Uncle Funkle

You see this?

That's not a river. That's the South Canal in Mesa, Arizona (Phoenix metro area).

This is a view of the East and South canals. At least half of all the Phoenix metro canals were originally built by the Hohokam (from roughly 200-1400 CE), and are still in use (restored) today.

Phoenix, Arizona actually has more miles (kilometers) of Canals total than both Venice and Amsterdam. No, really. Phoenix has about 180 miles of canals, many of which are built on ancient canal foundations.

below is an aerial view photo taken in the late 1930's of one branch of Phoenix's canal systems:

Also have the "Montezuma Castle," if you need a castle:

Whereas the reality is far more like

after struggling so hard to get to earth, a place where she believed she could be free, she meets lalah who believe space is the only place where she can be free

when machu finally sees the ocean, she's been through too much in her short time on earth and does not feel the wonder she thought she would

when she does enter the ocean, it's not freeing. it's the opposite. she's confined in her cockpit, the pressure pressing down on it, only to trap herself in the gquuuuuux again, the only thing she accomplished was to bring challia exactly what he wanted

“creative people have trouble recognising their skills as skills, because eventually they feel like second nature. […] this stuff really is valuable. if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be stealing it. creativity doesn’t feel special or unique until you realise people have to plagiarise it”