#Spacey Rambles

[spaceyphoenix13]

ohhhh hold up the colors for LGBT stuff changing is actually really cool hold on-

[popcorndispenser]

Hershel is actually the only character I've ever projected my dpdr onto. Idk, it fits him really well imo. Des' PTSD gives him uncontrollable fits of anger, Layton's makes him dissociate.

For those uninitiated:

[neptunesailing]

doing artfight for the first time this year !!

[cartooemcanhis]

Spacey evolution goes hard!! (First image was my first ever htf fanart and second image is their newest ref)

It's funny how I just kinda dropped trying to fully replicate the htf style and now I just do the same line colours and vague traits but add them onto a chibi version of my artstyle lmao

[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.

[lesbicosmos]

got my telescope out last night and got some cool photos of the supermoon<33

^^ also ursa major!! ^^

[scuddle-bubble101]

Still, little bit of a slow week but it feels a little better than before. Were still taking a little time (There's some events we have planned outside of our normal activities) But, things have slowly became a little better.

We've been mostly pushed up and down, forward and side-ways but for now... There's peace.

[miscling]

i've been having a lot of conversations lately about how easy people find playing with me. i am a good toy

they say things like 'powerhouse' and 'built different' and 'such a fun dolly' and so on and i love it. once someone does something for the first time and hears the noises i make, they realise it too

i am so glad @eilrahcs-so-close is having a good time visiting me, i am having a good time too

[doodlboy]

👑

For the oc outfits!

A royal specs 4 thee!

[baby-xemnas]

I think you're the only non-anti LuZo shipper I know.

if that really is the case the state of things is pretty dire

man...that's sad ...i can assume what ship majority of normal fans switched to and it hurts me in two ways hahaha (normal here meaning sane and chill fun-loving perverts that don't care about age gap) not implying this as hate but it does hurt because luzo goes so crazy it deserves more love, it cant have enough love because its just THE relationship of the manga if we are honest (and we should be honest, we are friends here)

[gemharvest]

Ok my head is Really Mad at me right now I'm gonna take a shower and see if that helps.

[spaceyphoenix13]

man I forgot how fun it is to work on and customize your blog, it's nice to show people like "hey, this is me."

[leafcabbage]

idk what’s going on but i hope ur having fun w ur drunk blogging about the ghost band guys kale

THANK YOU SPACEY i can always count on you to support me. thank you. youre a real one. thank you. i just made a sandwich

[unnamed-proxy]

Been daydreaming about a new game idea all day so expect art soon

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

ds' remixes are great but they're also really funny to me when it comes to their themes like. remix 2, 3, 4 and 7 all have consistent, identifiable themes (tropical, whatever "spaghetti western" is, love/romance/however you describe it, and clouds respectively). remix 1, 5, 6 and 9 retexture most of their games but i have no idea what their themes are. and remix 8 doesn't bother at all-

[gen4grl]

currently at the tattoo place about to get my dawn + legends arceus piece! my last tattoo was my stardew valley one in september so… it’s been a while lol

the sv epilogue comes out tomorrow but unfortunately i work all day so won’t get to play until friday but omg im very exciteddd! zero crew + carmine and kieran is literally my dream lol

hope everyone’s week is going well!!!