#we have Kloppman followed by Dutchy

[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

[thatoneandlonelyemo2005]

BLUSH PIRATES I NEED THEM

OH OH APOKDHGLKGD:JLDL let me just *dies*

ok so I have like two things, actual pirates and then modern au where Blink and Mush play pirates as kids and the school play

Pirate AU-

-Blink is a silly pirate with his crew being Specs, Skittery, Dutchy, Swifty, Bumlets, and Itey (the rest of the newsies are in the town where Blink lives)

-The ship is called Killer Rose and its a nice deep brown with red aesthetic along with a few hints of gold

-Blink grew up in the town Ivory on the island called Theater (see what I'm doing there)

-Medda isn't a Queen but more of a Mayor type but she still takes care of everyone with the help of the council which consists of Bill, Darcy, Myer, Ester, Hanna, Mr. Kloppman

-The kids kinda run around and take up little jobs like working as a bartender, or innkeeper etc (I could so go on with that)

-So Blink makes a crew one day because some kids are tired of it here and Blink wanted to help people and be sort of an army in a way

-YOU WANNA KNOW WHY

-BC AN EVIL KING IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD

-I really don't know how this will work but were gonna make it work

-Quick world budling: so it do be earth with islands but most of them are big enough to have a kingdom ya know along with having enough land to travel on foot

-The one in particular that has the evil King is called, Brookburn, and it's quite a size but the King Pulitzer (fucking try me) wants more but can never have enough

-Katherine lives there with him along with Mush

-Mush is Katherine's personal servant but she treats him as a brother unlike her dad who is so mean to him

-Katherine finds Mush in the forest one day on a walk with her old Nurse who later died

-Mush took the spot the next day and Katherine didn't treat him any different, but her dad doesn't like the idea that he is a boy, still Katherine won the fight, and there besties your honor

-ENTER KID BLINK lksdghlkkhsgdhl

-The crew needed supplies and while non of them wanted to go to Brookburn they had too so here we are

-They meet a boy named Spot who has a gang that works on the docs, Blink made sure to hide their Pirate things seeing as Pulitzer is not a fan, let alone to new people

-The crew easily lied about why there sailing and make their way to an Inn and eat some food

-The next day as there getting supplies and Blink stumbles upon Mush

-Who is also in the market buying things (as one dose)

-this sounds more like a fairytale istfg

-So they play flirt but Mush has to leave soon so Blink asks to see him again and Mush just dies and asks where he can find Blink

-That night Katherine gets all the details and tells Mush to leave early tomorrow, Mush doesn't want too seeing as if her dad found out he would die

-Either way, he goes to find Blink at the Inn, Mush ask him to follow him

-He takes him to a flower field and they talk about everything and nothing

-Blink makes Mush a flower crown and Mush makes him one but there on borrowed time

-Blink has to leave in the morning and he asks Mush to come with him but Mush doesn't want to leave Katherine and Spot and his little gang

-So ofc Blink tells Mush they can all come with him

-Mush wants to so bad but he knows what will happen if they'll all leave

-Blink sees distress on Mush's face and promises to protect him

-They hold hands on the way back to the Inn and Blink offers to walk him home but Mush isn't ready to say who he works for

-Blink tells him he'll be back and kisses him on the cheek

-Mush smiles so big it lights up the street, he runs to the stupid castle and screams on the way there while jumping and laughing but getting back into his room Pulitzer is there questioning him

-He lies and tells him he was out with Spot and met a woman, Pulitzer chuckles and tells him how could anyone love a servant like him

-An hour later Katherine comes to get him but sees him crying, explaining what happened and it was not infact the boy he went to see Katherine makes sure to get Mush extra breakfast in the morning

DO YOU WANT A PT.2 BC IM ABOUT TO DIE SINCE THIS IS GOING ON SO MUCH????

I HAVENT EVEN WENT INTO DETAIL ABOUT THE MODERN AU FOR THIS

Part 2| Part 3| Part 4|

[what-goesaround-comesaround]

Newsies as Riverdale quotes barely to no context

Is this a shitpost? Up to you to decide

Jack: I had to drop out of the 4th grade to run a drug cartel to support my nana

Katherine: Then you haven’t experienced the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football

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Spot when he's wearing his red suspenders and Jack comes in his red bandana : In Brooklyn here, I INVENTED red. I AM red. *snaps fingers* 

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Mush: I am so over the toxic masculinity in this lodging house right now

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Race when Jack scabs: SHUT THE HELL UP IMPOSTER

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Kid Blink : Mr Mayers. Nice haircut. Looking extremely DILFy today

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Sarah: I beg your misogynistic pardon?

