7 Works by sodapopper
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“This doesn’t have to be weird,” Maverick said, the first time Bradley showed up at the hangar with a duffel bag full of clothes and childhood scars, but, well. It was still weird.
Bradley built a life from the shrapnel of the one he burned. Turns out, Maverick did too.
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Rooster's crash course through Father's Day blues, including but not limited to: an unwanted parental figure, a fake little sister, and a guy who's allergic to shutting up. Oh, and crushing guilt. Naturally.
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- Part 2 of residue of a stranger’s life
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This is my future, Darry thought, a cold lump in his throat. He fished his dad’s work boots from the closet. Found the worn gloves, pressed them to his nose and smelled leather and sweat. This was it, everything he was and could’ve been, reduced to the strength of his hands.
“Darry,” Soda said, with unfathomable optimism coating his tongue. “We’re gonna be okay.”
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The world ends on a Tulsa train track. Darry’s life does not. (OR: Five times Darry makes Soda cry, and one time Soda makes Darry cry.)
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“If you’d known Goose, you wouldn’t look at me like that,” he says, and there— a break in his voice. “You don’t owe me his pride.”
But Goose’s pride is all Bradley has left of the man, a tattered lifeline he clings to in order to stay afloat. Goose isn't here. Maverick is.
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Three times Bradley accidentally calls Maverick dad, and the one time he does it on purpose.
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- Part 1 of residue of a stranger’s life
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He used to play in the train yard when he was younger, and could run across the tracks without rib cages splintering under his feet. Remembering was hard these days. If he went too far back in his mind, he was in danger of getting stuck there forever, lost in a world where flesh didn't rot off living creatures, and no barricade loomed over the railroad.
Back then, if someone yelled "Curtis!" Ponyboy asked which one. He didn’t ask anymore. He didn’t need to.
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At the end of the world, Ponyboy Curtis searches for his brothers. Post-Apocalypse AU.
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give a grievance (save it like money) by sodapopper
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
14 Apr 2025
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The din faded as saloon-goers caught sight of them, standing poised in the doorway. Darry wasn't ignorant to the effect they had; Soda, like a character from a legend, wind-spun hair showering gold, and Darry hulking behind him with a hand on his gun. Strangers dredged up from the sun-dried range. Dust and muscle. Lead.
He glanced sideways at Soda. "You gonna take this seriously?"
"Not if I can help it."
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Two outlaws walk into a bar. Wild West AU.
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Soda hummed. His leg—the good one—bounced. "No dreams?"
Tex's dreams usually fell into a category Mason would call unrealistic. He got his horse back, and Jamie Collins married him instead of going to college, and Mason came ho—
"No dreams," Tex said.
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Two years after losing his horse, Tex McCormick navigates brotherhood, bronc riding, and a dash of well-intentioned breaking-and-entering—with the help of an unexpected mentor from his horse’s past.
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- Part 1 of ornery pony
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Laughter spilled from Soda’s tongue like luxury wine. They stepped together lightning quick, fast as cats, better than any money-addled broad Darry ever twirled under hokey crystal chandeliers. Music wrapped them in a daze of light. Darry thought— maybe his brothers were right. Maybe this tune ain’t so bad.
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Darry is the best dancer in the family. Soda takes every opportunity to remind him.