#girlsies week

[girlsies-week-2023]

Information on some of my favorite Girlsies !!! For sillies !!!

(working title was me infodumping about girlsies under the excuse that it is relevent to the event)

I don't have the energy to go through & update this post at the moment, but @thegroundsofbrooklyn has a post here that has more info on the UK Brooklyn Girls !!!

Starting out with our number one, the original girlsie: Charlie (Hard Promises) !!!

Charlie was the original love interest for Jack in Hard Promises, and she was a newsie !! Her story was that she was living in a house of prostitution with her aunt (with her aunt trying to shield her from as much as possible to stop her from going into that life / being exposed to it) and she was planning to (and did!) go with Jack to Santa Fe at the end.

Next up: Smalls (Papermill - Broadway) (Manhattan / Possibly The Bronx) !!!:

I know that whether or not Smalls is a girl is up to interpretation but I am interpreting her as a girl & including her in this list (same with Sniper).

Smalls is a Bronx newsie (as implied by her yelling so's da Bronx during Brooklyn's Here), but she's still allowed in Manhattan (hence being there for KoNY in some versions), so she's probably allowed to wander around on her own.

According to Liana Hunt, she lives in a family with at least one parent and a ton of brothers who all work to support them, so she's sort've eager to be one of the boys in that sense — she's also super tough.

Talls !!! (Broadway) (Manhattan / Possibly The Bronx):

Talls was Caitlyn Caughell's newsie whenever she was on for that track. I have no information on her besides the fact that she was played by Caitlyn Caughell & is probably a play on her height of some kind — + also being a play on Smalls. Smalls & Talls <3

Sniper !!! (Tour) (Manhattan / Possibly The Bronx):

I'm going to be mixing in other backstories for this because as far as I'm aware Sniper's the only newsie on that list with a backstory that isn't from their actress ? + she has more involvement in the show when she isn't a girl so I'm going off that

But according to Alex Wong — Sniper's last name is Wah, and she's the daughter (son in this backstory but it's okay) of Sam Wah, who owns the laundromat above Jacobi's (the sign of which can be seen in the pre-uksies Jacobi scenes). She's named after her 'incredible aim' with a slingshot.

In certain versions, she's one of the scabs, the last one to throw down her papers, and the one to go 'Ah, what the hell? My father's gonna kill me anyway!' in the proshot. In the tour, she was also the one to yell so's da bronx.

Puddles !!! (Tour) (Manhattan / Possibly The Bronx):

Puddles is in the same group as Talls in the sense that there is like no canon lore about her & there isn't even any information besides her name and the fact that she was played by Melissa Steadman Hart during the tour. However she has the cutest nickname and deserved to be included in this list.

Marriott! Buttons !!! (Marriott) (Manhattan):

According to Adrienne Storrs, the actress for Buttons, she's been a newsie for three years. Her parents are poor Italian immigrants that don't speak English, so she works to support them. She was convinced to start selling Newspapers by JoJo after being caught pickpocketing on the street.

Buttons & JoJo are best gal pals, she sees Specs as a younger brother figure (she's always looking out for him), and Race and Albert are her favorite people to joke around with!

She has (had?) a rich boyfriend that went to jail for forgery a bit before the strike, so she's a little heartbroken during it, but she's 'continuing to live her life and she has the best newsie friends'.

She has a really positive mindset in general.

She also (along with JoJo) checked Katherine out when she walked into Jacobi's and later taught her how to Irish dance during KoNY with JoJo !!!

Marriott! JoJo !!! (Marriott) (Manhattan):

According, once again, to Adrienne Storrs, JoJo (who's real name is Josephine) is 'one tough cookie'. She was originally a pickpocket, but Jack found her and took her under her wing for ten percent of her earnings when she was almost twelve. She was one of the original newsies in the Manhattan group, and after three years she started seeking out other girl newsies (& that's when Buttons came along !!). She's been a newsie for about five years, 'not too far behind how long Jack had been selling'.

She has an Irish father and a Romanian mother and they were circus artists that came to America with P.T Barnum in the 1870s. She was born in 1882 (making her seventeen at the time of the strike) and she was raised around a circus.

Rafaela (Marriott) (Brooklyn):

Once again, according to Adrienne Storrs, Rafaela's parents moved from Spain to Puerto Rico in the 1880s and she was born there in 1885. They moved to New York City when she was five and she's very close with her brothers, who were six and eight at the time. All three children became newsies at the same time, being expected to work as much as their parents did.

