4 years later: Ponyboy Curtis's uni adventures
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It's so Much Colder than I Thought it Would Be by USeeTheseHands
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
10 Nov 2025
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There it was again. That same reminder of how far he was from home.
Ponyboy wanted to pick up the phone and call Darry and have him there within the hour to help carry his things down to the car and leave for the weekend. But he couldn’t.
He’d left for a reason. He was supposed to be here. His brothers had worked too hard for him to give up this chance. He’d worked too hard to lose everything he had.Or
Ponyboy is finally far away from Tulsa, but navigating college on his own makes him miss the familiarity of everything he left behind, until he remembers the pieces of the past he carries with him.
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Let Daylight Dry Your Tears by USeeTheseHands
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
12 Feb 2026
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Before he’d left for college, Ponyboy had received countless warnings that finals week sucked. Each time, he’d nodded along, maybe laughed a little, and said he’d figure out how to get through it like everyone else.
But nothing could have prepared him for the literal hell of finals week. Absolute torture. Ponyboy was already circling the drain before he’d woken up with a sore throat on Tuesday.or
Ponyboy finally makes it home after finals week, exhausted, under the weather, and terrified of how home might have changed without him. However, it turns out home might still be waiting for him after all.
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