#newsies of new york

[newsie-collective]

Hey, hi surprise!

Part 4 in my ever growing series of 'Newsies as things my friends and I have said'

I've realized that I could take this time to set up posts

But where's the fun in that?

Davey: We launched our strike in a most AUspIcIOUs mAnnEr Romeo: What the frick is a spishus? Henry: No, no. He mispronounced asparagus. Romeo: WHAT THE FRICK IS A SPARAGUS MANNER?!

Les: Davey they're kissing again Davey: FFS JACK STOP PANDERING TO THE HETEROS

Jojo: Take your fuckin shoes off. This is a holy hizzle.

Specs, to Jack: Sorry, you've been replaced. I'm the they-triarch now.

Buttons, wanting to make something for Les: What's his style? Davey: His style is "we have to beg him to put on pants so he threw on the first ones he found"

Katherine: The only straight I am is [going] straight to hell 😎

Romeo: Aye babay. Come home with me and I'll show you my... Romeo: Dinosaur bedsheets

Jack: I'm just saying. I don't think it would be right for us, as upstanding citizens, to be kissing on the first date.

These next ones are courtesy of the amazing @emmedoesntdomath and used with her express permission:

Hotshot, ringing up Medda who had bought sugar cookies: Would you like a receipt? Medda, chuckling to herself, and then winking at him: Oh, no, honey. Why would I have a receipt if I made these myself? Hotshot, mouth opening and closing like a fish, trying not to absolutely fucking lose it because damn: Understood, ma'am

Racer, barging in like he's on a mission: I need to pick up an order! Elmer, nodding politely, because what the shit: Ok, sir, what was it? Racer, coming up to the counter: Oh, a couple cupcakes Elmer, knowing damn well that the only cupcakes order they have left is a 15 dozen (180 cupcakes) order: Elmer, also knowing 180 is more than "a couple": Will that be all for you today?

Finch, a regular, pointing at the display case: I'd like a blueberry scone, please Finch, leaning a bit closer, and dropping his voice to a stage whisper: Did you put the crack in them again? Albert, looking him dead in the eye, and solemnly nodding back: Yessir The Jacobs parents, standing behind him, watching this interaction between two children in a grocery store, absolutely horrified:

As always, feel free to hit that ask box for anything you'd like to see!

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#i love these way more than I should #They boost my serotonin levels to unimaginable heights #newsies #92sies #askthenewsies #carrying the banner #newsies of new york #livesies #king of new york #incorrect quotes #incorrect newsies #incorrect newsies quotes

[iloverace]

what if they aren’t singing about what THEY want in kony

so this whole song comes from Race wanting to like build morale

so I’m thinking he’s trying to like..entice the other newsies with things that he knows they love/really really want

ex. Race knows Romeo’s shoelaces have been mismatched ever since one of them snapped, so he’s all like “a pair of new shoes with matching laces”

then Romeo obviously knows how much Race would love to go to Sheepshead and not have to sit on the fence, so he’s like “a permanent box at the Sheepshead races”

also if this applies, Les knowing that Davey feels super squished into the bed they share?? like omg he’s so cute

#these boys know each other so well #if money was no object I imagine them buying each other stuff all the freaking time #newsies #king of new york

[broadwaynewsie]

Tommy what the heck

#king of new york #newsies live #livesies #newsies #newsies broadway #92sies #spot conlon #tommy bracco

[wekiaam]

I finally watched a bit of the 1992 movie today and as a result I had a four hour drawing session in the back garden

#i could only watch up until king of new york cuz the site I was watching on was super laggy #but woww I got so much inspiration again #newsies #newsies broadway #newsies fanart #broadway #fanart #2dsies #jack kelly #livesies #newsies concept art #spot conlon #92sies #1992 newsies #1992sies #newsies 1992 #specs newsies #sketchbook #artists on tumblr

[str4wb3rry-guy]

92sies king of new york is underrated as hell send post

#newsies #newsies the musical #king of new york #newsies 1992 #92sies #1992sies #newsies movie #newsies ost

[orangesand-lemons-234]

MY MAM JUST WALKED IN ON ME TRYNA LEARN THE KING OF NEW YORK TAP BREAK IM ACTUALLY GONNA CRY OMD WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN.

