finn

ong been dreaming of a fic like this but some trippy scenario where the curtis brothers are all seperatley lost and each of them wants the others to just leave and find the exit but actually none of them are looking for the exit they’re all just looking for eachother

okay what the heck

ok byler x phm x heated rivalry

Hey, hey, look me in the eyes when I tell you this okay? The whole "do trans women or trans men have it worse?" debate going on right now is the most obvious CIA bullshit on earth cause honestly we've both got it pretty shitty and fighting each other isn't helping anyone

soda and ponyboy's room is probably the messiest place on earth

A modern day outsiders au where steve is addicted to vaping and is one of those ppl who will tear apart a room frantically looking for his vape and will accuse the rest of the gang of taking it when he wasn't looking. All those years of friendship w sodapop goes out the window until he finds it again

ponyboy experiencing memory problems, absent-mindedness, and nightmares after the deaths of johnny and dallas completely recontextualizes the first part of the book and how ponyboy introduces himself to the reader. he talks superficially about his looks, about his appearance being that of a greaser (and we subsequently read about exactly how this appearance makes him the victim of a violent attack), but he also tries his best to explain the internal part of himself and how he is affected by the grief and trauma of losing his parents so young. he isn't absent-minded because he's self-centered, and he doesn't forget to call for a ride because he doesn't think, and he doesn't fall asleep in the lot because he doesn't care about darry - he's a kid who is deeply affected by the loss of his parents. we meet him as he's coming out of a movie, something that he uses as a form of escapism; not just the violence he experiences at the hands of socs, but also the deeply solitary experience of trauma and grief that he cannot explain to the reader other than to say that he "lones it". the night he falls asleep in the lot with johnny is put into perspective when ponyboy describes how difficult sleep was for him after the deaths of his parents, how alone he feels in the world, and how much he feels understood by johnny. and often it feels like this complexity of his character is reduced down to ponyboy being a self-centered teen when he's really a young kid who is deeply grieving