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we-are-inevitable · 1 month

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what anon said!!! putting davey in Situations, gotta be one of my favorite tropes do you always do it excellently.

I wanted to ask; would you ever write something of our favorite guy and a major depressive low? What I find so beautiful about a lot of your work is your portrayal of Jack and the way he loves in light of the things Davey struggles with and I think that the world could use a lot more of seeing that kind of love when it comes to depressive episodes. I think people struggle with that being-present love and it often turns into, like, “i can fix you” type love. It’s difficult to navigate for partners (or even just friends) in the real world and there’s always solace in the ol’ hurt/comfort tag and especially in your writing :,)

hi what if i cry right now. what if i cry

this is so sweet thank you!! i love love LOVE writing davey with major depressive episodes- it's such a juxtaposition to his character, someone who has righteous anger that fuels positivity and progress, and i think that seeing davey- energetic and hopeful- experience such awful lows is devastating. there's this stigma that if you have a pretty negative mental health low, that's your baseline "always," but i think it's so important for people to see that you can go through the can't-get-out-of-bed depression, the can't-brush-my-teeth-for-a-week depression, the i-feel-empty-and-hollow-but-life-has-been-good-to-me depression, and still be positive and hopeful and caring and community-minded and THAT is my davey. that is how i hope to always portray my davey. knowing that even if you can't see a good end, it's there, and it's reachable, even if you can't make it there just yet.

i would love to write more within this davey mindset! my last two fics explore it pretty well- davey not loving himself but liking himself enough to try with jack's support, and davey going through an extreme low that results in an unsuccessful attempt, but with a hopeful end- and i hope that they accurately portray the nuances between hope and hopelessness in a way that is so very davey.

i've always been a big mental health advocate, and if six years of therapy has taught me anything, it's taught me that even if you feel like you're breakable, even if you feel like you can't make it, there's always going to be someone to meet you where you're at. they won't fix you because you don't need to be fixed. but they'll help you through the hard times and celebrate the little wins, and sometimes that's all you need, and that is THEEEE javid dynamic.

thank you for this, anon <33

#ask a jac !#davey jacobs #jack kelly

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pigeonwit · 9 months

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hiii what r your favorite javey fics asking for a friend xx

[bursts through the wall like the dreamies cat] did someone say javey

here is the first post i made on this - that list was specifically longer fics, so i'll go with shorter ones for this one :) and remember that i do not understand social interactions and rules and etc etc so i dont wanna tag anyone outright just in case it crosses any boundaries.

mountain ridge camp for boys by @/timetogoslumming - starting strong on a GOD DAMN LIE because this one is not short at all but i love it so very much. it could legit be an original story (i'd read the fuck out of a graphic novel of this) it's so well written, the plot is so well set up, etc etc etc its perfect. it hits all my favourite notes - davey going from an outsider to finding his place and feeling like he belongs, jack being a pining idiot, misunderstandings, realistically confusing teenager feelings, etc, etc. i haven't read it in it's entirety for a while but man it makes me happy. sometimes when i'm in my feels i'll pull up the scene where davey very gently handles a ribbon snake. it makes me happy

as you've always been by @/weisenbachfelded - another stunning lie on my part because this is 43,000 words!! ahh friends to fwb to strangers to lovers my beloved. jack and davey re-meet each other after years of separation on a flight - they learn about each others successes and the feelings they'd misinterpreted throughout their friendship. it's so Yearning, so very soft, and not quite as angsty as you'd think. it really does capture that bittersweetness of re-meeting a person you used to know, but also that lingering hope that oh, you do still know this person. and they still know you. it's just such a kind and gentle reading experience.

i pull the trigger (with my eyes closed) by @/we-are-inevitable (MASSIVE trigger warning for murder and suicide) - look man. i have spoken a lot about davey's patented inability to maintain a work-life balance and well. i'd really be letting the team down if i didn't recommend this fic.

i really love this fic as an incredible answer to the question 'just how far does davey's dedication to his family go?'. because davey as a character would give anything for his family, he's doing everything to keep them afloat, he's stressed, he's terrified, he knows he can never repay them for all they've done for him but he needs to try because what kind of son is he if he doesn't? this fic takes all that and goes beyond with it. davey's ruthless dedication to his family juxtaposed against his almost painful love for jack, and how those two things working against each other destroy him. it's intense. there's really no way for me to do this justice in just words alone so i highly recommend you read it (if you're comfortable!) and experience it yourself.

it's so easy (too easy) to love you by @/livesincerely - everyone and their fucking mother knows livesincerely's fics but i love this one so very very much. jack and davey being so in love it's second nature. it's everything to me. it's the perfect little pick-me-up when you've had a long and lonely day.

we'll climb mountains together by @/reluctantcoppercrowd - my favourite javid fic of all god damn time. the progression is perfect, the yearning is palpable, the character interactions and friendships are absolutely flawless, davey as a character is PERFECT (YES he is an awkward anxious autismo YES he is a badass who will kick your goddamn teeth in in the name of Justice NO he will not recognize that he did it at all nor will he accept praise for it THANK YOU), the conflicts are realistic (not only for the time period but the characters themselves process their thoughts feelings and anxieties in realistic ways), the time and effort put into good worldbuilding is PHENOMENAL, and the conclusion feels not only satisfactory, but EARNED. it is truly my favourite javid fic of all time forever and always. it's also not short at all. i'm sorry for the lies anon but i cant help it if things are just Good.