#SHE WAS PISSING HERSELF LAUGHING TOO IM ACTUALLY GONNA DIE #MY FACE HAS GONE AS RED AS ALBERTS HAIR IM SO EMBARRASSED #newsies #king of new york

[blinkinbrothershark]

Things In Newsies Live I Think About A Lot #1

Y'know that part at the beginning of KONY, when Race mimicks the Statue of Liberty by clutching the paper to his chest and holding a glass above his head? Well, you mightn't have noticed that when he does this, Henry is standing in front of him on the floor and he mouths "I'm the king of New York" when Race says it.

Does this mean that Race frequently goes into song and dance about being the king of New York? Does this mean that Henry knows Race so well that he can predict what he's about to say? Or is Henry magic and can read Race's mind?

Now, I don't want to make any assumptions here, but I like the sound of that last one.

#newsies #newsies live #racetrack #ben fankhauser #ben tyler cook #jack kelly #albert dasilva #corey cott #henry #michael rios #kony #king of new york #magic man #finch #finch is there #finch is cool #katherine plumber #katherine pulitzer #yas #autism #the tism

[theres-no-escaping-us-pal]

what’s up with the newsies and interrupting people during musical numbers?

“am scay punk! she’s the king of new yo-“

“whudda thunk? I’m the king of new-“

“WE WAS SUNK! PALE AND PITIFUL!!”

like, let each other finish, jeez

#newsies #livesies #newsies brainrot #newsies broadway #newsies live #i love newsies sm #racetrack higgins #katherine plumber #kosa newsies strike #i’m the king of new york

[thelalalalatestrevolutionnewsies]

If you don’t listen to the full dance break version of King of New York and sing the tap dancing

What exactly are you doing with your life??

#broadway #newsies #livesies #newsies 2017 #ben tyler cook #king of new york #sky flaherty

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A newsboy selling copies of the Saturday Evening Post, 1920s.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

#vintage New York #1920s #newsboy #newsie #Saturday Evening Post #child labor #street photography

[suddenly--sam]

You more of a spoon fight or table races kinda guy?

#newsies #newsies musical #livesies #uksies #racetrack higgins #davey jacobs #katherine plumber #king of new york #I love screenshotting newsies #Just feels like the two things for me

[newsie-collective]

Nick "Mush" Meyers

Quickfire Favorites

Food: “Anythin’ I can get me hands on.”

Color: “Green! ‘S tha cola’s of all the trees ‘n stuff when me ‘n Blink ‘n Tommy ‘n Specs have picnics!”

Season: “Spring! ‘S perty when we’s goin’ out!”

Weather: “Sunny! ‘S real nice when it’s sunny! There’s mo’ people to sell to!”

Hobby: “Visitin’ wit’ Clara at the snowglobe shop!”

Animal: “Frogs! Snails! Both ‘s good! I don’ like touchin’ ‘em but they’re real neat to look at.”

Memory: “Givin’ Kloppman the snowglobe after the strike!”

Comfort Item: “All me snowglobes. They make me feel real good ‘n they help me feel bett’a after a long day.”

He was missing most of his teeth when he made it to the lodge house (lucky for him they were all baby teeth), earning him the name Mush (both because of his lisp and the way his mouth looked after getting soaked for being in the wrong place at the wrong time)

Doesn’t talk all that much now because of this

He’s never known his family. He was on the streets as long as he could remember before moving into The Lodge™️

He’s the muscle of the Manhattan newsies. He’s originally from Harlem, but too many people knew him there (even if he didn’t know them) so he had to get a new selling spot, and he moved to Manhattan. 

Honestly, Manhattan is so diverse because they’re all adopted in from other boroughs. Like, they’re just a melting pot of New York.

He’s such a light sleeper

Also takes up the entire bed, and whoever he’s cuddling with either has to lay on top of him or beneath him

He's also an early riser, and his usual bunkmates (Tommy, Specs, and Blink) really aren't

He’s really protective of his friends. And even more of his partners. If someone gets sick, he will too. Because he will coddle them until they both get over it.

