#our man denton

[random-citizen2008]

Can't sleep because I'm thinking about how our man Denton paid for lunch, paid all the legal fees for the newsies, and was just generally an awesome dude... And he did all of that just to get replaced by a sub-par lady reporter who happens to be related to the enemy.

Edit: Why the HE double hockysticks does yhis have so many notes?

[ghostextremist]

Bryan Denton existing in 2024 is like the second coming of Jesus

[chaosfairy18]

Newsiestober Day 23 : Vampire

I had to draw Denton at some point and well he was giving Vampire. It's just a quick screenshot redraw from the movie bc T i m e issues but he is still nice

Immortal Vampire Adopting Dozens of Orphans (no clickbait)

prompt list by @newsiestober2024

[one-highfalutin-sonuva-gun]

Newsie: Stick

Actor: Josh Keaton (Credited as Josh Wiener)

Stick is a young Newsie who wears a brown vest, over a light blue pinstriped shirt and dark checked pants. He carries an oversized satchel for his papes.

He doesn't own a hat, he has to fashion one out of newspaper.

Every morning, he looks forward to carrying the banner so he can meet up with his friends, Tumbler, Sprinkles and Guttersnipe.

Tumbler heads straight to the spot where they usual wait for breakfast together, and rests his tired head on Stick's shoulder.

After breakfast, Stick does his morning warm-up with the other Newsies. He practises his soaking skills with Guttersnipe in case they encounter the Delanceys. He knows just where to knee them.

Then he plays a game of tag with Sprinkles and Guttersnipe to practise running from the Delanceys in case they lose a fight. Running also improves their circulation.

The little Newsies aren't his only friends, Stick also has three Newsie big bros:

There's Baptist, who shields Stick from the Delanceys,

Dutchy, who always has his back,

and Chewy, who likes to give him plenty of hugs.

Denton's presence catches Stick's gaze. He's mesmerised by the reporter because he reminds him so much of his own father. Not just in the way Denton dresses and the distinguished air he exudes, but in the kindness that radiates from him. Stick can tell that this man would go to any lengths to protect the weak and even paying for their lunch.

Stick doesn't know how to spell "STRIKE". At first, he paints the sign as "STRIK". Then one of the older Newsies corrects him (It wasn't Dutchy, who can't spell). Luckily there is a teeny tiny bit of space left for him to fit in a teeny tiny 'E'. To try to make it more visible, he capitalises the 'E', despite most of the other letters being lowercase.

His friends sometimes calls him Chico.

After winning the strike, Stick walks in to see Jack and Sarah playing tonsil hockey. He tries hard to shake that from his memory.

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

there is both a Bryan and a Denton in my home state, unfortunately they are very far apart

[randomfandomtwst]

Something I just discovered in the 1992 Newsies movie that makes me love it even more, is in King of New York, and I think it's Snitch.. He helps Boots off the table at one point. 😂 Like, hands on waist and everything. It was so cute! And another cute thing I saw, I've never seen anyone talk about it before, is during the song, in the background, you can see three waiters from Jacobi's and one of them is vibing with the Newsies! It's adorable! 😍😂

[ali-and-macy]

Us jumping from twitter to bluesky like:

Anyway, follow us on Bluesky!

[newsiesrewritten]

hi!! I had a thought and I wanted to know your opinion or if you ever heard anyone talking about this before in the newsies fandom

basically: do we think maybe David had a crush on Denton?

obviously david x denton is a BIG nope but like, the relationship between Denton and David in the movie is interesting to me because it's so different than that of Denton and any of the other boys (including Jack) because Denton is sort of a father figure to the newsies but David doesn't actually need a father figure?

plus I've always felt that the betrayal of Denton no longer being able to write about the strike hit David the hardest

so do you think it's just a case of David having deep respect for an adult he considers a mentor? or is it possible David also had a little crush on Denton?

I HATE the trope of little kids/teens having an awkward crush on someone way too old for them. (Dipper and Wendy, TJ Botsford and Wordgirl, etc) BUT this is the only exception because of this and this only:

David wants Denton and David wants to BE Denton.

The way David loves is that he starts to take on the traits of his crushes and spins them into his own. When he starts developing his crush on Denton, he starts asking more about Denton’s job, unknowingly mimicking Denton, and just overall admires the hell out of the guy. David’s crush on Denton can also be described as every baby gay’s massive fat crush on Captain Barnacles from Octonauts (Idk what gay people do don’t ask me)

So both. Both is good.

[artemis-lynn]

Denton x Medda, anyone?

anyone see what i mean?

[this-is-macy]

Whenever I raise a glass, I’m never sure if I should say

“To our man, Denton!”

or

“I’d say we launched our strike in a most auspicious manner!”

