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Soda and the Soc by Cetigapolo
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
28 Sep 2025
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Titled for Soda because story was not preplanned, but entire (surviving) gang is featured at different points in the story. Focus is on friendships, trauma healing, (found) family, and (for some of them at least) romance. Canon-complaint. Adult themes are present including abuse, assault, mental health/suicide, references to sexuality.
Prompts welcome and the following chapters can be read in isolation if you're looking for one-shots that are hurt/comfort with the brothers: 11, 17, 59, 107, 124, 145. Several other chapters not listed could also be read as stand-alones but do contain OCs.
FYI that I post rough drafts and then rewrite as story progresses.
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Pony stumbles across Steve Randle playing DND, and has a field-day with the information.
(Pony is very hateful of DND players in this one. Nerd on nerd crime is commited😔😔)
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Darry doesn't know what to do anymore. He lost his parents, Johnny, Dallas. Hell he almost lost Ponyboy. So when he gets a call from the hospital at midnight what is he supposed to think?
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Birds Don’t Sing by peachesandcream (peachesand_cream)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
22 Sep 2025
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Juniper Cade is a sixteen-year-old runaway, pregnant and traumatised. The adoption centre attached to the Girls’ Home has tried to get her adopted, or get her parents to take her back, and they’ve had no luck. Until fifty-year-old Ricky Hayes. He’s not deterred by her ‘behavioural issues’ or her coming-very-soon baby.
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- Part 4 of peachesandcream’s female johnny cade
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Don’t Feed the Plants! by Bees_InYourWalls
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
21 Sep 2025
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On the twenty-first day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places.
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When Soda finds a strange plant in his late Momma’s flower garden, he might just find what he believes to be the thing to save the nameless gas station he works at.
Or he might just find the first fall of a domino leading to a spiral of blood, plants, and fame.
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Steve is allergic to a lot of things, but especially vegetables.
Thankfully, the Curtises don’t eat veggies. They’re teenagers after all. They eat chocolate cake for breakfast some days.
Although, tonight, his spaghetti tastes a bit off..
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Steve isn’t trans.
But he can’t stop the feeling..
Aka. Steve’s journey into cross-dressing, and how he learns to accept himself
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- Part 4 of Being Different Series
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The Insiders by Like_Gag_Me_With_A_Spoon, SamTheLamb1
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Borrowers Series - Mary Norton, The Borrowers (TV 1992)
15 Sep 2025
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A borrower's life is pretty simple. Stay in hiding, grab the necessary food, and keep your head down. Steve Randle might be a little hard-headed at times, but even he was smart enough to know that having a human see you is a terrible thing.
Sadly, Steve has a chaotic group he calls friends, and it's only a matter of time before one of their jokes becomes too much.
(Updates are VERY irregular, but I will not forget this like I have my other fics, please trust me crying face emoji!!!)
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The Theater by Cherry_Blooom
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
13 Sep 2025
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The gang heads out to the movies on a sticky summer night—without Ponyboy, who stayed home after a spat with Darry.
What should’ve been an ordinary evening turns strange when the screen shows something unexpected. It’s just the beginning of a night none of them could’ve predicted.
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- Part 3 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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Help Me I Think I'm Falling Into Darkness (Please Stay Gold) by JustAPapayaa
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
12 Sep 2025
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Ponyboy has always enjoyed watching sunrises and sunsets. It had always been a trait of his to go out onto the rooftop (in secret) and state at the fading orange and yellow.
Well now he's watching it from the rooftop of a well-polished, overly clean building set somewhere in the capital, with a camera looking at him at all times.
He has to do this. Every moment counts. He needs to see his Soda again, his Darry, his Johnny. He will do whatever it takes to make it back to them and to be able to fall back into the safety of their open arms.
Even if it means killing someone. Even if it means going through intense amounts of torture and horror-like scenes.
He will make it back to the gang. To his family. He just has to win the games...
But then he thinks about the scrawny twelve year olds in the arena wjth him. They want to go home tok. They want to be hugged by their Mom again too. They want to walk the streets of their familiar neighborhoods too. They want to be able to talk and laugh with their best friends again as well.
He suddenly feels guilty and scared. He's just fourteen. What is he going to do...?
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Sicktember 2025 by Zvoid_Error000
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
11 Sep 2025
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Once again, tis the season for sickness! A month of sickness-based fics! As always, I'm terrible at sticking to one topic, I kinda meander away from pure sickfic content, however I think it keeps things interesting. Any and all triggers will be mentioned in the notes and summaries will clarifying the contents of each chapter! I have at least 15 consecutive days complete, I will continue to write them all and hopefully have them out on time!
