Story: Sweet Potato Sunset

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Story: Sweet Potato Sunset; by Midori Cha
Topic Started: Jul 20 2008, 02:59 PM (609 Views)
Artemis	Jul 20 2008, 02:59 PM Post #1
The Red Queen Posts: 4,686 Group: Admin Member #3 Joined: September 6, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Angela Shepard Fanfiction.net Username Artemis_Rex	Sweet Potato Sunset is one of the best Dallas/OFC fics I've ever read. * Dallas is not a mushball nor is he a raging prick who you can't believe anyone would like. He has a rough charm and is not Lord of the Smex, but comes off as attractive in a "diamond in the rough" way. * Sylvia is not shunted off to the side, nor is she a slut or a shrew. She's a troubled girl who avoids the pitfalls of emoness and becomes someone you sympathize with, if not neccessary root for. * Susie, the OFC, isn't super tough, doesn't automatically understand the greaser/Soc conflict without being told nor is so stupid it must be explained to her as if she's an infant, isn't drop-dead gorgeous or a superslut. She's a girl with a crush. We've all been there. * Two-Bit is a tragi-comic philsopher. The guy knows the score and will tell you ... only hidden in a wisecrack. Probably, hands down, the best-written Two-Bit ever. * Soda sheds his Greek God Come to Earth mantle. Thank you, Baby Jesus. Basically, Susie, a nice, yet ordinary girl, is visiting her cousins, the Curtises. She has a lingering girlhood crush on one Dallas Winston, and she is determined to do just about anything to get him -- even befriending his girlfriend Sylvia so she can figure out what makes their relationship tick and what sort of girl Dallas is attracted to. This is my Two-Bit rec. I will do recs on other characters later. Right now, I've got to clean the bathroom.
	Go, then; there are other worlds than these. If, at his counsel, I should turn aside into that ominous tract which, all agree, hides the Dark Tower. Yet acquiescingly I did turn as he pointed: neither pride nor hope rekindling at the end descried, so much as gladness that some end might be.


Mars	Jul 20 2008, 03:34 PM Post #2
Gang Leader Posts: 8,711 Group: Senior Member Member #1 Joined: September 6, 2007	My favourite part of the fic is that Soda is seen through Susie's eyes as this totally annoying presence lol. No one ever thinks his happy-go-lucky attitude might translate into "annoyingly picks on cousin/girls" lol.
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Nittanylizard	Jul 20 2008, 05:01 PM Post #3
Gang Leader Posts: 895 Group: Senior Member Member #29 Joined: September 14, 2007	I third this one. It's a great fic.
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Mars	Jul 21 2008, 07:26 PM Post #4
Gang Leader Posts: 8,711 Group: Senior Member Member #1 Joined: September 6, 2007	Yay update!! And, as I said in my review - the sexual innuendo stuff is done SO well.
	Glenn Withrow Fansite


caitly	Jul 21 2008, 08:07 PM Post #5
Future Greaser Posts: 90 Group: Member Member #295 Joined: July 2, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Favourite Outsiders Character Steve Randle Fanfiction.net Username caitly	Haha, I actually just read the update and am suddenly happy. I was so happy, I made myself close ff.net so I wouldn't read any Mary Sue's by accident, because then I wouldn't be happy anymore. If you haven't read it yet, go!



Artemis	Sep 11 2008, 07:45 PM Post #6
The Red Queen Posts: 4,686 Group: Admin Member #3 Joined: September 6, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Angela Shepard Fanfiction.net Username Artemis_Rex	Too bad it hasn't been updated lately ...
	Go, then; there are other worlds than these. If, at his counsel, I should turn aside into that ominous tract which, all agree, hides the Dark Tower. Yet acquiescingly I did turn as he pointed: neither pride nor hope rekindling at the end descried, so much as gladness that some end might be.


hunter s thompson	Sep 11 2008, 11:25 PM Post #7
Greaser Posts: 491 Group: Senior Member Member #94 Joined: December 15, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Ponyboy Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Two-Bit Mathews Fanfiction.net Username Ski-Ming	"Was it a magic ring?" = one of my favorite-ever lines in fanfiction. Go read, now.
	sad but true. my writing LJ \| my personal LJ


tiff123	Sep 12 2008, 02:31 AM Post #8
Greaser Posts: 226 Group: Senior Member Member #339 Joined: August 15, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Ponyboy Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Johnny Cade	Wow, that really is fantastic. I will have to give more orginal female character stories a chance I guess.



