If You're Looking for Inspiration

[liz_marcs]

This morning posted an announcement that I had set up some syndicated feeds of LiveJournal communities for InsaneJournal members.

However, I think it's only fair to give people here a heads-up about these potentially fiction-inspiring comms that focus on abandoned and dilapidated places from around the world (and around your neighborhood).

See, I'm all about bringing the inspiration (the creepier the inspiration, the better).

Please note that all of these comms are very image-heavy and that LJ the cuts do not always spare the Flist

If you choose to watch these comms, you might want to create a special filter for them:

abandonedplaces
This is exactly what it sounds like. Photographs of any and all abandoned places regardless of environment or subject.

deadmachinery
This one features photos of junked machinery, be it abandoned and decaying military equipment, or that junk car by the side of the road artfully hidden by tall grass.

deathly_decayed
Like those creepy, overgrown, abandoned cemeteries? How about crypts and headstones that have seen better days? Well, then, this is the feed that's totally for you.

rundown_town
The purpose of this community is not just to record slowly dying small towns and villages, but also towns that are fighting back and hanging in there for a new revival.

rural_ruin
This community is all about photographs of abandoned spaces and places in a rural environment.

urban_decay
This community hosts photographs of abandoned spaces and places in an urban environment.


Also please note, if you're on InsaneJournal and prefer to do most of your FList reading there, I've already created the syndicated feeds on InsaneJournal that you can join.


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Enjoy!

Comments

[lmzjewel.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for those sites. I really enjoy them. I live in a rural south communtiy and on occasion I run across some old abonded victorian type farmhouses that can really play with the imagination. Get me thinking, Wow! I bet that was something in it's day. Well, anyway, thanks for the sites.

LMZ

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Enjoy! There' a lot there to scope out, for sure.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

How have I missed all these for all these years? I could have a whole new addiction and way of wasting time!

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

*bites wibbling lip*

Have I mentioned I've gotten lost for days on Urban Decay? I adore that stuff. It's, like, a constant reminder of the city I grew up in...and a few abandoned buildings I used to sneak into when I was a stupid teenager.

[nocturnalista.livejournal.com]

I have a passion for old cemeteries. The images on deathly decay are gorgeous. Thanks for the link.

Also: I used your "Mithras is the reason for the Season" comment on the MSN religion message boards. I hope you don't mind.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Actually, that wasn't me that came up with that.

That was the_red_shoes who did that clever thing.

Glad you like the comms!

[bellatemple]

Dude . . . these will keep me very nicely occupied on this sloooooooow day at work.

And, yes, I have now set myself up to watch them all. . . .

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Wheeeee!

Like I said, be careful about them breaking the Flist. Some of the images above the cut can be large, and...this is the fun part...not all the communities enforce an LJ-Cut rule.

But these are gorgeous comms, aren't they?

[bellatemple]

Some of the photography is absolutely phenomenal. There's one image of an old elementary school basketball court with mist and mountains in the distance that's already yelling at me to be used for something. . . .

[yaochi.livejournal.com]

Abandoned Places specifically does not require LJ cuts. Folks can use them but are admonished not to complain when posters don't.

It is however requested that all posts be in English, or when there is text in another language, that it be translated.

[yaochi.livejournal.com]

Heh

You have run across some of my favorite places in LJ

In RL, a lot of my time is spent with camera in the Western U.S. hunting down such places to explore and photograph.

Abandoned Places in particular has been growing like a mutant weed.

The lion's share of the posts there are coming from the USA and Russia.

[iyalode.livejournal.com]

Y'know I pretty much adore you for the deathly decayed link, right? Awesome.

[mcnuggets.livejournal.com]

Hey, your journal was linked to this site I was on, so I checked it out and I have to say, thank you for these sites! I've basically been spending the past few hours going through them, completely neglecting anything else I need to do.

*creeps back to the dark corner it came from*