#lillie west

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Lala Lala remix of Desire by Dehd from the album Flower of Devotion Remixed, out on @firetalk

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[cbcruk]

Lillie West - holyholyholy

[musicdiaries]

Lillie West - holyholyholy

[tapiocats]

I saw the Wicked musical last week 🏳️‍🌈

[spiderphantom1993]

The Phantom of the Opera (London) 7.30pm performance on the 14th August 2024

[berryblu-arts]

saw a really cute base on pinterest and blacked out lol, didnt know what to do with the background so uhhh Random (digital) paint splatter go!!!!!!

[spotconln]

Clarice Julianda in NEWSIES

This show will always be very special to me and I am so honoured to have been given such an iconic role. Spot Conlon, you've been a dream.

[xreno]

HEY GUYS DO YOU LIKE RP?!!

Alright so,,, I was thinking about making a Smilin' west Role play server (OCS allowed ofc) and I wanted to know if anyone on here would be interested in joining,,

Pleaaseeee tell me if you are cause if not it's. Not gonna get made,,,, maybe,,

Art by @buggymakesart :-3

[chimeofthecomet]

SPOT !!! ok her acting, singing and everything was on point i knew i was gonna draw her sometime. Wahh she was perfect and that surprise of her coming onto the stage I May Have Cried A Little Bit!! so great to have her representing all the real newsgirls and newsies of colour :]

[brooklynbadboys]

the show couldn’t happen without these women they deserve more love and appreciation <3

[bryqe]

a24’s “the puritan II” maXXXine’s merch

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hello! you're one of my favourite arrowverse blogs, ty for all the awesome polls! i'm not sure if you have before, but if you haven't, can you do best hero's kid? I didn't include Black Lightning or Superman & Lois bc the kids are already heroes with their dad in this timeline, and Stargirl bc they're all kids anyway lol.

William Clayton

Mia Smoak-Queen

Sara Diggle (erased from timeline)

John Diggle Jr.

Connor Hawke

Nora West-Allen

Bart West-Allen

Lita Rory

Esi Jiwe

Lily Stein

Jefferson Jackson's unnamed child

Sara Lance & Ava Sharpe's unnamed child

🥹🥹Sweet Anon you've made my day such kindness. Thank you so much for all the support. You might be my new favourite anon🧡.

Way back I did do a Team Arrow kids round but I hadn't thought of doing a round like this so thanks for the idea. Lets see who will be picked as the Best Hero's Kid?

Looking forward to the results. Fells like this is prob gonna be another interesting winner.

*I'm pretty sure she gets named in the tie-in comics but I could be wrong.

[engelart]

“Jersey Lilly”, 2019 by Norman Engel

[nickysfacts]

Sundress: what happens when you attempt to make a apron look fabulous!

🍊👗🍊

[jack-kellys]

west end question: i obviously love my brooklyn girls and would die for them all, but is it bad that it’s taken away the sprace dynamic for me? like i’m still 100% on board with a nowhere near canon ship and it shouldn’t affect me they’ve decided to have spot be a girl, but it lowkey has? and i feel kinda guilty about it? idk i love my proshot boys. but i am 100% here for all the uk newsies cast they are amazing and so talented and it’s definitely my favourite production by far!! idk if i’m making sense

ok part of me feels a litle baited actually because like. i feel like... im vocal abt mlm musical sprace not being a big vibe for me in the first place. so im a funny person to ask if you were looking for relief lmao. anyway here's my thesis below.

wait also if ur a white newsie fan a read-thru+rb of this would be much appreciated thank youuu (also yall have been eating up my character analyses anyway sooooo!)

