#c: Rodney

[void-botanist]

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Coffee: Does your character hold a lot of grudges? What is something they are bitter about?

I know I asked for it, but thank you for sending this ask!

This got me thinking about Isabel, because she seems like the kind of person who would hold grudges. And she does in fact have grudges against both her parents, the two people who have wronged her the most. But she doesn't really hold them otherwise? She could make you a list of other people she has reasons to hold grudges against, but she doesn't have time to care about all that. Her brother, however, who seems like the nicest most put together guy, can hold a grudge to the very depths of his soul.

Re: her parents, she is extremely bitter about how her dad treated her years ago when her parents were getting divorced, and later how he treated her brother. On the whole, she's more likely to be bitter about something than to hold a grudge over it, and she has a lot of little bitternesses.

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[kainekillinggod]

My beautiful wife

Oh and I guess that guy is there too

[demcntwins]

|| CLOSED || Danny & Rodney ||

@cleverestofclevermen

Portals were not something Danny had training with yet, sure he could sometimes open a tiny one to shove a blob ghost through or aim the thermos into to shove ghosts back into the zone. But sometimes you come face to face with your insane Grandfather who reeks of rotten ectoplasm and you panic. When he showed up in Atlantis he had nearly been shot, apparently, he had come through something called a Stargate. When it was on it looked a lot like his parent's portal but blue that much he knew, but they didn't understand how he had just phased through their shield.

When they saw he was 'just a kid' though he was almost 17 thank you very much, a dude named Sheppard stepped forward to talk to him. After that, they wanted to run tests on him, and he flat-out refused until they said it was just a basic medical checkup and mandatory to make sure he wouldn't get anyone sick. He tried just opening a portal to get back home, but he had no idea where he was or even if he was still in the same world. All the attempted portal had done was make him feel dizzy at the attempt, prompting him to change back from his ghost form to his human form. He'd given in when he realized how low his ecto stores were.

They'd been concerned about his slow heartbeat and slightly lower-than-average temperature, but he'd told them it was normal which just prompted more questions and tests. Now here he was sitting in a lab spinning around in a chair as some guy scanned him with some machine, Danny resisted the urge to change to his ghost form and fly off. "Unless your thing knows what The Infinite Realms is you're wasting your time, look. Can you just call Batman for me?" He'd been hoping he could just get back to earth and not have to get help from Batman or any of the other heroes.

[cleverestofclevermen]

"You said this would work."

"I don't know if you've noticed or not, but I'm an incredibly arrogant man who tends to think all of his plans will work!"

[slashingdisneypasta]

Thinking about how I've made almost all of my Then He Got Rough characters greyromantic!! Yay.

[immortalmuses]

Rodney A. Grant (Omaha Nation of Nebraska)

[roughridingrednecks]

Rodney

[valiisthea]

Rodney is placing a hand upon Tyler's shoulder. "I owe you and Sir Wade my gratitude for watching over Clive in Stillwind, you know I would do the same for any of you but I could not forgive myself if harm came to him. Drinks on me when we return to Rosaria for you both, worry not about the cost."

Random Asks || Always Accepting

@cagedfirebird || Tyler

"It was an honor to be trusted with such an important mission. You owe us not, as we were more than happy to fulfil our duties." Tyler cannot help but smile at Rodney, something so raw and so genuine - a burst of warm affection blooming for the man he has looked up to since he was but a child in training. To be praised so by the Lord Commander himself, by his friend, is all the thanks Tyler could ever need.

"However - if it is drinks you offer, we would be fools to decline. You have my thanks - as well as Sir Wade's."

[sylvanwhispers]

These tags…… I genuinely feel like pining!John and oblivious!Rodney is the most rational place to go with the performance subtext. John is constantly looking at Rodney with such blatant fondness and open endearment, even [or especially] when Rodney is Like That. Poor guy was really hanging on for that DADT repeal.

[txttletale]

it is very silly when people say the stock 'dead white guys' line about marxist theory. just betrays a really stunning ignorance of the history of, like, the entire 20th century innit. all my favourite white guys mao zedong and zhou enlai and ho chi minh and frantz fanon and walter rodney and kwame nkrumah &c. &c. &c. &c...

[void-botanist]

everyone on the Nicea is a bit fucked up but I think nobody can reach the level that Rodney is on

[fuck-customers]

A customer is pulling on our door despite us not opening for another several hours, but we have other services that start earlier so I unlock the door to see what they need.

Me: Morning! Can I help you?

C: Let us in ☺️

Me: That depends on what you're here for.

C: ... To shop? To look around?

Me: Ah, okay, we don't open retail until 11. We'll see you then!

C: ... But I'm here now.

Me: Yes, it's 8:15. We don't open until 11.

C: But we're here now!

Me: You certainly are. We'll see you at 11.

