#race x spot

[emmedoesntdomath]

no, but you see, I don’t care that the way I wrote the ship isn’t technically canon. I don’t care that I changed the dynamic slightly to make it funnier. I don’t care that character a is supposed to be protecting character b and not the other way around. I don’t care that I gave them more fluff than their story probably needed, because dammit, they deserved the happy ending. I don’t care that their relationship is borderline codependent in all the best ways. I will write it that way, because I know that there’s an audience that wants to see the same things I do, and I will continue to write it this incorrect way, so help me god, and there’s nothing. you. can. do. to. stop. me.

#merthur #merlin x arthur #merlin emrys #arthur pendragon #racetrack higgins #sprace #race x spot #spot conlon #peter x harley #peter parker #parley #parkner #harley keener #tony x stephen #tony stark #ironstrange #stephen strange #iceman x maverick #icemav #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #jake seresin #bradley rooster bradshaw #jake hangman seresin #rooster x hangman #hangster #jegulus #jesper x wylan #wesper #james x regulus

[the-racer]

spot 🤝 albert = calling their strangely tall boyfriends sweetheart in both a mean and nice way

#spot calls race sweetheart all the time because he thinks every other pet name is GROSS #albert calls finch sweetheart just to see him turn red #finch newsies #race newsies #racetrack newsies #newsies #albert newsies #albert x finch #finch x albert #albert dasilva #race x spot #spot conlon #spot x race #sprace!! #sprace #redfinch

[incorrect-batfam-quotes-mostly]

Spot: Did it hurt when you fell-

Race: From heaven? Aw th-

Spot: No I mean when you fell off the table you were standing on. I watched you fall and lay on the ground for ten minutes.

Race:

Spot: We all saw.

#newsies incorrect quotes #newsies #racetrack higgins #race newsies #sprace #race x spot #spot conlon

[amelka-anxiety]

little modern sprace comic

first attempt at a comic so forgive me if the formats a bit off!!

#sprace #sprace newsies #newsies #newsies musical #spot newsies #spot conlon #race x spot #spot x race #racetrack newsies #race higgins #racetrack higgins #newsies fanart #art #fan comic

[jack-kellys]

west end question: i obviously love my brooklyn girls and would die for them all, but is it bad that it’s taken away the sprace dynamic for me? like i’m still 100% on board with a nowhere near canon ship and it shouldn’t affect me they’ve decided to have spot be a girl, but it lowkey has? and i feel kinda guilty about it? idk i love my proshot boys. but i am 100% here for all the uk newsies cast they are amazing and so talented and it’s definitely my favourite production by far!! idk if i’m making sense

ok part of me feels a litle baited actually because like. i feel like... im vocal abt mlm musical sprace not being a big vibe for me in the first place. so im a funny person to ask if you were looking for relief lmao. anyway here's my thesis below.

wait also if ur a white newsie fan a read-thru+rb of this would be much appreciated thank youuu (also yall have been eating up my character analyses anyway sooooo!)

TL;DR THESIS: if you're feeling genuinely let down that your ship did not see the light of day and a black girlsie spot conlon got to instead, then yes, you should reevaluate that.

followers, if you've been with me long enough, you know that i have quite strong opinions about how this show gets treated when it comes to interpretations and fandom/fanon. mostly, this is because i literally work in theater, and it's extremely backwards in my brain personally when shows get treated more like a movie or tv show than a performance piece.

im also one of the only ppl in this fandom that ever seems to dare speak on race (not the damn character smh). and anon, buddy, kiddo, this does have to do with race, gender, and sexuality.

firstly, what i think needs to be understood about newsies, is that it is theater, which means it is meant to be mutable. there is no one way. there should never be one way. it does not exist. secondly, theater does not exist in a fandom vacuum. its live every night, conceptually. theater is a live performance art.

interpretations change- it's the nature of theater. so i think asks like these really do illuminate the difference between fans of the show's content or fans of... i guess the show's culture's content.

this is a culture content ask.

one thing i really, truly, deeply need you all to understand: from an objective, script- and staging-based perspective, proshot sprace does not exist. they do not speak. they barely see each other. race does not even volunteer to go to brooklyn. the ship originates from the 1992 movie, where they do actually interact, which is why the ship has prevailed through the 90s to today. they're from the movie, not the musical.