#literally everyone has read these already i know it but. i cant help it anon you said 'favourite' THESE ARE MY FAVOURITES!!!#newsies #javid #javey #anon #ask #fic hoard #fic recs

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if-i-hate-the-headline · 11 months

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the question of the ages-

ralbert, redfinch, or spralbert??????

oh my god ok this is a struggle (thank you for the ask though) - i'm also going to assume you're talking about livesies here because if not it's sprace for me in 1992sies personally

but for me...Ralbert because in the musical it makes the most sense. Race and Albert are seen together quite a lot and are obviously close friends, Race lets Al take his cigar and well he is annoyed (hey! that's my cigar) he doesn't get angry at him (like when he does when Buttons insinuates that "He traded her for a box of cigars" about his mother). they interact more in King of New York and are usually next to each other. also i enjoy Ralbert a lot because they're 2 of my favorite characters!!

on Redfinch, I don't think of them (Finch and Al) as particularly close and Finch is not as much of a character as Albert and Race are, but maybe that was just me not noticing him as much. though I like the idea of Albert liking Race and him not liking him back and ending up with Finch, mainly because of @crystallizedtwilight's art. (go check them out, their art is so good!!!)

Spralbert (just checking this is Spot, Race and Albert) doesn't make the most sense to me, just because Spot doesn't really interact with either of them at all, just in the same way livesies Sprace makes no sense because Race and Spot don't even talk.

hope this was a good answer (i could talk for hours) but Ralbert is definitely my favorite and I just wrote a Ralbert fic on ao3 so go read it if you haven't - it's called "Just Admit You're Wrong" and my acc is pinetree603 (i'm working on a javid prompt fill right now)

RALBERT

edit: i lowkey just realized this is a nonsensical audhd rant so feel free to disregard

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somanywords · 4 months

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small end of the year wrap up 2023

Since I've started writing and sharing fanfic with you all, I'd posted 3 works per year, and in 2023 I made the goal to break that strange and random trend by at least 1 more fic. Maybe a bold move in a year that has been one of the craziest of my whole life, due to a LOT of traveling, but I am pleased as punch to report that I wrote and published 6 whole fanfictions in the last 12 months!!! 2 of which were over the 40k mark. 😁

I can't wait to see what next year will bring! Here's to all the wonderful art and fics all of us are making and reading together--we're all meeting up for coffee/tea, in every way except physical 💛

🌈 Another Song, Another Spring [stucky, T, modern au kid fic, 46.9k, complete] 🥞 that’s why i'm always hangin’ round you [scottluis, G, getting together, 11.2k, complete] 🎶 tryin' to talk with a fist in ya mouth [javid, jack kelly centric, T, 15.5k, complete] ☕ say it soft and it's almost like praying [stucky, steve rogers centric, post catws, M, 41.6k, complete] 💚 In our hearts a hopeful song [javid, post strike, T, 17k, complete] 🥂 brown paper packages (tied up with string) [clintasha, birthday party, family shenanigans, T, 12.9k, complete]

Somanywords | Archive of Our Own

#cass rambles #my fics

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blurglesmurfklaine · 6 months

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20 Questions For Fic Writers

gonna unofficially thank @forabeatofadrum for this tag bc she said whoever wanted to do it and I wanted to so here it be!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

49??? What when how did that happen??

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

706,964 woah so not quite a million but uh I have shit to say apparently

3. What fandoms do you write for?

46 of the 49 fics are glee lmaooo, two are Newsies and one is Roswell, New Mexico! I anticipate more Newsies (Javid) fics to come because I’m obsessed

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

There From The Start

Cornelia Street

Here We Go Again

An Honest Man

If Music Be

All for Glee: Klaine!

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to respond to as many as I can, but I usually forget lol. If someone leaves an insightful comment though it will usually spur a long conversation in the comments and I LOVE IT

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

If The World Was Ending bc they uh :) die, technically speaking

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Uhhhh probably every other one??? I really don’t like sad endings so most have a happy ending, but i actually really like the ending to Stick Season because despite it being so terribly emotional and angsty, I feel like the ending is a turnaround and really hopeful!

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not really? A few annoying comments telling me characters wouldn’t act this way, and one asking me “where my creativity was” which rubbed me the wrong way but I try to focus on the positive ones! Those definitely linger in my mind longer 💞

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Don’t look at me. Yes. Sometimes. Idk man sometimes those dudes just need to fuck it out???? But I usually only write it if the story feels like it’s naturally going there. It’s never really porn for porn’s sake (for clarification there’s nothing wrong with that we all love a little pwp), it’s usually the sappy emotional kind that’s mostly feelings and vague descriptions. it’s definitely not my forte and something I still get a little embarrassed and self conchas about lmao

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Not recently but I did have a Supernatural/Glee crossover a few years ago (shut up I was 16) and honestly it was loads of fun! Blaine was the child of that Gay Angel and Repressed Bisexual Man. Absolutely a slay

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don’t think so? But a few old ones from my fanfiction dot net page ended up on one of those search engine thingies??? Idk how to explain it or how to take it down but honestly… I have bigger problems lol

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No but if anyone ever wants to let me know!!! It would make me so happy!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yeah! Quite a few actually. I usually do the franken-fic every year and I did the roulette challenge and that m aforementioned crossover was actually a collab! Some of my favorite memories was writing the final chapter of A Night At The Ryerson House with @esperantoauthor 💞

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

OOF. Okay so. With 46 fics on AO3 you could say Klaine has a special place in my heart, buuuuuuut…….. my best friend introduced me to newsies in April and I seriously think it did something to my brain chemistry because Jack and Davey own my entire ass

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Ugh. I’m so fearful that I’ll never finish Amidst The Chaos, which I LOVE but takes so much out of me. There’s also one I’ve never posted called “Strangers Again” that involves like timeline jumping but in a romcom way that I’m not sure how to go about??? Also the community college one. I have so many.

For Javey I tried writing that Spider-Man AU but like. I need to re do the entire first chapter. I absolutely hate it actually and I think it’s because I don’t have a clear vision of what exactly I want, but I know what I DO NOT want????