zevie	Sep 12 2008, 02:39 PM Post #9
Slashy Queen ... GET IT?! Queen? Hahaha Posts: 3,505 Group: Senior Member Member #8 Joined: September 7, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Fanfiction.net Username zevie/Midori Cha	Artemis Sep 11 2008, 07:45 PM Too bad it hasn't been updated lately ... It will be. Swearz, up and down, sometime this week, there WILL be another chapter.
	sugar is a fuckiung vegetbale. sugar cane, bitrch! Jesus didn't have fun dip. - Artemis, on Gertrude Stein Sorry to break it to you over Facebook, but look at this way: How much more awkward would it be in person -- for me, anyway. - Artemis, from FaceStalk where I stalked her God gave man Free Will so that man could choose between good and evil. Sadly, God did not give man the knowledge to distinguish good from evil. He only gave that to apples. - Betty Bowers (ish)


xolilkelox1	Sep 13 2008, 09:53 AM Post #10
Gang Leader Posts: 2,062 Group: Senior Member Member #10 Joined: September 8, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Angela Shepard Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Fanfiction.net Username Xocrazililkelox	I really enjoyed this story. You could certinaly relate to Susie .I'm probably reading too much into this but I think Two-Bit has a little crush on Susie.I'm glad it has been abanded.
	"Do not stand at my grave and weep." R.I.P. Poppy Scaga you will be deeply missed . 1924-2008


fullofmetal	Sep 14 2008, 07:07 PM Post #11
Greaser Posts: 273 Group: Senior Member Member #364 Joined: September 4, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Curly Shepard Favourite Outsiders Character Steve Randle Fanfiction.net Username fullofmetal	l.l What a fantastic story. There is no Mary-Sueness that makes me want to puke my guts out and all the characters are wonderfuly written.
	My whipped iced dairy drink brings the attention of many males to my place of residence. They declare that its quality far surpasses yours. Absolutely, it far surpasses yours. I could convey to you the recipe but I would require a sum. If sometimes you feel useless or depressed, just remember that you were once the fastest & most victorious little sperm out of millions. FF dA YT FP


Artemis	Sep 18 2008, 07:50 PM Post #12
The Red Queen Posts: 4,686 Group: Admin Member #3 Joined: September 6, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Angela Shepard Fanfiction.net Username Artemis_Rex	It's been seven days. taps foot impatiently
	Go, then; there are other worlds than these. If, at his counsel, I should turn aside into that ominous tract which, all agree, hides the Dark Tower. Yet acquiescingly I did turn as he pointed: neither pride nor hope rekindling at the end descried, so much as gladness that some end might be.


zevie	Sep 18 2008, 07:53 PM Post #13
Slashy Queen ... GET IT?! Queen? Hahaha Posts: 3,505 Group: Senior Member Member #8 Joined: September 7, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Fanfiction.net Username zevie/Midori Cha	You're kidding. Shit, that went by fast. ... Wait, wait, I have until tomorrow!
	sugar is a fuckiung vegetbale. sugar cane, bitrch! Jesus didn't have fun dip. - Artemis, on Gertrude Stein Sorry to break it to you over Facebook, but look at this way: How much more awkward would it be in person -- for me, anyway. - Artemis, from FaceStalk where I stalked her God gave man Free Will so that man could choose between good and evil. Sadly, God did not give man the knowledge to distinguish good from evil. He only gave that to apples. - Betty Bowers (ish)


Artemis	Sep 18 2008, 07:58 PM Post #14
The Red Queen Posts: 4,686 Group: Admin Member #3 Joined: September 6, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Angela Shepard Fanfiction.net Username Artemis_Rex	Quit looking at the penises and get to work!
	Go, then; there are other worlds than these. If, at his counsel, I should turn aside into that ominous tract which, all agree, hides the Dark Tower. Yet acquiescingly I did turn as he pointed: neither pride nor hope rekindling at the end descried, so much as gladness that some end might be.


