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inseparable on both schoolyard and battlefield

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concept: 1930s bucky going to yiddish theatre on weekends when he has a little money. bucky having favorite yiddish actors instead of hollywood film stars. for every headcanon people post about bucky loving disney films, i will aggressively headcanon bucky having favorite yiddish theatre scene preferences.

I love this so much! Yiddish theatre and radio (and even film) would have been a big part of his life!

For those who don't know, New York City had a vibrant Yiddish theatre scene.

Bucky scraping whatever money he could together during the depression so he could afford to go see plays at The Grand Theatre in Manhattan (dragging Steve and Becca along when he could).

I hc he would have loved the 1937 film adaptions of Der Dybuk (The Dybbuk) and Tkies Khaf (The Vow), which are two very different approaches to the same play, as well as The Cantor's Son among others.

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Idk if this will make sense but I love seeing your posts about Bucky making Challah. Making bread is such an excellent like therapeutic hobby to get into generally. It’s a lovely mix of good things. You get something at the end (good for triggering brain chemicals in people who’s brains don’t make them well). It’s a mix of method and flexible because it always follows the same steps of mixing, proofing, shaping, proofing, and baking, but you can make a lot of changes within those steps). That can both fill a need for routine and gives you a creative outlet and lets you move slowly from routine to freedom which is also good for trauma brains. Plus there’s control in making food yourself which is so good and important for so many brain struggles. Plus challah bread specifically also adds in the cultural connection piece. It is just very much living in my head rent free as an excellent headcanon 💙

That makes perfect sense!

Bucky making challah is just such a comfort headcanon for me for all the reasons you stated.

Building on the routine and freedom points:

Many people make a fresh loaf of challah for Shabbat dinner each week. It becomes an important ritual for Bucky, as much as lighting the candles and saying kiddush.

Kneading and braiding the dough is a release from the stresses of that week, something that always grounds him, that connects him to his Ma (who made challah every week when he was growing up) and his Jewish heritage.

Every now and then he'll experiment with different recipes:

Rainbow for pride (of course), garlic and rosemary, cinnamon raisin (which makes amazing French toast), chocolate babka (which also makes amazing French toast), pretzel, tomato basil etc etc...

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The black and white version is a small improvisation that I decided to keep Which one do you like more? 🙈💕

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Sgt. James Barnes

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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) alternative posters / (insp.)

“Why me?”  “Because a weak man knows the value of strength, of the value of power.”

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What is the issue with Bucky Barnes's display in the museum exhibit?

The biggest problem with the Bucky Barnes display in the museum exhibit is that it contradicts itself (and other things mentioned in the films).

Here’s the transcript of the display (thanks to magpieandwhale for the transcript and the image!):

A Fallen ComradeJames Buchanan “Bucky” BarnesWhen Bucky Barnes first met Steve Rogers on the playgrounds of Brooklyn, little did he know that he was forging a bond that would take him to the battlefields of Europe and beyond.Born in 1916, Barnes grew up the oldest child of four. An excellent athlete who also excelled in the classroom, Barnes enlisted in the Army shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. After winter training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, Barnes and the rest of the 107th shipped out to the Italian front. Captured by Hydra troops later that fall, Barnes endured long periods of isolation, depravation [sic] and torture. But his will was strong. In an ironic twist of fate, his prison camp was liberated by none other than his childhood friend, Steve Rogers, now Captain America.Reunited, Barnes and Rogers led Captain America’s newly formed unit, The Howling Commandos. Barnes’ marksmanship was invaluable as Rogers and his team destroyed Hydra bases and disrupted Nazi troop movements throughout the European Theater.Bucky Barnes1917–1944

So straight away, the most obvious mistake in this display is that we are given two birth-years for Bucky (1916 and 1917). These dates also contradict the dossier on Bucky from Avengers, which lists his birth-year as 1922 (it also lists his place of birth as Shelbyville, Indiana, which is 616 canon and I hug that close to my chest because that’s where my grandma is from).

The display also gets the dates of Bucky’s military service off— it says he enlisted “shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor,” which implies that he enlisted somewhere between December 1941 and February 1942. That is quite possible, but then it goes on to say that he and the rest of the 107th shipped out to the Italian front in the fall, which would be Fall 1942, even though Captain America opens in Spring 1943. Now, it’s possible that Bucky had gone to Europe and then came back for leave, but it seems pretty unlikely. It seems far more likely that he would have been gone for training for a couple of months, returned to New York for a short leave, and then shipped out with the 107th from there. (If I am incorrect on this, someone please correct me.)

There is also, of course, the question of Bucky’s death date versus Steve’s crash into the ice. Bucky’s death date here is listed as 1944, while Steve’s crash apparently took place in late February or early March 1945 (based on the newspaper date of March 5, 1945 announcing his disappearance). These are actually the only two dates I think are 100% accurate in the entire Captain America franchise.

Leaving aside the headache the wacky dates give anyone trying to write fic that fits into the timeline, it really bugs me that apparently nobody—in the props department or the rest of the production crew—noticed the glaring discrepancy in Bucky’s birth-year. (I do feel like I should note that typos do happen in museums, and I have seen much worse than this one in actualfax museum exhibits.)

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Bucky! Oh my God!

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Captain America Comics (start date 1941), issue #4 (published 1941).

Art by Alex Schomburg

Evil scientists were a common trope at the time, so writers Joe Simon and Jack Kirby used them to make their point.

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Up all night for Old-Timey Sarge in black and white.

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nowhere, for @trickstergabriel69 as part of my mystery commission special.