#starry rambles

[starp1ll]

I was NOT aware how many people liked my Spinel i'm SHOCKED. Here's some neat facts about her under the cut for yall :)

Spinel's form was customized! After being found by Blue, she was taken to the Reef to fix her look. She couldn't have a ragged depressed Gem cheer up a traumatized prince. She wasn't fond of her look at first, but it eventually grew on her!

Spinel's 'obsessive' tendencies didn't quite leave her. In fact, they're all the same, if not worse for quite awhile after she and Steven meet. She was unbearably clingy for weeks after leaving the Garden, even following Steven to his 'Beach House' meant for only him. He couldn't stop her, she'd drag herself along if it meant she didn't have to let him go. She eventually grows out of it once Connie arrives.

She and Connie are REALLY close! Both worry about Steven to the max and try to find ways to keep him happy. She's also very close to Jasper and Pine, constantly disrupting their work to play with them. Pine finds it endearing and sweet. Jasper wants to and has strangled her.

Lastly, she's the first to move on from Steven. The first in the epilogue to go to Little Homeworld to find herself, soon inviting Pine and Jasper to come along. Jasper is the last to leave, but is eventually convinced. She still visits Steven and they get up to all kinds of mischief. They're truly best friends, and even better siblings

[nightmares-and-stars]

imagine; you're laying quietly in bed at night. Scrolling on your phone, or reading, or drawing. The window is open to cool off your room after a warm summer day, when you feel a weight settle beside you in bed, and you look over to see your f/o staring oh so lovingly at you. They give you a soft kiss on the head and whisper, "Its getting late, let's get some sleep" you hesitate not feeling tired quite yet, but they compromise. Put away your things. Turn of the lights. Settle in with your head on their chest, and softly talk to you about their day, running their hands softly through your hair, cooing gently as your eyes start to droop, and before you know it, the calming presence and soothing sound of their voice have you falling asleep in their arms. Tomorrow you may have work, or school, or even a day to yourselves. But right now that doesnt matter. Right now you're warm, and safe, in the arms of the person who loves you most <3

[starry-nite03]

I was finally able to fully watch Martyn’s VOD of today’s BannerFall stream so I thought I’d dump all my thoughts on it here since I have A LOT

This stream was literally everything I hoped for since the announcement and more!!!

I absolutely adore Alistar. I’ve always been a sucker for that type of loud and carefree mentor character especially when contrasted with a more stoic mentee like Apo. That conversation they had about their pasts was genuinely sososooooo well done. I know people say it all the time but it truly felt like a scripted show. The way the tension built up throughout Apo’s confrontation until Apo realized they were both children of Thornhelm and she opened up about her experiences. The sheer amount of narrative foils these two characters have is insane! Their affection obligation for their royalty, the way they view their past with Thornhelm as a mark of shame. just. asfdk I love parallels so much. And don’t even get me started on Martyn’s monologue about his and Apo’s Suns! I’m not embarrassed it genuinely pulled at my heart strings a bit.

Outside of just Alistar I gotta commend Martyn for figuring out the logistical nightmare that was controlling Frogue and Alistar at the same(ish) time. Not only was the technical switching between tabs super smooth, but also the switching between each character’s accents and mannerisms. The effort was well worth it because the switches were some of my favorite parts of the entire stream.

Ren fit into BannerFall like a glove! I loved how much fun you could tell he was having. His constant support of Cherri’s endeavors even if they were different from his initial expectations for her was so heart warming you almost forget this is the same man that made that horrible audio for the creaking king lmao. I also was suprised how funny I found every single interaction he had with cam purely because ren was always giving 100% of his energy to be in character and cam was giving a solid 20%.

IM SO PROUD OF BF!CHERRI!!! She has reached such a lovely conclusion with her character as she meshes both her magical roots and her passion for knighthood to be her most authentic self. Her repeatedly saying “I DID IT!!!” When she first unlocked her flame was so narratively fulfilling for me!

Apo’s knighting ceremony was just as joyous and beautiful as I expected. Ren has a knack for touching prose in his speeches that really helped make it a real movie moment! Similar to Cherri it was just a really nice full circle moment for her character arc this series <3

This is going on my special shelf of comfort streams next to the Rats 2 Beach episode and that single Daggerheart session Martyn, Graecie, Owen, Ren, and Cherri did :D

[starryemeralds]

artfight!!!! lets go!!!!!!!!!

not sure how much i’ll be able to participate this year because life is busy, but here ya go anyway

[stargazerdanightwing]

Wait hang on, I just realized TMA is horror because you, the listener, are part of Beholding. You are the being beyond. You're literally part of the story because they all feel watched and listened, and you're the one doing the listening.

