16 Works by Kammly
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A Psalm in Ink by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton
06 Mar 2026
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At a lazy summer pool party, someone notices the ink on Sodapop’s ribs. The gang falls quiet when Darry has the same tattoo—same date, same placement, same silent vow.
It’s not for a lover or a loss.
It’s for Ponyboy, who has no idea they’ve carved his birthday into their skin like a psalm only they know how to sing.
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- Part 3 of The Warmth We Didn’t Know We Needed
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The Boy We Didn't Deserve by Cherry_Blooom, Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
28 Feb 2026
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A series of request-based one-shots and short scenes centered around Ponyboy Curtis. From warmth and sibling cuddles to heartbreak, betrayal, and fierce redemption, this collection explores what it means to hurt—and to hold—the youngest Curtis boy.
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- Part 2 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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Their Only Softness by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
27 Feb 2026
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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.Series
- Part 4 of The Warmth We Didn’t Know We Needed
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His love was the light in our darkness by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
13 Feb 2026
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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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When silence hurts more by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
08 Feb 2026
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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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How to Hold a Family Together When Your Hands are Shaking by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
20 Dec 2025
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The night Darry hit Ponyboy changed a lot of things. But for Sodapop, the aftermath wasn't in the running or the fighting; it was in the suffocating, silent stillness of the house after Darry left for his shift.
Soda is the bridge, the middle ground, the guy who smiles so no one else has to cry. So when the quiet threatens to swallow him whole, he has to face the one person he truly believes he failed.
An intimate look at guilt, the true cost of being the 'peace-keeper,' and a promise whispered in the velvet dark.
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- Part 6 of The Warmth We Didn’t Know We Needed
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It's raining. Draco falls asleep with his head on Lucius's leg. Lucius, faced with this terrifyingly breakable thing called his son, has a minor emotional crisis. (Or: In which Lucius Malfoy discovers that his heart is not, in fact, a shriveled raisin, but a functional organ that is currently breaking.)
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- Part 2 of Moonlit Silver
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After a moment of pure, raw vulnerability on the Quidditch pitch, Draco's world is turned upside down. The silence that follows is not one of mockery, but of an unexpected, collective tenderness that he has no idea how to handle.
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- Part 1 of Moonlit Silver
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His heart had found its place again by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
19 Sep 2025
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Darry’s shoulders were stone after long shifts, tension carved into every line of his body. Nothing ever seemed to reach him—except Ponyboy.
Soft footsteps in the kitchen. Ink-stained fingers trailing idle patterns against the table. A gentle hand against a storm of anger. Words as quiet as a prayer.
Ponyboy, in his small, unassuming way, always brought Darry back from the edge. Always.
Because sometimes, the strongest person in the room is the one who doesn’t fight—just stays.
Aka: There’s not enough Darry and Ponyboy content. And they deserve the world.
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- Part 5 of The Warmth We Didn’t Know We Needed
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The phone rings, and with it the weight of weeks cracks open in Sodapop’s chest. Ponyboy is coming home.
What follows is laughter so loud it startles the crickets, Darry’s hands trembling against his brother’s back, and a house that—for the first time in a long while—waits for joy instead of loss.
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- Part 4 of Of Blossoms and Bruises
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The Weight of Silence by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
04 Sep 2025
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Ponyboy runs out of the Curtis house after one argument too many and finds himself at Buck Merrill’s place. He didn’t mean to fall apart there, didn’t mean to spill something he’d been holding for years, but sometimes the weight inside finally cracks through.
What he says—what the gang overhears—changes the way they see him.But not in the way he’ll ever know.
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- Part 3 of Of Blossoms and Bruises
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Poking the bear with a short stick by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
24 Aug 2025
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The guys are hanging out, doing what they do best: absolutely nothing. The teasing starts as it always does, but this time, Steve, Two-Bit, and Dally take it a step too far about Darry's relationship with Ponyboy. Darry, in turn, decides to play a new game called "Guilt Trip" and absolutely obliterates everyone.
Feels were caught, lines were crossed, and the vacant lot has never felt so empty.
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- Part 2 of Of Blossoms and Bruises
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The quiet kind of bleeding by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
23 Aug 2025
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Care doesn't always come in loud.
Negligence doesn't either.
Sometimes it comes quietly—like being taken for granted.
Ponyboy has always been the soft hands holding cracked hearts, the quiet warmth in a world too cold, too sharp. He offered his love in wildflowers and gentle smiles. The gang gave him back thorns—too busy, too blind, too wrapped up in their own pain to notice the bruises blooming beneath his kindness.
A series of angsty one-shots, two-shots, and vignettes in which the youngest Curtis bleeds softly, learns to flinch quieter, and—maybe—makes the gang realize too late what they had in him.
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- Part 1 of Of Blossoms and Bruises
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Neji returns home after almost two years away on a mission. He expects rejection, coldness, or anger. Instead, Sakura greets him with a gentle smile and open arms. A reunion full of tenderness, promises, and the quiet realization that love can outlast even the longest separation.
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Ponyboy just wanted to share something sweet.
A batch of cookies, a song under his breath, a small moment of warmth in the only home he knows.
But one too-casual laugh and a thoughtless comment crush something delicate. And none of them notice what they’ve broken until the silence stretches too long.
Soda misses the humming. Darry can’t stand the quiet.
But Ponyboy? He’s getting really good at pretending it doesn’t matter.Series
- Part 1 of The Warmth We Didn’t Know We Needed
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The delicate glow of dawn in a harsh world by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
30 Jan 2025
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When light comes into contact with shadows, they fade gently. Similarly, offering care to others illuminates the deeper layers of our inner selves – parts that were once left in darkness, waiting for at least a thread of that light to shine upon them.
It took outside intervention to make the greasers and socs understand this.
Or; where the greasers and socs react to Ponyboy's life being shown in a movie theater.