16. What are your writing strengths?

Uhhhhhhhhhhh I’m actually not sure entirely? I’m gonna go with dialogue bc that’s usually how scenes come to me first.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Scenery/setting/sensory, world building, plot points, physical movement holy fuck do not get me started when That Guy has to move Across The Room AHHHHHH I wanna tear my face off

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Love it! In my brain Jack Kelly is Mexican because I love to project, and I’ve got a wip where Blaine is involved in a Hispanic community (no he’s mot Hispanic he’s just got a Mexican friend who is an old lady and also Catholicism is involved it’s a lot to explain okay go with it) so I like to use it, but only in a way that feels natural to ME based on MY experiences. Different people have different approaches!

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Glee!

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

Oof. This one is hard but I think it’s an even tie between Here We Go Again and If Music Be!

Tagging: @somefeministtheatrepls @somanywords @justgleekout @kurtsascot and anyone else who wants to try!

#tag you’re it

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piedoesnotequalpi · 2 months

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🍄❄️🌿 if you want!! - @pigeonwit

(Writer ask game!)

🍄 (how did you get into writing fanfiction?)

This has...three answers, depending on how far back you want to go.

Answer 1: The first fanfiction I wrote was a cursed but hilarious Shakespeare mega-crossover that I've contemplated posting here based on a writing prompt on a sophomore year English final. I then proceeded to not write any more fanfiction (except for my Broadchurch-inspired poetry in creative writing), until...

Answer 2: At the beginning of the pandemic, I was rewatching Parks and Rec and was curious how, at one point, Ben knew about Leslie's favorite spot in City Hall. I wrote a short one-shot with my thoughts, made an AO3 account to post it, and thought I'd never use the account to post anything else, until...

Answer 3: A few months after I first watched Newsies, I thought I could fit the Newsies characters into a Much Ado About Nothing retelling pretty well--Javid as Ben and Bea, Spot and Race as Claudio and Hero, Katherine as Don Pedro, etc. My irl friend encouraged me to write it and helped with some plot stuff (Jack dressing up as Rapunzel was her idea if I remember correctly). I thought I wouldn't write anything else after that, but then I had ideas for one-shots and was kind of in a bad place mentally, so I kept going, and now here I am >140k words into the Bachelorette AU! What a time!

❄ (What's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?)

I thought about this in the shower, and I think I'd like to see a whodunit/murder mystery fic, which seems like the sort of thing @jack-kellys would be good at. I know I certainly would not be up to writing a proper murder mystery though (despite taking an entire English class on detective fiction in high school).

(Last answer under the cut because this got long, oops)

🌿 (give some advice on writer's block and low creativity)

I know I maintain the illusion of avoiding writer's block by having a semi-regular posting schedule for the Bachelorette AU, but I am very much not immune to writer's block. Here are some things I do, with the caveat that this is just my experience and my methods do not work for everyone.

If the block is coming from feeling like I'm not sure what I'm doing in the next few scenes, I'll take a bit to figure out and write down what the next few scenes will be. These won't be super detailed, but I'll sometimes specify the POV character and usually say "xyz happens." For example, right now I have notes in my bachelorette document about who's going in the hot seat when, as well as the scenes I want to have take place after the men tell all filming wraps.

If I'm just overwhelmed, I'll take a little longer and write a list of things, in order, that need to happen in a chapter (this is what I did for each chapter for the bachelorette au). In the Much Ado adaptation, I wrote down each scene number from the play and decided which POV(s) each scene would have and in what order, which served as a reminder of what each scene focused on.

If it's just that the words won't come, I look back over what I've read, go read a book, or I just sort of force myself to plod along (with the exception of these past couple weeks, where I've been really tired from work and haven't had much time to sit down and designate Writing Time). Brute-forcing isn't for everyone, but when I'm doing that, I try not to delete what I've written and I try not to think about whether it's good, since if I don't like the scene I can go back and edit or rewrite it later. I also do sprints sometimes.

After yet another abandoned novel attempt in 2022, I never skip ahead to the scene I really want to write. I'll write down single lines or bits of dialogue, but that's it. If I skip ahead, it makes it way harder to finish the fic.

#asks #ask game #pidge!#dubious life advice #writing #that first answer reminded me that i've spent a lot of time writing memoir-style stuff #both for fun and to help make sense of my life because i've had some weird/bad stuff happen #anyway these were very fun thanks for sending them!

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velocitytimes2 · 10 months

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Taking Prompt Requests! (SFW and NSFW)

Yes hello! I'm working on a long form fic and need a way to warm up if my RP partner is busy and thought I'd just slam open my ask box for blurb requests for my favorite ships and we can gooooo from there. It's all on the table: AU's, ABO, canon, fix it, angst, literally try me. Surprise me. Make me think. Gimme that one itch no one has scratched yet.

Here's my ship list, in order of what I'm feeling like I'm writing the most of:

Stranger Things: ~Metalsandwich ~Steddie ~Harringrove ~anything with the loml Argyle

Newsies: ~Literally anything. I can and will and HAVE shipped it all. Lay it on me. Love me some Spralbert and Javid/Javey mostest <3

VLD: ~Shklance ~Sheith ~Klance ~Will do some others just ask!

But gimme character asks! Gimme analysis! I'm serious, try me!

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livesincerely · 1 year

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New Ask Game

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I was tagged by @quynhorlose but I’m definitely not going to tag as many people as I have wips because that would be cruel and unusual 😅

1. take a shot (but how’s your aim?)

2. we’ll be on the road like some country song [working]

3. google slides

4. new abo

5. cheerleading fic

6. [Bits & Bobs] Tease Series

7. heartstopper au

8. Oblivious Javid Shenanigans

9. New Domestic

10. Protective Jack

11. i’d get my knuckles bloody for you

12. love at first sight’s for suckers

13. [Bits & Bobs] slowly, and then all at once

14. domestic au grooming fic

15. we got your back from way back

16. [Bits & Bobs] Javid Office Fic

17. [Bits & Bobs]

I’ll tag @agentsnickers, @we-are-inevitable, @deliciouspeachpirate, @moonlitgraffiti, and @waiting-makes-me-antsy and anyone else that wants to participate!!

