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Thanks very much for the answer! Best wishes with the rewrite lol it's such a pain 🤞

Sorry if this is a stupid question! Did you delete bolt from the blue? I remembered the premise from back in the day and went digging around from it and now I'm not even sure if you were the author?

If I remember right it was oc insert as enel who was experiencing dysphoria and looking for iva?

Aye; I had ideas that didn’t match up to the new ideas. I started rewriting, but we’ll see if it gets anywhere close to publishing ready,

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resurrecting my blog every 6 months to reblog something my brother made and be like NO YOU ARE WRONG YOU FOOLS!!!!

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The Fireman's Daughter, Jonathan Kinsman

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Need to finish reformatting both of my blogs and then start POSTING stuff.

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DUG IT UP BAYBEE @emmedoesntdomath this and the last couple posts are for your benefit

BUMLETS* APPRECIATION POST

*and also Dominic Lucero

ALRIGHT, LISTEN THE HELL UP NEWSIES FANDOM BECAUSE I AM PRESENTING DIRECTLY TO YOU AN AMAZING BOY WHO DOESN’T GET NEARLY ENOUGH LOVE.

MY HANDSOME, AMAZING DANCING, SINGING BOY:

LOOK, look at this absolute angel. His name is Bumlets, played by the amazingly talented actor Dominic Lucero way back in 1992 (RIP).

Bumlets is a lovely character and although he’s not a main character and thus doesn’t receive much attention from the fans, he sure as hell deserves it.

Bumlets is a very playful and active character, you can see him in the middle-back of most scenes, specifically having some of the harder choreography etc because Dominic Lucero knew nearly every step of choreography in every dance, even for the other actors.

No, I’m not lying. The entire Newsies cast was once lectured on their coach to be more like Dominic Lucero (there’s a video of this on Kevin Stea’s YouTube Channel), who regularly volounteered to step into others’ roles in choreography when they needed help or if they were absent for any reason.

He can be seen prominently at a few points in Newsies, he engages in a stick sword fight with Skittery as they move into the city in ‘Carrying The Banner’ and is the boy seen swinging from the ceiling fan at the end of ‘King Of New York’. From this, I’d like to think he’s a very friendly and welcoming person, based off of both the actor and what little we see of the character.

Sadly, Dominic Lucero, the extremely talented actor who played Bumlets, lost a battle with Lymphatic Cancer at the young age of 26 in 1994. He was best known for being one of the Primary Dancers for Michael Jackson’s BAD Tour, his role as Bumlets, his role in the first season of Roundhouse and winning Star Search in 1991 with his dancing group 'New World’. He is remembered fondly by those he worked with, including Kevin Stea*, who made a vlog about Lucero on his YouTube Channel, which is still up today.

So, I’d like to dedicate this post to the memory of Dominic Lucero, the character of Bumlets and the other often overlooked characters and actors from the original film, who deserve far more appreciation than they receive.

Thanks for coming to my appreciative rant.

*Kevin Stea is the actor for the character of Swifty, who also deserves a hell of a lot of love from this fandom.

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CLOSER i know this post is somewhere down here I REMEMBER making it 

Bumlets was my favourite newsie

I love Bumlets too, anon. You’re amazingly valid and if you ever wanna come off anon and have a positive rant with me, you’re completely welcome too.

My top three are Skittery, Bumlets and Swifty and nobody else likes them RIP

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AHA getting closer. I'll dig it up eventually.

Do you have the video where Stea talks about Dom?

Yes, I do!! ((It gets a little sad, just so you know.))

Here you go:

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Lmaoo I've long since moved on from newsies but I had a lot of passion in my heart for skittery and bumlets and I'm fairly sure I was maybe the OP for that post? Brb going to go try and dig it out from whatever hole it fell into when I started reworking my Tumblr yonks ago! I've since gone to and graduated from university since I posted that so finding this notification in my emails was a hell of a reminder of a past life!!

Bumlets 😚😚😚

oh, bumlets. my sweet child.

first of all, go read the bumlets appreciation post that @itteryskay reblogged like,,, forever and a day ago (the OP has since deleted their account). it’s amazing, I love it, and there’s a good deal about dominic lucero (the actor who played bumlets in 92sies), who tragically passed at 26, two years after the movie premiered.

ok, so- bumlets. here’s me acknowledging that I’m predictable as shit, and we’re going to delve into his name. a ‘bum’ doesn’t actually refer to a lazy person, but to the butt of a cigar. also, when one says ‘can I bum a cigar?’ they’re asking if they can have one. when calling bumlets- well, bumlets, they’re essentially saying that he’s either known for smoking cigars (like race) OR that he had a bad/funny experience with them.

and, well. you know me. imma go with the second option.

what I think happened is a lil’ something like this- when he first became a newsie (and I’d say it was around 12/13), bumlets REALLY wanted to make friends, because he had a harder time trying to do that when he went to school (his family was firmly lower middle class, and his clothes tended to reflect that. the other kids…had some thoughts they deemed appropriate to share about this matter). and all of the cool, older guys smoked, right? so bumlets was like, hey! I should do that! (no, sir.) and so one day he just- took?? the butt??? of someone else’s used cigar????? and tried to smoke it??????????? (ha. notice how I said tried?) when he got caught, he was bent over, hacking and wheezing, trying to get the awful taste of smoke out of his lungs. hence, ‘bumlets’.

now, since he was played by dominic lucero (who was latino, according to different sources I’ve found), and he doesn’t have another name given to him by the fandom, I’ve taken it upon myself to dub him michael herrera (which means ‘iron worker’, so it could be a last name acquired when his parents- who probably planned on working in the factories- traveled through ellis island and had to go through customs). not saying we have to use this name, but I am saying I’M using this name from now on. so.

ok, if you’ve made it this far, buckle up pronto. because my favorite bit of ALL of my bumlets hcs (and believe me, I have more. he’s easily one of my favorites, if not tied for first), is who I ship him with. alright, you ready?

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*clears throat so I can yell this REALLY loudly*

BUMLETS/SKITTERY IS MY LIFE BLOOD AND YOU CAN’T ROB ME OF THAT. LIKE- 92SIES GAVE US SOME GOOD SHIPS- JAVEY, SPRACE (ralbert fans, I love you, too, but this ain’t that show), SARAH WITH ABSOLUTELY NO ONE BECAUSE KATH ISN’T AROUND YET- BUT BUMLETS AND SKITTERY????????? MY HEART. THEY ARE LITERALLY THE BLACK CAT/GOLDEN RETRIEVER COUPLE OF 92SIES. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL OK

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been playing clan gen

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John Brosio (American, 1967) - Two Earthlings (2003)

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Mr. Grizz, can I have a raise?  Mr. Grizz:

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more byleth being the most professor ever

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the funniest thing about wicked is the fact that they literally sing a song that's the equivalent of the 'i didn't know how to process my feelings about someone i liked so i wrote a note saying get out of my school' post and we're supposed to believe they're both totally straight

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they hated her for her clitoral swag

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dipper and mabel (age 22) go for a drive and have a movies argument

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