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THE POOR GUYS HEAD IS SPINNING
Davey: Jack's going to say the wrong thing and get himself punched, can you go after him?
Race: sure, I'd love to see Jack getting punched
Davey: try again
Race: I will stop Jack from getting punched
Davey: how are you doing today?
Les: my wig's snatched just like that *dabs* finna holla at a *whips* mothertrucker like a butt cheek on a stick, sis snapped, let's get this bread and hit that--
Davey, crying: I don't understand what you're saying
Jack: if I run and jump at Davey, he'll catch me
Davey: no no no I'm holding coffee--!
Davey: *drops coffee, grabs Jack*
Jack: see?
Davey, wisely: if everyone jumped off a cliff, would you too?
Jack, unwisely: Dave buddy I'd be leading the charge, let's go boys
Crutchie: no--
Jack and Crutchie, holding hands: 😊💕❤🥺🥰💕😘❤
Davey, forcing them apart: tHAt'S Not SoCIaL DIStanCinG
Davey is like 100% an insomniac. But not in the up-at-ungodly-hours way in the has-to-go-to-bed-at-8:30-else-his-melatonin-won’t-work way.
Dude is like the princess and the pea, the room has to be pitch dark, he needs an audiobook, the covers have to be the right kind of cosy otherwise sleep evades him.
In the spirit of my previous post dysgraphic davey! Davey who is incredibly book smart but gets in trouble at school because he can’t handwrite! Davey who cries daily because he just CANT get what’s in his head on paper! Davey who’s so exhausted from writing all the time that he’s prone to breaking down! Davey who wants to SCREAM because nobody will believe him that he *knows* this stuff, he’s capable he’s smart, he has so much he wants to share but nobody believes him. Also Davey who tries a typewriter for the first time and breaks down because he can finally express himself, who finally has proof that he’s not dumb or wrong or broken and that he can share what he’s thinking
Hello gay people in my phone, since you liked yesterday’s dysgraphic Davey post here’s another more detailed one!
Davey’s like really struggling in school because he’s reading at a college level, but his writing never really progressed past grade school. He’s venting about this to his friends (including Katherine) and she offers the use of her typewriter - it can’t hurt to try? He’s initially very resistant because what if I can’t do it then? What does that mean? Does that mean that everyone was right and I really am stupid? But he tries, and it’s a learning curve but he can get what’s in his head on paper for the first time in his life. So he and Katherine spend like every day where they’re not both busy together working on a story. It’s not perfect, a little rough around the edges, but it’s his and it’s proof that there is something worth sharing in his head after all. He decides to show it to his teachers, and they don’t believe that he wrote it. Say he’s not capable of producing something like that, that he must have stolen it off of someone else, that he’s lying. Totally crushing his hopes of being seen as competent and worthy.
A list of books I think Davey really likes (selected so that they could work for both modern aus and 1899)
- Sherlock Holmes! Bro was Devastated by the Reichenbach Falls Incident, and gets every new book as it comes out
- Dracula - he really loves the epistolary format and he also just thinks vampires are Cool!
- Frankenstein - Moral dilemmas are this guys Jazz
- Austen (his favourites are Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility) - he likes the social commentary but he also just loves the romance, it makes him smile