#dutchie newsies

[bigmack2go]

If this isnt dutchies hair i dont want it

[sk1ttery]

Can you give us some domestic specs house hcs, like what they do on a regular day and just how they interact with each other

HI BESTIE WHAT’RE YOU DOIN HERE /lh

CW for brief mention of abuse.

This is gonna be long.

A little more background on the Specs household:

It consists of Specs, Dutchie, Blink, Skittery, Tumble, Spike (OC) and Elmer.

Dutchie and Specs are adopted brothers who ran away at a young age after Specs’ parents passed. They had a lot of money inherited from Specs’ grandparents and they moved into their old house.

Later, Blink moved in after Specs discovered he was essentially homeless, followed by Skittery and Tumble when they ran away from their abusive house. Then Spike, and then Elmer. Splasher and Finch are honorary members of tbe household due to how much time they spend there because Finch gets lonely and Splasher just likes annoying them. As is my OC Riff, because be spent a month staying with them when he was visiting from New Jersey.

A day in the Specs Household usually consists of whoever’s up first feeding the cats and making breakfast for everyone. They try to eat together but sometimes people sleep in so stuff is put aside for later.

If they don’t have a day out planned or people coming over, they tend to mostly do their own thing and just co-exist as I’ve mentioned before. For example, Blink will sit on the floor in the lounge and play guitar while Specs reads. Skit might be upstairs making jewelry or playing with Tumble. Elmer might be gaming in his room in the loft.

They like to have group hang outs where they’ll play card or board games, or watch movies together. Sometimes, if they have guests over they’ll play Truth or Dare. And people tend to come over a LOT. This is because Specs’ house has an open door policy and a really comforting and safe vibe. (Several other houses also have this vibe). They also enjoy baking and together while blasting showtunes.

Spike isn’t an insanely social person and he gets burnt out/drained super fast, so he and Dutchie tend to spend a lot of time in their room hanging out, but Spike does like to spend time with the others when he’s up for it. He likes the company and likes to lie with Dutchie and nap when everyone else is hanging out.

Quality time, co-existing and having their own spaces is a huge thing in the house. Considering most of them came from toxic situations before moving in, Specs and Dutchie did their best to make the house as accessible and comfortable as possible.

They did this by removing any potential triggers (Throwing out any alcohol, replacing the glasses with plastic cups) and giving the others the space to decorate their rooms to their liking, to make their rooms their own spaces. Specs, Dutchie, Spike, Blink, Skittery and Tumble’s rooms are all on the second floor. The attic/loft has three rooms, Elmers, ans the two spares which Splasher and Finch spend a LOT of time in when they stay.

As far as interactions go, they’re very much like siblings to each other. Skit and Specs will have a lot of light hearted arguments about stuff and try to fight each other which usually ends up with them on the floor. Most of them tend to play fight and rough house a lot but one of the main rules in the Specs Household is about respecting boundaries (like a decent human) so if someone asks to knock it off, they will.

Specs and Skittery can be pretty affectionate at times /p. Platonic hugs and cuddles are a big thing for most of them, though Blink isn’t fond of physical affection. After a bad day sometimes Skittery will come and sit with Specs when he’s reading and just lean on him. Or they’ll go to each others rooms and co-exist for comfort.

On nights where they’re all hanging out in the lounge and getting sleepy, sometimes it’ll end up in a bug cuddle pile. Skit and Spike both like when people but their whole body weight on them/weighted blankets so they always end up on the bottom of the cuddle pile. How they aren’t suffocating?? Who knows.

Elmer is the little brother of the group next to Tumble. (Specs, Dutchie, Skittery and Spike are all 18, Blink is 17, Elmer’s 15 and Tumble is 7). Elmer gets babied a lot which he both hates and loves. On one hand he loves the attention and affection because it’s something he could never recieve at his old house, but on the other, he grew up having to be so independent from a young age its hard for him to get used to.

The little pats on the back, Specs ruffling his hair, Skittery throwing him over his shoulder to put him in ‘Air Jail’ when they’re play fighting. It’s those little interactions Elmer loves.