He would give extra papers to his partners (yes with an S. Mush loves so hard there’s no way he isn’t poly. More on that in a different post, once we start doing relationship analyses) if they were selling well, and would offer to help if they were struggling

Loves karaoke night at Medda’s

Terrified of bugs, especially moths and butterflies.

No one knows this

(Everyone knows but they all pretend not to bc Mush is super embarrassed by it)

Has scars all over from fights and such

HE LOVES SNOWGLOBES. IT’S THE ONLY THING HE COULD ALWAYS GET THE OTHERS TO LEAVE ALONE. AND HE WAS SO HAPPY THEY RESPECTED THAT

He made friends with Clara, the lady who sells the snowglobes. It's this nice little stained glass shop, and the snowglobes just caught Mush's eye one day.

He went inside, absolutely awestruck by them, and absolutely devastated that he could never even come close to affording one. But, they were too pretty to just leave. So, he slipped the smallest one in his pocket, but he isn't as sneaky as the others (he's got a really low dex score, lbr) and gets caught before he's even left the aisle.

Dude he is terrified when the owner rounds the corner with a glare, and he just knows he's getting sent to the Refuge for this.

He puts the snowglobe back on the shelf and is apologizing as much as he can as fast as he can and begging her not to say anything. Pleading with her not to call the bulls on him.

She knows he's a newsie, and they aren't normally allowed near her shop, much less inside, but Mush is just so adorable and she can tell he feels bad about it.

She offers him a deal. 

She will give him a snowglobe for each odd job he does (explaining very carefully that the bigger ones will need more than one job done)

And Mush is just head over heels in love with this idea. 

The newsies don't ask where his massive collection of snowglobes is coming from. Or where he disappears to every night.

She makes him a special snowglobe commemorating the strike once they've finished and won, and that's the only one he doesn't keep. 

He gives it to Kloppman.

Who promptly puts it on his desk because he wants everyone to know that those were his boys.

Has worked security at a number of places, especially after people realized that all it would take would be a snowglobe. But, the glass store owner taught him a lot about his worth, and won't do a job unless he's rewarded well enough for it.

That's why he was so hesitant on doing the strike. He was too uncertain of the reward for the massive risk they were taking.

He stopped in the glass shop in Harlem while he was out there recruiting newsies asked her opinion, and she told him that he should follow his heart. 

And when he told her he was going to go through with the strike, she gave him the big snowglobe he'd been eyeing since the first day he went in there (she'd kept from selling it just for him, but didn't tell him that until he went and visited her after the strike was settled) for good luck.

Is really good with the younger kids, and really enjoys hanging out with them, because they're easier to understand than adults with big emotions (and he also likes knowing more than someone for once, and likes teaching them new things)

Can absolutely make flower crowns and loves going to Central Park to make them

He really loves love. Like he used to get puppy crushes worse than Romeo. And he would fall so hard.

He eventually grew out of his puppy crush phase, but he stayed in love with love. He likes seeing all of his friends happy together.

The cuddliest cuddler to ever cuddle

He's a lot like Finch in the way that he doesn't care how he's laying with his cuddle partner. He just really really likes physical touch-like to the point where the others get annoyed with him. It's the way he shows his love.

It's been really toned down since he was younger, because the other boys used to get frustrated and tell him off for being too much. 

He's very insecure about it

He's very trusting. He trusts too easily, which is odd because he's one of the oldest newsies, and no one expects him to be this trusting but this boy does not know how to stop it

He's forgiven the Delancey brothers because they weren't much older than some of the older newsies, and they were being exploited and used, and Mush can't really hold that against them. 

He forgave Cowboy, didn't he?

He's so easily excited by the simplest things. Like he gets so excited so fast about things that are small.

Would totally be in those tiny things Facebook groups

Blush things:

He'd been at the Newsboy Home for ages and this mean dude with an eyepatch just showed up and started acting an ass and scaring the younger kids. 

He told Blink to either get his shit together or get out.

He found Blink outside after curfew that night with some shady guys.

