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Reblog to give prev a damn fine cup of coffee

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well friends it’s the 20th. you know what that means.

FOUR MORE DAYS!! until your writing for the newsies fic exchange is due!!! we are getting down to the wire boys, see you jan 24th!!!!

if you have questions, please drop them in my inbox in case other people might have them too. you can submit your fic here, and all info is here.

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doesnt my job understand i have a blooming fanfiction writing career to work on

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it's good to have you back

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okay y'all, I'm curious

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The ceasefire agreement was reached and joy is floating among the Palestinian people

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Why does Paul say “that purple and gold madras shirt I gave you” instead of just “that madras shirt I gave you?” Why would he feel the need to describe it?

1) Paul gave Darry more than one madras shirt, so he had to specify

2) it was just the one shirt, but Paul put a LOT of thought into the color scheme

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Here's your reminder to Click for Palestine today! 🕊

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jack race and crutchie have the kind of co-dependent friendship/brotherly relationship/love that only comes out of being each others' sole support systems during the worst times of their lives. they can read each others' minds. they know immediately when something is wrong. they will be so so mean to each other but the instant anybody else is mean to one of them all bets are off. they communicate in sentence fragments incomprehensible to anybody else. they each know and guard the others' secrets with the type of intensity usually only seen in secret societies. ride or die to the most literal degree possible.

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if you're still doing requests...newsies? (maybe sprace?)

Just found this blog and i LOVE your art, no sweat for art but it'd be cool :)

OH WOW its been a while since i drew these fellas!!! i hope u like them!!

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Girl. You know I love your theories about queer coding in television. But some times those two male characters are stood that close bc they need to get them both in the frame .

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would love to pose this question back to you -- how do you think anti blackness has impacted jack, from the lodging house to the refuge to selling on the street?

thank you for the ask! i’d first like to say that i Am poc, but i’m mexican-asian. so. take my pov on this with a grain of salt!

nyc was a hotbed for jim crow laws in 1890-1900 including through public housing. j would most certainly not have been allowed to board in the lodging house. but!! since kloppman, i think, is a decent guy (yet doesn’t want to break the law), i hc he lets jack sleep up on the rooftop (hence the origins of the penthouse.)

i still think that jack comes in to wash up, etc, and klopp turns a blind eye, but sometimes new boys will give him Looks that range from quizzical to downright unfriendly. and that’s when the regular gang says things like, “oh, he’s okay” or “he’s with us” in an effort to help, but it’s still tinged with generalized prejudice.

you’d better believe the refuge is hell for jack. in addition to all of the general abuse, the racism there is vicious. jack is called slurs in place of a name; he’s taunted by peers and guards alike. at some point, jack’s head is probably shaved (a common punishment, following the sing sing model, but one that the guards emphasize because of jack’s cornrows. they’re purposely stripping him of dignity.) he’s also probably assigned janitorial tasks / needlessly difficult or disgusting ones and it’s made explicitly clear why that is. yeah.

re selling on the street, jack has been taught to keep his hands and eyes off white women. i’d imagine this has been pounded into him at a young age. i also think that customers sometimes buy papers from a white newsboy down the street instead, or if they do buy from him, they’re super condescending etc, and he gets called boy a lot. i think often, men order him to help him with their luggage, etc, either assuming he’s a servant or not caring.

all of this culminates in jack’s line to kath: “i know girls like you don’t wind up with guys like me.” no matter how much anger he holds, he’s still accepted his place and role in the world because the world won’t ever let him forget it. listen i Love michael’s jack but that kid has a haunted look in his eyes and maaaaan turn of the century nyc was a brutal place to be.

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6 and 7 for the ask game?

yay!!! keep asking these :>!!

6. what is your darkest fear about writing?

oough. darkest Fear? i think my darkest fear about writing is the same as my fears about all content that isn’t in video format: that people will eventually stop interacting, commenting, liking/giving kudos, any of it, because since we don’t have faces, we aren’t going to be viewed actual people making the content. people who make videos are called content creators but like so is anyone who Writes posts, and fics, and makes art. my fear is that the things i make will merely be consumed, eaten up and away without an acknowledgement that the meal was good bruh. and it’s already in motion. stop sending fics in discord servers and then never acknowledge the author wtf is wrong w you it didn’t used to be like this!!!

