Shipping meme: timeatom?
oh god i’m finally filling this out. oh god. i have never loved a ship as much as i love timeatom it’s kind of frightening
send me a pairing and I’ll tell you who:
falls asleep on the couch
RIP!!! and only because ray would make the effort to go to bed when his insomnia stops being a horrid bitch. on rip’s end it’s more “raymond doesn’t like when i spend my 2-4 hours of sleep every 2 weeks on the floor, so i suppose i ought to find the nearest normal surface to use instead”
rip will absolutely slide into bed just to spoon ray though (or jetpack considering the fact that little spoon ray is so much taller). he doesn’t sleep much but he’ll sometimes just lie there with his eyes closed breathing calmly
makes friends with the neighbors
it’s gotta be ray. they find some stupid home somewhere in the 21st century (rip is going by ‘michael’ now, and he takes ray’s last name so that there isn’t any weird record of michael jon carter jr. in 2018) and it’s like. it’s fairly suburb-y because they both have inklings to have children one day and 1) ray grew up in a nice neighbourhood, so he wants his kid to be the same; 2) rip’s last family lived in the apocalypse so he honestly doesn’t have high standards for this so he’ll just listen to ray
and anyway. the point is it’s one of those neighbourhoods where people do in fact greet the neighbours and rip doesn’t know how to Deal With That. but ray is very excited about it and he does, in fact, accept the casseroles they give him, and he manages to join a book club and goes jogging with all the mums in the morning. rip has like one (1) friend and it’s only because one of the jogging mums tells ray about her husband who really likes woodworking but not talking to people much and he’s like actually he might get along with michael
is the adventurous eater
rip and his apocalyptic child upbringing on all accounts… ray’s one of those (formerly?) rich people who isn’t much for weird rich people gourmet experiments and what weird food he does like (see: butter in his coffee) is more silly than anything ~adventurous and also significantly adapted into his everyday diet rather than something he tries out of nowhere. give ray a good mac n cheese any day
once when they’re out of meat in the freezer rip ends up catching a lizard with his bare hands and gets this very brief look on his face and ray has to tell him WE CAN GO TO THE GROCERY?? and rip’s like hmm. yeah you’re right
hogs the covers at night
ray, who likes his comfort and his softness and the reprieve of a nice, comfy sleep… and rip will just cuddle up to his blanket-covered self because ray is weirdly furnace-like. is it the male model muscles?? is it because of the WARMTH of his kindness??? god who even knows
forgets to do the dishes
rip doesn’t necessarily forget as much as ray insists on doing it. rip does the laundry though and they divvy up the chores for wiping surfaces and hoovering and whatever based on location
tries to surprise their partner more often
ray!!! has so many!!! fun ideas they can try!!! and as long as they don’t have to spend extended amounts of time interacting with strangers then rip will more or less do anything that ray thinks is cool. they go to museums and art galleries and theme parks and lecture series and tourist traps
and ray finds things for streaming that rip might find interesting or surprises him with a new book in the library or pulls things like “so for that pasta you’re eating? you guessed it– i replaced the cheddar cheese with something else! guess what it is!” (and you bet your ass rip actually does try to guess, but he doesn’t know what the kinds of cheeses are, so ray ends up giving him an introduction to cheese literally he just loves to share knowledge and rip loves to listen to him)
leaves dirty laundry on the floor
i want to say they have a good system of putting their laundry in the respective laundry basket whenever they’re done? but if it’s a nailing scenario then ray cares a little bit more where his pants are thrown than rip does
stays up til 2 AM reading
rip, and only because the verb is “reading”. they both stay up pretty late, but their choice of what to do staying up late differs. ray reads as well, but he does a whole assortment of things like tinkering or watching movies or tv series or an anime or two. rip tends to stick with reading unless he’s hanging out with ray, and sometimes when he doesn’t care for whatever ray’s watching he’ll be in his space but reading instead of watching the screen
sings in the shower
rip is more likely to. ray makes up speeches in the shower and talks to himself and sometimes switches between his practised speech and pretending to be an interviewer. you know how it goes
takes the selfies
for a guy from the future rip is surprisingly averse to smartphones. like he knows how to use them but he doesn’t know how to use them as Effectively as ray does. ray knows filters and he knows where they should stand and how to hold the phone up to get the right angle/lighting and whatever, and rip just trusts in him to do this
the only time rip is the one taking pictures on the smartphone is when ray says stuff like “oh!!! i want a picture with this!!!” and rip’s like “all right hand me your phone then”
(ray will teach him very basic smartphone camera picture taking techniques and rip will commit all of them to memory)
plans date night
ray is more likely to plan something more elaborate but not ALL the dates he plans are elaborate. but for big things like anniversaries or valentine’s or what not ray tells rip to leave it up to him and rip is more than happy to hand the responsibility over because, like, rip doesn’t know how to?? have a date??? what is a date in the vanishing point????? hell, what is a date in a post-per degaton world????????? he literally has no fucking idea, this is probably the most peaceful relationship he’s ever had (and by that i mean it’s the only relationship he’s had that doesn’t have the looming threat of death hanging over his head because of baddies or because of the apocalypse or whatever other stupid things he had to deal with in his relationship with miranda and their marriage in 2166)