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bob is grabbing him by the arm in a panic because somebody’s calling for johnny and he’s so scared he can’t remember if his little brother’s there or not (he isn’t). some teenager in a leather jacket tries to pick him up and somehow his instincts tell him to bite them. and then he’s being carried out the window. years later people ask bob why he wants to be a priest and he jokes that the church fire was a sign maybe he oughta win over the big man upstairs.

and mason, well. some other teenager with greasy hair and a scar on his cheek helps him up when he trips and leads him towards the window, where some guy who mason thinks might be tex from the future, if tex had different eyes and a meaner expression, lifts him out and tells him to scram. all mason really remembers is thinking that if he didn’t know any better, that guy could’ve been tex’s dad. except pop is their dad. and the newspaper said that guy was a teenager.

later on, after he does all the math, and after they pick up that hitchhiker, and a million other things, mason wonders if he wasn’t that far off. if for all he knows, he’s not tex’s only brother.

no, but realistically, this is the 1960s where people wrote in cursive regularly. It was standardized and like the print of today! Kids were taught cursive from 3rd grade. And expected to use it as the normal for most of their schoolwork and/or business/personal things.

This is back when there was a penmanship class too! (How good your handwriting looks) so they’d all have lots of time to learn good cursive. Yeah, teachers back then actually gave a damn about how legible (readable) your handwriting was. (Half joke)

Typing and print only became more regular after the 1960s and into the 1970s. When typewriters first started happening, around Tex’s time. (Remember when he made the typing keys explode? Yeah good times 🥰)

So the Curtis gangs print might be bad, but that’s because they never practice it. (Same as some of us never practice cursive.) but their regular handwriting? That is completely in cursive and it’s looking beautiful. ✨

Mrs. Curtis: do you have any name ideas for our next baby?

Mr. Curtis: no, I don't.

(toddler) sodapop: I do

Mr. Curtis: *glancing nervously at Mrs. Curtis.*

Sodapop: Emily.

Mrs. Curtis: it's going to be a boy, sweetie.

Sodapop: *looks around and sees a horse on a magazine* PONYBOY.

Mr. Curtis:

"what is this BABY doing in space!???"

no, but realistically, this is the 1960s where people wrote in cursive regularly. It was standardized and like the print of today! Kids were taught cursive from 3rd grade. And expected to use it as the normal for most of their schoolwork and/or business/personal things.

This is back when there was a penmanship class too! (How good your handwriting looks) so they’d all have lots of time to learn good cursive. Yeah, teachers back then actually gave a damn about how legible (readable) your handwriting was. (Half joke)

Typing and print only became more regular after the 1960s and into the 1970s. When typewriters first started happening, around Tex’s time. (Remember when he made the typing keys explode? Yeah good times 🥰)

So the Curtis gangs print might be bad, but that’s because they never practice it. (Same as some of us never practice cursive.) but their regular handwriting? That is completely in cursive and it’s looking beautiful. ✨

*theyre walking somewhere and a train goes by*

mark: hey pony look it’s ur parents

*a car backfires nearby, sounding like a gunshot*

Have the fanfic that Hinton wrote abt the Curtis bros after Jonny, Dally, and ofc their parents died

My newest HC is that at one point during middle school there was one day Sodapop got hit really badly by a teacher (still legal at that point) and shamed really badly too. Sodapop went home sobbing while Darry was trying to help fix his wounds 💔

This pissed Mr. & Mrs. Curtis the F off. (Also HC for Mrs Curtis, her name is Loraine!) They had a fun meeting with the teacher and decided that they don’t want Soda even to have a chance at coming home from school hurt bc of his ass teachers. So Mrs. Curtis homeschooled him!

They agreed that they’d do it for Pony and Darry too if they needed it.

Both the parents agreed that he thinks differently in a way that only a couple of his teachers were trying to accommodate to. He’s smart but thinks about things differently.