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Love From, The County Fair by dreamcinema
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
05 May 2026
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"The lights began to blink alive, casting long shadows that flickered like dancing ghosts in the night. Carnival music swelled, and Johnny felt that old tug in his chest like the fairgrounds were alive and breathing."
Set in the summer before Johnny Cade gets jumped by Sheldon’s Gang, the last summer before Windrixville. The last summer before Delinquent Youths Turn Heros.
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Wild Horses Can't Outrun Me by dreamcinema
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
29 Dec 2025
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The year is 1974, a Californian film student uncovers a yellowed newspaper clipping: ‘Delinquent Youths Turn Heroes.’ Something about it won’t let her go. Boarding a train to Tulsa Oklahoma, camera in hand she hopes to get some answers. However, what she finds is closed doors, hushed voices, and rumours that Johnny Cade never stood trial because he skipped town like a coward. Others say he's dead. As one lead turns into another, her film transforms into a search for the truth and for Johnny himself. What begins as inspiration for a student film spirals into a cross-country odyssey through dusty archives, roadside diners, forgotten highways and half remembered towns. Told through flickering footage and sun-faded photos, this is a story of escape and survival, exploring Johnny’s life on the run and a strangers determination to learn his true story. A grainy a love letter to lost youth and to unfinished stories.
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A Freight Train Moving Against My Will by dreamcinema
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
20 Sep 2025
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Early 2000s AU - Ponyboy is in College and Johnny is not. He’s a janitor at the hospital. The hospital gives Pony the creeps, he has trouble sleeping. There are strange things in the woods. Strange things at the hospital too. Story told from Johnny's POV. Kind of inspired by games like Sirenhead. This is still a work in progress, stay with me now.
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Wishing On Dying Stars by yadigokbaby
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
06 Apr 2026
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What if Bob Sheldon survived?
Years after the incident at the park, the Tulsa gang scene has reached its breaking point. The east side isn’t what it used to be; fractured by loss, betrayal, and the slow grind of time. With the Curtis brothers torn apart, the gang has drifted, seeking cheap thrills and pastures new.
Still stuck at the bottom is Johnny Cade, caught between a rock and hard place. It’s a dog eat dog world. The streets are ruled by drugs, turf, and girls. Johnny knows it’ll kill him eventually.
Or maybe it starts with you.
Just passing through, you meet a quiet greaser. No good deed goes unpunished, you get pulled into a world you never meant to roam in. The streets don’t just chew you, they swallow and spit you back out. You should have just got on that damn bus.
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16 Aug 2025
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He used to play in the train yard when he was younger, and could run across the tracks without rib cages splintering under his feet. Remembering was hard these days. If he went too far back in his mind, he was in danger of getting stuck there forever, lost in a world where flesh didn't rot off living creatures, and no barricade loomed over the railroad.
Back then, if someone yelled "Curtis!" Ponyboy asked which one. He didn’t ask anymore. He didn’t need to.
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At the end of the world, Ponyboy Curtis searches for his brothers. Post-Apocalypse AU.
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09 Aug 2025