I have more thoughts on this but don't know how to articulate them

[starry-bi-sky]

*grips your shoulders* an eight year old is not gonna act like that. put the pen down. close the laptop. stop writing for a minute. volunteer at a daycare center for a week or smth. an eight year old is typically (unless they're purposely doing it, but at that point you'll be able to tell) not going to speak in one word sentences. that is a child with a possible developmental delay and should probably get an assessment done. that is a two year old with an MLU score of 2.0 who is struggling with their present possessive verbs. look up the average heights of an eight year old because i promise they're bigger than that.

if your six year old is still doing reduplicated babbling and it's not clearly an on purpose active play decision, then they should probably (re: REALLY) undergo evaluation because one of the first signs of a developmental delay is delayed speech. children begin speaking in two word utterances as young as 18 months old. three year olds on average can hold simple conversations with adults. four year olds absoLUTELy can.

i know it's super fun to write children as being dependent and clingy to their parent for your super fluffy found family child fic but that is not a six year old that is a worryingly large two year old with a mild speech delay. you don't have to be 1:1 accurate, god knows i'm not but please at least know that children on average are capable of holding simple conversations by the time they're 4, and are usually doing the baby talk stuff to be cute or as a play thing. which isn't a bad thing but if they're talking like that unironically and ALL the time, then there is likely a problem in their development.

[starryeyedstray]

i think the funniest thing about finding rk1k art from 2018 is that the general tone is like "does anyone ship these two???? do they have a ship name???" and it'll be tagged with like marnor or conkus or some other combination of their names. and sometimes they'll also be like "i think some people are calling them rk1000???"

and i just love how it eventually became just rk1k

short and sweet and just a lovely little ship name. and whoever initially proposed it deserves some sort of reward.

[starry-is-back-yo]

MÖTLEY CRÜE KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS AU

So I'm an assistant teacher for the first grade and that's got me thinking, what if the mötley guys were primary/kindergarten teachers? BTW the guys are all 30 and older in these scenarios (minus Tommy) because young crüe is not teacher material (they are first grade student material 💀)

NIKKI🐉

🐉 Nikki's class is called the dragonfly class, and the kids don't know it, but Nikki's class is for all the kids who were considered “troublemakers” by previous preschool teachers, in fact it was recommended by their previous teachers that the school not take on these kids, but having been a troubled child himself, Nikki doesn't see a bunch of misbehaved kids, he sees children in desperate need of some genuine love and encouragement 

🐉That being said Nikki is no push over, he has a record for being heard quieting down the kids from two classrooms down.

🐉A day in Nikki's class is best described as organized chaos, there's no real set routine that the firefly class follows Nikki pretty much decides what he wants to do today on his drive to work or even as he's greeting his class but when Nikki does decide what their going to do today he sets it up perfectly in a way that causes the least amount of chaos possible.

🐉 Nikki has mentioned on the Eddie trunk podcast/radio show that he has this thing in his house called “the talking chair” and he'll take his own kids there to talk to them about a serious issue or to help sort out some intense emotion. So I'm gonna take that concept and marry it with this AU, he's got a talking chair in his class for whenever some of the kids need to talk something though or there's been a fight between friends at break time, Nikki will call them over to the talking chair to get everything sorted out. Everyone in school knows that if Mr. Sixx calls you over to the talking chair, everything is gonna be okay.

🐉 Nikki has also used the talking chair on a few of the parents and you'd be shocked by how well it works. He's a firm believer that communication is everything.

🐉 This also leads me quite nicely to his teaching style, he's an auditory kinda guy, he will explain everything thoroughly and really loves getting the kids involved by asking questions and making them a part of the conversation.

🐉 As well put together as Nikki usually comes off, every year in the middle of the school year Nikki has a mental breakdown of epic proportion that always leaves him in absolute shambles, it usually happens  in private though, keyword usually, the one year it didn't was quite the experience. He just takes way too much on his plate and ends up spreading himself too thin and eventually spirals out of control.

🐉 Mick is well aware of these yearly breakdowns and can sense when one in bubbling near the service and when he can tell Nikki is about to explode soon, he let's Nikki's class sit in with his for story time so they don't have a repeat of Nikki having one in front of the kids.

🐉 Nikki then usually has to take a week off just to get his head together again.

🐉 Nikki is also the best at giving the kiddos art, he's always so kind and mindful of everyone's skill level, he definitely has a board in his class to pin up all the drawings he gets given throughout the year.

VINCE

🐬 His class is the dolphin class, named after his favorite football team :)

🐬 Vince is definitely one of those teachers who reads off of Word documents he definitely didn't make himself, however he gives such an entertaining performance that no body even cares about that, he's laughing joking around and in general making the vibe of the classroom nice and airy.

🐬 Nobody is allowed to leave Mr. Neil's class without feeling confident, Vince doesn't know how he'd have made it this far in life without his charisma and self confidence and when he sees one of his students lights flickering he'll always be there to reignite it.

🐬 Though not technically allowed if his class are being too rowdy and he just can't take it anymore, he'll allow them an early recess to burn off some energy so that they can come back to class after recess spent and tired and quiet so he can get though the material they need to learn.

🐬 Vince gets wayyyy to enthusiastic about the sport, especially the baseball which he coaches. He's been known to bad mouth refs from other schools in front of the children.

