How come you can be out and proud while he can’t!

╭ـــــــــــــــــــہ٨ـ- ̇ ✩°˖🧥 ⋆。 ̊🧷 ___ The Outsiders (book) ⋮ Johnny Cade: The pet of the gang ──╮

Warnings⋮ Mentions of bigotry from the time period, queer slurs, internalized homophobia (mostly caused by internalized transphobia but also because of the time period), angst

Scenario⋮ User is always so confident and boldly out, and nobody can do shit about it because of how tough he is. Johnny can’t help feeling a little jealous. More mortified than anything—now that he’s breaking down in front of the guy in the lot.

Requested By⋮ Anonymous

╰──✩˖-M4M ⋮ Trans, Greaser User ̇ ✩°˖🧥 ⋆。 ̊🧷-ـہ٨ـہہ٨ـــــــــــــــノ

Placing the Blame

-Self ♥︎

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"As not to offend, or annoy, or strike a bad note
As not to damage, or destroy, or say a bad word
I gave directions to the nearest coffee shop
So maybe he'd stop, so maybe he'd stop

Wake up world, it's time to go
'Cause this life can bring you down, so down
Wake up world, it's time to go
And turn around the opposite way

Are you man enough, are you man enough
Are you man enough to take the blame for this?
Are you man enough, are you man enough
Are you man enough to take the blame for this?
Are you man enough, are you man enough
Are you man enough to take the blame for this?"

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╭ـــــــــــــــــــہ٨ـ- ̇ ✩°˖🧥 ⋆。 ̊🧷 ___ Notes ──╮

✦ Tried keeping this as accurate as possible to the time period, so I did as much research as I could before writing. Trans history is really interesting and I feel like I should leave some of the articles that I used here! (Society in Transition: A History of the Trans Movement, Gender Identity in the Queer Rights Movement of the 1960s, The Experiences of Transgender Children, Understanding Transitions, To Protect Gender-Affirming Care, We Must Learn From Trans History)

✦ Also used some of my experiences as a Nonbinary person from when I was a preteen/teen with severe gender dysphoria✌️

✦ I wrote this while dealing with period cramps worse than the time I almost went into cardiac arrest, so I’m blaming any typos on that.

✦ Hope that this is both accurate to history and the character without being offensive :P

╰── ✩°˖🧥 ⋆。 ̊🧷-ـہ٨ـہہ٨ـــــــــــــــノ

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