#conventions of space and time

[g3othermal3scapism]

GUESS WHOS SICK AGAIN 🔥🔥 so im back to continue my tradition bcs i fall ill an unnecessary amount

[troybarnesbabygirlconfirmed]

me when im in the precious angel baby sweetheart competition and my opponent is troy barnes: 😧😧🫣

[khruschevshoe]

*slams open the door and dives on top of your sheets* Hey. Hey. I know people hate season 4 of Community and I might be losing it but do you ever think about the Inspecticon episode and go just a little bit feral? Like, the ENTIRE EPISODE A PLOT revolves around Troy and Abed's relationship with multiple references to them being boyfriends. Troy's girlfriend casually refers to Abed as his boyfriend. Troy is jealous about Abed ending up with someone else who he is afraid might be better suited to Abed but no one could be, because two Inspectors wouldn't work out because you need a logical Inspector and an emotional constable and Toby can't handle that fact because he doesn't have someone to balance him out so he's too emotional and he locks Abed in that phone box like his bullies once did but "for once in my long history of getting locked inside of things, I knew someone would come get me" and Troy and Abed doing their high-five and getting their gluon photo is the most romantic thing this show ever did (well, tied with like five other Trobed moments) and it's basically canon poly and I know I'm unhinged about it but who wouldn't be-

Oh, you have work in the morning? Whoops. Anyway I also think it's hilarious that Matt Lucas plays the evil parody Doctor Who fan who is too obsessed with the Inspector when like three years later he'd become Nardole, an official companion (aka the Constable Reggie stand-in)-

[brittasbaggles]

the silly <3

[itsjust-meman]

she's such a..

minerva.

yeah, haha.

oh! yeah! minerva! hahaha! haha.. what a bitch.

[jolteonmchale]

[delilahkhalsa]

I think this is such a realistic arc though, and I wouldn't even describe the hotel bit as backtracking. The way I see it, Annie holds a definition of love that hinges on being needed. On top of that, she has very high standards for herself and therefore probably struggles with shame and self-worth.

I see the moment at the hotel as a way for her to reclaim a sensation of being valued after feeling undesired when Jeff decided to leave the convention. I don't think it was about Jeff. In fact, she gets some validation from the hotel staff, and throws a drink at Jeff to maintain that. I think the goal was to feel valued - it didn't have to be in Jeff's imagination.

Going back to the realization she has with Abed in Virtual Systems Analysis. Someone can be fully aware that they have an unhealthy need for a certain sensation and still return to that unhealthy method. The way to resolve this is to find another route to that sensation. I think living with Troy and Abed for a few years gave her that. Sometimes in order to imagine the love we want, we must experience it first. We must watch it last. Especially when we come from poor models of love.

The culmination of Annie's self-worth arc is the final episode of season 6 where the tables are flipped. Jeff suddenly feels real lonely and tries to imagine a future where he and Annie are together. The kick this time is that Annie sees herself being desired, but not seen. This is where we see a very strong caveat to her want to be desired by others - it can't happen if the other doesn't see her. It can't be a frantic attempt to claw at the people around us in hopes that they'll keep us from drowning.

remember when annie literally talked to annie!abed and came to the definite conclusion that she does not love jeff, never really has, and really only needed the feeling of being loved, creating the seeming end to a three-season arc, then immediately backtracked in the next season about fifteen episodes later by getting giddy like a child when a hotel thought she was jeff's wife.

I Remember.

[hansoeii]

I'll be at Dokomi next weekend! ✨ Booth 3L70!

Here's my catalogue of all the stuff I'll have to offer! Excited to meet you there!

[kelongt]

I think it's funny that during the entirety of Season 4 we have more jeffbritta and trobed moments than any Britta and Troy moments while they're the ones in a canon relationship

[lacnunga]

whatever this current wave of what i like to call pop-feminism is, i think we need to get out of here fast

[sleepdepravity]

Talked about this with sister for a bit, I do wonder how people who first knew Uchikoshi through somnium files felt about nirvana initiative. My theory about Uchikoshi games is that, the first game of every series is always the most digestible one, and then he ramps up his bullshit for the next game (call it the Uchikoshi bullshit spike). To me, somnium files -> nirvana initiative has the steepest bullshit spike, and I’m curious about how those uninitiated with peak Uchikoshi bullshit received NI’s bullshit.

[clonememesfrikyeah]

!!!CONSIDER!!!

Give Alpha-17 a pair of brass knuckles

[crazysodomite]

Honestly ill admit i did not think about this stuff nearly enough because i don't buy any merch or anything like that... Now I'm really starting to think about all the YouTuber plush campaigns and so on. And the Insaaane amount of merch produced for artist conventions ... This can't be right 🤔

[megamindsupremacy]

Stewjon is Space Scotland: Names and Naming Conventions

For context, I designed an entire naming system for my Stewjon is Space Scotland AU. I'm still trying to work out the cultural logistics of it, but the actual practical logistics I have down.

To break everything down:

Stewjon is a clan-centric society, with clans and clan names having a hugely important role in the culture. I therefore had clan names feature in both the first and last name of Stewjonis.

