I posted the lyric video for "Yellow Light" by Of Monsters and Man because it synched with my post "Golden light, and going 'overseas.'" The whole video shows the same scene: low clouds stretched out horizontally, a huge planet in the sky dwarfing the sun, and people traveling from the left side of the scene to the right on the backs of dinosaur-like creatures:
The same day, I read and posted about The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, the cover of which shows a very similar scene:
The same low clouds, the same giant planet in the sky, the same travelers from left to right. The Sun does not appear on the cover, but it is mentioned in the story that the Earth dwarfs the Sun in the sky of Basidium. As Basidium is only 50,000 miles from Earth, I think the Earth would have about 18 times the diameter of the Sun in its sky, roughly matching the proportions seen in the "Yellow Light" video.
I read The Wonderful Flight because Kevin McCall mentioned it as a story that features a very small planet. I watched the "Yellow Light" video because I heard a different Of Monsters and Men song in a restaurant a few days ago and looked it up, after which YouTube recommended other videos from the same channel. Unrelated, except by synchronicity.
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Giant fungi seem to be a common thing in games, but at first the only mushroom planet I could think of was Warframe's Venus. A far synchier example came to mind this morning. Sonic & Knuckles's first level is Mushroom Hill; in the recent Sonic movies, both Sonic's real home and Mushroom Hill are planets instead of geographic regions, making the talking-animal characters actual aliens.
QRD: Sonic (who is mostly blue in colour) flees his home through a portal in the form of a gold ring, and hides out on Earth for some years. One night he quite literally blows his cover, but plot stuff happens and he loses his bag-o'-rings before he can vacate to a gross mushroom planet. Meanwhile the US government sends out eccentric genius Dr. "Eggman" Robotnik (played by Jim Carrey) and lackey Agent Stone to capture the blue guy. At the first movie's climax, Sonic deals with Robotnik by sending him through a ring-portal bound for the mushroom planet. Robotnik is shown going loopy there, talking to a rock as if it was his sidekick; by the start of the second movie he's figured out a way back to Earth. (In a deleted scene I only discovered today, the madman took a different kind of trip before going home. The stand-in images and unfinished CGI add their own weirdness!)
Maybe it was the rings that put the movies in mind. During a visit with my mum on the 18th, I spotted something glinting on the bathroom floor -- a thin gold ring. Recalling a previous time this had happened, I took it to Mum; she thanked me and put it back on her pinky finger. The ring was part of her mother's wedding band, somehow broken in decades past.
(Sidenote: Looking for those Sonic clips, a completely different vid came up in the sidebar, and I experienced a moment of déjà vu while watching it. Turn the subtitles on for a few lulz.)
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