🐬 Absolutely does NOT preach good sportsmanship, fucking kill em out there kids, no mercy. (He has gotten a written warning about this)

🐬 He is also definitely one of those teachers that bribes his kids to pay attention like “Jennifer you got that right, come get yourself a lollipop from the treat jar!”

🐬 “Mr. Neil! Toby pulled my pigtails!” 

🐬 “It's cause he's jealous that you have nice hair and he's bald Samantha.”

🐬 All the little girls in his class see his pretty long blonde hair and immediately want to play with it, he says no every single time so they have to settle for braiding Mr. Lee's hair instead.

🐬 The dolphin class has a set routine from day 1 and they follow it everyday up until the day before summer, Vince hates a disorganized clas cause it causes chaos (he would have a heart attack if he saw Nikki's syllabus)

🐬 I actually wanna say that Vince and Nikki low-key had beef with each other when the first started working with together. I think they both started in the same year and thought the other was a terrible teacher, Vince was like “How are they ever gonna learn anything when all you do is read from a book and yap at them, that's never gonna stick!” And Nikki is like “How are they ever gonna learn how to be good human beings in society with such a self obsessed teacher!”

🐬 They are both wrong about each other and honestly….I don't think they ever learn from the experience I low-key think they just found out a system to work around each other and have a stay out of my business policy, which does at least graduate them to the frenemies status.

MICK

🌙 Mick is has been teaching at the same school for 20 years and he is one Nonsense email for a parent away from quiting this profession entirely.

🌙 His class is called the moon class. His first year teaching at the school all the teachers had solar themed classrooms like one class was the sun class, another class the star class etc. And the name just kinda stuck forever despite all the other classes setting a very clear animal theme, Mick truly does not care even when given a “subtle” nudge from Nikki to potentially change the name maybe like 100 times, he just refuses.

🌙 “Come on Mr. Mars, all of our classes have animal names, your the odd one out here, I'd really like for us to be uniform for once.”

🌙 “Son, my class has been called the moon class since before you were born and it will stay that way until the day that you one day rest in your grave, understood?”

🌙 Mick is the oldest member of the staff and is subject to a lot of judgment from these younger teachers who don't agree with the good old fashioned way of doing things, but all the young teachers cave after like 2 months of trying to work their class with a gentle parenting style and all come crawling to him for tips when their children just won't listen.

🌙 Storytime in Mr. Mars's class is a star studded event, because you know he's doing all the silly character voices, and each character has a very distinct way of speaking so the kiddos never wonder which character is talking at any given moment, the students are always laser focused in on Mick completely mesmerized by the story.

🌙 Unlike Nikki, Mick is a physical learner, so you'll always catch him giving the kids little gummy fruit snacks to learn how to devide, or showing the kids little models he'd built to explain the concept of the water cycle or something.

🌙 If the moon class is really good all week then Mick allows them a little treat and he'll play guitar for them, he even takes song requests, though not usually too complicated the kids minds are always blown when he plays anything, even twinkle twinkle little star.

🌙 Whenever a kid is having an emotional problem of some kind he is guilty of loading them off on Nikki or Tommy, he isn't unfeeling but he's bad with words and not really all that sensitive and even after 20 years of teaching Mick is afraid he'll say something insensitive and totally traumatize a child so he'd rather they go to one of the more emotionally inclined teachers.

🌙 Nap time in Mr. Mars's class is also so nice because Mick has one of those star light mobiles that make it look like there are moving stars on the roof. 

🌙 Also when the kids nap, so does Mick, he gets Tommy to wake him up then they wake the kids together.

TOMMY

⭐ Tommy is a teaching assistant, he doesn't really know what he wants to do with his life but he knows it has something to do with music so he figures he'll just take this job for a year to safe up some money to go study music at college.

⭐ He mainly helps out in the moon class in fact the school originally hired Tommy just to help Mick out after he informed the school about his AS, but Tommy does end up jumping between classes sometimes, like when Nikki's class of cute little gremlins get a little to hard to deal with without backup.

⭐ Tommy and Mick end up playing a game of good cop, bad cop more often then not, Tommy being good cop of course.

⭐ The kids all take to Tommy like ducks to water, he's funny, charming,closer to all their ages then their teachers and he even plays games with them at recess so they see Tommy as more of a cool big kid friend that ties their shoes rather then a teacher.

⭐ This has its pros and cons, while the kids do like him and are more likely to confide in him then others they also tend to not take him too seriously and totally ignore him when he asks them to quiet down or do something.

⭐ Tommy uses the school's printer and tape to make stickers for the birthday kids that say “it's my birthday and all I got was this lousy sticker from Mr. Mars and Mr. Lee” Mick despises them but the kids love them so they stay.

⭐ Tommy as the assistant is also always put on accident duty, so if a kiddo doesn't make it in time he's the one who has to get them a change of pants and keep them calm, this is his least favorite task to do and as the year processes luckily gets much less likely to pop up.