#ralbert my beloved

[troyssix]

albert dasilva.

albert dasilva who wanted to run as far and fast as his feet would let him so he could get away.

away from his father.

away from everything.

albert dasilva who was a newsie.

alber dasilva who met finch cortez and racetrack higgins.

his best friends.

people who treated him right. people who understood him and talked to him and joked with him and --

albert dasilva who lied awake, silently crying to himself because how could such anazing people exist? how could they want to be around him of all people?

albert dasilva.

[loiteringandlurking]

shitty lil ralbert drawing i did in chemistry today instead of learning about spdf orbitals ‼️

[tarantulas4davey]

last sentence tag game

tagged by: @lailuhhh

Rules: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

It takes until Race is sitting up sharply on the couch, the warm, dark hands of his older brother tight around his wrists, to realize that the person screaming is him. He breathes harshly, rough in and out of his spasming lungs, throat raw from all the noise he was making. His face is wet with tears, he realizes.

Albert’s laugh is still echoing in his ears.

tagging:

@we-are-inevitable @roideny @jack-kellys @enter-plot-holes-here

[tarantulas4davey]

we’re having the best time (i am sobbing in a dark room to dial drunk)

a big win for the noah kahan girlies (a big loss for my emotional state for the next three to five business days)

[ao3feed-newsies]

where there remains but a mark

by, etherealbumblebee by etherealbumblebee There’s a crack in the mirror in Albert and Race’s home. Words: 564, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Racetrack Higgins, Albert DaSilva (Newsies) Relationships: Albert DaSilva/Racetrack Higgins Additional Tags: Modern Era, Trans Male Character, Trans Racetrack Higgins, Trans Albert DaSilva, trans ralbert my beloved, Future, they get married and adopt a child, Symbolism, Mirrors, No Angst, Love, Loving Marriage, T4T ralbert read : https://ift.tt/JbtAy5d - February 21, 2024 at 05:47PM

[all-hail-the-witcher]

I’m so late but ur back into newsies???

ralbert my beloved

[harlem-to-delancy]

I believe In Ralbert supremacy.

Second round of portraits done!!

If you have any requests for portraits or any newsies art in general my ask box is always open!!

If you use these as pfp please tag me!!

[tarantulas4davey]

this is going to be a hot mess !! thank u for the tag !!

Rules: post the names of all files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it!

take my will and my life

chicken fic

gambling addiction

heartthrob, daydream

gays at the bar

canon era ralbert

what about the plans we made?

i feel so brain dead next to you (javid)

engagement fic

there’s no plan (no race to be run)

silence in the ears (darkness of the mind)

oh lei, oh lai, oh lord

no thunder, just lightning (it roars in your head)

tagging: mostly repeats bc we have the same besties LMFAO @roideny @jack-kellys @enter-plot-holes-here @jack-whatsyourangle @to-be-a-dreamer and anyone else that wants to do it !!

New Ask Game

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I was tagged by @quynhorlose but I’m definitely not going to tag as many people as I have wips because that would be cruel and unusual 😅

1. take a shot (but how’s your aim?)

2. we’ll be on the road like some country song [working]

3. google slides

4. new abo

5. cheerleading fic

6. [Bits & Bobs] Tease Series

7. heartstopper au

8. Oblivious Javid Shenanigans

9. New Domestic

10. Protective Jack

11. i’d get my knuckles bloody for you

12. love at first sight’s for suckers

13. [Bits & Bobs] slowly, and then all at once

14. domestic au grooming fic

15. we got your back from way back

16. [Bits & Bobs] Javid Office Fic

17. [Bits & Bobs]

I’ll tag @agentsnickers, @we-are-inevitable, @deliciouspeachpirate, @moonlitgraffiti, and @waiting-makes-me-antsy and anyone else that wants to participate!!

[5-jorjas-in-the-fence]

i’m making you dub me something cause your one of my favorite people but i’m wasting all my thoughts on ralbert so just,,,,, Give Me A Title

Shut up ilysm

AhhhhHHHHHHH IM IN HISTORY LOOKING AT A SWIMING POOLS SO…

Ralbert and water. Do what you will with that.

