#post-apcalyptic

[thedetectivechmilewsky]

There’s always next life.

In a better life I was post apocalyptic hedge knight roaming the wasteland and righting wrongs

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ROUND 1 POLL 23

Mina (@spacedragonstar) vs Zoe (@flishthedragon)

Mina

She/Her

A former housecat in the same post-apcalyptic world as Darkfur. Incredible fluffy, but with sharp claws. She is possesed by a sort-of eldritch horror, which allows her to understand most languages and see things that others don't. She does risk madness with this however and has to deal with the pressure of hearing and understanding the howls of the god that rules the ruined world. Stubborn and optimistic, but with a core of steel. Mina is friends with Darkfur and is the main guide of the group of survivors she belongs to.

She can see who you vote for and will be dissapointed if you vote wrong.

Zoe

She/they

Shapeshifting catgirl

Reasons to vote: candycorn colored, gay, autistic, badass fighter

[encrucijada]

catholicism gothic and the butterfly labyrinth for the title tag pls!!!

catholicism gothic as a concept sprung out during escapril of last year when i wrote the "poem" for the prompt act of creation and captioned it as "catolicismo gótico" as a play of things like southern gothic or small town gothic and the like. it was just some imagery i put together and added some "gothic" elements to (see: blood). here's the thing it's on my 2022 escapril collection

i really liked the imagery! and imagery is 90% of what motivates my writing so i decided i wanted to write something with that vibe. something was intentionally working with the imagery of latinoamerican catholicism but just, make it "gothic". basically write some dark magical realism. the problem was i had no characters or any actual plot, just the ~vibe~. now i still don't have any of that but i... might try to write a chapbook with it?? there are many things i could do with catholicism gothic because it's an aesthetic it's not really a story. the chapbook is about this group of cousins who find a fallen angel in their property's pond one day and decide to lock it away in the basement (or maybe the attic i haven't decided). but i could also do away with the angel plot and simply write a novel about rotten family vibes and just make the images of la virgen cry blood sometimes. many possibilities! i could write them all!

this is all i have for the chapbook so far lmao

as for the butterfly labyrinth, it is the title of my the maze runner ripoff. i love the concept of the maze runner. unethical human experimentation?? set during a post-apocalypse?? awesome. 10/10. if only the books were like... good. i read them all in high school and loved them. then i tried to reread them and never have i fallen out of love so aggressively in my life lmao. the writing was so bad, the dialogue was bad. i think i liked the books because i read them in spanish so when i tried to do the same in english and it was cringe i swore revenge. now: the movies?? i Love the movies. still do, probably always will. the feel and imagery of the movies is amazing. i love the post-apcalyptic outside world contrasted with the sleek look of the w.c.k.d. objectively they're probably not that good but i Love them.

so. with all that in mind i decided i wanted to write a the maze runner ripoff. you know how after the hunger games came out there was a teen dystopia craze? this is going to be my addition to that once that trend comes back. the butterfly labyrinth has a similar set up: scientists are experimenting on kids to find the cure to a virus. except because it's me and i hate zombies (cranks are just zombies lite, i do not like them) i decided to make the virus more... fantasy. so what the virus does is turn people into strange hybrid monsters. they are still locked away in a labyrinth but now the monsters aren't synthetic and made by the scientists (the way grievers are), they are the very same kids of the experiment, except it's those who have succumbed to the virus and turned. so the experiment revolves around examining three groups: the immune, the not immune who aren't infected, and the not immune who are infected and have turned into monsters.

no snippets for this because i haven't done any writing. but if i was to properly commit i would probably make it a duology? one where they are inside the experiment and one after they escape it. oh and it's called "butterfly labyrinth" because the process of transofmation is called metamorphosis.

[loxxxlay]

reading plague of the undead now and while i am NOT into aliens, i am definitely into every single other thing going on right now in this book, just sayingggg

[cryptoriawebb]

‘ You can’t wake up, this is not a dream . . .  ‘

[princess-of-the-corner]

(For Darktor Suess) isn't there a story about Nuclear Warfare? Is this game post apcalyptic. Could explain all the weird shit.

