#The Ruins of Dresden

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Ruins of Dresden :: 1945

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“Steer your way past the ruins of the altar and the mall Steer your way through the fables of creation and the fall Steer your way past the palaces that rise above the rot Year by year, month by month, day by day Thought by thought

They whisper still, the ancient stones The blunted mountains weep As he died to make men holy Let us die to make things cheap And say the mea culpa, which you probably forgot Year by year, month by month, day by day Thought by thought”

―Leonard Cohen, “Steer Your Way”, from the album “You Want It Darker”, 2016

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[scavengedluxury]

Ruins of Taschenberg Palace and Dresden Castle (Residenzschloss), Dresden, 1982. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[stillunusual]

The ruins of Warsaw in 1945 falsely portrayed as a picture of Dresden after allied bombing Source: https://twitter.com/Roger_Moorhouse/status/1663510800927956994?cxt=HHwWhICxldCQ_ZUuAAAA The bombing of Dresden in Germany by the western allies in 1945 caused significant damage to the city and 25-35,000 casualties. However, the image posted by this Twitter user isn't of Dresden and it doesn't show the aftermath of allied bombing. It's actually a picture of Poland's capital city Warsaw, after its total destruction by the Germans during the Second World War. In other words - wrong city, wrong country, wrong perpetrator.... The image is taken from a short film called "Miasto Ruin" ("City Of Ruins"), which was commissioned by the Warsaw Uprising Museum, and shows what the bleak landscape of the destroyed and depopulated city looked like from the perspective of a flight over Warsaw in the spring of 1945. Nazi apologists and holocaust deniers have often used highly inflated estimates of the destruction and death count resulting from the bombing of Dresden in an attempt to establish some kind of moral equivalence between the war crimes committed by the Third Reich and the killing of German civilians by allied bombing raids. However, even these exaggerated tales pale into insignificance compared to what the Germans actually did to Warsaw and its population from 1939 to 1944. It's a shame that people seem to be more interested in the former than the latter....

[anamelessfool]

On July 16, 1946, the doors of all the Altarpieces of the Satanic Church of the Void inexplicably opened on their own. It was a Tuesday and luckily the Sanctum spaces in which they are housed are supposed to be locked when unoccupied. Despite the fact that these doors had been tied with the traditional red silk ribbon, they strained against their lock and the Cosmic Tear could be seen by any unfortunate soul who looked upon them. There was, of course, two unfortunate casualties. Two lovers had slipped into the Sanctum space in Kraków and there was no time to look away. Their remains were found the next day, two hearts inexplicably beating on the Sanctum floor.

There was a third casualty found a decade later: in Linkoping, a cat's beating heart under a cabinet near the Altarpiece. The poor animal must have hidden away in fear and dissolved there.

At the same time, there were reports of "Black Suns" hanging for a few minutes above major Church sites: above the Abbey at Milan, London, New York City, and the ruined remains of the Abbey at Dresden. These "Suns" were explained by magicians decades later as reflections of the Void's energy and did not cause any direct damage; although it did send some curious onlookers towards the sites and ultimately boosted clergy ranks.

Magicians studying the immediate effects of the mass opening of Doors discovered that said Doors were open for thirteen minutes exactly, then all closed. International corroborating evidence points to complete synchronization of the strange event.

Before then there had not been an en-masse Opening since October 31, 1517 and there has not been one since.

Original photo of Total Solar Eclipse over Corning, NY. 1925.

[iphisesque]

Iphigeneia haunts the ruins of Troy — 25.05.2023

[Iphigenia in Aulis, tr. Charles R. Walker; The Fall of Troy, Daniel van Heil; Dresden's ruins in WWII]

[silver-screen-divas]

Soon after Gardner arrived in Los Angeles, she met fellow MGM contract player Mickey Rooney; they married on January 10, 1942. The ceremony was held in the remote town of Ballard, California because MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer was worried that fans would desert Rooney's Andy Hardy movie series if it became known that their star was married. Gardner divorced Rooney in 1943, citing mental cruelty; privately blaming his gambling and womanizing, she didn't ruin his on-screen image as the clean-cut, judge's son Andy Hardy that the public adored.

Gardner's second marriage was equally brief, to jazz musician and bandleader Artie Shaw, from 1945 to 1946. Shaw previously had been married to Lana Turner. Gardner's third and last marriage was to singer and actor Frank Sinatra from 1951 to 1957. She later said in her autobiography that he was the love of her life. Sinatra left his wife Nancy for Gardner, and their marriage made headlines.

Sinatra was blasted by gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, the Hollywood establishment, the Catholic Church, and by his fans for leaving his wife. Gardner used her considerable influence, particularly with Harry Cohn, to get Sinatra cast in his Oscar-winning role in From Here to Eternity (1953). This role and the award revitalized both Sinatra's acting and singing careers.

