#newsies fan fiction

[str4wb3rry-fire]

i need more newsies content to consume im going insane

[shsl-fander]

David Jacobs and the hot guy from History

I wrote another Javey fic guys

Summary: After his parent's financial situation worsens and they aren't able to pay for private school anymore, David and Sarah have to transfer to a public high school for their senior year, and naturally, David's extremely nervous. Until he meets a certain eccentric art kid who offers to tour him around school

Pairing: David Jacobs/Jack Kelly

[jason-falsettos]

little javid thing i wrote after watching this (↓) edit

(https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FYo9HR/)

The day started off very normal, just a bit colder than usual as the first days of fall set in, which came as a relief to David, though Les just whined about having to wear a coat.

"You just have to wear it for the morning, achi, till it gets warmer," David compromised as he zipped the jacket up.

Les still made a pouty face, but did no more complaining as he pulled his cap on.

"Let's go then."

David bought his papers as usual, then handed a few to his brother.

"Oh, c'mon, Dave!" Jack exclaimed, "Kid can take a few more! Can't ya, Les?"

Les nodded eagerly, and David rolled his eyes, handing Les more papers.

"Go gett'em, tiger!" Jack encouraged, sending Les off into the crowd.

David sighed, letting his shoulders fall.

"Jeez, Dave, you've got a cloud over your head," Jack teased.

"Just tired."

Jack shrugged. He didn't believe David's excuse, but there was no use in fighting it.

Jack threw his arm around David and smiled, looking up at the sky.

"Look at that sunrise, Dave," Jack said.

David, feeling awfully warm despite the weather, responded, "it's the same as every other sunrise."

Jack sighed dramatically. "You've gotta *look*."

And although he looked, David didn't see anything different, though he couldn't think right on account of the warmth invading his thoughts. He blamed it on Jack, who never seemed to be cold, no matter the weather, but the thoughts still didn't leave.

"Do ya see it, Dave?" Jack asked.

David shook his head, "it's the same."

Jack groaned, taking his arm off of David. "You's just crazy."

David laughed, soon accompanied by Jack.

And David couldn't help but think about how pretty Jack looked, even with his messy hair and soot covered face. He had such passion in his eyes, and the life coursing through him demaned an audience.

David soon enough shut his own thoughts down. No boy should be having those thoughts about another boy, David knew that very well.

"What would I do without you, Davey?" Jack questioned with a smile.

David smiled back.

Eventually, Les came back, showing off the shiny coins he'd made to Jack. Jack, as he always did, showered Les in praise, which lit Les's little brown eyes up.

Les grabbed Jack and hugged him, full of too much joy for his tiny body. Jack blinked, frozen for a moment, before hugging Les back.

"You're the best, cowboy."

"You too, kid."

Les was set up with more papers, this time accompanied by Jack and David, and the papers were sold before late.

Les was taken home without much fuss, but Jack insisted on taking David out with him. To where? David had no clue, and he wasn't sure Jack had any idea either.

So Jack and David began their walk, Jack leading the way. Jack also lead the conversation, jumping from topic to topic before landing on the sunset.

"Look at that moon! The moon sure is pretty tonight, ain't it, Dave?"

David shrugged. "Sure?"

"One day, I'm gonna take you to Santa Fe, and you'll see how different the moon is there than here," Jack said.

David sighed, but couldn't help the small smile on his face. "Sure you will."

Jack gave David a playful punch in the shoulder. "I will! Just you wait, Dave."

David rolled his eyes. "Santa Fe, Dave!" He echoed mockingly.

Jack laughed, and so did David.

After their laughter was over, a silence filled the space between them.

A few moments later, David found himself asking, "What's so different about Santa Fe?"

Jack paused a moment before answering, "I dunno. Just is."

David nodded, though that didn't make much sense to him.

There was silence again, save for the wind brushing through nearby trees.

David found his eyes drawn to Jack's bandana. He wore the thing every day, no matter what. It was worn, sort of tattered.

It reminded David of his Magen David that lay tucked under his shirt. He'd never taken it off, not once, since he'd gotten it the day before his Bar Mitzvah. Sarah had gave it to him, and Dave still had no idea where she got the money.

"Why do you wanna go to Santa Fe so bad?" David inquired as the question popped into his head.

Jack shrugged. "I..." He paused before shaking his head. "I mean, I've just gotta. That's all I've got, Dave."

"You've got me," David countered, "and Les. And the rest of the newsboys."

Jack bristled. "I don't know, mouth. It's just... I know I've got all these people, but..."

"They need you too, you know," David interjected. "You're Jack Kelly. They need you."

"I know. Maybe that's why I wanna go. They're ain't no one... depending on me there."

David sighed. Jack looked away, at the sky.

"I," Jack began, "wanna be something other than Jack Kelly." His voice was firm, some sort of deep buried resentment hidden in his voice.

"Why? You've got... everything."

"I don't want everything. I just want... enough."

"I mean, Les looks up to you like you're the Messiah or something. All he talks about is Cowboy."

Jack stiffened up. "David—"

"How could you want more?—"

"Maybe I don't wanna be no 'cowboy', David! Ever thought of that?" Jack snapped, shoving David.

The shove wasn't hard by any measure, but David still flinched.

"Maybe seeing Les's eyes looks so much like M—" Jack stopped his sentence, swallowing his words back.

Jack looked on the verge of tears. His fists were clenched tight at his sides. It was the first time David had seen Jack look so *sad*.

David softened. "Jack—"

"No."

Jack wiped his eyes and turned away from David.

"I'm sorry, David, I'd better—" He took a shaky breath, wiping his eyes again, "—I'd better go."