Ah yes the Butter Battle Book.

[stainedglassthreads]

📓📓 Tell us about two of them, friendo

I've always kinda wanted to completely redo one of the very first fanfics I ever wrote. I don't remember much of the plot and I'm not that fond of a few of the characters anymore, but I still love the setting I created and some of the mechanics, as well as a few side characters. It was a PMD fanfic, and I had a lot of fun determining how the moves would work. Maybe I can incorporate it someplace, someday.

I'd also love to write a Pokemon gijinka Nuzlocke someday. I've got an idea for a semi-post-apcalyptic X Nuzlocke where due to events thousands of years ago, no one has died for the past several thousand years, causing it to become stagnant and deathless. The Gym Leaders and Elite 4 are all people who caused these events and have been benefitting from deathlessness all these years due to wielding Xerneas' power, while the rest of the masses can still get sick and starve and suffer in other ways, but not die from it. Due to protag being an incarnation of Yveltal, however, those around them(party members and oppnents) slowly begin to die again, and they go to shake up the world order, destroy the old Elites, and force Xerneas to re-accept death again.

[livingdreaddoll]

Post apcalyptic Photoshoot - Raider by Ronnie - RS Molog Fotografie Model: Anja LivingDreadDoll Vlog video: https://youtu.be/1kC2xK-LmHk Outfit made by me.  The top is made of innertubes with tires and I demolished a candle holder for it’s wire mesh. Neclace is made of a hand truck tire Bracelets are made of  a tin can, license plate and  cardboard. Mohawk is made with feathers, bottlecaps,skull (found it, cleaned it) and porcupine spines ------------------------------ If you want to stay up to date or see more : instagram.com/livingdreaddoll Facebook.com/livingdreadd0ll youtube.com/user/LivingDreadDoll find our wasteland group at : facebook.com/TribeRiot instagram.com/triberiot

[shinieevie]

oho boy

that sounds awful

not only surviving a post apcalyptic world but also living through an existential crisis..

as a RAT

alright so what if you were a person who's consciousness got put into a rat via nuke radiation so now you have to survive in the post-apocalyptic wasteland while also grappling w/ your newfound ratness. what would u do

[infinitaregna]

Movies: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Verdict: By now, everyone’s already heard (if they haven’t seen) how amazing of an all-out-action-spectacular this movie is. So I probably don’t have to go into that here.

And, yes, to a very large degree, I concur with the masses. The action was astounding, the look of the movie amazing and the world-building was wonderful. Never before, to such an extent, have we seen such effort put into fleshing out the look and feel of post-apocalyptic-Mad-Max-Australia (or, wherever these films are supposed to take place).

But, honestly, for me, it went on too long. And I didn’t really find the story all that compelling. You could have just shown me the first 20 minutes, and I would have left the theater a happy camper. 20 minutes of bombastic car chases/stunts and a brilliant, visual tour into the world of Mad Max were really all I needed. After that, I got a little bored. And I found the notion of these young women just trying to get to the ‘green place’ to be a little, well, honestly, uninteresting. But those are all pretty minor complaints for what is a pretty well done action flick.

So, at the end of the day, this movie managed to avoid that most egregious of all sins that, ultimately, I tend to judge movies by in these dark days of cinema: despite some very minor reservations, it didn’t piss me off.

However...

That’s just concerning the movie itself.

As for some of the typically asinine and horrifically ignorant rhetoric surrounding this movie’s release for other reasons...

Most notably, this comes in the form of critics and audiences hailing it as some sort of ‘landmark event in feminist cinema’. I don’t really get that. Sure the story was about rescuing some female sex slaves from a big meanie, and, yeah, Charlize Theron is certainly capable of playing very strong female characters. But did any of that really get in the way of the 120 minute car chase? Not really. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with any of those elements. I just don’t see why they are being heralded as the next great wave in feminist politics.

What I find truly disturbing is the more obvious fact that, living in what is still a profoundly sexist and misogynistic society, we fall all over ourselves to crown something as feminist when it only barely displays the most superficial outer trappings of feminism.

Really?

We’re setting the bar that low now?

