#the theme

“You know,” Calligos says in a low voice, only for her, “They think your augmetic’s a crown.” “Maybe it's better they think it's a crown. Maybe it's better they don't know the battles I've seen.” “Oh? Whyever would you think that?” “I think their noses might wrinkle and ruin their powder.”

-- Systems Crossed to Rumours Found | Chapter 3

I have once again drawn them dancing and I may never stop tbh

Post-Canon (Canon-Compliant)

Post-Canon AU (Dallas Lives)

Pre-Canon, Mid-Canon, or AU (all greasers are alive)

Imagines for Johnny, Ponyboy, Darry, Two-Bit, Multiple Greasers

Imagines for Soda and Dallas

Short Series (longer storylines with multiple parts) - this page

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Outsiders Masterlist - Short Series

Legend:

🗡️=appears (in some form) in the long Dally fic

🔧= appears (in some form) in the long Soda fic

📚= Reader Request

🐴=Pony. 🥛=Darry. 🥤=Soda. ⭐=Dallas

🐭=Two-Bit. 🚗=Steve. 🐶=Johnny .

🦌=Buck. 🐏=Tim Shepard. 🍥=Curly

Explanation to help with memory: Pony=horse, Darry = dairy (milk), Soda=a soda Dallas = (Texas) star, Two-Bit= (Mickey) mouse, Steve=car, Johnny=puppy (thanks Ponyboy). Buck= a buck (deer), Tim Shepard = sheep (for shepherd), Curly is a swirl.

🔧The Outsiders Read Their Own Book🔧 - Takes place post canon, so no Dally or Johnny. Ponyboy is in college. Evie is here because I love her.

Pony, the Theme, & Appreciating His Brothers (4774)

Outsiders Read The Book - The Set Up (384)

Outsiders React to Ch 1-2 (2937)

Outsiders React to Ch 3 (the slap; 1195)

Outsiders React Ch 4-5 (fountain and fleeing; 975)

Outsiders React Ch 6 (fire and hospital; 1580)

Outsiders React Ch 7 (2578)

Outsiders React Ch 8-9 (RIP Johnny; 2419)

Outsiders React Ch 10-End (RIP Dally; 2871)

Ponyboy Reflects (an epilogue or very long dedication; 428)

🔧Storyline: Greasers Mentoring (Includes OCs). 🔧This is a series that take place several years after canon and is canon-compliant. The gang are adults and mentoring/helping out greaser teenagers. Also helps them to heal from some of their past. Note that the storyline is still in progress.

Part 1- Intro (4316)

Part 2-Soda Meets Danny (an OC; 1605)

Part 3 -Danny Shows Up (1629)

Part 4 - Darry Gets Involved (2494)

Part 5 - Expansion? (4098)

Part 6 - Eddie (OC) (1400)

Part 7 - Danny is Sick (1865)

Part 8 - Eddie Meets Two-Bit (1211)

Part 9 - Eddie's in Trouble and Makes Connections (5838)

Part 10 -Pony is Not the Baby (1144)

Part 11 - Football and Futures (1414)

Part 12 - Coach Darry and the Kids (1276)

🔧Storyline: Jack's Story 🔧(Note that he appears starting in Part 11 of Greaser Mentoring above. He has also had many (but not all) of his storylines adapted to one-shots with various canon characters, so some may be familiar. Jack starts as friends with Pony and Two-Bit, becomes Steve's little brother over time and falls in love (OC). Please note TW for this fic including child abuse, DV, SA.

Part 1: Moving to Tulsa (3175)

Part 2: Patching Up (2191)

Part 3: Jack and Gayle Get Closer (3018, can skip if not into OCs)

Part 4: Jack and Steve (876)

Part 5: Promgate (2899)

Part 6: Three's Company (Pony, Gayle, and Jack) 6472

Part 7: Senior Year (3063)

Part 8: Parents (1947)

Part 9: Comparisons (1275)

Part 10: Thanksgiving (772)

Part 11: Family and Big Decisions (4705)

Part 12: Falling in Love (1885)

Part 13: College Applications (3446)

Part 14: Going to Prom (1225)

Part 15: Leaving Home (3178) Steve is now Jack's big bro.

