London In Her Hands (with 2k alt angles)
Added 2025-06-02 17:00:04 +0000 UTCShe tried to be careful. She wanted to keep as much intact as possible. The buildings were so minuscule, and crumbled to dust so easily, but they were all the more beautiful for it. Details of architecture looked so intricate at this scale, and the more she looked the more she could see. The streets with cars, and shops, and people, so tiny they were barely perceptible, but all sentient, all her subjects. She could feel their awe, and fear, and love.
London was in the palm of her hands. It had not been easy, but the ground by the River Thames was so soft that she had simply dug her fingers down into it and carefully joined the edges of her palms together, cutting through tube tunnels, cabling, pipes, and earth, all the way to bedrock. Then, sitting up, she lifted the whole thing towards her face to examine it more closely. The towers glistened and the streets sparkled, and the people crawled from their ruined buildings to see her face looking down on them.
*Keeping it simple but still effective. Yes the map in the background is not London but I'm yet to find a good way of doing the vast expanses of fields and suburbs that make up most of Britain. At this scale I think she'd be many miles tall.
Comments
tbh with this I'd have liked to have had more of a rural/suburban map as the countryside would be very visible from this height over London, but this one had to do! Still, yes, London is a massive city with a vast sprawl.
Pandoza
2025-06-04 12:30:42 +0000 UTCYea a lot of people outside of Europe don’t get how heavily urbanised the UK, and the rest of Europe is. Like seriously we have about a seventh of the population of America in a space smaller than a lot of states.
Voidlord
2025-06-04 10:39:18 +0000 UTC“Wot’s all this, then? Bloody Yank tourists!”
Njord
2025-06-02 18:07:06 +0000 UTC