C: Why can't you just let us in now?

Me: We're still cleaning and dealing with stuff we need to do before we open at 11.

C: Well why can't you just do all that earlier?

Me: We'd have to get here at like 3 AM to be open by 8, ma'am. We already get here at 6 so we can open at 11.

C: So you're just not gonna let us in?

Me: We will when we open at 11.

C: Just because you need to ~clean~?

Me: Correct.

C: So what do we do until then?

Me: You can wait until 11 or you can leave and come back at 11. It's up to you. The cafe across the lot has really good croissant sandwiches and there's a new bookstore that opens at 8.

C: We want to shop HERE.

Me: And you can at 11.

The argument continued back and forth for a bit. We're an independent business without corporate overlords so we could have let her in a little earlier than 11 if we were done and ready. But at 8? Eat me. Until 11.

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[fixitwithwhat]

Credit to sga-mcshep-4ever's beautiful gifset I love all you gif creators so much thank you for providing <3

I think about this scene a lot.

Like, a LOT.

It's the first episode after the pilot, they're not even a team yet and we get this. We get John and Rodney being like this. They had almost no interactions up to this point and then suddenly we get this scene and everytime on rewatch it hits me like a truck.

Up to this point, we have never seen Rodney like this. We have SG-1 McKay in 48 hours being unable to have even one decent conversation with a human being. We have a slightly less terrible Rodney in the recurring instances after.

Even Rodney's opening interaction with Carson in this very episode doesn't go without him insulting his medical degree and then, out of the blue, we get this.

And I always have to think about how did it come to this? How did it pan out? Why did he go to John of all people instead of heading back to Carson going "hey, btw, your gene therapy worked, check this out!" What did it look like? Did he just run up to this flyboy like kids do on the playground when they show off their toy and randomly decide to be friends? Just "MajOR, look what I fOunD" and John going "omg that's so C O oL"? And then they pause and John just goes "hey do you think it can handle it if I swung this metal rod at your face real hard", like. I THINK ABOUT THIS SCENE A LOT.

What prompts Rodney to have an instant connection with this man and trust him to shoot at him? "Oh, believe me, that's not the first thing we've tried." What else have you tried before John shot at you? How long have you two been at this?

It's messing me up how they're instantly on the same wavelength. It's messing me up how happy they both look. How we've NEVER seen Rodney so genuinely, boyishly excited before. How we've never seen him interacting with a person in such a genuine, positive way. How this is the first time we see him having fun with anyone.

Same for John, there's nothing of that sardonic attitude from the pilot, he just looks like a kid and his "Did you SEE that?"-voice when he storms down the stairs is just so heartfelt and giddy. Both of them look like they're having fun with a good friend and it's messing me up.

I think about this scene a lot.

[cleverestofclevermen]

He should've sat up, probably, at the very least. After all, Sheppard had broken into his room to wake him up. But the effort of even that felt like too much. He grunted and pulled his blankets up over his face for a second, then huffed and pushed them back down so he could look at John directly. "Better you than him." And that wasn't fair, maybe--after all, Carson was his best friend. Or one of his best friends. But he'd been poking for days, and Rodney was glad to have some breathing room. "Now that I'm checked on, are you going? Or are you going to stay and watch me sleep so you can be sure I don't die or start developing cool powers again?"

“ what are you doing here? it’s the middle of the night. ” ~cleverestofclevermen, Rodney

"It is, I know how to read a clock Rodney." John was not willing to admit that he'd been afraid to leave the other alone for to long after the whole ascension fiasco. "Carson mentioned that someone should check on you occasionally, I told him I'd do it before I went to bed." Lie. Plus it was way past when he would have usually gone to his room for the night, he was probably going to be up half the night anyway though.

[cleverestofclevermen]

soulmate au starter for @spideystark continued from [ x ]

Rodney had been trying not to fret about that timer for his entire life, and through college and his first early jobs, he'd mostly managed that, given the incredible long time left on it. But when those numbers started to fluctuate, getting down into a matter of months, weeks, even days... He had a more difficult time keeping his nerves in check.

Obviously, he wanted to meet his soulmate, because who wouldn't? But after the first time it dipped down into hours and then soared back up, he couldn't help but wonder. After the fourth time, he started to take it personally. In Antarctica, with it approaching dangerously low numbers under his many layers of clothing, he considered finding a place to hide, just to give this person what they apparently wanted, which was a lifetime free of him, but there was work to do, and plenty of it, and he couldn't restrain his curiosity quite enough.

When that ridiculously beautiful man sat in the control chair, he would've been staring at him regardless, but the way he touched his wrist, just as his own twinged... Rodney hardly dared to blink. "I get the strangest feeling you've been avoiding me," he finally said. Then, "Do you have any idea what you've just done?"

[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.