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Davey: Jellyfish have been living for over 600000 years without brains

Jack: A ray of hope for Race then

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poor guys head is spinning

a continuation of this post by @mmabelpines

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Bonus:

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Someone draw this plz I’m begging you

rip les jacobs you would’ve loved those heart sunglasses and sour patch kids

(and baby shark)

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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!

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newsies twitter 6/?

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Hi.

I will never be over this f—ing picture

I need fanfics about this picture, do I have to do it myself?

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I was watching this older production of Newsies, and I noticed the sweetest moments ever I wanted to CRY!!!!

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Race, admiring a sleeping Spot: You’re so cute. Spot, sleepily: I could beat your ass. Race, lovingly: I know.

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This is so frickin cute

is the newsies fandom still alive lol

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that one line in newsies that goes "this is for the kids shinin' shoes on the streets without shoes on their feet every day" hits so hard

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The most relatable lyric in Newsies is “blowing every nickel as it comes”…

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The Many Faces of David Jacobs

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Also who don’t all fight over the same boy. Plz. Like I really need some girl gang camaraderie.

just saw this on pinterest and it hit me like a truck

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Let’s talk about the Watch What Happens (reprise) and why Only Davey could’ve sang it.

Like at this point they’re pushing the Katherine and Jack agenda, why shouldn’t she be his inspiration to keep going in this moment???

And the answer is cause she can’t grasp the situation fully!!!

Let me make it very clear that this is Not Katherine slander. I love her. I think this scene highlights the differences in their struggles and upbringing in a really brilliant way.

When she sees Jack wants to quit in this scene she’s so harsh with him. Doesn’t try to empathize with his situation at all, wants him to just buck up and keep going! Because for her, in her situation, with her upbringing, that’s the only way to get anywhere! She wants to be a reporter? Well she can’t listen when she’s told no. She has to push ahead no matter what. She can’t show fear and she can’t show weakness cause she’ll be called a girl like it’s a bad thing and have it used against her. But she doesn’t see her privilege in this! That in coming from a rich powerful family her physical safety can not be put in jeopardy! Her worst case scenario is moving back home and having to deal with her family’s idea of what it means to be a women in this time period. And don’t get me wrong that’s horrible, it would be a terrible and unfair outcome.

But it doesn’t threaten her physical safety!! (Not to say this is true for all women in her position but the show paints a picture that her dad does genuinely love her in his extremely misguided way and we never see him threaten her physical well being or even to stop bank rolling her). She can’t understand that sometimes you need to let a fight pass you by to survive. She doesn’t understand what it really means for Crutchie to be in the Refuge until later. So she pushes hard and it would’ve just ended in a fight where her and Jack miss each other’s points entirely.

But Davey gets it. Maybe not to the extent Jack does, but Jack said it himself Davey’s dads physical safety being jeopardized at work has threatened his whole family’s housing and food security. Something that could’ve been prevented with a union. He knows that this isn’t safe, he fully grasps the danger they’re in, to an extent that Katherine can’t because she’s never threatened by it. Not really. For her and her rich friends she involves this could just be a pet project (she would never view it that way of course) but if this all goes pear shaped all she has to live with is the guilt not the consequences. Her life continues with maybe some delays depending how long her blacklisting lasts.

But for Davey this could be the choice that means they can’t afford food or can’t pay rent. This could be the choice that means Les can’t go to school and his dad doesn’t have a safe place to recover. He gets it, he matches Jack’s fear, but he can’t backdown when they’re making real changes that Jack is having a hard time seeing in the wake of losing Crutchie to an institution that is a large source of his trauma. He needed empathy and hope not an ass kicking and Davey delivered.

Without him that scene would’ve ended with Jack running away a lot sooner and a lot more permanently. Rant over. Hopefully this is semi-well articulated it’s late and I couldn’t sleep til I got this out.

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Thank you for this. 👏

Why does Jack dress nicer than all the other newsies?

Broadway established his look as long pants, a collared overshirt in a tasteful solid color, and a vest worn buttoned up. His costuming sets him apart from the rest of the newsies, signaling that he is someone who is 100% prepared for an adult girlfriend and a salary job. All he'd have to do to get respectable is remove the newsie cap.

Booooo! Fuck that!

I want to see Jack wearing pants with a big rip in one knee that he tried to sew up himself, pants he's grown out of that expose mismatched socks. I want to see him clash patterns. Make him look like the urchin Pulitzer says he is. It's 88 degrees; let the kid unbutton his overshirt! GIVE HIM BACK HIS BANDANA!

The fancy duds don't really make sense for the life Jack lives. But more than that, the buttoned-up shirt contradicts what the character represents to Katherine and David, who are so drawn to him, and what he represents to the audience.

The power of youth and of collective action. The dignity of poverty. Freedom.

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rewatched newsies 2017 with my bestie recently