#katherine x crutchie

[military-newsboys]

*Race and Jack talking*

*Race's phone buzzes*

Race: oh, it's Spot

Race: he's upset with you and Pulitzer

Race: *buzz* and Bill

Race: *buzz* and Hotshot

Race: *buzz* and God

[reaganroo]

hi guys

i was told to put my au here so

tell me if you want more because i have some locked and loaded

bye

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[bwaybby09]

During a Tornado Warning:

Les: What do we do if the tornado hits us?

Spot: Uh, what do we do if the tornado hit us? I'm not sure, maybe get blown away by it?!

Race: No, no, you hide under a doorway.

Katherine: No, no, no. That's an earthquake.

Davey: Actually, they say you're not supposed to do that anymore.

Albert: Who cares what they say not to do for something that's not happening.

Jack: They say that you should go towards the eye of the storm.

Spot: Where’s the eye of the storm, Jack?

Jack: I don’t know…

Spot: That’s what I thought.

Crutchie: Tell someone you trust.

Jack: No Crutchie, that's only if the tornado's molesting you.

*bonus*

Race: Okay, this is just a drill! Everyone grab a clutch buddy!

(Race grabs onto Spot)

Spot: Oh, get off me! No!

Race: Hold on to me!

Spot: Get off me!

Race: I am saving your life!

Spot: I don’t wanna be saved by you!

[deogreys]

If you ever feel just a little bit too happy, Google Joseph pulitzer. That will sort you right out. 🙄

It just goes to show how powerful men were two face b*tches.

Thank you and good night

[racetrack-is-back]

80's newsies!!

and it's your typical shitty coming of age story. it follows jack and his group of friends (race, albert, crutchie, finch, tommy boy, and katherine) in high school. they get a new kid at their school and race immediately asks him to go to the arcade with their friend group. race introduces him to everyone.

davey meets jack. is a little enamored by him. tries to hide it because being gay in the 80s in high school was interesting. jack doesn't understand that he's allowed to be gay/bi and doesn't realize that's what he feels for davey. they fall in love through the course of the story. but they have a huge falling out when davey kisses him for the first time cause jack freaks the fuck out and shoves him away, yelling that's he's not a fag. they get back together though after race punches jack in the face and makes him go after davey again. then they're gay together.

race meanwhile meets a jock, spot, who looks all bitchy and mean but is really nice and doesn't mind the fact that race shoves a camera in everyone's face, no matter who they are. race hangs out with spot a lot and learns all about him and his life. race will sometimes blow off his friends to go to spot's house. they fall in love too but they only get together at the very end when race invites spot to his and his friends' grad party they're holding for themselves. they kiss there and the story is pretty much over at that point.

albert is already with finch at the beginning of the story. that's a large part of the reason jack realizes he's gay. they're publicly out at school and albert has multiple times beat the shit out of people for going after him or finch.

katherine is a year older than everyone and already in uni. she gets an open ending. she moves in with sarah as friends for her second year of university and sarah's third. they have lots of tension but they don't get together during the course of the story itself.

crutchie stays the ho we all know bro is and he goes to uni as a fuck boy. he's very respectful toward women, he just likes sex. (get it crutchie, living his best life out there, isn't he???)

tommy boy moves away for university at the end and gives crutchie a little kiss on the cheek as he leaves. crutchie has a gay awakening but he does not in fact make a move on tommy boy before the story ends.

[8-billion-wishes]

To add onto my b-boy au here's some other random things:

They're all high school/college age and live in New York City.

Jojo is nonbinary and uses they/any pronouns.

Katherine stays an amateur reporter, she interviews the troupe for an article on city culture and quickly falls in with them as a friend group.

Crutchie and Jack are brothers, Crutchie works at a corner store and *totally doesn't* sneak the guys free snacks.

