with you to the end of the line

Fanfic reader, writer, artist & vidder ☆ Bucky Barnes Protection Squad ☆ Steve Rogers Protection Squad ☆ Hydra Trash Party 

[mybuckymybuddy-deactivated20200]

Sebastian Stan in ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’, (2014). Dir. Anthony and Joe Russo.

[thor-theavengergod]

[zwynn]

Chris Evans sweatered up.

[xxbluandorangexx]

…maybe what we need now is a ‘little guy’.

[chrisevanssource]

Outfitting a hero: Captain America’s USO costume.

Initially when Captain America becomes Captain America he’s not released to go off and fight right away, he’s used kind of as a propaganda tool. He’s in this very silly Captain America costume, you know… tights. Chris Evans.

[sargeantstuckbutts]

Steve would do anything to get into the army ;)

[forassgard]

[notallbees]

“We’ll find him, Steve.”

“Yeah, Stevie. I know.”

[allegoriesandcarpenoctem]

A Man out of Time

[maxiekat]

“Originally the movie opened with a World War II sequence,” Feige says. “It was in the script early on and we boarded and did some concept art for it (ed. - top 2 pictures) to try and remind the audience that he is from the past, reestablish Bucky as a character, and use that to transition into the world. Before production, as we were going through it, we realize the Smithsonian served that purpose, and the best thing for the movie would be just to throw the audience into the modern world with Cap. Then everything we needed to know about his experiences in World War II we could get out of his discussions with Sam and Peggy and the Smithsonian trip., which is why the WWII sequence fell out of the film.” - The Art of Captain America: The Winter Soldier

[kazablanka96]

Steve and Bucky + Some of the most beautiful words in the world and their meanings.

[kazablanka96]

[capsgrantrogers]

Trouble sleeping? 

                             I slept for 70 years, sir. I think I’ve had my fill.

The Avengers (2012)

[eddiediaz1992]

One night he wakes, strange look on his face Pauses, then says You’re my best friend And you knew what it was: He is in love

[steve-rogers-new-york]

Hey I'm going to New York, Brooklyn specifically, for a couple weeks and I was wondering about any places from this era you would advise I go cos I love everything you post and find it all super interesting

Hey! That sounds so cool, I’m so jealous :DHmm, well at a basic level, based on the vague info given between the comics, supplementary literature, and films, the three most likely places that Steve will have lived are Red Hook, Brooklyn Heights, and DUMBO. Personally I’m partial the placing him in Brooklyn Heights, though realistically Red Hook and DUMBO are more likely based on economic and class indicators alone.I focus most of my research on Brooklyn Heights (again, personal preference more than anything, it’s hard to make purely logical historically accurate conclusions based on fictional information xD). So I guess I would point you at the area within Brooklyn Bridge, Clark Street, the waterfront, and Cadman Plaza Park. While a lot of the old building are gone, if you look past signs, you can still see the old buildings and even old facades, you just have to keep and eye open for signs of old Brooklyn.Some key landmarks that might interest you just based on things I’ve covered here are:

Former Frederick Loeser & Co Department Store - 484 Fulton Street

Former  Abraham & Straus Department Store - 422 Fulton Street

Brooklyn Navy Yard - Info: 1, 2, 3

Brooklyn Automats - 20 Willoughby and 551 Fulton (MAP!)

Old Brooklyn Fire Headquarters - 365-367 Jay Street, near Willoughby Street

Old Brooklyn Daily Eagle Building -  28 Old Fulton Street (The nice one was torn down sadly)

There is also a statue of Cap!Steve in Brooklyn, a friends of mine from this blog actually visited it quite recently. I think right now it is located at Industry City down past Red Hook.

A while ago I put THIS GOOGLE MAP together with the locations of old amenities like schools etc. Just in case you’re curious.

