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Doodles!!

Should I feed my Tumblr acc sum yummy yummy art tomorrow or should I let it starve in the basement with the rats

Sometimes when praying people will go "and cast all my period cramps onto satan" and IT FUCKING HURRTTTTS

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.

Darrel Curtis is everything to me

PREACH

“we need more complex female characters”

okay, well how about you take the ones we have and stop bitching about them doing “bad things”. let them be mean! let them be selfish!! yes, cheating is very wrong, i get it, but so is jumping kids! yall will give the most IN DEPTH analysis of these random soc boys and why they jump greasy kids (which there’s nothing wrong with analyzing the soc boys) but then you’ll turn around and bitch and moan about cherry and how she broke up with bob, or sandy and that she cheated, and sylvia cheating too, like…they’re all morally grey. no one’s black and white. they’re all good and bad. let them be good and bad, because even if these characters were the most fleshed out, sweetest characters ever, yall would dub them “annoying”

idk, it bugs me a lot of you can’t tell

im not hearing it

art dump :P

I love Cherry. Cherry Valence was scare of Dallas but she stood up for herself and her friend. She was scared but she fought. She's tough. She spoke up when Two-bit was threatening to fight her boyfriend. She hates violence and didnt wanna see anyone get hurt. Cherry haters are actually crazy tbh.. like wdym you hate her bc she ignored Ponyboy??? That was a commentary on the peer pressure of not being seen with someone with a different class?? She didn't want to ignore him. She told him that if she doesn't say hi at school not to take it deep BECAUSE she didn't want herself or Pony to be targeted by anyone. Cherry didnt visit Johnny in the hospital for the same reason. The peer pressure to not be seen with a hood, or a killer. She is so misunderstood. "I wish I was Cherry when Dal was being close with her!!! she was such a bitch in that scene!1!1!!!" She was being harassed. Dally was making her uncomfortable and she had every right to poor soda on him. Cherry Valence, no one could ever make me hate you