Organize chapters by (S) Sick character and (C) Caregiver. Age regression fics will have (A)
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His love was the light in our darkness by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
11 Sep 2025
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Through the simple, pure things—Ponyboy’s soft laughter, the way he hums while folding laundry, or his quiet thank you’s for even the smallest gestures—Darry and Sodapop learn the depth of their love for him. Despite their messes and mistakes, Ponyboy’s love is a constant, unwavering force in their lives. As they face their emotional turmoil, they realize they can never love anyone the way they love their little brother.
A collection of quiet, tender moments from the lives of Ponyboy and his older brothers.
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- Part 2 of The Warmth We Didn’t Know We Needed
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And if I stop laughing, all the blood will just start pouring out by MoNsTeRsAmOnGMeN
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
09 Sep 2025
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I tightened my grip around his wrist to keep him steady. His skin felt like bird bones under my hand. “Damn it, Johnny,” I snapped before I could stop myself. “These cuts are bad. You’re gonna get an infection if you don’t let me clean ‘em proper.”
He jerked back like I’d swung at him. Just a little flinch, but enough that his face went pale as the gas station wall.
Shit.
“Hey,” I said quick, dropping the sharpness from my voice. My stomach twisted. “Sorry. I didn’t mean—look, I ain’t… I’m not good at this. Not like Darry. Or Soda.”
I expected him to shut down, maybe pull away. But Johnny just swallowed, eyes low, and whisperedSeries
- Part 6 of The "Johnny Cade Is Loved" Verse
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Found In The Wreckage by SpikesndSplinters
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
07 Sep 2025
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Steve Randle sat on the curb of a gas station not too far from the Curtis house. He was originally there to buy something for his eye, a cold Pepsi or even just ice, but the worker was quick to kick him out. Steve didn't even have the energy to punch the guy in the throat.
For a moment tears brimmed in his eyes before a rough voice shot through his ears like a bullet.
"You better not start bawling Randle"
Steve didn't even have to look up to recognize his voice.
Timothy. fucking. Shepard.
He had that underlying anger to him just like Dally, yet as he placed a Pepsi next to him Steve felt something he had felt one too many times with Darry. When he finally looked up at Tim, he was sat on the curb sporting a black eye just like him.
"Who?"
Tim didn't respond for a second he was a bit caught off guard at the sudden question.
"My best bud" Tim responded grinning wildly.
Surprisingly Steve grinned right back at him.
"Same here"
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Steve gets blamed for something that wasn't his fault and fights his best friend ending up next to Tim Shepard having an odd conversation with matching black eyes and poor Ponyboy being right in the middle of this.
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Five things about Steve Randle
Aka. My headcanons about one of the most underrated characters around
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m a s q u e r a d e by VellichorVibes
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
31 Aug 2025
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By ten o’clock the city had the unsettled air of a carnival about to burn down. The gangs kept walking, driving, riding, drawn toward Sand Springs, toward a lot that was supposed to hold peace but already felt like the kind of stage where only bad endings could play out. The heat hadn’t broken yet but everyone could feel it coming.
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Dallas doesn't run out of the hospital and rob the store after Johnny dies, therefore avoiding his death.
But now he has to learn how to live without him, and Dallas has never been good at that.
As he spends more time at the Curtis house, old memories (and feelings) are beginning to resurface. Ones Dallas would rather be left forgotten.
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Johnny, being fearless is not about the absence of fear; it's about having the courage to act despite feeling fear by MoNsTeRsAmOnGMeN
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
18 Aug 2025
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6 times Johnny shocked the shit out of the gang, and 1 time he shocked himself
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- Part 5 of The "Johnny Cade Is Loved" Verse
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Now you're all gone, got your make-up on and you're not coming back by Creamcake66
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
06 Aug 2025
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Sodapop was always a nice kid, He was always happy to help people, loved his brothers to pieces, and was liked by almost everyone. So why did it have to be him?
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It's My Fault... by Introvert_Extrovert
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
30 Jul 2025
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A different ending to my fic 'Not Your Fault.', where Darry doesn't survive.
TW: Death, Grieving, Family/Partner death, Grieving symptoms.
(Let me know if I should add more!)
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- Part 1 of Dead Modern AU Motorcycle Darry
- Part 43 of One-shots/Short stories
- Part 11 of Dally and Ponyboy friendship is real, Ponyboy told me himself
- Part 7 of Death fics
- Part 16 of Fic's with Darry as a MC
- Part 15 of Fic's with Sodapop as one of the MC's
- Part 3 of Modern The Outsiders AU!
- Part 26 of Riley writes ships :O