#*editor's note #*ask game

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gaypiratebrainrot · 2 years

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okay, so I took a break from everything else and read your fic. I have so many thoughts and feelings, most of them very conflicting. the rpf discomfort certainly is VERY there. but then, that's what was on the tin and I chose to read this with my own brain. this will definitely be the first and only way too rpf adjacent fic I'll ever read, but because you wrote it I absolutely had to and I don't think I have any regrets. okay, maybe I was mumbling "this is insane, this is insane" the whole way through, but who doesn't when they're reading something so mindbending that their brain almost explodes. of course with the discomfort of the rpf, which initially I thought would come from seeing their names, however switched around, comes the desire to read them as Ed and Stede - and you allow little details like the knee that almost make this possible - this then it rolls right back around because the essences (as discussed) captured are very clearly not Ed and Stede and through all the denial as a reader I can only deceive myself for so long. I've really pushed through my discomfort with this one because I think I get what you've tried to do here and you've discussed in such a clever way in the fic. it's all very meta and we all know this but also it's still made up and we also all know this. I don't have the same amount of writerly eloquence to put all my chaotic thoughts into sensible words, so apologies for this unhinged review. I enjoyed my discomfort greatly!!! pls accept all my love and admiration <3

i'm so so honored you read this and carried your discomfort the whole way. it's really profound to write something that is so much about me wrestling with my own discomfort with the topic that also manages to invite other people to wrestle with their discomfort in a way that feels productive and not shaming or punishing.

part of what's so wild about this fic is that it was supposed to be something much sillier, but the name swap gave me just enough plausible deniability to write the fic i apparently really wanted to deep down, which is them cheating on their wives lol (because the sexual tension is insane). when i finished writing it and wasn't sure the meta was working, i had a moment of, "ok, you just gotta accept you've written rpf and switch the names back" but i felt so guilty about that, cause somehow it was so much worse to write them cheating on their wives with the actual names. which is so, so funny to me, because even with the name swap, i am in no way hiding that this is rpf. i'm telling you right at the start with javid denkins that i know that you know that i know that this is rpf.

and with the characterization, i would often have moments where i'd be like "this is not how stede/ed would act" and then laugh at myself because they're not stede and ed. but then, the deeper joke is that they're not rhys and taika either. i've got a knack for capturing voices, and i've obsessively consumed a bunch of rhys and taika content in the last couple months, and they are my very real imaginary friends, but i do not know them. all the talent in the world would not allow me to capture what the actual lives of these real people are like, to depict them in a way that they themselves (or somehow who actually knows them) would recognize on the page.

the irony for me of all the rpf wank is that i'm pretty sure my discomfort and desire to protect the actors from my own perversions comes from my more unhealthy parasocial instincts--the belief that they really are my friends, that what i think of them matters to them, that it's my responsibility to somehow emotionally protect these full grown adults i've never met who also happen to have a lot more money and power than i do. if rpf makes the actors (or their families) uncomfortable, the best way for them to avoid it is not to attempt to control the millions of people who might want to write it, but for them to choose not to read it. which i imagine might be a fairly easy choice, considering they are busy working professionals in the film industry with a lot of other stuff going on lol.

anyway, i am so so delighted and honored you pushed through your discomfort and that the fic resonated with you like this!! thank you so very much for taking the chance! <3 <3

#asks #water flowing underground

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frogmanfae · 10 months

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Okay so I'm currently working on a college au Newsies fic (Javid) inspired by this post in which Davey is married to Oscar Delancey, Oscar is (predictably) abusive, and Davey ends up cheating on him with his best good friend Jack Kelly. I recently finished writing a scene that just feels far too chaotic to properly mesh with the rest of the story and there is no making it any less chaotic, so here it is as a stand alone drabble. I might try to salvage bits and pieces of it, but it just doesn't work as it's written. This is before Davey cheats and he is currently trying to convince himself and everyone else that he is happy in his relationship.

THIS IS COMPLETELY UNEDITED

IT HAS NOT BEEN CHECKED FOR SPELLING, GRAMMAR, WORD CHOICE, OR ANYTHING ELSE

THIS IS JUST ME TYPING AWAY WITH THE SOLE INTENTION OF JUST GETTING SOMETHING STARTED FOR LATER REVIEW

PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND AND DO NOT BASE YOUR EXPECTATIONS OF MY WRITING ON THIS IT IS FAR FROM MY BEST WORK

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Davy stiffens. He didn't tell Oscar he wouldn't be home because he thought he would be back and asleep before Oscar came back. This couldn't be him, it's only seven thirty. No way is he home-

"Oh, it's my sister." Relief washes through him. "My little brother wants to video chat." He glances over at Jack. "You in?"

"In what?" Jack pushes himself to a sitting position.

"Do you want to call my siblings? If not I can always call them tomorrow-"

"No way man I'm so in!" He smiles and takes the blanket he was laying on and wraps it around his upper body. "You wanna go inside for better lighting?"

"Nah, I like it up here." Davey smiles, typing a quick response to Sarah. "They can see fine enough... Probably." He moves so he's sitting next to Jack and nudges him so he can fit under the blanket he has wrapped around his shoulders. They're really close, but it's just for warmth. Of course it is. Warmth and nothing else. So what if the way Jack's body presses against his own makes his head swim just a little bit? He's on a rooftop of a building in New York City, of course he's bound to get a little bit of vertigo. The blanket is small and Jack is warm. It only makes sense to be so close together in the chill of late November after dark.