The Gardner-Sinatra marriage was tumultuous. Gardner confided to Artie Shaw, her second husband, that, "With him [Frank], it's impossible...It's like being with a woman. He's so gentle. It's as though he thinks I'll break, as though I'm a piece of Dresden china, and he's gonna hurt me." During their marriage, Gardner became pregnant twice, but aborted both pregnancies. "MGM had all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies", according to her autobiography, which was published eight months after her death. Gardner filed for divorce in 1954, and the divorce was finalized in 1957. Following their divorce, Gardner and Sinatra remained good friends for the rest of her life. Of the support Sinatra gave Gardner, Ian McKellen commented that "If you have been married to Frank Sinatra, you don't need an agent".

[ruin-swifeband]

Idk why but i feel like Ruin would listen to My Alcoholic Friends by The Dresden Dolls ngl

[alena-draws]

Phew, I’ve uploaded some concept art on Twitter, breaking my chain of endless fanart with some professional seeming stuff, and I wanted to show you here, too:

These are sketches for the concept art I’m doing for my master thesis project! I’ve got 2 main settings in my hypothetical 2d movie, the Forest and the City, and I wanted to work out the visuals of the forest by going for some atmospheric drawings. Overall there is only few light shining through the branches, so the deeper and lower you are, the less light from the sun is there, until only mushroom will illuminate the area. I wanted to give it this vast, eerie feeling. Though at the bottom of the forest, you will find the ruins of the old world on which it is rooted, and the heart of the fungi network, a rather magical looking place that I wanted to make the setting for the finale of the story. I will make one properly worked out illustration for that place and then get back to the city, before I lose too much focus of my time frame that I still have left..

(for the fungi core, the bottom drawings, I am referencing the Kulturpalast Dresden, a philharmonic hall with quite interesting architecture! It fits perfectly with the stage and the different layers of the seats!

(on another note: everytime I look at other amazing art/movie references I get another cool idea how or what I want to do. I recently watched The Emperor’s New Groove and let me tell you, every background in that movie is just soo amazing, and the movie works so well with these stylised bgs, that I got the idea: Maybe I could go for smth more stylised, and not try to make the scenery seem so much like a “real” room, but more think about how the characters could be placed in it and then think about creating the better effect. Know what I mean? The more I learn and see the more I find out how little I know about this, but it’s all interesting and fun to work out! I just wished I had more time, not really needing a result in..uhm 2 months. *sweats* )

[josefavomjaaga]

Napoleon about Laure Junot

A letter I came across in the newly published correspondence on Napoleonica.org (thank you so much for pointing this publication out, @joachimnapoleon!). It's written shortly after Junot's death.

To General Savary, Minister of the General Police Dresden, 7 August 1813 I approve of your arrangement with the Duchesse d'Abrantès to designate a country where she can retire and live from now on. You will let her know that, having been governess in Paris, having behaved badly there, having disrupted her family's affairs in such a way as to ruin it and leave her children without bread, it is time for this to come to an end and for her not to be spoken of any more.

This strong emphasis on financial affairs and "bad behaviour" by the duchess (read: her sexual affairs) makes me wonder if dear Laure, when she enriched her memoirs with the dramatic scene of Savary breaking into Junot's safe to take out his private correspondence with Napoleon, may not have left out a tiny bit of information about other stuff he looked for...

[probablyasocialecologist]

Citing estimates of damage to urban areas, military analysts say the destruction of northern Gaza in less than seven weeks has approached that caused by the years-long carpet-bombing of German cities during the second world war. “Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne — some of the world’s heaviest-ever bombings are remembered by their place names,” said Robert Pape, a US military historian and author of Bombing to Win, a landmark survey of 20th century bombing campaigns. “Gaza will also go down as a place name denoting one of history’s heaviest conventional bombing campaigns.”

Whole neighbourhoods have been levelled. By December 4, more than 60 per cent of the buildings in north Gaza had been severely damaged, according to analysis of satellite radar data by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University. That rises to as much as 70 per cent of buildings in some districts. Across the whole of Gaza, between 82,600 and 105,300 buildings have been left in ruins, according to the estimate, which counts buildings where at least half the structure was damaged. By contrast, over the space of two years, between 1943 and 1945, the Allied bombing of 61 major German cities razed an estimated 50 per cent of their urban areas, according to Pape. One US military review from 1954 estimated 7,100 tonnes of allied munitions were dropped on Dresden, severely damaging 56 per cent of non-industrial buildings, half of homes, and killing about 25,000.

[mickpro]

The ruins of Dresden 1945 (photographer unknown)

[scavengedluxury]

Ruins of the Frauenkirche, Dresden, 1971. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.    

