#spot conlon fic

[loiteringandlurking]

guys how extensive is newsiesblr??? can everyone active on newsiesblr who sees this interact ... I wanna follow everybody :3

[i-politely-disagree]

I really wanna write a fic where Jack and Spot are equally overprotective of Race, so when Race and Spot start dating, Jack becomes a weird sort of helicopter sibling and Spot is just over it.

(half the story would honestly end up being weird filler but I felt the need to share the hc)

[dear-ao3]

newsies fic recs

cause you all asked

unfortunately i remember a lot of the good ones were on tumblr and so many people have changed their urls that they are not findable but, heres what i got

also keep in mind i havent read any of these in years and the summaries im giving are probably ass

these are all mostly ralbert, because that was what i read the most of, except for the ones at the end

the toaster fic (i used to remember this persons tumblr @ like 5 url changes ago but my brain is small and soupy so i am sorry). its crack, under 2k, absolute silliness and im still laughing about it five years later. modern era.

side by side its a really long ralbert soulmates fic where they are oblivious to hell and back. from what i remember its fluffy and silly. modern era.

voice okay she slaps ngl. its a modern era kind of angst situation. albert is mute. theres some referenced homophobia. lots of cuddles. 6k.

shaking thisss is a sick fic if i remember correctly. race is silly and gets a cold and there is cuddling. definitely part of a larger spralmer au but it works as a stand alone. under 5k. modern.

let the memory live again THIS FIC o gosh its killed me several times over. might be my favorite. idk. its up there. modern ralbert au. sad but also happy. albert is supposed to be dead and is not. he also has amnesia. its like 14k. read it at 2 am for maximum effect. god tier.

a love that will never grow old this is a sad canon era soulmate fic. race is alberts soulmate but albert is not races. theres also a sequel. the good kind of dad. multihap, 9k.

hero complex by @turtle-steverogers classic little ralbert oneshot, perfect amount of angst and comfort. albert is a firefighter and race is Worried also theres a dog. about 3k. modern.

thank u, next by the one and only @jack-kellys. its paranormal. its funky. its modern. its five parts and its complete. its 12k words and honestly like. i remember reading this and going absolutely batshit fizz is such a good writer (and is still actively writing newsies, throw them some prompts they love javey)

dont leave me by @sun-kissed-star its sprace, modern and spot is in the military. a good angst fluff angst ping pong match. 3.5k. theres some good and funny little jack moments :)

story written on skin by @patrocool oh my god the most well written soulmate au that i can possibly remember stumbling across at 3 in the morning and crying while reading. its a canon era sprace one. soulmate au where if one person gets injured the other person gets a mark. its really good. theres a part 1 and 2 and its long. like 15k long. read at 3am for best results.

the beast of brooklyn which i dont remember if ive actually read but i was asked to include it on the list so i did. mafia sort of au but also kind of beauty and the beast. well written and beautiful. fuckton of angst. sprace. modern.

[liliesyonder]

hiiii so I just recently discovered your art through your Racetrack drawing (which I LOVE BTW) and I was wondering if you could draw a Sparah scene and also tell me your thoughts on them? I have suggestions for the scene if you need them :D

They’d play a mean game of poker! (And wipe everyone out of their money.) But also I genuinely think they’d work well together! I hadn’t considered them seriously until I read @/queenofbrooklyn’s fantastic fics (GO READ THEM RN. GO!!! I could talk about Libby’s fics Forever. Genuinely surviving the ride was formative in cementing how much I love this pairing and I revisit it whenever I can.) and ever since I’ve been hooked. I think they’re both very intelligent and opportunistic individuals that would find each other fascinating in their own right. There’s a softness in Sarah that spot can’t have as a figurehead and there’s a bluntness that spot conducts himself with which sarah admires for its necessity. Very good parallels/foils if written well! Also thank you for liking the racetrack piece hopefully more 92sies Art to come ^_^

[agentsnickers]

Building Momentum

“I feel like I’ve known you forever. I felt like I knew you the first time we met. Have I met you before?” Some things never change, and some things keep circling back around. (In which David and Spot are immortal, and Jack and Race are... something else.)

It's @newsiesminibang24 day!!!! Welcome to the long awaited Building Momentum!!!

I am SO excited about this fic and I really hope it was worth the wait!!

Featuring this gorgeous art by @chimeofthecomet my amazingly talented minibang partner!!!! I'm going to go stare at it for a while because i'm in love <3

[shutup-andletme-go]

okay poll time to find out which of my fics you want to know about first

please please please ask me about them if you're interested!! if you ask I promise I will write *extends my pinky to you*

[corpusdiem-seizethedead]

Jack: What the hell is going on down there? Spot killed somebody?