zevie	Sep 18 2008, 08:08 PM Post #15
Slashy Queen ... GET IT?! Queen? Hahaha Posts: 3,505 Group: Senior Member Member #8 Joined: September 7, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Fanfiction.net Username zevie/Midori Cha	OMG, how did you know?!
	sugar is a fuckiung vegetbale. sugar cane, bitrch! Jesus didn't have fun dip. - Artemis, on Gertrude Stein Sorry to break it to you over Facebook, but look at this way: How much more awkward would it be in person -- for me, anyway. - Artemis, from FaceStalk where I stalked her God gave man Free Will so that man could choose between good and evil. Sadly, God did not give man the knowledge to distinguish good from evil. He only gave that to apples. - Betty Bowers (ish)


Artemis	Sep 18 2008, 08:17 PM Post #16
The Red Queen Posts: 4,686 Group: Admin Member #3 Joined: September 6, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Angela Shepard Fanfiction.net Username Artemis_Rex	I KNOW. Now, back to work!
	Go, then; there are other worlds than these. If, at his counsel, I should turn aside into that ominous tract which, all agree, hides the Dark Tower. Yet acquiescingly I did turn as he pointed: neither pride nor hope rekindling at the end descried, so much as gladness that some end might be.


bronxxxy	Nov 18 2008, 07:41 PM Post #17
Future Greaser Posts: 122 Group: Member Member #435 Joined: November 14, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Favourite Outsiders Character Steve Randle Fanfiction.net Username bronxxxy	This was the first ever good Outsiders fic that I read when I got into the fandom. I wish it would be updated.
	MEH LIFE!!!!!1!! I loves it. I hates it. I needs it.


the_sly_wink	Dec 19 2008, 02:29 PM Post #18
Royal Portrait Artist Posts: 474 Group: Senior Member Member #63 Joined: October 21, 2007	Miz Midori is no fun at all, what with her restricted reviews! But seriously, I've been waiting for a long time to start reading this, yet somehow the "I'll read it when I'm done with the next project/when my next test is over" excuses piled up and kept pushing it farther down the line. Now that winter break has finally arrived, I'm almost thankful for the year's worth of backlog that will keep me occupied for many happy chapters. I could heap on the praise as many others have before me, but they've already described some of S.P.S's qualities so well! A few specific things I enjoy are the quirky little details that still serve the story. For example, the newly painted, fume-y room waiting for Susie when she arrives. It stood out to me as a funny thing I wouldn't normally find in a "OFC Curtis Comes To Town" fic. Yet it's just the sort of unexpected inconvenience you might encounter in real life; it makes Susie's experience more real, and it also says something about the Curtis' pride and odd hospitality. That's just one of many endearing details that elevate this fic above most others in the genre. So zevie likes to find cliches and things taken for granted, then turn them on their head? I can definitely see it! In the hands of somebody else that could come off too obviously, like a TAKE THAT sledgehammer, but in the few chapters I've read it's been tactfully handled. The wealth of other sister/cousin fics out there actually make this one better, just to see how common themes are averted. Who says that Sodapop has to be universally loved?



Artemis	Dec 19 2008, 04:12 PM Post #19
The Red Queen Posts: 4,686 Group: Admin Member #3 Joined: September 6, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Angela Shepard Fanfiction.net Username Artemis_Rex	Damnit, update this. Or I withhold stuff. And I know you're on break, Zev.
	Go, then; there are other worlds than these. If, at his counsel, I should turn aside into that ominous tract which, all agree, hides the Dark Tower. Yet acquiescingly I did turn as he pointed: neither pride nor hope rekindling at the end descried, so much as gladness that some end might be.