Here are also some cool museums that are along the blogs lines of interest:

New York Transit Museum -  99 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn

Brooklyn Museum -  200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn

Tenement Museum -  103 Orchard St, New York

Brooklyn Historical Society - Brooklyn: 128 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn - DUMBO:  55 Water St, Brooklyn

That’s about all I can list right now. I’ve never actually been to NYC myself, so most of what I know I’ve learnt through researching for this blog. Definitely let me know how is goes and send lots of photos, I want to live vicariously through you!!!

Hmm, I might write this all up and do a full post on Steve Based Tourism in Brooklyn xD I know dumb fandom tourism is my favourite activity when travelling…I may have spent and entire day and a half just visiting Sherlock related locations around London…it may have been amazing.

In the meantime, I’ve started with this handy-dandy Google Map marking all the locations I mentions plus some more :)

@cesperanza​ commented with some great info!“FWIW, Red Hook isn’t like what it would be in Steve’s day; they built enormous housing projects but now also a bunch of big boxes like a Whole Foods and an Ikea. Downtown Bklyn will give you much more of the right scale of the streets, and the Tenement museum will give you the right scale of working class housing.“You’re a true gem, brilliant writer and Brooklyn knowledge to boot!

[gaylecleven]

i remember all of them

inspo.

[inscarletsilence]

on the one hand

what is the fucking point of flipping it you pulled it out of the sheath by the handle there’s no goddamn need for that

why even bother having a special spot easiy to reach in your black leather suit for knives if you’re just going to play with them when you take them out

but on the other hand

hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng 

[violent-darts]

(He’s switching grips, largely because someone like Steve ain’t gonna give you an easy target for a straight thrust, especially if he’s got his shield, which makes for a lot of over and underhand stuff. But god yess hnnnnnnnnng.)

[star-anise]

Also he LOOKS like he’s pulling it out normally, then flips it around—if you don’t have the advantage of a specific close-up you’d easily miss the little flip and think his blade was pointing toward his thumb.  Then when he pulls his arm back across his body you think he’s pointing the knife over to his left, when in reality it is pointing straight at you and he’s about to slam it in your face.  The arm movement to pull it out of the sheath that other way is super awkward and telegraphs the fact that your blade’s going to be reversed from the very beginning.  But the Winter Soldier is a tricksy bastard.  And IIRC, it works—Steve isn’t aware until his arm comes down to strike that he’s about to get hit.  Otherwise he’d find a better way to block it.

</fencer>

[violent-darts]

Now with additional commentary from a fencer. My “hnnnnnnnng” is only exponentially increased.

[star-anise]

Tl;dr knife flips are a useful, brutal, excellent tool.  When the Winter Soldier is coming after you with a knife you’d better have superhuman reflexes, because he is going to attack you from every possible avenue.  If I only hold my blade like a screwdriver, there are a limited number of physical movements I can make, and they are relatively predictable.  If I hold it like an icepick, the repetoire changes but is likewise limited.  If I can flip it around with absolutely no notice, I’ve effectively doubled how difficult I am to defend against.

[casspeach]

Reblogging for commentary, and also because I could watch that gif all day.

[thewinterotter]

All of this, and also, even if he WAS just playing with it, fucking around with a weapon is one of the ways that you get really good with it. With knives specifically, for a guy like Bucky — in both his lives — you’d pretty much have one on you at all times, and a lot of the military life (and probably the assassin life too) involves sitting around being bored as shit waiting for the death and terror to start. You end up playing with your weapons, because they’re there, and that’s one of the primary ways you really learn that weapon inside and out. You might play around, switching your grip, flipping it over and over, learning to catch it by the handle, by the point, learning to throw it, learning the exact weight and the center of its balance and all the other things that make handling it so effortless… it’s all just repetition and asking yourself “I wonder if I can….” and doing it until yes, indeed, you can stab some guy in the face before he can even see you coming.

[ninemoons42]

oh wow.

[plushstiel]

#i love this weapons meta shit

^ Agreed. Weapons meta is meta i need to see more often