They have a system for chores. The chores are split between people. For example: Dinner duty changed daily. Mondays Skit would cook, Tuesdays Dutchie, Wednesdays Specs and so on. They try to be healthy with food and people like Dutchie, Spike, Elmer and Skittery would make traditional meals from their home countries. (Dutchie is Dutch, Elmer’s Polish and Spike and Skit are both Ukrainian).

They have a similar system with the weekly grocery shop. One week Specs does it, the next Skittery, then Dutchie and Spike usually go together, then Elmer and Blink. Whenever Elmer and Blink go shopping together, Specs and Skittery have to remind them not to buy anything they don’t need but Blink always gives in and lets Elmer pick up things. Specs and Skit are never actually mad.

On days that no one can be bothered to cook, they’ll just order from the diner and one of the diner boys delivers it to them, or alternatively they’ll go out for food and go to somwhere one of their friends works.

[tommonikercomics]

A follow-up on someone's request for Dutchy &/or Bumlets! We love some choreography champs 😌

[chaosfairy18]

Specs loves Halloween obviously so now that Friday the 13th is in September he already gets out all the pumpkin and ghost decorations, all the bats and spiders and at least already decorates his room and the living room if not more.

Dutchy comes home and just blinks because two weeks ago was still August and just this morning before he left to his shift there was *nothing* out and now suddenly there is Halloween everywhere and Specs is sitting on the couch with a Jack Skellington Sweater.

"It's Friday the 13th in Autumn, that's spooky season, I don't care what you say Zach."

"I wasn't going to say anything darling."

Specs just narrowing his eyes and sipping more of his pumpkin hot chocolate while Dutchy first kisses his head and then changes out of his work clothes

[one-highfalutin-sonuva-gun]

Newsie: Stick

Actor: Josh Keaton (Credited as Josh Wiener)

Stick is a young Newsie who wears a brown vest, over a light blue pinstriped shirt and dark checked pants. He carries an oversized satchel for his papes.

He doesn't own a hat, he has to fashion one out of newspaper.

Every morning, he looks forward to carrying the banner so he can meet up with his friends, Tumbler, Sprinkles and Guttersnipe.

Tumbler heads straight to the spot where they usual wait for breakfast together, and rests his tired head on Stick's shoulder.

After breakfast, Stick does his morning warm-up with the other Newsies. He practises his soaking skills with Guttersnipe in case they encounter the Delanceys. He knows just where to knee them.

Then he plays a game of tag with Sprinkles and Guttersnipe to practise running from the Delanceys in case they lose a fight. Running also improves their circulation.

The little Newsies aren't his only friends, Stick also has three Newsie big bros:

There's Baptist, who shields Stick from the Delanceys,

Dutchy, who always has his back,

and Chewy, who likes to give him plenty of hugs.

Denton's presence catches Stick's gaze. He's mesmerised by the reporter because he reminds him so much of his own father. Not just in the way Denton dresses and the distinguished air he exudes, but in the kindness that radiates from him. Stick can tell that this man would go to any lengths to protect the weak and even paying for their lunch.

Stick doesn't know how to spell "STRIKE". At first, he paints the sign as "STRIK". Then one of the older Newsies corrects him (It wasn't Dutchy, who can't spell). Luckily there is a teeny tiny bit of space left for him to fit in a teeny tiny 'E'. To try to make it more visible, he capitalises the 'E', despite most of the other letters being lowercase.

His friends sometimes calls him Chico.

After winning the strike, Stick walks in to see Jack and Sarah playing tonsil hockey. He tries hard to shake that from his memory.

[ricky-tiki-tah]

My favorite thing is when someone’s favorite character is either in the background with 0-1 lines or only faintly alluded to by another character.

[selfproclaimedspotconnoisseur]

i love that i can name every fucker in these photos. personal favorite of my useless hobbies

[ftm-megamind]

i assigned some of the newsies bugs that i think they would be and made it into a presentation and i think the world deserves to see this. so bugsies below cut

idk if i should put a warning but there's literally a bug on every single picture so i mean. bug warning

[thatoneandlonelyemo2005]

has anyone ever wonder who was sitting by each other during KONY me too :3

First table with Specs, Skittery and a background Newsie

the next table (in front of Skitterys foot) has Dutchy, Spot, Snitch, and Itey (Better image down below)

then going back to the first photo on right next to skittery is Snoody, Swifty (who you can barley see shhh) and a background Newsie named Trance (i think!!!!!!)