Davey hesitates for a moment before pressing the call button. "Please don't flirt with my sister."

"What do you take me for, a strumpet?"

Davey blinks. "Yes."

"Yeah that's fair." Jack nods. "You have my word, I don't wanna make 'er uncomfortable or nothin."

"Thank you." Davey smiles as he hits the call button, almost immediately being connected to his siblings.

"Hi David!" Sarah smiles into the camera.

"Where the hell are you?"

"Leshem!" Davey scolds. "Sarah what have you been teaching him?"

"It's not me! I promise!" Sarah holds her hands up. "He asked a good question, though. Where are you? It's so dark that it looks like there are two of you."

"Oh there are two of us." Davey leans closer into Jack's body. For warmth. "This is Jack."

"Howdy!"

"He likes cowboys."

"Love me some wild wild west!" Jack fakes a country accent, making Davey snort.

"Oh so that's the guy who's totally upped your mood?" Sarah teases.

"Shut up he has not!" Davey barks, thankful for the darkness concealing the pink dusting on his face.

"Ouch!" Jack leans away from Davey, effectively taking away both the heat of his body and the blanket.

"Oh my god no!" Davey whines. "No come back! It's too cold!"

"Well clearly if I don't mean nothin to ya-" Jack smirks, barely visible in the lack of illumination.

"No! No you mean the world to me! I take it back!" He laughs, reaching put to grab the blanket.

Jack moves it out of the way. "I'm deeply hurt, Dave."

"Jackie!" He pouts, still smiling. "Come on! I'm sorry! I'm gonna freeze to death!"

"Ugh you're so dramatic." Jack lifts the blanket to wrap it around Davey's shoulders and pull him closer to him anyway. "You're lucky I have a heart."

Davey just about melts into Jack's side, smiling up at him. "Yeah, I am." He focuses back on the screen in his hand. "How have you guys been?"

"Oh my god Sarah has been such a bitch lately!" Les whines.

"Leshem! She's taking care of you! Be nice!" Davey scolds.

"No, he's right I've definitely been a bitch." Sarah nods. "I'm just really tired with midterms and finals and cooking and-"

"And Katherine!" Les shouts.

"Katherine?" Davey raises his eyebrow, though not visible.

"Yeah you remember that girl that she-" Sarah puts her hand over Les's mouth.

"Oh my god, Sarah! You have to tell me these things! I'm your twin! It's like-" Davey hesitates, looking for the right term. "I don't know! The law! Or something!"

"Nothing has happened!" Sarah assures.

Les breaks free from her grasp. "That's not true! I saw them kissing!"

Davey gasps, Sarah waves her hands around. "No no it's not like that! I mean- okay yeah we kissed like one time!"

"I told you about every single time I did anything with Oscar in high school!"

"That's different- I... No that's totally different! Jack do you have a twin?"

"Uhh... Kinda? I got a brother the same age as me but-"

"Good enough. You can agree that kissing someone and not saying anything to your brother is different than having sex and not saying anything?"

"Oh that's not even fair!" Davey gasps. "I told you about our first like twenty kisses too!"

"Gross!" Les exclaims, earning a small shove from Sarah.

"You can go into the other room until we switch topics." She steers him away, knowing full well he'll still listen in.

"I don't tell Crutch when I have sex." Jack contributes. "Just for the record."

"Okay but the first time you have sex with someone you've been crushing on for a while?"

"Nah. That hasn't ever happened to me. My only serious relationship was with this girl in ninth grade and we never made it that far. The only people I've actually really liked since then have been unavailable in some way."

"What about your first first time then?"

"I didn't even know my brother yet. We didn't meet til two or three years after I lost the card."

"You guys are talking about this way too comfortably for two people who have never met." Davey comments.

"Well you hear all about my experiences nowadays, she looks a little too much like you, I guess." Jack smiles.

"Yeah I hear about way more than I'd prefer." Davey shudders.

"Oh, Davey! You don't mean that! You love hearin about when I-"

"Ahhh I'm not listening! I can't hear you!" He curls further into Jack's side in an attempt to muffle the sound since he can't cover his ears and hold the phone at the same time.

"Davey!" Jack laughs.

"Davey?" Sarah arches an eyebrow. "What happened to only letting people call you David or else?"

"Uh..."

"Oh?" Jack gasps. "Ooh! Am I special? Do I get special nickname privileges, Dave?"

"No! You just wouldn't stop calling me that when I told you not to!"

"Oh but you introduced yourself to Buttons as Davey!" Jack bellows, way too excited about this. "Oh this is great."

"Sarah why did you have to say anything?" Davey groans.

"You didn't even let Oscar call you Dave that's why!"

"Oh!" Jack gasps. "Oh I've got privileges even the husband don't got!"

"Your grammar makes me want to jump off of this roof."

"You're on a roof?" Les nearly explodes. Davey isn't sure how long he's been there.

"Why are you on a roof?" Sarah questions.

"Because it's fun?" Davey says.

"That's it? Just because it's fun?" Davey can't quite find the words to describe her expression.

"Since when do you do anything just for fun?" Les asks so seriously that it almost hurts.

"Hey!" Davey frowns. "I'm fun!"

"Yeah and Les is allowed to stay up past ten." Sarah rolls her eyes.

"Ouch!" He leans into Jack's chest. "I'm fun, aren't I, Jackie?"

"Sure are, I don't know what they're talkin about." He smiles down at Davey.

Davey frowns more. "The sarcastic tone you're using wounds me."

