome like Sodapop he could have got away with stuff easier (to a certain degree). Even within fandom space, there probably wouldn't be half as many Dally apologists if the actor wasn't as attractive as he is. Just, ugh, LET DALLY BE UGLY. It was narratively important and important to me and hollywood needs to let characters be ugly because not everyone looks like a movie star.

The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu, 2013

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Kenickie was always my favorite thunder bird and those are pretty much the reasons why.

Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

Weegee (American, 1899-1968) Untitled [Young man smoking cigarette in crashed car while waiting for ambulance, New York] 1941

you cannot type out the actual, still a real world, still used today, still horrifically violent n-word. and what the fuck is wrong with you for even getting the gal to post this shit.

I'd never want to make fun of black people's struggles and history.

again: this is racist and gross.

I can also see the irony in comparing two words and not even writing one out but yet again, I'm not saying greaser is as bad as the n word. It's like saying "mutie" in the X-Men universe is a metaphor for the n word or that in Zootopia predators represent poc and preys represent white people.

Yall couldn't handle Cherry Valance

GREASE IS THE WORD #6 Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies - S01E08 // Grease