Beach day

Summer activities

Can they swim?

Are they good swimmers???

You decide.

Have fun with that one babes :D

[proud-and-defiant]

Date Night 📸

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Happy birthday chandler <3

@tarantulas4davey

[angry-kid-with-no-money]

Race and Albert: *discussing whether or not it'd be possible to carbonate blood*

Spot, walking past: *whispering to Jack* what the f u c k

(@sonyushka-bonjour)

[loiteringandlurking]

I’m the same anon that sent you the song before, and I finished my Ralbert playlist :)

thoughts?

strawberry wine - Noah Kahan Dawning of Spring - Anson Seabra State of Grace (acoustic version) - Taylor Swift New Years Day - Taylor Swift Close Behind - Noah Kahan Be my Mistake - The 1975 Anyway - Noah Kahan John my Beloved - Sufjan Stevens

EEEEE OK WAIT ILL MAKE A RALBERT PLAYLIST WITH THOSE SONGS RNNNN TY ANON!!!!!!!!

[tarantulas4davey]

TWLL ME ABOUT BRAIN DEAD THE TITLE IS 👀

- @we-are-inevitable ✨

HAHA I WAS WAITING

this is !!! javid au. davey pov, long distance relationship/online friends/songwriters au ????

it starts before they get together with the flirting and the pining and the blah blah blah blah blah and it’s basically. david jacobs’ elaborate plan to woo jack kelly via meticulous plans with all of jack’s irls to visit him. it’s a good time but i’m not very far into it

the title is from bugbear by chloe moriondo bc. david jacobs is incredibly intelligent but man if jack kelly doesn’t shut his mind down like a 2007 dell desktop computer <3

[dolokhoded]

Ralbert mental breakdown that ends in cuddles?

jack jack jack this is exactly the prompt i needed rn ily

race and albert are mentally unstable

that's it that's the post thank u guys for reading 🤪✌️🌠

ok sorry for real now. i know this is literally centered around a mental breakdown but don't worry it'll be more lighthearted than most of my ralbert mental stability icons content

i hurt race enough so it's albert who i send into a breakdown today sorry albo

albert sometimes,,,,,,, has his moments

most people don't realize because he just kinda shuts himself off, texts someone a couple of times to avoid acting off and most of his friends assume he's just working on sth or having a busy day

but motherfucker,,,,,,,, race can always tell when al's just distancing himself from everyone and he knows there's always a reason behind it

so one of those days he checks on him

walks into his apartment and hears mitski playing from his room and he's like shit okay

he goes to find him

al's like y'know just fuckin sobbing

and race is Alarmed because albert just doesn't cry often

so he sits on the floor, next to al and he holds his hand until he's calm and they talk

i'd write about that conversation and what was bothering albert but if i do i'll just project onto al and make myself sad again so i'll leave that up to you to imagine and project on al for yourselves

and race sits with him the entire time until he's ready to get up again

he gets them both some snacks and some water because al always forgets to drink water

and exactly because he doesn't cry often every time albert has a long cry or one of those emotional talks man he gets tired it drains him

it helps, but it's draining

so they take their snacks and their water and they put on something to watch on albert's laptop and cuddle on his bed

honestly race just wants al to take a nap but he knows he won't if he leaves it up to him, and al also wants his boyfriend with him so he just drags race

(haha drag race)

into bed with him and now race has a albert™ holding him so he's trapped

he's not complaining, really, al actually takes care of himself and he gets cuddles

win-win situation

also there was this one time this happened at like six in the afternoon and race was like "ok let's take a nap you need rest" and mfs woke up the next morning

over twelve hours later

albert started freaking out about missing the whole day but race reassured him it was ok

he probably needed that sleep anyways

[tarantulas4davey]

don’t mind if i do (hi jac ilysm ur a saint. everyone go read saf’s addition it’s so fucking good.) @to-be-a-dreamer

so i just. at one point we talked about the idea that race would want al to be his second in command. and i. he. al would be so fucking UPSET with him at this. like bro is Not Happy. and it’s. the problem is not particularly that albert isn’t responsible enough to keep them safe, fed, warm, and looked after. he’d be pretty good at it if there wasn’t any other options. it’s that he hates it. he hates being the person people turn to, hates having to school his expression and throw the train back on the tracks, hates the idea that if a kid starves or freezes it’s his fault. he loves race, more than anything, but this is truly his worst fucking nightmare.