zevie	Dec 20 2008, 09:54 PM Post #20
Slashy Queen ... GET IT?! Queen? Hahaha Posts: 3,505 Group: Senior Member Member #8 Joined: September 7, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Fanfiction.net Username zevie/Midori Cha	Good grief, I'm such a tool! I totally didn't realize I'd disabled anonymous reviews. Blargh. Thank you for the kind words here, Sly Wink. :D Do you have stuff, Artemis???? No withholding! I will get on it, like a responsible type person.
	sugar is a fuckiung vegetbale. sugar cane, bitrch! Jesus didn't have fun dip. - Artemis, on Gertrude Stein Sorry to break it to you over Facebook, but look at this way: How much more awkward would it be in person -- for me, anyway. - Artemis, from FaceStalk where I stalked her God gave man Free Will so that man could choose between good and evil. Sadly, God did not give man the knowledge to distinguish good from evil. He only gave that to apples. - Betty Bowers (ish)


the_sly_wink	Dec 20 2008, 11:23 PM Post #21
Royal Portrait Artist Posts: 474 Group: Senior Member Member #63 Joined: October 21, 2007	How retarded am I? I just now realized her name ... Mary Susan Shipman. Ahh! You should have seen the face I made.



Mars	Dec 20 2008, 11:56 PM Post #22
Gang Leader Posts: 8,711 Group: Senior Member Member #1 Joined: September 6, 2007	Don't worry, it took me a few chapters before I noticed lol.
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Dallas	Dec 21 2008, 02:11 PM Post #23
Banned Posts: 254 Group: Banned Member #264 Joined: June 5, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Fanfiction.net Username DallasWinston	I hate saying anything positivie about you broads because you jump on it like a starving dog on a bone but this aint terrible.



Artemis	Dec 23 2008, 08:36 AM Post #24
The Red Queen Posts: 4,686 Group: Admin Member #3 Joined: September 6, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Angela Shepard Fanfiction.net Username Artemis_Rex	Swap you the first chapter of Heaven and Earth, me and Mars' new co-written fic for the next chapter of SPS.
	Go, then; there are other worlds than these. If, at his counsel, I should turn aside into that ominous tract which, all agree, hides the Dark Tower. Yet acquiescingly I did turn as he pointed: neither pride nor hope rekindling at the end descried, so much as gladness that some end might be.


Deleted User	Dec 23 2008, 12:11 PM Post #25
Deleted User	I love this story. It's good stories like this that keeps good writers from banging their heads against a brick wall becuase of Mary-Sue over dose. Please up-date soon. ! . I have a question. Why do we call it a Mary-Sue? And what's a guys term?
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Mars	Dec 23 2008, 12:16 PM Post #26
Gang Leader Posts: 8,711 Group: Senior Member Member #1 Joined: September 6, 2007	Mary Sue was the name of a character in a Star Trek parody story that was published in a fanzine in 1973. It parodied the unrealistic female characters in that fandom. It began being used outside the Star Trek fandom with the advent of the internet. The guy's term is Marty Stu or Gary Stu (sometimes other names). Mostly people say "Stu'd" about a MS male character, but I tend to call male characters Mary Sues as well.
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Deleted User	Thank you mars. :D
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ShotgunOpera	Dec 23 2008, 08:53 PM Post #28
shepard gang member, bee-yotch Posts: 3,824 Group: Senior Member Member #348 Joined: August 23, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Favourite Outsiders Character Two-Bit Mathews Fanfiction.net Username ShotgunOpera	Dallas Dec 21 2008, 02:11 PM I hate saying anything positivie about you broads because you jump on it like a starving dog on a bone but this aint terrible. dally said something halfway nice?! faints
	"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you oughta go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q -- "madness is like gravity; all it takes is a little push." - the joker, the dark knight


Hahukum Konn	Dec 23 2008, 09:03 PM Post #29
Admiral-Engineer Second Rank Posts: 3,452 Group: Senior Member Member #28 Joined: September 14, 2007	http://www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/dark/1000/marysue.htm
	"They don't just lean to the Gary Stu side, they bloody topple over from the lopsided weight." - barbarienne from Livejournal, in a discussion regarding John Grisham's main characters. "In their own way, they have us beat. It's like a secret code. They're probably really trying to take over the world and we literate people are out of the loop." - Latch, on fanbrats and bad spelling.


