#jacob's area

[xbimbogutzzx]

Some draw Jacob Alden in this for... science

[unknownarmageddon]

[ there’s something in these woods, and no one knows where they came from or what they are. all they know is that they need to be fed. ]

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

Why do I have a sudden urge of drawing Jacob??

Am I running a freaking fever?

(this was kinda my face when I felt my brain whispering "wouldn't it be fun to draw him again?" fml).

[drawfee-quot3s]

i'm gettin the scary sillies

- jacob

[direwombat]

still trying to piece together the late-roman empire jakesyb au and fl;asdfj it really is just putting my own personal hc for jacob's bisexuality on blast wherein, in this au, he is mostly interested in men (ie, his fellow soldiers/his boytoy staci) but then there's also something inexplicably alluring to him about syb's strong, lithe, barbarian warrior's body

[fieriframes]

[It is just an excellent complement. JACOB: I get people from Europe, England. The world is a zoo. If I lived here in this area, I'd be here once a week. I mean, it's simple, it's basic, it's got great flavor, there's good depth, I think it's a good value.]

[jack-kellys]

hey hello hi. after reading a few asks i wanted to see what your opinion on the Sarah X Katherine ship. some people like and hate it- and it’s undoubtedly an 100% fandom invention due to them not even sharing the same media and it being implied they don’t even exist in each other’s universes (Davey’s Family is kept vague in the musical and pulitzer is much more based upon the real life one in the movie who didn’t have a daughter at the time) and idk.

it’s a long running fandom consistency i see of wlw parings getting sidelined or made of convince, and it’s hard to dispute them because in fandom spaces it’s hard enough to get a good wlw pair, and even it’s stretching it a whole lot here. especially with them both bing jack’s love intrests in cannon, feels like a “oh what do we do with them?” to make way for him usually being shipped with Davy or Cruchie.

i don’t think it’s an active type of ignorance by most fans at all but it’s not just newsies- it’s in a lot of spaces that ususally have queer relationships as a main fandom focus, and like in the Sprace post- lots of people have a point their mind for those queer relationships and them not being white mlm ususally with specific body and personality types it can be difficult to get real attention for it or justify it’s existence.

sorry for the rambling on, would love to hear someone elses’s stance.

I MEANT TO ANSWER THIS WEEKS AGO (or whenever this was sent)

send me asks dudes! what’s up!

you honestly are correct. it is so common in fandom spaces as a whole to consistently center mlm ships based around a piece of media’s text and then put the women elsewhere- often into a wlw relationship for diversity win points. and this is so true for katherine and sarah in favor of centering javid mainly.

but what i think is the most annoying part isn’t the fact that they’re put together—because honestly they’re a fun pair based on their personalities in newsies.. sarah can be both gentle and quite to the point while katherine is sharp and a bit messy—it is that they are sidelined. katherine, who is literally one of the main characters of newsies like more than davey in terms of plot, and sarah, who was the literal one woman in newsies 1992. they are both genuinely interesting characters that objectively mattered a lot in their respective versions of newsies (YES SARAH MATTERED… she spread the children’s crusade further through the city’s more general workforce and helped print it). they have very clear personalities and impacts. and they often just poof away in favor of “the boys” or whatever which is very. old fashioned.

i think sarah and kath can be a “forced” wlw pair and work because they as characters work well— also because the writing of newsies is honestly weak when pairing each of them with jack, like the context we as fans have of them with jack is… not very exciting compared to jack’s extensive and more arced relationship with davey within the context for example. but if you pair newsbians for the sole purpose of like. making them go away. then what the actual fuck. you know. because then that really is only seeing mlm ships as what fandom should center or “be about”. and that doesn’t mean more fics have to be About newsbians (though. i mean. yeah), but when they’re a couple in a fic it should be less of a throwaway like easter egg thing…. because those are two literal prominent characters in the World of newsies so it’d be weird to put them away.

yeah🤝

[gamesyoushouldbeplaying]

Jacob Geller wasnt kidding, that time loop can nihilism

[fluffydavey]

based on a beautiful poem called moonshine by richard murphy, a great irish poet. trying to get into the swing of writing before heading home for a short break!

After the strike, things slowly begin to settle. Not at first, there’s a union to run that he’s roped into. “Surely you know by now, we works best as a team?” Jack had said, and that was that. Who was he to turn down this boy who had turned his entire life upside down in a matter of days?

But his father finally finds a new job, and he and Les finally go back to school. They sell in the evenings, and Davey stays up late to complete his homework and help Sarah and their mother with work around the house. 

