This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Semiapies: Best trope name I've seen in rather a while.
AOD: I have to thank whoever put in that picture. It's perfect!
Umm... can't Scenery Pron and Scenery Gorn come together though? Like ruined city but with epic scale and almost heavenly grandeur to it's demolished state? Or ruined city in the mists of time, now overgrown with nature?
- Geoduck: I read a non-fiction book as a kid that sorta managed this when discussing (I think) archeology, with an illustration of a ruined and long-abandoned Washington DC, covered with growing vines and trees.
