#Find a plumber

[jack-kellys]

so we all know life is a circle. thus fandom is a circle. we see things come back around like the de/twinkification of racetrack higgins. or cowboy versus artist jack kelly. or "mom" friend david jacobs and the perpetual need to make the newsies some kind of heteronormative family. and yet again we've found our way back to the anti katherine pulitzer arc of her "getting in the way" of jack and davey's popular subtextual/fanon relationship. (yes im late nevermind that.)

now, not being a katherine fan is different than being anti-katherine. not being a katherine fan means you might have criticisms like "i'm not sure how she serves the newsies narrative better than, say, sarah jacobs, as sarah is more aligned with the newsies contextually/societally and katherine is very distant and rich lol", or even "i'm not a big fan of how katherine seems to be tired of jack's shit for most of the play and then 'suddenly' finds romantic interest in him within one song".

but being anti-singular-young-woman-character because of a ship between the main two boys is. a tired take is it not? again with the circle, we've had this discourse already and its been cut out. since 2012 and 2017 we been talking about this girl and her value, but not in the context we should be.

(because the context we should be talking about it in is a newsies 1992 versus newsies broadway context, not an anti-katherine context, but i digress.)

katherine's value. what is there to mine from? she is an extremely young woman reporter, 17-18 years old, whose article makes the front page of the new york sun. since she writes under a pseudonym, i'm presuming she writes with skill well above her age to be published at all (yes, even writing vaudeville reviews). in past productions she either finds the newsies at jacobi's because she saw the walk-out (TWWK) from inside The World (UK), or jack kelly simply interests her enough for her to seek him out again (Broadway/Tour/Live). she is unsure about herself as a writer despite her skill which is made clear in her song. she is rich. she did not need to have a career and was encouraged not to. pulitzer is her father and she does not get along with him. she matches jack word for word, often with davey at her side. she mills comfortably about the newsies through the second act and has a friendship of some kind with specs specifically. she also literally says "that's a face [jack's] that could save us all from sinking in the ocean/like someone said 'power tends to corrupt'" essentially prophesying the act 2 betrayal. which is crazy.

you can draw your own conclusions from the above, but all of it is essentially canon? right? so maybe you don't have to be a fan of all of it, but you're really going to tell me absolutely none of this is compelling. that none of this is something you can interpret for yourself as complex. that albert is more complex.

this is not me saying you have to include katherine in everything, because that isn't what this post is about. this is about individuals choosing to dislike or devalue katherine by only viewing her in relation to her as a romantic interest, instead of a complex character in a period piece with a full arc. yes a full arc. it's the musical that's rushed not katherine.

@we-are-inevitable speaks on this extremely well in the comments of this post as well, more in connection to katherine as being a compelling romantic interest in the context of newsies speaking in the defense of love interests/often women characters. in this post i speak on how i would navigate jack/katherine as a director, and in this post i speak on how to direct something to believe in to make it, well, believable, aside from its awful writing for both kath and jack. because again, fandom is a circle, and i literally talked about how to "fix" jatherine in august 2024. at length

[lecoindecachou]

You know, as someone living in France, I always feel like I should specify how I feel about women wearing the hijab since it's so controversial here so there goes the disclaimer: I don't give a fuck what people wear on their heads, how long their skirts are, and I especially don't care what kind of bathing suit they wear to the beach. Pls god let me have one fucking summer without having to hear about the fucking burkini. I wish the French government would spend even HALF as much time trying to solve homelessness at it does policing how Muslim women dress. There.

[blueiscoool]

2.3 Million Euros worth of Gold Coins Found in Vienna, Austria

Beneath a concrete floor the plumber found a rusty box with 30 kilograms of gold, apparently hidden during World War II.

An Austrian plumber, aged 66, struck gold while renovating an old villa in Vienna's Penzing district. According to Lenta.ru, he discovered a buried treasure of gold worth millions in a box hidden beneath the basement floor. The plumber first noticed a strange wire sticking out of the concrete. Unable to resist his curiosity, he tried to pull the wire but found it was stuck. Using a shovel, he dug through the concrete floor and uncovered a rusty metal box that had been cemented in place for years.

Just a day earlier, another worker had noticed the same wire coming out of the concrete but did not pay attention to it, reported T24. Other workers in the basement had also overlooked the hidden treasure and went home empty-handed. The plumber's determination led him to the astonishing discovery after others had ignored the rope.

Inside the box, the worker found approximately 30 kilograms of gold coins stamped with images of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, valued at approximately 2.3 million euros, as reported by Lenta.ru. Each coin had an image of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stamped on it. The gold coins were dated to before World War II.