zevie	Dec 23 2008, 09:58 PM Post #30
Slashy Queen ... GET IT?! Queen? Hahaha Posts: 3,505 Group: Senior Member Member #8 Joined: September 7, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Fanfiction.net Username zevie/Midori Cha	Quote: I hate saying anything positivie about you broads because you jump on it like a starving dog on a bone but this aint terrible. Woof, woof! Quote: Swap you the first chapter of Heaven and Earth, me and Mars' new co-written fic for the next chapter of SPS. If I post, you'll post? Or do you want the shit-tastic version of the chapter I have concocted right now so I can score fic off you? Either way, GIMME FIC!
	sugar is a fuckiung vegetbale. sugar cane, bitrch! Jesus didn't have fun dip. - Artemis, on Gertrude Stein Sorry to break it to you over Facebook, but look at this way: How much more awkward would it be in person -- for me, anyway. - Artemis, from FaceStalk where I stalked her God gave man Free Will so that man could choose between good and evil. Sadly, God did not give man the knowledge to distinguish good from evil. He only gave that to apples. - Betty Bowers (ish)


Mars	Dec 23 2008, 10:05 PM Post #31
Gang Leader Posts: 8,711 Group: Senior Member Member #1 Joined: September 6, 2007	LOL. She's off til Monday, so you'll have to wait til then, but she said she'd send it to you if you updated while she was away=)
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zevie	Dec 23 2008, 10:12 PM Post #32
Slashy Queen ... GET IT?! Queen? Hahaha Posts: 3,505 Group: Senior Member Member #8 Joined: September 7, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Fanfiction.net Username zevie/Midori Cha	Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat! Monday is practically next year! Hahahahahahahaha ... Okay, I'll take it! Updating tomorrow, because OMG, this particular stereotype is full of dramaz. I'm worried I might have butchered Dally.
	sugar is a fuckiung vegetbale. sugar cane, bitrch! Jesus didn't have fun dip. - Artemis, on Gertrude Stein Sorry to break it to you over Facebook, but look at this way: How much more awkward would it be in person -- for me, anyway. - Artemis, from FaceStalk where I stalked her God gave man Free Will so that man could choose between good and evil. Sadly, God did not give man the knowledge to distinguish good from evil. He only gave that to apples. - Betty Bowers (ish)


Hahukum Konn	Dec 23 2008, 11:46 PM Post #33
Admiral-Engineer Second Rank Posts: 3,452 Group: Senior Member Member #28 Joined: September 14, 2007	And on that note, I'm finally resolving successfully to clear this fic, one review/chapter at a time. :D
	"They don't just lean to the Gary Stu side, they bloody topple over from the lopsided weight." - barbarienne from Livejournal, in a discussion regarding John Grisham's main characters. "In their own way, they have us beat. It's like a secret code. They're probably really trying to take over the world and we literate people are out of the loop." - Latch, on fanbrats and bad spelling.


zevie	Dec 24 2008, 08:01 PM Post #34
Slashy Queen ... GET IT?! Queen? Hahaha Posts: 3,505 Group: Senior Member Member #8 Joined: September 7, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Fanfiction.net Username zevie/Midori Cha	Holy shit! Sooo many reviews lol. Now I know what Maxie was talking about. Thanks for that, I promise I'll get to responding soon. And it's updated. Finally. On Christmas Eve. Terrible timing on my part but oh well lol. I'm a little nervous about this one anyway lol. Edited by zevie, Dec 24 2008, 08:01 PM.
	sugar is a fuckiung vegetbale. sugar cane, bitrch! Jesus didn't have fun dip. - Artemis, on Gertrude Stein Sorry to break it to you over Facebook, but look at this way: How much more awkward would it be in person -- for me, anyway. - Artemis, from FaceStalk where I stalked her God gave man Free Will so that man could choose between good and evil. Sadly, God did not give man the knowledge to distinguish good from evil. He only gave that to apples. - Betty Bowers (ish)


Artemis	Dec 29 2008, 04:50 AM Post #35
The Red Queen Posts: 4,686 Group: Admin Member #3 Joined: September 6, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Angela Shepard Fanfiction.net Username Artemis_Rex	I'll send you something. PM me with your email address.
	Go, then; there are other worlds than these. If, at his counsel, I should turn aside into that ominous tract which, all agree, hides the Dark Tower. Yet acquiescingly I did turn as he pointed: neither pride nor hope rekindling at the end descried, so much as gladness that some end might be.


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