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  1. Public Bookmark 14

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    There’s shade three steps ahead, but it’s a lifetime away. The sun is beatin’ down on them still, hot and heavy as their mama’s iron, and Pony’s barely standing beneath the weight. He can’t even think through the cotton in his head, the way his stomach is trying to climb up out of his throat. He lifts a lethargic hand up to rub at his forehead, and even the smallest hint of a shadow afforded by his palm feels like heaven.

    “Um,” Pony manages, dragging his words out one by one, “‘m…’m not feelin’...”

    He can feel himself sway again, and his head is spinnin’, vision darkening at the edges. Soda’s mouth moves but Pony can’t hear it, can’t keep himself upright—it’s like every bit of his body gives up at once, and he blinks, and then he’s gone.

    aka; pony gets heat stroke after a track meet, and he worries his brothers half to death.

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    10 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    Ponyboy Curtis's life was turned upside-down eight months ago when his parents died and left the farmstead to his oldest brother. Life is a struggle every day as he navigates life with his brothers, the other farmhands, and the way life looks now on their dreary Oklahoma farm.

    Everything changes when a cyclone blows through, sweeping Ponyboy and his dog, Yeller, up into the fantastical world of Oz, where he is instructed to meet the Wizard in the Gold City for a way to take him back home.

    He meets several familiar characters along the way with their own hopes and dreams. Maybe the Wizard has the means to help all of them.

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    07 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    "Holy shit that dude's really buff." 


    Ponyboy Davis is not a Curtis. He is also not a Davis. His real name is Arthur Palm. And he's an ex cult member. The cult was the Rising Cross cult, a religious cult. Ponyboy's role? Sacrifice.

    Ponyboy didn't want to be a sacrifice, so one night he ran. And ran. He notified the police, who notified the FBI, who notified... whoever comes next. Until Ponyboy ended up in witness protection.

    And he was placed with the Curtis', who were threatened into it. If Darry didn't take Ponyboy, Soda would go to a boys home. They didn't know of his origins, all they knew was his cover story. That he was a JD.

    Since apparently the cult wouldn't expect Arthur to be a hoodlum.

    Fic is hopefully better than summary.

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    05 Jul 2026

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    Robin dies.

    Tim isn’t a little kid anymore. He understands that people - most people - die rather easily, sooner or later.

    But Robin isn’t most people.

    Robin was supposed to be magic. Like Tim.

     

    Or: Tim's mother passes down more than just a sharp wit and a strong sense of independence, and the batfam are under some severe misapprehensions.

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    30 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 20

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    Independence, Missouri
    1851

    Everyone 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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    29 Jun 2026