#newsies #david jacobs #jack kelly #writing #davey jacobs #gay #lgbtq #writing stuff #sarah jacobs #katherine x sarah #les jacobs #wip #fanfiction #seriously this is not a reflection of me as a writer

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nyoomnyoomplane · 1 year

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Superhero AU

I have been thinking of writing a superhero au so here’s some random ideas that I have in my head

Superheroes initially didn’t have to affiliated with anyone but then it was just chaos so a law was passed that all heroes must be affiliated with an agency. At the start there are a fair few agencies but then the Pulitzer family’s agency make all of those shut down. Instead of getting their heroes to do things for the good of others, they get them to do the dirty work so the Pulitzers can have almost total control of the entire city. Some agencies pop up in attempts to stop them but very few were successful.

Medda Larkin owns the agency that all the Newsies are in. Jack has had his powers for the longest and treats it as his responsibility to make those who just found out they have powers feel at home. By doing this he made himself the unofficial person older brother.

Jack got his powers a lot younger than the usual age, meaning he’s to be more powerful. (I’m basic fight me) Despite this, he isn’t allowed to do much more than stop unarmed robberies and fights on the streets. He’s promised that when he’s 18 he’ll be allowed to do bigger things but Jack can’t wait and gets himself some enemies with the Delancey brothers.

As a way to get to Jack they kidnap Davey, who doesn’t have powers and knows nothing about Jack’s powers. Jack bring Jack is ready to raise hell for him.

I don’t have the rest of the storyline thought out, kind of just random ideas in my heads and I have to figure out how to make them work together. I also have no idea what anyone’s powers will be. There’s vague ideas in my head, like with everything else but nothing definitive.

This will obviously be a javid fic because I’m an idiot for javid and they will be the most stupidly in love idiot teenagers ever.

#random rambles #i have half of two possible prologues written and the first chapter and half the second one #i just need to make an ao3 account to post it because i have wattpad and post there but want to start posting on ao3 as well #superhero au #newsies

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pigeonwit · 4 months

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hey mista wouldja recommend a poor starvin kid some nice long javey fics to read in these rough times

ive hit a total slump in reading fic and i would love if ya had any good ones to recommend + you have an incredible taste so ofc i have to ask the expert!!!

(also hows it going???)

SNEEP my beloved i have MISSED you!!! so funny you ask cause i've been waiting to say this: sneepy i am eepy. so very eepy, sneepy. my whole body feels weighed down my brainf eels like sludge its a LOT. but im gettin through it! im writing something self indulgent and fun and trying to focus on my assignments before i get to requests, but i can absolutely get you some recommendations sneep, lets go.

losing my mind because i find you in it by PenzyRome - jack and race are getting married and he is so close to getting over his ex who is consistently crushing it and is friends with celebrities and is obviously so much happier without jack except oh! race hired him as their wedding planner! excellent! almost every relationship in this is a hot mess and i love it. everyones a bit of a disaster but thats how love is, huh. its disastrous and awful and fucks everything up and you can either give up on it or make it worth it. that's what this fic is about. making it worth something. penzys fics really stick the landing for endings that feel not just satisfactory, but earned. for all the shit the characters are put through, its more than made up for. also, davey is allowed to be messy! he's not a saint! he made mistakes, he is flawed, he has insecurities that he takes out on others! i love break-up fics that dont make jack the sole bad guy - dont get me wrong, he fucks up too, but both of them need to work to make this worth it. ALSO also, sprutchie. nough said.

too many colours (enough to drive us all insane) by scarlettroses - i think everyone knows this one but on the offchance you dont, its really good. it takes that joke-prompt of 'straight guy worries hes being homophobic towards gay roommate, realizes hes gay instead' and runs with it. because if that DID happen, how would it affect you? you wouldnt just go 'welp, guess im gay now!' and swan-dive into a relationship with your roommate. the fic really explores both davey and jacks relationship with identity and self expression and how discovering your sexuality is a big part of self acceptance and self love; jack takes time to connect with his home and his friends and realizes his sexuality is a piece of that, thereby feeling more whole and at home with himself. davey is allowed to learn that simply being gay is not an expectation and there is no requirement needed to meet a certain amount of Gay - he can just exist the way he wants to. and he gets a nose ring and buzzes his hair, which is 90% of why im reccing this. it does an excellent job of exploring this idea that a person does not make you whole - only you can do that. but a person can make you happy, and you deserve that, too.

Auspicious Beginnings (and the entire May Look At A King series) by ArtemisRayne - my favourite newsies series ever. this fic itself (as well as most of the fics in the series) is a oneshot, but put together you get a long and lovely road through davey and jacks relationship set in a really interesting au. i know the whole idea of cat-human hybrids might feel weird to some people, it is an idea thats been VERY tainted by the internet, but like with 'the crime of being small' i just love fics that explore this recontextualization of humanity. how WOULD a race of cat-human hybrids go about their existence? what accommodations would need to be made, what prejudices would they face, what strengths, what difficulties? the author explores it really well and if you can get past any awkwardness you might have with the trope itself you get one of my favourite javid relationships ever written. they support each other! they fight for each other! they fight for themselves! they cross boundaries and hurt each other and learn how to do better! its really sweet and was one of my big inspirations for 'vice vermin virtue' so i highly recommend the whole series.

#newsies #javid #javey #fic recs #fic hoard #sneepsnoopboopideeboop #ask

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thetomorrowshow · 3 years

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unless you take your army back

Hello and welcome to the sequel to my work i will make the sky collapse! You honestly do not have to read the first one to understand this one--the first was a Crutchie-centric whump-focused refuge story, and this one is about his recovery and Jack coming to terms with what happened (and maybe some,,, sprace).

So yeah! This is chapter one! Content warnings will be posted at the beginning of each chapter :) This is a queued post, so as soon as I have time to post it on AO3 I’ll update this with the link.

cw: blood, brief description of injury

On the same day they won the strike, there were a good dozen kids clamoring to be a newsie, appearing out of nowhere with the sole purpose of bothering Jack. He didn’t really want to care--they could be a newsie all they wanted--but the problem was they all needed a start-up fund. They all wanted Jack to foot the cost of their first papes and first week of room and board, and though he had just gotten a job offer and an improved living overall, he just didn’t have the time or money to train so many penniless kids. So he sent them to Spot Conlon, of course.

