My Sleep Deprived Brain Forgot He Had Glasses

East End Boys, West End Girls

aka more Marcia x Two-Bit :))

ugh I needa draw them more lol. Tbh they’re lowkey what dragged me into this fandom months ago- I found the fandom because I liked them in the book and needed to see if anyone else did too and it was all downhill from there

also do y’all like the color palette here? I didn’t wanna do my usual grayscale stuff, but I wasn’t in the mood to color properly either, so I tried this ig??

(I’ll put the grayscale version under the cut tho anyhow if y’all prefer that)

Idk, drawings of Pony and Darry from their yearbooks when they graduated??? Didn’t draw soda bc he did graduate (I lost motivation)

I feel like I’ve failed Flatline💀💀 also if ur asking why I glued pieces of paper to my sketch book it’s bc I messed up🤓☝️

anyways this is my two days late valentines drawing

steve randle died on a tuesday, his father’s fist red with his blood. he died in a house he never belonged in, with a man he wished he could hate.

sodapop curtis cried for the whole tuesday, wednesday. then on thursday he was silent, friday he punched darry in the chest over and over to stop the aching in his lungs. saturday he screamed and threw all the plates in the cupboard on the floor, sunday he hugged ponyboy so tight he couldn’t breathe.

it was like life pressed fast forward, until the day of the funeral. on the day of the funeral sodapop curtis drank half a bottle of vodka and chugged as many beers as he could before he threw up. on the day of the funeral he bought as much candy as he could with the pitiful amount he had in his wallet and ate until his sugar crash finally hit. anything to stop that pain in his bones that dragged throughout his body on repeat.

at the funeral he sobbed, fixing steve’s hair the way he would’ve wanted, slipping a dime into his pocket and placing his hand over his heart. he still had a black eye and a busted up lip from his dad, but that’s what made it all the more real.

steve randle died on a tuesday in june, his car sat out in the lot until a thursday in december. it was wrecked by then, mouldy and missing parts- stolen by thieves and starving children. the classic story of the east side.

he died on a tuesday morning and was found dead in the afternoon, bled out over the carpet. staining it for life, the thick smell of pennies filling the air for the rest of eternity.

Can’t remember who said it a few months back but part of why Darry is so rough on Ponyboy, apart from not knowing what he’s doing and it being a hard transition from brother to guardian is that it’s quite literally doctors orders.

Keep him busy, keep him occupied— added with focusing on the “checkpoints” of what a guardian is supposed to do and that Ponyboy has the chance Darry didn’t when it comes to going to college. The main thing about Darry is that he’s so focused on securing the future that he misses the present (maybe a future meta/longer. That line really hits ough)

Darry said “I love you so much” *chucks 14 year old into deep end of the pool and yells at him to float*

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Can’t have night terrors if you’re exhausted! Love you 1960s medicine. He just gives pony a Benadryl …. Rip Ponyboy Curtis would’ve loved melatonin. 😔

Generally an artistic person

BRUCE CALLING THE ROBINS/THE BATFAM CHUM SUPREMACY 🙇🙇🙇

Darry had put each of the gang on cooking duty once a week to 'put your freeloading ass to use'. Johnny would be put on cooking duty every Wednesday, but he's absolute shit at it, and no one has the heart to tell him it sucks ass

Johhny: "I made chicken and bean casserole. I hope you like it"

Pony: "Oh thanks Johnny..it looks so..good?"

Soda: "Yeah Johnny! I like the crunch"

Johnny: "Crunch? There's nothing crunchy in it"

Steve: "It's..um..Sweet? Why is it sweet?"

Dally: "Sweet? Mine tastes salty as hell"

Darry: "uh Johnny, we dont have chicken in the fridge. Or beans"

Johnny: "Well shoot, then what did I put in there?"

Two-bit, spitting something out: "is that a tooth..?"

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