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• If Boys Don't Cry Then What Am I? by Zack_has_FUN

  Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (1983)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  05 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis
  • Ponyboy Curtis & Everyone
  • Ponyboy Curtis
  • Sodapop Curtis
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
  • Dead Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston
  • Ponyboy Curtis Needs a Hug
  • Injured Ponyboy Curtis
  • POV Ponyboy Curtis
  • Self-Harm
  • Eating Disorders
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Good Brother Sodapop Curtis
  • Good Brother Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
  • Ponyboy Curtis has PTSD
  • The Author Regrets Everything
  • Underage Drinking
  • Underage Smoking
  • Recreational Drug Use

  Summary

  A collection of vents where I [the author] project my experiences and pain onto Ponyboy Curtis

  Or

  Poor Ponyboy is going through it

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,402

  Chapters:

  3/?

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  19

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  237

• Good Teeth [song by Emerson Woolf & The Wishbones] by Zack_has_FUN

  Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  27 May 2026

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis
  • Ponyboy Curtis/Curly Shepard
  • Johnny Cade & Ponyboy Curtis
  • Ponyboy Curtis & Two-Bit Mathews
  • Ponyboy Curtis & Dallas Winston
  • Ponyboy Curtis & Steve Randle
  • Ponyboy Curtis
  • Sodapop Curtis
  • Two-Bit Mathews
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
  • Dallas Winston
  • Johnny Cade
  • Curly Shepard
  • Steve Randle
  • Underage Drinking
  • Underage Drug Use
  • Underage Smoking
  • Implied/Referenced Underage Sex
  • Self-Harm
  • Self Confidence Issues
  • Overdosing
  • Ponyboy Curtis Needs a Hug
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Eating Disorders

  Summary

  Ponyboy doesn't know how to handle grief
  OR
  No one can help anymore

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,844

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Comments:

  3

  Kudos:

  41

  Bookmarks:

  4

  Hits:

  377