Race: No, Spot did not kill somebody! *to Spot* You didn’t, did you?

Spot: Of course not.

Davey: *nervous* You’d tell us though, wouldn’t you?

Spot: *sarcastic* Yes, Mouth, I would tell you if I murdered the mark!

[clevereverest]

“Now or Never” - Multichapter (Ongoing)

Chapter 1 • “Prologue”

Chapter 2 • “13 Days to Game Night”

Chapter 3 • “10 Days to Game Night”

Chapter 4 • “9 Days to Game Night”

Chapter 5 • “8 Days to Game Night (Part 1)”

Chapter 6 • “8 Days to Game Night (Part 2)”

Chapter 7 • “7 Days to Game Night (Part 1)”

Chapter 8 • “7 Days to Game Night (Part 2)

Chapter 9 • “5 Days to Game Night”

Chapter 10 • Out now!

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

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Summary and tags below • Tags are subject to change as updates are released

[pigeonwit]

I AM ASKING YOU ABOUT NEWSIES AND POKÉMON ANYTHING ANYTHING U HAVE -@jack-kellys

rizz you are a kind person thank you so much for giving me a chance to go crazy insane over my fanmade pokemon teams

now. full disclosure. i am a loser and a pedant and this ask took me hours because i kept going way too in depth and overly-rationalizing why certain pokemon would be unfeasible to have and etc etc and then i remembered that i am the god of this word document and i can do what i like if it means i have fun doing it. so i am giving myself one pedantic thing which is that i'm not giving people full teams since 1) i don't think a bunch of working class kids would have the means money or accommodation to support six full pets (i know the pokemon universe has free healthcare and everyone always has all the food and medicine they need for their pokemon but this is The Capitalism Show, that's not happening here), and 2) a big thing about newsies is the connections the characters have, so giving them all six pets felt like kind of a cop out to me. so we're going by anime rules in which people only have a team of six if they're professional trainers. but as for stuff like 'how can race, a child with 100 roommates, own a horse that is perpetually on fire', we're not gonna focus on that. we're having fun here.

jack

again, since jack as a character keeps people at a distance through his cowboy persona and santa fe dream, i don't think he'd have that large a team. honestly, i'm not sure he would've wanted a pokemon at all. BUT. rockruff's are such a perfect jack-mon it drives me insane. rockruff’s are given to young trainers as their friendly disposition makes them seem like ‘easy’ beginner pokemon, but as they grow older, they become more aggressive and many are abandoned before ever reaching evolution. i always saw this as a reference to buying puppies, not training them properly and then abandoning/surrendering them once they became too difficult, but maybe i was getting too PETA with it. either way, i think jack could relate to that in any au or era – the kids in newsies are ignorable until they cause problems, and then they’re troublemakers who get thrown in the refuge. again, i’m probably going way too PETA on this, but i don’t think it’s a stretch to see the possible connection. i think jack found her in an alley one day when he was young – he was on the run from snyder and couldn’t afford any lodging anywhere – and though she was snappy and defensive at first, jack understood all too well why she was. he was patient, quietly talking about anything at all, tossed her some of the food he’d scrounged for himself because she was just so skinny – and she hasn’t left his side, since. i like to believe she’d evolve into a dusk form lycanroc, as a rockruff can only become a dusk form lycanroc if they have the 'own tempo' ability, which makes them immune to confusion and intimidation, two things jack overcomes as a character.

and for a second pokemon. listen. i don’t think jack would want more than one pokemon – like i said, i don’t think he wanted any pokemon at all since he was headed to santa fe and wouldn’t’ve wanted to spend money he didn’t have on pets – but jack having a smeargle would be so funny. especially a shiny smeargle, for the red aesthetic. he doesn’t know it’s shiny he just thinks it’s really dirty. he fed it once and now it keeps following him around and he really wants it to go away until he finds it copying some of his drawings on the rooftop. and then he just... melts. i think that'd be adorable.

davey

MOTHERFUCKING JOLMTIK. joltik is a flawless davey pokemon. small, easily overlooked, can’t make their own energy and must recharge (like ‘TISM???? PERHAPS????), BUT after storing so much power, they can release it into something incredible!! they also evolve into galvantula, going from the smallest pokemon ever at only 4 inches to a GIANT TARANTULA LARGER THAN A HUMAN MAN – it represents davey’s arc and i won’t elaborate. they attack through speed and special attack, stunning their opponents rather than going on a full-fledged physical assault, which absolutely speaks to how davey behaves within the show. he may not be as physically tough as the newsies, but he is calculating, and more importantly, he’s good at it. also it’s a ‘tarantulas?’ reference, what do you WANT from me.

i like to think davey and his family couldn’t afford a pokemon for every kid, so they have their family pokemon (a mabosstif trained by mayer) and unfortunately no others. but davey found this palm-sized little bug under his pillow during winter, trying to generate energy from the heat, and so decided that maybe, MAYBE, the little fella could snooze under his cap for a bit, just to warm up.