-The last name (Kenobi) is the family/clan name, and is passed down the family paternally. This is both because I'm from a western culture with a paternal naming tradition, and also because I liked how his parents names sounded when the last names transferred paternally but not maternally. "Ken" would translate to "Clan" (I don't know if this is accurate to Scots English or Scots Gaelic, but I'm working from canon Star Wars names and trying to worldbuild from nothing so work with me here), and then the clan name "Obi" is attached, so "Kenobi" translates to "Clan Obi" or "of Clan Obi"

-The given name (-Wan, but we'll get to "Wan" in a second) is one to two syllables. All of these names are (according to Wikipedia) actual Scottish names, which I picked from the list mostly based on how well they'd sound next to the clan name.

-The prefix clan name (Obi-) is the interesting part. All children are given the father's clan name as both their first and last clan name. Therefore, Obi-Wan Kenobi, son of Ito-Benneit Kenobi, has "Obi" in both his first and last name. However, upon marriage, the couple swaps their prefix clan names to signify the tie between their clans. Therefore his mother Ito-Ceit Kenito and his father Obi-Benneit Kenobi became Obi-Ceit Kenito and Ito-Benneit Kenobi upon their marriage.

-Originally I was going to do something with the fact that "Obi" means belt in Japanese, such as making the clan names signify professions in the same way "Miller" or "Smith" would in English surnames, but I gave up because Japanese is so different of a language from what I understand that I would have just made myself very confused and everyone who understands Japanese language and culture very mad. So I just went with a vowel-consonant-vowel pattern for all the clan names and called it a day.

-Remember how I said we would come back to "Wan"? Obi-Wan wasn't born Obi-Wan Kenobi. He was born Obi-Owen (Owen is a whole 'nother thing and I decided to just give myself a freebie on it), and his name was anglicized (basic-icized?) upon being brought to the Jedi temple. Not on purpose, but it did happen. So technically the chart above should have him listed as Obi-Owen Kenobi, but I already took the screenshot so this is what we're working with.

-Culturally, it's respectful to refer to someone by their full name (Obi-Owen Kenobi). The full name stands until two people are fairly close to each other, platonically or romantically. The informal, friendly version would be their full first name (Obi-Owen). So you wouldn't call your new friend "Obi-Owen" until you're quite close, even if you're social equals. Technically you could refer to someone by their given name only (Owen), but it's awkward and Stewjonis don't really see a reason for it. All of this highlights the cultural emphasis placed on clans and clan ties in Stewjoni society.

The Family Tree

THE KIDS

Starting from the bottom, we have the four Kenobi siblings. Obi-Conn is the oldest, and he marries Yana-Eóin Kenyana, becoming Yana-Conn Kenobi. None of this happens in the story but I wrote it in the chart anyways. Obi-Eóin is nonbinary, which is why their square is white instead of blue or pink.

Obi-Mór and Obi-Pál are twins and approximately four years younger than Yana-Conn. Obi-Mór is ambiguously disabled (she has some form of muscular disability, but the specifics weren't relevant to the story). Obi-Pál is just some guy and I love him for that.

Obi-Owen is the baby of the family. He's twelve years younger than the twins (16 years younger than Yana-Conn) and was definitely an oopsie-baby. I don't need to say anything else because he is also one of the major characters of the Star Wars franchise. You know him.

THE PARENTS

Obi-Ceit Kenito and Ito-Benneit Kenobi are the Kenobi siblings' parents. I don't have much to say here other than that Ito-Benneit shortens his name to Ito-Ben, to avoid the repeated "eet" sound in his full first name. I'm sure that doesn't affect Obi-Owen's future nicknames in any way!

It is Ito-Benneit fault, by the way, that I made clan prefixes instead of surnames to be switched upon marriage. Culturally, it would have made more sense for the more commonly used first name to hold your birth clan and your less commonly used surname to indicate your linked-by-marriage clan, but I needed Obi-Benneit to marry into the name Ito-Benneit so that I could shorten it to Ben. Goddammit.

THE GRANDPARENTS

Ito-Ben's parents are entirely irrelevant so they don't exist. Sad!

Technically I didn't have to name Ito-Lili Kenuna, but I felt bad having her up there as an unnamed person. Una-Owen Kenito, as you may suspect, is where Obi-Wan's name comes from. I really wanted to highlight his Stewjoni heritage in this fic, so giving him family ties through his whole name was important to me. Obi-Ceit names Obi-Owen for her father because Una-Owen was a strong fighter, and she wants to pass that resilience to her son. Which, uh. Well he sure is resilient to things trying to kill him!

Feel free to come yell at me in the askbox about Stewjon's worldbuilding!

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

the world is made of pudding voice losing your virginity is like getting multiplied by 1. I’m lowkey the exact same but a process has occurred

[potpourri-of-ecclecticism]

Modern fandom rules dictate:

There's canon ships

And fanon ships

And headcanon ships

Then there's crackships

And finally, whatever it is that Helaegon are