hi, i'm riv!

river, xe/they, 23, certified night at the museum enjoyer. click About to see my links!

[rivstyx]

no better recommendation for an angst writer than the comments, right?

anyway, hi, I'm River! i've done eleven Good Omens fics, including a five-part outsider POV series for which i'm best known, and five Our Flag Means Death fics.

and these days I’m writing about the little gay people from night at the museum! you can find all my NATM stuff here, but I'd also like to highlight promise a future I can come back to, my enemies-to-lovers soulmate AU and longest work to date. its sequel, i am the silence (i am the call), is now in progress, so keep an eye out for that!

other things I do:

- compile a NATM fic rec list, which you can find here or via the link in my blog header on desktop

- mod NATMweek.tumblr.com

- co-run a Discord server for adult NATM fans, which you can join here

- i have a website

for my writing, the tag is #riv writes; for my art, #riv draws; my super-short flash fics, #minific, project information, #riv updates; promise and silence updates, #promise a future I can come back to and #i am the silence; content for my OCs, #riv’s ocs; and… phew! I think that’s everything.

thanks for stopping by!

[technically-human]

He prefers blonds

[girlier-than-thou]

as much as i love jedtavius, can the natm tag talk about like... anything else? anything at all? like... larry... the star of the trilogy? or... or TEDDY? SACAJAWEA? TEDDY X SACAJAWEA? AHKMENRAH? THE INSANE CECIL SUBPLOT IN THE FIRST MOVIE? HELLO? CAN ANYONE HEAR ME? IS THIS THING ON?

[night-at-the-musian]

we do talk abt that stuff, but it’s mostly explored in fics, and mostly untagged in tumblr posts. we DO discuss it tho

[girlier-than-thou]

where?

[night-at-the-musian]

*cracks knuckles*

This fandom is old, coming up on 20 years, so you’ll have to do some digging. Luckily, I’m a fandom archivist, and I’ve got some stuff on standby. You won’t be able to avoid the ship entirely (the very first fic for the fandom was about them, back in January 2007, less than 2 weeks after the film premiered), but you can certainly find non-Jedtavius spaces.

The NatM Zine is a good place to start. It has a bit of Jedtavius in it, but the majority of the art is dedicated to the rest of the cast.

Dedicated Blogs

For the Love of NatM: A blog cataloging the exhibits’ inspiration and histories, and the live updates for SotT when it was being promoted. Inactive since 2016.

Levy Elementary: An AU where everyone is in the same elementary school class. Has a Jedtavius subplot, most of the posts are about everyone else. Active from 2015 to 2016.

Five Nights at the Museum: A horror comedy AU where the Tablet gives the exhibits evil tendencies and supernatural powers. Pretty general with some Tablet Guardians undertones. Ahk is actively decomposing. Inactive since 2015.

A Museum Without Kahmunrah: Taking place after the events of BotS, the Henchman Squad try to figure out what to do after Kah’s defeat. The artist is still active, so send in some asks!

museummovies: The official blog, run by Fox from 2015 to 2016, and has the most unhinged GIFs you’ll ever find. Their only Jedtavius post is the infamous April Fools post.

Dedicated Pages on The NatM Search

Ships: Lists every ship that I’ve seen, including names given to up-and-coming rare pairs.

Library: On the sidebar, there’s links to various pages for ships including Capoleon, Courtly Love, Canon X OC, and a dedicated Rare Pairs page. The Jedtavius stuff is kept on its own page as well, so you won’t see it often on the other pages unless it’s a multi-ship fic.

And, of course, you can always post non-Jedtavius stuff! This fandom goes through a “feast or famine” model, since it’s so closely tied to education (often shown on the last day of the semester), so if the Jedtavius seems overwhelming rn, that’s why.

Show us what you have: headcanons, “what ifs”, fics, art, voice acting, anything! Give the lesser-seen characters the love they deserve!

[deleat-me]

full

[tinybitofgay]

magic anon! you’re bodyswapped for this question!

how’s it feel being someone else?

(transcript:

"Man, I always wondered what it'd be like'da be a beefcake!"

"I feel so... nimble! Agile.")

[ohcaptains]

[enyter]

[brokeback-museum]

FYI all three Night at the Museum movies are leaving Netflix at the end of May

[risingphoenix87]

[night-at-the-musian]

Check your local thrift stores for the DVDs! You get the bonus features and other fun stuff!

[spookyboywhump]

Guy who never feels like his problems are “bad enough” to be taken seriously: what if I hurt the character so horrifically that everyone around them could not possibly deny the severity of their pain even if the character themself tries to downplay it.

[ceruleanheaven]

bad media will piss you off good media will heal your soul bad media that couldve been good will ruin your life forever

[brokebackmuseum]

I painted these two lil' guys :)

I bought a Roman soldier and a "man with hat" off Etsy, made hair out of Apoxie Sculpt for Jed, and painted them with acrylic paint. It took a lot of time and patience (and for me to lay off the coffee long enough to steady my hands) but here they are! They're also only 54 mm (2 in) tall, which made painting them even more daunting for me as a first-time miniature painter

[aekoviss]

*★,°*:.☆🦅🐴:*.°★*

[jasperwithproblems]

The make me almost want to rewatch the movies.

Almost.

[tlirsgender]

Experiencing a more severe form of The Vitamin fantasizing that perhaps there's simply a The Surgery that will fix everything wrong with me like "it turns out every bone in your body was accidentally turned upside down and that's why you're like this, we have to operate immediately" and I get my Everything replaced and everyone has to be so fucking nice to me while recovering from My Surgery and then I'm cured. This is almost definitely not going to happen but god can you imagine

[tlirsgender]

It is not lost on me that the term The Surgery also carries another connotation & rest assured when I get my quadruple knee + hip replacement they will also give me a sex change while they're at it

[tlirsgender]

I feel like a car that needs an oil change

[scary-harey]

the untold story of the real found family

featuring the terracotta soldier, buddha, and jade lion in NATM 1

(night 2)

(night 3)

(night whenever)

that's it as far as I could see we don't get to see them reunite at the end and it's bullshit but I choose to believe they're fine and happy

[buggycat]

oc that starts as a representation of yourself -> completely different character with their own personality

oc that was NOT supposed to be like you at all -> representation of the deepest parts of your soul

[hweianime]

One half of my otp: *dies*

Me: it’s funny how you think dying is going to get you out of this ship

[qqchurch]