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[madethistocomment]

Tumblr loves their "humanity is dying out, everything is plant-covered ruins and I'm owning a tiny garden uwu" scenarios (aka "soft apocalyse", which is an atrocity of a phrase by itself), so they can't possibly realise how fucking bad it gets.

I think the idea of a ""soft apocalypse"" has merits in both aesthetics (I personally am weak for the look of nature taking back the land) and plot. The question of "what happens after the apocalyptic event is over?" feels somewhat unexplored in media (I'd love to be proven wrong, though,) and the idea of people rebuilding society from scratch and relearning everything is a fun one to play with.

What a lot of the people on tumblr seem to think it would be like is that everyone's farmers and they're all peaceful and they all sing kumbaya and nobody is hurt ever again, when in reality it'd be more like a period peice set in the Bronze Age at best with the aesthetics of the modern era. There would still be fighting, killing, and death, since humans are still humans. But there would also be rebirth and discovery and renewal, and that contrast of those struggling to survive while life flourishes around them is what has always attracted me to the "soft apocalypse" concept.

Tumblr just likes it because "plants pretty and people nice" though, nothing deeper.

 

[AnOminous]

I think the idea of a ""soft apocalypse"" has merits in both aesthetics (I personally am weak for the look of nature taking back the land) and plot. The question of "what happens after the apocalyptic event is over?" feels somewhat unexplored in media (I'd love to be proven wrong, though,) and the idea of people rebuilding society from scratch and relearning everything is a fun one to play with.

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. is one of the few novels to tackle the subject in depth and it was in 1961. The kind of YA crap tumblrinas read wouldn't be able to touch it.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

The question of "what happens after the apocalyptic event is over?" feels somewhat unexplored in media (I'd love to be proven wrong, though,) and the idea of people rebuilding society from scratch and relearning everything is a fun one to play with.

You just described the entire genre of post-apocalyptic fiction, from film to video games to books. Saying "this is unexplored" is ridiculous, there's a separate genre name for it.

 

[AnOminous]

You just described the entire genre of post-apocalyptic fiction, from film to video games to books. Saying "this is unexplored" is ridiculous, there's a separate genre name for it.

The vast majority of it is just Mad Max shit without any real rebuilding, though.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

The vast majority of it is just Mad Max shit without any real rebuilding, though.

Some of it. Even something as mainstream as the Fallout series shows you the multitude of ways society can reform, from Mad Max raiders to people trying to rebuild democratic government, to monarchic feudal society, to religious fundamentalist sects.

 

[madethistocomment]

You just described the entire genre of post-apocalyptic fiction, from film to video games to books. Saying "this is unexplored" is ridiculous, there's a separate genre name for it.

By "What happens when the apocalypse is over?" I meant immediately after it's ended, not 50+ years after the fact. Sorry for the confusion.

Half of the "post-apocalyptic" fiction out there seems to actually be set in the middle of a long, ongoing apocalyptic event, and the other half just sort of skips multiple decades or even centuries into the future and doesn't even show the rebuilding shit, which is what I was mostly talking about.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

By "What happens when the apocalypse is over?" I meant immediately after it's ended, not 50+ years after the fact. Sorry for the confusion.

Half of the "post-apocalyptic" fiction out there seems to actually be set in the middle of a long, ongoing apocalyptic event, and the other half just sort of skips multiple decades or even centuries into the future and doesn't even show the rebuilding shit, which is what I was mostly talking about.

I feel like you're splitting hairs here. What's the functional difference between "a long ongoing apocalyptic event" and "immediately after it's ended"?

 

[madethistocomment]

I feel like you're splitting hairs here. What's the functional difference between "a long ongoing apocalyptic event" and "immediately after it's ended"?

Take a zombie apocalypse, for example. Despite being labeled as 'post-apocalyptic', works involving a zombie plague are always set during said zombie apocalypse, when all the zombies are still alive and in hordes and acting as unstoppable killing machines.

'Immediately afterwards' would be after the zombies are all dead, preferably in the first few years- not technically immediate, but in terms of recency compared to a setting like Mad Max: Fury Road or Fallout, which take place decades after the apocalyptic event ends, it's pretty damn recent. You get to ask questions like "How do people pick up the peices? What do they do? Do they still fear there might be zombies out there? If they don't, how do they react to suddenly being in a ""normal"" world again?" and other fun questions. It's a transitional time period and that's what makes it so interesting to me.

 

[PT 522]

I feel like you're splitting hairs here. What's the functional difference between "a long ongoing apocalyptic event" and "immediately after it's ended"?

"Long ongoing event" = ex. a plague, it doesn't kill everyone and ruin everything immediately, and never really "dies" (the black plague still kills people today), but still causes damage on and around its peak. Other examples include years-long war, a rash of natural disasters, etc.

"Immediately after it's ended"= the apocalypse can be summed up to have occurred on one specific day or short period of time as opposed to over time, e.x. a 5km meteorite hit earth on September 5th and our stoey starts on September 20th with people scrambling to survive and rebuild. Other examples include nuclear weapons and everyone suddenly dropping dead for seemingly no reason.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Take a zombie apocalypse, for example. Despite being labeled as 'post-apocalyptic', works involving a zombie plague are always set during said zombie apocalypse, when all the zombies are still alive and in hordes and acting as unstoppable killing machines.

'Immediately afterwards' would be after the zombies are all dead, preferably in the first few years- not technically immediate, but in terms of recency compared to a setting like Mad Max: Fury Road or Fallout, which take place decades after the apocalyptic event ends, it's pretty damn recent. You get to ask questions like "How do people pick up the peices? What do they do? Do they still fear there might be zombies out there? If they don't, how do they react to suddenly being in a ""normal"" world again?" and other fun questions. It's a transitional time period and that's what makes it so interesting to me.

Read the unabridged version of Stephen King's "The Stand".

 

[fishercat]

Read the unabridged version of Stephen King's "The Stand".

I like how in The Stand people go right to being back on their bullshit even after 99.99% of the world's population was wiped out.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

I like how in The Stand people go right to being back on their bullshit even after 99.99% of the world's population was wiped out.

That was the point

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

I like how in The Stand people go right to being back on their bullshit even after 99.99% of the world's population was wiped out.

The human condition, man. It's in our genes.

 

[Childe]

 

[ProgKing of the North]

The middle one was in first person, constituting a break of character. 0/10, no internet points for you, Napoleon.

 

[fishercat]

That was the point

And that's why I liked it.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

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why does this person exist and who convinced them they were funny

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

It's because your pubes stink, that's why.

 

[Elpizo]

 

[Gingervitis]

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One, this would work better on the Social Justice Warriors thread.

Two, when was Captain America ever black? The new Blade didn’t even come out yet (and with this management, I doubt it will be better than the original movies). And what the hell is locs?

Three, at least post a link to the archive of the twitter link so we dont have to search around like cavemen.

How to kick out Nazis from the Government, Austrian style!

What America can learn from a younger democracy

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