#FF Rodney

[get-rammed]

Can I get an info dump about Rodney?

I know he's a bastard as well as a bit of a soft boy with a praise kink, which really intrigues me.

I will always take opportunities to spew about my silly bug boy. This is Rodney Osmund

He's a character of mine.

This is his true form, and secondary form. The humanoid one above is his tertiary form, and what I usually draw him in.

He's had many names and many lives in his history. Within the universe I've made, he's a Fiend and can die and be reborn any time Trevor dies. Trevor being one of his 3 siblings. Veronica and Caroline being the other two.

He was once a Warlord by the name of Bog Belly. A scourge upon man and Demon (Demons being an alien race by the name of Tymos who eventually just adopted the name Demons as a secondary and or primary name)

Bog Belly slaughtered thousands simply because he was born angry over and over again, and wanted to have everyone under his heels. No truama there. No reasons. Just a dick because that's his true nature. Though he was kind to his cult members, and his breeding stock.

But roughly 200 years ago, his sister Veronica defeated him in battle. Ending his reign of terror. Veronica heads a group called the Hunters. They were formed specifically to track and kill Bog Belly. After that goal was completed, they more or less ended Warlords being a problem, and now are a government body.

Veronica is the bad twin between herself and Caroline. So she saw zero issue with parading around a defeated Bog Belly. Forcing him to be an act of sorts for a few years before making him work with Colton (Trevor) to improve his morality.

When James (Trevor) picks a fight with his sister and gets all of them killed, they're reborn into their new and current lives.

Every one of Rodney's parents have always been cruel and mean to him. Forcing his nature to always be mean spirited. Except things were different this time.

Rodney's mom was endlessly patient with him, and always showed him true compassion and love. No matter what he did. Rodney is her baby boy, and he's an absolute mama's boy.

Being there for him as he spiraled into drug problems, and there when he cleaned up. He loves his mother. The first person he's ever truly loved.

So when he regained his memories and his full personality, he was far more docile than he had ever been. Not to say he's not still a bastard. He would absolutely kill you with zero hesitation and not even flinch as you cry for help.

But he's definitely trying to feel more empathy and understand what it's like to be normal. But it's a struggle for him. But he is trying.

This man needs. A lot of therapy lmao.

- He hates going to Hunter bases because he's been assaulted a number of times in a multitude of ways.

Rodney leveled a Hunter base in Ohio because of this. He's banned from the state of Ohio. Veronica covered this situation up as she understands why he did it.

She doesn't know he's still assaulted at some bases :( and he won't tell her because he doesn't believe anything will be done about it.

- Rodney can open his pupils to freeze in terror whoever looks at them, in place

- Rodney had front horns like his sister Caroline, but Trevor snapped them off in a fit of well deserved rage.

- Rodney overall is a dick (but he's trying to get better), and uses sex, various drugs, and alcohol to try and survive instead of getting therapy.

- He is taught about in schools as a part of history. People recognize him sometimes and point and talk about him. He's used to it and generally just ignores it.

- Even though he's trying to get better. If given the chance to get his power back. He would. With no hesitation.

- Rodney uses humor and acts like a dipstick so people don't expect too much from him. It upsets him a little hit to be labeled as a man whore who has no real thoughts besides memes, but he also knows it's better than the alteratives.

- Fiends have incredibly low fertility rates, but Rodney has eggs. He has roughly 100 kids, but he acknowledges none of them. "You're my son? And? I ain't got shit for you besides some protips. Get away from me or I will kill you."

- Rodney's spit is dual functional. It is both the most caustic venom known to man or Demon kind. But it also a heavy aphrodisiac. It completely depends on his mood. So it's a risk if you kiss him lmao

- He has a motorcycle and often will still ride it around

You can read more about him, his siblings, and the universe overall here. Just as a warning though. It's long lmao

[feralfiendsvn]

Been working on things quietly. Doin' GOOD

[fuck-customers]

Come back early from my break to coworker saying there's some pissed off guy out the front wanting a refund and she can't get hold of a manager. No worries, I know how to do them and have managers codes for that exact reason so we're chilling. I'm still technically on break for another 10 mins so I have my headphones hanging around my neck and drink in hand (because who gives a fuck, my job sucks ass and I'm not currently being paid atm).

