#delaware bay

[aisling-saoirse]

Tangled High Marsh Grasses - September 17th 2023

#spartina patens #love this species too #the historic source of atlantic salt hay #a historic hay venerated in the romatic art period and also a highly desired cheap resilient farm crop #high marsh is a bit more diverse and typically flooded less frequently #careful walking on it crabs love to hide in the grass #easier to walk on honestly #photographers on tumblr #original phography #nature #njlocal #new jersey #delaware bay #nj #salt marsh

[lighthouses-click]

Fourteen Foot Bank Lighthouse, Delaware Bay, Bowers Beach, Delaware, September 2023

#fourteen foot bank #delaware #delaware bay #bowers beach #2023

[harveyspictures]

First night out on our 2023 voyage. Cohansey River New Jersey. A beautiful and peaceful anchorage, but current in the river was so strong it caused the boat propellers to spin, making abit of noise. June 17, 2023

#2023 trip #Cohansey River #New Jersey #Delaware Bay

[coolthingsguyslike]

#Delaware and Hudson #D&H #railroad #trains #Lake Champlain #Willsboro Bay #Red Rocks #1960s #photography

[lonestarbattleship]

NHHC: NH 89742

USS DELAWARE (BB-28) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Craft in foreground is probably YW-20.

Date: January 1920

#USS Delaware (BB-28) #USS Delaware #Delaware Class #Battleship #dreadnought #warship #ship #Guantanamo Bay #Cuba #January #1920 #interwar period #united states navy #us navy #navy #usn #u.s. navy #my post

[caitlinfawphoto]

Penelope

James Farm Ecological Preserve

Ocean View, Delaware

Kodak 400TX

Nikon FE2

April 2021

#film #analog #grain #black and white #dog #James Farm Ecological Preserve #Chesapeake Bay #Ocean View #Delaware #Kodak #Kodak 400TX #Nikon #Nikon FE2 #beach #bay #shadow

[sm-selenographer]

stormy weekend road trip mood board: May 6-8, 2022: Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel; Indian River Inlet Bridge; and Dewey Beach, Delaware | SM Piotrowski

#Chesapeake Bay #Virginia #Delaware #Dewey Beach #bridges #water #clouds #birds #Atlantic Ocean #road trips #places #selenographie #Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel #Indian River Inlet Bridge

[crabsandbeer]

Bombay Hook, Delaware by Kevin B. Moore

#bombay hook #delaware #nature #landscape #seascape #sunset #golden hour #marsh #bay #eastern shore #sky #clouds #light #grasses #flickr

[goalhofer]

#Sports #Baseball #MLB #Cleveland Guardians #Cleveland Indians #Tampa Bay Rays #Atlanta Braves #Oakland Athletics #Minnesota Twins #Cincinnati Reds #Celebrities #Arizona #Texas #Illinois #Delaware #WTF

[wednesday-if-it-was-tuesday]

Silly Batfam HCs

Tim is not only a stalker but also a raging scrapbooker

Batman and Superman both claim the Delaware Bay as part of their area of protection and an absolute spiral of debate will erupt any time it is mentioned

Babs unironically thought the Reach drink tasted pretty decent

Damian loves helping out on the Kent farm

Bruce secretly had a library in Gotham named after Jason after his death

Dick still owns the Discowing suit just in case the 80s make a comeback

Alfred has a special server on the bat computer to log the recipes of all their favorite dishes for when he passes

Jason definitely dog ears and cracks spines and relishes in a well loved book

#batfam #batman #batfamily #batboys #jason todd #robin #red hood #tim drake #dick grayson #damian wayne #alfred pennyworth #bruce wayne

[aisling-saoirse]

Marsh Ren nest in a Marsh Elder - September 17th 2023

#marsh wren #high salt marsh #nature #njlocal #new jersey #Delaware bay

[lighthouses-click]

Miah Maull Shoal Light, Delaware Bay, Cumberland County, New Jersey, September 2023

#miah maull shoal #delaware bay #new jersey #2023

[emo-batboy]

Tbh I was always under the impression Metropolis is NYC and Gotham is Boston. Like iirc Arkham is based on an asylum that was in Danvers MA? The east coast city rivalry vibes feel pretty identical to me. Gotham's organized crime has big whitey bulger energy to me idk.

Gotham has always been adjacent to NYC.

Before DC decided NYC was a real place in their universe, Gotham and Metropolis were considered to be the light and dark side of the same Bay Area, taking up residence where NYC would be. Afterwards, Gotham has always been placed squarely across the Hudson River from NYC in North NJ. Until they couldn’t decide where Metropolis is.

Metropolis is a child of divorce.

The first time DC claimed it was in Delaware was the 70’s. (I don’t know why. They just did.) I think DC realized that making NYC a part of the universe meant they couldn’t make Gotham and Metropolis twin cities anymore so now, whenever they want to bring that dynamic back, they either ignore NYC altogether or move Gotham to the Delaware Bay and claim Metropolis is in Delaware.