(the joltik stayed. their name is edison. davey hasn’t taken his hat off in front of people in months because all edison's electric charges make his hair puff out in a static ball. don’t tell his mother.)

katherine

katherine is technically wealthy and therefore more likely to have a full pokemon team, but since she doesn’t rely on her father and is living independently on a female journalist’s salary in the 1890s, i don’t think she’d have a large team. three at most.

espeon – her partner pokemon, raised from an eevee. her name is bronte, which i decided before uksies as a reference to the bronte sisters, so happy coincidences all around. i don’t view katherine as a competitive battler since she has nothing to gain from it, so i imagine bronte mostly behaves as a cat would, just with more magic attached – sitting on katherine’s lap as she writes, using psychic moves to float her teacup to her when she needs it, etc – but she can also wreck shop if she needs to.

dachsbun – this one is purely just a charlie sausage cameo. i saw a dachshund pokemon and said ‘charlie sausage’. still, i think it’s a cute idea, and i love the idea of a young katherine running around with a tiny, floppy fidough.

meowstic – female meowstics lean more towards attacking whereas males lean towards defence; again, while i don’t see katherine as being a battler, i absolutely see her wanting a team that can fight should she need them to. here are two pokedex entries for meowstic: “if they don’t get what they want, they will torment you with their psychic abilities.” “if it doesn’t hold back when it unleashes its psychic power, it can tear apart a tanker. its unfriendliness is part of its charm.” we know katherine can be ruthless for the sake of justice, but a big part of katherine as a character is needing to hide her vulnerabilities so people will take her seriously; i like to think katherine tries to channel this energy when she needs people to listen to her. i also love giving characters grumpy little cats, apparently.

(also, this was unintentional, but the pink/purple, yellow/orange and blue colouring of each pokemon does fit w her uksies costumes)

race

race doesn’t really have a ‘partner’, he has his two pokemon who he loves with all his heart. the first is a shinx named lucky thirteen; i’ve always envisioned race as an electric type trainer, he just fits the bill so well. my original thought was electrike, as they can stimulate their muscles with electricity to run faster, and race has always had a connotation of speed (he’s often a track kid or a dancer in modern eras, he has to run away from cops a lot, etc. it’s not a CANON connotation by any means, he’s only called race because of sheepshead, but it’s a connotation i’ve held) but it just didn’t fit to me – electrike, even in first-stage, has a lot of edge to it that doesn’t suit race’s playful exterior. according to shinx’s pokedex entry, when threatened, it will release a dazzling flash and then escape while it’s foe is blinded. i like to think that race uses this to escape people when he’s cheated on a wager or running from the cops; i also think shinxes have a friendlier disposition than electrikes, and then you get all the edginess and good stats as the pokemon gets older and evolves, and i imagine race would mature in a similar way when he finally has the freedom to take himself more seriously as he ages.

race’s second pokemon is a ponyta named corona who wasn’t technically his at first, but he’d always talk to her when he was hiding in the sheepshead stables whenever he was running from someone. she lights his cigars and makes great company, but she is very excitable and also very stubborn. one day race finds her just. following him home across the brooklyn bridge. the next day’s headline is about a crazed pokemon who bucked off her rider, injured a stablehand and broke out of the stables. she’s a very special girl who gets many poffin treats.

