Night At The Museum Fandom Week

Welcome to the home of the NATM Fandom Week!

[natmweek]

Welcome to the 2024 Night at the Museum Fandom Week! This is a fandom-wide event taking place from February 12 to February 18. Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate, as much or as little as you like!

In the interest of keeping this event accessible to everyone, there are a few things we’d like to keep in mind:

1. All NATM-related content is welcome! Fics, art, vids, cosplay, gifsets, moodboards, macaroni art… the sky is the limit!

2. This is a genfic-, shipfic-, and smutfic-friendly event! The alternate prompts can be used to replace any main prompt, so you can participate as platonically or as shippily as you like.

- Note on NSFW: Please respect your fellow fans by tagging all applicable warnings for your content and putting any sensitive content under a readmore. This blog will be thoroughly tagging in the reblogs. On the flip side, when you see something you aren’t interested in, don’t feel bad about scrolling on by! No hard feelings.

3. This isn’t school. Drafts, sketches, and late work are welcome!

4. Finally, if you’d like to be recognized on the blog, use the tag #NATMweek24.

That’s all! You can find the prompt post here and the askbox is open if you have any questions.

If you'd like to browse by tag, check out the masterpost! The link is also accessible via our blog header on desktop.

Have fun!

[frostironic]

tonight in my fevered state i went on a nostalgia trip back through my old livejournal (which was embarrassing, yeah, but i was fourteen and all fourteen-year-olds are embarrassing) and it's fucking wild to me that i had such a big influence on the night at the museum fandom of all things

an old friend of mine and i coined the ship name tablet guardians for larry/ahkmenrah and made a community for it, sister community to chest_bump, of course (which was jed/octavius, and probably the hub of the entire fandom for years)

i think edo and i were the first people to ever even consider larry/ahk. honestly, looking back, little teenager me just wanted someone to ship ahkmenrah with because i thought he was hot and didn't like making OCs at the time – thus a ben stiller ship, i guess. such is the way of things

apparently that ship name is still used today, though, which is fucking insane to think about. it's been seventeen years. i'm thirty-one. what the fuck.

i can't help but wonder if there's anyone from that era still on the internet alive and kickin'. i turned out to be a trans dude, for the record. the teenage fujoshi to gay trans man pipeline got me in its jaws

[night-at-the-musian]

@natmheritageposts

[jedtavius-week]

Secret Santa at the Museum! 2024

Hello! welcome to the first edition of a "Night at the Museum" Secret Santa! Thank everyone for the interest in this event, i hope you all join and we can have a nice christmas all us fan toghether! for this reason it will not be just a "jedtavious" event but for the whole fandom of this fantastic movies!

lets start with the important stuff... What is a secret santa? A Secret Santa is an event where you sign yourself up to receive a present, simultaneously promising that you’ll give a present to someone else!

What kind of present can I get? You can give and receive fanart or fanfiction! For fanfics, we request that you keep the length between 2k and 7k, while for fanart to be at least one fully colored piece! How does it work? it's really simple: you join, receive information about what to make for a lucky someone, and start creating! then, at Christmas, you can post or just send, to that specific person, what you have created, and in the meantime you will get a nice surprise too! ^^

Rules:

Join this event by compiling this google form, there are all the important details we need to know about what you can make and what you would like to receive.

After the joining period ends, you will receive all the info about the person you will make the gift for through the social you signed up with. Always be mindful to not reveal your identity till the gift exchange!

Start making your gift! if you have any problem or questions contact us :) remember to not post it in advance and to be mindful of your special one preferences and triggers!

the 25th of December create a post with your gift and tag the person its for! Ao3 links for fics are always welcome too! Remember to tag also "ssatm2024" so that we can reblog your fantastic piece!

timeline:

6-13 Nov: Joining period

16 Nov: Messages will be sent out to all partecipants

17 Nov - 24 Dec: Gift creation time!

16 Dec: Check in time! Last day to drop out, emergency fills-in and to ask for a time extension

25 Dec: POSTING TIME! show us your beautiful works!!

This is all galls and palls, Cowboys and Romans and everyone else! Hope its simple and clear enough to understand! As always, feel free to send an ask if you have any questions or concerns!

[jedtavius-week]

Tiny idea but... And is strange to ask it during Halloween but... Would ya jedtsvious lovers be interested in a secret Santa event? Could also be more open like full "night at the museum" secret Santa?

Tell me! I would love to organize it if there is enought people wanting to join! :D

Also to revitalize this blog that I left sadly half abandoned but I'm back and feel better too ;)

[natmweek]

Events! Events! Events!

[jules-n-gems]

natm week day 7!!

final entry for the week is up, prompt: farewell :)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

happy end-of-natm-week everyone !

[sir-buddy]

Prompt: Farewell

[r-ya-fruity]

NatM Day 7: Farewell!

I’m not the most proud of this but I’d definitely say that it helped me with poses, lmao. Wish I were able to work more on this but I’m not able too, so yeah. Definitely relaxing to draw though

[jules-n-gems]

natm week day 6 :)

chapter 6 is up, the prompt today was “telephone” !!

jedediah pov, much lower stakes than previous chapters so there’s more time for meandering (both for the characters and for me as a writer)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

hope you guys like it :))))

[r-ya-fruity]

NatM Day 6: Telephone!

I honestly had the idea to do this when I first saw the NatM week post, lol. This was somewhat based on a pic from the DS cutscene bc it’s so funny to me for some reason.

[r-ya-fruity]

NatM Prompt Day 4: Villians!

I know I’m 2 days late for this one but I didn’t wanna miss out, lol. Decided to draw Napoleon but his design is based off the the game (DS n PC) as well as the movie one.

[jules-n-gems]

natm week day five !

“bones” was the prompt i chose for today, i’d never written from nicky’s pov before but it was pretty fun :)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

hope you enjoy!

[sir-buddy]

Prompt: Sons

For today's prompt I drew two of the only people with parents in the movies.

[jules-n-gems]

natmweek day 4 !!

prompt chosen for the day was “sons” :)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

i had sm fun with ahk’s pov i hope y’all like ittt

[creative-chaos-apparently]

A cowboys hourglass dreams — ain’t dyin’ alone!

This is for NATMweek day #3, Hourglass! I just HAD to get one done on Valentine’s Day! Happy Valentine’s Day yall! ❤️💙

I love this scene so much but I think if they had been trapped together that would’ve been cute too. Jed ain’t wanted to be all alone in there!

[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

[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

[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