#NatM Hourglass

[yourlegacysnotyourstosee]

DRAW OCTAVIUS WITH THE CANONICAL GREY STREAKS IN HIS HAIR YOU COWARDS!!!!!!!!

[ghoulishtomato]

Jedtavius in Battle of the Smithsonian

Oct is either thinking, "'We DoN't HaVe TiMe FoR rOmAn MeLoDrAmA' bitch what is this then", or, "Oh yay, I can finally bounce my own melodrama off of someone else, yippeee!!"

Considering how the scene went, tho, I guess he went with the latter HAHA

[lazarus---rising]

i think we all need to put larry through the horrors more . ENOUGH jedtavius angst that woman had to save her friends from literally fucking dying right in front of her multiple times

[cryptidtumbleweed]

⌛💙❤️

[girlblocker]

night at the museum // jedediah & octavius // hourglass - set it off

made for my night at the museum 2 anniversary event!

[sir-buddy]

Day 3 of NatM week! This one was definitely my quickest one so far since I didn't have much time to work on it.

Prompt: Hourglass

[radiodeerr]

that one scene of octavius saving jedediah from the hourglass in natm 2 has been engrained in my mind since i was like, 7 years old???

seriously i think about it ALL the time

[idkwhatthisisbutheresdcandstuff]

For Natm week I think todays prompt is hourglass? I felt this was fitting

[ineffablevenus]

NATM week day 3: hourglass ⏳

everyone’s favorite tiny dramatic gays 🫶 i drew this in like 3 seconds because i wanted it to be done on time (im a very slow artist) (in more ways than one) but hey at least i actually contributed

[r-ya-fruity]

Spoilers for the NatM 'A Capital Adventure' book ig

Why is Octavius not apart of the Museum of Natural History exhibits??? He's not in the first scene with everyone being shipped out, he's not with the others when Larry sees the exhibits in the cargo crate (though I'm surprised as to how he even saw Octavius then), and then he just climbs into the crate to talk to Custer about getting elephants??? What is the canon for this book then?? Do the cowboys just have a bigger Diorama? Is there still a Rome Diorama? There has to be seeing as they just take him home but what??? Is this why Jed emphasizes on calling him a friend after Oct saved his life???

Oct also never mentions that he's small, like?? I'd feel like if you were a, over 5ft person, and you randomly became like 4 inches tall you'd have questions?? It's clear he n Jed haven't met before since Jed calls him feather hat and doesn't act the same towards him as he did the first movie.. Also, how does Octavius know Jed's name?? I don't think he's ever told it with what we see in text so he probably asked someone about it.. but Oct also never left the crate after Jed did?? But he at some point goes out and saves him then admits to not wanting to come back and fail Jed??? LIke... in this content, Octavius doesn't want to fail this other miniature that he met like less than an hour ago, in which he was called a name and basically brushed off??? He also says he'd swore to help but he didn't?? he only said that he was happy to help, not swearing he would.

So he basically just brought help from Abe Lincoln with no actual reason other than to save this random miniature cowboy that he technically didn't know was in danger and technically didn't know the name of. He also battled and tamed a squirrel for this guy..

Also.. the hourglass scene.

Octavius is panicked over Jed being buried in sand (which is honestly fair, whether you do know the person or not) and the scene is just shorter?? After Jed says he's basically done for, Octavius says- "no need for final words" and breaks him out.. Jed didn't interrupt him and say anything.. Then, Jed says- "Thank you, friend" after Oct helps him.. like.. where did that 50 years of fighting go here??

But then they just take him home?? does Octavius have his own Rome Diorama at the Smithsonian institution?? does he just not remember since he woke up in a archives?? where even was he if he was seen next to Amelia and Custer's horse?? how did they manage to leave a miniature out and away from his other miniature stuff? if that's not the cause, why would they just have a single Roman miniature??

Still, once they're back at the Museum of Natural History, Oct is in Larry's pocket and 'goes back to his place' not too long after.. I'm assuming he joins the other Roman miniatures in the Rome diorama but, how would they respond to gaining a random ass general?? did the Romans fight the westerns and how they have a General?? do they accept him, throw him out? like what.. I need answers.