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Denton to the newsies in Tibby's after going to court: Sorry to interrupt the sad breakfast club

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David: Sardonic humour is my way of relating to the world

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The nuns: The sisters will not be turned into a brothel.

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Jack to Sarah: I'm cuckoo bananas for you, obvi

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Katherine: you did a bad thing daddy

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Jack: I self-identify as a loner

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Boots: Race, you don't make Forbes' 20 under 20 by prancing around the woods in a deer carcass 

(Yeah Boots you do it by sucking a certain book writers di-)

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Long John: Don’t test us, mumzie. We know how to *pulls out a belt* dominate too.

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Skittery: So what's the scam?

Specs: We make a few tickle videos for a guy named Terry.

Skittery: Hm?

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Mush: You may be a stock character from a 90s teen movie but I’m not

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Medda: the serpent queen is the warrior queen

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Jack: You’ve given me the kiss of life David Jacobs. Now I’ve given it to your dad

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Katherine: You wouldn’t be the first mobster to see a therapist, Daddy.

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Morris: Tangerine

Morris: Tangerine

Oscar: Tangerine 

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Race: You’ve got some pretty big coconuts pulling that kind of stunt last night.

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Spot: I don’t follow the rules. I make them. And when necessary, I break them

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Dutchy: I feel like the prettiest girl at the dance

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Pulitzer: I'm gonna make my bones

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Kloppman about Snyder: I think he’s crazier than a serial killer on bath salts.

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Crutchy to Jack while in the refuge: You’re so much stronger than all of the white noise

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Kid Blink about Mush: I'd recognise those abs anywhere 

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Jack: I was born alone. I’ll die alone. I’ll sing alone. I’ll be okay

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Crutchy: I’m in the mood for chaos

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Les: Who would’ve thought at the beginning of the strike that we would all become great friends? :D

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And lastly,

Jack: In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in and I don't want to fit in. *Points to his cowboy hat* Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat? That's weird.

[passelofopossums]

mooooooore more specs and dutchy

➥ I promise I can actually write things on time I’ve just been really out of it and I had a big mental breakdown today and I think I may be sick, so I’m sorry it’s been like three days. I would also just like to quickly say I know bookstores were very very uncommon in the 19th century, especially just to be on street corners, I did my unnecessary research on it, but let’s just pretend.

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Specs and Dutchy had both finished selling a while ago and were now just meandering around. It was one of those days where the boys had sold their papes early and didn’t want to have to go back to the lodging house, so they would just walk around and talk.

It had been a few hours and they were a lot further away from the lodging house than they had expected. They were unsure how far they walked but it should be pretty easy to find their way back, just turn around and follow the same street.

The boys peered through the shop windows as they started their hike back to the lodging house. While walking a certain shop caught the eye of Specs. It seemed to be a family-owned bookstore. It had a creaky wood sign hung above the door reading “Cohen Book Shop” in big white letters. Bookstores were pretty uncommon and books were expensive, so neither of them had ever really gotten exposed to books other than the ones Kloppman has lying around.

Dutchy followed Spec’s gaze through the window and began scanning the book covers and titles for anything mildly interesting. He wasn’t a big reader, it’s not that he disliked reading he just spent most of his free time doing other things. However, Specs enjoyed reading a lot, it was something the other newsies liked to mock him about. Dutchy was pretty sure Specs had read every book Kloppman owned at least once.

“You seem real interested in that book there,” Dutchy said, pointing at the book Specs had had his eyes locked on. It appeared to be some sort of children’s book. The cover had a young girl on it, the girl wore a red dress and had playing cards surrounding her. The book title was written in fancy black letters that Dutchy couldn’t quite make out. Specs merely shrugged.

“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Me mother used to read that book before I would goes to sleep. It was one of the few things I liked as a kid,” Specs said and smiled softly. “What abouts you, you like any books when you were young?”

“My pa had a book he woulds read to me sometimes, my ma ended up getting rid of it cause she thought teaching me to read was useless and I shoulda been spending my time helping the family.”

They stood in a semi-comfortable silence. Both stared through the window of the bookstore but they weren’t particularly looking at anything. Dutchy was the first to move; He looked up at the sky for a moment before patting Specs on the shoulder.

“It’s gettin’ dark, we should probably head back. Don’t wanna make the other guys think we died or something,” Dutchy said with a chuckle. Specs cracked a smile and wrapped his arm loosely around Dutchy as the two began to walk back down the street.