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1. Public Bookmark 42

   Two of Hearts by Zeb0

   Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)  

   • General Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   09 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Ponyboy Curtis/Curly Shepard
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis
   • Ponyboy Curtis
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
   • Sodapop Curtis
   • Curly Shepard (mentioned)
   • Coming Out
   • Post-Canon
   • Ignoring Cathy and That Was Then This Is Now
   • Secret Relationship
   • Boys In Love
   • Discovery
   • Good Brother Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
   • Good Brother Sodapop Curtis
   • Ponyboy Curtis Needs a Hug
   • Gay Ponyboy Curtis

   Summary

   Sodapop discovers something about Ponyboy's romantic life. Soda and Darry talk to him about that information.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   3,805

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   12

   Kudos:

   349

   Bookmarks:

   42

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   19 Nov 2025

2. Public Bookmark 53

   Ponyboy has friends? I didn't know he knew how to do that by im_normal_about_everything

   Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   06 Jan 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Ponyboy Curtis/Curly Shepard
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Steve Randle
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Mark Jennings
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Curly Shepard
   • Mark Jennings & Curly Shepard
   • Ponyboy Curtis
   • Mark Jennings (This was Then This is Now)
   • Curly Shepard
   • Steve Randle
   • Mentioned Johnny Cade
   • Mentioned Sodapop Curtis
   • Mentioned Cherry Valance
   • POV Steve Randle
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Haitian Shepards
   • Steve's Father Is An Asshole
   • Steve's dad is an asshole
   • POV Outsider
   • HAHAHHAHAHAH
   • Title from John Mulaney
   • This is lighter than the tags make it look
   • Fluff
   • Timeline? What Timeline?
   • POC Steve Randle
   • comfort/barely any hurt
   • steve has a heart

   Summary

   Steve isn't the most fond of Ponyboy (lie) but he isn't gonna leave the kid alone when he might need him. (He doesn't, but Steve doesn't know that.)

   Series

   • Part 1 of Ponyboy's unknown social life

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,124

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   22

   Kudos:

   556

   Bookmarks:

   53

   Hits:

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   19 Nov 2025

3. Public Bookmark 45

   I Wanna Feel Guilty by im_normal_about_everything

   Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   16 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Ponyboy Curtis/Curly Shepard
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Tim Shepard
   • Other relationships but they're not important enough to tag
   • Ponyboy Curtis
   • Curly Shepard
   • Tim Shepard
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
   • Sodapop Curtis
   • Two-Bit Mathews
   • Steve Randle
   • Mentioned Angela Shepard - Character
   • Mentioned Johnny Cade
   • Mentioned Dallas Winston
   • Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston Live
   • Cooking
   • Domestic Fluff
   • POV Tim Shepard
   • so incredibly self indulgent
   • Pony is a good cook and baker because I said so
   • Mentioned period-typical homophobia but everyone is chill
   • Good Brother Tim Shepard
   • Fluff
   • a tiny bit of angst
   • nothing too sad
   • You'll see what I mean
   • but they're not present in the story
   • no beta we die like the curtis parents

   Summary

   Everyone who says Ponyboy Curtis is a shy, quiet, innocent kid is full of shit.

   Or, Tim has a very different perspective on Pony than anyone else does because of how he acts with Curly.

   Series

   • Part 2 of Ponyboy's unknown social life

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,533

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   10

   Kudos:

   453

   Bookmarks:

   45

   Hits:

   2,925

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   19 Nov 2025

4. Public Bookmark 79

   Law Abiding Citizens by dyingpoet

   Fandoms: The Outsiders - All Media Types  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   06 Feb 2020

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Ponyboy Curtis/Curly Shepard
   • Ponyboy Curtis
   • Curly Shepard
   • Darrel Curtis
   • Sodapop Curtis
   • Canon Era
   • Period Typical Attitudes
   • Detention
   • Fluff and Humor
   • this is...gay

   Summary

   Ponyboy gets detention and conveniently isn't alone

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,561

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   33

   Kudos:

   698

   Bookmarks:

   79

   Hits:

   5,773

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   05 Nov 2025

5. Rec 60

   i never grew up with you, and you're not my waiting room by starsodapop

   Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • No category
   • Complete Work

   28 Apr 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Dallas Winston
   • Johnny Cade & Ponyboy Curtis
   • Ponyboy Curtis
   • Dallas Winston
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
   • Sodapop Curtis
   • Two-Bit Mathews
   • Steve Randle
   • Johnny Cade
   • Self-Harm
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • Verbal Abuse
   • Drug Use
   • Implied/Referenced Drug Addiction
   • Alcohol
   • Ponyboy Curtis Needs a Hug
   • Ponyboy Curtis has PTSD
   • Self-Harming Ponyboy Curtis
   • Scars
   • Graphic Description
   • Description of self-harm
   • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
   • please read the tags
   • Cigarettes
   • Title from a Phoebe Bridgers Song
   • No Beta We Die Like Dally
   • but dally lives
   • so does johnny
   • Major Character Injury
   • maybe death idk yet
   • im delirious and need sleep
   • Ponyboy Curtis Centric
   • Original Character(s)
   • Suicide Attempt
   • Abuse
   • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Hangover
   • Underage Drinking
   • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
   • it actually might never get better
   • but you didnt hear that from me
   • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
   • Dally Is Trying
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. Needs a Hug
   • Protective Sodapop Curtis
   • Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston Live
   • Minor Violence
   • No Romance
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Heavy Angst
   • dally and ponyboy are not dating
   • Completed

   Summary

   in which ponyboy curtis suffers with self-harm and suicidal thoughts. the only people who can save him from drowning are dallas winston and a dropout drug addict.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   43,165

   Chapters:

   10/10

   Comments:

   203

   Kudos:

   480

   Bookmarks:

   60

   Hits:

   7,408

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   03 Nov 2025