RunningOnSunshine
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Independence, Missouri
1851Everyone has something to run from.
Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry Curtis from their life of poverty, a rough city, and memories of their late parents.
Keith “Two-Bit” Mathews, from a life spent too long at the bottom of a bottle and a house fire he was too out of sorts to do anything about.
Steve Randle, from his father, who has kicked him out for the final time.
Johnny Cade, from his abusive father and uncle, memories of his negligent late mother, and a half-world of his heritage between the Lakota and the white settlers of the trading post.
Dalton “Dally” Winston, from a murder that no one else will truly believe was in defense of Johnny Cade.
Free land in Oregon starts to sound more and more appealing. A new life. Atonement. Everything else they’re looking for.
It won’t be an easy journey, though. They might not all come out the other side. But this ragtag bunch, both old friends and new, is determined to get their last chance at a new start before it slips away from them for good.
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The Curtis gang takes the Oregon Trail.
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Before The Salt Burns Your Eyes (And You Run Out of Time) by RunningOnSunshine, the_projectionist
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
01 Jul 2026
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April, 1912
The Curtis gang sets sail for America on the RMS Titanic, the greatest ocean liner of its time. Everyone is excited for a new start - but when disaster strikes, the Ship of Dreams becomes a nightmare.
Family, friendship, and the perils of holding on and letting go.
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Death Smelled Like Sugar by itsmarmieee, RunningOnSunshine
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
01 Jul 2026
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1919
Darry’s finally home from his time in the Great War, but life doesn’t look like it used to for the Curtis brothers and their friends in the North End of Boston.
The Spanish Flu stole their loved ones and left Pony and Johnny with lingering ailments. Darry’s suffering from the aftereffects of a war that killed his friends and left him traumatized, hardly able to work under the stress. Soda’s torn between his brothers in what seems like a constant battle at home. Two-Bit, Steve, and Dally are doing what they can to try and keep their friends afloat after what’s clearly been the worst year of their lives.
Life’s not all bad with their lives on the harbor—they still have each other, after all.
But even that safety is threatened when the molasses tank looming over Boston bursts, flooding the city and taking lives with it.
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The Curtis gang in the 1919 Great Molasses Flood.
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Sodapop, This House Ain't a Home Without You by RunningOnSunshine
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
19 Jun 2026
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Ten years ago, the Curtis parents died, leaving their three sons to the system.
Three years ago, Darry turned eighteen and brought Ponyboy home for kinship placement.
One week ago, Darry turned twenty-one, so he could finally begin the process of adopting Ponyboy.
For years, Darry has searched desperately for Soda, blocked by closed records, misplaced files, and every obstacle the system could throw in his way.
When a new caseworker enters Pony's life for the adoption process and Darry finally learns that Soda was adopted three and a half years ago and now goes by Patrick “Paddy” Collins—a boy with a new name, a new family, and little memory of the seven-year-old life he’d once had with Ponyboy and Darry, the Curtis brothers have to navigate reunion, heartbreak, and building up a relationship again with the brother they’ve been missing all these years.
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The Papers Say It's Doomsday by RunningOnSunshine, the_projectionist
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (1983)
22 May 2026
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September, 1968
The Curtis gang is gathered for the anniversary of Dally and Johnny’s deaths when unexplained counts of violence begin bursting all over Tulsa.
The five of them are no strangers to nightmares, but no amount of trouble or grief could’ve prepared them for the end of the world. All around them, through an unexplainable, contagious sickness, people are turning into mindless, deadly monsters. And while the Curtis gang is together, all of their loved ones are not.
How can you find and protect everyone you love when the very world you know has ended? Especially when sometimes, the real monsters are the people you thought you knew.
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At The End of The World by I_refuse_to_think_of_a_good_username
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, Look Outside (Video Game)
30 Jun 2026
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Anyone who looks outside becomes warped beyond recognition. Even once it's no longer dangerous to look outside, the chaos is far from over. With the world in ruins, Darry needs to hold onto his remaining loved ones.
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- Part 1 of Cursed Outsiders
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30 Jun 2026
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Love 'em With Your Whole Heart and Always Take Care of 'em by Ineffable_narnia
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
12 May 2026
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Suddenly, Pony was sick all over the bed, coughing and gagging as the contents of his stomach emptied. Though he didn’t understand how there was even anything left to be emptied, considering he’d hardly eaten today.
Once Pony finished, he sagged back against his brother, who held onto him tightly. “S-Soda. Soda, I don’t feel good.”
Soda kissed the top of his brother’s head. “I know, baby, I know. It’s gonna be–” He stopped short, only now getting a good look at the sick on Pony’s bed. It was unlike anything Soda had ever seen. It was dark brown, and it almost looked like…coffee grounds? Soda knew for certain this wasn’t normal. Something was very, terribly wrong with his brother.
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Ponyboy is worried about a test on Friday and Darry promises to help his little brother study. But it turns out he's more worried than anyone knew, worried enough to make himself severely sick. Darry's out with his friends when he finds out Pony is in the hospital, instead of at home - where they were supposed to be studying together.
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13 May 2026
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Darry can't admit to himself that he's sick after going out to the woods with his brothers - but it's hard to deny it after he passes out.
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05 May 2026
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The Story's Writing Me by USeeTheseHands
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
02 Apr 2026
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Ponyboy was beginning to think reading might be enough to keep him full for the rest of his life. Surely if his mind was full of letters and words and sentences and stories, he’d never long for food again.
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Ponyboy's lifelong love of literature captured in six stories he reads aloud (and one he doesn't).
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Bookmarked by RunningOnSunshine
03 Apr 2026
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In My Dreams Began To Creep by itsmarmieee
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (1983)
01 Apr 2026
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Ponyboy's first day (and night and morning) with Darry and Sodapop.
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- Part 3 of marmie's foster pony au
- Part 19 of marmie torments the curtises
Bookmarked by RunningOnSunshine
01 Apr 2026