#Jedidiah natm

[wizardwomenwisdom]

happy pride month to chad and ryan, the lil gay cowboy and roman in the night at the museum trilogy, and every man who played volleyball in top gun (1986).

[deuce-t]

Have some shitty fake tweet edits

[kadoemida]

I love them dearly that’s all there is to say

[cakebread7]

Really bad chalk art of the little guys but yea

[jesus-holding-your-fave]

Today, Jesus is holding:

Jedediah from Night at the Museum

[katt1e]

The sillys <3

[b33tr000t]

New Mandela Effect: Jedtavius was canon i SWEAR they kissed in the film I REMEMBER IT like on one of the banisters in the museum???? This is a NEW and LESS GAY reality where jedtavius isnt canon and i am Devastated.

[wisteria-lodge]

Since you're writing Night at the Museum fanfiction, I gotta ask how you would sort the characters in those movies? (I remember like two years ago I semi-started my own sorting of the characters and then just never finished it)

So the thing about the way the museum exhibits are characterized is that they know they are exhibits. They *like* being exhibits. Their purpose in life is to teach/help the humans who come into contact with them (because that is the purpose they have been created for.)

Teddy is *very* aware he's not the Real Theodore Roosevelt, and kind of struggles with Theodore Roosevelt's ongoing legacy. He, Amelia Earhart, they're the cultural idea of the person they represent, not time travellers. It's pretty meta. Jedidiah and Octavius are not written as a literal historical cowboy and a literal historical roman, they are a reflection of how a 21st century American *thinks* about Cowboys (TM) and Romans (TM.) So a lot of what you're doing when you're writing about Jed and Octavius is unpacking cultural ideas of ideal masculinity, which was really fun to do.

That's my long-winded way of saying that all the museum exhibits are Badger primaries, full stop. Even Amelia Earhart doesn't *really* want "a great adventure" (which would be more Lion primary.) She wants to teach other people about the importance of having a great adventure. Jed actually talks about this a lot: "I called you 'cause you needed us. [You're] all gussied up, but dead inside. That ain't you." and "the least we can do is give [Larry] some help."

Larry Daley however, is not a Badger. He's a Snake. His entire motivation in the first film is his son - and the second one starts with a Larry who's a little Burned. He's got that Burnt Snake hedonism, leaning towards money and stuff and away from his personal connections, and regaining that connection is the plot of the movie.

In terms of secondary - Jed's a Lion. I don't think he's ever planned anything, ever. He talks a lot about his desire to "roam free" and asks Octavius to "remember me as I was, wild and free." He dislikes being constrained (manhandled.) He's kind of unofficially been made/made himself the leader of his diorama, which is very Lion secondary. And the fact that he's got guns that don't work (but he shoots them anyway) is... a little bit of a joke at the expense of Lion secondaries. This is a movie that *likes* prep-work secondaries, and it especially loves Bird secondaries. Larry is a *loud* Bird. When we met him he's an inventor (very Bird coded.) Then he gets the job at the museum, finds it overwhelming... and immediately does a TON of research, and starts making lists to organize and orientate himself.

Octavius is a Badger secondary. He has an official position of leadership, and is much, much more defined by his groups (his legion, "the glory of Rome") than Jed is. He immediately slots Larry into his personal hierarchy, even giving him a title - "My Liege" (Badgers love titles.) Also, not going to lie, he is kind of a kiss-ass. That, plus sweet-talking the Abraham Lincoln statue into coming to help... means we've got a Courtier Badger Secondary.

tl;dr

Larry Daley ~ Snake Bird

Jedidiah ~ Badger Lion

Octavius ~ Double Badger

[little-guy-polls]

Propaganda:

Jedidiah:

N/A

Tony Tony:

Little humanoid reindeer. He's a doctor in a pirate crew and he's my baby.

He’s the literal definition of a little guy. He has his own song. He’s delightful. I love him.

[jannibalthemannibal]

Jedidiah and Octavius have a romance that just doesn't exist anymore in dating app culture.

[ellezem]

Happy pride month to the cowboy and the Roman guy 💅✨🧚

[starbamnk]

Save a horse!

ride a cowboy

[kadoemida]

More more more!!!!!! (Just forced my bestie to watch natm with me because I ❤️ them)

[sw33t-oubliette]

[shipping-world1994]

Halloween party at the 118: Buck and Tommy have a RARE day off and decide on a specific couples costume (not many people get why they chose them). Buck is a cowboy and Tommy is a Gladiator. Those who don't get it are confused, those who do ADORE IT!!

[the-casbah-way]

so like. you know that one painting of achilles and patroclus