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[cowboy-caboodles]

an alternate universe where katherine absolutely decks jack during something to believe in

guys this is how it SHOULD have gone. Trust me i was literally there when it happened.

#art #character art #newsies #livesies #newsies art #jack kelly #katherine pulitzer #how it should have ended #disney was a coward for not letting katherine put him in his place and also for not letting jack and davey smooch

[wekiaam]

Working on new designs again, how do we feel about Crutchie??

#newsies #newsies broadway #newsies fanart #broadway #fanart #2dsies #livesies #newsies concept art #newsies character design #character design #crutchie newsies #crutchie #crutchie morris #newsie

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Hello Newsies fandom, for your casual viewing pleasure (and because apparently some people think headcanoning the Jacobs family as Jewish is antisemitic), here is the exact passage from the official Newsies novel that states Davey is Jewish and Jack is Irish :D

It's not a headcanon, it's literally written in the source material and, even if it wasn't, this fandom has been headcanoning characters' ethnicities based on their names since 1992. They're street kids living in New York City in 1899, they're going to be a diverse group and the best thing we have to go on is their names. I know my group of mutuals headcanon at least two other characters as Jewish, somewhat if not entirely based on their names.

Like, I don't know how else to explain that headcanoning a character with a traditionally Jewish name isn't "stereotyping" it's literally just being like "oh hey, this whole family has really common Jewish names, it would be fun if they're Jewish" and then we all move on with our lives because it's also literally canon. Like, it would be bad if we were headcanoning a character as Jewish purely because they exhibit behaviors that are also associated with negative Jewish stereotypes but that's literally not what's happening here. Also I'm pretty sure it's mentioned in the non-dialogue parts of the script somewhere but I don't have access to that.

In conclusion, don't be weird about people headcanoning characters as minorities, it's not stereotyping it's literally just people existing.

(Also, I am not Jewish, so I do not at all claim to be any kind of authority on representation. If any Jewish bloggers want to weigh in I will happily read and be open to learning!)

#not to vague post on main but i'm feeling confrontational today #my old post about character details confirmed in the newsies novel was going around again and i got excited until i found out why #the jacobs family is canonically jewish and even if they weren't it's not a weird thing to headcanon #if you're going to police people's headcanons at least go after the ones that are actually harmful to disenfranchised communities #tell me if you want to hear my jewish mush headcanons because i have a lot of thougths about him that i don't think i've ever posted #also if anyone wants my pdf of the newsies novel just dm me it's such a fun read #david jacobs #newsies #92sies #livesies #newsies novel

[mushiimune]

anotha redraw with Albert! a year's difference.

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[youroriginalsublimecupcakestuff]

Damian after a gala annoyed : "Why do old people talk ?"

Alfred, drily : "To prove they’re still alive."

#Source : newsies #incorrect quotes #incorrect batman quotes #incorrect batfamily quotes #incorrect dc quotes #incorrect dc comics #alfred pennyworth #damian al ghul #damian wayne al ghul #damian wayne #dc comics #robin dc #dc robin #dc #dc characters #batman family #batfamily #bat family #batfam #batman

[thats-my-cigah]

this might be a strange take but one of my favorite newsies characters is the old man that shakes them all out of bed at the beginning he's just so full of whimsy and insanity and he fills me with so much joy whenever he's on screen i don't even know who he is relative to the story but I just think he's such a Fun Guy?? i aspire to be like that silly fellow

#newsies #92sies #background characters

[crystallizedtwilight]

To the 30+ people in my inbox asking for rablert I’M SORRY this is the best I can do haha (I just love sprace & redfinch so much). Anyway, Finch knew Albert had an unrequited crush when they started their relationship he just didn’t know who.

#MyArt #newsies #characters are 18+ #redfinch

[puppyvenom]

“dumb crip’s just too damn slow” not matthew’s crutchie. NEVER matthews’s crutchie. he was barrelling across the stage with purpose at all times. he could fucking MOVE. he did NOT come to fuck around he came to be speedy as shit and i love him so dearly

#sludge speaks #newsies #by god that man can move #i love when disabled people play disabled characters #and actually know how to use mobility aids correctly to their advantage #the speed at which he moved back from his bow was so funny #he went so fast he had to hop to slow himself down #me too buddy #matthew duckett #uksies #west endsies #west end newsies #crutchie newsies #crutchie #crutchie morris

[gay-little-axolotl]

Newsies fans when their favorite character, Coin, does a backflip:

#newsies #I literally can’t relate to any of y’all my favorite character’s Jack

[doyouknowthisdisabledcharacter]

Do You Know This Disabled Character?

This isn’t specific to any media. If you know only one version, vote ‘I know them’.

