why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like…

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth)

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)


salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)
and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens
BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species
I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:


Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar


Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)


Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland
So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smh…
Earth is effing amazing!
these would make amazing Star Wars planets OR fantasy material:
Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)


(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)
Lake Natron, Tanzania

(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)
Lake Baikal, Russia

(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)
and I’ll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.
it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:



(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it)
anyway I really like caves thanks for coming to my ted talk
Boom de yada
What she says: I’m fine
What she means: It’s truly amazing to me how many people’s hot take on Macbeth is that Lady M is the true villain of the piece for badgering her husband into committing murder when in reality the far more nuanced and interesting reading is that their character arcs form mirror images (ruthless > remorseful vs. reluctant > remorseless), and to be honest I’m pretty sure it has everything to do with our subconscious belief that villainous women are in some fundamental way worse than villainous men because in addition to doing bad things they violate our expectations about femininity (come you spirits unsex me here and fill me from the crown to toe topfull of direst cruelty) as soft and nurturing and non-violent and it is!! absolutely incredible!!! that this many people manage to read a play thematically concerned with the horrific results of conceptualizing violence as a defining trait of masculinity and come away doing the adam-and-eve thing (it’s the woman’s fault she told me to eat the fruit!) where Macbeth is the once-noble man tragically fallen and Lady Macbeth is his one-dimensionally evil nagging wife!!!!!!
Perfection. The softness. In its eyes.
Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.






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