With that Jack left before David could even think. The wind began to blow, and David felt so very lonley all of a sudden, like Jack had taken part of his heart.

[sl-newsie]

When my character crush gets a relationship written in:

Me: I should be happy for them, they look so happy

Also me: Why are you doing this to me?!

[cubeispog]

Trying to write fanfic but its still early and the cringe brain worms haven't left

[triple-u-vvv]

This is the first page of the prologue!

I will admit, the first pages of the book are kind of slow. I wanted to give representation to some of the newsies Jrs. characters. I usually don’t like writing prologues because I want to get into the action right away, but I felt like it would be necessary here in order to establish the conflict and the main antagonist, as well as the setting and tone of the book.

Authors footnote: the prologue is usually disconnected from the main story, but helps with things like worldbuilding and establishing mood and tone, as well as revealing the conflict.

Also, tumblr ruined the quality

[newmsies]

if there's one thing i know I'm good at that will get the slightest bit of attention. It's writing angsttt

woooooo

[willowistic22]

If anyone is wondering what i’ve been doing behind the scenes:

Tell me what the hell do i do with this. I already planned it till chapter 21 and i can’t figure out how to end it…

[dreamingonmyown]

what fandom does the best fan fiction you’ve ever read belong too?? for science.

[metallicmikus]

it’s not finished, but it’s quite long, but dust by backtopluto on ao3. basically it’s where jack moved to santa fe and then came back to new york after 5 years. it’s such a banger let me know if you read it 🙏🙏

Can someone recommend a proper historically inspired, very grimy newies fic

[str4wb3rry-fire]

whats the best sprace fic youve ever read ? ill go first.

"the universe is pitted against us" by thespiritscalling on ao3

[baura-bear]

My fave thing in newsies fan fiction is where Jack thinks that because of the way David talks or dresses that his family is much more well off and in the back of his head he’s wary and judged David a bit for that but then one way or another he goes to David’s house and sees that they clearly both grew up with families that struggled for money and David just got good at hiding that because of judgement from his peers

[mrsreidsblog]

posting on this account so i don’t embarrass myself on my main…

YALLL

i haven’t even seen challengers yet and i’m obsessed- originally i wanted to gate keep mike faist bc i’ve BEEN in love w him since newsies and west side story and i wanted him all for myself but i can’t lie the art donaldson fan fiction is TOO good

i haven’t been this obsessed since the start of my marauders obsession so this is getting into dangerous territory…

also LOOK AT HIS TUMMY IM SCREAMING (dad bod mike dad bod mike dad bob mike)

- i try not to be too weird and creepy on the internet so ignore this indulgence if u know me ty

[jack-kellys]

alright i'm back

so i think i need to start by saying that just because the lines of a scene don't change/aren't added to doesn't mean the scene doesn't change. that's why revivals exist in theater.

i think also that it should be pretty obvious that jack being a black poor orphan instead of a white poor orphan automatically makes any relationship between him and katherine... astronomically impacted. or maybe someone had seen one of the understudies play jack but like. michael was cast as jack, and not to be like "michael and i got to talk abt jacks blackness" but we like did @ stagedoor and he agreed that it does change much of the story being told.

so "what is this about?" "i ain't stupid, i know that girls like you don't end up with guys like me." are automatically recontextualized, since now there is an even further obvious intersectionality within jack as a character and within he and katherine's potential relationship. it makes the scene an even more desperate reaching out of one another, and it (am i mixed and biased. yes) made me want to root for jatherine more than any other jatherine gave me reason to (this is also bc bronte's and michael's stage chemistry is just MILES BETTER LMAO...). bc in theory katherine can dress up white jack kelly in nicer clothes and parade him around and while it wouldn't be accepted, like it. you can't do that with a black boy in 1899!!!! you literally cannot, jack could... suffer some real consequences from even holding her hand. it would endanger him for their relationship to be public.

i think it also makes jack's feeling of betrayal and his anger towards her much more justified, and bronte also plays katherine quite guilty even as she's trying to defend her actions ("i... never lied!" ok girl.) michael's jack imo also hinges more on the fact that pulitzer is the person who is her dad and not rly the fact that she betrayed them (accidentally but. rather ignorant of it girl). like he's more angry that she didn't tell him that he's her dad, and like. yes. oh my god. because that puts him in so much more danger than he's already in– pulitzer knows they're at the very least friends, but pulitzer knows that jack fucking likes her, bc "you did say he wanted to go west, right darling? are you kidding me. idk IDK THE STAKES ARE JUST. RAISED. trust me im black.

also EXCLUDING race…. the way jack reacts to “till the moment i saw you, i thought i knew what love was.”

he is shocked. his eyes widen. love? katherine thinks she’s in love with him? is not a take idt we’ve ever seen… it’s never reacted to at all, and i’m so glad it it is, because let’s face it— how can katherine be in love with jack so soon? right now? with someone like him? jack should be surprised, and michael’s jack finally shows that, which was SO!!! new!!!

i think they added nuance to a scene–whose script has none–quite successfully, and they really do the work to try and save that scene (it is still one of the worst in the show, script-wise), and idk. interracial jatherine nuance lets gooooo.

also hi a while back i rewrote this scene with a brown jack kelly, latino icon... here is that if you wanna see my literal take on it!!

hm i just saw a post that said that something to believe in didn’t have any changes in the uk version… when i’m not writing an essay someone remind me to write a different essay about how it felt miles a) different and b) better

[bri-cheeses]

I have a new fear unlocked.

So I just saw a video of various newsies actors reading fan fiction.

And I am

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Seriously I don’t think I could ever live that down if they read mine out loud

What’s nice about being in the marauders fandom though is that Barty and Evan don’t HAVE any actors so I’m safe there.