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Soda and the Soc by Cetigapolo
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
13 Dec 2025
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Titled for Soda because story was not preplanned, but entire gang is featured. Focus is on friendships, trauma healing, (found) family, and romance for some. Canon-complaint. Adult themes are present including abuse, assault, mental health/suicide, references to sexuality.
Prompts welcome. Comments much appreciated!
Note: The series that this story is attached to contains alternate versions of many of the storylines here, but with canon characters only).
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- Part 18 of Greasers Post-Book Grief and Healing
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When Gold turns Gray by Red_CheeseCake
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
13 Dec 2025
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Ponyboy Curtis’s life was bound to change eventually, he just never thought it would be when he gets asked to stay after class.
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Ponyboy starts being groomed by his teacher, it’s up to the gang to take matters into there own hands or maybe it’s Ponyboys.
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He regretted the movement immediately as Ponyboy looked at him with eyes that showed concern and confusion, flicking up and down Dallas’ body like his rigid composure would tell what he was feeling. Suddenly, Dallas felt too close in, the walls being closer than they were and Ponyboy's touch suddenly wasn’t cold against him and was instead too warm. His leg twitched, Dallas’ eyes going wide as he took a second.
“‘M… ‘M goin’ out. Don’ follow me, swear to god, Kid.”
🔥 ——————- 🚬
A sunset stays gold for just a little longer, and Dallas learns how to see one for himself.
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What I'm Wishing Was All That's Bothering Me by itsmarmieee
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
07 Dec 2025
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Two-Bit gets a PTSD-induced concussion and cries a few times about a few different things.
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- Part 8 of marmie torments the curtises
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His love was the light in our darkness by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
06 Dec 2025
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Through the simple, pure things—Ponyboy’s soft laughter, the way he hums while folding laundry, or his quiet thank you’s for even the smallest gestures—Darry and Sodapop learn the depth of their love for him. Despite their messes and mistakes, Ponyboy’s love is a constant, unwavering force in their lives. As they face their emotional turmoil, they realize they can never love anyone the way they love their little brother.
A collection of quiet, tender moments from the lives of Ponyboy and his older brothers.
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- Part 2 of The Warmth We Didn’t Know We Needed
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For Johnny, the Curtis house is the eye of a storm, and Pony is its very center.
a.k.a: Injury care on a stormy night and two idiots who haven't realized they're hopelessly in love yet <3
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The Reason I'm Living is You by USeeTheseHands
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
01 Dec 2025
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He’d had just about enough of listening as doctors and nurses laughed at his questions like it was just another day in the office, and not his life they were talking about.
And the more he thought about it, the more he’d had just about enough of the so-called life he was living now.or
Johnny Cade was ready to die... but then he doesn't. As he adjusts to a life he never expected to keep, the words he wrote to Ponyboy—the words Pony will never read—echo in his mind until he finally understands what they mean.
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Beautiful Boy by L0VER_YSHCO
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton
30 Nov 2025
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Ponyboy Micheal Curtis is trying his best! He really is, and he's not doing too badly off, hell, he's doing pretty good if he says so.
“But I'm not different, am I?”
“There's nothing wrong with being- unique Ponyboy.”
Sure he's not perfect but nobody is, life is going alright.
-Coming of age fic written from the perspective of Ponyboy's Diary entries-
Sorry if the formatting is weird I write this on soley emobile and tens to write most of this at school! I also struggle with spelling and I am having a very difficult time writing recently due to burnout!
Updates weekly! (hopefully!)
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Their Only Softness by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
29 Nov 2025
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The world made Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade sharp, cruel in their survival, feral when it came to keeping what little they had. But in the middle of all the chaos, all the fights, and all the dirt of the streets, Ponyboy Curtis was different.
He was their softness—the only gentle thing they had left to protect. And God help anyone who tried to take that away.
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- Part 4 of The Warmth We Didn’t Know We Needed
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In Sickness and in Health by un_forseeable
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
28 Nov 2025
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5+1: Five times the gang was sick and Ponyboy had to take care of them, one time Ponyboy got sick and they took care of him
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I Miss My Mom by Ineffable_narnia
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
28 Nov 2025
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"You had a nightmare, didn't you?"
Ponyboy leaned his head against the train, nodding.
"About your parents?"
Another nod.
Johnny mentally kicked himself. He knew Pony's parents died in a train crash. And he thought Ponyboy looked scared when they got on, scared and sad. But he'd just had too much on his mind to realize why. He shook his head. "I'm sorry, Pony. I should've realized how hard gettin' on this train was for you."
Ponyboy shrugged. "It's alright. We got more important things to worry about."
"You're important too, Ponyboy." Johnny said, looking his friend in the eyes.
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Johnny and Ponyboy have a conversation on the train to Windrixville.
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The secrets we keep for those we love by Thewritterstory
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
28 Nov 2025
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Sixteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis thought the worst thing he had to hide were the bruises from his boyfriend the ones he covers with shit excuses. But lately, the bruises at home have been getting harder to ignore too. Darry’s stress and frustration have twisted into blooming bruises, something Pony never expected from his oldest brother…and something Sodapop is too scared and stupid to see.
