Nawilla Tumbles Badly

I am middle-aged and have no idea what I'm doing. Watch me flail.

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[nawilla]

These look like Eridians.

[nawilla]

My Contribution to Small Fandom Summer

It's not done, it's just one chapter, it's a big fandom/small fandom crossover and it's possible it's just crack fic, or I just lost my mind in the heat.

(credit to @notgilderoylockhart for the image)

Thank You For Being the Force

ms_nawilla

Summary:

The Golden Girls/Dirty Dancing fusion/Obscure and Original Star Wars Characters crossover nobody wanted or needed in their lives, but here it is. Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche and Rose are off to Kellermann's on vacation. Kellermann's on Alderaan. Don't worry, the Death Star is many decades in the future, and no one is headed off to Mount Holyoke in the fall. What they will get is a relaxing trip to the mountains, lots of craft and dance classes, and hopefully some sexy, manly men-- or at least some vacation romance. Will the Force be with them? Maybe. Always in motion the future is. WARNING: This is a Dirty Dancing fusion, so the topic of abortion will be discussed. It's relatively small in the scope of the story, but it is mentioned and talked about. Please take responsibility for regulating your own mental health if you choose to read. Please do not lecture me about abortion, the topic is original to the source material. Chapter specific warnings will be given.

Notes:

Yes, this is ridiculous and convoluted and may well be considered crack fic, but I'm actually writing this crazy, nutty idea. No, you do NOT have to read the rest of the giant series to make any sense of this story. The main Star Wars series encompasses many characters and references a lot of world-building and events in that series, but no knowledge of it is required to understand the story. If you just want to enjoy the cracky fic, please do not worry that you have not read the 405K word fic that started it all and it's many smaller siblings. (If you want to read more about the Jedi characters in this story later, they are all in there).

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

Fan art is welcome and encouraged. Embrace the weird.

Special thanks to @nanamitoamata, @kogoeru and @bi-files for listening to me blather on about this idea for way too long and still being encouraging about it. (If you also listened to me blather and I forgot, I'm sorry, it's been percolating for a long time).

I don't know when more will be posted, but for now you get this. Enjoy!

[hiveswap]

Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space

[hiveswap]

Don't forget to play it loud as fuck

[kowai-kabuki-tanuki]

please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.

This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.

[hiveswap]

It took them two tries to ban it?

[kvotheunkvothe]

[nawilla]

I have to question the wisdom of an astronaut wake up song that would make any responsible astronauts immediately demand they be evaluated for a stroke.

[local-dragon-haunt]

Has this been done yet

[nawilla]

I think I lived this.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

[nawilla]

<3

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

You just teleported to the last movie you watched! how is it going?

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FUCK YOU I'M IN THE BACKROOMS NOW

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results

Voting ended onJul 10

[nawilla]

It was Project Hail Mary.

Either I am left on an earth in peril (possibly still with Trump in the mix), I died on the ship while in a coma (which was probably a net win for humanity), or I am in fact the molecular biologist still clinging to life (I'm more of a cell biologist technically) and at least two civilizations are f'ed because not only do I barely do any microbiology, I have no athletic ability, nor a driver's license, so my ability to pilot the ship is severely compromised.

Maybe I could make the chain and Rocky could pilot because I do know how to knit.

[stonesense]

totally i understand narratively why project hail mary ends with grace becoming a teacher again but ever since i saw the movie i haven’t been able to stop thinking about what a crazy move it is from the eridian perspective. like imagine if we had one (1) alien on earth and we liked him so much that we just let him have a class of schoolchildren to teach all the brand new alien science to, for fun. what’s the selection process for that classroom. do the adult eridian scientists wish they were in there

[nawilla]

Are we sure they were children? Because if biological age is unclear, many human scientists and engineers can be very childlike.

[amnhnyc]

What eldritch horror is this? If you thought it was a bird with legs growing from its chest, look again! Male Bronze-winged Jacanas (Metopidius indicus) are responsible for raising their chicks, and they have a unique defensive strategy to keep their chicks safe. When threatened, a father can scoop up his offspring and carry them under his wings! Found in parts of Southeast Asia, this species uses its large feet to wade in the shallows, feeding on plant material, insects, and invertebrates floating on the surface. 

Photo: Suzu Sato, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[nawilla]

That bird is nightmare fuel. Does it pluck out feathers or does it grow like that naturally?

Is this AI?

Is it April Fools?

Horrifying yet plausible biologically.

[thereigning-lorelai]

grace + wearing his glasses like that

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[nawilla]

As someone very dependent on glasses, I have to wonder if Grace just doesn't have a very strong prescription or is trying to adapt to his first pair of progressive lenses and is failing miserably.

As a biologist I can say that pulling them off to see down the microscope better is 100% accurate.

[welcometothejianghu]

Small Fandom Summer 2026!

For the fourth year in a row now, it's time for Small Fandom Summer! Join me for Small Fandom Summer! It's real easy to play:

Make a fanwork for something that has fewer than 1000 English-language works on AO3

Post it to AO3

And then you've done it! You've made a thing and you've diversified the fandom ecosystem! You're basically a hero.

