#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 part 4

[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!"

[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.

[loiteringandlurking]

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

[tommonikercomics]

Hiii! i rlly love your newsies art and i was wondering if you could do specs x romeo but romeo was caught by snyder instead of crutchie, so poor specs is sad

We're getting out of the refuge with this one, lads 😔🙏

[orangesand-lemons-234]

great job everybody, that's a wrap.

[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.

[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

[bumlets-appreciation-blog]

Newsie Names (As Determined By Me)

Jack "Cowboy" Kelly: Francis Malcolm Sullivan (canon)

Racetrack: Ed Higgins (historically accurate, I put him as having an Italian mother and Irish father, both Catholic because Race crosses himself during the nun scene)

Crutchy: Elijah Morris (surname is historically accurate, friendly reminder that Crutch Morris was Jewish and so is Crutchy)

Boots: Benjamin Arbus (surname looks like it's widely accepted fanon, not sure about the first name)

Kid Blink: Louis Baletti (historically accurate, definitely has an Italian father at the least)

Mush: Nicholas Meyers (surname is historically accurate and I'm pretty sure the real Mush was named Nick)

Bumlets: Damian Vasquez/Damián Vásquez (Puerto Rican name, name anglicized after immigration)

Skittery: Roman Kučera (Czech name, @jackcowboyhero came up with this and I just love it so much)

Snoddy: Calvin Angier (also from @jackcowboyhero)

Specs: Leopold Bauer (German name)

Dutchy: Cas Hendriksen (Dutch name, Dutchy was commonly used for Dutch and German immigrants)

Snitch: John Whitfield

Itey: Elio Olivieri (Italian name, Itey was commonly used for Italian immigrants)

Swifty the Rake: Wesley Liu (half white and half Chinese like his actor Kevin Stea)

Pie-Eater: Michael Reeves

Jake the Oyster: Jacob Heaton

Snipeshooter: Gabriel Evans

Flipper: Charles "Charlie" Daley (I've officially chosen Flipper as his newsie nickname because it's more popular and less ridiculous than Crazy Legs, Bumlets still calls him Charlie though)

Tumbler: Andy (another @jackcowboyhero name that I've adopted, he uses Kučera when necessary but doesn't remember his actual last name)

Ten-Pin: Simon Butler

I prefer to be as historically accurate as possible and since most newsies in real life were immigrants or the children of immigrants, I took that into account when naming a lot of the boys. Anglicizing names was common practice for immigrants to better assimilate and since Bumlets's family had to deal with racism on top of regular immigrant prejudice, his father dropped the accents to make things easier for them. Bumlets will probably add them back when he starts working as something other than a newsie (assistant superintendent at Duane Street is my headcanon). I sort of imprinted on @jackcowboyhero when I first joined the fandom so the names they picked for some of the boys (Skittery, Snoddy, and Tumbler) are very near and dear to my heart. I also tried to take into account the actor's race/ethnicity as best as I could (Dominic Lucero was Latino, Kevin Stea is biracial, and I think Marty Belafsky is Jewish but the real-life Crutch Morris definitely was) and used information about real-life newsie nicknames to name others like Dutchy and Itey. If anyone has their own headcanons, I'd love to hear them!

[onmebackmush]

back on my bullshit (newsies tweets pt. 4)

part 1 part 2 part 3

[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 🙁🙁🫶🫶

[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