stage managing=/= juggling scissors

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johannathemad

Captive children found each other

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Can we all agree this is just the sweetest and most healing, heart-felt thing ever?

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this is beautiful???!?!!?

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*hyperventilates* *hyperventilates* *hyperventilates* *hyperventilates* *hyperventilates* *hyperve

WHAT IS THIS IS THIS AN ACTUAL SIGN FROM GOD THAT I'M IN THE RIGHT PLACE i'm going to cry tlt musical

okay but why is jatherine a rarepair in the newsies fandom??

jatherine katherine plumber jack kelly newsies i know it's not most people's otp but it's like NOWHERE yikes

i think a telling character question is “how many knives do they have available and where”

starshine2375

penny-anna

Pointless LOTR headcanon of the day: Frodo & Merry both take after their mothers, meaning Frodo looks more like a Brandybuck than a Baggins and Merry looks more like a Took. This is a constant source of petty contention.

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(Pippin meanwhile absolutely takes after his father & is the most Tookish looking)

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Merry: call me a Took one more time

Gandalf: if it looks like a Took and acts like a Took it’s a Took

Merry: I will END you

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Gandalf is the only nonhobbit in the fellowship who understands the minutiae of Took Vs Brandybuck Vs Baggins rivalry & he delights in it, everyone else baffled

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Frodo: look it’s perfectly simple. The Brandybucks don’t like the Tooks because they play golf and think they’re better than everyone because they occasionally go on adventures. The Tooks don’t like the Brandybucks because they live on the wrong side of the river and like boats. And nobody likes the Bagginses because they’re annoying.

Aragorn: are you… Including yourself in that

Frodo: I said what I said.

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Frodo: now the Bagginses don’t like the Brandybucks OR the Tooks because they’re highly disrepectable but also richer than they are. And as far as a lot of the Bagginses are concerned I’m a Brandybuck because I grew up in Buckland and I have the Brandybuck Profile

Merry: which just means he’s not pug-ugly

Frodo: quite.

Aragorn: this is all ridiculous. Keep going.

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Gandalf: Hm now I wouldn’t say UGLY but… every Baggins I’ve ever met has been perfectly Round or perfectly Square… There is no middle ground.

Gimli, baffled: Frodo isn’t round OR square

Merry: that’s because he has the Brandybuck profile

Gimli: so… Is he a Brandybuck…

Merry: ABSOLUTE not

Frodo: slander!! I’m a Baggins how dare you

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Pippin: was your father a Round Baggins or a Square Baggins

Frodo: my father… Was the ROUNDEST Baggins who ever lived… A perfect Sphere of hobbit…

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frodo: my father was an absolute UNIT

honourablejester

Meanwhile Sam is sitting by the camp fire going: Don’t look at me, this is all gentlehobbit nonsense. My folks have sense

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Okay y’all, Tuck month’s over– what are we doing next?

no seriously i'm already ready for another fandom event if anyone has an idea TALK TO ME tuck everlasting tuck month 2019

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thepiecesofcait

Do you love the colours of the world?

davey-in-a-minivan

WHAT THE ACTUALLY HECKING HECK

this is so good!!!!

Source: thepiecesofcait watch me mouth the word 'fall' and then stare blankly at the wall for twenty minutes heck heck heck les miserables

amatalefay

(NYTW version | more audio edits)

I’d be the voice that urged Orpheus when her body was found
I’d be the choiceless hope and grief that drove him underground
I’d be the dreadful need in the devotee that made him turn around
And I’d be the immediate forgiveness in Eurydice

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y’ALL YOU HAVE TO HEAR THIS

this is so cool! hadestown hozier

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Mod Strings has Opinions: Why the Delancey Brothers are More Redeemable than the Other Villains

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A point that seems to be popular on Tumblr is that the Delancey brothers are only redeemed because they’re young and attractive, not because they actually have more potential or positive qualities than older villains. While this may play some part in their popularity, I think there is another reason why the Delancey brothers are more popular: they’re more obviously working class.

Pulitzer is the most obviously wealthy- he lives in a massive house, has a fancy office, and is completely disconnected from any normal person’s life. Snyder also has a moderate amount of wealth- he can afford to hire a small police force, buy lavish food, and bribe judges to send more children his way. On top of that, both of these men made their fortunes from directly or indirectly exploiting poor children. They could have made money without that, and still had more than enough to be comfortable.

With Wiesel, the water gets a little murkier. He is much closer in status to the newsies than to Pulitzer, but he is also presumably a white, cis, straight, able-bodied, neurotypical, and adult man. He has a significantly better chance of getting a different job than the newsies ever will, and he still chooses one that puts him in a position of power over them. He also doesn’t have to do his job the way he does- it would cost him nothing to respect the newsies. But still, he chooses not to.

The Delancey brothers, however, are a different story. For one, they’re most likely still children (under 21, by 1899 standards). They’re certainly closer in age to the newsies than to any of the other villains. On top of that, they work for their uncle. This could mean that they couldn’t get a job anywhere else and had to resort to begging him, or that they’re under the care of their uncle. Either way, they could have been pressured into taking their job by Wiesel.

Oscar and Morris being young also impacts more than their looks- it makes them more naive and vulnerable. We know from their trading cards and interviews with their actors that they were treated very poorly as children, which inspires sympathy in a lot of fans who also were treated poorly. It also means that they have time to grow and change into better people, whereas older villains evidently chose not to.

In a musical about brotherhood and friendship, it’s hard to leave a pair of sympathetic villains without a family of their own. It’s like they’re begging for second chances. All in all, while the Delancey brothers’ good looking actors may factor into their popularity somewhat, there are also textual traits that make them more sympathetic and redeemable than the older villains.

stripeconlon

Allow me to add that murkiness to Weisel’s redeemability: his last name is German Jewish. So although everything else you said is true, it is possible being Jewish would have a significant impact on his ability to find a job elsewhere. Also, at least in the musical, right up until the strike, he treats each newsie with the exact amount of respect they treat him with the implication of “same shit as always.” Davey being the exception but that could be because he thought Davey was pulling his leg about not knowing how being a newsie worked or it could have been exhaustion.

I definitely don’t consider Weisel redeemable; in a deleted scene from the movie he abuses one of his nephews and movie weisel clearly has gang ties. But he still has a Jewish last name and in that point in American history, that would have severely limited his job prospects.

Source: newsiepedia these are EXCELLENT POINTS and i think the delanceys lines about not being taken care of.... don't fully justify their cruelty but hint at a partial cause even if they've sold out and turned on other poor vulnerable kids doesn't mean they aren't poor vulnerable kids this has definitely made me think newsies meta

youareoceanborn

me, nestled in a blanket with my laptop & cocoa as sheets of rain batter the windows: fierce and wild is the wind tonight

it's the feeling of shelter i love it aesthetic

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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Okay y’all, Tuck month’s over– what are we doing next?

Mod Strings has Opinions: Why the Delancey Brothers are More Redeemable than the Other Villains