#spacey thoughts

[lovely-blue-galaxy]

Rich and Jake rushing to find each other everytime there's a school fire drill

[spacey-cg]

i got bored so i made some picrews!

i made cg me, bear me (i get told i act like a cuddly bear), and me out of headspace lol

[drcarrionproductions]

Skeleton in front of unique colors of swirling cosmos

[transprincecaspian]

cas getting beat up by his sickness like the pinata at a birthday party where the birthday boy is a 13 year old who found out his parents are getting a divorce

[star-kissed583]

AU IDEAAAA

Basically night in the museum movie but with the egos.

With Chase as a security guard and the rest of the egos as a part of the museum that comes alive.

I feel like plot wise-maybe something similar to the movie or just it’ll be like a fun little thing where it’s all the crazy things happening in the museum 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Maybe I’ll write about it one day🤔

[jennyviviandee]

Jinkies, I'm having extremely out of sync day! Didn't sleep much. I'm at the caffeine maximum (400 mg) though.

All of this week I kept reading my work schedule wrong. I don't work today...Which is incredibly bizarre since it is when freight comes in (the truck hadn't arrived yet. I feel really bad for all of those working this shift). Meant to put fuel in the car by leaving early, nope. Furthermore, I arrived without my work shirt. Then I changed into my work shirt, but ultimately put it on backwards (I was mortified that I said this aloud in front of the Director for the Dairy Department. The person I'd rather not embarrass myself in front of. Director of the Dairy Department: that's the name I came up. Versus the generic mandated Dairy Manager title, bleah).

After that, I couldn't even depart the store without of course floundering some more! Left my books in the breakroom. Went back for them. Realized I left my egg nog in the breakroom. Went back for that. ...My water's in there too. Returned again.

What an Ayumu Kasuga kinda day I'm having. Must drive back home next following putting gas in the car. I plan of being really careful during said journey.

Jeepers, perhaps it is better that l didn't work today huh? Might nap once I return. Not sure.

[phoenixofthestars]

I’ve just started following the liminal spaces tag and they’re all so weird

some of them are captioned and the captions don’t seem to fit at all but it’s also the point so they kind of do??? I like the spacey feeling they give me

[lovely-blue-galaxy]

If Jake constructs a plan to have Rich fall in love with him quickly... is it a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme?

[spacey-cg]

My tinie one like to send me post that remind them of us, so i just wanted to share the couple they said we are like :3

💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜

little one who doesn’t like wearing clothes x “you gotta put ur clothes on so we can go out hun” carer

alt caregiver that wears lots of accessories x baby that picks them out

cg that praises there sweetie x sweetie who gets all blushy and giggles

tinie who has a hard time drinking water x cg who buys them cute bottles (i would get matching ones)

💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜💫💜

[babblybird]

“My dreams get real bizarre” 💭💭💭

[rozugold]

[nympippi]

Bruce Yamada post revival!

Here’s the sweet and lovable baseball player!!! He enjoys baseball, and soft jazz!

I tried to make it seem like he’s thinking of spaced out because like canon Bruce has the most memory issues post revival, he has trouble remembering numbers, dates, faces, and sometimes names. It frustrates him, so to keep his mind busy he pops rubber bands on his wrist, and he writes in a memory book!

He’s still very sweet but I think dying put a damper on his personality, he’s spacey, aloof, and calm on most days and sometimes he’s cold, bitter, and mean on worse ones. Those are the days where he can barely remember he’s alive.

I tried to keep it similar to canon with him having his memory and own sense of self being altered because like all the others I think dying left a serious impact on his mental health and psyche.

One thing didn’t change though!! He’s a major nerd for baseball and is an absolute natural at it!