7. on the other hand my greatest joy with writing?

my greatest joy when writing is when i get to a point in the scene where i know exactly how a conversation between two characters sounds so much that i don’t even pause between dialogue. it feels like… intelligent zoning out. idk. this was most of jack and davey in uhh. fuck ao3 is down rn. it was a fic abt davey calling out jack for scabbing without telling davey/behind his back. dammit. smth smth moonlight. that was the quickest dialogue i ever wrote fr

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hi! I have a question for the fic exchange :)

so, I know that the rules are that all parts of the fic must be completed/you can't leave the fic as a draft, but does this mean that all of the story has to be written and turned in, or that all of what you have completed must be turned in completed and chapters have to be 3/3 or 5/5 or 7/7, etc.

I'm asking because the prompt I was given has really set off a creative high in me and the fic I'm writing is looking to be much longer than I anticipated

obviously I'm going to try my best to get everything written by the deadline, but I'm afraid that I just won't have the time to give my story the attention it deserves by that deadline and so basically:

If I turn in a fic with all parts in the final draft and the chapters listed as completed (3/3, etc...) is okay for me to later come back to the fic and update with whatever I just couldn't finish by the deadline?

Thank you! And thank you so much for revamping the fic exchange!! :D

hey there!! thank you for sending this ask, it’s a great question. and one i’ve been confused about in the past. so 🤝

i think for a recipient to be satisfied and feel like they have received a completed gift, there needs to be an ending in it. it doesn’t have to be the ending, since you intend to continue the fic post-exchange, but there needs to be a completion of a story whether it be the end of the fic’s lifespan or not, you know??

since while at this moment you plan on continuing, there’s a world where that might not end up being plausible for you. if you end on some sort of first half or cliffhanger, that would mean the recipient could never get their full gift. your story, a story, should be able to stand alone without what you plan on continuing with.

if that doesn’t sound like it makes sense, or doesn’t feel possible, please dm me! but i hope this all sounds fair enough for you and your potential recipient both. thanks for asking, and happy writing.

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eugene debs, president of the american railway union, a working class capitalist who was, in his own words, obsessed with “perfecting wage-servitude” — until he was jailed for his involvement in the pullman strike, where “in the gleam of every bayonet and the flash of every rifle, the class struggle was revealed” [source]. mayer’s quote is anachronistic, actually, the context being, it was 1918, and debs was once again found guilty of breaking the law. this time, it was sedition; his socialist, anti-war views made him into a criminal. after his conviction, debs said:

Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

think of jack — who’s no stranger to incarceration & poverty & has no idea that he’ll soon go on strike & be jailed for it — hearing this for the first time! his first introduction to socialism is through mayer referencing eugene debs. debs, for whom prison was a site of radicalization, a re-alignment or re-affirming of his values. debs, who in this specific moment is staring down the barrel of ten years in prison & doesn’t try to rescue his innocence or ask for leniency, instead choosing to remain loyal to the rebellion…!!

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there is actually such a sadness in katherine asking jack if he wants to go to art school and specifically he says “that ain’t what i want” bc art is this thing he is cursed with being good at the expense of himself being seen. and then when she asks what he wants he says “can’t you see it in my eyes?” guys he just wants to been seen for his actual self and looked at :/ cause if she’s looking at his eyes she’s looking at him :///

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From the questions for writers! 💛 39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up? and 40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

ty for the ask!! <3

39. what keeps me going??

i’m for real when i say the reason im hosting this fic exchange is because they truly are the reason i still write and especially post my writing. i like crafting around a request from another and making it my own all the while. engagement is low in this age of ai and video content ngl- i get less hits let alone kudos/comments than ever before, so a comment from a past piece i wrote rly helps move me forward. WINK WINK. NUDGE NUDGE, people.

but i think the truth is sometimes you have to let a piece go, at least for a little while, to focus your energy on new ideas that your brain is taking you. what matters is the creative juices themselves, not their product!!

40. poem :)

i searched an hour for this bc idk poetry like that but i think abt this one every other day:

Leila Chatti, "Postcard from Gone":

idk why i come back to it. there’s something abt it that sounds like it was said instead of merely written. losing who you are to become something bigger. i dunno…