after the strike, the older manhattan newsies are *ruined*. like, comatose, barely awake, exhausted to the CORE. and the younger newsies are SO full of energy like 'YAYY WE DID IT' and the older newsies can only respond with 'ough' before they collapse onto a table at jacobi's. some of the older newsies have taken to sleeping in the same beds at the lodge because it helps them sleep easier. after jack moves to be with davey working in pulitzer's office, race and albert take over the manhattan newsies, trying to keep the morale up while barely keeping it together themselves. when albert suddenly breaks down in tears trying to get the younger newsies to just please listen to him, the only thing race really knows to do is hug him as tight as he can and try to kiss his cheek as inconspicuously as possible.

of course, it doesn't go unnoticed. it creates tradition and openness within the younger newsies; they feel comfortable crying in front of each other for the first time, and often kiss each other on the cheek or forehead to cheer each other up. when jack comes to visit and he finds such a supportive environment, led by race and albert holding hands and wearing steel promise rings, he's spellbound.

he can't believe that race and albert brought this about.

he's so proud of them because now they can finally be themselves.

NEWSIES TUMBLR DW I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT YALL!!!!!! RALBERT NATION HOWRE WE DOING⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

why go to therapy when you have the gay light hair x dark hair ship on hand?

oops i tripped and dropped my newsies lg tv community hcs

it’s honestly so funny that disney was self aware(?) enough to know that people would ship jack and davey so first they made sarah for no other purpose than being a love interest, then they wanted to appeal to the fans who knew she was there just to straight-ify and played no other purpose, so they completely get rid of her and make katherine, who’s character kind of makes no sense but she has a role now i guess?

the fandom, who ignores all of that while shipping jack x davey, practically the only two girls in both movies who don’t even coexist, and all the other ships are queer in some way while regarding all of them as basically canon: FUCK YOU🤠

Thinking about how novelsies spot is a redhead and how he's usually not described that way in fics 'cause even if more ppl read the novel we've already got albert meeting our redhead quota

Realising that if we did have both spot and albert as redheads.. considering the popularity of sprace/ralbert/spralbert... we could say racetrack has a type

which newsie would try to kiss their own reflection and why is it race?

which newsie would try to fight their own reflection and why is it albert?

REFERENCES

@orangesand-lemons-234 ^^

im so proud of the background in the 3rd drawing because IT TOOK ME SO LONG LMAO

Ralbert

so albert has like long-ish hair, right? he puts his hair up in double braids more for practicality's sake than anything. he has two younger sisters, that's how he knows how to braid.

now consider race who sees albert doing his hair up and watches so intently that he learns. sometimes the girlsies in brooklyn let him practice on their hair, just so he can offer to do it for albert. albert doesn't say yes very often.

but, one day he does. his wrists hurt and his arms are tired. he sits down at the bottom of the staircase of the lodging house, race sits a step higher. albert lays his head on race's thigh, just a little bit, and race nearly explodes. he tries not to pull on the braid too hard (spot's main complaint) and albert sighs happily as he feels race's fingers card through his hair. it's music to races ears. he lets himself smile, softly, smittenly, as he 'accidentally' strokes albert's cheek on his way to get a new strand of hair.

race wants this all the time.

RALBERT FANS EAT UP DINNER IS SERVED ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Aye Racetrack! You should meet me on the rooftop because...you just should, its important!

- @ask-albert-dasilva

On the rooftops? Important? I mean, alright! Might have a little troubles, tesoro! My ankle still ain’t fully healed!

holy trinity (alternatively: albert and his bfs)

race: albert's arms are my reason for living they're so big and he never covers them up so I can always see them and he's so strong he can carry me for like 30 minutes and not break a sweat-

elmer: uh race

race: what?

albert standing behind him with tears in his eyes: you really think my arms are big???

Race: you would not believe the day I've had

Albert:

Race:

Albert: what the fuck are you doing in my bed?