#Newsies my beloved <3

[duckzz]

katherine plumber?!? 🫣

[the-woild-is-y-erster]

newsietober submission for day 1 (a day late ik i was busy)

prompt: midnight

latin name, luna. hundreds of thousands of miles away from here.

@newsiestober2023 day 2 will be out in a few minutes i prommy<3

[spinningerster]

searched 'newsies uk' on youtube and this came up

[moth-based-cryptology]

last sentence tag game

tagged by: @lailuhhh

Rules: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

It takes until Race is sitting up sharply on the couch, the warm, dark hands of his older brother tight around his wrists, to realize that the person screaming is him. He breathes harshly, rough in and out of his spasming lungs, throat raw from all the noise he was making. His face is wet with tears, he realizes.

Albert’s laugh is still echoing in his ears.

tagging:

@we-are-inevitable @roideny @jack-kellys @enter-plot-holes-here

[rag-tag-ragamuffin]

Happy Pride Month

[walkman-cat]

#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 !)

[jack-kellys]

for the fic title thing !!!!

“there are worse ways to stay alive” ORRRR

“my engine works perfect on empty (i guess i’ll drive)”

- @we-are-inevitable ✨

so im doing both bc why the fuck not

send me a fic title and i'll think up a fic!

GENUINELY my first thought for the first one is a santa clarita diet au LMAO?? i've never seen it though so technically im still original. but like jack and crutchie are roommates. jack either eats something that gets him sick or something insane like an nyc rat bites his ankle bc this is a comedy. jack starts acting... weirder, and crutchie picks up on it pretty fast bc they are 🤝. it's almost like jack has this concussive brain fog and it takes him a while to form sentences, he's talking a lot less, eating less, much more irritable. kinda of like crutchie is dealing with a moody, hungry teenager. but the night after when c's smoking on the first escape (medicinal....not medicinal... c’est la vie) jack comes out to join him and like.

"you ever get these weird, like. cravings for stuff you can't eat?"

"god yeah, i used to want to eat lava and playdough and shit like that all the–"

"like yeah, that stuff too but like...when you bite your hand and you keep biting it, you know, 'cause it's kind of squishy and like. food?"

"did. you... you did hit the joint i left out, right?"

"nah, i was just thinking, i guess.. or i've been thinking."

"fuck."

so it's Charlie's Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad time of trying to hide the fact that his best friend is now half-zombie, and especially how not to tell david jacobs, jack's boyfriend and c's longtime friend. i usually make charlie into the enigma but i think jack should be it, for fun. also i think it'd be funny if it took crutchie kinda longer to realize that what's wrong with jack is zombification specifically because honestly... jack is just like that LMAO??? he hates waking up in the morning, he's tired a lot, he has weird eating habits, makes weird noises, not a lot of perception on if he's being loud or not, zones out a lot. jack's basically halfway there already tbh. but he'd stopped creating, which is what initially tips c off.

the shenanigans of hiding it and then needing to find a cure before it's too late is just fun asf. also jack gets to literally lose his mind. haha. ha. ha. :)

now the SECOND title. lmao

~davey is pushing himself to hard againnn yeahhhhh!!!~

college au, davey has an exam coming up that he's going crazy about. hours on hours of studying, isolation, stressing, not eating as much...jack is really worried. he asks his friends what to do- some say to leave him be to get through it, some say to talk to him, and then albert dasilva says "why don't you just..kidnap him."

"what?"

"yeah, so he doesn't have access to any of his textbooks or notes or laptop, you just toss him in the car and drive."

"what is wrong with you," charlie says, but jack is nodding.

"no wait. say more rn."

so during the late night before the day before the test, it's like 3am when davey finally falls asleep at his desk, and then like. the cueing text is sent in the group chat from jack and all the besties scurry into action.

jack lifts davey into his arms, and their dorm door is opened for them silently by albert. race right next to him surgically places a sleepmask onto daveys face so the hall light doesnt wake him. romeo's holding the elevator open. mush and blink are holding the downstairs doors open. specs and crutchie drove daveys car (having stolen the keys earlier in the day of course) over, open the passenger door for davey, lower the seat, set a blanket over him, carefully close the door, and wish jack luck.

davey wakes up two hours of driving later to signs saying they're in south jersey of all fucking places. it's now the day before his test. and davey is livid.

"you kidnapped me."

"technically it was albert's idea"

"i don't see albert driving my damn car. turn around, jack, it's really not the time to be fucking funny right now."