Q: The fandom I want to create for has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but the specific pairing I want to write for has fewer than that. Does that count? A: Yes! Q: What if it has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but, like, just barely? A: Okay! Q: What if it actually has a lot more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but it still feels small? A: Sure! Q: What if I don't want to post it to AO3? What if I don't even have an AO3 account? Can I post it somewhere else? A: Wherever! Q: What if-- A: Just do a thing, friend. Make a thing. Share the thing. This is not meant to be restrictive; this is meant to be inspirational. Create the fanworks you want to see in the world. Make a stranger happy by appealing to their niche interests. Bring joy.

And if you want to give yourself some silly little Steam-like achievement badges to commemorate your accomplishments, well, you're in luck! I've made a bunch of them right here! You can grab the ones that apply to your work and paste them wherever you like and feel good about what you've done. Here's a few of my favorites:

So you see? This is meant to be silly and fun.

There's nowhere to sign up. There's nothing to commit to. There's zero pressure. You just do it if you do it, and don't if you don't. But if you do want to play (yay!), tag your stuff with #small fandom summer so we can all swoop in and appreciate everyone else's efforts.

Here's to creativity!

[nawilla]

I do have a weird crossover I've been outlining that could qualify for this, but I'd only be able to get it started this summer. Maybe.

[penny-anna]

honestly funny to me that project hail mary stars Ryan Gosling bcos like imagine being an alien and the first human you meet is Ryan Gosling. im imagining Rocky trying to figure out how physical attractiveness works for humans (u know out of scientific curiosity) and while trying to get a fix on it being like 'Grace considered attractive??' and Grace is like nooo not really I'm pretty regular.

& then later in the event of making contact w other humans Rocky being like 'so that was a fucking lie'

[nawilla]

As an actual scientist, in my experience most scientists are much less conventionally attractive than Ryan Gosling. Not just in the 'dressed and groomed like a scientist' way, but also not in the 'miraculously transformed by a glow up' way either.

Maybe it's the lack of attention to personal grooming (because a lot of science is messy).

Maybe it's self-selection. People who look like Ryan Gosling can be very successful without having to get PhD.

Maybe it's genetic.

Maybe it's all the formaldehyde.

[nawilla]

So I was discussing this issue with my current boss (ie. Ryan Gosling is objectively more conventionally attractive than most research scientists, which is amusing because my current boss could very well pass as 'the actual scientist' that would have been cast as Ryan Gosling.

We had been plagued by a computer glitch all day (systems were just F'ed all over the building, either from IT doing something or because we had a huge thunderstorm overnight that tweaked something). Because of this, instead of imaging our DNA gel in the proper DNA gel imager, we had to instead put it on ye' old UV light box (with minimal shielding) and take a picture of it with our phones.

And you know, this could be why scientists tend to be physically unattractive.

[penny-anna]

honestly funny to me that project hail mary stars Ryan Gosling bcos like imagine being an alien and the first human you meet is Ryan Gosling. im imagining Rocky trying to figure out how physical attractiveness works for humans (u know out of scientific curiosity) and while trying to get a fix on it being like 'Grace considered attractive??' and Grace is like nooo not really I'm pretty regular.

& then later in the event of making contact w other humans Rocky being like 'so that was a fucking lie'

[nawilla]

As an actual scientist, in my experience most scientists are much less conventionally attractive than Ryan Gosling. Not just in the 'dressed and groomed like a scientist' way, but also not in the 'miraculously transformed by a glow up' way either.

Maybe it's the lack of attention to personal grooming (because a lot of science is messy).

Maybe it's self-selection. People who look like Ryan Gosling can be very successful without having to get PhD.

Maybe it's genetic.

Maybe it's all the formaldehyde.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?

[thatdisasterauthor]

"Use Libre Office."

I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.

Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.

Industry standards are industry standards FOR A REASON. Having everyone on the same workflow can be crucial to getting things done effectively and correctly without creating a lot of extra work. And those things are not going to change overnight, as much as we might want them to.

[thatdisasterauthor]

:| :| :|

Yeah, Word, let me just leave this whole chunk of dialogue without the closing quotation marks. That's the thing to do. How dare I have two punctuation marks in a row. It's not like that's how closing quotation marks fucking work.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I am going to light something on fire.

[thatdisasterauthor]

And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.

[nanamitoamata]

OMG is that Mars?" example why so many stuff i read in the last... 9 months have that closing quotation mark missing?!

[nawilla]

YES!

THIS! THIS! THIS!

[nondelphic]

editing is just you vs. past-you in a duel of questionable comma placement and emotional instability

[nawilla]

Actually, it's usually me asking Grammar Check to fix the commas and also me arguing with the stupid Copilot that keeps suggesting incorrect punctuation while I quietly mourn Windows7 and editing before AI decided to get involved.

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[nawilla]

A really good way to use up all my delivery boxes.

[nothing-but-flowers]

screaming

[nawilla]

Mentally misread Transylvania as Tasmania and was so confused.

[stealingpotatoes]

do you ever think about how much of the original trilogy artoo spent silently watching the drama go down with popcorn

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[nawilla]

Maybe he did tell them, but they didn't speak Binary well enough and he couldn't trust Threepio to translate.