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And then this extra one

I’ve been in a Star Wars mood

You can’t tell me that Anakin Skywalker didn’t sock slide in the Jedi Temple.

That one moment when

You get so int the song that you punch the air so hard your earbuds fall out right at the best part of the Watch What Happens Reprise.

If anyone seeing this loves then newsies as much as I do you will love these. Resides memes of Broadway newsies and the musical

Y’all

I was texting my friend a happy new year, and it autocorrected to “Happy Newsies Year!”

HAVE A HAPPY NEWSIES YEAR!!!!!!

Jack: And now we must start the new year off on the right foot!

Jack: Race, that’s your left foot.

Hey! Do you prefer the musical or the 1992 movie of Newsies?? Or do you like both because that’s an option too!

Hi! I like both of them, but I like the 1992 one a lot better. I have a lot of reasons but

1. Spot’s in it for more than 5 seconds

2. More Javid

3. Denton is god

4. They’re actually kids

5. A bunch of stuff on livesies feels forced for some reason

Davey: Picking up your cards before the dealer is finished is bad etiquette.

Race: Then consider me un-etiquette-ed. Spot: I eti-quit.

Spot: I hate roller coasters.

Jack: Why?

Spot: I have this thing about falling faster than gravity.

The person I reblogged this from is someone I enjoy seeing on my dashboard.

The person I reblogged this from is someone I enjoy seeing on my dashboard.

Update:

I found another stick.

Me: Guess what I just found!

Friend: Please no-

Me: A STICK!!!! Look at it! It’s adorable! It’s just the right-

Friend: That makes ten IN THE LAST HOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Race: Hey Spot, can ya help me with my homework?

Spot: No.

Race: Please!!!!!

Spot: No, but I can judge you in a helpful way.

Race: Good enough for me!

WORMSIESSSSSSSSS

Modern!Wormsies Headcanons because I’m terrified wormsies is going to die before 2021 gets here

Tw for mild horror. I don’t think this is that bad but read at your own risk. I don’t l know why I created it I just felt compelled to but don’t read it unless you’re as insane as I am and are fully prepared to read the most cursed thing I have ever created. Seriously. This is by far the most cursed thing I have ever written. Good luck. 💜

So anyway they’re not selling to survive obviously since it’s modern au.

In my modern au they’re all theatre nerds cause why not.

So they’re backstage one day and Race finds this blue thing behind an old set that has probably been there for several years.

Lo and behold, it is a worm on a string.

And Race is kinda weirded out and wondering who left it there but he’s like aight guess I’m keeping this thing.

He ties it to a strap on his backpack and forgets about it for the rest of rehearsal.

Then Romeo (one of Race’s 3 adoptive brothers, the others being Jack and Crutchie) notices it and f l i p s o u t.

Romeo drags over Specs and Jack and Crutchie to show them the worm Race found and they’re all like omg this is the best thing we’ve ever seen.

Race is still kinda confused but like hey whatever this might as well happen and he just figures if his brothers and his little brother’s boyfriend are gonna obsess over worms, why not join in?

They all get worms somehow. Romeo gets a green one, Specs gets a purple one, Jack gets a dark blue one, and Crutchie gets a yellow one.

When they all show up to rehearsal a few days later with worms, a few others pick up on it and are like lmao let’s join in on the insanity.

So anyway Albert gets a red one, Smalls gets a green one, Mike gets a purple one, Ike gets a yellow one cause it’s the opposite of purple, and Elmer gets a green one.

All the others are all kinda just whatever do what you want don’t involve us in your insanity.

BUT THEN

Over the course of the next couple weeks, only a couple more people join in on getting worms.

Sniper gets a purple one and Finch gets an orange one.

But what’s strange is that everybody starts noticing...

The kids with worms pick up choreography...

Faster and Better...

Than the kids without worms...

They’re stretchier and more agile...

...almost like..?

Almost like...

They...

don’t...

have...

spines..?

They wiggle just like their worms wiggle wiggle wiggle.

And Specs is the most logical of the ones with worms but even he fully believes his worm gives him special powers.

They spend their snack breaks talking about this and a few more people decide to get in on it.

Jojo gets a yellow one, Mush gets a dark blue one, and Blink gets a light blue one.

Davey, Spot, and Katherine still refuse to believe in this.

Sarah got a pink worm and they were all terribly disappointed in her.

But anyway they hold out their lack of belief despite how the kids with worms continue to perform better in dance numbers than the few left without.

Kenny caves and gets a dark blue one somewhere in here.

There are now a lot more kids with worms than kids without and the holidays are rolling around.

Ike gets Hotshot a red worm and Hotshot in turn gets red worms for all his crowd on the stage crew (Bart, Rafaela, Joey, Hildy, York, and Vince).

Hell, even the crew kids perform better with worms, it turns out.

Cause they can run fast to get places they need to be and squeeze through spaces they shouldn’t be able to squeeze through.

But anyway Katherine and Davey and Spot are starting to get a little creeped out.

Cause their friends and partners are starting to act more and more like they’re in a cult, even more than the cult that they’re already in (the drama club).

They pretend their worms have fucking personalities and make tiny hats for them and stuff.

And the ones left without worms are dropping like flies and getting assimilated to the other side.

Buttons gets a light blue one, Tommy Boy gets a pink one, Henry gets an orange one, and

And Sarah gets Les a green worm.

That’s kinda the last straw for Davey.

He fucking waits until his siblings are asleep and he throws their worms in the trash.

But mysteriously

They both have their worms back in time for rehearsal.

And Davey gets home that night and there’s a light blue worm waiting on his pillow.

He throws it away but it’s tied to his backpack strap the next day.

He flushes it down the toilet and it shows up in his favorite hoodie pocket.

He tells Katherine and Spot, super freaked out, but they don’t really believe him cause there’s no such thing as magic worms... right?

Then Katherine finds a purple worm on the seat she usually sits in during breaks.

She’s moderately creeped out so she leaves it there and goes to a different seat but the next break the worm is on that seat.

She can’t remember seeing anyone move it.

Meanwhile Spot is making out with Race behind a curtain (obviously) and Race

Race fucking pulls a red worm out of his sleeve like a scarf trick and gives it to him.

Spot is super weirded out by this and wants to just throw the dumb thing away the minute he and Race are done making out, but he just...

He can’t.

He can’t get rid of the worm, so he ties it to his backpack.

Katherine and Davey are mildly horrified that Spot has given in and won’t give up his worm even though you’re encouraging their cult-like behavior, Spot, come on.

Spot insists that he could throw away his worm if he wanted to, he just... doesn’t want to. And besides, he can keep up with the others on theatre stuff now, so why would he?

So Kath and Davey are

The

Last

Ones

Left

Without worms.

Davey’s worm is still following him around but he refuses to give in and he always gets rid of it as soon as he finds it but it always pops up again.

Katherine’s shows up less frequently, but it starts getting more and more frequent and she starts getting more and more freaked out as one night, she goes into her room and that fucking purple worm is on her pillow.

None of her friends have been to her house in the last 24 hours so this development is fucking terrifying.

She calls Davey and flips out on the phone to him about it and he’s trying to calm her down but Sarah ends up stealing his phone after a few minutes because she’s my girlfriend, Davey, not yours.

When Davey gets the phone back, Katherine is significantly calmer. He asks her if she threw the worm away.

She

Didn’t

Throw the worm away.

She claims it’s fine, that they might as well give in, Davey, we’re the last ones left without worms, just out of stubbornness. And anyway our friends with worms are doing fine; look at your siblings if you need proof.

Sarah and Les are having a tea party with their worms and Davey is getting pretty scared at this point.

He’s the last one left without a worm, though that blue one still always seems to show up wherever he is.

Until

Opening night

Of

Their

Show

Afterwards everybody’s pumped up and ready to go to Applebee’s to celebrate and Davey is relieved because no one has mentioned worms in the last 24 hours or even really looked at the ones still tied to their backpacks.

He thinks maybe the others got bored with it and this thing is finally dying, especially since that damn light blue worm hasn’t showed up today either.

But then Davey is just sharing a nice coffee alone with Jack backstage (which he hasn’t done since the worm thing started because honestly his boyfriend was creeping him out).

Jack suddenly starts crying, and Davey’s all like hey what is it? Babe look at me what’s wrong?

And Jack just goes I’m sorry love I know it hurts now but it’s better in the long run trust me.

That’s when Elmer, Specs, Sarah, and Mush burst in behind them and grab Davey, shoving a bag over his head and dragging him somewhere.

When the bag is taken off of Davey’s head, he’s tied to a chair in the middle of a choir room that all his friends have somehow squeezed into.

They’re all holding their worms.

And Davey is like guys if this is an elaborate prank it wasn’t even that funny to begin with but now it is very very much not funny.

But Sarah just goes in a sad tone it’s not a prank Davey.

Les not looking like he’s trying not to laugh is what makes Davey believe it’s not a prank.

And Davey is legitimately terrified at this point because even Spot and Katherine are looking at him with a solemn kind of pity and when he asks them for help they just shake their heads and tell him everything will be okay.

He turns to Jack and is still clinging to that last little bit of hope that one of the people he loves might not have gone off the deep end.

That last little bit of hope that the boy he loves is still the boy I fell for. I know you’re still in there so please just untie me Jackie.

Jack looks like he’s trying not to cry but he doesn’t move.

Instead he says I love you Davey. It’ll all be over soon.

Do it, Race.

Race steps forward and Davey just about has a heart attack because

He’s

Holding

That

Goddamn

Light blue

Worm

And he takes some rainbow duct tape out of his pocket and tapes it to Davey’s shirt.

And the others all start chanting one of us one of us one of us as Davey can practically feel the spine leave his body and travel to another dimension where there’s a man who collects them.

It turns out the others were right that he should just give in.

Now it’s time for them to get the rest of the school.

I like how

In the 1992 movie, Spot is the taller one with blonde/light brown hair and blue eyes while Race is the shorter one with dark hair and eyes.

Then, in the Broadway musical, Race is the tall blonde, blue eyed kid while Spot is the short one with dark hair and eyes.

*Le Gasp!*

SPRACE SWITCHED BODIES!!!!!

“A porcelain tub with boiling water.”

I couldn’t stop thinking about this line so I drew it. Very sketchy and you can tell where the skeleton lines are and stuff, but I like it. And yes, I did his line in his accent.

Race(having just stolen a french fri from Spot): Sharing is caring!

Spot:

Race:

Spot: And killing is illegal, but you set the scene.

Race: !!!!

Spot Conlon-Theif au

“Hey kid, how old are you?”

“Why should I tell ya?”

“Smart kid. Can you run?”

“Yeah. Why?”

——•——

Name: Patrick “Spot” Conlon.

Age: Unknown, young.

Appearance: Dark blonde hair, pale blue eyes, many freckles.

Known for: Faded red suspenders.

Weapon: Slingshot.

Calling Card: Burn mark on door.

He glanced around the empty house, eyes immediately finding anything of value in the room.

Silver candlesticks in the mantle, porcelain vase on a pedestal, gold-tipped walking stick. Nothing escaped his ice-blue gaze.

There was a bag slung over his shoulder, much like the one the newsies carried their papers in.

In went the candlestick, in went the vase, in went the beautiful portrait over the mantle.

The gold-tipped cane slipped through his suspenders like a sheathed sword.

Now the bedrooms and kitchen.

Silver spoons, delicate china, gold earrings, diamond rings, pearl necklaces.

The black stovepipe hat on the hat rack looked lovely.

Pleased with what he found, the small open window waited.

But first, the door.

His pockets held an abundance of matches. Striking one against the wall, he held it to the back of the front door, making a black spot the size of a silver dollar.

A spot.

Spot Conlon smirked, reveling in the smell of wood burning.

The spot would be immediately noticeable when the owner of the house came home, but Spot never took anything that could be noticed right away, driving the robbed insane with worry.

The match died, the door was marked, and he made a hasty exit.

——•——

Name: Patrick “Spot” Conlon. Age: Unknown, young. Appearance: Dark blonde hair, pale blue eyes, many freckles. Known for: Faded red suspenders, black stovepipe hat. Weapon: Slingshot, gold-tipped cane. Calling Card: Burn mark on door.

Have a little air guitar in your life.

Ah yes. The Parentsies.

Interviewer: okay so how many kids do you have

Klop: what do you mean like biology

Jacobi: legally

Medda: emotionally

Denton: or financially because the results may very

We’se friends but more like family.

i am here to tell everyone that i love all of my fellow wormsies

you are the best

Which side are you on?

1992 Newsies was great, you all are just wrong.

Why yes, I am a trash gremlin sustaining myself only on stale bread and musicals, thank you for noticing.

Jack, appears from who knows where: Who’s watching Lord Of The Rings without me????? Oh, it’s just Racer.

Race: *stroking his kazoo*

Race: mY pReCiOuS

Davey: ??????

reasons why race is the most important newsie and subsequently why he’s just friends with spot: a long theory by me

so, in order to understand races relationship with spot, you must first understand races relationship with the manhatten newsies. clearly, he’s jack’s second in command and it’s obvious that he’s a little older (maybe 15) than the other boys. but there’s a little more to it. he takes his job as second very seriously because he cares a lot about his fellow newsboys, this is probably because he came to the house at a young age and its the only family he’s ever known and he wants them to feel safe and be happy. this is seen in the beginning of the musical. after jack yells down to the other boys, it goes to race standing alone on the tower or “lodging house” fully dressed and awake and in the final stages of getting ready when he gives the second wake up call. albert wanders on yawning and talking about his dream, henry walks on in a towel and in the process of shaving, and several other boys walk by during the exchange in various states of being dressed. race is the only one almost entirely awake and ready, meaning that he got up extra early to get ready to make sure things run smoothly and help the other boys get dressed. he is also the last boy to run up to his spot on the tower for the first chorus of carrying the banner. this is because he waits for jack to come downstairs from the roof, greets him, and makes sure jack has everything under control before jack literally yells at him to get to his spot. he barely makes it up to the top before the chorus starts. also, his comment at the delancy brothers (“oh what is that unpleasant aroma?”) and his act with weasel at the distribution gate (“I’ll call you sweetheart if you spot me 50 papes, huh?”) are attempts to make the other boys laugh and forget about their terrible rough lives (so is king of new york, but we’ll get there) there’s also the scene right before the world will know where race makes fun of mush (“the further away from you i sleep”) to make the boys laugh. and he’s the one who directly talks to les and davey when they show up, immediately backing down when jack shows up and letting him take over. so it’s clear that he is a good second, cares about the boys, and knows when to act. now let’s talk about him and spot. since race is jack’s second in command and spot is the leader of brooklyn the two of them obviously know eachother form official business and junk. but just how well do they know eachother? well in the scene where davey jack and les are selling their last papers, race is up in one of the towers. after snyder shows up, race bolts offstage. jack takes les and davey to his safe spot - the theater. but where the hell does race go? well, they are in the lower east side of manhattan, and the brooklyn bridge isn’t far from there. plus we’ve already established that spot and race know eachother, and race runs pretty fast (hence the nickname) so it’s very feasible that he could have done that. this all might seem very skeptical, but at the circulation gate the next morning, what does race say? “Ah, man them fire sirens kept me awake all night.” and someone, i think it’s buttons or romeo i don’t remember makes this face like “huh?” they all sleep at the lodging house, wouldn’t they all have heard the sirens? and wouldn’t the headline have been about a fire? clearly, that means race didn’t sleep in manhatten because he was in brooklyn. and he probably wanted to go back to the house, but spot is a protective boy, and didn’t want walking across the bridge at night so he makes him stay and race left early that morning. now, the next time spot is mentioned is at jacobis when they’re deciding who wants to go to brooklyn. race is hesitant to duck down when jack asks who wants to go to brooklyn. i think this is because race knows he can persuade spot if it comes to it, but he doesn’t want to waste that chance at the beginning of the strike. this is also why he asks about spot almost instantly when jack shows up the following morning, and seems very disappointed in the answer that he’s not coming. so the strike happens and they fail, jack goes missing and crutchies in the refuge. race is now in charge of the newsies and daveys in charge of the strike according to the heierarchy. act two is very important, but what’s more important is what you don’t see happen. the time line is also very important, and i perfected it while not paying attention in english last year. king of New York takes place the day after the strike. the boys did not sell that day, didn’t even bother to look at the headline. they probably spent all of the previous night and most of the next morning cleaning people up and accounting and searching for missing people. they probably slept in for once in their lives and the lodging house is too small for all of them to mope around in all day and they need to eat so race orders all of the boys who can walk to go to jacobis probably around noon. at this point he’s too tired to cheer people up. they’re all moping around there when katherine shows up. she probably first checked the lodging house and then went to the deli because she knew it was their hang out spot. when she presents them with the newspaper, race comes to life and takes everyone’s mind off of the fact that crutchies at the refuge and jack’s still missing by announcing that they’re “famous.” heck, he probably mispronounces oyster on purpose to make them laugh. and if you look at everyone’s faces when he starts tap dancing they’re like “what omg he can do that ??” during this number, davey also hangs back and lets race do his thing because he knows the boys better. letter