al is. idk he loves being a newsie and he loves the boys but he has. this partially incurable block in his brain when considering he is anything more than. the youngest dasilva. he has been The Little Brother for so long he’s truly terrible at having any sort of title or spotlight. and even when he wasn’t The Little Brother, he’s surrounded by BIG personalities. race’s boy. finch’s best friend. a kid that helps jack out. he’s always been something in relation to someone else, but if he’s second in command, that’s His Own Thing. then he’s albert, the one that keeps the manhattan boys alive. and he doesn’t like it, doesn’t need the recognition, would do it if he could stay anonymous. race can handle the pressure of attention, albert can’t. and he HATES the strain that him being unable to help race the way race wants him to puts on him, on them. hates the persona race puts on to be a leader, hates the way they’re not quite comfortable anymore, but he just. he can’t.

and just like. idk i have to build on the idea of al watching race shift and change for the sake of gaining and keeping respect that the boys refuse to acknowledge he’s earned cause of. his dynamic with them before. it’s just. al doesn’t like responsible race. he loves race, loves him like he loves air and water and sunlight. but responsible race isn’t his race. shoulders heavy with grief and strain, eyes with shadows like bruises around them, too thin and constantly freezing. jack didn’t die, but race doesn’t have him to lean on anymore, and he misses him. bone deep type misses him. race isn’t a blur of energy, not anymore, almost stoic like jack used to get, mouth that used to perpetually have a smile tucked into it pressed straight and stern. his laugh is too watered down, distant, like his brain is a lightyear away from here. al can count his ribs through his shirt, knows he frets more than he sleeps, knows he wakes up gasping for air when he finally DOES drift off because he’s not just dealing with every single kid in the lodging house, he’s doing it without having jack for the first time since he was a tiny kid. albert doesn’t like the change, cause it doesn’t feel like a change from one thing to another. it feels like a decay, like the rotting of something, the withering of the boy he loves. but he can’t help, and that just makes it worse.

just. al is supposed to be the angry one. he idles at 75, ready to rev up and jump into a fight at the drop of a hat. i just. albert’s angry. he’s BEEN angry. the kid has a shit dad and shit brothers and a boyfriend in a time he can be killed for it. he’s the one that rants on the fire escape when they can’t sleep, race throwing jokes up at him while he paces. race is easy, a slow stream, gentle and calm and cool and consistent. but when jack leaves and everyone follows, that water gets blocked up. increases pressure, overfills, builds into a roar, and it’s unlike anything albert’s ever seen. he’s not scared of race, he never could be, but he’s scared for what it means. scared for what all of this is doing to the boy he fell for. scared he’s making it harder. and i just. just. over time, race reeling in the anger. the rage. not strictly for albert’s benefit - albert could’ve handled all his rage and more, if race would have let him - but for race’s, too. it’s easier to act nonchalant. like it’s a joke. like circumstances don’t make him want to scream his throat bloody and raw. but once the pressure builds, the rage does too, until it has nowhere to go but out. and nobody else is safe enough to spew it at, not anymore. it used to be jack’s job, dealing with race’s anger. listening to the stuff he couldn’t bear to keep on the inside anymore, listen to him parrot some of albert’s words and choke out even more of his own. albert’s the only one left that he trusts to not shatter completely under the force of it. but race isn’t just angry, he’s petty. he’s cruel without meaning to be, and angry enough to forget he’ll regret it. it leaves them freefalling for awhile, but that doesn’t mean they don’t keep falling and catch eachother on a ledge eventually.