In his spare time, he spends time with the boys in the lodgings. He loses at card games with Race, helps teach the younger boys to read and write, and spends as much time as he can with Jack, who’s caught up in his love affair with Katherine. He doesn’t even have it in him to be jealous. He’d easily fall in love with her if he could. 

He writes too - he’ll never see his name is the papes again after the strike, and the victory that had ensured. But there’s things he wants to scream, things that are so unfairly engrained in the truth of the matter that Davey cannot stop thinking of Jack. And he’s not supposed to. He isn’t allowed to. 

To think

I must be alone:

To love

We must be together.

I think I love you

When I’m alone

More than I think of you

When we’re together.

He meets a girl at temple, someone who Sarah introduces him to. Her name is Anne, and she lets him walk her home every week. He invites her to see a show at the theatre, and he doesn’t miss the look that Jack sends his way - confusion, maybe even annoyance that Davey hadn’t confided in him about it first, he thinks. He introduces Anne that evening, who’s starstruck at the idea that he knows the Medda Larkin. Davey doesn’t miss how quiet Jack is that night.

They kiss for the first time that night. He’s at Anne’s doorstep, when she leans in for a kiss. It’s not the all-encompassing, life-changing moment he had always prepared himself for it to be. But Anne leans in for another, and he needs to excuse himself before her father catches them. As soon as Les catches word that Davey’s dating a girl from temple, word catches around the lodgings like wildfire. 

“Who’d have thought Davey boy had it in him?” Race cheers, slapping him on the back as the others holler around him.

“He’s not a boy, he’s a man!” Crutchie says, to a round of cheers. Davey goes bright red, still not used to being the centre of attention to his newfound family.

His eyes drift to Jack, who isn’t roaring with pride like the rest of them. He yearns to know what his friend is thinking. A part of him thinks that Jack might even be jealous - but no, a boy like Jack would never go for another boy like Davey. So they don’t talk about it, like Davey doesn’t ask too many personal questions about Katherine. And it works for them.

So Davey writes, and he keeps his true thoughts kept in a leatherbound notebook he had been given for his sixteenth birthday by his mother, that’s hidden under the floorboard underneath his bed.

I cannot think

Without loving

Or love

Without thinking.

Alone I love

To think of us together:

Together I think

I’d love to be alone.

[jerichogender]

Someone had to mention it, but yeah, the entire Court of Owls storyline is antisemitic. Like, Bruce being judged by the Court draws straight from a Passion play, complete with a little girl ordering to "make him hurt". (In this reading Batman and Jesus are "one of the good ones".) In Dark Nights: Metal, also by Snyder, the Court is also known as the Judas tribe. Most recently they used mind control, a spell often attributed to Jews by antisemites, on Dick.

It’s been a while since I read the original Court of Owls storyline from the New 52 & I never read Dark Knights: Death Metal, so I’m not familiar with some of the plot points your referencing. That being said, if everything you mentioned squares with what happens in those books, then it definitely sounds like Scott Snyder has a pattern of writing antisemitic tropes into his comic book storylines, unconsciously or not

[companionwolf]

Delta Green update #9:

Hm. Wonder what's happening here. :3

[lovesaved]

jacob and leah like "we have never met the c.ullens directly, but i think its safe to assume - and this is nothing against bella, we love bella, - that they are monstrously stupid sewer people,"

[jacob-blogs]

I post exactly 1 pic of my happy trail and Tumblr has somehow buried it idk if it's even worth appealing the mature tag or finding time to take another one.

[50000bears]

Farmers market trip x2

[bandcampsnoop]

5/1/24.

Noelle & The Deserters are based between Sacramento and the Bay Area. But Noelle Fiore is based in Sacramento. She is joined by members of The Aislers Set (Precious Recordings will be releasing a BBC session from The Aislers Set for this Bandcamp Friday!!), as well as fellow Speakeasy Studios SF artists Anna Hillburg and Jacob Aranda.

This is definitely country in the vein of Buck Owens or Dolly Parton. There is only one song currently available but it's a winner. And apparently two dogs provide barks on at least one song - Delta and Levi.

[wausaupilot]

DNR announces awards for volunteers, group of year

MADISON – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced this week the 2023 hunter education program Instructor of the Year and Group of the Year awards as part of National Volunteer Appreciation Week and National Volunteer Month. This year’s winners are: Hunter Education Instructor of the Year Jesse Schultz, Waupaca Hunter Safety Program. A volunteer instructor for the last 11 years,…