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Someone to crowd you with love by mademypeacewithallthebad
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (1983)
01 Oct 2025
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Ponyboy Micheal was eight when his parents died.
By thirteen, he’d been through three foster families and three boys homes.
They never lasted. He accepted that a long time ago. So when his social worker tells him she found another family, he rolls his eyes and groans. But maybe, just maybe, the young man with tired eyes but a kind smile, and his kid brother with an infectious laugh and heart too big for his chest, maybe they’re going to be the ones to break the streak.
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A 5+1 Ponyboy foster care au with 5 of Ponyboy’s firsts with the Curtis brothers and 1 of his lasts.
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Where the Silence Hurts by narnianmagic
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
30 Sep 2025
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“It wasn’t the fact that if the cops found them he’d be put in the electric chair that was eating at him the most. It was the fact that he had taken a life.”
OR Johnny wakes up from a nightmare the first night at the church
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Bye, House by strawberr_rae
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (TV 1990)
01 Oct 2025
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The sun shone through the curtains of the house despite them being drawn. The couch wasn’t there anymore, and instead in a moving van right outside the house. It was odd, seeing the house bare.
OR the Curtis brothers are selling their childhood home
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With hearts of Gold by DD_Madara
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
30 Sep 2025
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"I want you to tell Dally to look at one. He'll probably think you're crazy, but ask for me. I don't think he's ever really seen a sunset."
That's what Johnny wrote in his last letter to Ponyboy.
Still mourning the loss of his best friend and with Dally struggling as much as he does, Pony doesn't feel brave enough to just ask Dally. But maybe he could start with making him aware that there was still good and beautiful things left in the world.---
5 times Ponyboy makes Dally look at the sky and 1 time he doesn't.
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Soda and the Soc by Cetigapolo
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
30 Sep 2025
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Titled for Soda because story was not preplanned, but entire (surviving) gang is featured at different points in the story. Focus is on friendships, trauma healing, (found) family, and (for some of them at least) romance. Canon-complaint. Adult themes are present including abuse, assault, mental health/suicide, references to sexuality.
Prompts welcome and the following chapters can be read in isolation if you're looking for one-shots that are hurt/comfort with the brothers: 11, 17, 59, 107, 124, 145. Several other chapters not listed could also be read as stand-alones but do contain OCs.
FYI that I post rough drafts and then rewrite as story progresses.
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Faded Sunsets and Broken Dreams by anemoia333
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (TV 1990)
30 Sep 2025
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Ponyboy Curtis struggles to cope after the death of Johnny and Dallas. He withdraws further and further from his loved ones as depression slowly takes over his life.
Will he be able to recover from his grief, or will it crush him?
(Post-Canon)
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Their Only Softness by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
29 Sep 2025
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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.
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- Part 4 of The Warmth We Didn’t Know We Needed
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Kryptonite by HoneysuckleSummer
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
29 Sep 2025
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This is a POV Darry fic (third-person) of the events of The Outsiders. If you haven't, I'd highly recommend reading my prequel, Unreliable, first, to get a full scope!
Based on the novel, with original dialogue. This will also delve into past memories through the years of the Curtis brothers.
This will likely be updated weekly.
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- Part 2 of Unreliable
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The Outsiders One Shots by LordOfSun
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (TV 1990)
29 Sep 2025
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A place where I write out requests/suggestions for Outsiders ships and scenarios
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You'll Be In My Heart by etdancer
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (TV 1990)
29 Sep 2025
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Almost ten years ago, the Curtis family's world falls apart when four year old Ponyboy is taken from the park nearby. Darry and Soda are left reeling when their parents are killed in an accident two weeks before the ninth anniversary of their brother's disappearance. In order for Darry to keep custody of Soda, he has to agree to be a temporary foster care parent. With an overcrowded system, he knows this is the State's way of creating more houses, and Darry knows he'll do whatever he can to keep his brother.