It was pretty clear that these kids all came from the Refuge, which had just been shut down by the governor. Jack had never been happier than he was when he saw the cop drag Snyder away in chains. The nagging question that was slowly coming to the front of his mind, though, was where was Crutchie?

Katherine had been here for the short celebration, but had seemed distracted and had left almost immediately, without giving Jack a chance to ask after his brother. He wanted to go look for the kid, comb through the Refuge and the streets surrounding it, but Davey had regretfully told him he couldn’t leave. He was the union leader, and a nice official union it was at that. He actually couldn’t even sell right now, he had to return to Pulitzer’s office and continue working on a bunch of paperwork registering the union or something. Pulitzer had told him that they would be working together occasionally due to his new position as leader of the Newsboys Union, which apparently meant that whenever there was a problem on either of their ends they had to include the other in their solving of the problem. It made sense to Jack, what he didn’t get was why he had to read a billion papers telling him it made sense.

Katherine did not ride with him and Mr. Pulitzer in the carriage back to his office, and she didn’t come and see him when he left late in the afternoon, but maybe she was just at work. There was a lot to report, after all. Jack wished it didn’t hurt. There was no way it was intentional, they all had a lot going on right now. It wasn't like he'd gone looking for her, after all. He'd see her tomorrow, cross paths on the way to work.

What with all the stressful arrangements and intense discussions, Jack was more tired than he usually was by the time he entered the lodging house. In later days, he wished that he had spoken to Mush, waiting anxiously outside. He wished that he had not gone with Pulitzer to his office, and instead sought out Katherine straightaway. Most of all, he wished that he had gone personally to the Refuge, made sure to set those kids free himself.

He didn’t do any of those things, though. Instead, he walked home from Pulitzer’s office, nodded to Mush, and went straight inside.

Katherine was there, which was odd, but certainly not unwelcome. According to Race, she had spent time with them without him, just celebrating with them and getting to know them all. That was fine, but most girls didn’t seek out a bunch of street rat teenage boys as preferred company.

Not only was Katherine there, but half of the newsies were seemingly just waiting by the door, dropping what they’d been doing and standing to stare at him. Sure, Jack was something of a celebrity now--and he had betrayed them more than once, which could be the reason also--but they looked almost guilty.

“Jack,” Katherine started, and Jack saw that sorry look on her face and his heart dropped. What could this be about? He’d been with Pulitzer all day, so it wasn’t like the old man had turned on them. Where was Crutchie? Was he--he couldn’t be. Right? No.

“Jack,” she said again, and now she was crying. Jack wanted to kiss the tears off her face, tell her she never needed to cry again, but he couldn’t. He had to know--his stomach was roiling, threatening to toss up whatever bite he’d eaten earlier. Something had happened, and it--it couldn’t be--

“It’s Crutchie,” Katherine said, and Jack had a brief moment of huh, so that’s how swoonin’ feels before he was on his knees. He can’t have died. Crutchie was--well, Crutchie. He was just as capable as any newsie, could sell papes twice as well as half of them, and was stronger than anyone Jack knew--certainly far stronger than himself. But if Snyder--if the Refuge--if--

“He’s alive,” Katherine hurried to say, kneeling on the floor beside him, and Jack let out a choked laugh, only just realizing he was crying.

“Ya couldn’ta said that sooner?” he asked weakly, and Katherine sniffled, trying to regain composure.

“He’s alive,” she repeated, “but he isn’t doing well at all. He wanted to see you, but I think he’s still asleep.”

In seconds, Jack was back on his feet, pulling her up with him. “Let’s go,” he said, pulling her towards the bunkroom. “I gotta see ‘im.”

He ignored her cries of “Jack, wait, you have to know--” and took the stairs two at a time, yanking open the door as soon as it was in front of him. The room was dead silent for once, and only one bed was occupied (despite the fact that he’d told Romeo to rest up today after the strike). Over by the open window on the far wall, a figure was laying in the only bed without a top bunk (the one that belonged to Jack, seeing as he was in charge).

Jack could barely hold back a retch as he came closer, seeing the matted hair crusted in blood, but sticking straight up, same as always. Crutchie was sleeping almost peacefully on the bed, the blankets tucked around him messily, as if one of the boys had tried his very best to arrange it like a mother would. His face was swollen and cut up, almost unrecognizable as his brother, though his neck was what caught Jack’s attention. A brownish-purple bruise in the vague shape of a gripped hand was found there, where the fingers had dug in marked by little round black bruises, a sick imitation of a constellation crossing his brother’s throat.

Jack’s fists curled into tight balls as he stared down at Crutchie, seeing red. The rest of his body was hidden by the covers, excepting a stiff arm that was tightly wrapped in gauze. The collar of his undershirt was the only part of his clothes visible, and it was stained brown and torn.

There were two sides of Jack warring for dominance. One screamed at him to storm down to the county jail right this moment and give Snyder everything he deserved. The other side tried to pull him to the floor, weeping at Crutchie’s bedside. Jack fought both, not wanting to seem weak in front of Katherine, who was watching him with that soft-concerned look on her face that he had already come to know too well. He needed to get alone, needed space, needed a moment to cope with what he’d just been confronted with so that he could best help Crutchie later.

Jack calmly left the room, replying something along the lines of fine, just need a minute when Katherine asked tentatively if he was okay. Then he walked slowly down the steps and through the main room, where all of the newsies watched him silently. He nodded vaguely in their direction. Luckily, none of them asked any questions. If they had, Jack wasn’t sure that he would’ve been able to hold back the sobs.