Bro looks me over and immediately goes, "wow. Real professional." I'm on my break pal, just popping in real quick to get you out of the fucking queue 🙂 As I'm doing the refund he's complaining about the quality of his food as if I'm the one who made it. Like, homie what part of 'im on break' isn't getting through that thick skull of yours? I wasn't here ergo I didn't make your food. Just stick your card in the EFTPOS machine already ffs. This is exactly why I normally steer clear of the building during breaks, but alas, my bladder betrayed me lol.

Posted by admin Rodney

[drconstellation]

The Assistant Book Seller

Edit 1 Dec 2023 - added missing information on the "ribbon pattern."

Edit: 3 Dec 2023 - correct information about middle pattern from creator

GABRIEL: Greetings! I'm Jim! It's short for James, but I don't need to keep telling everyone that. I'm an assistant book seller.

I'm sorry. Before I do anything else, I need to apologize for something I need to write further in. I didn't plan to write it, I just kind of bumped into it and, well, I can't ignore it. So...sorry. It's said. Forgive me for what needs to be done.

Although he arrived with nothing but a cardboard box and Rodney the Stunt Fly, Aziraphale made sure Jim was clothed in appropriate raiment while under his protection. We'll forgive him that he took a step back about, oh, fifty years or so to the 1970's, as Jim's overall look is a nod to the famous old sitcom "Open All Hours." So if he looks a little bit out of place, or, a little bit familiar, even, that's why.

While we are used to seeing angels in overcoats, it's Jim's vest that is the particular feature here. But I will take a moment to comment on the overcoat - not just the colour but its lapels. Aziraphale has obviously given him a colour with an earthly connection and one that indicate that he has bought Jim under his protection, but the lapels look quite neutral, with one up and one down. (Muriel is the same in their Inspector uniform, btw) This is the first indication they are between two things at the moment.

Onto the vest.

There is so, so much work and thought put into this vest! It was a one-off commission for the show, and the creator, Sandy Higgins, has said she is not allowed to give away the final design pattern. I have tried to contact her, and I'm waiting for a reply, so in the mean time I thought I would ask my keen knitter of a sister-in-law about one of the patterns I'm not sure about. "Well, that's Fair Isle knitting," she said, but she knew nothing about the individual line pattern I was interested in. Hmm, I kind of know that already, its in the notes that are guiding me for this meta, but hey, why not do a broader search and see what comes up?

So once I got back home I did. "Fair Isle knitting patterns" hmm...Wikipedia page for starters...what on *earth* is that at the bottom of the page...? YOU ARE. FRIKKING. KIDDING ME!!!!!!!

"See also: Gumbys"

oh ffs

I am so sorry that needs must make me mention Monty Python yet again, but here we are. And we must mention them, because this link is just too...unbelievably, deliciously good.

If you aren't familiar with the Monty Python catalogue, and don't recognize the mention of Gumbys, they were a set of characters that dressed and spoke in a certain way but the main points to take away were they wore woolen vests in the Fair Isle knitted style and their catch-phrase was - wait for it - "My brain hurts!"

I think we've heard that somewhere before?

CROWLEY: When you first arrived, you said you were here because they were planning to do 'Something Terrible' to you. So you remembered it then. Remember it now. GABRIEL: It hurts to remember. My head isn't built for that.

Right. Now we've got that out of the way...back to the serious stuff.

The colours used in the vest are not your typical angel colours. There is a base of angelic off-white and there are some bits of purple for his royalty around the shoulder area - sometimes you need to look carefully for it. Otherwise it is dominated by vintage shades of red and green. Well. Who's an agent of change driven by love, then?

The horizontal stripe pattern is partly to remind us of the classic biblical robes with stripes that ran along them, much like the style of Crowley's black and red robe in the Job minisode, but is also part of the traditional Fair Isles pattern work. And each row only has two colours, but up around the shoulder area we do see purple start to sneak in as a third colour.

On to the incorporated symbols! I'm going to go from bottom to top.

On the lowest two we feature Crowley and Aziraphale. We have Crowley's demon satyr tail from the Good Omens logo on the lowest stripe - the double-headed arrow.

The next stripe is Aziraphale, with a variation of the classic OXO pattern ("hugs and kisses.") The X is meant to represent his angel wings, and the O is modified to mimic the "o" with a halo in the Good Omens logo. I've highlighted all three in the image on the right.

