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Ugh, I am so tired. Work is hectic and this month I once again got my period on a 24 day cycle (i.e., today) instead of the usual 29-32 days. Bleh. So, in brief:
= RIP Ray Bradbury. I haven't read as much of his stuff as I probably should, but I did read "All Summer in a Day" at an impressionable age and I've never forgotten it. Which maybe explains some things about some of the story tropes I like best.
= Sometimes I think Ryan North has seen inside my head.
= I just finished Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett and I enjoyed it immensely.
= Not only was Winter Soldier #6 awesome (♥BUCKY♥ ♥BUCKY/NATASHA♥), but I think it helped me figure out how to write the sequel to the barista!Bucky AU. Though I felt really bad for poor Fred Davis.
= dear Avengers fandom,
Please look at a map of NYC when you write.
Stark Tower is where the MetLife building (or, to those of us who are old, the Pan Am Building) is in reality. This means it is right above Grand Central Station. It is on the east side of Manhattan, in midtown, occupying space at 200 Park Avenue between 44th & 45th Streets.
The SHIELD building at the end of Captain America is in Times Square. Also in the 40s, but on the west side.
Here are some maps.
Or be very vague. vague totally works.
I'm not saying I won't enjoy your story if you get this stuff wrong, but I will enjoy it less.
helpfully,
me
*
Ugh. I have to get up early for the board meeting tomorrow, so I think I'm gonna crash out now.
*
= RIP Ray Bradbury. I haven't read as much of his stuff as I probably should, but I did read "All Summer in a Day" at an impressionable age and I've never forgotten it. Which maybe explains some things about some of the story tropes I like best.
= Sometimes I think Ryan North has seen inside my head.
= I just finished Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett and I enjoyed it immensely.
= Not only was Winter Soldier #6 awesome (♥BUCKY♥ ♥BUCKY/NATASHA♥), but I think it helped me figure out how to write the sequel to the barista!Bucky AU. Though I felt really bad for poor Fred Davis.
= dear Avengers fandom,
Please look at a map of NYC when you write.
Stark Tower is where the MetLife building (or, to those of us who are old, the Pan Am Building) is in reality. This means it is right above Grand Central Station. It is on the east side of Manhattan, in midtown, occupying space at 200 Park Avenue between 44th & 45th Streets.
The SHIELD building at the end of Captain America is in Times Square. Also in the 40s, but on the west side.
Here are some maps.
Or be very vague. vague totally works.
I'm not saying I won't enjoy your story if you get this stuff wrong, but I will enjoy it less.
helpfully,
me
*
Ugh. I have to get up early for the board meeting tomorrow, so I think I'm gonna crash out now.
*
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Hope both work and your period smooth out!
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I mean, I'm sure I've committed terrible faux pas when writing about places I haven't been, but I do try to look at a map if I'm going to give some kind of detail.
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As someone who walks past both of those buildings nearly-daily, I keep getting VERY FRUSTRATED with how fandom has accordioned the area. Mostly because it would make my commute much faster, and if the Avengers get that, it's only fair I do too.
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(Can you imagine how much fun the CGI people must have had trying to diagram the fight sequences? Yikes.)
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inmyriadbits would disown me if I didn't do my NYC homework, but yes, my Google Maps history is a little hilarious right now. I also had a very disorienting "Bryant Park and the Public Library are next to each other?" moment because I have seen them both in separate contexts, but not in the same space.
Heh. that's the other thing - there are lots of fans in NYC, so if people needed to know something, they could ask! Or post about it and see if anyone answered! I mean, not even in those little details comms or whatever, though those exist too.
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I guess it's a little harder for people with smaller flists? I mean, I have you and dotfic and inmyriadbits on mine, and I'd be good with Chicago people as well, but not, say, LA or London or Paris. And it's easy to make mistakes unknowing - for examply, I originally set the opening scene of Out of the Frying Pan in an New York alley. Then Lindsey told me there aren't many alleys in NYC but she always thought the long narrow McDonalds were creepy, and kept referring to the fic as "McDamsel" until I caved. :)
On the other other hand (watch me argue with myself!), most of it is probably laziness rather than ignorance, just going by how much fanon and characterization shorthand I see. [Does *anyone* know where Clint-hangs-out-in-the-ventilation comes from? That still drives me crazy.]
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But I do think if someone without a geographically divergent flist posts, they could also ask people to spread the word? And also, there are comms like littledetails, and also, just...google maps for location stuff. You can look at street level views of stuff!
Though TV and movies often get it wrong too, so I don't know why I expect better of fanfic.