Post-Apocalyptia

In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.

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The autopsy theater near the morgue in the basement of New Orleans Charity Hospital. 

[mgnovenija]

[wnyc]

A Rare Visit to One of New York’s Abandoned Islands

[bullit1987]

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[inaclearing]

from Half Life, by Eddo Hartmann

[awaywardmind]

[madnessisjustthebeginning-blog]

Having trouble coming up with your own post-apocalyptic hero(ine)?  Try out this generator! I tried to include options that would help with building both the character and their world.  I’d love to check out what you make with this generator if you wanna tag it “characterdesigninspiration”!

To Play: click and drag each gif or take a screenshot of the whole thing.

I thought this was just for us in general at first without having read the writing, and got the awesome result. And then read the writing and was like: it’s even BETTER.

[shaboogami]

Draw 3

[silentgiantla]

The 40 Most Breathtaking Abandoned Places In The World

[derek-graves-deactivated2017052]

is it horrible if 68% of me hopes for an apocalypse of so these catch on as a thing?

i mean

[televandalist]

[yeahiwasintheshit]

love in the time of chernobyl

[nybg]

(via Photos: Inside The Abandoned Boyce Thompson Institute : Gothamist)

There’s something especially beautiful and eerie (if not slightly depressing) about abandoned greenhouses. This slice of botanical history in nearby Yonkers, NY is an interesting read with some arresting images. Of course, it makes me grateful that we take such scrupulous care of our historic structures here at NYBG, and of course our own Conservatory is aging much more gracefully. ~LM

[zdravomilla-deactivated20220114]

Yonkers!

[matadornetwork]

Are these ruins Sochi’s future?

In 1984, the very first Winter Olympics taking place in a communist state was held in the unique and remarkable city of Sarajevo — then a thriving metropolis in the now-defunct host nation Yugoslavia, now the modern capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2014 — 30 years after the Sarajevo Winter Olympics — the seaside Russian city of Sochi also held the attention of television viewers, in the way only a former communist nation in a world entranced by Western media can, as it played host to the XXII Olympic Winter Games.

Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore, except in the minds of Yugo-stalgic lovers of all things Tito. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a democracy. Russia has given communism the flick, moving toward a decidedly more corporatocracy. And the cities of Sochi and Sarajevo share something else in common — an abandoned Winter Olympic site. As Sochi begins its inevitable decay, perhaps the abandoned Winter Olympic bobsled track high on Mount Trebević above Sarajevo will be an eerily accurate bellwether for Sochi’s Imeritinsky Beach.

At the time, a record 49 nations participated in the 1984 Winter Olympics. Tens of thousands of spectators covering Mount Trebević cheered on the brave Sarajevo bobsled and luge competitors, as they raced down the 1.3km track at speeds of over 100 km/h, in snowy, blustery conditions. For several years after the Olympics, the Sarajevo bobsled track was used for world cup competitions. And then came the rub. When 1991 rolled around, the ugly and complex Yugoslav wars commenced, and the Olympic bobsled location was utilised by military forces as an artillery position.

More photos

[stregaforest]

postapocalyptic forest elf par n-nyx utilisant sac à dos en toile

[mentalflossr]

38 Bleak Photos of Abandoned Shopping Malls

[loviattaraphotography]

Victorian asylum – abandoned hospital, Scotland, part 4/x

[magictransistor]

OCD Approved Fall Out Shelters; Family Radiation Survival Sets and the Lafayette “Mighty” 9-Transistor Portable Radio (Instruction manual included), c. 1961.

[laughingsquid]

Photography-Based Adventure Series Roaming Focus Explores a Remote Abandoned Prison in Ontario