things that happened to me when i was a woman in STEM:
an advisor humiliated me in front of an entire lab group because of a call I made in his place when he wouldn't reply to my e-mails for months
he later delegated part of my master's thesis work to a 19-year old male undergrad without my approval
a male scientist at a NASA conference looked me up and down and asked when i was graduating and if i was open to a job at his company. right before inquiring what my ethnicity was because i "looked exotic"
a random male member of the public began talking over me and my female advisor, an oceanographer with a pHD and decades of experience, saying he knew more about oceanography than us
things that have happened to me since becoming a man in STEM:
being asked consistently for advice on projects despite being completely new to a position
male colleagues approaching me to drop candid information regarding our partners / higher ups that I was not privy to before
lenience toward my work in a way I haven't experienced before. incredible understanding when I need to take time off to care for my family.
conference rooms go silent when I start talking. no side chatter. I get a baseline level of attention and focus from people that's very unfamiliar and genuinely difficult for me to wrap my head around.
like. yes some PI's will still be assholes regardless of the gender of their subordinates but, I've lived this transition. misogyny in STEM is killing women's careers, and trans men can and do experience male privilege.
Darry desperately needs glasses because he has near sight, but he refuses to get checked. Every so often, he'll squint at signs while driving, and Soda will be in the passenger seat and tell him to at least consider to get his eyes checked.
Dallas says he perfers dogs because they make him look tougher, but he's a car person deep down.
When Johnny and Dally died, Ponyboy wrote letters upon letters to the both of them. He never showed anyone and probably had them hidden in his drawers os something, but very year on their birthdays and holidays or even after rumbles, Pony writes to Johnny and Dally.
Modern Cherry would LOVE Sabrina Carpenter ‼️
The curtis gang are the type of kids to be try hards in gym.
Johnny gets super awkward around kids who are like 2-10 (same..)
Soda isn't dumb he's just neruodivergent. (Shocker!!)
Modern Two-bit would secretly listen to the most BASIC white girl music, and the ONLY person who knows is Pony, but they've both agreed to never talk about it.
Modern Darry would hate the word skibidi ONLY because Soda NEVER stops saying skibidi rizz.
Steve has a tooth gap and is really insecure about it.
Two-bit most definitely put on a tutu and a crown and then had a princess tea party with his little sister.
Johnny is sassy af and I'm here for it 🙏
Soda LOVES kids! Like he wants to be a father someday, which was one of the reasons why he was depressed when Sandy got pregnant because he wanted to be with both of them
Dally has a secret talent and its music! He's naturally a good guitar player, and once he once saw a random guitar at the bar once and snuck it in his room, he sometimes plays for fun.
Modern Steve would wear Nike everything. You can't change my mind.
Two-bit does stuff without thinking. He'll tell someone exactly what he's thinking in that moment. He just doesn't have a filter.
Johnny has a silly stray cat that follows him! He calls the cat his little friend since he doesn't have any name for it
Something something coincidence I think not
Because Sandy never appears in the book and is only mentioned a handful of times, however significant those few times may be, it’s easy to forget that she was a big part of Soda’s life. She would have been a constant presence not only around him, but the Curtis family and the gang too.
She would have been at the Curtis house all the time; snuggling with Soda on the couch, invited by their parents to stay for dinner. She would bond with Mrs Curtis, who would tell her how much she loved having a girl in the house. Mr Curtis’ shouts of “that bedroom door better be open or I’m takin it off its hinges, Pepsi Cola,” would be a running joke. Darry and Ponyboy would see her all the time - at home, at the DX, at school with Soda and Steve and Evie. At the funeral. Sandy would have been the only regular feminine presence in the Curtis house after their mother died.
After she moves away, how many times does Pony see Soda on the couch and go, “hey, where’s Sand-“ or Darry making dinner, “is Sandy stayin for dinner or-“ before they hurriedly cut themselves off.
Sandy was another constant in all of their lives that was ripped away.
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NO STEVE IM SORRY I FORGOT UR BIRTHDAY IM SO SORRY NO
i can only cum if im facing towards true north
POV you’re asking sodapop’s coworker what his name is
did you just cough on my open wound???
Early morning flight means early morning ramblings
I think Pony at one point or another definitely feels anxiety over Johnny’s last message to ‘stay gold’. Because he grows older and he’s still a greaser. And things happen to people like Mark and Bryon, and he wonders how he can stay gold with all this tragedy that seems to follow him.
And he goes to college, and maybe he drinks too much too fast. And as the world spins around him he wonders whether Johnny feels disappointed in him because how can being drunk be staying gold.
And of course Johnny wouldn’t think less of him, not with Two-Bit as one of his friends. But Johnny isn’t here and all Pony has left of him is the words he left behind. A promise to stay gold even though growing older makes him feel like the gold is slipping through his fingers. Dawn giving way to a day he’s not sure he can make it through.
sorry i got a boner when you gave me a high five i just havent had anybody want me around in a long time