She didn't go to school, she taught herself how to read and speak English, using her time as a newsie as a teaching device. She's super tough, and she had to grow up really fast. She 'has a strong sense of community with her family and fellow Brooklyn Newsies'.

Joey (Marriott) (Brooklyn):

You guessed it, information yet again from Adrienne Storrs!

Joey is Racetrack Higgins' cousin, and she's super positive. She's also secretly a really good fighter.

Hildy (Marriott) (Brooklyn):

You'll never guess where this info is from.

Hildy is German, and her parents own a sausage shop, and she likes to get into trouble.

Honorable mention to Nancy, Hazel, and Muriel from Newsies Jr.

I don't have the energy to read through all of newsies jr rn to find out which lines they have, however I can tell you off the top of my head that they are very supportive of Katherine and probably also on the younger side (because. Newsies Jr. Obviously).

If anyone who's played them would like to mention their backstory in the rbs or in this accs ask box, that would be lovely !!!

Spot Conlon (UK) (Brooklyn):

Using Lillie-Pearl's backstory for Spot here, because Clarice never got the opportunity to share hers if she had one :(

Lillie-Pearl's backstory for Spot is that her parents were Irish and African American immigrants living in Seneca Village.

Spot in Uksies is very close with Davey !!! According to Lillie-Pearl, she doesn't call him Davey, she calls him David, and in her cameo description she added 'making rhymes with Davey' into her list of things she enjoyed. She is also very close with her girls (obviously), specifically Lucky & Stray, who she did the handshake with depending on what point in the show it was. She also liked Race, depending on the day.

(She also probably isn't on awful terms with most of the Manhattan newsies, especially if they're girls.)

Lucky (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Lucky doesn't have a lot of canon lore too her HOWEVER I can tell you that she used to do the handshake with Spot back when she existed, was called Tops for some performances, AND her real name is Eliza !!! She also interacted with Scope a lot during The Rally.

Mack (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Mack's real name is Jeanie MacDonald, but she shortened it down to Mack because she didn't like her name.

She's a Scottish immigrant whose family moved to the U.S (just North of New York) to start a farm, but a plague of locusts destroyed the farm, so they had to move into the city for work.

She couldn't stand being stuck in their one bedroom cramped apartment, so her father suggested that she take up work as a Newsie.

Splint (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Splint's arm is in a Splint !!! For some mystery reason that definitely isn't because Bobbie's hand was injured at the time of the first preview. Definitely not.

She doesn't appear after The Rally, which is because — according to Bobbie — she falled down & died :( (Bobbie needed 2 be there as Hannah)

Also her real name is Splinty McSplint.

(Bobbie also said that if she were to have a love interest it would be Buttons.)

Scope (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

I have no canon info about Scope besides the fact that she has the world's cutest pigtails and hung around Lucky at The Rally a lot :(

Ritz (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Ritz' real name is Rita, and her nickname comes from ritz crackers and also Lucy's last characters name !! That's all the canon info we have on her as far as ik :(

Stray (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Stray's nickname comes from her feeding all of the stray animals of New York !!!

She is related to Specs in some way (probably siblings, considering the fact that Sam & Immie are).

She becomes a Bowery Beauty when she's older, and her real name is from a newsgirl turned dancer but Immie doesn't remember who that is — the closest I got in my research is Lillian Russell, who wasn't a newsgirl but yk close enough.

(Her love interest would've been Mike !!)

Pips (Newsies UK) (Brooklyn):

Again, no canon information on Pips as far as I'm aware, besides the fact that she is literally adorable

[newsiesficchallenges]

Day Fourteen of Brooklyn’s Here!

Happy Day Fourteen! Today, create a Brooklyn OC! Give them a cool name and backstory, and add something unique that sets them apart!

[thats-our-cue-girls]

Girlsie Day 6: Found Family

[lithuanianking]

Day 6!