Finally he was outside, and here he could run. Run he did, all the way around the side of the building and up the fire escape, running and running until all that existed was the clang! of his feet against the metal and the wind rushing past his ears. Then he was climbing the ladder to the very top, where only a week ago he and Crutchie had woken, excited to start striking for real.

Jack had woken early that morning, and had taken the time to sketch out the New York skyline against the starry night sky. It was a frequent subject of his, but that morning he had filled in himself and Crutchie, sitting on the roof closest to the perspective, curled up and reaching toward the stars.

When Crutchie had gotten up, they had made mundane small talk, both trying to hide nervousness that showed too plainly. They eventually stopped talking around it, laughing and joking about it directly, before deciding--no, vowing--to not let the other come to serious harm or danger. Then they had gone downstairs, ready to wake the other boys and get on with the revolution.

The last promise--maybe the last one ever--that Jack had made to Crutchie, and he’d broken it not even hours later. On the rooftop now, Jack kicked the low wall angrily, then again and again. What was wrong with him? How could he focus so intently on these--these mundanities, paperwork and politeness and whatall, while Crutchie was suffering so? How had he not been here for him, when he arguably needed Jack more than anyone else at the moment?

He kicked the wall one more time, then threw himself to the floor. What kind of leader was he? He’d betrayed everyone, almost left Crutchie; then when he’d gotten his head on the right way, he hadn’t done anything to make sure the kid was all right!

“Jack?”

Katherine. She would come up here, tell him it was okay, that it wasn’t his fault. He didn’t want that. It was his fault, and he couldn’t have anyone denying it or he might just explode.

“Leave me alone,” he called back, barely keeping his voice from breaking. Silence, then a sigh and the sound of soft footsteps going down the fire escape. Good.

Jack drew his hands across his face, taking in a shuddering breath. He had to pull himself together. He couldn’t dream about leaving anymore, that would just make things worse. He had to be here for Crutchie, and the other boys. Prove that he wasn’t a scab.

He hadn’t eaten any supper, but he didn’t really care. It was dark enough that he shouldn’t have a problem resting. Add it to the tired ache in his bones and he’d be out in no time. He’d get up when everyone else went to bed, then he’d stay up the rest of the night with Crutchie, be there in case he had nightmares or woke up. He had to be there for him. He had to.

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loving-jack-kelly · 2 years

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i know too much about tenement law in new york to use numbers that don't make sense but not enough about modern building requirements to know what exactly i need to google to get numbers that do make sense. no i'm not talking about old law tenement buildings this is more modern yes this is post height law this is more modern no i have no idea how to find a floor plan for an average h shaped building in manhattan built in the early to mid nineteen hundreds when googling h shaped buildings only gets me old law tenements (which isn't even RIGHT old law tenements weren't h shaped those are new law)

#maybe i won't be a teacher ill move to NYC and work at the tenement museum I could talk about about old/new/heigh laws #and their effect on housing and the lives of the working class during the peak of tenement life during the industrial revolution #literally all day long. it's so interesting. anyway I can't finish this fic until I know how big the courtyard would be #i should just google my sister's old building and use those dimensions even though hers was a C shaped building not an H shaped one #and built more recently than the one I'm writing abt. way too nice.#anyway. my own desire for knowledge is a debilitating curse when all I want to do is write javid <3 #anyway. ask me about tenement law and the working class of turn of the century new york it's literally so interesting

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that-one-bi-wizard · 3 years

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Okay so I drew something like this a looong time ago, but here’s a redraw because my art style has improved so much since then and I really love this AU.

So yeah! Here’s Jack and Davey as Tiana and Naveen :3

#newsies #newsies au #the prince and the frog au #jack kelly #david jacobs #davey jacobs #javid #javey #the princess and the frog #i promise I’m working on the fic #I’m itching to upload the next chapter but I got writers block #hopefully it’ll be up soon tho #also yes yes it would’ve worked better the other way around but it’s my AU so I get to make Jack a princess>:3 #redraw #jay tries to draw #newsies fanart

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queenofbrooklyn · 2 years

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2021 Fic in Review

I was tagged by the ever supportive @curls-cat so thank you very much my friend!! @klaineharmony also posted hers so I sort of morphed the two of them together.

Stories completed this year:

I finished “Holding Hands and Blue Flowers”, “Who We are in September”, “It’s a Rigged Deck They got All the Marbles”, “Candy Castles in the Woods”, “They’ll be Plenty of Time for That”, “Sweet and Spicy”, “Bells and Resolutions”, one chapter of “Somewhere in the Crowd there’s You”, and a handful of chapters for “Surviving the Ride”.

Total word count:

According the Ao3, I wrote 43,823 words this year! I am crazy beyond proud of that number, oh my gosh.

Fandoms written for:

Newsies and The Sisters Grimm, as usual haha

Did you write more, less, or roughly what you expected?:

This amount of writing is what I had hoped for. I of course had lofty goals of writing so much more, but man I’m so proud of myself. I’ve never written this much or this consistently before. I’m not going to say it’s more than I expected, but I honestly think it’s more than I thought I could accomplish. I’m not sure I expected this of myself.

What’s your favorite story of the year?:

Almost without a doubt it’s “They’ll be Plenty of Time for That”. I am still so in love with it. It’s truly a love letter to Spot/Sarah and to 1890s New York.

Did you take any writing risks this year?:

Not really? I tried some new styles in “Surviving the Ride”, especially with dialogue and I think it payed off but I’m not sure I’d consider that a risk. I think putting yourself out there is always a risk though and I’m happy I’m posting more than ever.

Do you have any writing goals for the New Year?:

Write more consistently. I did for a while but I’ve really fallen off the bandwagon. I want to post at least once a month. Ideally more than that. I want to finish “Surviving the Ride” this year. And work on all the other projects I have floating around my head. Concretely, I want to get a writing schedule down.