Les and Sarah hang out with them sometimes! the guys all love when they come along

Brooklyn is also a dance troupe, but i imagine they're all also skateboarders and have adventures akin to those in the show Betty

And as in generally all my stuff Medda is Races guardian, Denton is Jack and Crutchie's foster dad, and sprace & specs x katherine are in some way together/ get together

If you guys wanna hear/see more about this au please let me know!! I love feedback and yapping about these guys

[dragonflydrivein]

For all my newsies fans who just want Jack to leave Katherine for David, here you go. I promise it’s fun. We can all be delulu together. And there’s a Spot and Race moment. Plus, if you’re a swiftie, every chapter is based on a different Taylor Swift lyric, so that’s a thing. But y’all should give it a chance. Please I beg of you.

Currently 21 chapters out of 24. Like a little under 60,000 words at the moment? Something like that idk.

[frogmanfae]

Newsies as potential song titles part two (the sequel nobody asked for)

[yourfaveiskenough]

idk if i submitted my boy already but crutchie from newsies is kenough

Crutchie from Newsies is Kenough!

[newsiesficchallenges]

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[military-newsboys]

*Race entering a room while covered in blood* Jack: What the hell happened!? Spot, also covered in blood: Nothing anyone can prove

[emmedoesntdomath]

*sighs* anyone got any newsies fics or hcs they would love to see? someone (@crystallizedtwilight) (whom I adore and respect very much but also- what the fuck, bro) dragged me back into this fandom kicking and screaming with their lovely art and now I have the strongest urge to write something, but we’re tired children with zero creativity to our names, so.

headcanons? aus? the tiniest fragments of an idea?

[we-were-both-born-today]

The sequel to Papers, Post-It Notes, and Protests is here and completed!

This is a sequel to the Newsies College AU and here is the summary for this story:

It's senior year! David's nervous about taking his art credit, Jack is struggling with his internship, Race and Spot have growing pains while Spot starts grad school, and Specs has decided he's going to say something to Romeo about his crush; all while the threat of real life and graduation looms over them.

This has 12 chapters (11 full chapters and an epilogue) and is around 35K words! Every chapter is up on ao3 so you don't have to wait for the next chapter to be uploaded! I hope that if you read Papers, Post-it Notes, and Protests before you'll check this out and if you haven't ready either, please take a gander at my Newsies College AU series on ao3!

[military-newsboys]

THIS

This is such a major part for so many reasons.

A. They let themselves be angry at him. They are not scared, not afraid of Jack.

For all they know he scabbed- but they still trust him enough to be angry. He is their brother, and while they don't understand why he did what he did, they still know he would never try and hurt them.

B. Jack doesn't want to crush their hopes and scare them.

He could easily just say "hey threatened to hurt you guys & Crutchie, I am doing this for you" but he doesn't. The newsies finally have some hope, finally have a sense of WORTH, he can't bring himself to take it away from them.

its common sense jack has the biggest heart and it doesnt take much to see that BUT the fact that he allowed those kids to be angry with him for scabbing and didnt blame them at all really solidifies that for me. he has done Everything for them to keep them warm, fed & sheltered for a Long time and the second he scabbed they flipped out on him like hes never made a single sacrifice. no one questioned that he was acting strange. and still he was okay with that.

when he was talking to the scabs he dealt with them with patience. he talked to them. he understood where they came from. no one even attempted to have the same energy for him. and he was okay with that.

someone please give jack his flowers (and some therapy)

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

Chag Pesach Sameach!

hi I was bored so I made the above graphic to give myself an excuse to talk about...

Jewish Newsies Characters

The Jacobs Family

I hope that I no longer have to explain that the Jacobs family is canonically Jewish. However if you want the evidence, I believe this post should cover the major points.

David and his family are Polish Jews, and it's my personal headcanon that Esther and Mayer moved their family to New York City in the early 1880s to escape persecution under the Russian Empire's May Laws of 1882.

Joseph Pulitzer

The historical Joseph Pulitzer was Hungarian, but he was also Jewish and went to great lengths to conceal this fact in order to avoid antisemitism.

Both of his parents were Jewish, but Joseph allowed a rumor to spread that his mother was Catholic. He married his Christian wife, Katherine "Kate" Davis, in an Episcopal ceremony at an Episcopal church and didn't tell Kate or her family of his Jewish heritage until after they'd married. [x]

All that aside, Joseph Pulitzer, if not a practicing Jew, was very much Jewish in his character and beliefs. I'm currently working on a research post that will go more in depth into this topic.

