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dialecticdreamer ([personal profile] dialecticdreamer) wrote in [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2014-04-23 05:45 pm (UTC)

Getting Through

Phil is coping, putting things in perspective, still. It'll take a while, and it's clear he still has guilty twinges during game night.

Jarvis is testing a little more, too, which helps.

Steve loves art, clearly. One way to begin bridging the gap from his youth to the present might be to begin before his birth year, with Art Nouveau, and let him get a look at some of the fully realized, best pieces across the media of oils/watercolors, lithographs, glass, furniture, sculptures, architecture... just let him SOAK in it, and then let him follow a particular medium forward.

There's a legitimate need to get him caught up on TECH, but that's not his favorite part of the world. Heck, his mother probably did her laundry by hand in the bathtub and had a line hanging above the tub, or a shared line on the roof of a larger building--(not because of the scarcity of washing machines, but because it was expensive and time-consuming to haul clothing to and from a laundromat). Think about how much tech THAT involves now, but most of it is "behind the curtain". I'd still not want to go from "wash (with maybe a few time markers), rinse, spin" on the dial to a common household model made after 2010

Basically, Steve needs something to act as a /framework/ to interconnect technology, history, social changes, fashion changes, language drift and slang, music...

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