She Walks in Starlight in Another World

Mo. 30-something. These days, LOTR shitposting with a side of everything else. Project Hail Mary and Keero have temporarily taken possession of my brain.

[dwarveslikeshinythings]

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

Well friends, she's finished!! This was such a ride-- hope y'all enjoy it and do let me know what you think!

Summary: Syril loves Dedra and Dedra loves Syril, but only one of them can say it out loud. This will cause absolutely no problems for them whatsoever. Probably. (Set against the lyrics of Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” album, because there are no rules and I can do whatever I want.)

[delbolsillo]

[darkestbrook]

Oh waiter! Waiter! More art of them cuddling, please! Yes, yes, with the xenonite barriers. I like my fluff with a pinch of angst.

[nordreys]

james ortiz provided some of his own personal rocky backstory on the sag aftra podcast, transcribed by me because we all have to be miserable about it together.

link to the podcast, this section below is from timestamp 24.35

“andy weir provided a packet to the creature shop that was like a packet of eridian biology and stuff but there wasn’t much about eridian culture or eridian sociology and i made a bunch of choices going in because i just needed to have like a ‘who am i?’ right? 

[…] and i made a decision that rocky’s species, that eridians are really social animals that in fact are like a beehive or a pod of dolphins - it’s a unique and really integrated ecosystem of everybody doing their [specific] part. and the fact that rocky had to fly that ship for about 45 years - longer than grace has been alive, i wanna point that out - he’s been alone on that ship, having to run that by himself and- ryan and i would talk about that, one day we sat down and he was like “so what’s the movie from rocky’s perspective?” and i was like “oh it’s like ‘alien’, […] like he’s in a ‘contagion’ movie by himself and he has no idea what’s going on.”

he’s basically in castaway by himself which of course ryan is too but like, one reason why we never cut to the past of rocky is like, i think it was really horrifying! i don’t think rocky has slept in however many years and so a thing i was really struggling with is this idea of like “rocky must watch sleep” because how do you make that a need as opposed to like, a cute idea? and i just had to make the decision that […] he has a lot of unprocessed trauma around the things that he doesn’t understand and how much he is blaming himself because he’s the guy who fixes, he’s the guy who fixes and there was something really freeing about deciding that rocky was a deeply emotional, deeply anxious, deeply horrified person - being - that is trying to move through that in some way and how that affects the early scenes with him until there’s a point in the story where you can see we’ve physically softened rocky’s behaviour, because he’s finally feeling more safe and ok but all of that lore, all of that information [was essential].

i also decided, this is just a small nerdy thing, that there was actually some of his family, was on that ship too.”

[idiot-mushroom]

my friend wanted me to make this

[robotrocky]

Biiiiiiig hug

[dwarveslikeshinythings]

Grace and the Real Girl

Summary: Turns out you can’t outrun your damage, even by moving to another planet. As Grace and Rocky reach Erid after a long and grueling journey through space, Grace’s traumas and fears catch up to him, and he chooses a very unorthodox method of coping.

Project Hail Mary/Lars and the Real Girl Crossover AU

Tags: Prior knowledge of Lars and the Real Girl not necessarily required, Ryland Grace and Rocky are platonic soulmates, Ryland Grace has VERY complicated feelings about Eva Stratt, this is a love story, alien community comes together to support their leaky space blob

chapter 1

Adrian was worried.

The space elevator car rattled and shook as it escaped the upper reaches of Erid’s atmosphere, and as a distraction from the din, Adrian thought about the last conversation they had had with Rocky about Ryland Grace.

Rocky had been quick to brush off Adrian’s concern. Humans very strange, he had replied, tinkering with some gauge or another that he was designing. Normal to not understand their behavior. Tell Grace to sleep, Rocky advised. He is stupid without sleep.

But Adrian didn’t think the correct word for Grace’s behavior lately was stupid so much as reclusive.

read the rest on ao3.

[dwarveslikeshinythings]

i'm up to Chapter 5 now and this project continues to delight me to no end!!

[dwarveslikeshinythings]

Chapter 6 is now up! Featuring Rocky processing some of his past trauma and feelings about his present situation, and Adrian continuing to take home the gold for Most Supportive Partner of All Time.

[dwarveslikeshinythings]

Chapter 7 is up! Featuring Adrian and the Eridians throwing a party for Grace! *cue The Talking Heads "This Must Be the Place"* (iykyk)

[emziess]

Look, they got away with it. Big surprise, you know? People are stupid. But they're not that stupid. The point is five years tops, we're all driving electric cars from Japan, anyway. Mark my words.

The Nice Guys dir. Shane Black First Released 20th May 2016

[bodeckerhedron]

RYAN GOSLING as HOLLAND MARCH

➤• THE NICE GUYS (2016) DIR. SHANE BLACK

[bodeckerhedron]

RYAN GOSLING as HOLLAND MARCH

➤• THE NICE GUYS (2016) DIR. SHANE BLACK

[keyfili]

THE NICE GUYS 2016 • dir. Shane Black

[crackshipsandregret]

Curious pebble (3/?)

Part 1 / Part 2

A massive shoutout to @thereal-sillyguy for making everyone's favorite pebble into a gif! I very literally couldn't have done it without them!

[the-gayngel]

happy pride month to my good friend holland march

[dwarveslikeshinythings]

I walked a very easy 10,000 steps today and did a CHEST and BACK workout, will someone please explain to me why my KNEES feel like someone has been wailing on them with a baseball bat?!?

[dwarveslikeshinythings]

anyway i took a metric butt-ton of ibuprofen because who needs a liver, really?

[fourteentrout]

My experience today

[ceruleana]

project hail mary is a touching and poignant film that leaves you asking questions about humanity like, "wow what if all mainstream media was genuinely good" and "what if book adaptions actually gave a shit about the book in question" and "what if studios hired actors that could actually act, and then let them get a lil wacky with it"

[orbiten]

RYAN GOSLING as RYLAND GRACE PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller)