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It must be so bizarre for the gang to hear Ponyboy complaining that Darry hates him. Because compared to all their parents, compared to everyone else in their neighborhood, Darrel Curtis is the greatest guardian to ever exist.

Darry makes sure Ponyboy stays in school (he even checks his homework!), he always makes sure Ponyboy is safe, always worries when Pony doesn’t come home when he said he would. He actually keeps track of when Pony is supposed to be home! He works so hard and makes sure his paychecks go to his brothers before anything else.

He never hits Ponyboy. Ever. (Later he will, once and only once, and he’ll beat himself up about it so bad you’d think he’d killed the kid.) He never gets drunk in front of Pony. He never throws anything at him. He never puts out cigarettes on his skin. He never kicks him out of the house. Pony says Darry “hollers” at him. They know hollering. Darry Curtis might as well be singing lullabies.

And when Darry does yell at Pony, it’s always about doing his homework and coming home at curfew (he gives him a curfew!). Not for bothering him for rides home, but for not calling him for a ride. Because he wants to keep Ponyboy safe. He wants Ponyboy to stay safe so badly that he yells at him when he doesn’t. If Darry hated Pony, he’d yell at him to get the hell out of the house, not into it; to get out of his sight, not stay in it.

When Pony gripes about how “cold and hard and unfeeling” Darry is, they’re like, what the actual fuck is he talking about? No dad or big brother in their entire neighborhood is as affectionate as Darry is with his kid brothers. Only the gang is privy to Darry hugging or tickling or picking up and carrying his brothers, but anyone can see that he’s never rough or mean to them.

And when they try to point out all this hard evidence, Pony just…..doesn’t believe it. Like he can think of some other reason why Darry does what he does.

As if they didn’t need more proof that Darry isn’t a goddamn saint, he seems to go along with it! Shortly after Johnny and Dallas die, Darry says, “I’m trying to do like Soda said and be softer on the kid.”

And Steve and Two-Bit and maybe Tim are like, softer than what?

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Hellpark Pocket is so tragic to me. You're telling me he did something that's unspecified that deemed him too powerful to be free, and instead of just stealing his power or finding out ways to ensure that he is kept at bay Damien just.. JUST LOCKS HIM UP IN A BOX? And all of Herberts friends are aware of this but there's never a single mention of getting him out?

ALL OF THEM?? AND HE'S USED AS A FOOTREST?

CAN YOU IMAGINE NINE YEARS WITHERING AWAY? Isolated from your peers, family, best friend, aware that the world around you considers you nothing more than a monster.

YEAH. YES I'M STILL TORN UP ABOUT THIS. We don't even know what the inside of his box looks like. What if it's just pitch black? What if it's cramped in there? Are these not crimes what the fuck???

AND HE SNAPS! really people who hate hellpark pocket I cannot understand. Yes he's an asshole and he beat up your favorite character in a non-canonical animation, but would you not be outraged?? That the world turned its back on you? When you died, you were to be abandoned and only God can tell you how long it was mentally? DOES HERBERT EVEN KNOW HOW LONG ITS BEEN?? YOUR HONOR MY CLIENT IS A TICKING TIME BOMB AND WAS BOUND TO ACT VIOLENTLY BECAUSE HE WAS TRAPPED IN A CYCLE OF FLIGHT OR FIGHT

I Love Linus so much, he's my favourite villager and I would kill for him!!!

Been thinking abt buck Merril for a bit so I thought I’d drop a headcanon..

he was given his mom’s ashes in a take-out box

this box was then knocked over during a party and he was left scooping up his mom’s ashes from the floorboards, crying and apologizing to his ma

Guys, which marriage candidate would Ponyboy pick

this is really random lol

the mortifying ordeal of being caught straight up grooving

This might be my favorite hc of all time

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indivs! feel free to use as a phone bg.