Part 16: Date Fluff (897) could easily be skipped if desired

Part 17: Intimacy (2635) Note: not smut but sexual content

Part 18: Christmas (3561)

Part 19: Soda and Jack Talk Nightmares (1156)

Part 20: Jack and Gayle Fight (1327)

Part 21: Issues with Steve and Abandonment (2017)

Part 22: Gayle Struggles with Jack at Times (827)

Part 23: Nightmares and Trauma(5410)

Part 24: Jack's Family (5999)

Part 25: Trauma Triggers and Support (1906)

Part 26: A Major Trigger (3369)

Part 27: Moving Forward in Life (4100)

🔧Storyline: Ponyboy's Roommate🔧. Ponyboy's college roommate is gay and disowned. He is essentially adopted by Pony and their gang, he and Pony are close friends. This storyline may eventually continue. Post canon and canon-compliant.

Pony's Roommate the Curtis gang are allies (1937)

Part two-(3730)

🔧Storyline: Soda's SA 🔧(post-canon). Soda is sexually assaulted at work, thinks he "cheated" on his girl and talks to Darry first. Darry struggles with not having been able to protect him but is good support. He ends up telling Pony and Steve who are supportive as well. Storyline is not yet complete.

It Happens to Men, Too, Soda (TW SA & aftermath;1641) 🥤🥛

Darry the Protector (TW sexual assault aftermath; 1024) 🥛

Pony& Soda Struggle & Support E/O (TW tags; 3304) 🥤🐴

Steve Finds Out (1319)🥤🚗

🔧Storyline: Soda and Dyslexia🔧 (post canon). Soda discovers dyslexia, processes his feelings about it and starts to share it with others. Storyline covers his post-canon journey with this and studying for the GED; storyline is not yet complete.

Soda Discovers Dyslexia (2272)🥤

Soda Tells Darry About Dyslexia (799)🥤🥛

Ponyboy Hurts Soda's Feelings (589) 🥤🐴 🥛

Soda Tells Ponyboy (about dyslexia; (917)🥤🐴

Soda, Pony, and the GED (935)🥤🐴 Soda wants Pony to stop smoking and Pony wants Soda to take the GED.

Soda Tells Reader (Fic also included in reader inserts) (1142)

Steve the Dyslexia Whisperer(716) 🥤🚗

Pony Quits Smoking (&Soda Takes a Chance) (2070)🐴🥤🥛

Misunderstandings (929) 🐴🥤🥛📚 In this part, Soda and Pony have a deal (taking the GED in exchange for quitting smoking). Soda finds a pack of cigarettes and is hurt. The fight and makeup.

🔧Storyline: Two-Bit's Father Comes Back🔧 (post-canon). Two-Bit deals with trying to rebuild the relationship, and a lot of emotions. Occurs after events of the book, may have more parts to this storyline at some point in future.

Mr. Mathews Returns (3139)🐭🥛

Darry Comforts Two-Bit (expanded version; 1054) 🐭🥛

Two-Bit is Furious But Builds a Bridge (2446)🐭

Soda Supports Two (1005)🥤🐭

🗡️Dallas Finds Ponyboy's Theme (Dallas Lives AU).🗡️Note that this series is ALSO listed in the Dallas Lives AU Masterlist. Takes place in AU timeline where they lose Johnny but Dallas is stopped from suicide. Dallas finds Pony's theme about 1.5 years after they lost Johnny. He reads it and has a lot of feelings about it.

Part 1 (ch 1-3; 1022)

Part 2 (ch 3-6; 1329)

Part 3 (to end of book; 534)

Dallas Hides from Lock-Pickers (part 4; 1731)

Dally and Soda Talk About the Theme (604)

Processing Pony's Theme (Dal&Reader, also linked there; 522)

🗡️Dally's Father (Dally Lives AU).🗡️ The first entry (The Letter) could be a one-shot with no comfort, but is connected to a full storyline that is currently in progress. Dally's father writes a letter wanting him to come for Christmas. In this story, he had extensive neglect and abuse pre-canon.

The Letter (1494).

You Support Him (1710).

Darry Gives Advice (765)

Family "Reconciliation" (includes reader; 2670)

Alternate Version (of the prior Part): Dally Goes Alone (1834)

The Aftermath - Dallas and Darry 1508)

Brothers (1348)

Moving On (1879)

the fact that lilia, time and time again, condemns every stereotype regarding witches (broomsticks, covens, etc.) because she herself could never accept what it meant to be a witch. and how this plays so wonderfully into the allegory of queerness and internalized homophobia— rejecting yourself because you fear your true identity.