(again – how does race keep this very flammable horse at the lodging house? fuck you i’m having fun.)

spot

spot only has one pokemon, making her seem like an easy fight, but with her reputation, it only makes her more intimidating. her partner, a riolu, seems calm and uninterested, but if you’re talking shit you will be hit by two rounds of ‘close combat’ – one by riolu, and one by spot. i like to think spot’s riolu is very protective of her because, as riolu’s can sense emotions, she knows when spot is leaning heavily on her ‘queen of brooklyn’ performance and when she needs to be supported. riolu’s can also sense a person’s nature, so spot will usually bring her to meetings to gage whether or not she can trust someone. unfortunately, her riolu turns into an excitable little puppy whenever race is around.

and now some rapid-fire newsies for funzies

albert has a nickit named dodger. he’ll knock something valuable to the floor, pretending it was an accident, and dodger will steal it.

i gave splasher a quaxley because. duck, swimming, haha. but i also gave jojo a bounsweet because uksies jojo slays hard enough to have a tsareenee when he’s older. then I remembered that both these pokemon’s final evolutions (quackaval and tsareenee) are rivals who will fight each other for territory, and now i can’t stop imagining that splasher and jojo have to constantly separate their pokemon who just wont stop kicking each other.

morris – a growlithe. someone who he knows will be loyal to him, no matter what.

oscar – an absol. someone who can tell when danger’s coming. unlike morris and his growlithe, oscar and his absol seem to really hate each other, but they stay together nonetheless.

mike and ike - plusle and minun. since uksies i love the idea that mike and ike are not twins and didn’t even know each other when they arrived at the lodging house, let alone know the other had the same pokemon as them until they met. they both find it very strange.

finch is the only newsie to have a full team but that’s because he’s befriended literally every bird pokemon that stops on the fire escape. There’s simon the starly, percy the pidove, peter the pidgey, timmy the taillow, franky the fletchling and rooney the rookidee. finch isn’t good at naming. still, the birds like him.

tommy boy has a lillipup and it really offsets his quiet tough-guy persona but he does not care.

when i first mentioned a newsies pokemon au someone mentioned romeo having a luvdisc just for the funniness of it, but honestly i love the idea of romeo having something like brock's croagunk from the 'diamond and pearl: battle dimensions' series to physically knock him on his ass the moment he starts getting too romantic.

medda has a snubbull and she’s the ugliest angriest thing in the world but she loves medda and that’s enough.

[ethereal-bumble-bee]

Another chapter of Admiring From Afar is out!

admiring from afar (7193 words) by etherealbumblebee Chapters: 10/? Fandom: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: David Jacobs/Jack Kelly, Sarah Jacobs/Katherine Plumber Pulitzer, Spot Conlon/Racetrack Higgins, Spot Conlon & Jack Kelly Characters: Jack Kelly (Newsies), David Jacobs, Spot Conlon, Racetrack Higgins, Albert DaSilva (Newsies), Specs (Newsies), Buttons (Newsies), JoJo (Newsies), Romeo (Newsies), Crutchie (Newsies), Katherine Plumber Pulitzer, Sarah Jacobs (Newsies) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - High School, Modern Era, Falling In Love, Jewish David Jacobs, Bisexual Jack Kelly (Newsies), Gay David Jacobs, Trans Jack Kelly (Newsies), Oblivious David Jacobs, Good Parent Medda Larkson | Medda Larkin, Slow Burn, this will likely be nonsense but enjoy the silly boys, Underage Drinking, Anxious Jack Kelly Summary: Davey Jacobs is practically a perfect person: popular, star athlete, amazing grades, bright future- the golden child of Ridgeview High School. Jack has always been quieter, perfectly content to stay safely tucked into the background where he can’t get hurt. For forever, Jack’s been content with simply watching Davey from afar, admiring him like everyone else and remaining invisible- until a series of events that change everything, revealing secrets and bringing the two boys together.

[newsiesficchallenges]

I’m Sorry- HOW MANY HOURS ARE THERE???

Hey, so. A friendly reminder. Sign ups close TOMORROW.

That’s a tad scary. Deadlines. *Shudder*.

But! Never fear! They won’t close until tomorrow night, so you’ve got a little wiggle room. Not much though. If you’re a procrastinator, time to stop procrastinating and sign up now.

Click this link! Yes, this one. No, it won’t bite you. 

Time’s a’tickin’, people! Let’s do this thing!

[i-politely-disagree]

Sprace-Haunted

Could be canon era or modern

lil short fic

(Inspired by Haunted by Laufey )

Spot always told himself it wouldn't happen again. It was always ‘the last time’ he went home to Race's. It was always ' the last kiss ' when he woke Race up in the haze of the early morning as he left.

Spot flicked the lamp off, looking fondly at Race who lay beside him.

As his eyes adjusted to the moonlight lacing the room, Spot watched as Race brought a hand to his cheek and smiled as he leaned into his touch.  

Eyebrows raised in question.

A nod in return. 

And a brush of soft lips against his own. 

