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 :>

[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")

[conceptual-orange]

i hope to meet Christian Bale one day so i can see the light die in his eyes when i say “oh my god!! it’s that guy from Newsies!!”

[bewbin]

dude honestly shout out to my guards i told them to seize this guy and before i could even finish my sentence they soze him. My goats

[coneygoil]

From David Sidoni’s instagram

Pie Eater’s daughter is performing in Newsies!

[dirty--girl--soup]

jack was fifteen was michael died. michael was eight. jack is seventeen when we see him. michael would have been ten. les is "ten, almost." les is the age michael would have been had he not died. idk is there something here

[wheresmyfuckingchair91]

Yes I do want to walk down the aisle to Carrying The Banner (Finale) thanks for asking

[crabussy]

I love The Character sooooo much! grinds my teeth together flares my nostrils flexes my fingers tenses my neck muscles snorts like a bull stands as still as an ambush predator shifting on my haunches mere metres away from The Character

[spacebrick3]

couples outfit idea

[davey-the-brains]

spot is so scrawny and skinny bro😭

[anorphanwithastuttahh]

The Jacobs Siblings <3

[vanillamochi1401]

So I just learned that there was a guy in the real life newsboy strike called Major Butts? I don’t know what to do with this information but I love it

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

Major Butts Butler! He took over as a key leader of the strike after Kid Blink stepped down following accusations that he had accepted a bribe

[starlightandmusings]

hard promises reread notes:

- wiesel keeps his cudgel “close at hand” when the boys are just?? trying to buy their papers?? jack calls him pussycat

- wiesel is physically abusive to morris, hitting him and knocking him to the floor

- davey: “we were taught not to lie” jack: “i was taught not to starve to death in the gutter! who ya gonna believe?”

- action of jack looking at the jacobs’ apartment is described as “a home. to him the taj mahal. food on the stove, sheets on the bed. home. it hits him hard.”

- mayer and sarah are raging socialists!! mayer reads from eugene debs’ work

- jack says he can’t sleep in the bottom bunk (hammock) and needs the top one . horse & wagon sound trigger a nightmare of michael’s death. jack wakes in a sweat and secretly goes to look at his family photo for a while

- spot calls jack “sullivan”, implying he knew him Before

- esther hits david in the face when she learns about the strike

- jack describes michael as “this kid, like les, but younger.” later, when jack scabs, les hits him in the mouth and draws blood; a cop retaliates against les, whose head strikes a wagon wheel, triggering a horrifying flashback for jack of michael’s death. he throws himself on his knees, picks up les, and carries him. les’ blood covers his new clothes. he pays for the doctor.

- “jack would rather die than take his pants off”

- francis malcolm sullivan. snyder tells him he’s “already responsible for the death of his brother”. snyder wants to put him in the refuge until he sees fit; jack begs to be sent to the adult prison instead

- when jack is taken to meet up with pulitzer the guy just grabs his face; seitz holds him still as pulitzer examines him

- when david sees jack as a scab, he hits him in the face. jack doesn’t resist. he just says “i can’t afford to be a kid no more”

- jack (intense, aggressive) i ain't lying. i just ain't telling you the truth. i know my brother's dead. i know what's real. (walks away, stops) it’s easier sometimes to make up a family then to have a one.

- jack, lying: “being alone don’t scare me.”

- “there’s a grin on jack’s face as he dashes for the family he will not leave behind”