Rating: Above Average (I’d say ‘good’, but I’m giving ‘Above Average’ out of spite for all the “feminist” nonsense

Sci-fi Elements: Pretty good world-building gives a nicer, more detailed view of ‘post-apcalyptic-Max-world’ than we’ve ever scene before. But, honestly, that only comes at the beginning of the film. And after that, it’s just car chases all the way down...

Approximate Studio Theatrical Take: 111M loss upon release 

Rotten Tomatoes: critics - 97%, audience - 85%

ps. to read a review infinitely better than this one, that I still (mostly) agree with, check out film-critic extraordinaire, Eileen Jones here: http://inthesetimes.com/article/17960/actually-mad-max-fury-road-isnt-that-feminist  

[kurgy]

One of my ocs is a drug addict with possible BPD welding a baseball bat with nails in it who fucks a oc of my fiance's whose basically a post apcalyptic Roman.

my oc Luc is bipolar and weilds a variety of weapons ranging from crowbars to mini chainsaws

[fotzepolitic]

movies of the month

Day of the Triffids

I expected a lot of scifi spectacle but this focused more particularly on the survival of society afterwards. Befitting a television production of the late ‘70s this makes perfect sense. This being a vastly more effective choice which helped create a pretty accurate picture of how a post-apcalyptic nation would act. At this rate in 2017, I’d take killer plants over global warming but it’s interesting (read: scary) how the series managed to cover both as a consequence of the other.

Oklahoma City

PBS really nailed it with this chilling but thorough overview of McVeigh himself and his ancestry in white supremacy.

Serial Mom

Who doesn’t want to be murdered by Kathleen Turner?

Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee Kids

I came into this without listening to very much JT music beforehand. The music and showmanship was pretty cool. I have to say I really loved whenever his back-up dancers were onstage tho. Two of my favorite parts were documentary-related however: in the beginning as they prayed before the concert (easily the best example I’ve seen captured of prayer on film) and the crew at the end setting up the stage.

The Manchurian Candidate

Now this was the terrifying movie that I thought Silence of the Lambs would be. It’s a pretty tense thriller throughout but those moments when it goes from uncanny to surreal are especially unnerving. Those trademark Demme close-ups being an especially effective bridge amongst those registers. Something else I loved were the cuts to tv pundits and the campaign graphics which added to the off-kilter tone. I really feel Southland Tales could have been a better film if Kelly had watched this remake closely because they share a lot in certain aims.

Stop Making Sense

I still can’t get over how audacious a live concert as a theater piece this manages to be. I still so rarely see mise-en-scene with such personality.

Master of None (Season Two)

My favorite episodes: Thanksgiving and New York, I Love You.

I also read a few very interesting film essays:

Emily Yoshida on male (e.g. Berman, Lynch, Altman) directors’  fascination with the female persona swap film. See also Miriam Bale covering even more ground.

Jack Graham’s great obit for John Hurt where he focuses on the ever present ambiguity and vulnerability in the actor’s work.

Rich Juzwiak on race (well, it’s lack of as the characters are “guided by [their] whiteness”) in Ghost World.

[kulottesketchbook]

HEY LOOK IT’S GRIMM !!

FIIINNALLY !! I had to draw him for a RP group we made with friends, since september ! aND I FINALLY DID IIIT !! And I’m super happy with the way he looks !! That crazy bastard :I

eNJOY !

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[livingdreaddoll]

Post apcalyptic Photoshoot - Raider by Ronnie - RS Molog Fotografie Model: Anja LivingDreadDoll Vlog video: https://youtu.be/1kC2xK-LmHk A first result from the wastelander shoot with RS Molog Photography. I finished my outfit just in time, even though I had some outfit malfunctions during the shoot, so I need to fix that (like the fact that my top popped open at the back when I picked up my weapon..oops), I never said I was good at making clothing :)

And I made my first feathered mohawk. I want to finish 3 more in April. But it still needs a lot of work!! And not sure how to explain it in english, but everthing that I make is lacking of..uhm a finishing touch. I’m not good in making things pretty. But hey, it’s the apocalypse after all..

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