But ever since Metropolis was a city, it’s been in NY. It’s been in NY since the 30’s. Usually, it’s placed somewhere above Manhattan, particularly near Westchester or just outside of the NY Metropolitan Area. So in my head, it’s about an hour above NYC but still west of Connecticut.

I like the concept of them being twin cities, but they have such different vibes that I can’t imagine them being right beside one another, and I think a lot of comic writers know that too. So I always place Metropolis in NY. Maybe it’s further upstate like DC sometimes claims, but Gotham and Metropolis are always within three hours of each other without fail.

But yeah, the more you know :) toodles

#I totally see the Boston thing tho #kind of like how some people think Metropolis is Chicago #DC why do you make everything so hard #pick one #and put Metropolis in NY #Gotham #metropolis #batman #superman #dc universe #dc #Gotham city #Bruce Wayne #clark kent

[racefortheironthrone]

Now you mentioned i, I am a bit surprised Smallville is prominently and consistently in Kansas? It's Smallville, Kansas. There might be others and certainly cities located vaguely within a real region, but it's definitely the first fictional town or city of D.C. in a real-world American state to come to mind.

So this gets to the weirdness of D.C geography. When Superman was first established, there was much less of a cohesive "universe," so if Siegel and Shuster wanted Superman to specifically be raised in Kansas, that's where he was from and the rest of the geography would have to work itself out.

IMO, this early slapdash approach to world-building has (over time) led to some things that just don't make sense to me as a student of urban history and urban studies:

Metropolis shouldn't be in Delaware. It doesn't make sense in terms of urbanization, given the context of an already-crowded Northeastern Corridor - Delaware simply does not have the capacity to sustain a city of 11 million people, and you wouldn't get a municipality of that size right next door to New York City (as well as D.C's other fictional cities in the area). The whole idea of Metropolis and Gotham being across the river/bay from each other has never really worked for me; you can still do Superman/Batman team-up stories no matter where they are, because Superman can fly and Batman has his own personal fighter jets.

More importantly, it doesn't make sense in terms of historic patterns of urban migration. Moving to the big city in search of the American Dream is a big part of the Clark Kent story, but historically people moving from rural to urban areas overwhelmingly go to the nearest large city, depending on how transportation networks are arranged, whether we're talking about train lines or direct flights or highways or bus routes. There is a reason we can track regional movements of black communities during the Great Migration, because who went where depended on which train lines ran through which states:

This is why I've always felt that, while Metropolis has aesthetically been associated with New York City, it logically should be Chicago. It is the biggest city in the Midwest, one very much associated with robber baron industrialists and corruption at the highest levels, and absolutely stuffed with art deco architecture for Superman to pose on top of. Up until the Tribune Company began to strip it for parts, it's also been a major newspaper town with a long tradition of muck-raking investigative journalism that would inspire a starry-eyed cub reporter like Clark. As one of the original transit hubs and the U.S' own "nature's metropolis," it is precisely the place that a Kansas farm boy would hop a train to, because all trains go to Chicago. Also, culturally I like it better that Clark Kent represents the City of Wide Shoulders whereas Bruce Wayne is the typical Tri-State Area Type-A personality.

Going back to D.C's bizarro Northeast geography, I likewise have an issue with Gotham being in New Jersey...if New York City is also supposed to be a major metropolitan area in the D.C universe. Just as Delaware would struggle to support a city of 11 million people, it would be very difficult to grow Gotham into a city of 10 million people so close to the gravity well of the Greater New York Metro Area. New Jersey is a pretty urbanized state, but its biggest cities tend to range in population from 300,000 to 100,000 - which works very well for a place like Blüdhaven, which is supposed to have something of an inferiority complex vis-a-vis Gotham - because a lot of the population tends to gravitate to NYC for work and eventually housing as well.

I've already said my piece about the lack of cultural specificity of D.C's Midwest.

As far as the West Coast goes, I've always found it a bit odd that Star City isn't where Seattle is supposed to be. Let's face it, the only place where Oliver Queen's facial hair would go unnoticed is Seattle. Also, Coast City is often depicted too far north on the map - if it's supposed to be a half-hour away from Edwards Air Force Base, it should be significantly more southern, down by Kern County and San Bernadino County, not practically up in San Francisco.

#dc #dc meta #the world outside your window #urbanization #urban studies #urban migration #urban demographics

[lonestarbattleship]

USS Delaware (BB-28) anchored in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on January 1, 1920

NARA: 512950

#USS Delaware (BB-28) #USS Delaware #Delaware Class #Battleship #dreadnought #Warship #ship #boat #January #1920 #interwar period #Guantanamo Bay #Cuba #united states navy #us navy #navy #usn #u.s. navy #my post

[caitlinfawphoto]

James Farm Ecological Preserve

Ocean View, Delaware

Kodak 400TX

Nikon FE2

#film #black and white #grain #analog #Kodak #Kodak 400TX #Nikon #Nikon FE2 #James Farm #James Farm Ecological Preserve #Ocean View #Delaware #Chesapeake Bay #Indian River Bay