[star-kissed583]

Just a thought-but I can see JJ just casually talking with someone (however he communicates) and Anti just standing behind them-staring intensely at the other person in a warning/threatening way

JJ: ☺️

Anti: 😈

Person: 😰

[minecraftbookshelf]

ok so I know you’re writing and probably already thought of this but I’m case you didn’t: the differences in elven courting rituals and oceanic courting rituals, specifically when it comes to wedding gifts. if you have thought about this feel free to ignore but the way I see it

elves live a while,and probably know about the arranged marriages a decent amount of time before they happen, so in between wedding planning and normal life each half of the marriage is planning some extravagant amazing wedding gift like gardens of gold or giant tapestries and stuff like that

meanwhile ocean/swamp folk who don’t live as long probably have more personal gifts, even in arraigned marriages bc they’re still getting to know each other! but either way the gifts are more personal and specifically tailored to the other half

so keeping track we have Scott, panicking bc he has like zero time to plan a wedding and learn a language and make a wedding gift and so the necessary things for life in however little time he has, Jimmy, panicking bc he doesn’t know anything about scott, no one he knows knows anything about scott, and even when they finally meet scott isn’t exactly an open book! so Jimmy is trying to do the same things as scott (tjough his doesn’t need to be as extravagant) in addition to finding out who the hell he’s getting married to and also ruling a kingdom

AND (you thought I was done NO the adhdemons love this concept and filled the no-box fan void with fictional politics) you have Lizzie, Joel, Xornoth, and Iona, who also had to get gifts for each other

first I need you to know that I saw your url and had the immediate gut reaction of "oh same hat!" XD

Anywho

So courting traditions in general:

I don't have too much set in stone currently, lots of ideas and concepts though, because I'm half shaping the story around it and half shaping it around the story, because writing be like that (rip) but I do have a few things.

Rivendell is basically just Tolkein's elves partly isekai-ed into minecraft, lets be real. So I've yoinked the tradition from there of the bride-to-be's family gifting a jewel (usually of magical or historical or familial importance) to the groom-to-be as a sort of pre-dowry. Only because heteronormativity does not exist here it is usually a mutual exchange of gifts. Tapestries and other labor and skill intensive textile arts also play a role because of the importance of textiles in Rivendell culture (see the ask that I'm answering after this one for more details on that) And there is also just a general idea of "a demonstration of what you are bringing to the table" for the actual wedding exchange. Like the most intense and stressful art show where both your entire extended family and also your significant other/others's extended family will be judging it. (Exact form of art varies depending on the skills and interests of the elf in question; culinary, poetry, musical, metal working...the list goes on)

The Swamp has fewer actual universal traditions. Due to their recent (past few centuries) history they are basically two nations that mixed and mingled and also include a few different diasporas interspersed within them. Jimmy himself tends towards more Oceanic traditions, which include things like feats of bravery and provision. This will go both exactly as well as you think it will and genuinely very well. (Oceanic traditions tend towards dramatic and grand gestures and statements. Ability to protect and provide is a huge thing both in the Ocean and the Swamp.)

Also Jimmy absolutely panics and ends up asking a good dozen random citizens for advice.

You also have the added layer of this specific instance being an arranged marriage (which isn't especially unusual) between two empires (which is wildly unusual at their social level) That custom is, in fact, purely an Oceanic one. (Which is why Joel and Lizzie were the previous example)

Most/all of the other Empires don't tend to intermarry their royals because enough Empires don't use familial succession models that it renders it fairly unstable as an alliance technique. There's more context for the Oceanic take on it but that is a whole nother post/will be in the fics explicitly.

The point of all this is that both parties are kind of stressed and trying to figure out how to compromise/accommodate while not really having a fully applicable framework for this situation (on Rivendell's part.)

Rivendell barely has interacted with the other empires for generations let alone married them.

Xornoth and Iona actually had it fairly easy, outside figuring out how to navigate the religious minefield that is Xornoth's entire existence. It was a very matter of fact, business like courtship that Scott and Iona ran with all the stringent focus of a military operation (which it basically was) and not even Xornoth's tendency towards chaos could really do much in the face of that.

In the context of like, personal gifts Joel and Lizzie actually got off really easy because by the time they got married-married they'd technically been married for several years already.