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Summer nostalgia and flower gentleman.

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!

Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina

Lake Retba, Senegal

Tepui, Venezuela

Tianzi Mountains, China

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

Waitomo caves:

Badlands of Utah:

Particularly the Goblin Valley:

Tugna River in Iceland:

By artist ömer tunç.

The Jeanne Hachette center, my new standard to judge all other architecture against and find wanting. 

(fun fact: named after a folk hero literally called “ Joan the Hatchet”.Which, well, that tracks.) 

what silent wanderer arrives from yawning voids

Art by Dan Norton

vampire hunter

Agents of Virtue by  Robert Chew

characters from something I’ve been brewing

WIKIPEDIA MONSTER COMPILATION PAGES FOR PEOPLE

[-164] for this next part it might be for the best if you don’t look outside

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) - Tyrolese Interior, 1915

Alexandra Petruk  -  https://www.artstation.com/artist/alexandra_petruk  -  https://www.facebook.com/alexandra.petruk.7  -  https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/alexandrapetrtuk  -  http://drawcrowd.com/alexpetruk494d  -  https://twitter.com/alexandrapetruk

Fantasy lanscapes by PeneSchool

The Rio Caño Cristales - most colorful river (caused by algae and moss seen through the water), Colombia.

Abandoned “Taro Mine” - B

田老鉱山 2016,日本

Yuanyang rice terraces, China.