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concertigrossi) wrote2012-05-13 02:41 pm
concertigrossi) wrote2012-05-13 02:41 pm
Avengers
Right, ok, so I'm fic-trawling for good Coulson and good Captain America stories (NEED MOAR NEED MOAR NAOW), and, as always, there is the good, the bad, and the ugly. But I'm getting the distinct impression that this is one of those fandoms where the lack of research is going to drive me bug-fuck.
1) Steve Rogers will not notice that the Twin Towers aren't there anymore.
2) Brooklyn =/= the Bronx =/= Manhattan =/= Queens. There are 28,000 people per square mile in NYC: these distinctions are important.
3) Slash Steve Rogers with whomever you please (in fact, please do!) but for God's sake, realize you're going to have to put some work into it. He got frozen in 1943, the Kinsey report doesn't come out until 1948. Dude is going to have some issues with the idea.
4) New Mexico is big, this is true. I have driven through lots and lots of it. It's huge, and there's a whole lotta nothing. (Also, thank you for not thinking you need a passport to get there.) However, if you drive 500 miles straight in any direction, you will likely no longer be in New Mexico.
5) The 1960s did not invent the drug culture. Just because Steve is as squeaky clean as they come doesn't mean he won't know what marijuana is. For example:
See what I mean?
1) Steve Rogers will not notice that the Twin Towers aren't there anymore.
2) Brooklyn =/= the Bronx =/= Manhattan =/= Queens. There are 28,000 people per square mile in NYC: these distinctions are important.
3) Slash Steve Rogers with whomever you please (in fact, please do!) but for God's sake, realize you're going to have to put some work into it. He got frozen in 1943, the Kinsey report doesn't come out until 1948. Dude is going to have some issues with the idea.
4) New Mexico is big, this is true. I have driven through lots and lots of it. It's huge, and there's a whole lotta nothing. (Also, thank you for not thinking you need a passport to get there.) However, if you drive 500 miles straight in any direction, you will likely no longer be in New Mexico.
5) The 1960s did not invent the drug culture. Just because Steve is as squeaky clean as they come doesn't mean he won't know what marijuana is. For example:
See what I mean?
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Well, there's the trick - is he Lower East Side or Brooklyn? Wiki sez Manhattan, movie says Brooklyn. And *especially* during the Depression, there were places where the religious charities were the only help people were getting at all...
(I didn't know that about the Catholic Charities.. that collection of oral histories sounds really interesting. Is it generally available? I have, in the past, avoided post WWI history because somehow people doing stupid things a century ago is somehow easier to take than people being stupid recently..)
Your take makes a lot of sense. So... you're going to write it now, right? :) I totally agree about his opinion of Tony. It's going to be awkward regardless of the situation - it's not like Steve is a smooth operator!
(I could totally see Cap/Bucky. In fact, I totally *want* to see a good Cap/Bucky. I'm not saying that Cap is necessarily not going to be interested in men, just that it's not going to be an easy process for him to come to terms with.)
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The oral histories are in an archive at Brandeis. They aren't online. It's hours of old guys, and some women, talking. I googled around and found the Abraham Lincoln Brigade has an online database and through it, that Bill Bailey's autobiography is online. These guys weren't afraid of anything. They make fictional characters look meek.