#specs newsies

[ghostlysodo]

well there was gonna be more newsies but i got a little lazy dfdsjhkfdshkahjfsd

[onmebackmush]

some silly newsies tweets

part 2 part 3

[wekiaam]

"One for all, and all for one!"

Today marks 125 years since the start of the newsboy strike against The World and The Journal! Here's my revamped version of the strike picture that I made last year!

Last year's version and which newsie is which under the cut 🗞🪧👞

[jackmkelly]

tuts newsies could solve my problems genuinely.

[jack-whatsyourangle]

some proposals for places i would put an f-bomb in newsies if i could only have one:

"What, you mean like a strike?"/"Well, you heard Davey, we're on strike!"/"Fuck"

"I'll learn to make do with the mansion, the oil well, the diamonds, the yacht... with Andy, Eduardo the pontiff and Scott... and Frank... oh, and my fucking bank."

"Oh, c'mon, Katherine! Those boys are counting on you!... Oh, you poor fucking boys."

"And we found our voice!"/"And I lost my fucking shoe!"

"Write it in ink or in blood it's the same either way/They're gonna fucking pay"

literally any of jack's lines in watch what happens (reprise)

"...or cross the Brooklyn Bridge... hell, you can't even get out of your own fucking office."

"He's a fucking sellout!"

"I trust you know my daughter, Katherine."/"What the fuck?"

"My father has eyes on every corner of this fucking city! He doesn't need me spying for him."

"If you weren't going to Santa Fe..."/"Yeah, and if you weren't a fucking heiress."

"NEWSIES! WE FUCKING WON!"

[loiteringandlurking]

guys how extensive is newsiesblr??? can everyone active on newsiesblr who sees this interact ... I wanna follow everybody :3

[orangesand-lemons-234]

great job everybody, that's a wrap.

[military-newsboys]

Race, angrily: ARE YOU-

Albert: Fucking

Race: -KIDDING ME?

Davey: …what was that?

Albert: Jack banned Race from swearing for a week, so I volunteered to help him out.

Crutchie: I think you just like saying fuck.

Albert: That doesn’t make my job any less important.

[metallicmikus]

i think jack (livesies/broadway) doesn’t share his artistic skill with the newsies. it’s his escape, how he copes with everything. and let’s be real with ourselves these are boys in 1899, they would probably rather die than admit that they use art for an emotional escape. and he also knows that the newsies look up to him a lot and he doesn’t want to seem vulnerable.

he’s very awkward when davey and les find out that he paints the backdrops for medda. he doesn’t know how to accept a compliment and brushes them off maybe because he doesn’t really see it as a masculine thing to do (again 1899)

i think the only newsie who might know is specs (“specs showed me” when jack discovered katherine with his art on his balcony), cuz specs is more level headed than the rest of the boys it seems. and may be one of the older newsies.

anyway that’s it

[newsiesautismfrfr]

In a different universe Albert DaSilva is safe

In a different universe he’s still a baby

In a different universe he’s wrapped in his mothers arm while she hums a lullaby

In a different universe his father isn’t cruel and he cares

In a different universe he has a childhood

In a different universe he gets to experience what he never got to; toys, treats, a warm bed and kisses from his parents

In a different universe Albert DaSilva isn’t a newsie

He isn’t begging for food and getting paid penny’s go survive

He ain’t shivering on the streets

He isn’t in his fathers fighting ring

In a different universe Albert DaSilva has his mama and that’s all that matters

But Albert doesn’t have his mama

He never met her

She never met him

Albert’s mama is gone.

[overdoes-maxxer-unlikely-lovers]

If I had nickel every time in newsies dance break they randomly yells “Specs!” I’d have… oh my god there’s so many nickels what the hell

[racetrackhigginsscigar]

the newsies when there’s… uh… news? (idk i never watched the musical)

[goosersellpapes]

The newsies are huddled around a table in the lodging house.

Race: It’s so adorable!!!

Finch: Ahhh its so cuteeee!!!!!

Davey comes over. There’s a large cockroach on the table.

Davey: WHAT THE F-

[wekiaam]

Exploring background manhattan newsie looks!! I want to give them all a cohesive colour scheme and all slightly different outfits, also more variety in ages, lengths and nationalities. Also they're just so fun to draw

[jackmkelly]

miss these guys 🙁🙁🫶🫶

[racetrackmybeloved]

i cannot get over how FAR the boys travelled to tell the other boroughs about the strike. mush, race, buttons and tommy boy going to different areas of manhattan is great and all, but can we talk about specs and jojo for a minute?

since woodside and flushing appeared as two different newsie groups in brooklyn's here, i'm assuming specs had to talk to them separately. the only bridge across the east river in 1899 was the brooklyn bridge, so he had to go via brooklyn.

lower manhattan to woodside (via downtown brooklyn) to flushing then back to lower manhattan (via downtown brooklyn) is 26.1 MILES. context, a freaking marathon is 26.2 miles.

lower manhattan to the bronx and back via the third avenue bridge is 23.6 MILES. 8 HOURS AND 56 MINUTES OF WALKING.

public transportation obviously existed but it was slow and likely Not Very Good. also probably out of their budget. on top of that, the trolley strike was still going on, so in all likelihood specs and jojo would have had to walk at least a significant portion of the way.

and that's not even to mention the potential dangers of entering other newsie groups' turf. while everyone else is scared of going to brooklyn, specs is passing through like the badass he is.

conclusion: jojo and specs are absolute kings