but just. i. i think race is FAR too stubborn and just a little bit too proud to admit he regrets something, even if he said it angry and too mean. he’s good with words, will apologize well when he comes to his senses, but it takes far longer than you’d expect for him to rangle it back in and actually do that. especially the shit he would say to albert. i just. i want him to say something mean. petty is a gentle way to describe it, him saying the type of thing you say, not even cause you really think it, but because it’s occurred to you that when you say it to them, it’ll hurt. and then he’ll be too ashamed and stubborn and afraid to apologize, to acknowledge it, and it gets impossibly worse cause now he doesn’t have al AND everyone can see it, too. and for days, maybe even weeks, the hurt is sharp enough to keep albert away.

and a la saf’s post, he gets fucking CHEWED OUT by mush in front of god and everybody. it fuckin hurts race. the barb is painful, lethal, but he’s the leader, even when he’s being a dick and someone calls him on it. so he grits his teeth against the tears and he glares and there’s this brief moment where he fully considers telling them to get out. if he wasn’t so close to crying that his throat is tight, too choked with tears to spit anything out through his teeth, he probably would’ve. and then he’s HORRIFIED, because under no circumstances, ever, does he turn away a kid, and these are his friends, boys he’s seen lose baby teeth and sprain ankles and lay out on the road in the pouring rain cause it was coming down too hard to sell any papers. he’s DEVASTATED, too, because he’s finally realized what he did to albert, how he made him feel, and is hit in the same second by the fact albert didn’t do what he almost did. albert didn’t throw anything nasty back in his face. but race is in charge of all these kids, needs them to respect him, and he’s hurtling towards crumbling into a sobbing mess in front of about half of them, staring with bated breath at him like they’re waiting for the pin to drop, and so he does the only thing he can remember jack doing in a situation like this, trapped in a face off with a bunch of people. race turns on his heel, just this side of hyperventilating, and he runs. he’s always been jack’s brother, after all, hasn’t he?

and when he runs, he doesn’t stop until he gets to the sheepshead, and - like jac said - right into spot. and i just. race has a lot of things that he needs to get in order. truly, his priority really should be the lodging house, but it’s too fresh and raw and he doesn’t know what he’ll say yet, needs al to help him figure it out. and he feels like more of an idiot than spot tells him he is, and she’s not exactly nice about it, cause this whole leadership thing isn’t going very well in general but all he can seem to do when she listens to him ramble is loop back around to albert. he’s trying to be subtle, to make it more general, but it’s the catalyst for everything else. letting the anger and the pressure get to him enough that he was so mean to al meant that he lost every outlet, and THATS how he ended up in this situation. and so when spot, with her wide, perceptive eyes and stern face he couldn’t dream of copying just tilts her chin back towards manhattan with a raise of her eyebrows and a quiet “quit being an idiot. fix it with him, then figure the rest out.” all he can do is stare for a moment, this time with a place to go instead of just a place to get away from.

and just as an aside, the thing that i am obsessed with is the separation. spot isn’t in race’s borough, he has no reason to think she knows anything, but she’s perceptive. sure, not EVERYONE knows about him and al, but she certainly does. she’s smarter than most and knows what to look for. and it catches him off guard, the idea that someone else separates al from the pack the way he does. that someone who doesn’t REALLY know him, not like jack or finch, under his skin and muscles and bones down to the soul, would know it would take fucking up both. would know that there was a both to fuck up in the first place, that al wasn’t in the crowd that made him flee in the first place. idk i just. spot who’s strength is seeing what others don’t. who uses that strength to protect her people, to scare away outsiders, and to help people like race, who fall somewhere between the two. i just. i think it’s enough of a shock to startle race’s addled brain like cold water, get him moving again, stop the burn of shame and self pity long enough to shove him into action, regardless of what the action ends up being. (he goes and finds albert in an absolutely questionable and dangerous move but it turns out ok and it’s not Perfect but al kisses him back so. he’s just gotta prove to himself he can keep it together long enough to fix it.)

i could absolutely keep going but i’ve already written a novella so uh. that’s all, folks!

