#The entire world just got flooded with Devonian age sea creatures and they’re all just like “oh well nice day for sailing”

[purplepenguintime]

I love the depictions of these kinds of post-apocalypses in media

When it’s clear that something catastrophic has happened but the planet isn’t a wasteland. Nature has simply done its job and found new ways to adapt, no matter how strange it looks to us.

Things aren’t bad, they’re just different.

One of the things I loved about The Wild Robot from a writing/world-building perspective was that it was clearly set in a post-apocalyptic world, but the details were very vague, and you don't even know until about an hour in:

"Beautiful shot," you think, and then it hits you that the whales are swimming over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Abandoned, crumbling satellites and a sunken city. And then when we do see the human city, they freak out at the sight of geese:

Animal-derived plague? Global warming? We don't know. We only know that something has happened. But like the general theme, whatever bad has occurred, the natural world is thriving. An unexpected positive from a history of tragedy.