of course, this doesn't bash the ship- it has history, and naturally fans want to create new history when they get a new source material (the musical). it's true for like every newsie ship lowkey (but also not lowkey because all the manhattan newsies do interact and sprace literally does not but thats a different post!!), which is something i do admire about the fandom- we do a lot of our own legwork here, we invent relationships and backgrounds from one-liners that could be given to tbh any frickin newsie. i respect the 30 years we have invented ships.

however.

when a huge, publicized, consistently sold out production comes along with spot conlon as not only a woman, but a woman of color (specifically black rn!) as the leader of the most feared group on stage, there becomes something much more important than a "sprace dynamic", which does not canonically exist in the musical anyway bro. you can't miss something that isn't there imo. often the story and casting within a story comes first, and goddamn if this isn't one of those times. lillie-pearl's spot brings bravado, swagger, confidence, and intimidation that is literally....fine maybe i'm being personal but it is slash gen incredible to see in technically a period piece! a black woman in leadership with that kind of assuredness! in such a popular musical! how is that not– automatically surpassing an often obsessed-over (yes i am. hinting at something here, straight girl fans) mlm ship?

and while i'm on the topic of the over-obsessiveness of mlm musical sprace, let me talk about uksies sprace. because what's also wack abt this ask is that sprace is not a hopeless case in this production- it literally has about as much 'evidence' as the proshot imo!!!!!

i got to hop over to 2nd row brooklyn seating for act 2 so i saw once and for all really close up, right. there's a moment when race is upstage letting the newsies in/down from the stairs. spot comes down and she does, in fact, share a look with him. race gives spot a nod and she keeps moving.

and like im gonna see the show again (every day i am counting my mf blessings fr), so if i'm wrong or they don't do it every time i'll correct myself, but that's what i saw with my own dang eyes on saturday. they do acknowledge each other in uksies.

and since they do, i really like. i have to ask. what is bothersome/unpopular abt uksies sprace, other than oh idk.... its not white/white mlm with a twink/manly bf trope? why can't race still love who spot is as a character, this strong and fearless ruler of brooklyn, in uksies? because tbh josh's racer...nahhhh because. this is such a side note now but they'd be so good together oh jesus am i gonna ship uk sprace. and it's not like they're 'taking away' from a queer ship because a) you can headcanon spot as a queer girl and race being trans is consistently popular and b) newsies has ten billion gayass ships bro we've been eatin for literal decades.

anon, i'm sure you didn't mean harm by this ask. i'm sure, honestly, that a lot of fans are feeling the same way as you and weren't quite sure how to put it in words. but, i'm also not surprised you sent an ask like this on anonymous specifically.

should you feel guilty about it? i don't think guilt is the right word. but i believe you should think more about how newsies is not.....static. it does not exist in one form, and it never will. if you're feeling genuinely let down that your ship did not see the light of day and a black girlsie spot conlon got to instead, then yes, you should reevaluate that. in theater, you should always question why something impacted you the way it did- a major point of theater is to discuss and think about it when you leave! i know this because ive spent three years literally studying it, to back up my thesis credentials.

thank you for reading this, newsies fandom. i do honestly say all this with love, and i hope it made u think !! ♥️

#i just. damn dude. im tired #sprace #race x spot #racetrack higgins #spot conlon #newsies #sprace newsies #newsies uk #uksies #newsies the musical #newsies live #livesies #west endsies #west end newsies #race higgins #race newsies #spot newsies #anyway josh's race would fall ridiculously in love with lillie-pearl's spot. like goddamn #i believe in them and you should too!! uk sprace!!!!

[frogmanfae]

Sprace aerialist partners au

#newsies #newsies uk #uksies #livesies #newsies live #92sies #newsies 1992 #sprace #racetrack newsies #newsies race #race higgins #racetrack higgins #race x spot #spot conlon #newsies spot #spot newsies

[newsies-are-the-new-best-thing]

A Study in Sprace

Jack doesn’t fall in love much, that is a lie ask any one of the newsies, but he found himself head-over-heels for a certain brunette journalist who was a girl (the girl thing was made clear to not be the focus of her description). A jolly tune was making its way to his mouth ready to begin humming along to the happy little song in his heart as he began climbing up the lodging house’s fire escape. Deciding a glimpse of the city below would settle his mind enough to begin thinking of sleep, he pulls himself onto the roof and then stumbles over himself when he spies a pair of boys already up there huddled together. If anyone asked why he decided to hide and listen to them, he’d say he wanted to make sure there wasn’t anything bad happening but in truth his brain was absolutely fried by the breath-taking sight of Kathrine, and he couldn’t snap himself back to reality to stop himself from eves-dropping.