ok so i was talking to @to-be-a-dreamer @tarantulas4davey and @carpe-diem-since-1899 about racetrack things the other day and i just thought i would dump some of those thoughts here bc i am So invested in this weird little guy

anyway i just ,, i have a lot of feelings abt jack passing the newsies onto racer once he ages out.

i feel like. charlie is the next choice, but charlie in my eyes is the same age as- if not older than- jack; if jack hadn’t been the leader of the newsboys, it definitely would have been charlie, but jack is the one who took the reins. (this age hc is mostly because of west endsies ngl.) anyway! moving on

jack and charlie have always been a team. charlie is definitely jack’s second in terms of always being there, but race is his second in terms of business- it only makes sense for race to take over when jack is gone, and i just,, i love the concept of race either not really wanting that or not really knowing how to handle that. i think, at his core, race is trying to hold onto whatever youth he has left. its why he’s always cracking jokes, despite how jaded and angry he is under the surface. he pretends not to care or else he’ll crack under the pressure, and when he cracks, it’s angry. it’s mean. his bark is as bad as his bite. so he puts on this front- this childish, snarky, comedic relief front- and he’s terrified of the implications of Being The Leader because he feels like he’ll no longer have that front to hold onto or hide behind. and it takes him a long time, i think, to realize that he doesn’t have to be exactly who Jack was- he can lead the newsboys how he sees fit, he doesn’t need to be a carbon copy of jack, because they’re fundamentally so different. and i think that is just very fun

but more on the anger, because i think it’s an interesting take that is very much represented in West Endsies- as @roideny and @jack-kellys have pointed out before:

i’m interested in the other newsies- especially albert, finch, and maybe spot- seeing that sadness and strain and anger that seems to be taking it’s place as his dominant trait. yeah. bc i think,, i think race is angry at his core, like i said. angry at his position in all of this. angry that jack left, that charlie followed, that davey was never staying in the first place, that spot still thinks of him as a kid instead of a new leader, that other burrough leaders don’t take him seriously because they know him as the jokester. angry that these kids are his kids now, and angry that his kids are still starving, still walking holes in their shoes, still shivering at night and still dying of sickness when the cold weather hits too hard. i want this race to be fucking pissed and i want everyone else to be caught off guard by it.

because, let’s be real, jack wasn’t the roughest leader. he was strong, and dependable, and not afraid to put kids in their place, but he’s still nurturing and parental. after years of being used to that, i think the newsies would struggle with Race for a while, especially as race tries to figure out his leadership style, and i think a lot of that would manifest in this anger that has been bubbling up under the surface for ages- the anger he never lets anyone see because he doesn’t want that.

race has spent anywhere from 5 to 10 years- depending on when you headcanon him to join the newsies- being the funny guy, the clown, the joker; if he’s going to earn respect, he’s going to have to take it from a few kids. lashing out and being brash- all for the sake of keeping everyone safe, of course- but he’s such a different leader than jack, and i think it would be SO fun to explore that more in post-canon works.

i feel like this post is a little disjointed and i may not be explaining things correctly, plus i haven’t actually seen west endsies yet! a lot of this is based on convos with the besties and i am just having brainrot. besties, feel free to jump in with any additions, and anyone reading this: feel free to send asks or talk in the tags <33

[carryingthebanner]

I don't like the fact that everyone in the fandom ships random, obscure ships and then hate on the actual canon ship 🙄

I have a funny relationship with ships. I almost never personally ship characters (in any musical/book/movie) but Newsies is the exception. I really do love reading all of the fanfics even if I don’t ship them personally (like bway Javid for example). Disney only gave us two ships (Jarah and Jatherine) but honestly they were both very bad and probably wouldn’t have lasted more than a month after the strike long term.

However I do see whew you’re coming from. Unfortunately, a lot of people straight up ignore Katherine and Sarah (or any of the other girlsies for that matter) and it sucks because they’re some of the only female characters in the musical. They deserve to be celebrated and posted about just as much as Jack, Race, Davey, Spot, or any of the other Newsies. You can debate on whether or not Katherine is a badly written character and if Sarah has a purpose (in regards to the plot) but at the end of the day, they’re here and they deserve recognition.