The Newsies

According to the figures of the president of the Newsboys' Union, Dave Simons, at the time of the 1899 strike a majority of two-fifths or 40% of the newsies were Jewish. [x]

Crutchy Morris: while early scripts described Crutchy as Irish, the real Crutch Morris could have been Irish or Jewish. It was common at the turn of the century for immigrants coming to the United States to take on anglicized spellings or variants of personal names. "Morris" was often substituted for the Hebrew Moshe (מֹשֶׁה) or "Moses." [x] Marty Belafsky, who originated the role of Crutchy, is also Jewish.

Mush Meyers: the surname "Meyers" was adopted by German Jews in the 18th century when they assimilated to German culture because it was close to the Hebrew first name Me'ir (מֵאִיר). [x] Aaron Lohr also has Jewish heritage. I like to think that Mush's parents were both an interracial and an interfaith couple. Mush loves celebrating both Jewish and Christian holidays with his friends and doesn't really consider himself as being of one religion or the other. He believes in kindness and wishes that everyone would get along.

Snipeshooter alright this one is mostly just my own headcanon, but there is actual evidense behind it (if you squint). In Hard Promises, Boots has a selling partner named Mud and when they get food from the nuns Mud asks Boots who Jesus is. Now, I can't prove that Snipeshooter replaced Mud, but I can point out that Boots and Snipeshooter are best friends and that they buy their papers together one after the other.

Hard Promises script.

[skylathescholarly]

My brain has been struggling to support Newsies brainrot and Batfam brainrot, and the result shouldn't surprise you.

Two words: Batfam Newsies AU.

I was struck with it halfway through watching a live production of the Broadway version (amazing), but it would probably be more based on the 1992 movie (childhood favorite, I know it better. As in I can quote it all to you.)

So hear me out- I think Jason as Jack Kelly. In 92sies, Jack Kelly is a fake name, so his real name revealed at the end can be ✨Jason Peter Todd✨! But like, grew up on the streets, no living family, watches out for the younger/newer kids, frustrated with the system. For him, I think, Santa Fe would be a lot more metaphorical, since I can't picture him wanting to leave Gotham, but Santa Fe (the song) just is Jason, you can't tell me otherwise.

Tim as Crutchy, and here's where more of the Broadway comes in, because I love their sibling dynamic in it, and it's a little less so in 92sies. Still there, but not as much. The live show I saw had a younger girl as Crutchy, and their dynamic was just amazingggg. Anyway. Maybe he ran away, maybe his parents died early, maybe they just ditched him, whatever. He does this now.

Dick as Davey, Damian as Les. Now their personalities don't match up quiiiite as well, but I think it could be done. If Dami's a little younger, perhaps. I'm thinking Dick got shuttled into the orphanage and met Dami, and bc it's still Gotham, the orphanage sucks and they're supposed to go make money or whatever. I dunno, that's the tricky bit.

We can keep Snyder, Medda (unless you wanted to put Selina there, but I don't really see it.) the Delanceys and Weasel, and the rest of the gang of newsies as is, unless anyone has suggestions for them. I'm all ears!

I'd go by the movie for this and have Clark Kent be Bryan Denton, the reporter, mostly because I can't really think of anyone to fit the role of Katherine, and definitely not someone I'd ship with Jason. Plus then, Pulitzer can be Lex Luthor and that's amazing to me lol.

And finally Bruce as Governor of New York Gotham, Teddy Roosevelt! I'd definitely have him play a larger role. You have Jason/Jack hitching a ride on his carriage from the Refuge, and then maybe trying to steal his tires or something later on, they talk, blah blah blah, strike stuff.

Of course, at the end of the strike and all, the brothers are closer than ever, and the nice old Governor is like "mine"

I don't know if this is even coherent, but please feel free to add your ideas!! If you use this to write a fic (please someone, I want to but I'm so busy, maybe eventually) just make sure to credit 😊 if there are any Newsies x Batman fics, PLEASE link them!!! I'd love to see it!