#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....

[simsontherope]

Over the years, I’ve built tons of lots for my save. However, some won’t make it into the final version (coming... maybe in a year or two!) and I don’t plan to renovate them.

I’ve been tidying up my blog to remove content I no longer use, but I wanted create an archive of these older builds in case you’d like to download them. So here’s a little recap post!

I’ll provide a link to the files for each lot, but you can also find (most of) them in the Gallery with my EA ID simsontherope.

And feel free to browse through my other creations!

Académie des Arts Obscurs

Location:  Glimmerbrook, Rock Ridge Canyon.

Info: Residential, 30x40 lot (40x50 for the Magic Realm version), 6 bedrooms (9 beds) and 4 bathrooms. 

Download the files for the Glimmerbrook version: SimFileShare

Download the files for the Magic Realm version: SimFileShare

Chaumière Maudite

Location: Glimmerbrook, Creek Side Corner.

Info: Haunted House Residential, 30x20, two bedrooms and one bathroom.

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Cabane Ensorcelée

Location: Glimmerbrook, Glimmerbrook Watch.

Info: Residential, 20x30, one bedroom and bathroom.

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Les Marches

Location: Windenburg (Crumbling Isle), Von-Windenburg Estate.

Info: Residential, 64x64, 5 bedrooms and 4 bathroom.

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Écarlate et Carmin

Location: Selvadorada (Puerto Llamante Marketplace), Selvadorada Villa.

Info: 30x20 lot, residential or rental, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.

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Chapelle des Deux Astres

Location: Willow Creek (Pendula View), Hallow Slough.

Info: Bar, 20x30.

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Charmant Cottage

Location: Henford-on-Bagley (Finchwick), 5 Cobblebottom Street, Henford-on-Bagley (Old New Henford), 3 Olde Mill Lane for the empty one.

Info: 30x20 lot (40x50 for the empty one), residential, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.

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Grange en Ruine

Location: Henford-on-Bagley (The Bramblewood), Cordelia's Secret Cottage.

Info: Residential, 20x30, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom.

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Secret Enfoui

Location: Brindleton Bay (Cavalier Cove), Hindquarter Hideaway.

Info: Residential, 20x30, 6 bedrooms, 4 bathroom.

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Café des Brumes

Location: Evergreen Harbor (Grims Quarry), Miner Mansion.

Info: Café, 20x30.

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Rêverie Abordable

Location: Evergreen Harbor (Grims Quarry), Rockridge Springs.

Info: Residential, 20x30, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom.

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Fin des Temps

Location: Strangerville (Plaza), Slip 42.

Info: Residential, 20x15, 1 bedroom and bathroom.

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Dans l’Air du Temps

Location: Britechester (Gibbs Hill), Mossy Lane.

Info: Residential, 20x15, 2 bedrooms and one bathroom.

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Un Temps Révolu

Location: Britechester (Gibbs Hill), Spring Steppes.

Info: Residential, 20x15, 3 bedrooms and one bathroom.

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Château de l'Ormyeu

Location: Windenburg (Windslar), Dresden House.

Info: Residential, 64x64, 6 bedrooms (including one for the butler), 6 bathrooms.

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Vue Dégagée

Location: Evergreen Harbor (Conifer Station), Pigulock Manor.

Info: Residential, 30x20, two bedrooms and one bathroom.

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De Briques et de Broc

Location: Evergreen Harbor (Conifer Station), Canal Corner.

Info: Residential, 20x15, two bedrooms and bathrooms.

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Au Fringant Destrier

Location: Britechester (University of Britechester ), Darkwing House.

Info: Residential or University Housing , 20x30, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Download the tray files: Residential or University Housing

That’s all for now! But I might add more builds here in the future if I decide to retire another lot.

[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...

[scavengedluxury]

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

[hostile-hostelry]

Hello! I’m Hostile I’m new in town. I’m an aspiring writer, artist, therapist and current pizza guy and college student.

Projects I’ll Eventually Post About:

Kingdom of Samael

Yet another piece of bible fan fiction but one where Hell does not exist in the normal form and instead The Devil was sent down to Earth, and where the unholy souls will stay instead of ascending. It’s just as problematic and dystopian as you’re thinking of.

New Millenium

Blatantly inspired by a hyperfixation with Urban Fantasy, this is an upcoming serial where the classic vibe of early 2000’s supernatural fantasy is celebrated and lovingly torn apart by an ape with a typewriter.

MGB, AKA Ascension

Dark fantasy that attempts to recreate the feeling of an early medieval peasant stumbling upon the ruins of a great Roman city and having no fucking clue what they are looking at.

Blood-Letters AKA Red Letter To Russia

A love letter to post apocalypse and finding joy in hard places.

Weird Dresden Files fan thing

DNI: Creeps, bigots, minors

[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.

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Sing To God (Intro) • All I Have • The Weather • MacbethMacbethMacbeth • Ruins • Dresden • WHTHR (Interlude) • Will & Testament • Former Glories / Bruising (Reprise) • Last Night's Glitter

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[mickpro]

The ruins of Dresden 1945 (photographer unknown)