laqueus:

imagine a story where several astronauts go off to visit a distant and unexplored planet, and when they get there it’s the typical “everything’s trying to kill them” sort of situation, lots of hyper-predatory aliens, flora that tries to trap and eat them etc etc and the astronauts manage to escape and return home. and like after a couple of years for some reason they decide to try again with that planet, and this time they send the astronauts to a completely different part and they come out of their spaceship all suited up and kitted out with weapons to fight off the flora and fauna only to recieve one heck of a surprise because what’s this?? there are a bunch of aliens and they’re totally friendly and welcoming (and not in the “we’re totally gonna eat them later” kinda way), and the astronauts are like “????? what the? are we even on the same planet?” and after chatting with the aliens for a bit the astronatus find out that they previously landed in that planet’s version of australia