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This is so HIGHLY specific that I don't know if anyone cares but-

Artist!Steve is on the brain and as an artist myself (realistic traditional, typically with graphite or colored pencils but I also sculpt clay/throw on the wheel and I've taken to dabbling in watercolor among other mediums) I have a favorite art supply but, I was wondering if Steve might have a favorite.

Just passively, as I was working on my current piece. And as I moved from one pencil to the next and picked up a new tool to assist. Instantly I knew it was the art supply that reminded me of Steve. It would be something he'd love and use all the time as an artist that does a lot of sketching in graphite-

and he (in a lot of fanfic at least lmao) enjoys charcoal, colored pencils, and pens.

Basically anything he could easily get his hands on that would make marks on paper. Likely because he grew up in a poor economy with a single, imagrant mother, and then watched nearly everything be rationed for the war effort.

While he wouldn't use the tool for watercolor/any type of painting you HC him doing, Steve strikes me as someone who returns to the instinctive, muscle memory of traditional drawing with any pencil/pen he can find.

The tool?

One of these fuckers-

If you've never seen one of these before, it's a pencil extender. They're used to make pencil stubs last longer so you don't have to buy new pencils when yours get too short to comfortably hold but aren't yet worthy of throwing away. (Although you totally can put charcoal, pastel, of contè sticks into them too. Not just pencil stubs. With those drawing implements, extenders are helpful because it keeps your fingers cleaner if you don't like the mess they can make.)

I feel like Steve would adore his pencil extenders during the pre-war 1930s but also in the 21st century.

Pre-war Steve loved these little life (and hand) savers because it meant he really could stretch his more expensive sketching pencils for as long as possible before he would either have to scrounge together enough money to buy another set or just use the old pencils they had around the apartment. Or whatever he could snag from the desks of doctor's offices or banks or grocery stores. And, sure, those pencils do the job but whenever he doesn't have a set of sketching pencils he misses the specifics of the harder and softer graphite. There's nothing like the scratch of an H grade pencil against paper and nothing like the smooth, dark swipe of a 6B pencil.

So, yeah, pencil extenders quickly become a godsend for Steve and that's not even mentioning his chronic health conditions likely impacting his physical comfort when holding pencils. His heart troubles are mentioned to give him poor circulation, and if you've ever tried to write with a pencil at school first thing in the morning after coming in from outside during the winter, you know it's hard to hold a pencil like that from experience. Pencil extenders wouldn't entirely fix the problem but it would help with something more to grip.

It's not listed in the movies on this handy sheet-

But Steve's also said to have had bone/joint deformities in some regard. Which might've extended to his fingers and even possibly his wrists, right? Holding longer pencils would certainly be easier than holding stubs for that reason too!

In current, modern day Steve would also learn to love pencil extenders beyond the novelty of waltzing through an art materials store only to find them right there on the shelf, thinking to himself, huh, of all the things they still sell. He has trouble finding the same shades of colored pencils he used to have (particularly because he used to be color blind but also because, y’know, the production of them has gotten so much better than when he was using them after they only started to be made for art purposes in the early 20th century) yet, the same basic pencil extender still exists. By the same brand. Huh.

Beyond that strange comfort, Steve uses them a lot in the beginning of his reintroduction to art because he has to reteach himself fully how to use sketching pencils with pressure and such, so he breaks them all the damn time, and it feels like a waste to not use the broken halves after sharpening them. Bigger movements he's adjusted to using less strength but... he didn't get to draw a lot during the war. He forgot how breakable pencils are and how little to move his wrist- his observation skills are sharp as ever but he physically has to retrain himself to translate his understanding of the minute details of the world around him to paper (inspired by this). And while pencil extenders are not substantially more difficult for Steve to break than his sketching pencils... he goes through a handful of them before Agent Hill notices them on his desk when paying him a visit. Steve won't ask anyone for anything but Hill will, she shops around, drops him off some sturdier ones at first. When he shyly admits to breaking those gifts (and sounding so damn torn up about it), Hill instead contacts Tony Stark to wip one up real quick. He gives her three different ones, all out of increasingly harder material. Steve uses them all the time until his muscles relearn.

And, of course, fully capable physically in drawing once more, Steve switches back to the brand he's been using his whole conscious life. It's hard to shake the mindset of not trashing something until you really, truly cannot use it anymore that he learned through The Depression.

Anyway, Artist!Steve loves pencil extenders. That's all. Thank you for coming to my TED talk

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Hello Marvel fans. Before I go to sleep I’d like to ask you a few questions. Hopefully, with the beauty of timezones, when I wake up some of you will have answered/discussed this <3

So, given my rants, some of you may already know I’m working on a Stucky fanfic. It’s a big project.

One of the themes I’d like to tackle is how Bucky and Steve come to terms with their feelings for each other, and with their own sexuality. My story will start pre WW2 and end post Endgame. I’d like to explore how both of them are going to feel about being bi, loving men, coming from a time when it was not acceptable.

How much do you think they are going to suffer from internalised homophobia ? And heteronormativity ? How will it affect their behaviour with each other, their relationship, their self-esteem ? Etc.

I am especially looking for the opinion of queer people. I'm a wlw myself, I struggled with internalised homophobia a bit but not a lot. Living in France nowadays, it's much easier to not be straight than it would have been for Steve and Bucky in the 30's and 40's in New-York; and maybe even for Steve when he woke up, and for Bucky when he started regaining his memories and after that. I am aiming for historical accuracy here. I am doing research but I generally find information about queer people in the UK, especially London. How they were watched by the police, even through windows.

If you don’t have informations, please reblog so this post can reach people who do.