this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2024
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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.

Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to [email protected]

Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to [email protected]

Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Edit: OP updated the image, so the below no longer applies.

Original comment:

The image on the right is not the interior of the structure on the left. The right is a photo of an initiation well (also at Sintra).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Fuck. Let me edit it, then.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Those pictures are not of the same tower. The one on the left is indeed the swamp tower of Pena Palace, but the one on the right is the Inverted Tower in Quinta da Regaleira. Both in Sintra, Portugal.

Nonetheless both are amazing by itself! (And the whole Sintra region)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Ah, Liurnia of the Lakes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I feel like I've seen this in an anime movie but I can't place it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Makes me think of Shadow of the Colossus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

It looks like it's grabbing it's cheeks like in Home Alone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Have a wallpaper of this, never knew what it was until now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

In an alternate reality where Trump was held accountable for his crimes, the seized Trump Tower would be renamed Swamp Tower