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M104, Sombrero Galaxy

The Battle of Helm’s Deep The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson

The Planets (BBC) - Jupiter and Io

“ I’m gonna find… and I’m gonna kill… every last one of them. “

I put Ian and Mickey into an incorrect quote generator and it was the best decision I made all day

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I’ve realised that what I miss about fantasy is it being truly escapist. I miss it depicting places where I would actually want to go.

Every dang kid I knew waited for their Hogwarts acceptance letter. Reading the books and seeing it on screen gave you this warm, fuzzy feeling and a feeling of longing, even when they were in danger and fighting monsters and evil wizards, you want to be there.

You want to go to Middle Earth, see hobbits and elves and dwarves and run through this land of incredible beauty, mysticism and magic.

You want to be in the TARDIS, seeing the universe.

The more recent trend of fantasy is this gritty, dark realism and places where you would just never want to go. I don’t want to go to Westeros. I don’t want to be in The Hunger Games, I don’t particularly want to be in The Witcher universe. I’m living in the world of Black Mirror and I hate it.

Fantasy used to say “hey our world kinda sucks but here’s a cooler one”, but now it says “hey our world kinda sucks, but here’s an even worse one.”

That isn’t to say that the above are bad. They’re not. 

But I miss beautiful, escapist fantasy that gives me a break. That takes me somewhere magical, somewhere otherworldly and gives me messages of hope and optimism in the face of darkness. I really, really miss that.

NGC 6302, Cosmic Butterfly Wings

I LOVE LORD OF THE RINGS SO MUCH HOLS YFUCK!!!!!!!! SAM’S SPEECH!!!!!!!!!!! THE SMILE ON LEGOLAS’ FACE WHEN HE SAYS ‘HOW ABOUT SIDE BY SIDE WITH A FRIEND’! !!!!!!!!! THE WAY MINAS TIRITH LOOKED SHINING WHITE NEXT TO MORDOR’S SHADOW!!!!!!! FRODO’S UNBELIEVABLE BRAVERY!!!!! ! !!!!!! BILBO SAYING THAT HE THINKS HE’S QUITE READY FOR ANOTHER ADVENTURE !!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! !!!! ARAGORN TELLING THE HOBBITS THEY BOW FOR NO ONE AND GANDALF LIGHTING FIREWORKS HOL FUC K!!!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!! I LVOE LORD OF THE RINGS

the night sky is so comforting...