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This was an idea I had back in January, when ~flying-squid asked me to describe an ideal world:

It is a planet covered in deciduous sequoia-sized trees: in autumn their leaves would look like a FIRESTORM. They grow directly out of oceans in which whales and harmless jellyfish forests and all kinds of awsm marine life exist...

There are turn-of-the-19th-century H.G. Wells-style Utopian people (minus diseases, racism, and sexism): monocles, frills, top hats, the whole shebang. They'd have integrated their aesthetically pleasing fancy brick homes and wrought-iron gates and lace curtains and antique furniture into the ecosystem. It's set up like Victorian treehouses connected by networks of lightweight and elegant yet sturdy bridges. There'd be carriages, but most people would be content with bicycles. Including that old-fashioned kind with one bigass wheel and one little one. YES.

Technology would be optimistic, inventive--sometimes impractical, but without involving the destructive side of industrialization. Probably lots of steam and hydraulic power? Clockwork mechanics? The inventor's guild would figure out a way to install elevators to the trees without harming them, so people could travel vertically between the dock and the branch levels. Down by the water surface, there'd be wooden docks encircling the bases of the trees and floating gardens. And ports for gondolas, seaplanes, and a few flying whales for long distances...

I'd better stop before I write a novel. but mash the ocean, Yosemite, the late 19th century, and Venice together, basically.

...THAT WAS FOUR MONTHS AGO. This took entirely too long, seriously! I'm so happy it's finished. xD

22 x 16 in. , colored pencil.

Description
This was an idea I had back in January, when ~flying-squid asked me to describe an ideal world:

It is a planet covered in deciduous sequoia-sized trees: in autumn their leaves would look like a FIRESTORM. They grow directly out of oceans in which whales and harmless jellyfish forests and all kinds of awsm marine life exist...

There are turn-of-the-19th-century H.G. Wells-style Utopian people (minus diseases, racism, and sexism): monocles, frills, top hats, the whole shebang. They'd have integrated their aesthetically pleasing fancy brick homes and wrought-iron gates and lace curtains and antique furniture into the ecosystem. It's set up like Victorian treehouses connected by networks of lightweight and elegant yet sturdy bridges. There'd be carriages, but most people would be content with bicycles. Including that old-fashioned kind with one bigass wheel and one little one. YES.

Technology would be optimistic, inventive--sometimes impractical, but without involving the destructive side of industrialization. Probably lots of steam and hydraulic power? Clockwork mechanics? The inventor's guild would figure out a way to install elevators to the trees without harming them, so people could travel vertically between the dock and the branch levels. Down by the water surface, there'd be wooden docks encircling the bases of the trees and floating gardens. And ports for gondolas, seaplanes, and a few flying whales for long distances...

I'd better stop before I write a novel. but mash the ocean, Yosemite, the late 19th century, and Venice together, basically.

...THAT WAS FOUR MONTHS AGO. This took entirely too long, seriously! I'm so happy it's finished. xD

22 x 16 in. , colored pencil.