It Might Just Be Fantastic

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Looking for more of my fandom chaos, emotional damage, and entirely-too-specific shipping content? You've found the right place. Here's where else you can find me:

🌌 Fantastic Blue Box You're here, Fantastic! Doctor Who content with a shameless bias toward the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler. Expect emotional breakdowns, time vortex nonsense, and the occasional other Doctors appreciation posts when I’m feeling generous.

👓 IamPRChung You're already here! This blog is X-Files central, with a heavy focus on Walter Skinner, unsanctioned admiration for Skinner/Scully, and frequent screaming into the void.

🕵️‍♂️ Unofficial Channels Home of The Lone Gunmen (they deserved better) and all things X-Files adjacent. Government conspiracy vibes, deep dives, and low-res screenshots of Frohike being weird.

🖋️ Archive of Our Own (AO3): prChung’s works My fanfic lives here. Mostly Doctor Who and X-Files, with feelings, metaphysics, and probably someone bleeding emotionally (or literally) in every chapter.

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taste my steel

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Running with pointy sticks!

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Because no asked... Here's a "cat" ipsum generator site.

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Ready for adventures!

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Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper filming Doctor Who

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Love that it's the older of the two looking at their phone.

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i hate that when you try and look up shit for writing purposes it starts linking suicide hotlines and addiction advice articles like bro i just wanna know the information im not killing myself i promise. now tell me what i wanna know

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There comes a point at which one must ask whether your protagonists are romantically involved or participating in an unusually elegant hostage negotiation with fate.

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Facts.

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I really hope that no one has forgotten that today, in the US, 30 years ago, May 14th, 1996, Doctor Who the movie aired.

Have you seen it?

Yes!

No, waiting for the 4k release.

Voting ended onMay 16

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I just want to tell you, you were...

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Because this gif was needed.

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Love this. Sad and lovely, and so Nine and Rose. 🥰🥺😢

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Okay, more belated bday prezzies. I'm both excited and daunted about the 3D TARDIS build ahead.

But these Post-it Notes! Right!?!

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Affirmative! Found in a retro toy shop!

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Saw some vaguely Doctor Who stuff in a wild shop today.

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I love showing my non-Doctor Who friends the clip from the five doctors where everybody gets abducted by the weird triangles without context and refusing to elaborate

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I love this show

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Yes.

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🤣🤣

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The black areas represent the remaining natural dark skies in the United States

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I’ve been in the middle of the ocean at night and now live in texas and it is so hard to explain to people that no, they have not ever seen the night sky. It is so hard to explain to people that what they think is a proper night sky is fucking pathetic. A disgrace.

People talk about how you can’t see stars in the city and yeah, that’s true, but their concept of “seeing stars” is being able to make out orion’s belt.

So, so few people have see the sky in all its glory and it’s not sad. It’s a fucking crime. Seeing a perfectly dark night, no clouds, not a hint of light pollution? That’s a fucking religious experience.

The sky the vast vast majority of us grew up with is not the sky that inspired us to look up. It is not the sky that inspired constellations. You can’t even see most constellations.

Your ancestors looked at the night sky and said “surely, that is where the gods must live.” And you might be lucky if you can see hardly more than a handful of stars.

The sky is full, fucking FULL, of stars, and you’ve never seen them.

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I remember the first time I saw a properly dark sky and was like ‘oh that’s why it’s called the milky way’ and promptly started to cry

When we were on a field trip to the middle of the red sea, I remember us all crowding at the end of the boat that didn’t have lights and just lying on our backs and staring

When you see a properly dark starscape

You understand why people wrote poems and made up legends and built rockets and said heaven’s in the sky

The universe is infinite. So are the stars

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I’m trying to find a picture on google images to show you what I mean and I can’t find any

You think of the night sky like fairy lights on black velvet, but it’s not it’s not it’s like, like, dust in sunlight, like - I can’t find the words.

The stars are everywhere, like sugar, like glitter, like dust. You can’t find the constellations at first, not because you can’t recognise them, but because there’s so many stars you can’t pick out the familiar line of Orion’s belt. The North star has gone from bright familiarity to almost vanishing among a thousand, a hundred thousand, a million other lights. The milky way is a line of light arcing across the sky like a moon-trail on water only infinitely, infinitely bigger.

And for the first time in your life you’ll understand why people call it a dome, because it is, it’s three dimensional in exactly the way a city skyscape isn’t.

You’ll understand why Luthien Tinúviel danced under starlight, not moonlight, why people in a time before we knew the earth was round still looked up and wondered and built telescopes and dreamed about the stars.

The stars are endless and ancient and infinite and you will stand with your head craned back and your rucksack forgotten at your feet and you’ll feel like you’re falling upwards into that great bright sky like it’s calling you home and you’ll wonder how you ever thought the stars were beautiful before tonight when all you’d ever seen were the naked empty skyscapes of your home. And you’ll cry and you’ll spend the rest of your time there gazing up and wondering and imagining what it would be like to stand among those bright silver flecks

And then you’ll come home, and look up, and fall in a different kind of love with that handful of blazing stars to stubborn to be outdone by the whole of human invention, leading you home despite the light pollution and the clouds and the endless bustle of this shrinking planet.

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this is not a shot from a space telescope overlayed behind a woods, or anything. that’s not the sky as kepler or hubble or james webb see it. that’s the sky from a dark sky park in michigan. that’s the view you are missing out on from right here on earth. that’s the view that has been stolen from you.

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I feel lucky that I saw views like this at Lake Shasta, and in West Texas. I hope to again this Summer. 🥰