[rivstyx]

Hey! Could I please ask for a NatM fic recommendation? I don't like oneshots or pwp so Idk where to start tbh

YES of course you can my dear anon! it sounds like you're looking for longer, more plotty stories, so here are some fics that may fit that description:

The Barn Raising by PoetryInMotion (7,463 words)

The Old West's barn has been demolished by a fetch-related accident. When they get a new one, the Western denizens throw a good old-fashioned barn-raising party. Jedediah decides to invite Octavius (and both secretly hope that they can kindle a romance between the do-si-do and the two-step).

some classic fluff. if you grew up a yeehaw like me, you'll love the little touches of Western culture; if not, you can still appreciate how damn cute this fic is

Down Then Left by mournwiththemoon (36,024 words, incomplete)

Octavius is balls deep in the closet and a mild midlife crisis. Jedediah just wants to fix the elevator. AKA the corporate loser x mechanical engineer AU that literally nobody asked for.

modern AU that i'm obsessed with. octavius is a sad divorced sandbag, jed is an obnoxious wannabe country singer, and i love them both with all my heart

He Loves Me Not by orphan_account (25,820 words)

Jed stumbles across a stack of unsent/unfinished love letters from Octavius to an unknown person in the museum. Jed sets out to find out who. Not because he’s jealous. No, not all.

big romcom vibes. it's not miscommunication, but it's not not miscommunication

if this was a cowboy movie (i'd give you my boots) by Liviapenn (10,180 words)

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.' -- Henry David Thoreau. This hour I tell things in confidence, I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you. -- Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

ok this one only sort of fits the bill, but i love it too much not to rec it. it follows jed and octavius as they walk back from the car wreck in movie 1 and tell each other stories about their pasts

living beyond your years (acting out all their fears) by Riv_Styx (16,447 words)

“Go,” Octavius repeated. “Run. I am with you.” Jedediah did the one thing he never thought he was capable of doing. The thing he would have sooner died than chosen of his own accord. He ran. Secret of the Tomb AU. Octavius doesn't make it out of Pompeii; angry and grieving, Jedediah goes home alone. Meanwhile, for Octavius, his whole world changes overnight. The new museum is thriving on the magic of the tablet, but it's not where he belongs. It's going to be a long way home.

oh look a familiar name!

my heart will stop in joy by HungryOnMain (12,433 words, incomplete)

A temporary exhibit, on display at the AMNH for a limited time, brings forth a vengeful force from the past. Terrible, painful memories bubble up from the depths of the minds of everyone on display. They can be taken, and joy restored - for a price.

dark, fucked up, and utterly addicting. i eagerly await every serving. this one says "hey, forget kahmunrah - what else could tablet magic possibly do in the wrong hands?"

Any Weather (series) by EwokRae22 (151,470 words)

On a lucky break from McPhee, Larry brings the exhibits on a winter vacation north of New York. He has everything prepared, or at least that’s what he tells himself. Because nothing can stop Jedediah and Octavius’s useless and oh-so-tiny longing for each other, not even the snow.

a fandom classic! the series follows jed and octavius through some wild adventures and features some genuinely heart-wrenching twists

Cacoethes (series) by Anonymous (25,927 words)

A deeper look into Jedediah and Octavius's experiences during Battle of the Smithsonian, and a look at what could have happened after the end.

take the hourglass scene from natm 2 and turn the homosexuality up to eleven, and you've got cacoethes - though the rest of the works in the series are definitely worth the read!

hope this helps! :D

[lemonwisp]

I got the book versions of the first two NATM movies and I found a mistake in one of the picture in it.

There is no bottom half of the hourglass, it’s just not there. No jed, no sand, no glass. Anyway I thought that was funny

[howdidiendupshippingthispoll]

Round 2, Bracket 2, Side C, Third poll

Jedediah and Octavius [Jedtavius], Night at the Museum vs Hunter and Willow Park [Huntlow], The Owl house

Story of Jedtavius:

Here's the thing: I was introduced to this by a man who was friends with my parents who found me and my little sister endearing and gave us his sons' old movies as they were already adults. Sounds normal right? No, we met him at our local church. Worse? Everyone there is subtly homophobic, including him. I do remember really loving the movies as a kid though, and also the hourglass scene hitting hard for me as a kid.