The third row up is a Sumerian Star pattern that represents one of the flowers associated with Gabriel, the lily. They are supposed to represent the purity of Mary, mother of Jesus, as he had one in his hand when he visited her during the Annunciation.

The row above that is what I believe to be a Byzantium pattern, and is included to show "an Angel's ability to be timeless."

The next three rows are still under a bit of a question mark as I write this. I plan to come back and edit it in if I find the answer.

The bottom of the three is the Duke of Buccleuch pattern, "to celebrate the long and necessary contribution that the cottage industry of hand knitted items."

The middle one - ? (perhaps you, the reader, know? It looks like a spiralling ribbon if I stand back, but that isn't sparking any connections, either.)

Edit: @noneorother tells me in a reblog (below) that this pattern represents the shoelace from the magic incantation Aziraphale uses "Banana Fish Gorilla Shoelace." So it is ribbon-like! This then points to the Second Coming, as it the shoelace references the end of the book, and the last paragraph of the book references Yeats poem "The Second Coming" as well as the novel 1984. To me it is then also telling us there is a cycle occurring, or a cycle that needs to be renewed. This fits in with some other clues other meta-writers have been picking up.

Edit 2: Turns out none of that was correct - I heard back from the creator herself and it's actually the double-ended satyr tail pattern again! It just seems to make a bit of an illusion of a ribbon or shoelace.

The pattern below is a modified OXO pattern.

The top one looks like two rams horns facing each other. A hollowed out rams horn can be used as a trumpet, and is known as a shofar in Jewish religion. Gabriel was traditionally known to carry a trumpet.

The ancient meander pattern would be recognized by most people, included as another classic timeless pattern found all over the world. For some it symbolizes eternity and endless flow.

The wheels here appear to be Michael's ophanim wheels, that would have eyes around the rims.

The hourglass is to remind us that time is running out. Memento mori - "Remember that you die." It is a major theme in both series.

Right up high, just before we lose the rest of the vest inside the overcoat, we get a glimpse of a large diamond-shaped icon. I wonder if this is another stylized set of angel wings, like we saw in the Job minisode on Aziraphale's golden collar.

To finish off the outfit, he is wearing dark gray trousers with sneakers! I'm sure that's so he could keep sneaking up on Aziraphale in the shop, haha. His shirt seems a little too large for him and the tie is knotted too high and is not settled along his centerline. It's all at odds with his previous neat and sharp appearance as Supreme Archangel Gabriel.

I'd like to say a big thank you to @aduckwithears for helping me with information on the vest and finding the creator's other social media sites. You can see their two posts about it here and here.

[hellfighter8]

Last alarm box 46-40, October 19, 2023, Baltimore City Fire Department.

FF Rodney Pitts 10/19/23

LT Dillon Rinaldo 10/24/23

[twotales]

Rodney and Radek are parents.

Canon.

I'm not joking. They made life together.

They named her ffs.

Don't believe me? Then you don't remember the episode very well.

[halestrom]

Anything that you'd like to write but feel like you're unable to?

How do you come up with fic titles? What's the one you're most proud of?

I love nothing more than a plot twist at the end that is like OH SHIT YES THAT RIGHT THERE but it makes sense, and its a moment of oh shit yes that is it. That is amazing. But t it requires planning, a lot of planning and I just write? i don't often plan like that. Luck mostly, or I have the title, or it comes to me when I'm editing. It all depends. I love the ones fro the not so mafia au, something precious + something dangerous, they're fun. I also love Salt Flat Blues and FFS, Pandora Was Right just because I can hear it in rodney's voice.

[fookinstevienicks]

youtube algorithm be trying to kill me yo. it's still giving me rage against the machine reactions after a few insomnia binges and i have no impulse control and y'all if these children don't open a history book i swear to GOD

hoover is j. edgar hoover, director of the fbi

the movie you're trying to think of is the matrix

fistful of steel is a GUN y'all they aren't pacifists morello literally plays a guitar that says "arm the homeless" like? read the room ffs

"are they talking about police violence?" it's literally about rodney king omg

all of y'all please pull up the lyrics i'm begging

[total-drama-fugitives]

just realised my design for Rodney’s wife in tdf looks a lot like new emma ffs

[twotales]

Okay... I am going to start off by saying, I am so sorry for this ramble OP. But I just can't help myself.

