theprinceofprinces:

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Uh well I’m not sure what fics exactly started them but I do remember them being used in some early stucky fics. I think doll might have got really popular from Little Lies to Get Me By by ohcaptainmycaptain, but I can’t be certain.There weren’t as many fics back then so when they were used, more people read it and it spread from there

The 90 (or 100 or 110) pounds soaking wet thing isn’t, to the best of my knowledge,
actually fanon (something someone invented and then it spread through fics as a version of truth). Rather, it’s a pretty common (North American*) phrase/cliche used to describe someone particularly small/light. The ‘soaking wet’ bit is because stuff weighs
more when it’s wet, so it’s emphasising the point: you’re still that small/light even when you’re soaked and should be heavier. I don’t know if it spread because people started seeing it in other fics, or if it shows up in lots of fics because the writers are North American (or are from North America originally–it’s why I use it) and it’s simply a thing people say.

*I’m originally from Canada (BC) and it was definitely a thing people said there, mostly older people, despite the fact that we used the metric system (but a lot of time we still referred to the height and weight of people in imperial). I’m now in Australia and, yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone use that phrase.

This reminds of the very popular fanon of dock worker Bucky and both boys scraping by just to pay rent, both of which tick me off to no extent. There’s a great post that explains why both of those are essentially bollocks, but I still can’t find it.

honestly, all we need to do is compare and contrast that scene with bucky and steve after the funeral. clearly, bucky has money. shit, his family has a car? not many families had cars back then. look at the difference in how they dress. idk where it came from, and it can be sweet and charming and make for a really heart-shattering backstory, but it’s not canon. it’s not comics canon or mcu canon.

Exactly! Yes, Steve wasn’t as well off as the Barneses, but he wasn’t starving. Steve was lower class, while Bucky and his family were closer to, if not, middle class; perhaps not quite there, but not as down on the social ladder as Steve was. “From 1935 to 1936 the median family income was $1,160. An annual wage of $1,000 or more placed a family in the middle-income range. The middle-income family did not have a surplus of income but did have a fairly comfortable standard of living” (Hanes). If we assume that George has a job paying this annual wage of $1,000 or more, than that would presumably be enough to support a family of six; two parents, George and Winifred, and their four children, Bucky and Rebecca among them.

Sorry about the crappy quality, the screenshot’s mine, from an old YouTube video. But it says, “Born in 1916, Barnes grew up the oldest child of four,” from the famously unreliable Smithsonian memorial. The fact that Bucky has three younger siblings is backed up by a footnote on the Winter Solider MCU wiki page, though the source is the same.

The rest of this is going under the cut because it’s very long.

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