Authorities believe these coins were buried during World War II, possibly by wealthy Europeans who hid their valuables in the villa's basement for fear of confiscation or looting, according to T24. The treasure is estimated to be worth approximately 2.4 million euros.

In Austria, treasure finds are usually shared equally between the finder and the property owner, T24 noted. According to Austrian law, the value of the treasure will be divided equally between the finder and the property owner, meaning the plumber may receive half of the estimated value.

“This is really unbelievable. I've been working on construction sites since I was 15. Occasionally you find coins, but making such a discovery is incredible," the plumber told Austria's 'Heute' magazine. The plumber called the incident "fantastic."

[wistfulpoltergeist]

I've never considered just seeing model renders of a game character would make me want to play the game, but here we are 😶‍🌫️

Aww, you're welcome! I would definitely recommend you to play Sherlock Holmes Chapter One. It's fun and dramatic, entertaining, heartbreaking and gay ;D

[jackmkelly]

who up thinking about jack and kath

[champagnemoon]

This new wave of young women who romanticize blue collar men to an extreme are so interesting lmao you can tell when they didn’t grow up with that brand of man in their family at all

[starlightandmusings]

what do u think of long term jack and kath in a hypothetical where they can be healthy enough to last

oh jatherine light of my life !!

i'm the first to say that i don't think jack and kath would work out but i love hypotheticals and i love these two. so. jack would have to work through his anger issues / PTSD / learn to use art as a healthy coping mechanism first (rizz if u see this !!) and kath would have to distance herself from her father and learn who she is underneath all the glitter and the showiness.

but if they were able to do that, and if katherine was willing to live well beneath her means, joseph likely having cut her off, (and i don't think jack could rise in rank very easily), and if they were willing to rip up the gossip columns, i could see them rent a little french flat. katherine learns to cook through trial and error, and they eat burned food for the first several months. jack works at the docks and comes home with wet clothes, smelling vaguely of fish and foreign spices, and katherine rubs his sore muscles in the evenings.

they're very young when they marry, not much more than twenty, and before two years are up, katherine is pregnant. i think they eventually have two children, a boy first and then a girl. jack spends far too much money on toys and trinkets for his kids, like baseball cards, marbles, dolls, because he tells katherine that he'll be damned if his kids grow up like he did. jack sees the first teddy bear in michton's brooklyn candy shop, hears about the origins, and rushes home with one in his arms, eager to tell his kids all about how he knew the teddy roosevelt.

[unnonexistence]

jesus christ am i ever having a stressful week

[transitofmercury]

KATHERINE AND PULITZER - UNTIL ONE OF YOU FORGETS

The Return of the Prodigal Son - Eric Rimmington // The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too) - Hannah Gamble // East, West - Salman Rushdie // Newsies Script - Harvey Fierstein // Watch What Happens - Newsies // Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong - Ocean Vuong // Steve Blanchard and Kara Lindsay as Pulitzer and Katherine in Newsies // Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power - James McGrath Morris // Under the Burden of Misery - Teodor Axentowicz // Folding a Five-Cornered Star So the Corners Meet - Li-Young Lee // A Portrait of Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou speaking to Bill Moyers

[nitttstdsdtoastd]

if you don’t like katherine plumber, you won’t like taylor swift

if you don’t like taylor swift, you won’t like katherine plumber

they’re canonically the same since they’re both in male dominated industries and are often seen as just the love interest but are just as complex as the people around them.

you can dislike either of them, but you can’t deny that katherine is a good journalist, if not, a great one, in the same way in which you can’t deny that taylor swift is not just a woman but someone who has earned their name in the music industry.

[findnanako]

Find Nanako in Ben 10 Omniverse Plumbers HQ

If you have a picture you want Nanako to hide in, please feel free to submit it to the blog. Remember to reblog.

[peaches2217]

Y’ever have really strong feelings about something and wanna write it all out but nothing’s coming to you? Just strong but unspecific emotions?

Mareach… good fluffies… happy feelings… wanna write… but write WHAT???

[ragsy]

I love living in a house that, every time I have to call out a plumber or an electrician to look at something, it always ends with the maintenance guy putting his hands on his hips and going "huh. That's weird, why is it like that"

[maliciousandcrude]

Me looking at my current interests knowing full well that one day the fandoms will die out and be forgotten, new content won't be made of it anymore, and that I'll grow out of my interests one day and forget that I've ever had interests in them to begin with:

[msnihilist]

Debating on if I should cut my long oneshot into chapters and post the first part as ch.1 for shits and giggles.

[jackmkelly]

i think its awesome that kath starts out stranger and by the end of kony theyre all ready to die for her if it comes to that