#post apocalyptic tropes

[get-in-the-carl]

One of my favorite post apocalyptic tropes are the people who were like "yeah I was just doing my thing living my life until the world fell apart and it turned out I was really good at something unexpected"

[plotandelegy]

Crafting Future From Ruins: A Writer's Guide to Designing Post-Apocalyptic Technology

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Crafting post-apocalyptic tech involves blending creativity and realism. This is a guide to help you invent tech for your post-apocalyptic world:

Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Spy: Start with modern tech. Take it apart (conceptually or literally if you're feeling adventurous). Using the basics, think of how your character might put it back together with limited tools and resources.

Master the Fundamentals: Understand the basic principles underlying the tech you're working with. Physics, chemistry, and biology can be your best friends. This understanding can guide your character's resourceful innovations.

Embrace the Scrapyard: The world around you has potential tech components. Appliances, vehicles, infrastructure - how could these be deconstructed and repurposed? Your characters will need to use what's at hand.

Cherishing Old Wisdom: Pre-apocalypse books and manuals are the new internet. A character with access to this knowledge could become a vital asset in tech-building.

Indigo Everly

[gilbirda]

I wish I could bottle the huge amounts of obvious contempt video essayists have when covering topics you can tell they dislike/hate

like. no shade. I get that sometimes making content is what brings the money and eventually you run out of topics that you are passionate about and end up doing videos about things you are indifferent to or even don't like

but like

dont?

maybe don't.

because audience can tell you did the minimum amount of research, you can't help but paint everything as negative; and, for sarcastic essayists, you make fun of something instead of being funny.

[asagi-asagiri]

Post-post apocalyptic with a cover of either fantasy, SF or some combo of both is my jam and the good shit.

[gaybookwormsunite]

Just started reading ‘All That’s Left in The World’ by Erik J. Brown

And the start of the book reminded me of the couple in TLOU

[mazojo]

They’re so domestic

[mittens-10]

hm.

[coolishfoolishness]

Fuck the "humans, when removed from society, become evil monsters because humans are inherently evil" trope. I want the "actually, society is what makes people evil and we'd be better off without it" trope. I want a story in which, when civilization falls, humans realize that tribalism, gender norms, conformity, government, and the economy are all harmful to humanity, and people live happier and healthier lives without them.

[physalian]

“Cheery Music Over An Un-Cheery Scene” speaks to my soul

This isn’t even writing advice but I’ve been binge watching Bright Sun Films’ ‘Abandoned’ series on YouTube (go support his free documentary Closed for Storm about the New Orleans Six Flags) and sometimes he’ll score the opening of his videos with the 70s, 80s, 90s advertisement jingles set over the desolate skeletons of the hotels, businesses, malls, and theme parks these places used to be and I cannot quantify how badly I wish I could achieve the “cheery music over a deeply un-cheery vista” trope in a book.

I’m talking the Buy n’ Large jingle and Hello Dolly belting "Listen Barnaby!" as the camera pans down to a dust-brown Earth, and over trash-cube skyscrapers in Wall-E. Any time “Spirit in the Sky” is used over a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Somber, scene-fitting music on high strings and adagios is all well and good, but the tinny, cheesy vocal tracks from a bygone era we all know, playing over the bygone era we ourselves live in, is a whole ‘nother level.

If I was going to turn this into writing advice, here’s my piece: This works so well because what we see and what we hear are not supposed to go together, emphasizing the power of the combined details. It’s why adjectives are so misused and misunderstood. “She smiled happily” is a useless adjective, as most smiles are happy, but “she smiled woefully” describes a much more intriguing expression. The “woefully” is absolutely necessary to picture the smile, where “happily” is redundant.

This trope will never die, especially as we live to see Wall-E less and less as a warning and more an inevitability. That ‘Abandoned’ series has over 70 episodes all across the US, Canada, and beyond, and it’s still going strong. Go watch it! And then Wall-E!

