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wekiaam · 1 year
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"When you're famous, the world is ya erster!"
Here's the result of last week's poll🎉 I had so much fun making it I really missed doing this a little <3
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chimeofthecomet · 2 months
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swappin’ tales around the fire
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an hd png as i know the gif will get crunched beyond recognition
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walkman-cat · 8 months
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DETECTIVE NOIR AU KATH :D
when she’s a reporter (or, how Jack knows her)
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preliminary designs + notes/scrawl transcript:
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her tie has the same value as jack’s shirt (and the same colour)
she’s wearing “sportswear” (though really it just means clothes to be active in)
she’s also wearing a newsboy cap :D
short hair was very fashionable in the 1920s (hence why she has short hair here wbwbwb)
”kit plumber” is her byline (because I love the name kit and also for shenanigans)
she wears practical clothing, but they’re still nicer and slightly more in fashion than what the average working late 20s woman would wear
also she wears oxfords (as her shoes)
the leftmost preliminary design is for her as davey knows her (Katherine Pulitzer, heiress and Dame With A Case). i’m not the happiest with it and probably will do more research/look into putting her in nightwear maybe
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freeasfishes · 1 year
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Katherine and Sarah's characters in ther respective versions of Newsies genuinely break my heart because they have so much potential that wasn't built on. Combine them, and it would be amazing.
There was no need for her to be wealthy, no need for her to be named after a little girl who died so young, no need for her to be a love interest, no need for her to be so "perfect" that she's hardly a person. (Let female characters have flaws)
She could have been like Nellie Bly, the working class journalist who refused to accept the suffering around her, who was hired by Joseph Pulitzer as a gimmick but took it as an opportunity. She went around the world in 72 days, mostly alone, just to prove she could and spent the vast majority of her life unmarried. There's a species of Ecuadorian tarantula named after her and when she was told it was too dangerous for a woman to go to Mexico alone, she brought along her mom and loudly criticized the government.
Why not that? Why not have a working class girl who refuses to stop fighting? Let Sarah be a writer. Let her have dreams while she works serving people like the Pulitzer's because there are no other jobs for women. Let her fight for those dreams and demand to be heard. Let her refuse to leave behind everyone who worked by her side.
Give me Annie Kelly, "brick of all women and most faithful of the strikers", the girl who, when the striking boys said it wouldn't be proper for them to fight the girls and women who scabbed, said "well, that's no problem for me" and the boys said "we'll be fine as long as Annie's on our side."
God, give me the working class, socialist, Jewish girl whose voice was cut out for time and a Disney message.
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loving-jack-kelly · 1 year
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jack would perform some grand romantic gesture like collecting an example of every single wildflower native to davey's hometown and pressing them to compile them in a book with paintings of what they look like fresh and alive because davey mentioned once wanting to be able to identify all the flowers he grew up seeing in the park down the street but never being sure how to look them up. and he would do give it to davey super casually like on a random tuesday when he finished it and shrug it off as no big deal because he had fun doing it. jack will also give the strangest birthday presents ever because he's bad at thinking of gifts when there's an occasion.
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fireworkss-exe · 1 year
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"only female newsie" stories make me LIVID. especially when the mc tucks her hair into her hat to pretend to be a boy!!! grrrr!!!
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hellosammy19 · 10 months
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proof that they were casting younger and younger newsies since broadway
These are the ages of the obc members in 2012 and the tour members in 2016 (when they did the proshot)
Race - (OBC) R. Breslin 23 // 19 Ben. C (Proshot)
Finch - (OBC) Aaron 29 // 22 Iain (Proshot)
Mush - (OBC) Ephraim 27 // 20 Nick (Proshot)
Albert - (OBC) Garett 26 // 21 Sky (Proshot)
Jojo - (OBC) Thayne 30 // 21 Joshua. B (Proshot)
Elmer (OBC) Evan 25 // 19 A. Zas (Proshot)
the ones that are similar is the
Specs - (OBC) R. Steele 22 // 22 Jordan. S (Proshot)
Sniper - (OBC) Alex. W 26 // 26 Daniel Swizter (Proshot)
Tommy Boy - (OBC) Tommy 22 // 21 M. Dameski (Proshot)
Oscar Delancey (OBC) Brendon 25 // 24 A. Norman (Proshot)
the ones that are the opposite:
Morris Delancey - (OBC) Mike. F 20 // 23 Devin. L (Proshot)
(more severe)
Romeo - (OBC) Andy 17 // 27 Nico (Proshot)
Buttons - (OBC) Jess. L 20 // 28 Chaz (Proshot)
the one that I couldn't figure out:
Henry - (OBC) Kyle was 27 // but I couldn't for the life of me find Michael Rio's age
(Ignoring New- Newsies (roles created in the proshot that doesn't really have an equivalent in the OBC)
Mike and Ike - (OBC) Mike Faist and Brendon Stimson // Jacob and David Guzman (Proshot) (because it's just the Delanceys in the OBC and tour but its purpose changed only in proshot - being new newsies instead of just roles for the Delanceys to play when they're offstage)
(to add on to mike and ike - it's the same thing to tommy boy but I only did tommy boy because tommy was spot in the proshot and not tommy boy)
Smalls - (OBC) Laurie Veldheer // Julian DeGuzman (Proshot) THEY CHANGED THIS CHARACTER DRASTICALLY, they should have kept my girl Smalls and gave Julian another name cause wtf
these are the true new-newsie names that didn't exist in OBC
Kenny - Jack Sippel - (name inspired by Kenny Ortega)
Hot Shot - JP Ferreri
Vince / Myron - Stephen Hernandez
Kid Blink - Andy Richardson (92s name)
Willie / Bart - Andrew Wilson
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toffyrats · 7 months
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guys i caved. i remade my old newsies ocs
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so this is mayflower/shiner and olivia!!!
