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fandomsecrets2015-03-02 06:56 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2015-03-02 06:56 pm
[ SECRET POST #2980 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2980 ⌋
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Notes:
Lots of multiple secrets in one comment this week, throwing off the count!
Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 083 secrets from Secret Submission Post #426.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
OP
(Anonymous) 2015-03-03 04:49 am (UTC)(link)The map has no bearing in modern or historic reality: it's absent the distinctive grid system and the hill pattern -- even if sea levels rose, it wouldn't look like that (this is what it will look like when the sea level rises: http://2035.seattle.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/IslandsOfSeattle20140107_150ppi.jpeg)
The shorelines are very pretty, but also very incorrect for the region. The big sea stack rock formations like that are off the pacific coast (seattle is on an inland sound, 100 miles or so from the open ocean).
The landscape around Seattle is also very glacial-runoff-silty, so rather than the rocky cliffs, we get angled landslide hills (like so: http://firestonesisters.com/oldsite/images/whidbey02.jpg). The less dramatic rocky shores in the walkthrough look more like the terrain about fifty miles north of Seattle, which are much rockier due to a variety of factors. Plus, there's a railroad along much of Seattle's saltwater coast: https://www.eskimo.com/~nanook/sky_water_carkeek/carkeek-railroad-south.jpg
The walkthrough did have something set in Salmon Bay, which is a real place, but the view in that part wasn't right.
What was most funny to me is that in the distant background, they had what the Olympic Mountains would look like from Seattle, but with the middle and foregrounds completely different.
Not that I've thought about setting a story in an overgrown Seattle and what that would look like, or anything.
Interesting fact of the night: the Space Needle rigorously guards its image, trademarks, and copyrights, which is why it tends to be either really prominent or conspicuously absent in media.
Re: OP
(Anonymous) 2015-03-03 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)