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Thinking about how weird newsies fans must sound to everyone else. You ask someone about their favorite character and they reply “oh yeah it’s gotta be doorknob” and you’re just standing there like “who tf is doorknob” and they go “you remember doorknob, he was partially visible in one song” and you look it up later and he has a whole backstory, a subreddit dedicated to him and 500 fics on ao3 most of which are shipping him with someone named tomato

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Something that fascinates me about Newsies, both 92sies and Broadway, is the significance of names.

Jack Kelly choosing his name as a way of creating a blank slate for himself and Katherine choosing a pen name to seperate herself from her father

Both characters chosen names being representative of their independence.

Then there's the nicknames. All the newsies have some sort of nickname, and Jack delegating the nickname 'Davey' to David is a way of showing his acceptance of him as a newsie. Which is what makes it more impactful when during the WatchWhatHappens reprise when Jack calls Davey David. In this scene, Jack doesn't see Davey as one of them, and he is struggling with seeing himself as one. So Davey calling Jack 'Jackie' is a reminder of who he is, and what they are. Newsies.

Or maybe I read too much into it 😋

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”beast mode sex”

First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die

How you dying 👀

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What other newsberries should I make? These are the ones I’ve made (THERE ARE MORE CHECK THE REBLOG)

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I think 92sies David is fully unaware that he's in love with Jack (and that he's anything other than straight) until the alley scene, at which point it's less an oh moment and more an oh NO moment

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my friends have this (red panda named cherry tomato) and i held it hostage and i think Race would do this

he just wanted to read😔

hi newsies headcannon ⬇️

Jack and kath are the type of couple to have stuffed animal children that they share and argue over, this could be a modern au or a regular universe thing but yeah I just think it’s cute

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Writing hard 😔😔

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brutha why i gottta wait😭

Gang should i make an A03?

i think it would make my fics easier to read if they were all in one place

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guys is the newsies fandom still alive someone let me in pls </3

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I like the idea of Bumlets having a goth girlfriend or boyfriend just because he's definitely the kind of guy who goes along with whatever his partners want without complaints and with a good amount of enthusiasm. He'll watch horror movies (as long as they watch Dirty Dancing, Grease, or something similar after), he'll actively listen and hold a conversation about the European witch trials or Elizabeth Báthory, and he'll be the one holding the camera for their Buzzfeed: Unsolved-style web series. Maybe this is influenced by my love of Bumlets/Skittery, Bumlets/Swifty, and all three of them together (I headcanon Skittery and Swifty as being low-key goth in their own ways), or maybe it's because, as someone who's low-key goth herself, I like the idea of an enthusiastic partner who thinks my collection of monster/ghost magazines and my love of Universal Monster movies is cool even if it's not their thing but I genuinely think it's a dynamic that would work for him (as long as he has a partner just as enthusiastic about the things he loves.) Plus, I saw that "cute goth girl" Bride of Chucky meme and it reminded me of my first clumsy, kind of embarrassing attempt at creating an OC when I was a teenager. Anyway, enjoy this shitty meme I made in the name of nostalgia:

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Another thing Jack Kelly could have reasonably done in his lifetime due to time period

He could have read the Sherlock Holmes series

The first novel featuring Holmes was released when Jack was 5 (1887) and became popular in 1891, and the first full length book of Sherlock Holmes was released 1892, he would have had roughly 12 years before the strike to have heard of Holmes, as he was first featured in a New York magazine, so it's incredibly likely that Jack Kelly would have heard of Sherlock from reading while selling.

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Gang should i make an A03?

i think it would make my fics easier to read if they were all in one place

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a bit of spot during class

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Oh we are SO back

NEWSIES TIME NEWSIES TIME

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i love newsies

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NEWSIES (1992) dir. Kenny Ortega