In uksies, Spot Conlon is referred to exclusively with they/them pronouns ie:

“When I get there, there was Spot and all their cronies…”

“You seen Spot Conlon right, what did they say?”

“Sure we seen ‘em.” “Yeah them and about 20 of their gang.”

Now one might believe this is a choice on the directors part to keep the surprise of the Brooklyn newsies being girls, but in actuality this is showcasing a non-binary Spot Conlon, ruler of Brooklyn. In this essay, I will—

Newsies + Textposts: Spot Conlon (1992) (1/?)

For the lovely @auspicioustarantula, who requested 92 Conlon.

so is there a uksies bootleg yet or WHAT

more sprace or maybe some blush content? :)

Ask for Sprace content and you will receive. I like to think that Sprace kinda had an enemy’s to loves type of thing going on (not the right descriptor but you know.) Like one day Race just spawned in Sheephead and began growing on Spot after he just wouldn’t leave. As for blush cause you asked about it, I’m not really sure if I ship it? I think it has potential but I’m not really focused on Blink and Mush as characters. I have seen some cute fanart for them though so we’ll see!

(Also sorry I can’t have consistent art for the life of me—)

5’3 and still the scariest person you've ever met.

ART REQUESTS OPEN!

spot calling everyone sweetheart (derogatory) all the time so nobody notices when he starts calling race sweetheart (extremely romantic) except race

David is still seizing the day, even 30 years after Newsies. 🥹

May 18, 2023 - Disney Studios picket line during the WGA strike.

there are several reasons as to why i prefer movie!spot but probably the biggest factor is that a relatively unassuming lanky looking white 14-16 y/o filled with bloodlust is so much scarier to me than mister buff guy who just kind of stands there. you expect this short stacked guy to be scary and beat the shit out of you but nothing is scarier than a teenager who can immediately clock all your personal weaknesses/insecurities and use them for evil

i could say a lot about 92sies vs. livesies race but at the very least let him have the "a permanent box at the sheepshead races" line back. the audacity of livesies to give that part to someone else. you're gonna have a character named racetrack and the one remaining line in the stage show that even alludes to the races doesn't go to the character named after them. what's the point

more newsies art from me? in the year 2023? more likely than you'd think

Your post already made a lot of valuable points that I don’t think I can add anything new. But thank you so much bc I agree 100% with your post on why sprace in the newsies circle makes me uncomfortable as well. Personally I’m not a huge Sprace fan myself but the way the characters are stripped of so much personality/individual traits for the sake of shipping and then in turn sexualized in order to make content, esp considered it’s towards their musical counterparts is. Not great to say the least. I’m sure that the sexualization is unfortunately in part because there’s generations of not great content of some aged some fics to back up the trends, but personally I can’t find a lot of interest in the ship just because of how lackluster Race or Spot are written due being pushed into generalized troupes. This is a lot of rambling, I just want to say you’re so in the right and also very good analysis.

YO thanks for the message!! glad to hear that my post reached some people. i was kind of neutral on sprace for a while, i mostly found it amusing that it existed in general yk? but especially after watching the movie, which i feel gives a lot more character to both of them (spot especially) as well as actual basis for the ship, i've grown a lot more fond of it. and having only watched the movie like, a week ago for the first time?, it's just really made me realize how sprace content clearly rooted in the musical depictions of the characters is just so... bland and sexualized. it feels like Nothing. listen, i loveeee btc and tommy bracco as much as the next guy i really do, but i'm at the point where i see art of them as sprace and im like. ive had enough of this guy meme. i love livesies and have been feeding off of only the stage show for 5 years but the longer i go after having seen the movie the more annoyed i am at livesies' watering down of some of the characters. i could write a whole essay on that alone so i won't do that right here at 1 am. but despite fanon purposefully blurring the lines between depictions of newsies (which i'm definitely a fan of), i find it so hard to feel anything about musical!sprace anymore. like at this point it just feels like fandom made up a couple of twinks to do gay together. like who are these people. i want that twink obliterated‼️

have a racetrack today. as a treat. ( definitely noooot wearing a shirt he stole from spot )

( she made the mistake of asking what's so great about the west. he's been going for twenty minutes. )

katherine absolutely is willingly to fight anyone who underestimates her or picks on her boys. no one can convince me she isn't. jack regularly has to drag her away from arguments, but is often tempted to just let her go off on people if he thinks they deserve her wrath, of course.

god damn it disney so close.