Stray and spot (per request)

[undescribed1mage]

Rating, Archive Warning(s), and Category: Teen & Up, None, Gen

Fandom(s): Newsies - All Media Types

Relationship(s): David Jacobs & Katherine Plumber Pulitzer, Katherine Plumber Pulitzer & Kid Blink

Character(s): Katherine Plumber Pulitzer, David Jacobs, Kid Blink

Additional Tag(s): Alternative Universe - Time Travel, Alternative Universe - Doctor Who Fusion, POV Katherine Plumber Pulitzer, Mentioned Jack Kelly (Newsies), David Jacobs is The Doctor, New York City, Time Travel, Newspapers, Mentioned Joseph Pulitzer, Self Indulgent, Girlsies Week (Newsies), Girlsies Week 2023, The Newsboys Strike of 1899, the TARDIS is so important (not really) (but it's okay), Journalist Katherine Plumber Pulitzer

Summary:

So, it’s odd, when she has awful mind-exploding writer's block and the Doctor leans over the TARDIS console, and asks, “Where do you want to go?” and she says —

“New York City.”

Or — exactly what it says on the tin.

[WRITTEN FOR DAY TWO OF @girlsies-week-2023: STRIKE.]

[regina-cordium]

signed up for the mini band and the upcoming fic exchange

gonna go lie down and try not to panic abt it

[newsies-squared]

Hey ya'll!

Me and Cards are going to be participating in Girlsies Week 2023 this year, with me writing and Cards drawing. We will be posting our work here and on our own personal blogs (I will also be posting on my AO3).

Our personal blogs just in case you didnt know

Mine (Stilts): @the-genderfluid-kony

Cards: @lithuanianking

My AO3 where I will also be posting my writing: ghostybookworm

-🗞️

[tommmmmmmy-7]

More about my newsies au prt 5

prt-4

This ones going to be about the more background/less impact but still awesome Brooklyn newsies. None of these guys really have canon alternates.

Robin: (She/her)

11 years old

4'8

even for a young, Brooklyn, girlsie, she's mature for her age (not in a weird way) she understands a lot of stuff that most kids her age don't

Is the kid that Snap has an eye on and is "training" to become King/Queen when he's gone

has short hair because it got caught in a machine a week before she became a newsie, got mistaken for a little boy a lot and hated it

will fight a grown man and win

Tinder: (She/doesn't care)

13 years old

4'9

has almost set lots of stuff on fire, how she got her name

sent to separate school by family when she was 12 and ran away from that

their parents think they're at school year round for some reason

has bitten multiple people

has a lighter always, that her brother gave her, but she's banned from all other lighters

bit of a loner

Sky: (he/him)

9

a lot like Les but not

uses looking younger to his advantage to selling papes

when he's not doing anything, he's juts looking up, staring at the sky

in modern era his favorite movie is Mary Poppins and if that doesn't say anything, I don't know what does.

became a Newsie when he was 4 and both his parents died

kinda sad how independent he is (thinking about my little brother like him)

(hes kinda based off my little brother)

very adhd

remembers everything you say around him

can't read very well and has to get the headlines read to him

Brooklyn has a lot of littles but there are still some more unnamed older ones

[baura-bear]

I need stray and specs relative hcs

I love them both sm :') they made uksies such an amazing experience

I think Specs is the older sibling but they're quite close in age (like 1-2 year age difference). They've both always been pretty laid back because they quickly realized that as long as they had each other everything would be fine.

I don't have any specific hcs about their home life or where they lived before becoming newsies, but I think they ran away because it wasn't a great situation to be living in. They were pretty young and Specs was very very protective of her initially because of his status as older brother and the "men have to be strong and protect women" societal norm. They were both very self sufficient and didn't need to rely on each other but Specs was still very protective. He would braid her hair to keep it from getting snagged or grabbed while they were living on the street. He always was very calm even when he was scared because he never wanted to worry her. Pretty quickly they found joined the Manhattan newsies where Specs' older brother role extended to the rest of the newsies. He sees a lot of the younger boys as younger brothers and treats them as so, always happy to help with anything!

Stray sold with Manhattan for a little bit until her and Specs met Spot on a trip to Brooklyn. They were probably there visiting Coney Island or a visiting circus, something fun to do after a long day of selling. Specs was being an Annoying Older Sibling and Spot ended up seeing it. Initially she didn't realize they were siblings so she comes over ready to beat this shit out of Specs so Stray has to be like "Please don't kill my brother" From there on out Spot and Stray become friends and slowly Stray is spending more and more time in Brooklyn until she's an official Brooklyn girlsie! Specs was actually very hesitant about "letting" her switch over to Brooklyn because he still felt like he needed to protect her and she just had to be like "I'm old enough to take care of myself and make my own decisions. You've done so much for me but this is what I want and ultimately you don't have a say" and Specs is like "Ok slay, have fun bestie" (Plus Manhattan is a bit of a boys club and Stray could not stand the STENCH that wafted from boys during the summer) She stops braiding her hair when she moves to Brooklyn it's sort of a symbol of the safety and freedom she finds with the Brooklyn newsies.