The whole episode is absolutely stupid. It starts off with Rodney and Jennifer being all competitive about why the people on the planet should move. Not just that but once there Jennifer mentions how out of shape Rodney is in front of Carter, in mean girl-esk fashion. If that doesn’t set up the whole thing for casual bitchiness then I don’t know what does. Even Rodney is just like “PATIENT DOCTOR CONFIDENTIALITY.” and he is RIGHT.

Then for some reason they play “Who would you rather!?” ffs, out of any game you could possibly play, could have done “never have I ever”, or “twenty questions,” even just the “name game” but no, they pick this one and then try to drag Rodney into it by questioning his masculinity.

He is ALLOWED to say no. 

And then to have Rodney SUGGEST THEY SHOW THEIR BREASTS TO CHILDREN!?? WHAAAT!?  WHYYY, WHYYYYYYYYYYY!????

Not funny at all.

Which brings me to the Radek gossip, where Sam says being trapped with Zelenka for three hours is somehow WORSE than Rodney being stuck in a puddle jumper at the bottom of the ocean!? ARE YOU SERIOUS!? OUR RADEK!? NO. BULLSHIT. Of course Rodney just snaps that right up and straight out says he doesn’t like Radek!? But weiters! Are you serious!? No. He’s so worried about him in Adrift, which is like several episodes before this one, not to mention all the other EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY. It may be a season after but we have ALL seen Remnants, we KNOW how he really feels about the man. THEN JENNIFER CALLS HIM WEIRD FOR SAYING HER HAIR SMELLS NICE!!? 

This makes me so mad.

This leads me to Rodney actually being a part of their “who would you rather game,” in which when he states he "would rather" with John Stewert over the other two picks, Jennifer and Sam are all twittery about it like they didn’t get him involved in this by questioning his masculinity.

Then they get into talking about Katie in which they inform Rodney he is socially inept for not understanding that he broke up with her. BAAAH 😭 Rodney, I get it, some people aren’t always straight to the point, they are more between the lines, but Rodney is very direct, he may not understand his feelings, or that he's going against the grain in terms of neuro typical behavour but they are there right at the surface, not tucked into some subtext BS.

AND the bar bet? I get that Sam and Rodney don't understand it when she said it that way but once she does explain how it works then I KNOW at least one of them would recognize the floating glass trick, like, 4th graders do that as an experiment. The two GENIUS ASTROPHYSICISTS don't recognize impossible equilibrium!? 

No fucking way.

Then of course the end when essentially Jennifer asks Rodney out after everything that happened. Everything he told her. Like wow. I've fallen for the guy that saved my life I guess is what this is about? The weirdest part to me is they get this beer together and then like what? Nothing much is really said until The Shrine? I think? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember Jennifer saying she fell for "the new nice Rodney" something to that effect in that episode and like very little in between Trio and The Shrine. 

Bah! Why couldn't it have just been Jennifer/Ronon 😭 WHYYYY did they push the nerd gets the girl agenda. It felt so forced 😭 MASSIVE SIGH.

Basically yeah, not a fan of this episode, except the bamf Rodney part, that was cool. But the rest… Nah, No, the writers made a mess all over with this one.

Gossipy Jennifer and Sam, Rodney's (and Sam's) destroyed character development, AND a massive hit on Radek!? HE'S A CINNAMON ROLL. JUST NO. NO.

okay so Trio has plenty to hate, from Rodney sexually harassing Carter and Keller; Keller weirdly asking Rodney out after a. having nearly pashed with Ronon like two eps ago & b. literally just finding out he'd very recently broken off an almost-engagement; the stressful unpleasantness of being stuck in one place and Carter repeatedly falling to her doom (not a fun stress but a stressful stress), but tbh the most crappy thing about it?

all three of them ragging on Zelenka!!!!!! like coming from Rodney it's whatever because they're Science Frenemies (tm) but like....the other two just take it further and it honestly feels like the show wants us to agree??? i DO NOT like it.

[get-rammed]

BABY GIRL 👆

CORRECT.