"i'm a little insulted at you not thinking i know you well enough to do this. if i really thought you'd hate me for this, if i really thought it would- destroy your grade, or your college career, do you really think i'd be doing it?"

"maybe."

"no, sweetheart, jeez. you've studied for the past fifteen days- if you just relax, you'll make the grade, and there's no way you would've let yourself do that back on campus. so, i kidnapped you."

they spend the day together fucking around at the atlantic city boardwalk and dipping their feet into the ocean and watching the sunset before driving back. david gets a 90% on his test and maybe he wanted a 92% but he wouldn't trade grades for the world if it meant not getting kidnapped by his boyfriend and their friends. :)

[common-grackle]

Race for the ask game!!

HAHA YES!!!!!!

[tending-the-hearth]

if i had a nickel for every time an actor who played carbucketty in a production of cats the musical was also in a production of newsies, i'd have two nickels...

which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice times

[willowistic22]

If anyone is wondering what i’ve been doing behind the scenes:

Tell me what the hell do i do with this. I already planned it till chapter 21 and i can’t figure out how to end it…

[theoneandonlycowboyofthesea]

HI you’re so cool ILYSM <333 /p

ily too!!! <333 /p

[the-woild-is-y-erster]

him, actually

realized ive never actually posted any jack drawings besides the rpverse ones and that is a CRIME

like just look at him!!!!! the he!!!! the him!!!!!

its from a bunch of newsies doodles i did in geometry today btw

dont like race's face in this one but im lazy so im not gonna change it

[thatoneandlonelyemo2005]

I watched 92sies....again-

*title screen with Max's voice over* me screaming while that happens

*Seeing a printer* screams 'yes girl'

The boys sleeping on the statute with dirty feet is gonna make me cry

MR. KLOPPMAN <3, also the squeaky floors are a mood

Boots my beloved, Swifty (is that the one who is sucking his thumb?), SKITTERY THO LOOK AT HIM, Mush sleeping so peacefully, BUMLETS TURNING OVER AND COVERING HIMSELF UP!!!

Hello Jack, wake up you silly whore, also can we talk about his hair it looks so dead

RACETRACK CIGAR IS STOLEN

BEST BOY BLINK WHO JUMPED FROM NO WHERE

MUSH BEING RIPPED

SPECSC AND BLINK, CRUTCHIE <333

"on me back mush", JACK LOOKS IN PAIN THIS WHOLE CONVERSATION

Mush having shaving cream on him by jack-

SKITTERYS VOICE, UM HELLEROOOO BEAUTIFUL

Kid Blink my beloved

OH I CAN SEE MUSHES UNDER WHERE...WELL THEN

Crutchie though, deals with this shit everyday istggg

BLUSH INTERACTING MUSH PUSHING HIM

DUTCHY COMING OUT OF THE TOLITE/DOOR

A BOY IS CLEANING THERE FEET BEAUTFUL

Racer wanting a towel and Skittery is being so silly

Jacks red banana

DID I JUST SEE A BUMLETS YES

Smol boy trying to catch up by sliding on the ground

Mr.Kloppman counting to make sure there all there <3

I hate the kid with the paper telling them to hurry up so annoying

Them all dancing on the barrels, running around and sliding

KID BLINK AND RACE PLAYFIGHTING

THE NUNNS LAKHDLKADGLKDKG, MUSH, KID BLINK SINIGNG<3RACE<3DUTCHY<3

THE FUCKIUNG DANCEING LMAOOOO

BUMLETS AND RACE <3

Specs and Skittery pushing around

DELANCYES BROTHERS ARE HERE AND THE NEWSIES ARE READY, GO OFF

Blink smacking Mush <3

Race betting, JACK TAKES HAT

GO OFF JACK,

DAIVD AND LES <3

COWBOY SWINGING ON THE LITTLE THING

FISRT GAY ENCOUNTER WITH DAVID "What do you think your doing"

sings: "GO GET THEM COWBOY"

Les pushing threw the boys to see Jack

"Your too kind Racer"

Bell rings, Wiesel <3

BLUSH TALKING AND SMILING MUSH WHISPERING IN EAR

DAVID 20 papes but only gets 19, Jack being very gay

I SER SKITTERY IN THE BACKGROUND

"The call him cowboy!"

