#kath plumber

[mikeandike]

does it ever drive u crazy just how fast the night changes

[we-are-inevitable]

actually i’m gonna be a little mean. how can you say that you hate katherine because she’s underdeveloped, her story is conflicting, she’s a bad love interest, etc., and yet your favorite character has 2 lines and no backstory and somehow their fleeting glance at another white boy rivals the tragedy of romeo and juliet. you don’t hate her because she’s underdeveloped. you hate her because she gets in the way of javid and because she isn’t bryan denton.

[jackmkelly]

ill never understand why newsies had this picture and never posted it anywhere. just put it outside the nederlander. my darlings. this shouldve been everywhere

[ghostlysodo]

i thought to myself “how funny would it be if the newsbians went down to sheepshead as an outting and completely had it ruined because they forgot race sells papes there” so i drew it. (i also just really wanted to draw spot)

[slozhnos]

multilingual katherine pulitzer is canon to ME

[jack-kellys]

idk why i stopped doing these it's so fun

[more-sonorous]

if you're taking jack kelly to central park, you can expect no small amount of shenanigans.

(if you saw the original post before i edited it... no you didn't)

[duckzz]

katherine plumber?!? 🫣

[st3lla-lun4]

if someone walked up to me and said "eros you gotta rewrite newsies the broadway newsical what r u gonna do" i would make jack kelly and katherine plumber and david jacobs kiss each other on the lips and hold hands and go on little strolls through the filthy nasty dirty stinky horrid streets of new york and talk about how much pulitzer sucks and that would be the only change i would make. that'll be 800 dollars

[walkman-cat]

i love turn of the century (19th-20th) womens' fashion and i love costume design! so heres my costume design for katherine plumber/pulitzer!! (feat. split cycling skirt and chatelaine. because i'm Normal about them)

i tried the best i could to stick as true to history as i could. there are some anachronisms though (both intentional and unintentional) so please forgive me!!

as usual, some more references and preliminary sketches under the cut:

[starlightandmusings]

thinkin bout that one canon era katherine-centric fic i wrote where she rides horses at midnight and climbs trees to read books and, you know, solves the mystery of her mother’s death. ft kath running from her own arranged marriage, breaking into the refuge, and falling in love with jack kelly.

[mikeandike]

BLONDE KATH <3

[we-are-inevitable]

being real in a dingy dining hall

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a messy davey and kath, inspired by this wip!

[jackmkelly]

wake it up

[blurglesmurfklaine]

hello nobody asked but here are more unsolicited Newsies Uno ReVerse thoughts that I can NOT get out of my head

Crutchie is Jack’s brother, but he never expects him to go out selling with his disability

When Les and Davey meet Crutchie for the first time, Les tells Jack something borderline offensive like “Why didn’t you tell me youse had a little brother with a bum leg? Between my face and his leg, we coulda been making MILLIONS this whole time!”

Davey is appropriately embarrassed and apologizes profusely on his brother’s behalf

Davey is obsessed with Portland, Oregon (it’s his Santa Fe) somewhere he can get away from the heated claustrophobia of the city, lock himself away in a cabin and finally put down on paper the little stories he tells himself to get through the day

Jack volunteers to go to Brooklyn with Davey

Les is the one hauled away to the refuge after Seize The Day

David and Katherine are the ones who hit it off, and Jack is The Pining One (TM)

Post-Rally, the Something To Believe In scene starts off with Kath confronting Davey and i don’t have details but I do have this piece of dialogue:

“If you weren’t a girl, you’d find out exactly why they call me Mouth.” “I think your inability to shut up might have something to do with it.” “No, it’s because when I hear someone talking about something they have no idea about, I aim for the mouth. And I don’t miss.”

And then Kath kisses him and Davey’s like omg??? Do I…..??? Like girls??? (Bc living in a house full of boys there’s no WAY he doesn’t already know he’s gay (umbrella term))

This Affects Post Canon bc I said so. Fun Post Canon Stuff (it’s fun for ME. Probably not for yall. You’ll call it angst or something):

Jack catches a Davey and Katherine kiss when they win the strike and it kind of makes him Unwell

Davey gets a job writing for The World

Jack has a hard time adjusting going back to school, can’t focus, realizes he’s happiest when he’s with the newsies (and Davey)

He brings up to Medda the idea of dropping out to get a job. She agrees because she sees how unhappy he is and school really just isn’t I for him

Kath gets him a job as an artist at The World

This means he has to see Davey and Kath Together Every Day and it makes him even more Unwell (although he loves the art part of it!)

Davey notices this because he is Davey

Because he is Davey and is the smartest man in the room but also the biggest idiot on the planet, he completely misconstrues the reason Jack is Being Weird

So Davey invites Jack to hang out one on one, without Katherine and Jack accepts at first but it gets harder and harder and Davey is more engrained in his life than ever and he just can’t do it

So Jack stops interacting with Davey at work, blows him off outside of it, and generally starts distancing himself and Davey is totally clueless

Finally, he goes to Katherine and complains about it and the conversation goes something like this:

“I thought spending time alone with him, away from you—no offense—would make him feel better. You know, remind him that no matter what’s going on with you and me that he’s still my friend.”

“I think that’s part of the problem, Davey.”

“I mean yeah. Truth be told if he and I weren’t friends I doubt you and I would even be an issue. I think he’d just go for it.”

“…… What?”

“I think he’d ask you on a date outright, instead of feeling guilty about his feelings for you.”

“….. oh my god you fucking idiot.”

Don’t ask me how this is resolved because i have absolutely no idea :)

[agentsnickers]

A full color version of one of the Clarence Plumber sketches I posted the other day!! This was my favorite sketch of the bunch and I love broadway!Kath's KoNY costume a lot so I could not resist revisiting it in color!!