random facts/lore dump under cut
maybell is a brooklyn newsie and olivia is a stagehand at medda’s theater, and they are in love. and dating.
i haven’t decided shiner’s backstory yet but i will say she got her name from the fact that she always had a black eye no matter what. nobody knew why, and she didn’t ever tell them. usually they were for dumb reasons anyway, so nobody needs to know about it. anyways she got soaked bad enough and so often that her vision started getting real shitty in that eye, and eventually she started wearing the eyepatch because of how ugly it always looked. (according to everyone but liv ofc)
liv’s grandparents were originally from mexico (and by extension spanish civilization), and when her mother traveled to america in the mid 1800s she met a former slave who she fell in love with and liv never knew. he came down with a cold that eventually got worse enough to kill him. due to this, both liv and her mother had to find work, which was hard on its own. liv eventually found medda and started working for her for kinda minimal pay, and her mother became a seamstress. they aren’t the most upper class family ever but they’re happy they were able to find work at all.
one day shiner took cover in medda’s theater during a bad storm, found liv working on fixing a broken part in medda’s stage, and obviously fell in love instantly. medda could probably tell from the beginning but didn’t say anything at first. anyways shiner kept coming back again and again and would always walk right back out because she was too nervous to talk. eventually medda helped her along and she started an incredibly awkward conversation that only lasted a few seconds. eventually she was able to make friends with liv, and later on medda helped her ask her out. it obviously went amazingly. they’re really happy and healthy together and are always bickering like an old married couple
anyways if yall have any ideas for them to correlate with your ocs let me know, i would love for them to meet sometime but idk how that would work so. hit me
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pigeonwit · 9 months
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manhattan, west virginia (WIP, scene scribble)
“You did not,” Davey says raggedly, his voice low and rusted as he stares right through Jack’s chest, “tell me what was chasing you.”
“Chasing me?” Jack whispers. His stomach drops, his palms sweat, his throat closes up like he’s being choked, up against the wall, drops of spittle flecking his face, ‘what did you do?!’-
Davey’s hands clap against his shoulders, keeping him pressed – like gravity – to the ground.
“He won’t get in.” And when he says it, Jack knows it’s true. There are no lies in the way Davey stares into his eyes, his brow tight and determined, his mouth set in a stubborn, furious line – his blue, blue eyes glinting like daggers in the moonlight. “We won’t let him.”
Jack wants to believe him. Desperately, he does. But he can’t help the way his eyes flick to the blood and ash smeared across Davey’s temple.
“What…” He says weakly, the words catching and cutting against his tender throat. “How…?”
Davey bites his lip. Looks away. Closes his eyes and breathes, bone-deep.
“Rage makes monsters of all men.”
Jack trembles. Trembles like a child. He swallows thickly, forces himself to be solid.
“You said…” He coughs into his fist, shakes away the lump in his throat, because he’s twenty one and men don’t cry, even if he still feels childishly raw. “You said you don’t work with monsters.”
Davey’s eyes flick open, moon-silver, otherworldly and ancient and dangerous.
“I don’t work with monsters.” He says low in his throat. “But all men bleed.”
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undescribed1mage · 8 months
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Was gonna make a list of possible real names 4 Stray based on what Immie's said she remembers about what it was, HOWEVER, I ended up finding one possible candidate &. Nothing else, so here's the one candidate!
Lillian Russell (born Helen Louise Leonard) was an active singer / dancer from 1879 to 1919, born to a newspaper publisher and the first woman to run for Mayor of New York City. She was raised in Chicago and later moved to New York with her mother after her parents split, and in her later years she wrote newspaper columns.
(Which, vaguely, fits the 'former newsgirl & dancer' that Immie said her real name for Stray was from)
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kellyscowboy · 9 months
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hi just wanted to also send an ask and say i love the cowboy au! it's so fucking good and im SO excited to continue reading it! cowboys my beloved 🩷
hi!! thank you so much, oh my god. i can't even begin to explain how much that means to me! i'm so glad you enjoyed it!! <33
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races-stupid-cigar · 4 months
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A few years after cannon when Finch is settling into adult life (as much as a 20 something can) he has a pigeon coup on top of his building often taking a bird with him on his shoulder around the city
Modern era I could definitely see also having pigeons but something like a few Button Quail or chickens would be great too if not going for the usual giving him a finch
I don't see him being much of a parrot guy they have massive care requirements and while yes beautiful and rewarding pets he seems too high strung for all that
Give him a few little canarys (yes they are finches) or an owl finches they seem his vibe
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chimeofthecomet · 1 year
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trying my shot at a brooklyn girlsies comic :D writing dialogue and paneling is all new to me so if i do make more of these it'll improve with time hopefully !! god I have sooo many thoughts about these characters
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walkman-cat · 4 months
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#20 for the end of the year asks post? :3
hiya jack !!
What’s something you learned this year?
ive learned a lot of things this year wbwbw but i guess something real notable i learned was 1920s fashion (that is, the cuts the colours the materials, how the styles changed over the decade) !! prior to this year i hadn't thought 1920s fashion was my can of worms (1890s-1900s dress my beloved <3) but now i really like the 1920s in terms of its fashion wbwbw (i even designed a whole set of costumes for an exam performance set in the 1920s !)
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frogmanfae · 8 months
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I'm trying not to give away too much but my newsies fic exchange prompt asked for graphic descriptions of violence and (not to brag) but holy shit I'm delivering-
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primlydialanguish · 1 year
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Descendants the Musical?!
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