Kid Blink and Mush walking over is best, Mush is holding Jacks papers while talking to Les, Blink Smiling

"Well if hes the best then why dose he need me" LIKE DAMNNNNNN GO OFF DAVID

Boots I see you, you silly boy,

60/40 *shakes*

Cruitchie has beautiful eyes tf

I HATE SPIT EWWWW

"Newsies sell papes", pretty women walk by and them being all respectful, SPECS GO OFF CALL OUT THAT OUTLINE

I forgot this was a straight boy movie

Pulitzer trying to take money from Herst

"Never mind the Newsies" Stop it, no not rn, just stfu

Silly man gets punch, Les drinking, David having a heart attack, Jack just enjoying life UNTIL SYNDER

Them running away and all the people looking at them, I think i even saw some Newsies

Ending up at Meddas <3, David asking many questions "Sullivan" Jack getting defensive, David pulling Les back from the prop, Medda telling them to get out but sees Jack and <3

ALSO, LOOK AT JACK USING HIS LASSO TO HOLDS HIS PAPES

David getting pulled bY HIS TIE FROM JACK!!!!! Les taking candy

Lovely Dovey Baby, Jack and David being a little gay, also David staring at Medda

Jack running over to the big boom and wanting to join, David having so much panic and tries to get him away, Jack grabbing Les

Them walking home and David's parents are so welcoming

Sarah my beloved

Jack asking for seconds and then getting a slice of cake like go off, how many times does he get sweets

David and Jack sitting on the fire escape <3 very gay BUT WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BREAK IT UP MYER

Jack now has issues and wants to sing about Santa Fe

OK not me dying during this GO OFF JACK, CLIMB DOWN THOSE STAIRS AND GET ON THAT WAGAON, HAY BALE, COWBOY ATE ISTGGGGGG, JUMPS OFF WALL IN ALLEYWAY, dose this weird dance shit like a horse lmao, also lasso is belt rn

SPINS ON KNEES AND RIDES A HORSE <3 SNATA FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, HIM ON HORSE AND SINGING

*gets off horse* <3

RACETRACK AND HIM TALKING ABOUT THE HORSE HE TRIED TO BET ON

FUck Pulitzer and the guy who said to raise the price for the Newsies, man knowns its very bad chief, his next thought to cut his own paychecks, very rough on children

Kid Blink going off, one of the delanceys brothers mocking him, Skittery is not having a good day, Boots you shall never be on the streets again, Mush and Crutchie <3, Jack is looking so confused

Race being a little bitch but truth, I PAUSED IT AND I SEE DAVID AND LES IN THE BACK, Skittery is still there best boy, SPECS I SEE YOU AND YOUR TOP HAT, Swifty <3,

Can we talk about there outfits tho!!! Look at all of them, Kid Blink is a fav for outfits rn I LOVE THE PANTS THO, I LIKE PANTS

"They cant do this to me Jack" <3

Mush wanting to buy papes still, Kid Blink being like wtf, Les makes them move away, Blink hands Jack a cigertt, Race asking if hes done thinking yet <3

Daivd with the idea of the union because IF WE DONT SELL PAPES NOONE DOSE

'YES LIKE A STIRKE", Daivd was just joking

ALSO, can we talk about Blink and how he holds his pants because that's so gay go off king, and Race slinging an arm around Blink

Blink whispering to Mush <3

Les yelling 'STIKE' David wants to die

AND THE WORLD WILL KNOW, Boots and Race asking if they can soak them, David telling them no

JACK BREAKS A STICK

MUSH AND BUMLETS WITH RACE SINGING UPCLOSE ,<3

THE LITTLE DANCE ;LSKDGLKHDGKHSKHGDK

Race and Blink on the gate

David looking like he regrets so much life rn,

David and Jack being so damn gay rn looking at each other, Mush grabbing David <3333

Jack writing STRIKE

BUMELTS I SEE YOU MY BOY, oh there's the one redhead!

DENTON MY BOY I SEE YOU

Bumlets once again is best, Snipper <3

"Who wants Brooklyn" *goes quite*

David telling Jack to go to Pulitzer to dare him *takes Les with him* 👁👄👁<David

Denton bonding with David

Jack telling how it went, Les being best boi, them eating <3

Boots, David and Jack going to Brooklyn and yelling over the bridge

Spot Colon is very dangerous David

Not the Brooklyn boys swimming and then coming out to look strong in front of Jack

"Going somewhere cowboy"

SPOT COLON AHHHHHHHH, LOOK AT THE KING

Him just climbing over the wood and not saying anything

OK BUT WHY DO THE BROOKLYN BOYS LOOK SO DAMN OLD

CAN WE TALK ABOUT SPOTS OUTFIT OMFG LOOK AT IT, LOVE PANTS

Boots giving him marbles-

"Been hearing things from little birdies" *tries to shoot marble* David backs away

