jax 🗞️

hyperfixated on newsies... 34 years late

[onmebackmush]

intro post!

hi!!! i'm jax

- 19, she/her

- 92sies believer

- i also like illinoise, the great gatsby, be more chill & hadestown!

- be more chill blog: @brookescardigan

- i write sometimes (ao3 @/1nkstained) & occasionally i draw as well :>

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

pov david returning to school after the strike

[mushiimune]

screencap redraw with everybody's favorite leading lady 🧡

[skinnycaats]

Some Sarah at 5am since I miss her.

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

annual reminder that our man Denton was the president

[starlit-kelly]

RAHHH JAVID

[iasip-enthusiast-2]

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

"I asked chat gpt" fine but I asked David Jacobs and he said no. I asked Snaps though and he said "Woohoo!" so we're all good 👍

[definitelycabinone]

bumlets but he found a worm

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

Sarah's hands suffer a perpetual ache that's settled deep under her skin, her fingertips are numbed by pinpricks and calluses, and her eyes strain more and more to read the print of her favorite books with every hour she spends pulling thread through the eyelets of needles and counting delicate stitches

[koats-n-goats]

the misinterpretation of Crutchy as being a naive little innocent baby never ceases to piss me off I don't get how it's such a common misinterpretation. He's a kiss ass. (that sounds rude but I mean it affectionately) like do people seriously think he's nice to Weisel and The Delancey's and Snyder because he's pure of heart and unaware that they're mistreating him???? nooooooo noooo it's his survival mechanism. so many of the newsies resort to things like deceit/trickery, charm, and aggression to survive the horrible conditions they have to live and work under. Being disabled obviously limits most forms of physical aggression or intimidation that newsies like spot and back exhibit. which means he has to over-rely on the other two, charm and deceit. which we see both of in the movie. like we see him distract Snyder so Jack can get back on the roof, we hear that he messes with Snyders food, and so on. But there comes a point where the safest bet for him as a disabled person is that he has to suck up to the people with more power than him. why he's even trying to kiss up to the Delanceys when they're dragging him across the ground. He's not even like happy go lucky optimistic, his introduction itself is pretty cynical ",there's so many fake cr*** on the street, a real cr** ain't got a chance" . But so many fans don't acknowledge his deceit or his cynicism , all they focus on is his kiss ass behaviors which they the misinterpret as innocence.

Crutchy isn't blind to the horrors of being an exploited, disabled child (and likely an orphan or runaway) in poverty. He's simply adapted to those horrors in a different way than most, because he had to.

[jayver-the-songbird]

Anyone ever think about the line “We's as free as fishes” from Newsies?

Because they are free as fishes. Free to go where ever they want in the water, yet still confined to the pond. They have free reign of New York but that’s all they’ll ever have. They can’t climb the social ladder, they will never be more than what society makes of them. They are free, but only within a certain area that was made for them, made to trap them. Forever free yet forever stuck

[yankiimenherafreak]

happy pride month to all newsies fans I ain't never met a straight one

[thatoneandlonelyemo2005]

a FRIENDLY reminder!

DAVEY is livesies/proshoot/broadway/2010s

DAVID is 92sies/movie/90s

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

EXACTLY

in the film he is occasionally called "Davey," however off the top of my head it is by

Crutchy (who gets a pass, and also very often uses "Dave")

Sarah (who is entitled to the name as his big sister)

and the Delanceys (mockingly)

I don't understand why the name is so overused in the newsical, but honestly it may have been so that there was no confusion between David the character and the repeated David and Goliath references

anyways, 92sies is David or Dave (or the Walking Mouth)

[bumlets-appreciation-blog]

This part right here, where Bumlets tries to push Boots away from the incoming cops never fails to break my heart. I think I've said this before but Bumlets definitely blames himself for Boots getting arrested and thinks he should have "protected him better"

[iheartgaymusicals]

I've seen way too many historical videos using black and white pictures of the cast of newsies when talking about the newsboy strike, mistaking them for real life photos

"this is a picture of newsboys from the 1899 strike!"

I'm sorry to tell you but that's a picture of teenagers from the 1992 Disney movie ...

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

the concept of Esther having a miscarriage between David and Les and then she and Mayer naming their baby Leshem ("precious gem")