my outsiders canon :p
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you're talkin' crazy (i'm talkin' real) by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
28 May 2025
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“I ain’t gonna be upset.”
“You will.”
“I won’t, whatever it is. Are you in trouble?”
“I—” Karen hiccups again. She tries opening her mouth, but it’s like her mouth is stuffed full of cotton or somethin’, something dry and bitter and revolting. “Please don’t hate me.”
“Karen, you’re worryin’ me real bad, c’mon, I ain’t—”
“You got me pregnant.”
or, possibly my nichest fic yet, in which karen and darrel find out they're pregnant for the first time
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- Part 1 of my outsiders canon :p
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pigments in your memory by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
19 Dec 2024
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Of course his nemesis draws. Of course his nemesis draws so much better than he can.
Stupid Soc boy Paul Holden.
His nemesis has a couple of loose attempts at what’s clearly his big brother’s face and stature — something even Ponyboy himself can’t pull off yet, but they look just like Darry. The sort of sunken-in set of his eyes, and the little half-smile he does when he’s real happy, the way his jaw has squared out the last year or so, a bit of darker shading on his chin to represent what he shaves off every morning next to Dad in the bathroom. There’s so much care put into how these sketches look, clearly, ‘cause they’re the softest drawings on the spread, gosh, they look like love, and it makes Pony subconsciously smile a little before he realizes what he’s doing.
or, pony learns paul draws and they bond over being geeky little artists together <3
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- Part 2 of my outsiders canon :p
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white knight by cinnamoncider for mishapenmoth
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
11 Sep 2024
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This dreaded paper is shaking like a leaf in his hands.
He doesn’t know why he’s even bothering to ask; he knows what the answer’s going to be. Still, he doesn’t think he’ll ever forgive himself if he doesn’t at least try.
or, darry curtis vs. a forty dollar senior football letterman jacket
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- Part 3 of my outsiders canon :p
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imagine that by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
09 Feb 2025
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"What's your biggest secret?”
“Are you fuckin’ twelve? Who asks that?”
“M’serious,” Paul slurs. His eyes are dilated and a little hazy, and he’s got this sweet smile on his face that Darry could just—
or, darry & paul finally have their first kiss :D
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- Part 4 of my outsiders canon :p
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stayers and goers by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
08 Oct 2024
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“I need to talk to you.”
Darry’s eyebrows shoot up high on his face, but he cracks a bit of a frisky smirk anyway. “I kind of figured.”
Paul’s chewing on his bottom lip and he can’t quite seem to meet Darry’s eyes. Darry takes a step forward, bringing a hesitant hand up to Paul’s waist underneath the black gown that’s hanging off Paul’s shoulders. His fingertips just manage to find their way right beneath Paul’s ribs, and he begins to press them down into the cloth, sheepish and ghostly. It feels like home.
Except Paul takes a step back.
or, paul darry breakup fic :)
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- Part 5 of my outsiders canon :p
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ain't no one to bail me out by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
07 Jul 2024
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“I’ve just been thinkin’, since tomorrow’s Johnny’s birthday, first o’ March,” Ponyboy says from his seat. “And I know you ain’t baked since…” his youngest brother trails off, but eventually finds it in himself to continue, “but I was thinkin’ maybe you could bake a chocolate cake for him tonight so he could swing by tomorrow and we could all celebrate, ‘cause you always made the best ones? His folks won’t give a damn it’s his birthday, y’know.”
Darry freezes with a plate in his hand, and his blood seems to run cold.
or, it’s two months after their parents' death and for the first time since it happened, darry's asked to bake the very same thing his parents died over: some chocolate cake
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- Part 6 of my outsiders canon :p
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car's no longer runnin', sittin' idle in the yard by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
11 Nov 2024
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“Yes, Darry. Let’s go.”
Sticking his key into the ignition, Darry turns the key, it starts up, and…
Nothing.
He doesn’t let his heart pick up speed, and he tries again.
Nothing.
or, the coda to the tulsa 67 line "the car's no longer running, it's sitting idle in the yard" feat some classic curtis bros banter, angst, n comfort <3
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- Part 7 of my outsiders canon :p
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chicken and broccoli and refried rice by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
07 Aug 2025
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There’s some huff of air and Darry grumbles loudly ‘cause he was trying to keep his voice down — the house ain’t that big, and Ponyboy doesn’t need to hear all this. He slams the phone back down onto the receiver with a loud clatter of plastic and metal as he mutters something about, “bullshit doctors, God, bet he ain’t even got no real degree, just a bunch’a nothin’,” before slumping against the counter again, chest heaving in eventual silence.
or, it's two weeks post canon and ponyboy's struggling to eat
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- Part 8 of my outsiders canon :p
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gonna make this house a home by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
27 Jul 2024
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“Ponyboy?” Pony hears from down the hall right after the telltale creak of his bedroom door, and he startles from the noise.
