Spocktober + Trektober Day 17 - Survival Training
Their camping dates in The Final Frontier are everything to me :'3
(ID (+ bonus unedited version) under cut!)
I wanted to add the unedited version too because I actually quite like the scrappiness of it! Plus I find it funny that I've done 16 of these and somehow managed to switch the 'Spocktober' and 'Trektober' in the corners on the 17th and not like. the second. 😅
I'm sticking this one right up on my wall :3
[Image ID: A black and white drawing of Jim Kirk, Spock, and Bones from Star Trek: The Original Series. They are sitting around a campfire in a clearing in an alien forest; in the sky above is a crescent moon, a distant ringed planet, and a galaxy. Smoke rises from the fire, and it casts long shadows behind the characters. The forest and sky are drawn in white gel pen on black ink, and the ground around the characters is shaded in scratchy black brushstrokes to indicate the ring of light thrown by the campfire.
Bones and Jim are reclining on the ground, to the left and behind the fire respectively. They are wearing casual clothes; Bones is wearing a jacket and Jim is wearing a t-shirt with a button up shirt over the top, unbuttoned. Bones is also toasting a marshmallow. Spock is on the right of the fire. He is sitting cross-legged facing the other two. He has a blanket wrapped around him and is wearing a beanie with a bobble on top, covering his ears. Only his face is visible. He is scowling, and saying in a square speech bubble "I do not see how this activity provides adequate survival training."
Bones replies, also scowling, in a round speech bubble "Just enjoy the peace and quiet, Spock."
Jim's eyes are closed and he is smiling, basking in the moment.
Above the drawing is written "Trektober" and "Day 17 - Survival Training" Below it is written "@aerialworms" and "Spocktober".
The second image is the same as the first, except several brushstrokes have broken the boundaries of the drawing's frame, and 'Spocktober' and 'Trektober' have switched places. /End ID]
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Tell me more about kenstewy and eye contact?
It's actually not even just a Kendall and Stewy thing to be honest, I'm broadly fascinated by the way Kendall avoids eye contact and the different ways people deal with that, because I think it says a lot about certain dynamics, and not even just necessarily dynamics with Kendall. This whole cast is made up of such incredible physical performers, so getting to see them bounce off each other and respond to a behaviour like this is just a lot of fun to unpack.
In particular at the moment, I've been a little obsesed with seeing the parallels between Roman and Logan's physicality, because on the one hand, they're super different – Roman can't sit still, he exudes this energy that somehow manages to be both anxious and overtly confident – but fascinatingly, he often is physical with Kendall in similar ways to Logan.
Everyone knows this one, I think:
But I'd add:
And in particular because it's when Kendall's avoiding eye contact:
I could ramble about this a lot, but I'll spare you, haha, and just say that I think it's this sort of fascinating embodiment of how Roman has learnt gesture and physicality from his father, and that I think it's especially pertinent that in all these examples, it's when Roman's feeling a sort of baser emotion – anger and self-righteousness, grief or frustration – where he pivots towards handling his brother in the way their father would.
(Shiv and Stewy beneath the cut)
Interestingly, I think Shiv adopts a part of their dad too in that sense, but I do think it's a pretty different for her. I think especially of that scene in 2.04 where she tells Kendall to look at her:
While I do imagine Logan's said that to Kendall over the years, likely particularly when he was young, I think it carries different weight for Shiv. I think for her, Kendall not looking at her during serious conversations ties deeply to her self-esteem which ultimately means that she associates him not looking at her as him not seeing her. I don't think that's what it is from Kendall's point of view at all, but I do think it kind of ties into that sense of Kendall and Shiv being two sides of the same coin.
Kendall desperately needs his siblings to like him, and Shiv desperately needs them to respect her, and the way that manifests in their particular push-pull is so ripe. I have a lot of thoughts on this more specifically too, haha, but I do think there's this particularly fascinating contrast in this sense where Kendall so desperately wants to see his siblings in s3, particularly at his birthday party, and they pollute that with the letter and the birthday party machinations, and Shiv so desperately wants to truly be seen by them in a way that makes her feel like their equal, and they pollute that through Kendall's insults in 3.02 and then hijacking her moment, through Connor telling her everyone at Waystar was just entertaining her, and through Roman - - well. Everything he did in s3 to her really.
Where Stewy's different again I think really speaks to his character too in the sense that he finds ways to get Kendall to look at him, but it's not through physically moving him like Roman and Logan, or demanding like Shiv, but he tends to chase his gaze. He pushes himself back into Kendall's line of vision.
He does it a few times throughout the seasons, but the most obvious example to me is really in 1.03:
He doesn't even just meet Kendall's gaze, he chases it down in a way that totally affects his posture and physical shape. I think it speaks a lot to Stewy's nature (and to the way Arian is such a brilliant physical performer too), but also his relationship and familiarity to Kendall.
He knows how to meet Kendall where he's at, even when Kendall doesn't really want to be met, and it shows how his charisma and ability to be what and who people need has gotten him to where he is.
It's a fascinating thing to unpack!
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