TL;DR THESIS: if you're feeling genuinely let down that your ship did not see the light of day and a black girlsie spot conlon got to instead, then yes, you should reevaluate that.

followers, if you've been with me long enough, you know that i have quite strong opinions about how this show gets treated when it comes to interpretations and fandom/fanon. mostly, this is because i literally work in theater, and it's extremely backwards in my brain personally when shows get treated more like a movie or tv show than a performance piece.

im also one of the only ppl in this fandom that ever seems to dare speak on race (not the damn character smh). and anon, buddy, kiddo, this does have to do with race, gender, and sexuality.

firstly, what i think needs to be understood about newsies, is that it is theater, which means it is meant to be mutable. there is no one way. there should never be one way. it does not exist. secondly, theater does not exist in a fandom vacuum. its live every night, conceptually. theater is a live performance art.

interpretations change- it's the nature of theater. so i think asks like these really do illuminate the difference between fans of the show's content or fans of... i guess the show's culture's content.

this is a culture content ask.

one thing i really, truly, deeply need you all to understand: from an objective, script- and staging-based perspective, proshot sprace does not exist. they do not speak. they barely see each other. race does not even volunteer to go to brooklyn. the ship originates from the 1992 movie, where they do actually interact, which is why the ship has prevailed through the 90s to today. they're from the movie, not the musical.

of course, this doesn't bash the ship- it has history, and naturally fans want to create new history when they get a new source material (the musical). it's true for like every newsie ship lowkey (but also not lowkey because all the manhattan newsies do interact and sprace literally does not but thats a different post!!), which is something i do admire about the fandom- we do a lot of our own legwork here, we invent relationships and backgrounds from one-liners that could be given to tbh any frickin newsie. i respect the 30 years we have invented ships.

however.

when a huge, publicized, consistently sold out production comes along with spot conlon as not only a woman, but a woman of color (specifically black rn!) as the leader of the most feared group on stage, there becomes something much more important than a "sprace dynamic", which does not canonically exist in the musical anyway bro. you can't miss something that isn't there imo. often the story and casting within a story comes first, and goddamn if this isn't one of those times. lillie-pearl's spot brings bravado, swagger, confidence, and intimidation that is literally....fine maybe i'm being personal but it is slash gen incredible to see in technically a period piece! a black woman in leadership with that kind of assuredness! in such a popular musical! how is that not– automatically surpassing an often obsessed-over (yes i am. hinting at something here, straight girl fans) mlm ship?

and while i'm on the topic of the over-obsessiveness of mlm musical sprace, let me talk about uksies sprace. because what's also wack abt this ask is that sprace is not a hopeless case in this production- it literally has about as much 'evidence' as the proshot imo!!!!!

i got to hop over to 2nd row brooklyn seating for act 2 so i saw once and for all really close up, right. there's a moment when race is upstage letting the newsies in/down from the stairs. spot comes down and she does, in fact, share a look with him. race gives spot a nod and she keeps moving.

and like im gonna see the show again (every day i am counting my mf blessings fr), so if i'm wrong or they don't do it every time i'll correct myself, but that's what i saw with my own dang eyes on saturday. they do acknowledge each other in uksies.

and since they do, i really like. i have to ask. what is bothersome/unpopular abt uksies sprace, other than oh idk.... its not white/white mlm with a twink/manly bf trope? why can't race still love who spot is as a character, this strong and fearless ruler of brooklyn, in uksies? because tbh josh's racer...nahhhh because. this is such a side note now but they'd be so good together oh jesus am i gonna ship uk sprace. and it's not like they're 'taking away' from a queer ship because a) you can headcanon spot as a queer girl and race being trans is consistently popular and b) newsies has ten billion gayass ships bro we've been eatin for literal decades.

anon, i'm sure you didn't mean harm by this ask. i'm sure, honestly, that a lot of fans are feeling the same way as you and weren't quite sure how to put it in words. but, i'm also not surprised you sent an ask like this on anonymous specifically.

should you feel guilty about it? i don't think guilt is the right word. but i believe you should think more about how newsies is not.....static. it does not exist in one form, and it never will. if you're feeling genuinely let down that your ship did not see the light of day and a black girlsie spot conlon got to instead, then yes, you should reevaluate that. in theater, you should always question why something impacted you the way it did- a major point of theater is to discuss and think about it when you leave! i know this because ive spent three years literally studying it, to back up my thesis credentials.

thank you for reading this, newsies fandom. i do honestly say all this with love, and i hope it made u think !! ♥️