#friends!!

Because I too am the one that nobody invited and just kinda watched people for a while before just. Headbutting my way in. I just kinda showed up and didn't leave.

Thank you for the tag, @goodgirlgonebard!!! I loved seeing Willow and Luna!!! 🥰🩷 (and thank you @optimisticgrey for the template!!!) Divider by @/cursed-carmine!

Ofelia 🩸

Notes: The song is Remember My Name by Mitski! I feel like it appeals a lot to her fear of being alone and forgotten, and how she'd like to somehow make an impact on the world around her that will make sure her memory is eternal. She's a deeply loyal, loving partner who will go to the Hells for the person she loves and do anything (even to her own detriment) for them. 🩷 She is usually immune to many material things as gifts, but she does love jewerly from time to time, though the quality isn't something she really cares about 🤭

Man, this year has really been, something…. But hopefully next year will be better!! To everyone I’ve met here, I’m so grateful that you took the time to speak to me- Even if it wasn’t a lot. I hope I was able to entertain you somehow with my own art and stories, the same way most of you did. To my dear friends from Pinterest, thank you all for supporting me and checking my blog, everyday or once in a while. You guys have played a huge role in my life, that has help me grow creatively and emotionally. To those who have been randomly tagged and don’t know me, you are one of my many idols and I adore your art, or writing, or music[I’m looking at you Sparkbird..]. You have given me motivation to continue my journey of creativity, and that means the world to me. I hope next year is better, for everyone reading this!! I love you all so much, and happy new years💜💫

Shoutouts!!

ponyboy ends up going out of state too—not too far. maybe arizona—i can see him in arizona. the idea of pony dropping out of college due to financial issues interests me though. he got through one year before deciding that 1. it was a lot of pressure as a freshly 17 year old and 2. he missed his brothers way too much and he knew darry was working harder than he should’ve been just so he could stay in college. after he dropped out, i think that’s when he would publish his outsiders book, with it becoming decently successful. maybe he even gets invited to do some speeches at schools to talk about his life and such. a few years after the success of his book, when he has the money to go to college (and after much insistence from darry that he didn’t need any of pony’s money and that pony should use it to go back to college), pony goes back and gets a degree in psychology and art. he becomes an art therapist. i think pony would want to help people who need the help he once did while also keeping in touch with his more artistic side. and besides, pony’s always known that not all stories need words to be told, so i think art/muisc therapy would be beneficial for him.

in my heart, steve and soda move out together at 19–steve takes a gap year before college, and him and soda arranged to move out together. steve ends up going to school out of state (i’ve said new york in the past, lmao) while him and soda live in an apartment together. maybe steve even goes to community college for two years so he can continue saving up moves before transferring to a different school. i headcanon he wants to be a nurse (he had to do community service as a punishment for some stupid crimes and he worked at a nursing home during that time. he likes it because he didn’t feel the need to be “tough”. he could be himself. the residents just knew him as steve, not steve the greaser who gets into trouble and has anger issues. so that’s why he wanted to go into it) and that soda wants to open a therapy horse ranch. regardless, they end up living together because they’re the best boyfriends ever and i love them. they end up living on a little farm together. soda gets his horse ranch and steve gets to persue nursing.

it’s so so so important to me that darry ends up being the only curtis brother to stay in tulsa as a cruel twist of fate—the one who was supposed to anne it out, who was going to make it out, gets chained and tethered to tulsa. he tries to tell himself he doesn’t mind, but he hates it. he hates it more than anything, but he can’t bear the thought of leaving either. that would mean selling the house—ridding himself of the memories he had, the childhood he had, his parents, his brothers. sure, some ugly things happened in tulsa, but he can’t leave now. he continues with his roofing job for a few years until the second time pony goes to college, where he quits and decides to just stick to being a daycare worker. he feels more useful doing that, anyway. plus i think exploring male daycare workers can be so interesting, especially with darry. but darry stays in tulsa. he stays and howls his brothers know they’re always welcome home, even if they live in three different stages now.