And he just picks Blink up (after slapping a few guys around) and carries him to the lodge house. 

Because it's too fucking much to try and talk to him. He just lays him in a bed and tells him that if he's not in the house in the morning he'd have made his choice and to not come back because he doesn't have enough mental space to be worried about this new kid who doesn't even want to follow the few rules there are. 

And Blink's just like 'You're ;worried about me?  😏'

Mush decks that motherfucker. 

Just one good hit. 

And he went to bed.

The next morning, the bed was empty, and so was Elmer's. 

Mush went looking for Elmer, and found him and Blink cuddling on the couch.

He woke them up trying to figure out why they had to cuddle out in the living room, and the only response he got from Blink was "If i have to follow curfew, so does he"

He and Blink kind of became children wranglers after that. Not necessarily babysitting them, but making sure everyone was inside before  the door was locked, or Kloppman wouldn't get any sleep waiting up for them.

After he and Blink calmed down around each other, they actually became best friends, and eventually more than that.

Like slow burn turned up to 11. Like boil the frog kind of fucking slow.

It took them forever

Mush told Blink (while teaching him how to be less violent) to smack him when he felt like beating people up. 

It eventually turned to affectionate paps to the cheek like the one in the beginning of 92sies (which actually happened not long after Blink mellowed. He would still have some violent spells, like almost going after Crutchy in the beginning of the movie, when Mush stepped in)

Italian food 🤤

He really likes going into libraries for two reasons:

1) The endless shelves to wander through and get lost in leave him awestruck every time

2) There's usually a corner with just enough space for him to curl up and nap in

He's so good at hide and seek. At least the seeking part. He's practically hunting the hiders. It's honestly terrifying.

Really good with remembering the names and patterns of constellations, but cannot for the life of him remember where they are in relation to each other, and can only find really famous constellations like Orion and Ursa Major

Mush!! My sweet boy!!! I love him sm. He deserves everything 🥰

He's so freaking cute

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#92sies #newsies #livesies #askthenewsies #newsies of new york #carrying the banner #king of new york #mush meyers #nick meyers #mush newsies #mush #newsies 1992 #👻

[walkman-cat]

They are Selling Together :) !!

#javid #are they…you know #selling partners??? #newsies #jumpscared by my own art like a person walking through New York in 1899 was jumpscared by newsies

[broadwaynewsie]

YOU DON'T NEED MONEY WHEN YOU'RE FAMOUS THEY GIVES YOU WHATEVER YOU WANTS ✨️GRATIS✨️

#king of new york #newsies live #livesies #newsies #newsies broadway #racetrack higgins #92sies #spot conlon #ben cook #jack kelly #joshua burrage

[cowboy-caboodles]

Nightmares (1/2)

took me awhile to put this comic together but now that the holidays are over (at least for this Yid) i have time on my hands!

i like to think that the jacobs’ apartment is a safe place for the manhattan newsies, and a few of them come over for dinner or a warm place to sleep when they can. (most specifically Jack, who took a while to warm up to the idea of Davey’s parents offering him shelter and food, but once he did he spent half his time sleeping over)

#newsies #art #livesies #character art #davey jacobs #jack kelly #newsies art #javey newsies #javid newsies #les jacobs #had to include the fact that les and davey def share a bed because of that one line in King of New York #jack definitely has nightmares from the refuge still #i wish we saw more of that fear in the musical bcs it would make so much more sense why jack puts up this facade of being fearless #not that i want him to suffer tho #but character angst is necessary sometimes

[riding-palominos-every-day]

One time Spot asked Elmer to keep an eye on things in Brooklyn whilst he, Hotshot and Mack went to a union meeting. At first the others don't really take the idea seriously, Elmer's popular in Brooklyn but he's never shown any leadership qualities or intimidation skills like Spot can.

Until they learn Elmer's a master at dramatic guilt-tripping and puppy eyes, which is how York found himself taking the kid to Coney Island to ride the escalator instead of working.

#the coney island escalator is a thing and it's one of my favourite facts about 1800s New York ksdjkskd #newsies #newsies headcanons #elmer newsies