E.T.H.

your resident 45-year-old Javid headcanoner christian bale devotee🧎‍➡️

[mindofeth]

welcome to the mind of ETH 🎪

21 | she/her | queer | audhd

massive theatre/film nerd, studying to be a costume designer

your local Christian Bale expert. I've seen every one of his films. a quick rec list is here.

number one David Moscow fan.

[working my way to being a Matthew McConaughey expert. 18/52 films]

I mainly post about Newsies (1992), but other favs include: stucky, merthur, cherik, dan and phil, DPS, SPN, House, Doctor Who, Gomens, True Detective S1, Sandman, Equilibrium, Wes Anderson, and all things Cinderella.

writer, artist, editor, and fashion history geek

@ mindofeth on ao3, check out my sappy javid fics

curious what I'm watching? letterboxd.com/mindofeth

"I have so often shared the day’s glittering discoveries with no one at all. but always--somewhere along the avenue or the boulevard--there was a table, set for me."

[rewedy]

бро i cant и т д

[jaspy--waspy]

Was playing with Crayons again

[clouds-soup]

When you hear "In 1899, the streets of New York City ECHOED with the voices of newsies" so you know your about to watch two hours and one minute of peak cinema

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

Left: "Newspaper Boy," Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1869. Right: "The Little Newspaper Boy," Richard Thomas Moynan (1856-1906).

[sadisopodhours]

Not enough people talking about this dilf

[exhuastedpigeon]

Save me mid-90s Bill Pullman. Mid-90s Bill Pullman save me.

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

The majority of newsgirls (as well as the newswomen who managed stands) continued to sell the boycotted papers during the 1899 strike. They were largely left alone because, in Kid Blink's words, "a feller can't soak a lady." But this degree of immunity wasn't the defining reason as to why the girls scabbed.

The circumstances of the newsgirls were very different from those of the newsboys.

For one, newsgirls were regularly reported to bring in more profits than their counterparts because many gentlemen and most ladies buying papers actually showed a preference towards doing business with the girls.

Even more significantly, the typical newsgirl was not a "street waif" but a girl with a home and a family that had fallen on hard times. Many were daughters who took up the task of supporting invalid parents who were out of work, and young siblings in need of dinners and warm clothes. There were certainly many newsboys who had the same responsibility resting on their shoulders, but many more of these boys compared to the girls were runaways or orphans concerned primarily with their own fates.

Combining these things, sixty cents for a hundred papers might not have seemed so unjust a deal for a newsgirl who turned a good profit and faced an alternative where her family's income became uncertain.

We see some of this dilemma in Newsies with David and the Jacobs family as a whole, but newsgirls who faced it in real life (presumably) didn't typically have newsboys of Jack Kelly's caliber hanging around to convince them to strike.

[autotomic]

time is a flat circle

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

the gerry society in 1896: there are no more than a dozen or fifteen newsgirls between the ages of 12 and 20 in New York

me, 140 years later armed with the internet, library archives, and newspaper databases: 🤨??

anyway my list of historical newsgirls keeps growing

[mismatchedmango]

in New York, anyone know where I can find those dancing newsboys??

[friendsofthefriendless]

being in the newsies fandom in 2026 is funny because sometimes people will be like "is the newsies fandom still alive" or i'll get a comment on my fic that's like "wow newsies fanfic in the big 2026." and i'm like. yeah man. it's also one of those musicals that a loooot of people got into between the years of 2017-2021 when they were like 12 years old and it was one of their gateway musicals that got them into theatre in general. and i just totally missed it. i watched the proshot and listened to the soundtrack for the first time in october of 2025. i watched the movie for the first time in december. i've only been in this fandom for seven months. so every time i see someone say something like "oh whoa still a newsies fan in 2026" i'm like dawg i JUST got here lol

[bumlets-appreciation-blog]

Sarah Jacobs sucker punching a jerk to defend herself and her little brother is my aesthetic

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Morning Papers, J. G. Brown c. 1899. James S. Copley Library, University of San Diego, La Jolla, California.

[coneygoil]

As I am tumbling down the rabbit hole of finding more and more working links to old Newsies websites, I wanted to share some of the ribbons I've come across! I don't know who made these ribbons originally, but so many sites displayed them or were used in signatures on the NML (I used a few myself in my sig). Here's a small collection I've come across! As a bonus, a Kloppman fan club icon :D

The rest are under the cut! The images were huge.

[baledaily]

Behind The Scenes - Equilibrium (2002)