[feralfiendsvn]

Made some playlist art for my characters

[fuck-customers]

As crazy as it sounds, scamming cashiers at large stores with fake bills isn’t harmless. Who do you think is punished by the company for it? The damn cashiers. Stop getting people fired. Ffs

Posted by admin Rodney

[theofficialpeanutgallery]

Me: *gets invested in the show I’m watching*

The show: and now, for a completely unnecessary episode where one of the main characters wakes up from a coma or something in a mental institution bc they passed out during a thing they were doing and had a psychosis episode! (Except this whole thing is not real, thus the unnecessary bit) Enjoy this extreme warping of what psychosis actually is while you watch your fav character go through shit they shouldn’t have to go through!

Me, immediately: I have to leave

[ioannemos]

brOTP asks for like ... three or four sets of bros, your choice.

john and rodney (sga)

Who offers to get rid of the evidence and body whenever the other starts complaining about someone: if rodney was genuinely angry about someone, not just bitching, john would be the one to casually suggest murder as a way to deal with them. rodney would refuse the offer: he’s already thought through it, and–

Who shows up at the other’s house with food and movies when the other is having a bad day: they’d do this for each other, but in different ways. for instance, john would have to drag rodney away from his work first

Who sends the other tons of videos/phone game requests: john, mostly to annoy rodney in meetings

Who glares at the other til they sit down and eat: it’s not so much glaring as dragging, but john drags rodney

Who stands behind the other and signals to the person arguing with their friend that if the person hurts their friend then they will hunt the person down: john doesn’t signal, he just… Looms

Who starts the war on stealing food from the other: generally, steal food from rodney and lose a hand. john can get away with it, though

Who comes up with the bad ideas that they will regret in the morning and who stops them/goes with them to keep them from getting into too much trouble: rodney probably has amazing science ideas when drunk. just listen, if they set [material] on fire, the resulting chemical mess just might- john, let go, you’re not listening!

connor and hank (dbh)

Who offers to get rid of the evidence and body whenever the other starts complaining about someone: hank. connor is concerned: that’s illegal, hank.

Who shows up at the other’s house with food and movies when the other is having a bad day: it’s more that connor doesn’t bring up calorie counts or point out how emotional the people in the movie are acting. he’s trying, okay?

Who sends the other tons of videos/phone game requests: connor’s phone is in his head, which makes things a little awkward on that front. that said, i love the mental image of hank sending connor pictures of sumo as a puppy or requests for more candy crush lives. “we’re at work, lieutenant. shouldn’t you be working?” “the database is still loading. c’mon, i’ve been stuck on this level for a week.”

Who glares at the other til they sit down and eat: not so much eating, but

connor: lieutenant i am fine, the damage is minimal-

hank: *Death Glare*

connor: *sinks back into chair*

Who stands behind the other and signals to the person arguing with their friend that if the person hurts their friend then they will hunt the person down: [hank slashes finger across throat]

Who starts the war on stealing food from the other: connor doesn’t eat, so…

Who comes up with the bad ideas that they will regret in the morning and who stops them/goes with them to keep them from getting into too much trouble: sometimes connor coming is enough all by itself to keep hank out of trouble

3 and 6 (grey on black on black)

Who offers to get rid of the evidence and body whenever the other starts complaining about someone: 

3: *grumbles*

6, from the other room: YOU SHOULD KILL HIM

Who shows up at the other’s house with food and movies when the other is having a bad day: 6. lots of food, lots of movies, lots of booze

Who sends the other tons of videos/phone game requests: 6. if he wasn’t paying for 3’s phone bill already, he would be after sending him memes and videos all day

Who glares at the other til they sit down and eat: they’re both bad at eating properly, tbh

Who stands behind the other and signals to the person arguing with their friend that if the person hurts their friend then they will hunt the person down: 3. he denies ever doing it

Who starts the war on stealing food from the other: 6. he’s not big on these things you call… boundaries

Who comes up with the bad ideas that they will regret in the morning and who stops them/goes with them to keep them from getting into too much trouble: 

6: let’s rob a bank

3: are you kidding? no way, 2 would kill us

6: :(

3: that bodega guy called me an asshole on monday, tho, so let’s go wreck his shit

6: :)

[ickeyandmian]

Why's Mickey acting like fucking Del Boy Trotter jesus christ this time next year we'll be millionaires Rodney