Caught between fear and loyalty, Ponyboy leans harder on the only people who have ever made him feel safe: Johnny Cade and Curly Shepard. But instead of the comfort he expects, Pony finds tension simmering between his two best friends. And then there’s Dally Winston. He and Johnny used to be inseparable, like brothers in a world that never gave them one. Now they can’t be in the same room without something breaking fists, furniture, or each other. No one knows why. Pony doesn’t dare ask.But there’s one thing Ponyboy doesn’t see. Johnny, Curly, and Dally are all in love with him. Each one is fighting their own demons and competing for a boy who’s too busy surviving to notice the battlefield forming around him.As Ponyboy’s world tightens and darkens, hidden feelings sharpen into dangerous edges. Friendships fracture. Loyalties twist. -
Worries and Warmth by lovelylilylove
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
27 Nov 2025
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As he jumped off the building, all he wanted was his grief and guilt to go away. He wanted his bruises gone, his past erased, and all he wanted was the warm embrace of his mother. Such things, though, aren't granted to people like Ponyboy, of course. All he wanted was peace, and now he was left with a life much more confusing than the one he had before.
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Ponyboy is given a chance to go back in time before his parents died and help all of the people that he's loved and lost. Will he succeed? Or will everything be inevitable?
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I Look Around At All Of My Friends (And Still I Feel Alone) by itsmarmieee
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
25 Nov 2025
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Steve walks in on Ponyboy crying in the middle of the night. The two realize they have more in common than they don't.
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- Part 6 of marmie torments the curtises
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“I didn't see her face but she just visited me and gave me a smoothie”
Johnny is hurt and Dallas calls in a favor
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A Gift They Didn’t Deserve by Cherry_Blooom
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
23 Nov 2025
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The Shepards had never felt true love. At least, not the kind that makes your chest ache with sweetness so sharp it steals your breath, not the kind that weakens your knees and makes you feel weightless and rooted all at once.
They had known fists and knives, alleyways and slammed doors. They had known hunger that clawed through their ribs, betrayal that cut deeper than steel, anger that kept them alive when nothing else would. But love? Real love? That was a foreign language, something they had only caught in glimpses—mothers holding babies close at the grocery store, a boy laughing with his brother as if nothing in the world could break that bond.
Not until Ponyboy.
And even then, it was strange.
Wrong, almost.
A thing they weren’t built for.
Aka: A compilation of one-shots and two-shots about one of Tulsa’s most dangerous gangs… and Ponyboy Curtis.
Something that shouldn’t have worked out the way it did.
(But then again, God’s been in the business of making impossible things happen since the beginning of time.)
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- Part 5 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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They Tell of Spring Returning by USeeTheseHands
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
19 Nov 2025
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Ponyboy sank back onto the swing, letting it creak as he swayed with it. Darry leaned against the railing and, this time, it didn’t move. A look of satisfaction appeared on his face, corners of his mouth turning upwards, eyes closed.
The swing moved back and forth in the breeze, squaring softly with each movement. That seemed to snap Darry out of his short-lived, ever-needed moment of peace and contentedness.
His eyes opened again as he examined it. “Maybe tomorrow I’ll make that thing stop creaking,” Darry said, glaring at it.
Pony just shrugged. “I didn’t even notice.”Or
Ponyboy spends an evening on the porch with his friends. Through a series of small moments and quiet confessions, he starts to see the truest sides of the people he loves most.
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When silence hurts more by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
10 Nov 2025
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Ponyboy was still so young—just fourteen, still soft around the edges, and too full of love for a world that hadn’t been gentle with him. Orphaned and aching, he clung to his older brothers with all he had. He gave freely. Unconditionally.
Darry and Sodapop loved him back—deeply, fiercely, in the only ways they knew how. But they forgot something vital:
Homes aren't only broken fists, blood, or broken bones.
Sometimes, a home loses its meaning in the quiet—
when the silences stretch too long, when the affection becomes rare, rushed, or reluctant, when shame replaces tenderness, and when presence becomes performance.This series is full of tenderness, aching warmth, and quiet heartbreak—each part a soft unraveling of how neglect doesn’t always shout… sometimes, it just forgets to hold on.
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- Part 1 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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I Think my Ways are Wearing me Down by emmmerz
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
09 Nov 2025
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Two-Bit doesn’t know what to do. His heart aches, his stomach churns, and his head pounds. He needs help. He’s so lost and he needs help.
But Johnny has it worse, his parents aren’t good at all. And Dally doesn’t have parents period; same with the Curtis brothers. And Steve’s dad is a raging alcoholic.
So what are his problems compared to theirs?
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6 times the gang didn’t notice Two-Bits cries for help, and 1 time they did.
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Silent Words and Quiet Reminders by Patroclus_Child_of_Apollo
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
04 Nov 2025
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Johnny hasn’t had food in a while because of his father. He thinks of asking the Curtis’ but doesn’t want to be a bother
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- Part 6 of Whumptober 2025
- Part 2 of The Inner Musings of Johnny Cade