Spot pulled Race back in, wanting moments like these to stretch out forever, savoring every mistake he was probably making. He loved the thrill he felt from a mix of Race and strange vulnerability, but something about the familiar smell of Race's room, the familiar feeling of his sheets and the relief of letting his walls down surrounded him with a feeling of comfort. Spot didn't want to sleep. He'd have to leave everything he wanted alone in a room as he went back to his life in the morning. He wanted the odd domestic feeling of whatever this was. Race's blue eyes seemed misty in the low light, clouded with some emotion Spot didn’t want to dwell on too long because he knew the impermanence of the situation they were in and, so it didn't hurt too much when that impermanence hit, he had to force ideas of Race wanting something serious out of his mind. 

Might as well make the best of the moment.

Winding his fingers through Race’s hair, Spot let his mind go quiet, taking in the sounds of New York traffic, the faint hum of a fridge from the other room, his lips as they separated from Race’s and small sighs while a blush made its way up Race’s cheeks. A heavy feeling of longing wrapped its way around Spot, but he wouldn’t give in. After all, this was the last time.

[the-realest-spot-conlon]

Pt.4 and pt.5 of "A Sweet Littlr Symphony" are posted on Ao3! Fair warning they get deep

[str4wb3rry-guy]

need a sprace fic set before and during the strike from races perspective so bad. please somebody. i need it in my life.

[agentsnickers]

 The odd thing about Les No-Longer-Jacobs is that Les remembers his last life on this earth just as vividly as the one he’s living now. He has always remembered.

 It was hard, when he was young, to keep straight the here-and-now from the there-and-then. He’s gotten better at it as he’s gotten older, and it’s gotten easier to keep under control.

Les reincarnation fic is here!! Featuring some relationships I’m excited to explore and the metaphorical ghost of David Jacobs.

[athousandboxjumps]

“Start out sweating, end up sneezing”

aka: one giant newsies sick!fic cuz I’m once again planning out angst

Albert catches it first. Of course he does, the stubborn bastard refuses to wear sleeves. It starts with a chill that leaves him constantly shivering, then his face turns flushed and warm to the touch, until eventually he has a fever that leaves his bedridden and struggling to get warm.

The next day Specs feels a tightness in his chest. He insists that it’s nothing new, just allergies, but everyone knows better. His skin is clammy and he can’t stop sweating and then his entire body is aching so bad he barely moves.

It only spreads from there. Specs gives it to Romeo, who stayed by him all night. Romeo unwittingly passes it to Buttons, who passes it to Tommy Boy, who passes it to Splasher. Splasher, his tiny frame wracked with tremors, can’t stop coughing and wheezing. There are terrified glances amongst the still healthy boys who all fear their littlest brother may not survive.

All those still healthy who have accommodations outside of the lodging house are instructed by Kloppman to stay there for the next few days. Elmer goes back to his many siblings, saying a prayer that he doesn’t get any of them sick. Albert tells Race to stay either Spot in Brooklyn, but Race refuses. He was a surprisingly good immune system, and he’s not abandoning his family now. Besides Jack, who caught it from Henry, is out of commission which means he’s in charge. It reminds him of the strike, being woefully unprepared to help the boys who so desperately need him.

Davey, having sent Les home, keeps a cool washcloth on Jack’s forehead to try and lower his temperature. Mostly Jack mumbles in his I’ll delirium, but he has a moment of lucidity where Jack asks Davey if Crutchie can stay with the Jacobses for his safety. Crutchie vehemently refuses, especially after Finch gets so sick his skin turns a pale green. He has to practically he dragged out of the lodging house by Davey and Les. Crutchie knows it’s bad if he stays, he already has a weak constitution, but dammit he doesn’t want to leave Finch alone.

Davey, Les, Crutchie, and Race (who by some miracle is still healthy) pool together whatever they can to get a doctor. Kloppman pitches in, as does Miss Medda and Sister MacClare from the church thanks to some help from Elmer. Spot shows up to the Jacobs apartment unannounced early in the morning to drop off some addition change courtesy of Brooklyn. It takes what feels like a long while, but eventually they have enough.

The doctor comes and checks everyone over. He’s most concerned about Jack, Finch, Albert, and Splasher, but says that all things considered the boys are very lucky. Over the course of the next week, people improve. Crutchie is allowed to stay by Finch’s side again (which Finch is very embarrassed about but also very grateful). They know Albert is okay when one of Race’s cigars mysteriously disappears. Jack is up and moving the day after with Splasher on his shoulders.

After the scariest couple of weeks, they’re okay. Crutchie and Davey each with their boy by their side, thank their gods. They’re okay.