However, when Peter James, a thirteen year old who demands to be called "Pony", gets put in his care, Darry can't help but think he's getting more than he bargained for. It's impossible for him not to notice the similarities, and Darry and Soda both find themselves putting all the missing pieces together so that they might reunite with their baby brother, and bring him home for good.
aka an AU where Ponyboy finds his way back to his brothers in an unconventional way, proving that he's their baby brother in every universe, and they'll always find a way to take care of him.
The title of course comes from Phil Collins
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- Part 1 of et's outsiders aus
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Shiners and Soda Cups by anonslushies
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
29 Sep 2025
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Ponyboy didn’t know what was wrong with him. Everything had been going good; his grades were high, Darrel hadn’t hollered at him in a while, and the Socs even seemed to have backed off a little too. Even though, Pony was conflicted.
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Ponyboy navigates his feelings while simultaneously dealing with the obstacles of the 1960s.
*chapters will be updated every Sunday!*
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Smoke Beneath the Skin by ElocinLestrange
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
28 Sep 2025
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Six months after Bob Sheldon’s death, Ponyboy Curtis is barely holding it together. Johnny and Dally are gone. His nights are haunted by drowning hands and gunshots in the dark. But the worst is still to come.
Bob’s father, Robert Sheldon Sr., is a grieving man spiraling into vengeance and blames Ponyboy for everything. When the courts refuse to bring justice, Robert decides to take it himself.
But revenge doesn’t heal. It destroys.
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silent hour | the outsiders by avi370
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
28 Sep 2025
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The smoke is gone, but the quiet follows Ponyboy home. He doesn't cry, he doesn't complain. Dally is broken again, but this time it seems to be permanent. He stops fighting, and his cockiness disappears. Some wounds don't bleed on the outside, and Tulsa is a city of silence.
[Content warnings: mild profanity, violence/gang violence, drug/substance use, suicide attempts/suicidal thoughts]
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He feels the tears coming, but greasers aren’t supposed to cry. He feels the pain growing inside of him, but greasers aren’t supposed to break. He knows that he can’t take any more of this, but he has to.
Ponyboy Curtis is alone.
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credits: written and created by me.
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5 times they bandaged each other and 1 time he did it himself by aceoffaspaid
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
28 Sep 2025
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Johnny Cade and Ponyboy Curtis had a sick ritual: they wrapped each others cuts- now, most would think it was from fights, beatings, or Socs. But it wasn’t. It was from a different force, one that knew what it was like to feel the sting of dragging a switch over your own skin. One that was done by your own hands.
Or, 5 times they wrapped each others cuts, and 1 time he did it himself.
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I’m not Afraid of you Now, I’m not Afraid of you Now. by Lumirizzyouup
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
27 Sep 2025
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In the years Ponyboy had grown up with his parents, he'd always believed love was something unstable, something unpredictable.
—————————————Ponyboy’s parents were never perfect, just made sure everyone around them thought of them as perfect.
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Got Drunk and Fucked Until we Cried. by LoneSorcceress (DrawingWolf03)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
27 Sep 2025
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Smutceptember
19. Drunk // Dry humping // CaughtSeries
- Part 23 of Smutceptember
- Part 154 of The Story of us Looks a lot Like a Tragedy now.
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Darry doesn't know what to do anymore. He lost his parents, Johnny, Dallas. Hell he almost lost Ponyboy. So when he gets a call from the hospital at midnight what is he supposed to think?
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Torn Between What is and What Could Be by USeeTheseHands
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
26 Sep 2025
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Darry sighed for what felt like the millionth time that morning. He could have just been stressed, but he knew something was wrong. And it wasn’t just the looming doom of his weekend trip.
Darry’s thrilled when his brothers give him the perfect excuse to cancel his weekend plans and avoid confronting the ghosts of his past.
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- Part 13 of USeeTheseHands’s Sicktember 2025
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you see the world finding beauty in the simple things by hi_imolive
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
26 Sep 2025
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Ponyboy and Johnny try to find a meaning behind the clouds on a dull day.
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“ God don’t let me suffer. ”
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suck at summaries, but basically Pony spirals into insanity and believes he needs to purify his family before it’s too late.
Will they be able to help him before it gets out of hand? Or will they burn in the eternal flames.