Shit. He’s so busted; he seriously figured Darry would’ve gone to bed by now. Worseoff, he’s nicked his skin from jumping so hard, somewhere right underneath his jaw, and he hisses under his breath at the sting. Tiny droplets of blood already begin to pool along the shallow laceration he’s made, and he clambers to find a piece of tissue to attempt to mitigate the bleeding. He doesn’t answer Darry in favour of scrambling to stanch the dripping and get Darry’s razor hidden before—
“Ponyboy, what are you still doin’ up in there?” Pony hears, but Darry ain’t down the hall no more — he’s creeped down the hall outside the bathroom door. “It’s a school night, Ponyboy. What’s’a matter?”
or, sixteen year old ponyboy has to, unfortunately, deal with the woes of growing up (a particularly scratchy face) and gets his biggest brothers help in learning how to deal with it
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- Part 9 of my outsiders canon :p
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silent fuckin’ night by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
24 Dec 2024
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He hasn’t called home in forever, actually, not since sometime last month in November.
It was a month ago, the night of his second calc midterm, right in the dead middle of November. All he sort of vaguely remembers is that he was a mess of babbling tears over the line with Darry who was trying to ease him down from all his panicking that he was going to fail his test the next morning. Darry had reassured him over and over he was a smart boy, that he was sure Ponyboy studied real well, that the answers would come to him in the moment like they always used to. Pony really did let himself believe Darry’s affirmations ‘cause they let him pass out at his rickety kitchen table from exhaustion.
Turns out he got a 53.
So he didn’t call back home after that.
or, ponyboy's failed out of his first semester at uni and he gets suspended from what was meant to be a fresh start at northeastern — maybe fresh starts just aren't meant for him
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- Part 10 of my outsiders canon :p
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make a new life we can call our own by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
30 Jun 2024
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“S’awful late, Ponyboy, ain’t you got school tomorrow?”
These last weeks have done a number on Ponyboy. Sometimes he just can’t help the snideness of his tone, no matter how much he suppresses it, no matter if it’s toward Darry or Soda or anyone else. He’s still a Curtis, after all. “So what?”
A flicker of something flashes in Darry’s eyes, a relapse, but he bites down on his bottom lip and he quickly lets it go. They’ve worked on this together. They’re grown now; they’ve moved past the pettiness. “So, you need’a sleep, Ponyboy. We’ve been through this a million damn times.”
“I was sleepin’.”
“And?”
Ponyboy just shrugs, and Darry furrows his eyebrows a little.
“Well, get back to bed. You look exhausted, kid.”
or, seventeen-and-a-half year old ponyboy wakes up from a nightmare, and both his brothers are right there to help him through it as they reflect on the last three years together
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- Part 11 of my outsiders canon :p
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torn between what is and what could be by cinnamoncider for chrissyjoshys
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
15 Jul 2024
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"You know, boys, as I was watching the poor kid run, I noticed somethin’. Ol’ Ponybaby here, he ain’t gotten a haircut in a minute, yeah? Reckon he’s been lookin’ like a bit of a sissy lately. Suppose he uses his head for more than just storin’ books; grows his hair like dang Rapunzel, too.”
Realization dawns on Ponyboy a beat later.
His ears are ringing, and he’s pretty sure he’s bordering on passing out.
Would that hurt less? Would that make this any easier?
or, seventeen-and-a-half year old ponyboy gets jumped by some socs who cut his hair & inadvertently, with the help of his brothers, finally comes to a heavy realization about his late best friend that's been staring him in the face for a long, long time
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- Part 12 of my outsiders canon :p
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some days the dragons are quieter by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
04 Jun 2025
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“Darry, are you nervous for tomorrow?”
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. “Nervous? Why would I be nervous? Who do you think I look like?”
“You look like a li'l kid pickin’ at his fingernails and gnawin’ at his lips ‘cause he’s scared for his first day of school.”
or, it's finally ponyboy's turn to give darry his "first day of school" talk at 23 and 29
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- Part 13 of my outsiders canon :p
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little bit of cream, lotta bit of sugar by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
06 Jan 2025
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Darrel Curtis could recognize that dang smile anywhere. He can tell from all the way across this nearly-empty diner the moment he steps through the bright doorway as a bell chimes overhead.
Even with all the wrinkles and smile lines, that’s still his smile.
The same one Darrel would lay in bed grinning up at his bedroom ceiling thinking about into wee hours of the night about half a goddamn century ago.
or, darry and paul finally fall in love all over again half a century later
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- Part 14 of my outsiders canon :p