“You’s think we’s could ever actually live t’ gether?” Race asks softly into the night air.

“…If you’s weren’t such a mess, maybes” Comes Spot’s quiet reply.

“Hey, fuck you’s Spot,” Race says laughing brightly, breaking the calm, and Jack suspects Race is shoving Spot in retaliation “you’re the one who can’t sew or cook worth shit.”

“You can’t cook neither.” Spot retorts and Jack can sense a sickeningly sweet smile spreading across the other’s face. “And I’m a fine sewer, I’s just ain’t sewin’ your clothes.”

“Why not” Race whines, Jack winces at the mental image the sound instills, big puppy-dog eyes staring up at him until he broke and did whatever the younger boy wanted, even if it ended up with him covered in mud, or flour, or sand, or- there were a lot of times Jack ended up covered in something due to Race.

“ ‘cause you’ll just leech offa me an I’ll get stuck sewin’ everythin’ …..maybe if you’s weren’t such a dick about-”

“Hey! I’s said it’s fine if you’s don’t want me aroun’ the other Brooklyn boys, I’m fine with it-” Jack could tell Race clearly wasn’t fine with it,

“You’s oughtta be, if you’s still wanna be with me-”

“Yeah, I’s do still wanna be with you so, think about it…. us livin’ t’gether, havin’ our own place”

“You’s sound like you’ve already picked outa paint color for the kitchen.” Spot grumbles.

“Ahh yes, it’ll be bright blue ta’ match with the plates we’d get. And o’ course, we’d hafta get a nice set a’ silverware”

“o’ course we’d need silverware Racer, we couldn’t eat with jus’ our hands-”

“Yeah, so a fancy set a silverware an’ a coffee pot for you’s an’ your special coffee. Jus’ picture it Spottie, wakin’ up in the mornin’, actually buyin’ a ‘pape ta’ read over the coffee I make ya’”

“You’s mean the coffee I’d make myself since you’s still asleep, snorin’ ‘till it’s noon”

“So, I’ll make ya’ lunch, any sorta sandwich you’s want, set out the fancy plates and forks, maybe even make some lemonade ta’ have with it.”

“…maybe ice cream too”

If Jack wasn’t love drunk this sappy conversation would have made his insides riot and involuntarily exit his mouth in protest. But he was, and all he could gather from Race and Spot’s sickening display of young love, was inspiration with a love of his own, hiding there on the rooftop, wondering if Kathrine also wanted a coffee pot in Jack’s rose-tinted future for them.

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A few thoughts I had....fits in with my series on Ao3, pretty much an excerpt or interlude of sorts between my latest fanfic and the one I have planned.

#newsies #sprace #race x spot #newsies fanfiction #jack x kathrine #spot conlon #racetrack higgins #my writing #mine

[willowistic22]

I TURNED SPOT INTO A CAT 

Any wizard students should know better about one of the principal rules in wizardry: do not practice magic when sick. Racetrack is willing to break that one rule seeing that his exams are right around the corner. He found out why that rule was made in the first place the hard way. Spot found out in the hardest way possible. 

Words: 3891

Chapters: 1 (Yep, You Turned Spot Into A Cat) /?

Warnings: Cursing, Caps 

A/N: Yeah yeah yeah I know this one is long overdue but pls bare with me as life is kicking me in the butt rn. i don’t like it either. but anyways this time i managed to write smth that isn’t redfinch so yeay. thank you to the anon that gave me the idea i’ll try to post your question. and dw there’s still at least a second part to this story bcs the ending was kinda left hanging lol. hope yall enjoy:)

#random writing #sprace #sprace newsies #spot x race #race x spot #newsies #newsies fanfic #spot conlon #spot newsies #racetrack higgins #race newseis #tw caps #tw cussing

[katplumber]

A normal day in the lodging house

#newsies #newsies live #newsies 1992 #92sies #Jack Kelly #jack kelly #racetrack higgins #race x spot #sprace #Jack Kelly and Racetrack Higgins #racetrack Higgins: hopeless romantic #and feral cat

[military-newsboys]

Jack: Ladies can’t handle my rizz. It’s too much for them. Davey: Fancy way of saying you’re gay but okay.