*shoots a bottle*

Spot and David almost kissing- (lowkey very close spot)

✨Mouth✨

SPOT WITH CANE OMFG HE HAS A CANE I ALMOST FORGOT TO MENTION HOW MUCH I LOVE THAT HE HAS A CANE

Cowboy hat is on-

"your right Jack he has brains, but I got brains too" LIKE BITCH GO OFF DAMN

*taps the cane on board*

Brooklyn boy behind Jack, they start to get surrounded, also it looks very bright bc Spot keeps squinting lmao

Spot has nice pink lips, lowkey

"That anit good enough Jackie boy"

WHEN DID MUSH AND DAVID BECOME FRIENDS LIKE IM-

also blush✨✨✨

Skittery talks so beautiful ya know

WHEN DID JACK GET REALLY DIRTY HANDS

David touching Jack shoulder, so gay

OMFG WAIT WHY DID I FORGET DAVID SINGS RN, STOPPPP

Ok but them dancing and David just fucking hops lmaooo

Blink lost his hat, shook his head and put it back on BULLETS MY BOY

Not all the littles on top of the statue and the older ones dancing

Mush with no suspenders on kills me

BUMLETS JUMPING OVER SKITTERY

Now they have a little dance battle ✨gay✨

Blush jumped real high

Denton tho-

Not the scabs rn

A fight scene with the papers being torn up, throwing tomatoes- pushing the cart over

Weisel dying rn

THE BULLS

"CHEESE IT"

Crutchie being left and Race calling out

Javid at the refuge

The nuns <3

Jack being held by a rope that David is holding, telling him to go gently is a mood

Tin Pin-

Not all the boys taking care of the other boys kfkgkfkfkfkfm, I see you patting one kid with a wet cloth

David telling them to shhhh

Crutchie get Snyder away from the window

Pulitzer giving Weisle the permission to get them away

BUMLETS CLOSE UP

SPECS CLOSE UP

MUSH AND KID BLINK AND SKITTERY CLOSE UP

OMFG A DANCE SCENE

The drums reminds me of a street beat my high school band plays

OH WERE SO VIBING RN

There in formation your honor

BUT ANOTHER BLINK CLOSE UP ( actually quite a few)

CHEST BUMPS

Them all breathing hard from dancing

When David told them to be claim down but Jack says soak them for crutchie THEN RACE YELLS IT'S TRAP

Denton with camera trying to get in TRYING TO SAVE HIS BOYS

David holding on to Jack

OMFG BROOKLYN POPS UP

LOOK AT THEM

ONE BY ONE, THERE LITTLE HEADS

MUSH IS SO HAPPY RN

Jack is so happy too

Mush getting chased by a goon, sling shot his ass, Boots hurting one of them, Race saying he gives up but kicks the dude balls

Spot coming down kicking two people, openes the gate then HE WIPS OUT HIS CANE OMFG GO OFF KING

Mush sliding down along with Bumelts!

David and Jack hugging but almost kissing

Kid blink in the picture

OMFG KONY IS COMING UP

Skittery and Specs sitting by one another, Skittery sitting so gay, everyone eating SPOT IS STILL THERE

"Where's me picture!?"

Spot crouching to see the pape, MUSH IS BEST

Spot asking where it says his name <3

Bumlets just smiling

Skittery saying "So what"

I'M- IT'S ABOUT TO START

Jesus Race is getting way to physical with Skittery, don't mind him being a little moody

RACE HITTING THE TABLE ABOUT TO SING

STFU BC THAT WAS AMAZING, ALL THEM GETTING LITTLE LINES TO SING AND SPOT DANCING RIGHT NEXT TO SKITTERY ON THE TABLE, TAP DANCING WITH MUSH AND HIS NO SUSPENDERS, THERE'S A NEWSIES WITH OVERALLS OMFG AND KID BLINK GO OFF, DAVID IS BEST

BUMLETS SPINNING ON THE FAN I CAN'T GET OVER THAT, HOW DID HE DO THAT

ALSO THEM JUMPING ON THE TABLES AND KIDS RUNNING UNDER THEIR LEGS

THE COOKS KIDS WATCHING

JACK TAP DANCING

AND THE LITTLES BEING BROUGHT UP BY PEOPLE IN THE CHAIRS

Blink watching his boyfriend tho

Spot with his hand on the back of David, Blink smirking AND MUSH SHARING HIS DRINK WITH MUSH BC BLINK TRIED TO GET SOME AND EVEN HIS HAND SHOOK A BIT FOR RACE BUT HE DIDN'T GIVE ANY TO HIM, BUMLETS WITH HAND ON LES

