Did you know that between 1939 and 1941 the NYC Tax Administration and the Works Progress Administration collaborated to take photographs of nearly every building in all 5 boroughs of New York City? And that you can see these photos today thanks to NYC Municipal archiving? This is, obviously, amazing for hundreds of reasons. For the purposes of this post, it's fantastic because this is a very real address:

And when I put that address into the photo locator map, I get this:

Going from there, we can walk around the surrounding blocks via photographs. And if we assume that Steve and Bucky's pre-war apartment was fairly close to the Barnes', then these photos from 1939 to 1941 are a historically accurate trip to their neighborhood.

So, let's explore some pre-war Brooklyn. For your fic inspiration needs, your feelings, the general Stucky vibes, or just because:

TFATWS Bucky who comes back to Brooklyn would see that his folk's old house is still there:

Look how much that tree has grown.

i’m sorry but blanket statements like this are just harmful and wrong. it’s gross and weird to draw art of adults who look like kids and sexuality them. it should be illegal. and i don’t really believe in the slippery slope argument here because texts by POC and LGBTQ authors is already being stripped from shelves. these two things aren’t the same, not all art has merit. not all opinions are valid. you can defend the things you like and call out reprehensible behavior. lolicon is literally pedophilia and i don’t understand why people can’t just come out and say they disapprove of it.

Except it's not literally pedophilia unless it depicts a child who exists in the real world and can be identified from the drawing. Which is not the same as completely fictional characters.

Neil explicitly says in his linked post that actual CSAM/CSEM is utterly wrong and bad. He also explicitly says that he doesn't read/look at lolicon.

You need to understand that liking taboo fictional content and supporting its right to exist are not the same. It's your prerogative to not like lolicon and think it's gross (it's not something I'm into either), but I'll defend it's right to exist because as Neil so poignantly put it:

On a related note, if someone were to draw me in an anime style, I can almost guarantee that people like you would assume it's a drawing of a child, despite the fact that I'm a full grown adult who just happens to be very short and have "minor-coded" proportions (in quotes because it's a term I've seen people use on socmed to refer to adults who are short and I think it's bullshit). It wouldn't matter if the subject of the drawing (me) proved themselves to be an adult... accusations of pedophilia, being "pedo-bait", etc. would be flying.

Y'all have watered down the term so much that it's increasingly difficult to separate ACTUAL pedophilia from your personal beliefs of what it is. And that is way

way

way

more harmful than any fictional loli

it is pedophilia. and not being anti it’s production is remaining neutral on it. that is support. once a fucking gain regardless of whether the media SEXUALIZING MINORS is on shelves or not it does not affect actual media that should be protected. books that deserve to have space are being taken away and you’re talking about some imagined world where none of that is happening.

i don’t defend material like that because it’s gross. can you imagine me getting on here and being like “yeah i don’t support racism but i support the kkk’s right to free speech because if i say the kkk shouldn’t be platformed than that leads to a slippery slope where the words of black people will be restricted” when that’s already fucking happening.

don’t give me the fucking “if you looked at me you’d think i was a minor” bullshit. i’m also often confused for a minor when i’m not, and gross men hit on me BECAUSE they think i look younger than i am. the same reason these gross artists draw characters like this BECAUSE they look like children.

the idea that me saying material like lolicon is fucking gross and doesn’t need defending is not worse than lolicon are you dumb???

and then tagging this purity culture. something is not right with your head, and i’m not saying that as an insult i’m saying that as a fact. seek help

>>Laments people should actually take the time to raise up art being targeted (Queer Art, 'Disgusting' Fetish Art)

>>"OMG I DIDN'T FUCKING MEAN LOLICON YOU BASTARDS"

....Lolicon, and I don't think you realize this, IS an art form that IS frequently 'Under Attack'

I guess you just haven't been living long enough to see how every single time Fandom has had Censoring Dickheads rise to any form of seriousness or 'power', those same Dickheads use the Fash Playbook

And that's by STARTING with the Easily Dismissed Artforms.

I.E: The shit that gets you (yes general you) to look at it and go "YEAH. BAN IT."

And well OOPSIE you dumbass you just let the Fash back in!!!

Open a window to ANY kind of censorship and look where the fuck it targets AFTER the target you thought they'd focus on, and honey, you're not just gonna lose the 'Immoral Gross Shit that's Easily Ignorable and Blockable' and suddenly there's:

No more LGBTQ+ Information available online.

No more LGBTQ+ communities available online.

No more LGBTQ+ art of ANY sort available online.

And if you think for a single second those assholes are gonna stop there; guess what?? YOU LET THEM IN AND THEY WILL NO LONGER LISTEN BECAUSE NOW YOU'VE FORKED OVER THE RIGHT TO EVEN TELL THEM ANY LONGER WHETHER WHAT THEY ARE NOW TARGETING IS EVEN SOMETHING YOU FEEL DISGUST FOR.

Because their goals are never ''I will eradicate the BAD GROSS ICKY VILE THING FROM YOUR SIGHT!"

The goals of Censorship Dickheads is always ''How Many Things I Can Block Before You Dumbasses Finally Wake Up And See What I've Done With The Place!"

The fact that people still fall for the above is saddening. My parents used to say ''A guy will say anything to get into your pants'' as a child. That line is actually very useful here too.

Because Fascists too, will say and direct your attention to anything disgusting to get you to sign away your rights to seeing even the ''UwU Wholesum Gay Stuff!", because to them, even that, is vile, disgusting, and too immoral to ever exist.

AO3 Ship Stats: Year In Bad Data

You may have seen this AO3 Year In Review.

It hasn’t crossed my tumblr dash but it sure is circulating on twitter with 3.5M views, 10K likes, 17K retweets and counting. Normally this would be great! I love data and charts and comparisons!

Except this data is GARBAGE and belongs in the TRASH.

I first noticed something fishy when I realized that Steve/Bucky – the 5th largest ship on AO3 by total fic count – wasn’t on this Top 100 list anywhere. I know Marvel’s popularity has fallen in recent years, but not that much. Especially considering some of the other ships that made it on the list. You mean to tell me a femslash HP ship (Mary MacDonald/Lily Potter) in which one half of the pairing was so minor I had to look up her name because she was only mentioned once in a single flashback scene beat fandom juggernaut Stucky? I call bullshit.

Now obviously jumping to conclusions based on gut instinct alone is horrible practice... but it is a good place to start. So let’s look at the actual numbers and discover why this entire dataset sits on a throne of lies.

This is infuriating, please spread it.