[smol-blue-bird]

there's a new Disney Fairies book where Tinker Bell discovers a dystopian, crime-ridden city full of fairies who've had an industrial revolution and discovered capitalism!! this is the best, weirdest children's franchise on the planet

[lumpywhump]

OK! That poll I had about my new oc and you guys told me I could share so boom here we are get ready.

tw: mention of death

OKAY! SO! World building stuff! Post apocalyptic! There's this weird black blobby creatures that are made of liquid that roam the earth now! They only are out durning the day bc they're scared of the dark. So if you're out at night with a lamp or something ....boy you gonna be dead so fast. The monsters increase their numbers by turning people into them. Hidden within their blobbyness are teeth. And these work like zombies with this and like people like melt down and turn into a monster instantly. but like yeah this stuff and like the normal everyone is scattered and like society is completely broken down.

Mc!!! Des, hes an absolute king and I love him. He's emo.... which is very inconvenient for how hot the world is now. And he was bitten, but he's still alive? Originally his friends thought he was immune... but he isn't. He's still affected. He's slowly turning into a monster as the days roll by. And his friends are desperate to find a cure. (Heheh I love this bc he loses control of himself a lot bc the monster part of him is trying to attack his friends and he gets sick a lot bc the wound where he was bitten doesn't heal and his body is trying to fight off the infection) He also has issues with other people, like if they find out he's not fully human anymore they would one thousand percent try to kill him.

Haley: Des' best friend. She tries to be optimistic, but that's hard now a days. She feels guilty bc Des got bit when he was defending her. She's willing to fight the monsters, but she doesn't have the stomach for hurting humans, so she leaves that up to Des and Missy.

Missy: she's pretty much like their mom. She would do anything to make sure her kids stay alive, even if it means hurting them. She can be a little too blood thirsty, but it's all to protect her kids right????? (Ps she's also such an asshole❤️)

Joules: Haley's sister MONSTER

The unnamed scientist dude: he's new to the party. He joined when Missy tried stealing med supplies from him and he told her he was a doctor and was willing to see if he could help their sick friend. (at this point they didn't know he was turning into a monster) he was there when Des started coughing up the black liquid of the monsters and they all realized it wasn't any ordinary illness. Scientist is hellbent on finding a cure, his family was taken from him by the monsters and he's determined to find a way to bring them back. He gives us a lot of lab whump with Des bc with his special case he experiments on him a lot to find what's different about him and how to make it strong enough to reverse the effects of the Mother. He's also not the most ethical and is very much willing to hurt Des if needed but he's low key attached to the kids.

The Mother: the original monster. No one knows where she is... no one knows where she came from... she want to spread herself

I love Des he's so emo and he gets so sick and I love how he can't trust himself anymore as the monster takes over him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Plus bc the monsters are scared of the dark, the more the infection spread the more he's scared of the dark and I love it bc it's so sad in the future bc he's so scared and he can't sleep and he's sobbing but he can't have a light, if he did all the monsters in the area would come after his friends)

[captain-legarde]

I always forget how good the second Mad Max movie is til I watch it again

[theeccentricraven]

Writing Trope Bingo (tag game)

Rules: go to BingoBaker and create a Bingo card and/or fill out the Bingo template the person who tagged you provided with and try to get a bingo! Tag others to fill out your card!

Thanks for the tag @buffythevampirelover 😎

For mine, I searched for Dystopian Tropes Bingo card. Low and behold, there were quite a few! I grabbed one of them. I take no shame in following these tropes 🤣

I'm not sure whose WIP's would fit under Dystopia, but if you have any that do, you can use mine above. Otherwise, feel free to make one or grab one from the site. Tagging @winterandwords, @constellationandcompendium, @emberlyric no pressure!! :)

[indigo-a-creeping]

So it's going astoundingly well...

I feel like I'm about halfway through the story. I'll meet Nano's quota in a few days here, but it's gonna be a long one, folks.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Love this.

I think it was before I started posting story concepts on tumblr but I had an old concept called ‘apocalyptia’ which was a dark comedy about a world where every apocalypse movie premise happened simultaneously

[fuzzy-oooze]

I want Blackpowder Engine to be a post-apocalyptic setting with all the tropes of a fantasy setting, I have giant bugs, a myriad of different races, mammoths not being extinct, a dragon (just one), sprawling dungeons fill of zombies (zombots), ghosts (holograms), and cultists (those are real), you can even become a necromancer