from the refuge takes place that night. then, the next day, all the newsies go out to swell papers because they have no money and need to eat. jack and davey confirm that. (“every kid who could walk today was selling papes” “and i was right there with them”) so, after work, probably about 5 or 6 pm all of the newsies go out to look for jack again cause he’s still missing. race and davey have a moment on the towers above the theater. race says something to davey, davey nods, race claps him on the back and they go in opposite ways. davey goes to the theater, and race goes to brooklyn to get them for the rally because davey had just told him the plan. the conversation they had was race giving davey temporary control of the manhatten boys while he goes to talk to spot because if theyre gonna continue the strike they need jack and they need brooklyn. watch what happens reprise happens that night (day 2 after the strike if you’re keeping count). race is not present, but all the other important people are: jack, katherine, and davey. race would have been there if he hadn’t been in brooklyn because before once and for all all of the important people have another meeting before the boys get there and race is present. after watch what happens, jack goes directly to pulitzer to tell him about the strike (still day 2) and pulitzer makes him sleep in the cellar, so jack hasn’t come back yet to manhatten therefore davey is still incharge. they also would have been confident setting up the strike for the night after (that would be day 3) because davey would have told jack that race is getting brooklyn. so while jack davey and katherine are all singing and planning the rally, race goes to brooklyn. he probably gets there around 8 or 9 on day 2. keep in mind, this is only day 2 after the strike, he’s probably still kinda beat up and injured. so spot sees him and flips literal shit like tf race you’re such an idiot. he probably proceeds to clean race up (despite protests) while race tells him about the strike and jack and crutchie and the state of manhatten because he cares about the boys damnit. spot listens and decides to join, promising race that they’ll gather everyone the next day. this is also very important: spot discards races green plaid shirt somewhere in the brooklyn lodging house. maybe it had dirt on it, maybe it was covered in blood, maybe it was ripped and needed to be repaired, who knows. but the shirt does go missing. I can’t remember if he gets it back at any point, if he does, it’s because cleaned or repaired it and gave it back to him. brooklyn’s here takes place over a 24 hour period. it begins when race arrives in brooklyn (day two) and ends at the rally (day three). the first verse of the song is spots reaction to what race says is happening in manhatten: “just got word that our buddies is hurtin, facing total disaster fir certain, that’s our cue boys it’s time to go slumming, hey manhatten the cavalry’s comin!” the word “just” implies that spot just found out all the details from race and the word “buddies” implies that he and race are very good friends, not in fact dating. the following morning, (day 3) race and spot grab their papers in brooklyn and head around the city, spreading the word to all of brooklyns newsies and sending kids to other bouros to come to the rally. this is the line “we’re the boys from the beaches of brighton, prospect park and the navey are here” Then, after work that day, so around 5 or 6, spot and race (who has stayed in brooklyn the entire day) gather everyone and begin to head across the bridge, and probably gives them all a pep talk about how they’re so great. “bouro what gave me boith, friendliest place on earth, pay us a visit and see what we means and when ya do we’ll kick you halfway to queens” now, the end of the song is when they arrive at the rally. “now them soakers is in for a soakin, what a sad way to end a career, theta a joke but if they thinks we’re jokin, loud and clear, manhattens here, flushings here, richmonds here, woodsides here, and sos the bronx!! brooklyns here, loud and clear, we is here” also, another reason why we know race went to brooklyn is because he’s the only more important manhattan newsie who comes across the bridge with them. all of the other newsies in that scene are less important manhattan newsies, race is the only main one. so then there’s the rally. still day 3. race makes a very big deal of cheering for spot like wooo yes that’s my best friend !!! race is also now back in control of manhatten. so jack’s a drama boy, he runs off back to his penthouse. Katherine finds him. It’s still day 3. they devise the plan for the paper and go to Pulitzer’s place. in the scene before once and for all, race, davey, katherine and jack are all there in the basement. race talks to davey like hey thanks for keeping manhattan alive while i was getting brooklyn and daveys like yeah no prob and then they hug. race is still missing his shirt. so they sing once and for all and spread the papers all on day 3. on day 4 they go to Pulitzer’s office and have everyone rally in the square and that’s the end. none of that would have been possible if race wasn’t so involved in the newsies. also if you don’t believe me that race and spot are just friends, have you seen the way he interacts with Albert ?

Oh, we’se alive y’all. Just not all there. *laughs like a maniac*

i love how wormsies and spinesies singlehandedly resurrected the newsies fandom from the dead

I am both. You can’t be one without being the other.

Like if you’re a #newsies race fan, reblog if you’re a #spot conlon fan.

Does anyone else

Sing King of New York in the shower because it reminds you of that one line sung by Spot “A porcelain tub with boiling water.”?