#racetrack Higgins newsies

[daveysjackie]

So @davesjacobs and I were talking about west-endsies sprace so I’m gonna share our thoughts:

- Bi4Bi for the win (which makes my bi heart very happy)

- They’re a (and I quote) “girlboss and malewife who also kicks ass with her”

- There’s still the height difference and Spot owns it

- She will routinely grab the collar of his shirt to pull him down to kiss him on the lips or cheek

- They’re the cheek-kissing kinda couple. That’s their casual affection. Proper kissing is just a little something extra.

- Unlike the other versions of sprace which would - frankly - be awful at keeping the secret, west endsies sprace would be able to keep the secret for ages (like months, nearly a year)

- The only reason anyone finds out is because Spot was seen kissing Race’s cheek after selling with him for a day

- They have a sharp kinda humour. To anyone else, it seems overly dry and hurtful but to them, it’s all good fun.

- When the other Brooklyn newsies/girlsies/Bowery Beauties (for a reason I explain here kinda) discover the relationship, they corner Race and ask him, “What are your intentions?” and he laughs because Spot can and has beat his ass.

- Once every few weeks, the two of them watch Medda’s show from the rafters or the very back and just share stories about the shenanigans from their respective boroughs. Their own small, quiet dates in their otherwise loud, chaotic lives

[doththymayo]

*Jack and Racetrack shit talking Oscar and Morris from a distance*

Jack: Ope, they're looking at us. Act natural.

Racetrack: Newspaper, newspaper.

Jack: Selling, selling.

Racetrack: Lodging, lodging.

[bigmack2go]

If this isnt Rcae’s hair i dont want it (bc i finally made up my mind about what version of race i prefer. (I do still like the other versions but yk))

[ethereal-bumble-bee]

Idk if you’re still doing it, but could you do Race for the ask thing?

Ooh sure thing! :D

Race for the ask thingy!!!

Favorite thing about him- Honestly, everything. In literally every version of Newsies I’ve heard of, he’s just so silly and goofy but still retains that kind of street-smart, wary air about him, and his character is just so fun and amazing!

Least favorite thing about him- He traded his mom for a box of cigars, what a bad son >:( /j

Favorite line- “Could you stow the seriosity long enough to just drink in the moment… *gasp* I’m famous!!!”

brOTP- Race and Davey. Just the vibes, y’know. They’d be best of friends- Davey would keep Race out of jail, and Race would teach Davey to live a little.

OTP- This is honestly the hardest question of this. I love Sprace, and Ralbert, and Spralbert… can’t choose :(

nOTP- Race/Jack (Rack? Jace?). As with a couple other ships I’m not fond of, I just think they’d never see each other as anything more than brothers.

Random headcanon- Race loves strawberries. He’ll steal/eat any he sees at farmer’s markets or in people’s houses (he’s been caught stealing strawberries from the Jacobs’ more than once). He loves the sweetness, and they remind him of being a small child.

Unpopular opinion- I don’t really love the notion that Race is some dumb, slutty twink. It’s a hilarious thing to write for him, and it’s funny to read when done right, but I think as a street-hardened newsie he wouldn’t be so… soft, y’know?

Song I associate with him- “Why Must We Tell Them Why?” from 35mm: A Musical Exhibition and “The Middle” by Jimmy Eat World

Favorite picture of him-

Just look at his face 😭😭😂

[newmsies]

Can we start in this fandom that Race is really into rocks? I don't know why I want him to be into rocks, but I feel like he would be.

absolutely we can.

he would try to find every type of rock by making Spot take him to Coney Island, so far in his collection he has Agates (Igneous&Sedimentary) Jasper (Metamorphic) Hag stone (can't remember) and Petrified Wood (Sedimentary)

all of which are ones you can find at beaches which means it's perfect that he's friends with some of the Brooklyn boys, he has a lot of each and will show them off to his friends, he has exactly one that's tumbled that the Newsies saved up for to get him for his birthday one year and i feel like he would just hold it in his mouth and idk why, he just would

[the-realest-spot-conlon]

Starting a new chain bc why not:

Type "I am not a" And click the middle button 3-5 times

mine: I am not a good person

true tbh

@ethereal-bumble-bee

@eponine-thenadier

@lincoln-rosario

@newsiesofyorktown

[dmitryanya]

newsies act 2 my beloved

[thegreatbuttoneer]

I did NOT mean to spend as much time on this as I did, but fuck it, we ball

Dogsies 👍

(Breeds chosen by @plxtonixm)

[joeythefrog]

Race the typa guy to say "Spot Conlon? That guy over in brooklyn? Yeah I've heard of him" while fiddling with the promise ring Spot stole for him from when he swore that if there ever came a day or a way where they could get married, they would

[yelhsaqi]

is the newsies fandom still alive lol

[racetrackmybeloved]

yet another background livesies moment i adore: race judging les' tapping

sir that is a NINE YEAR OLD be NICE

[mummelthecryptid]

wanted these to be more about the other newsies but they turned into being 90 percent about jack again

part 1 || part 2

[servndipityz]

[lithuaniaseye]

last night I dreamed that Davey and Spot had a duet singing about how they yearned for Jack and Race respectively... I woke up laughing from the idea of Tommy Bracco and Ben Fankhauser's height difference.

[ethereal-bumble-bee]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992), Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Spot Conlon/Racetrack Higgins, Albert DaSilva/Finch (Newsies) Characters: Spot Conlon, Racetrack Higgins, Finch (Newsies), Albert DaSilva (Newsies), Jack Kelly (Newsies), Crutchie (Newsies), Katherine Plumber Pulitzer, David Jacobs, Les Jacobs Additional Tags: Zombie Apocalypse, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, Post-Apocalypse, Danger, Survival Summary:

One month. It’d been one month since the first signs of the plague showed up, since the first person became mad with fever and insane with bloodlust, since the disease had ravaged the world until there was nothing left. Spot had been lucky somehow, able to stay far from the infected, but as far as he could tell, he’d been the only one.

…

A zombie apocalypse AU.

[newmsies]

What do you think Racetrack Higgins does for Valentine's Day?

throws rocks at passing couples /j bros the Scrooge of Valentine's day fr except he doesn't actually hate it nor does he have a reason to, he just thinks it funny, that or he's playing matchmaker all day shoving two random Newsies that are pining after eachother (that he doesn't even know) together, there's really no in between of the Scrooge of Valentine's day or the matchmaker