Crutchy / Crutchie Morris has polio and uses a crutch.

#poll #polls #disability #disabled characters #id in alt text #crutchie morris #crutchie newsies #newsies

[joeythefrog]

Ok one thing I don’t like all that much in the newsies fandom is the characterisation of Crutchie

He is not your sweet ‘smol’ boy, he is not pure and gentle, he isn’t wholesome.

What I think they forget is that he is a street kid, he is a newsie

Newsies, who pride themselves on being vulgar and having the filthiest mouths possible that they keep hidden when they spin a sob story. Newsies, who decided that since society didn’t want them they would hang with all that society didn’t want. Historically speaking they were chilling with pretty much any marginalised group because they weren’t in a place to look down on anyone. Having not lived lives where it was taught that some were better than others and knowing first hand how wrong that was. They genuinely didn’t care what you were or did.

Crutchie was a newsie. Newsies, who would whisper the most disgusting sexual thing they could think of in one another’s ears in public. Newsies, who cackled in the bunk rooms because of some sort of sexual or fetishised deviation from the norm, lengthy conversations about the morality of it, because they are teenage boys and he has his right to be gross. Newsies, who would steal whatever they needed because ‘hey what’s a penny out a corporate man’s pocket’, boys who tussled constantly, who would definitely have very little actual boundaries.

Newsies who defiantly don’t hide deviance when they can, priding themselves on their foul mouth able to spit out venom that makes proper society step back in disgust. Who tussle and bite, who are not wholesome because they aren’t allowed to be if they want to survive

Boys who have grown tough from sleeping in the streets, only unsold papes to cushion them (that’s historically accurate)

Crutchie is one of them

Characterise Crutchie as someone who pokes his tongue out and chucked with a murmur of ‘sucker’ every time he gets pity cash, let him smack people with his crutch, whisper vulgar details of what he heard Race and Spot got up to in Brooklyn, let him act like a damn teenage boy who is every bit as deviant and chaotic as every other newsie has the right to be.

And do not let his crutch and kind smile put on to comfort those who need it infantilise him

#crutchie morris #let him be a teenage boy #newsies #fansies #analysis #a plea to the fandom #honestly he could be such an interesting character to discuss subtle ablilisum in fandoms with #he is not a sunshine child he is an asshole #and he has a right to that #newsies fandom

[cowboy-caboodles]

Off-Screen Apologies

Because i saw someone’s reblog saying we missed the opportunity to have a javey apology scene, because Davey deserved to be angry at Jack, and we deserved to see that happen between them, and also because i am possibly working on a little fic about the off-screen interaction.

(I drew just the end snippet of what would be an entire apology with much more lecturing from Davey, just as an excuse to draw boys smooching)

#character art #newsies #livesies #davey jacobs #jack kelly #javey newsies #on the roof #i just imagine it happens like at midnight #and jack finds davey’s apartment and climbs up the fire escape #i just really believe he got off without apologizing to like any of the newsies #i want to see the hard scary conversations where jack learns it’s ok to lean on his friends #grrrrr #bark bark #i’m so normal

[wekiaam]

I can't stop thinking about the fantasy version of Santa Fe prologue that's actually a prologue. Would you even draw little kid Jack and Crutchie who just met vs. Jack and Crutchie now?

Absolutely!! Here's Crutchie and Jack age 8 and 10 vs age 15 and 17!

#newsies #newsies broadway #newsies fanart #broadway #fanart #2dsies #newsies concept art #jack kelly #crutcie morris #newsies jack #jack newsies #crutchie #crutchie newsies #illustrators on tumblr #newsies character design #character design

[femmehysteria]

I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day, check my pinned post for active polls

#best character named x #poll game #poll #jack twist #jack jack parr #jack kelly #captain jack harkness #handsome jack #jack dawson #brokeback mountain #the incredibles #newsies #doctor who #borderlands #titanic

[mushiimune]

valentine 🤎

they change every time I draw them. oops anyways. happy pre valentine's day!

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[loiteringandlurking]

davey jacobs keyed his ex's car. davey jacobs texts that ex begging for them to come back every once in a while. davey gets really drunk those nights. davey jacobs is unhealthy. don't let the proper academic shell fool you. davey jacobs is a mess. can davey jacobs understand complex nuances in literature? can he do university-level physics? yes. davey jacobs is smart, but he's certainly not much else, at least in his own eyes.

#give me struggling Davey jacobs #give me Davey who turns to substances #give me Davey who has no idea how to cope with anything #GIVE ME TOXIC AND MENTALLY ILL CHARACTEDS #newsies #newsies broadway #davey jacobs #davey newsies #newsies the musical #92sies #uksies #newsies uk