[charlies-a-ghost]

hi nerds intro posts

im a strange man from the woods here to partake in some henious activity and make bad art

witchcraft practitioner

based in northern california

certified cryptid

I like writing (poetry, short stories, music, novellas), reading (dystopian, horror, graphic novels, comic books, victorian gothic, sci-fi), acting, fencing, archery, art (mixed medias, i do a bit of literally everything), foraging, punk diy, taxidermy, dissection, astrophysics, I speak french and ASL, i have 5 cats and a dog and a lot of shiny rocks i collect, I play mainly electric and acoustic guitar, but also bass, piano, cello, ukulele and kalimba. I have synesthesia as well as a plethora of issues like severe anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, autism, adhd, POTs and hashimotos disease I can NOT catch a break. puppy punk but i like to involve myself in a plethora of subcultures so also goth and emo

i love making friends so if your a minor (don't wanna be talking to adult creepazoids) hmu!! dms are open be nice to me im sensitive

bands: my chemical romance, beastie boys, maneskin, ghost, nirvana, ac/dc, fall out boy, pencey prep, green day, peirce the veil, the ramones, the smashing pumpkins, the smiths, the talking heads, the linda lindas, the strokes, car seat headrest, pixies, the front bottoms, sir chloe, leathermouth, gerard way, the cure, david bowie, opal in sky, freddie mercury, queen, frank iero, siouxsie and the banshees, nine inch nails, sisters of mercy, bauhaus, mindless self indulgence, lemon demon, will wood, gorillaz, ayesha erotica, mitski, jazz emu, tom cardy, joan jett and the black hearts, jack stauber, dead kennedys, christian death, black flag, weezer, black sabbath, metallica, blink-182, iggy pop, i set my friends on fire, she wants revenge, like moths to flames, misfits, ozzy ozbourne, the cramps, skindred, social distortion, dresden dolls, the killers, the peggie's, the runaways, the taxpayers, the used, yaelokre

books: the ash house, scythe, Frankenstein, edgar Allen Poe, ready player one, do androids dream of electric sheep, carry on, 1984, the hobbit, lord of the rings, James herriot, renegades, lockdown, diary of Anne Frank, the true lives of the fabulous killjoys, umbrella academy, paranoid gardens, animal farm, handmaidens tale, the right stuff, maze runner, the giver, fahrenheit 451, brace new world, hatchet, the poison thread, the ruins, the watchers, nimona, dracula, interview with a vampire

musicals: beetlejuice, mean girls, hamilton, heathers, ride the cyclone, six, le mis, little shop of horrors, phantom of the opera, newsies

tv shows, movies and video games: saw, silence of the lambs, a quiet place, midsommar, nimona, the owl house, the umbrella academy, young royals, little nightmares, omori, detention, room of old sins, mechanarium, cozy grove, animal crossing, inside, squid game, the platform, bird box, Alice in borderland, girl from nowhere, breaking bad, demon slayer, death note, black butler, don’t hug me I’m scared, seven deadly sins, the promised neverland, the amazing world of gumball, adventure time, Minecraft, legends of Zelda, fnaf, Fiona and cake, gravity falls, more I’m forgetting

[deutsche-bahn]

Anwärter für schlimmste Bahnhöfe: zunächst wäre da der Bahnhof Reichenbach (Vogtl) oberer Bahnhof. Das Bahnhofsgebäude ist gefühlt einen Kilometer lang, aber im Grunde eine Ruine und gesperrt. Die Busse fahren genau auf der anderen Seite ab, was jedesmal einen 500m Sprint von jedem verlangt, der rechtzeitig seinen Anschluss, oder den SEV erreichen möchte. Denn auf dieser Strecke gibt es SEHR viel SEV ._. (RE3 zwischen Dresden und Hof). Unter anderem aktuell zwischen Chemnitz Hbf und Chemnitz Siegmar. Der RE macht diese Strecke normalerweise in 5 Minuten. Der Bus braucht 15 min. Aber da man für so eine Lappalie ja nicht den Takt ändern kann, dürfen Umsteiger dann die restlichen 45 Minuten auf den nächsten RE warten. Und das an einem wundervollen Bahnhofskunstwerk: der Bahnhofsruine Chemnitz-Siegmar. Alt, bröckelig, vermoost, alles voller Graffiti. Um dem geneigten Reisenden den Anblick zu ersparen ist im Inneren alles mit Spanplatten und Infotafeln zum Bauprojekt abgedeckt. Es stinkt derbe nach Pisse. Durch einen Tunnel und eine Treppe gelangt man zum Bahnsteig - natürlich ohne Überdachung, was den Reisenden bei Regen oder Hitze wiederum dazu zwingt, die Wartezeit im Tunnel zu verbringen. Laut DB wird dieses Arrangement noch für etwa einen Monat andauern, nachdem es jetzt bereits seit einem Monat läuft. Glücklicherweise muss ich die Strecke nun nicht mehr pendeln.

Dem ist absolut nichts hinzuzufügen. Mein ehrliches Beileid. Alt, bröckelig und vermoost trifft übrigens auch auf unsere Verwaltungsetage zu.

[thegothicviking]

I did get a little overboard with the Rammstein shopping...but it was worth it! ❤

🔥2 x shirts

🔥2 x patches

🔥 Dresden Tour poster (with all the dates)

🔥 ZEIT earrings

🔥 limited edition signed Rammstein cards

🔥 Rammstein logo handwarmer

🔥 "Football-team-ish" Stadium 2024 scarf

🔥 Toiletbag/makeup bag

(with lots of pockets!)

🔥 And the best of all: Limited music box that plays SONNE (still unopened in the little/half long box above the toiletbag). I don't know if I ever want to open it?? I'll be afraid to ruin it once I finally get my own place!