Then at the way back we have Pie Eater and Bumlets, along with Race eating a fucking pickle for no reason-

but main table has Jack and David at the heads (THE FATHER AND MOTHER) Mush next to Jack then Les and Blink across with Boots on his side (or at least Boots comes up to that side)

Jake gets his own table which he is so fr, but I think Sniper sits with him because the next scene Sniper shows up in that area

bonus bc i said so BUT LOOK AT THEM OKAY THE GAYS THEY JUST-INGORE MUSH LOOK AT BUMSWIFTERY

@chaosfairy18 all bc of this post https://www.tumblr.com/leninille/746407303134248960/shitpost-art-to-fight-artblock-yahoo?source=share

[yorkseyepatch]

@newsiestober2024 day 8: spiderweb pretend im on time for this heres Dutchy

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

I don't know if I'm allowed to do two requests but for the ask game Specs or Dutchy perhaps (i just wanna see your opinion on all the boys and don't wanna bother you)

Specs and Dutchy you say? (It's not a bother at all!)

How I feel about this character: I need to be more normal about Specs. He is not Don Knotts, he is not Don Knotts, he is not- I feel like out of all the newsies, Specs is the one with all the weirdest connections. (He's probably where Jack got all that rope.) If you need something, ask Specs. Just don't ask why. Dutchy is a little awkward and is very blunt. That's not to say he's antisocial though, he actually really likes talking to people. He's probably a bit of a klutz and you can pry dyslexic Dutchy out of my cold dead hands. I also feel like they'd both have very odd senses of humor.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: I half jokingly ship Specs and Dutchy together because of that one scene in blood drips where Specs (Don Knotts) is stalking Dutchy (Ivan.) It's just funny to think about.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Once again Specs and Dutchy. They just get each other. And there's nothing indicating that they aren't besties, so... Also Specs and Skittery, and Dutchy and Itey.

My unpopular opinion about this character: Specs is not a nerd. He is smart, but he's not a nerdy book smart. He has a reputation of being all knowing because he knows the randomest things which gives the impression of him knowing everything. He's not about to contradict anyone though and manages to keep up appearances through intuitive smarts and sheer dumb luck.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I wish that Dutchy had been included in the stage musical. How where the background newsies decided upon in the adaptation process? I really want to know because why were all but a few of the 1992sies background newsies replaced? Justice for the 92sies boys! Just like with Bumlets and Swifty, Dutchy was based on a real newsies from the 1899 strike. It really sucks that they were lost in translation.

Thanks for asking!

ask game

characters answered: David Jacobs, Jack Kelly, Blink and Skittery, Bumlets and Swifty, Sarah Jacobs

[bigmack2go]

Some of the charactersheets ive been working on as if I didn’t have anyth to do

[sk1ttery]

Wallflower AU Fact of the Day

Bumlets once fell UP the stairs at Specs’ house when rushing to the bathroom because the downstairs one was occupied. Dutchie fell DOWN the same flight of stairs at the same time. They passed each other as they fell. Bumlets then proceeded to get stuck in the bathroom for ten minutes.

[ill-say-anything-i-hafta]

Holy shit guys, I just went so deep on newsies on fanfic.net that I found one about Dutchy smoking opium.

[chaosfairy18]

Newsiestober Day 10 + 14 : Fog + Graveyard

I worked on this for three days and I definitely overdid myself

If this was a normal drawing I probably would have done more detailing and all BUT this is just eant for two days of newsiestober soooo I cut it a tiny bit short. It still turned out really cool I think and Specs and Dutchy definitely are looking cool like this

On Day 14 I might write a tiny thing about how they got there and all but not sure on that one yet, I am now officially at the point where I haven't prepared anything in advance and on the 14th University starts

Prompt by @newsiestober2024

[the-lavender-lapin]

Woah Lav is actually posting the art he promised months ago *gasp*

Anywayyy here’s modern day Specs and Dutchy!

૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა ♡

~Lav