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So I read this really awesome How To Hell’s Kitchen (for Daredevil writers) the other day, and I thought, goddamn, what a great idea, especially when I’ve been howling at the cruel sky for absolute ages in hopes of getting more accurately written Captain America fic!

So, like the post I linked to, I’ll start with the basics.  I have a few posts planned in the theme of How To Brooklyn for Cap Writers, and I’ll preface with the following:

I like context!  You like context too, right?  So these will be a series of posts on various topics, centered around living in New York City during the 1930s/1940s, and present day (for modern AU or post Avengers fics).  They’ll be broad in nature, because I’m writing them explicitly to give people who live elsewhere a better understanding of what it’s like to live here, and how to portray that in their stories.

As a caveat to that mission statement, let me add that there is no be-all-end-all of New York experiences.  The place is just too big and fast moving and varied for anyone not to sound like a total asshole in saying that there is, and I try to avoid sounding like an asshole if at all possible.  So this is not meant to represent all of New York, just a subsection of it that may be useful to this particular fandom.

I am more than happy to take requests!  If you would like more detail about anything, have any questions about tropes you’ve seen, logistics issues for a fic you’re writing that you haven’t been able to solve, or are just confused as to why New York seems so damn complicated, my ask box is open.  Otherwise here I am, shouting into the void, about whatever the hell I feel like writing about.

So, let’s start with:

The Basics of New York City, or What the Hell are Boroughs, Anyway?

The How to Brooklyn Series - Resources and meta for writing pre-war and modern stories set in Brooklyn

Steve’s Shitty Rear Tenement - Is having your front door opening to a vacant? lot? a normal thing? because there’s not much street going on during the “end of the line” scene. 

Pt 1 - The Basics of New York City, or What the Hell Are Boroughs? - Yes, there were docks. (Sigh.)

Pt 2 - For the lov’a Pete, Put the Subway in Your Stories - A story set in New York City that doesn’t even reference the subway might as well be set in middle America.

Pt 2.1 - The New York City Subway is Fucking Gross - Seriously though, can you imagine how those cushions smelled?

Pt 2.2 - The Brooklyn Trolley System - This one doesn’t even hit my historical boner, it hits my I’d love to be able to travel between Queens and Brooklyn without three train changes and two pack mules boner. 

Pt 3 - The Ubiquitous Tenement Apartment  - Although we associated the word tenement with shitty slum life, back in the day this just what people called apartments. 

Pt 4 - What’s the Deal with the Brooklyn Dodgers? - All right, so we all know how no recently frozen Steve Rogers is complete without shocked references to How Expensive Things Are, What the Fuck Is This Banana, and The Dodgers Moved to Los Angeles?!  But the thing you gotta understand first is that baseball was invented in Brooklyn.

Pt 5 - Steve & Bucky’s Jobs before The War - Almost definitely not working down at the docks, sorry.

Pt 6 - What did they do for Fun, Other than Dancing? - Hah, I’m a terrible person; my first instinct is to say, they got drunk.  Am I projecting?  Maybe.  Drinking’s a competitive sport here.  Anyway, I really like this question, this is a good question.  So, are we talking what they did as kids, or what they did as grownups?  Let’s do both!  I like both.

Pt 7 - Modern AU Headcanons (Steve, Bucky, Sam) - There’s not one way to experience this borough or city, and if I ever claim there’s a right way to “Brooklyn” then please punch me in the face immediately. So what I want to do instead is give you some options!  Let’s base them off of fandom tropes, shall we?

Pt 8 - We Have Always Been Here (LGBT history in New York City) - This is part of our cultural conversation, the one we’re having right now - arguing for more representation, for safe spaces, for political equality, for queer head canons, for trans head canons, for race bent head canons, to say yes I belong here, I am here, I have always been here. 

Misc. Posts & Meta

What I do with All this Damn Research: My AO3.

The Brooklyn Accent

Getting to the World Stark Fair by Subway

Mr Rogers Gayborhood/99% Docks

Steve Rogers & Modern Art

The Saga of Cute Twink Bucky

Is it realistic for Bucky to have been a Sergeant? 

Bucky Barnes Makes Weird Faces

Modern Art History, and opinions thereof

Further Resources

How Expensive Was That? by @a-social-construct​

Brooklyn Historical Resources by @a-social-construct​

1940s Census Data by @a-social-construct (individual data)

1940s Census Data by @a-social-construct (by neighborhood)

NYC Historical Subway Maps

1940s New York

Tenement Photos - 1930-1939

New York Transformed - NYCHA Photos 1939-1967

1940s LIFE Magazine Archive

World War II Writing Resources

Historical Newspapers via @fidelioscabinet​

Irish Language and Steve Rogers: A Meta, via @oiseaudete

Bucky in the Army, via @fidelioscabinet

Follow for more, or track my tags: Historical New York, The City So Nice They Named It Twice, How to Brooklyn.  This post will be updated periodically with additional meta, commentary, and resources.  HTB posts will be general topics only to save my sanity, but I’m happy to answer more specific questions privately or in a less sprawling format.  If you’d like me to reply to an ask privately, please say so.

The umbrella academy:

“I’m going to BEAT you and not the way you like it” 

“cHiLDrEn iN tHe bAcK” and then klaus just fucking falling over the seat. 

klaus showing up to allison’s house seeing a body and immediately going “are we burning or burying” 

five being So Done with Luther all season but still pushing him out of the way from the bricks falling

“Luther sniffs dad’s underwear” 

“You have had your possession privileges REVOKED”

and then ben going still worth it

everyone mentally rolling their eyes when diego starts talking about how he likes a girl (don’t @ me you know they were)

five pretending not to care about them but actually caring a lot™

the entire part where they’re lifting the tractor. diegos like fucking finally and luthers like we can leave you here would you like that.

diego forgiving vanya in less than a minute

the entire scene with klaus allison and vanya

everyone being like ok i understand why you would want to kill them but i still can’t let you

luthers forced smile at strangers after five yells “IM THE DADDY HERE” literally what i do when one of my brothers does something stupid in public

luther trying to keep the peace between the fives is just a whole ass mood tbh

klaus going over the ‘possession ground rules’ with ben

“klaus you’re so FILTHY” 

Ben and klaus’s little piss fight on the side of the road

“you look like antonio banderas with the long hair”

diego and luther when five shows up covered in blood

Taylornation:

And now folklore is out and it’s actually a few minutes longer than Lover but those same critics aren’t saying anything about it?? Because it’s in the indie folk genre and they trust alternative artists to make choices solely for artistic reasons?? Because that genre is traditionally the preserve of older men and as a culture we value those men and their art more than pop music which is mostly enjoyed (and often made) by young women??

Source

Video of Tama

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

inktober day fourteen: overgrown