Anyways, as I grew up, I forgot about the movies, then I got back onto Wattpad in 2020, and one day, a Jedtavius fic randomly appeared on my For You page. I was kinda surprised and shocked to see a ship of characters from a movie I watched as a kid and then I went on a huge journey that led to me discovering that 1) there's a NATM fandom and 2) these two were a very popular ship And now I'm here hyperfixiating on a bunch of movies I watched when I was nine.

Sometimes I read fanfiction of these two at church and whenever the same man sits behind us I think "I wonder if he knows I'm reading gay fanfiction about a movie he showed me as a kid". And sometimes, I remember I wouldn't even be reading gay fanfiction at church if it weren't for him introducing the movies to me. So thank you, homophobic Christian man! :D

[lazarus---rising]

ENOUGH jedidiah hourglass shit we need more larry hourglass shit .something about how the time she lost funneled into jedidiah's half . something about how shes the top half of the hourglass and jedidiah's the bottom half . IDK MAN

[night-at-the-musian]

new page on the site: concept art! storyboards, concept art, rigs, stuff like that. atm it’s mostly stuff from natm 4, but i know there’s boards for 1.

as a treat, here’s some of the boards from green ghost studio.

my favorites are the jed expressions. he’s so fucking mad. i’m putting them under a readmore for brevity but Look At Him.

“THAT FUCKER PUT ME IN AN HOURGLASS, TOGA BOY, I WANT HIS HEAD ON A GOT-DANG PLATTER”

[theyrebasicallycanonpoll]

Jedtavius propaganda!!

(This is all just from the first movie btw. There's SO much more from it and from the other two. Here's a compilation of all their moments together)

Jedediah directly quotes Brokeback Mountain when he says, "I ain't quitting' you!" This not only implies they have watched the movie, but they have agreed together or independently to not allow themselves to drift apart and repeat the tragedy that Jack and Enid had. Now this, this is the thesis of the movie and I genuinely could write a college level essay on it.

In our introduction to them, they're shocked that Larry would let them out at night. The two of them immediately agree to cooperate, despite fighting soon after. But are they really? My firm belief is that it's just a bit, a game if you will. What else are they going to do? They know they can't really roam the whole museum because they might get trampled. They're mostly confined to their own hall, and there's not much to do. Them "fighting" is a way to pass the time, it gets out their energy, it helps them hone their skills should they ever need them, and it allows them to connect with each other.

We all know Jedediah's iconic, "Jedediah's impotent rage. His guns don't fire! Now take me away!" line. But doesn't that sound so out of character for our rough and tumble little guy? Doesn't it sound like something Octavius would say? The use of the word impotent, Jedediah doesn't normally use words like that. It's all very dramatic, very much Octavius. And Octavius calling Larry Mary. It's not something he, a roman general and emperor, would usually say. It's something Jedediah would say. They've spent enough time with each other to pick up on and use each others' manner of speech.

For a moment, I would like to draw your attention to Jedediah's "I don't like to be manhandled." There are certainly many insinuations we can draw from this. Isn't it rather odd that Jedediah only says this to Larry? Never to Octavius, his supposed rival, who is far more likely to be rough with him? Octavius never treats him poorly, even given they're "rivals." They have a level of deep trust and respect and friendship if Jedediah has shared that sort of trauma with him. Octavius knows not to be too rough with him.

Rapid fire list of some other moments!! - Jedediah locking Octavius in the stockade - Octavius' username on YouTube being "Daddy Oct" - Octavius trying to get President Obama to save Jedediah - Literally just the entire hourglass scene from the second movie GOD - Jedediah being weirdly jealous when Octavius shows interest in another blond guy in the third movie - The guy who played Octavius saying that Oct had an "unrequited love" for Jedediah - The guy who played Jedediah saying they were "almost like a love story" - THE HAND HOLDING. GOD. You need to watch the scene it's incredible

I promise all of these things are real, none of them are taken out of context, the NATM movies really are just this insane. Please please watch the above video

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