I see Specs shaking his head yes

OUR MAN DENTON *raises glass*

Crutchie telling Snyder that's jack- "you know this boy" WHY JUST

I feel like this is lowkey dragging on, how am I 57 minutes in still, maybe bc I'm writing so much

DUTCHY MAKING A SIGN AND ASKING IF HE SPELLED IT RIGHT, SYDNER COMING IN THAT LITTLE BITCH

Kid blink and Race friendship <3

Specs and Skittery friendship <3

Bumlets pointing Synder

Jack dancing around them

Race getting money from Synder

Sarah and Jack a kfkgkfkfkfkfm, although Sarah is very cute

Them eating breakfast on the rooftop<3

"You should hear him talking about ✨Jack Kelly ✨"

Pultizer using a magnifying glass ! ;)

NO WAIT THE RALLY SCENE, IT'S THE BEST BUT OMFG WAIT THERE GONNA COME AND GET THEM

OK BUT PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME HOW THEY GOT ALL THESE SUITS TO LOOK SO DAPPER JUST STOP IT BEST SCENE

Why does Jack look so sunburnt omfg lmao

And Spot being just amzing tho, WITH HIS LITTLE PIMP CANE

"My pal ✨David ✨"

"TELL THEM JACK!" Kid Blink go off

AHHH MEDDA GO OFF YES I CAN'T GET OVER THIS

LOOK AT ALL THEM AROUND HER

KID BLINK HANGING OFF THE RAILING

RACE CALLING OUT TO HER

IM-

THEY DANCING

THE FUCKING BULLS STFU GET OUT

OK SARAH GO OFF, about to kiss jack

RACE AND KID BLINK SKIPPING WITH MEDDA GOD FUCKING SHIT SO GOOD

Skittery and Race dancing is best

YES THAT ENDING THO, BEST GIRL MEDDA

David seeing Synder and telling Spot who dashes away

YOU CAN HEAR BLINK GOING "MWAH" LMAO

Race helping Medda BUT GETS PUNCHED STOP DJFMFMMDKDKDK, HER CALLING OUT FOR RACE

NO KID BLINK GETTING PUNCHED

WHY IS THERE A HORSE IN THE THEATHER

JACK IS DOWN AND DAVID TRYING TO GET HIM

"On the grounds of Brooklyn"

THEY STILL WEARING THERE SUNDAY BEST

DENTON COMING IN TO PAY THE FINE

David asking where Jack is, man's comes in and David is now having second thoughts

Les screaming "No"

Why did Mush shake Denton's hand

David now don't like Denont, he don't know what he's gonna do

Kid Blink has a real bad black eye wtf

Specs and Dusty being supreme

David throwing the paper away but Les taking the paper

Goes to get Jack out, David has a gay squad™, Blink, Mush, Race, Boots, and Les<3

Les really likes Jack istg he calls out to him agAIN

Not the gay squad ™ looking at David, telling Racetrack to watch Les<3

Jack with cowboy hat, David getting on the back of carriage

37 minutes left and idk how to feel, kinda relieved bc why is this taking so long

Smart boy David over here with taking the pin out

Pultizer threating Jack, also not him walking in very gay like

Talking about the war lmao, not Jack snopping the pictures

Jack has a bad bruise too!

"Are your bribing me Joe" lmao, I died

Why is Jack skin so dang smooth

Pultizer threating the Jacobs :(

Jack and David running away THE KISS SCENE ALMOST IN THE ALLEY WAY VERY TOUCHY

David not caring about going to jail and being very hurt by Jack, him walking off

SANTA FE AGAIN BUT IN JAIL CELL

Crutchie tries with a bread but it looks like a potato

Also why is there no damn bed, just fucking springs

Looks out the window so sad like

OMFG JACK SCABS AND I SEE THE RED HEAD AGAIN

Spot breaking kids up and ask Race wtf is happening with Jack also why are most of them shirtless or well not having there buttons done, SPOT JUMPING LMAO, but getting held back

David and him talking kerkkgkgkgkfk, David grabbing his little suit and telling him he's a lier

Wait is Jack jealous of the family David has- shit wait

AHHH THE BOYFRIENDS ARE ARGUING, not David going back for a punch Jack taunting him