Of course they both still visit each other! It was less often before the strike but afterwards after the union is formed the boroughs all start communicating more with each other and it gives Specs and Stray more chances to see each other. Specs will braid her hair while they catch up or Stray will bring an new animal over to Manhattan that she "adopted" that week (one week she finds a teeny puppy and the boys all go absolutely wild)

(I have no clue if Imogen or Sam have spoken on either of their backstories so if anything doesn't align with what they've said please forgive me)

[girlsies-week-2023]

I DID make a difference really long & fancy introduction post for this but then I accidentally deleted it so you get this.

Girlsies week !! Any art following the prompts & celebrating the women of newsies is welcome, as long as it's after the events starting date (December 9th) even if it's late !!! It can follow girl newsies, or Meddda, or Katherine, or Sarah, or literally any of the women of newsies !!! Just please no nsfw things :3

My ask box on both this & my main ( @undescribed1mage) will always be open for questions relating to the event, & I will be reblogging posts following the prompt that I see / am tagged in !!

Have fun !!

[newsiesficchallenges]

Day Five of Brooklyn’s Here!

Happy Day Five! Clicky button day!

[thats-our-cue-girls]

Day 7: Free Day

I don't know much about Marriott Newsies, but I wanted to draw these guys together.

[lithuanianking]

Day 4

Here's some bowery beauty's dress disigns I did a bit back,Inspired by Victorian burlesque show dresses

They don't look the best but I think the disigns are solid. I have a dress for medda I drew and a concept for her theater.

It's crazy I'm getting through girlsies week when it's also tech week.

[undescribed1mage]

Rating, Archive Warning(s), and Category: Teen & Up, None, Gen

Fandom(s): Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: The Musical

Relationship(s): Buttons & Tommy Boy, Splasher & Tommy Boy, Buttons & Splasher

Character(s): Tommy Boy, Buttons, Splasher, Racetrack Higgins

Additional Tag(s): Girlsies Week, Girlsies Week 2023, Blood and Injury, Hurt/Comfort, References to Christianity, Religious Guilt, Mentioned Delancy Brothers, Marriott Newsies (2017), Maltz Jupiter Newsies (2017), Arena Stage Newsies (2019), <- Buttons Tommy Boy & Splasher in that order, Post-Seize The Day fight, Scabs, Tommy-Boy Centric, Sister-Sister Relationships

Summary:

Tommy Boy lets Buttons go after Race, before slowly following behind her — definitely not because she's a little (a lot) afraid of Race right now — as Splasher’s sobs slowly quiet, and they enter the Lodging House bedroom. She knows — staring at Splasher’s bloodstained face over Racetrack’s shoulder — that both Splasher and Buttons’ injuries are all her fault. If she hadn't convinced them to scab —

(She worked herself sick over the pastor at the local church not approving of the strike and what that'll mean for herself and her friends by the time the Delanceys approach her with the offer — free papers for a month and a half if she scabs and brings other people with her — and she, like an idiot, takes it, dragging Splasher and Buttons down with her, because they're the most important people in her life, and —)

— then they would've been fine. Maybe a little bruised, but everyone else would've been perfectly fine with helping them because they hadn't betrayed them like she had.

Or — Tommy Boy, Buttons, and Splasher after the Fight.

[Written for Day One of @girlsies-week-2023: Your Favorite Newsie as a Girl.]

[regina-cordium]

I think I have to accept defeat and know my girlsies week fic isn’t actually gonna get written 😔

[ao3feed-newsies]

Cigar Smoking Lesbians

by, GhostyBookWorm by GhostyBookWorm yes, i am not participating in girlsies week. HOWEVER, i did write this before everything got bad for me. so, this is where this fic came from :) this was for day 1 which was, your fave newsie as a girl, and i couldnt decide between jack and or davey, so- ENJOY Words: 376, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/F Characters: David Jacobs, Jack Kelly (Newsies), Racetrack Higgins (mentioned), Katherine Plumber Pulitzer (mentioned), Darcy Reid (mentioned) Relationships: David Jacobs/Jack Kelly Additional Tags: Smoking, tw smoking, Girls in Love, David Jacobs Loves Jack Kelly, Jack Kelly Loves David Jacobs read : https://ift.tt/jt2mqdE - December 12, 2023 at 12:53PM