Comment on In Between What Might Have Been and What Has Come to Pass

  1. Village_Mystic on Chapter 4 Wed 03 Dec 2025 05:15PM UTC

    Yes, the timing of the walk towards Chelsea Markets and Bucky leaving the subway work.

    As someone who grew up in that area, I'm slightly horrified about the choice of going to the Chelsea Markets from the starting location, because you have the entirety of the West Village part of Greenwich Village and a good swath of the Central Village part of Greenwich Village and parts of Little Italy in the way. More than a square mile of historic attractions, a combination of specialty shops and down home shops, restaurants, etc.

    As in the name Chelsea Markets are in Chelsea.

    That said I do applaud your geographical use of Bleecker Street and Christopher Street. It is indeed the direction Loki would walk and Bucky would be most likely to walk if he was wandering around.

    No need for Bucky to go up to mid-town and then back-track to the Village from Brooklyn, though. He could switch from the express to the local (number 1 train) at either Canal or Fulton, depending on what subway he started on.

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    1. jangnangi on Chapter 4 Thu 04 Dec 2025 04:35AM UTC

      frieren

      I do my best with geography when I can, but I have only been to New York a handful of times, but never for very long.
      And honestly, the only reason I put the Chelsea Market is because I did the same walk in reverse— walked to the café I based it on from Chelsea, after eating my kimbap from the Korean grocery store there (see, I do have some realism.) I guess because I tend to walk a lot when I travel it didn’t occur to me to go somewhere closer.

      And yeah, I guess I should have looked at the subway maps better! I do always try to be as accurate as possible with details like that (because I know it throws me off when people make mistakes with places or things I know well) but hey, nobody’s perfect. Especially not the NYC subway when I compare it to Seoul or London :P

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      1. Village_Mystic on Chapter 4 Thu 04 Dec 2025 10:32AM UTC

        Thank you for your kind response. I tried really hard to allow for some wiggle room, and didn't mention a few things for artistic interpretation. You were kind of close on a lot of stuff. That's why I tried to include compliments, and specifically say what bothered me based on personal experience - as opposed to objectively.

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        1. jangnangi on Chapter 4 Thu 04 Dec 2025 04:57PM UTC

          frieren

          And I appreciate that about you! If I came off defensive it wasn’t intentional, I just like to explain myself :)

          I am going to change Midtown to Manhattan at least, that won’t affect the story but at least fixes *that* mistake lol

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