Les: "guys mom and dad are arguing again"

OH the boys feeling so many emotions rn, Les saying no he's just a spy, I see you Spot

David having a moment by slamming down the window NOT THE HOTDOG THO

Weisel in the basement with Jack

Sarah just wants to be alone omfg, Les tho gets fucking slammed DAVID YOU GO KING

WAIT IS SARAH REALLY THAT TALL GOOD LORD GOOD LORD

OMFG DAVID FUCKING DASHES AND JACK SAVES THE DAY FUCK YEAH

Jack checking David for cuts

OH THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE THO, WHY DO LOVE THAT

Them going to Denton<3

David and Denton have a moment

Les checking out the house

IS THAT A PICTURE OF TEDDY ON THE WALL

Our man Denton!!!

They all sit around a table is best

Sarah is best girl tho

THEM MAKING A NEWSPAPER AND SINGING AHHHH

DAVID LEARNING HOW TO MAKE THE PAPER FROM DENTON

MUSH ALREADY GOT HIS PAPER BUT THEN BLINK GOES TO GET HIS WITH MUSH LIKE I'M, SO DAMN GOOD

OK BUT CAN WE TALK ABOUT THEM RIDIND THE CARRIAGE THO, BLINK ON BACK JUST HANGING OUT AND SARAH SITTING WITH LES AND DAVID BOOTS HANGING ON TOO DENONT BEST

Race asking if the kids can read-

SKITTERY MY BOY, TAKING OFF HIS CAP LOOK AT HIM

DUTCHY AND BLINK <3

jack stop being straight

Teddy having sadness for them and calling Denton "Denty" ✨

Kid Blink walking in and Mush looks to him with soft eyes and asking "So's when the others coming Kid" GOD I SCREAMED

Jack once again using his lasso for a belt

BUMLETS I SEE YOU IN THE BACK

Les singing, Race and Les Friendship<3

LOOK AT ALL THE KIDS OMFG

AND SPOT, THAT LITTLE BITCH LOOK AT HIM HE'S SLAYING RN

Them picking the littles up, I see you Bumelts being so kind

Them going to talk to Pultizer and David being the best bitch

"My pal David, a walking mouth" kfkvkfmfmmf

Spot being the best boy and calling Davids name out

Les is on Jack suoulders and I'm in love

All the littlea being hugged by the older ones

Crutchie is back <3 yes bestie

Why is Sydner smiling in the jail car lmao

TEDDY ROOSEVELT <3 STOP

All the kids dying when they hear Jack talking about Santa Fe

Denton being a proud father

Spot reaching out to Jack tho, well all of them

The Jacobs crying rn

BLUSH LEANING ON THE POLL

Skittery and Tumbler tho best

JACK COMING BACK AFTER HAVING A THERAPY TALK WITH TEDDY

"besides I got family here" AND LOOKS TO DAVID

BUMLETS MY BOY IS SO HAPPY

"Come here Davey" JUST STOP

straight people kissing ew, why are they like going at it tho, tf

SPOT IN THE CARRIAGE GO OFF KING

THEM ALL HAVING A SMALL DANCING SKIT

Denton being so proud rn

And the end with KONY go off kings I can't rn

THE END, sorry if this that post was so damn long, I've been going second by second

[moth-based-cryptology]

Ralbert, Sadness

7) “I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I feel like I can’t even breathe without you!”

sorry i do not remember what list this is from that’s my bad

jac !! my love !! i kinda lied when i messaged you about this cause it did not stay nearly as sad as i meant it to but it was fun and i regret nothing !! thank u sm for this even if it took me forever to reply to <33

i don’t think there’s any TWs for this one, i just imply they have an argument of some kind before the start

without further ado, ✨them✨

-

The dead silence is heavy.

The cold of the bathroom door digs into his back, hard and unrelenting, spine curved awkwardly against the wood from when he slammed it and promptly slunk to the floor, desperately trying to ebb the flow of tears down his cheeks. He can almost see Albert, still frozen in the kitchen of their apartment, suddenly deflated where he was puffed up with anger a moment before. The drop of his head, the red rimmed eyes full of tears that he’ll grit his teeth against. They don’t fight very much, rarely have it in them. But when they do, the Earth shifts with it, rocking rough and dark to its core.

Race doesn’t even remember how it started. They bicker endlessly, a chess match of wit and bark with no bite, a torrent of flirting that comes out snarky, but this wasn’t funny. He goes back to school on Friday, the last semesters before he finally returns to the city of endless motion. It’s been eating him alive, the idea of going back after a winter break that gave him everything he misses when he’s out on the sunny coast of California.

