#newsies tag

[jewish-elphaba]

for a while I thought jack was saying "if you weren't an aries" rather than "if you weren't an heiress" and boy did that change the context of that scene for me

[agentsnickers]

The Main Street Pianist did a Newsies medley!

[thespianwordnerd]

The progression of Jeremy Jordan characters flirting is so funny

Jack Kelly: a smart girl, huh? Beautiful, smart, independent....

Clyde Barrow: (sending a dress) to Bonnie: I can't wait to rip this off of you 😏

Jay Gatsby: *panics, starts throwing shirts everywhere*

[dear-ao3]

wait yall actually read ao3?? I thought it was just a bit omg?? Omg what if you’ve read one of our fics?? Have you seen the tags submitted in person?? DO YOU GUYS WRITE FANFIC??

bestie. my guy. my buddy. my little pal. katya and i met while writing newsies fanfiction in 2018. we've been in the trenches. we've seen things. we've written all kinds of things. we've read all kinds of things. we've seen it all.

(for real tho we only read specific fandoms and its not often and we've both written things but not recently. i do have stuff up on ao3 somewhere but im not in the trenches as bad as i used to be)

[jewish-elphaba]

they are soo <3

some sprace was requested, so here y'all go.

[theres-no-escaping-us-pal]

give me Jack Kelly who didn’t know he liked Davey till Crutchie pointed out how he looked at him.

give me Jack Kelly who kissed Davey during spin the bottle and couldn’t stop thinking about it but he thought that was normal.

give me Jack Kelly who draws Davey but that’s normal because he draws everyone, right?

give me Jack Kelly who has dreams about Davey but thinks it’s a coincidence.

give me Jack Kelly who acts like a jealous boyfriend when he sees a guy so much as talking to Davey.

give me Jack Kelly who gives an emotional confession in the rain like a cheesy romance movie.

give me Jack Kelly who loves Davey with everything he has.

give me Jack Kelly who has to be shut up by his friends cause he talks about Davey too much.

give me Jack Kelly who hadn’t fully lived till he met Davey Jacobs.

and now he has.

[onmebackmush]

for anyone who has trouble figuring out background newsies...

here are my cheat sheets! :3

[gaylittlewizardcat]

Hey guys what if we were all friends and held hands and danced and sang together. What then.

[musical-dash-trash]

brat summer? no. newsies summer.

[inkwell-illustrations]

10 year old me when i found out i can romantically pair up characters i like:

It's been chaos ever since...

[jewish-elphaba]

i am going to be physically ill

[jack-kellys]

so we all know life is a circle. thus fandom is a circle. we see things come back around like the de/twinkification of racetrack higgins. or cowboy versus artist jack kelly. or "mom" friend david jacobs and the perpetual need to make the newsies some kind of heteronormative family. and yet again we've found our way back to the anti katherine pulitzer arc of her "getting in the way" of jack and davey's popular subtextual/fanon relationship. (yes im late nevermind that.)

now, not being a katherine fan is different than being anti-katherine. not being a katherine fan means you might have criticisms like "i'm not sure how she serves the newsies narrative better than, say, sarah jacobs, as sarah is more aligned with the newsies contextually/societally and katherine is very distant and rich lol", or even "i'm not a big fan of how katherine seems to be tired of jack's shit for most of the play and then 'suddenly' finds romantic interest in him within one song".

but being anti-singular-young-woman-character because of a ship between the main two boys is. a tired take is it not? again with the circle, we've had this discourse already and its been cut out. since 2012 and 2017 we been talking about this girl and her value, but not in the context we should be.

(because the context we should be talking about it in is a newsies 1992 versus newsies broadway context, not an anti-katherine context, but i digress.)

katherine's value. what is there to mine from? she is an extremely young woman reporter, 17-18 years old, whose article makes the front page of the new york sun. since she writes under a pseudonym, i'm presuming she writes with skill well above her age to be published at all (yes, even writing vaudeville reviews). in past productions she either finds the newsies at jacobi's because she saw the walk-out (TWWK) from inside The World (UK), or jack kelly simply interests her enough for her to seek him out again (Broadway/Tour/Live). she is unsure about herself as a writer despite her skill which is made clear in her song. she is rich. she did not need to have a career and was encouraged not to. pulitzer is her father and she does not get along with him. she matches jack word for word, often with davey at her side. she mills comfortably about the newsies through the second act and has a friendship of some kind with specs specifically. she also literally says "that's a face [jack's] that could save us all from sinking in the ocean/like someone said 'power tends to corrupt'" essentially prophesying the act 2 betrayal. which is crazy.

you can draw your own conclusions from the above, but all of it is essentially canon? right? so maybe you don't have to be a fan of all of it, but you're really going to tell me absolutely none of this is compelling. that none of this is something you can interpret for yourself as complex. that albert is more complex.

this is not me saying you have to include katherine in everything, because that isn't what this post is about. this is about individuals choosing to dislike or devalue katherine by only viewing her in relation to her as a romantic interest, instead of a complex character in a period piece with a full arc. yes a full arc. it's the musical that's rushed not katherine.

@we-are-inevitable speaks on this extremely well in the comments of this post as well, more in connection to katherine as being a compelling romantic interest in the context of newsies speaking in the defense of love interests/often women characters. in this post i speak on how i would navigate jack/katherine as a director, and in this post i speak on how to direct something to believe in to make it, well, believable, aside from its awful writing for both kath and jack. because again, fandom is a circle, and i literally talked about how to "fix" jatherine in august 2024. at length

[kellyscowboy]

the world: we're raising the paper price

the newsboys of 1899:

[mummelthecryptid]

javey save me...javeyy

[nyx-thedragon]

watching 92sies again, bc it’s become a comfort movie and i need comfort right now in these trying times, and i just realized that for some reason Spot Conlon gives me Peter Pan vibes? like not so much in personality but more in looks? like he looks similar to how i imagine Peter Pan looks, just in general, y’know?

idk i’m just rambling a bit. it’s 11:30 pm, i have work tomorrow, my brain is not running on all cylinders. i tried explaining the fnaf lore to a friend my brain is all blegh i need to go to sleep

edit: upon rewatching the movie a couple times i have realized that Spot Conlon gives me Peter Pan vibes in both looks AND personality. Peter Pan would act like how Spot Conlon does. this boy is literally just Peter Pan. he may be the inspiration for Peter Pan as a character, who knows

[dear-ao3]

good morning everyone so i am at home and by home i mean my parents house. this will become relevant soon. my parents were in my apartment over the weekend and my mom saw some of my handwritten race notes that i use to write the update post and so she asked my sister "hey what the hell is this" and my sister SNITCHED ON ME told my mom that "oh she writes this giant post on tumblr explaining the races to people and its really funny" and my mom thinks this is hilarious but she also yelled at me for making the whole thing one long post and thinks i should split it off into individual posts because "that sounds like reading a text from your grandma"