POV You’re Asking Sodapop’s Coworker What His Name Is

guys pls tell me pure hell fans are real

*tied to a chair,.spitting up blood* heh..... youre gonna need to brush my teeth a little harder than THAT to get information out of me

it's uh.. been a while.. hasn't it folks!!! Anyways here's Jane and her lovely girlfriend (Jane is the one on the right and her gf is Jill)

I LOVE THEM SMMM JANE AND JILL UR PERFECT

I fear your serving cunt!!

Realisations in hindsight:

The next time someone tries the "what is a woman but an adult human female" copypasta with me, I am going to demand them to define the word "adult" without including arbitrary socially constructed numbers of age, and in a way that excludes all people who are socially agreed to be minors, and includes all people who are socially agreed to be adults.

Then, whatever they answer, I'm just going to accuse them of wanting to fuck children.

Holding onto her emotional support version of herself.

all fandoms walk a notoriously fine line with trauma survivors and i feel like johnny cade is a good example of that. specifically, the often-seen portrayals of traumatized characters in ways that either romanticize their experiences or completely ignore their experiences (the latter of which is often done to favor another character’s journey).

i feel like the outsiders fandom (book, movie, and musical are lumped together here) at times leans heavily into the second one (minimization of trauma). now. i understand the fandom reversal of johnny’s role as being like. Not Innocent (and while i partially agree and think it’s a based take sometimes) i feel like some people do kind of turn him into a character he’s not by instilling a kind of confidence in him that he never had the opportunity to get. people tend to brush past the fact that he is, canonically, by far the quietest of the gang and RARELY talks. he is also, quote, “the gang’s pet.” (while pony IS an unreliable narrator, many of his descriptions of johnny, especially toward the beginning, are just descriptions of his physical reactions to his surroundings as well as past events like johnny getting jumped.)

He gets nervous around strangers. he’s hyper vigilant—two-bit surprises him at the drive-in and he pretty much has a panic attack. he’s 16 and has been borderline homeless for years. he has ptsd from a life of simultaneous abuse and neglect. he’s afraid to take up space because his life is so inconsistent he never knows what his existence will be met with—will it be ignored completely, or will it be met with an unforgiving hand? so he listens, and he watches, and he does hang around dally and the gang, but a big part of who he is comes from his upbringing - he tries as hard as possible to Not be noticed at all, because when he does, it’s bad. i think he would like to be a more confident, “normal” version of himself, but that person isn’t someone who he ever really had a chance to be.

I know I typically operate with the races/ implied ethnicities from the book/ movie but I need yall to know I am also deeply enamored with the curtis' bein the Token White Guys of an otherwise poc gang. pony who has absolutely No Concept of the inherent privileges he enjoys adds a layer to the story that was previously unexplored n I think that no matter your preference for the outsiders media there ARE layers added by the musical that change the story in a deeply fascinatin way.

Hey friendly reminder to love and cherish Green Day

cherry Valance 🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒

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Forgot to color lineart 😔