Two more semesters until he’s back in Albert’s little apartment, happy and content. At least… that’s what he expects. Based on their current showing, he’s never been less sure.

If he had to guess, he started it. Albert couldn’t bother him on his own if he wanted to, regardless of how hard he tries, but Race has the unfortunate habit of refusing to admit something else is bothering him. Then, suddenly, unpredictably, he’s fighting with his boyfriend about dinner, and then how much homework he’s still got left to do. And Albert does his best, he really does, but he’s snappy when he’s hungry.

Race really doesn’t know why he’s crying, but he is, and it just won’t stop.

The footsteps aren’t loud, but Race could pick them out in a crowded hall, let alone the crushing quiet. He hadn’t turned the lock on the door, but the door handle doesn’t even rattle, there’s just the rustle of someone sitting on the floor outside of the door. They both know that Race knows he’s there, he always does.

His heart stops trying to shatter through his diaphragm when he twists up onto his knees and opens the door a crack. Albert’s smooth expression cracks at his face, scrunched up and ruddy with traitorous tears, but he barely lets him look before slinking into his arms and hiding his face in his neck.

“‘M sorry I shouted at you. Wasn’t fair,” Albert’s terrible at hiding the chopped up accent when he’s emotional. All his effort goes into sounding soft and sweet instead. “You’ve been stressin’ over whatever’s in that head of yours and I let it bug me.”

“My fault.” It’s barely a murmur, muffled in all the fabric and emotion, words he can feel being protested, but he hates that Albert still lets everything be his fault even when it isn’t.

His tan face has gone blotchy with muddled red, and he sounds like a little kid with a cold, but he lifts his head, letting himself sink into the hold Albert’s got on him so he can see the face he’s got memorized down to the last of the millions of freckles smattered across his nose. There’s a shaky breath, a long moment where all he does is sit, stare, and breathe before he can make himself speak. “I.. Caltech is a crazy experience. I couldn’t have said no when I got that letter on principle, even if I wanted to. But there’s so little there for me, not when you’re here. And it’s two more semesters, I’ll survive, but it’s been crushing me since I left in August.”

“I’m right here waiting for you to come back the entire time you’re gone, you know that?” The arms around his shoulders squeeze tighter, and he squeezes right back around Albert’s middle.

“I know, I promise I know, I just- I.. I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I feel like I can’t even breathe without you!” Race brings a hand up to his cheek, pressing their foreheads together, like he can physically force the clinical cold he feels in the objective warm, welcoming brightness of sunny Pasadena, California, into Albert’s mind through pure will.

“I hear you, I got you, okay?” His callused, warm hand covers Race’s wrist, thumb moving back and forth over the skin. “I’m right there with you, darlin’, like you wouldn’t believe. I miss you somethin’ fierce when you’re gone.”

Despite himself, he can’t help the little laugh at Albert, the halting exasperation at his own southern-ness, even in a serious moment. There’s a long pause, not crushing or uncomfortable or heavy, where he just sits against Albert on the floor and listens to his lungs fill and empty, over and over and over again.

“..You’re supposed to visit your mama upstate over spring break, right?” He hums his assent, eyes roving over his face to try and pick out what he’s getting at. “Have you scheduled your flight yet?”

“No, I was gonna do it on the phone with Jack tomorrow so he can pick me up from the airport once he’s driven up there.” Race’s brow scrunches together, still not seeing what’s making Albert’s eyes light up like that.

“How about I pick you up from JFK and I drive us upstate instead? Unless Miss Medda has some anti-boyfriend policy?” Medda loves him better than any of her own sons and he damn well knows it.

“Really?” Much happier tears well in Race’s eyes now, weepy as he is at the moment. “You’d suffer through two weeks of Jack and Charlie’s shit for me?”

“Might as well, Toni, I get plenty of it texting you when you’re in California, anyway.” Race’s laugh is bright, making Albert’s whole system warm in an instant, glad to have that sunny smile back after days of looming gloom.

“What about your aunts?” He did the several-day-Georgia-road-trip with Albert and his aunts last July, and it was a fun kind of chaotic. This year, the trip is supposed to be in April instead. “Don’t they want you to go south with them?”

“Oh, I’m sure they’ll be glad to have a few days to themselves before they get to grandmama’s. I only played nice on that road trip ‘cause I had someone to impress.” Race would’ve been able to pick out his grin from the sound of his voice alone. “I’m usually much more insufferable.”

