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• Guess He Didn't Take Care of Me by lilshocker8

  Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  07 Apr 2024

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Morris Delancey & Oscar Delancey
  • Morris Delancey & Bill Hearst
  • Morris Delancey & Wiesel
  • Morris Delancey
  • Bill Hearst
  • Wiesel (Newsies)
  • Referenced Child Abuse
  • Canon-Typical Violence

  Summary

  He doesn’t do family, never has. It’s never done him any good, after all, and caring about people only ever hurts in the end.

  Series

  • Part 7 of Refuge Rulers

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,542

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  7

  Kudos:

  17

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  181

• The Meaning of Family: A Racetrack Story by lilshocker8

  Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken  

  • General Audiences
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  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  08 Oct 2023

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Racetrack Higgins & Jack Kelly
  • Racetrack Higgins & David Jacobs
  • Crutchie & Racetrack Higgins
  • Racetrack Higgins
  • Jack Kelly (Newsies)
  • David Jacobs
  • Crutchie (Newsies)
  • Finch (Newsies)
  • Mush Meyers
  • Albert DaSilva (Newsies)
  • Tommy Boy (Newsies)
  • Henry (Newsies)
  • Elmer (Newsies)
  • Specs (Newsies)
  • Buttons (Newsies)
  • Splasher (Newsies)
  • Mike (Newsies)
  • Ike (Newsies)
  • Les Jacobs
  • Romeo (Newsies)
  • Character Study
  • Self-Indulgent
  • Found Family
  • mild religious trauma
  • It's more implied than anything but it's definitely there
  • It's a retelling of Newsies so there are fights
  • Light Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Race does use some common slurs from the time
  • Specifically towards Crutchie

  Summary

  Jakob Hirsch came into the world screaming. This was an appropriate reaction to his being born, though he didn’t know it at the time.

  Or: I was in a production of Newsies as Race, and my character background work got out of hand xD

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  25,422

  Chapters:

  7/7

  Comments:

  19

  Kudos:

  20

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  349

• The Solitary Situation by lilshocker8

  Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M, Gen
  • Complete Work

  01 Oct 2023

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Romeo/Specs (Newsies)
  • Morris Delancey & Oscar Delancey
  • Morris Delancey
  • Oscar Delancey
  • Specs (Newsies)
  • Romeo (Newsies)
  • Racetrack Higgins
  • Spot Conlon
  • Henry (Newsies)
  • Smalls (Newsies)
  • Mush Meyers
  • Skittery (Newsies)
  • Bill Hearst
  • Darcy Reid
  • Katherine Plumber Pulitzer
  • Jack Kelly (Newsies)
  • Kid Blink
  • Mike (Newsies)
  • Ike (Newsies)
  • Implied Childhood Sexual Abuse
  • Found Family
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Snyder is a creep
  • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • As always I'm not tagging graphic violence
  • But someone does get stabbed so
  • Let me know if it should be included
  • OH and this is definitely Delancey redemption
  • I know there are people who hate that so be warned

  Summary

  The Strike is won and Snyder is arrested. Unfortunately for the Newsies, arrested doesn’t mean sentenced, and they have a long year ahead of them making sure the man called Spider actually stays behind bars where he can’t hurt anyone else.

  Somehow, this is the least stressful part of the year.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Refuge Rulers

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  58,924

  Chapters:

  17/17

  Comments:

  70

  Kudos:

  55

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  1,634

• The Best That He Can by lilshocker8 for catbrains

  Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  02 Aug 2023

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Morris Delancey & Oscar Delancey
  • Oscar Delancey
  • Morris Delancey
  • Snyder (Newsies)
  • the only good part about being sick is that this story was delayed and I got to include young!Snyder
  • Hurt/Very Minimal Comfort
  • lots of fighting
  • It's the Delanceys of course there is
  • implied eating disorder
  • Pre-Canon

  Summary

  Oscar had thought, for years, that Morris would grow out of it. Eventually he realized Morris never would, and Oscar was the only one who cared enough to keep his brother alive.

  Or: A Study in Surviving

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  8,865

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Kudos:

  19

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  222

• Bonds Beyond Bridges by lilshocker8

  Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
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  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  26 May 2023

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Mush & JoJo
  • Mush Meyers & Original Female Character(s)
  • Mush & Spot
  • Mush Meyers
  • Spot Conlon
  • Original Newsie(s)
  • JoJo (Newsies)
  • Specs (Newsies)
  • Racetrack Higgins
  • As always I don't think the violence is graphic
  • But tell me if I need to add that warning
  • Friendship
  • Minor Character Death
  • Jack's failings as a leader get insulted by everyone
  • Poor Henry got sidelined by his own best friends
  • I love Henry why do I do this to him
  • This is why he scabbed you guys
  • "Finch opened his mouth" as an explanation for WW3 breaking out in the Boarding House

  Summary

  When Mush is released from The Refuge he goes to Brooklyn, because that’s what you do to stay out of Snyder’s clutches. However, he finds himself drawn back across the bridge when he meets a Lower Manhattan Newsie who makes him feel like a person again.

  Series

  • Part 5 of Refuge Rulers

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  19,592

  Chapters:

  2/2

  Comments:

  18

  Kudos:

  13

  Hits:

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