#NatM Hourglass

[arttsuka]

Congratulations you did it

Your constant night at the museum posting convinced me to finally watch the movie

I now understand why you draw Jedediah and Octavius so often I really like them they are so cute and tiny AND CUTE definitely not me having cuteness aggression again

now I'm finally able to consume your gorgeous art with context <3

Sorry 😭 welcome to the fandom

Here's a drawing for you

[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

[sw33t-oubliette]

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

[caterpillarinacave]

NATM as Pictures I Found On Pinterest: Battle of the Smithsonian Edition

(Part 2/?)

Larry whenever Kahmunrah is talking to him:

Jedediah:

Larry with his flashlight:

Octavius when Jed when gets tossed in the hourglass and now he’s facing the most dreaded of creatures (the Squirrel) :

Kahmunrah with all the stuff he raided from the museum:

Larry and Amelia:

Kahmunrah the entire movie:

All the Air and Space Museum exhibits flying in whatever they can:

Custer and the Neanderthals in the crate:

Kahmunrah:

Dexter after stealing the tablet and almost condemning them all to death:

The Natural History Museum exhibits in the shipping crate:

The Miniatures in the final battle:

Sacagawea and Attila listening to Custer’s “plan”:

“Brundun” @ Larry about touching the ancient Egyptian artifact he expressly should not touch (he’s gonna touch it):

[professional-termite]

11 and 12 (and by that i mean i knew jack squat about hazbin hotel until like yesterday 😭😭)

my dashboard nowadays is like

mutual 1: did a little art today :) *insert masterpiece that takes a few seconds before i realise its gay ship art*

mutual 2: chapter 4 of a reboot of my fic from 2018 *literal novel tier writing*

mutual 3: *reblog of bloody scene tagged #childrens hospital #color theory*

mutual 4: @professional-termite *reblog of mutual 3's rb*

mutual 5: i am going to kill god today

mutual 6: i am going to kill god today

mutual 7: *insightful information about mental disorders that are highly misrepresented in media*

mutual 5: god was already dead when i got there :(

mutual 7: i love john watson i love john watson i love john watson

mutual 8: i.m doing weed agane tday boiiiiis 🤟

mutual 6: should i wear a cloak to school today

mutual 3: i hate working in customer service

mutual 3: my fiance is beautiful and perfect i love them sm ❤️❤️❤️

mutual 9: guys what do you do when your fiance calls you perfect and uhh is nice to you

mutual 10: 9 and 3 are simps lmaoooo #good for them

mutual 11: if i think about the time blorbo rescued skrunkly in the 2nd movie and its parallels to their 1st movie interactions one more time i will scream

mutual 12: she deserves the world *woman i have never heard of until today*

[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

[drunken-devotion]

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

[night-at-the-musian]

check out this clip of the hourglass scene by anatmedits on tiktok! the audio was removed for its use of marina's bubblegum bitch (UMG recently pulled all its music from the site), but i had a version saved!

octavius's actor is likely not emanuele ruzza, his VA for natm 4; but he put his entire pussy into the role. fun fact, this dub specifically uses the roman accent of italian for octavius!

jed's actor is also likely not his actor for natm 4, chrisian iansante; though he has dubbed owen wilson's work before! specifically shangai noon!

[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

(do not repost or use for ai)

[r-ya-fruity]

NatM day 3 prompt: Moonlight!

Due to it being Valentine’s Day I decided to redraw the scene where they hold hands as they almost die. I was gonna do the hourglass prompt as well but I can’t draw an hourglass to save my life, lmao

[idkwhatthisisbutheresdcandstuff]

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

[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

[sw33t-oubliette]

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

[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