#Newsies #newsies on broadway #newsies musical #spot newsies #newsies lodging house #specs newsies #race newsies #boots newsies #davey newsies #newsies 1992 #newsies live #incorrect newsies quotes #Jack Kelly #davey jacobs #Jack Kelley #david jacobs #racetrack higgins #spot conlon #spot × race #davey x jack

[bwaybby09]

During a Tornado Warning:

Les: What do we do if the tornado hits us?

Spot: Uh, what do we do if the tornado hit us? I'm not sure, maybe get blown away by it?!

Race: No, no, you hide under a doorway.

Katherine: No, no, no. That's an earthquake.

Davey: Actually, they say you're not supposed to do that anymore.

Albert: Who cares what they say not to do for something that's not happening.

Jack: They say that you should go towards the eye of the storm.

Spot: Where’s the eye of the storm, Jack?

Jack: I don’t know…

Spot: That’s what I thought.

Crutchie: Tell someone you trust.

Jack: No Crutchie, that's only if the tornado's molesting you.

*bonus*

Race: Okay, this is just a drill! Everyone grab a clutch buddy!

(Race grabs onto Spot)

Spot: Oh, get off me! No!

Race: Hold on to me!

Spot: Get off me!

Race: I am saving your life!

Spot: I don’t wanna be saved by you!

#newsies incorrect quotes #source: superstore #newsies #newsies musical #jack kelly #spot conlon #davey jacobs #katherine plumber #katherine pulitzer #les jacobs #racetrack newsies #racetrack higgins #albert dasilva #albert newsies #crutchie #crutchie newsies #sprace #spot x race

[emmedoesntdomath]

“you don’t have to make everything gay”

oh, I’m sorry, but I can’t hear you over the sound of the intense eye contact that’s happening over the third grade level insults that if said by a straight couple would be seen as playground banter and the extreme posturing and the smug smirks and oh my god why the fuck are you looking at their lips my dude

but yeah, maybe you’re right, maybe it’s me, that’s my bad

#“they don’t have chemistry” #sir- #the straight couple’s chemistry reminds me of soggy cheerios #they really said enemies to lovers #gay #sambucky #sam x bucky #hangster #rooster x hangman #icemav #iceman x maverick #merthur #merlin x arthur #kate x yelena #sprace #race x spot #wolfstar #remus x sirius #ironstrange #tony x stephen #sherlock x john #emme’s bad ideas

[the-racer]

modern javey and newsbians are THE food shares ever. they're on dates and steal bites of everything from each other's plates.

modern sprace and redfinch threaten to stab each other with their forks for stealing food off their plates. sill not share anything.

modern blush don't share food willingly. they just casually sneak food from the other's plate when the other's not looking.

#literally race doesnt share food with ANYONE and will kill to keep his own food #finch is defensive over his food and we all know it #jack and davey always love giving each other a bite of whatever theyre eating #blink always says “look over there” and when mush turns he'll steal a fry or something and then mush does the same #newsies #92sies #livesies #uksies #sprace!! #sprace #javey #javid #newsbians #redfinch #blush #jack kelly #david jacobs #davey jacobs #race x spot #spot conlon #spot x race #racetrack higgins #racetrack newsies #race newsies #jack x davey #katherine plumber #katherine pulitzer #sarah jacobs #sarah x katherine #katherine x sarah

[incorrect-batfam-quotes-mostly]

Race: i have no fears

Crutchie: what if you woke up one day and Spot was taller than you?

Race: .....i have one fear

#newsies #newsies incorrect quotes #race newsies #racetrack higgins #sprace #race x spot #spot conlon #crutchie newsies #crutchie morris

[amelka-anxiety]

some more sprace

yall are really eating this up and im happy to oblige to your needs

#sprace newsies #sprace #spot x race #race x spot #spot conlon #spot newsies #racetrack newsies #racetrack higgins #race higgins #race newsies #newsies #newsies musical #newsies fanart #art

[i-politely-disagree]

I really wanna write a fic where Jack and Spot are equally overprotective of Race, so when Race and Spot start dating, Jack becomes a weird sort of helicopter sibling and Spot is just over it.

(half the story would honestly end up being weird filler but I felt the need to share the hc)

#newsies #racetrack higgins #spot conlon #spot x race #sprace #not a fic #jack kelly #what am i doing here #they'd be weird frenemies #race and jack are brothers