[newsiesrewritten]

Bryan Denton watching the newsies strike outside his window:

[hobisexually]

I have so many problems with karamo but the s8 finale… he sees an asian woman who has severe trauma surrounding her father due to (some) asian culture(s) not allowing people to properly talk to their parents about their emotions or issues with them because that could be seen as disrespectful, oui? so she hasn’t spoken to him after her mother died and that is hard, yes?

and this man chooses to surprise her in the car (after making her cry) with an unannounced FaceTime call with said father, which forces her to immediately talk about why she’s upset with him after three years of not speaking??????? without being prepared, without knowing what to say to a stubborn elderly asian man who never learned to deal with his emotions and fucked up because of it? REALLY?

the LEAST he could have done was tell her in advance so she could write it down for herself and so she could be prepared

sure they talked. sure they made a start. but at what cost. what violence did this wreak on her for no reason. jesus CHRIST THIS MAN ANGERS ME SO MUCH

[chaosfairy18]

Newsiestober Day 6 : Haunted

Truth to be told, Denton had never expected to become a Parapsychologist or Paranormal Investigator, at no step in his life. For his parents he’d set out to become a doctor – though already then, he was dabbling in some journalism courses – and then one night during the mandatory practical training in the forensics department, more accurately in the morgue, he’d seen something that he just couldn’t come back from.

Since forever, he thought, he’d seen things from the corner of his eye, but he’d assumed that was something everyone went through, and it had never been clear, never been a figure sitting right by their own corpse, panicking, appearing and disappearing from thin air.

He’d discontinued his medical studies, done his bachelor’s degree in journalism and that was supposed to be it. Nothing had happened, he hadn’t seen anything and was just sleep deprived from studying until late at night, not becoming a doctor was solely because of his own passions.

And then it happened again, as he was out reporting on wars, just this time the bodies weren’t in morgues, they were everywhere, and while not all had ghosts it was far more than he could ignore. No one else seemed to see anything, at most feel a cold shudder while close to them, maybe a family member shivering and crying as the ghost of their loved one tried to touch them.

His colleagues probably assumed he wasn’t cut out for being a war reporter, after he’d quit, but in truth Denton had gone back to university – not a renowned one, admittedly, and researched everything on ghosts that he could, in various countries.

Another thing he hadn’t really expected of his life was adopting a teenager after an old friend of his had contacted him, saying the boy in her class was in writing and ghosts and if he could just try to mentor the orphaned boy a bit. No one expected him to adopt Sean not even half a year later.

It wasn’t just that he felt sorry for a young boy without parents, he also felt like he could offer him a lot of options and well… he’d always thought about kids. With or without a partner.

And mostly they had hit it off well, especially the mentoring at first. Living together proved to be more difficult, with Sean assuming he might have only taken him in for the money or some other personal gain and shutting himself off or getting angry, but by now they were on only regular teenage angst while Sean went to school, did Taekwondo and wrote in his spare time.

Admittedly… the one part on why he had taken Sean in was that he also seemed to sense ghosts more than other people, just like Denton did. And he was a researcher after all.

Now, finding a place that was truly haunted, wasn’t easy. He’d found his fair share of singular ghosts by now, some willing to talk, some not able to or not even noticing him at all, but he had yet to find a real haunted place inhabiting multiple stronger ghosts. Denton’s current house he was looking into was old, having been vacant before the civil war, then renovated, then empty again, and so on and so on up until today. There were some stories of chills, moving furniture, old pathways and more, but he wanted to take a look himself.

Surprisingly, Sean wanted to go too, listening to music during the car ride and then leaving his headphones hanging on his neck, hands in his pockets as they went in, Denton not yet having much equipment on him, only taking in the obvious things.

Old. Dusty. Cold.

The condition was mostly good, the house had been renovated after all, but there was something in the air, something uneasy for others but promising for him.

“Let’s look around.”, he said quietly, smiling at Sean who nodded absentmindedly but followed.

The kitchen was empty, both of ghosts and of food as well as most cooking equipment, so they moved further along to the dining hall and lastly some living room. It was where Denton stopped because he saw something from the corner of his eye, through the next door, turning to it, holding a hand to Sean’s shoulder to keep him close and stop him from moving in front of him.

An old figure, at least 70, wearing parts of a civil war uniform, see-through but completely there, came into the room, followed by a young blond man, probably not long an adult, both ignoring them as they went to the kitchen.

“Denton, did you-?”

“Yes, I saw.” In comparison to most ghosts he’d seen, those were some of the clearest and least instable he’d seen since his days as a war reporter. They were anchored here, and they might not even be the only ones.

Turning to the room where the ghosts had come from, he saw a mostly intangible figure dressed like a newsboy sitting on the windowsill, blankly staring outside, as well as some early-twenty-year-old looking like an Italian mobster sitting on the railing of the staircase. Smoke coming out of a cigar that could never be lit while a boy in Victorian clothing disdainfully scrunched up his nose, hiding more behind a book in his hands.

One thing at least was for sure: the house was haunted by ghosts, multiple of them, from various different times, and one way or another, Denton and Sean would spend a lot of time here.

@newsiestober2024

[whoops-im-obsessed]

Emmmmm do you like 92sies?

Ooh 92sies I do! I prefer the stage show and I've only seen it once so I'm due a rewatch but its a fun movie!!

[applesauce1739]

Live laugh Denton.

watching king of new york from newsies 1992

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

Duane Street December, Day 12: Our Man Denton