this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
17 points (100.0% liked)
Imaginary Wastelands and Ruins
723 readers
1 users here now
Art of Post-Apocalyptic, Destroyed, or Post-Post-Apocalyptic Settings
Guidelines
- Titles should be in the format
"[Title]" by [Artist]
- If adding the artists social media handle after their name, use [square brackets]
- If adding a year after the title, use (parenthetical brackets)
- If posting your own art, preface the title with
[OC]
- Please include the original source in the post body
- This community is meant for showcasing artists' work - this excludes
- AI generated artwork
- Screenshots from films or games
- Submitting the link from the original source instead of downloading and rehosting is recommended
- This will ease server stress on smaller lemmy
- /!\ Many mobile apps don't generate previews unless the url ends with a common file extension /!\
- Therefore, if possible, please strip all parameters after
.png, .jpg, etc.instances
- Mark posts as NSFW when necessary (nudity/violence)
You may also like:
Welcome to the imaginary network, the best^[citation needed] place to share artwork
Full Network:
Do you have a community that you think should be part of the imaginary network?
Comment under the pinned post; or
message me on matrix!
lemmysphere icon: "Fireplace" by Dmitriy Bessonov
lemmysphere banner: mad max concept art by Pontus OlofssonPlus.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
ah see now this one i personally would have put in !imaginarydegradation
it's not unsuited to here, but to me it looks more dilapidated than abandoned^?^
I think I've gotten a better feeling for the distinction, but the "yet inhabited and populated" part still tricks me.
You could argue that the garbage bags are very recent, so it must be inhabited, but when there are no people visible I default to this community.
fair enough, it is conjecture either way
perhaps pre-apocalyptic vs post-apocalyptic is a better distinguisher? and i'd say this looks pre; but it could be recently post and the electricity's still running. so i won't fault you for being confused
i mean there could be people in a wasteland (exempli gratia) even though it's clearly post-apocalyptic, so i guess that was bad advice to give you
Hehe, personally that seems more confusing. With "inhabited" at least there is something specific to look for (people). Judging if something is pre or post apocalyptic, while allowing abandoned stuff to be pre-apocalyptic, feels more difficult.
I think I will try to focus on the other explanation you gave me:
It would have worked with this post.
sorry :(
yeah that's fair, that's why i do accept it's conjecture. i just go by the kind of "feeling" of the piece, but i know that isn't exactly something you can use
i've also just noticed i used "built from scratch" and "scratch-built" as opposites in that comment, which i imagine also isn't hugely helpful..
Don't worry at all. Understanding the difference between genres is part of the fun :).
Oh... I didn't notice. Now I'm not sure I understood it correctly. What I though you meant is:
Did I got it correctly?
yeah you did, don't worry
it was just a small semantic feature i happened to notice. i'm impressed you managed to get my meaning even though i apparently used the wrong phrase, though [edit: or possibly i didn't, i guess]
I am not a native speaker, so I tend to interpret things... sometimes even correctly :D.
Thanks for the explanations!