He rolls his eyes affectionately, chest full to bursting. “I’ll believe that when I see it.. Thank you.”

Albert hums lightly, and Race can feel it rumble in both of their chests. “I love you, darlin’.”

Race pecks his lips shortly once, then again, and again. “And I love you, even if you yell at me.” He puts petulant anger in his emphasis, like a stompy toddler pouting about a toy.

“I did not yell, drama queen–” He doesn’t want to hear it, so he slaps a hand over Albert’s mouth, having the audacity to act shocked when he rips it away a moment later wet with saliva. Fingers dig in under Race’s ribs, making him squawk and squirm away, their eloquent chess match beginning anew, plans aflame and roiling with light.

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fín

[spinningerster]

notes from last night (29/7 evening show)

fun random little things I wanna mention

• did matinee stage door and met so many cast members, they were all so lovely!

• mukeni was just casually walking around the foyer talking on the phone

• we got a bereal with him after the show

• also no joke I was sat next to mukeni's mum - she was lovely! we chatted a little before and after the show

• at stage door after the show archie went past on his scooter and everyone cheered

onto the show notes!!

• matthew gave me a cast pape 🥺

• was right up in the immersion (manhattan row P) and didn't know where to look at some points. like during WWK morgan was basically right in my face. damon was in front of me like twice. (fr would've worn my finch shirt instead if I would have known.) him, lucy & lillie were in front of me in once and for all and I didn't know where to look so just focused on michael on the stage 😂

• ryan went past me after kony but I didn't realise it was him until after nesim & bronte went past lol

• michael & matthew ran past me at one point (during carrying the banner iirc)

• three of them ran past me during seize the day (just before crutchie got arrested) but honestly I have no idea who it was 😂

• there was a bit (think it was just before jack, davey & les ran away from snyder) where matthew was just. laying on the floor?? like where the little banister is for the bronx

• morgan albert. LOVED him. he was brilliant. he killed it

• "that is not nice...morris."

• "and who wants brooklyn?" mark proceeded to spend 5 minutes putting a blindfold on. like the scene had moved on from that bit and he was still tying it

• "who's the big spender that ordered the seltzer?" morgan: starts drumming the table "OVA HERE"

• "two cents? for a glass o' seltzer??"

• bobbie was on vocal rest so no splint rip

• she was absolutely hilarious though. "have you seen this boss? these kids put out a pretty good...nope nevermind goodbye!"

• "and such language, which they should not be using -"

• "he doesn't do happiness, does he?" hannah chuckled which made the audience laugh

• hannah started a sing song when they were leaving pulitzers office

• HECAYNTTAWKHELLCALLYABAYCK

• during the fight scene someone jumped onto and then over the cart (think it was spencer but not sure)

• les: "buy a pape from a poor orphan boy." davey: "hey he ain't an orphan??"

• OH MY GOD RYAN. forgot how much I absolutely love his davey

• "your girl?" "YOU HEARD ME!"

• like act 2 davey was SO SASSY. "oooh, so what does that make you?"

• oh yes. above. flip. the. flip. fold. flip.

• him and jack were like a comedy duo in act 2

• "I'm told we once shared a carriage ride." "TOLD YA"

• damon finch my beloved <3 so happy I got to see him he was amazing

• josh blew some of his smoke into nun bobbie's face

• OH THE CUTEST MOMENT. at the end when jack is like 'we won!' specs immediately hugged ritz and then hugged a few other people it was adorable

• when jack told them to vote 'no' mack literally had to hold spot back it was so funny

• mike was the last person to leave after jack betrayed them at the rally and he gave jack such a dirty look

• matt threw the paper for bronte to catch in kony but she missed and it fell to the ground

• michael jack. my absolute beloved. he was so comedic like the way he said certain lines was so entertaining

• there were like two wolf whistles when jack & katherine kiased in stbi

• michael and bronte were so giggly in the start of the finale scene it was so cute

• final nesim performance. what a little star he is

• in the bit after carrying the banner when davey, les & jack are talking the delanceys (aka morris) was basically like just throwing the papers at the newsies

• officially in love with pips. she did a little star jump during brooklyns here it was so cute. AND HER OUTFIT?? obsessed

• background moments during the bows/curtain call: matthew didn't make the shot. morgan & owen did a funky lil dance. lindsay, lucy, sam, jamie and someone else (they were off to the side so couldn't see who it was) did the wave

[rag-tag-ragamuffin]

Javey my beloved <3