#apocalypse thoughts

[random-xpressions]

And if the world were to end today:

I couldn't do much, but I did my best. I couldn't have asked for more, but I couldn't thank enough

Random Xpressions

[ghoulchantsister]

It’s kinda funny when people try to talk me out of apocalyptic thinking about the world. Like, here’s the thing: I was raised Pentecostal. I remember watching videos in church and at home about the rapture and the final judgement, videos in which the pastor on the screen would say things like, “There’s a good chance that, by the time you see this, I will already be gone, taken up in the Rapture.” I used to read the Book of Revelation over and over again, in church and at home.

So it’s funny when people think a single conversation is somehow going to undo, ya know, years and years of eschatological indoctrination and rumination.

[blankbetamax]

Could someone please beta read our current reality/timeline before the next update? Whoever is writing it clearly needs help.

[quizerini]

Technically speaking, Anyone can Outrun a zombie, becuase Theyre Slow fucks who Chase Brains cuz they Have a lack Of Their own

[boldlyawkward]

How much is it going to mentally torture the people who shower 1-2 times a day when the world is in ruins and they can’t do that.

[theplaguebeast]

Apocalypse Thoughts

Raid pawn shops and antique stores, there's a lot of weirdly good stuff in both and no one seems to think of them when discussing places to knock over.

[ecantwell]

'Christ,' Jackson said, 'I don't know how you two can stand going into these places.' 'Well, we don't go into public bathrooms, for starters,' August said. 'I just wanted some soap.' 'Yeah, but it's a dumb move. Someone always got executed in the bathroom.' 'Yeah, like I said, I don't know how you stand it.' We stand it because we were younger than you were when everything ended, Kirsten thought, but not young enough to remember nothing at all. Because there isn't much time left, because all the roofs are collapsing now and soon none of the old buildings will be safe. Because we are always looking for the former world, before all the traces of the former world are gone.

Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

I love the way you can read this moment in a fictional post-apocalyptic America as an analogue to this moment in present America. The way that readers like me, who are also younger than some were when everything analogue and familiar ended, but not young enough to remember nothing at all, search and search for places of refuge from the digital landscape we all now inhabit—the connected-media-smartphone-wifi-hotspot-iCloud world that has, slowly but surely, grown like an invasive vine over everything we used to rely on.

(Sometimes I try to drive somewhere new without Google Maps, just to prove I still could do it. The days I fail, the days I have to pull over and look up the address after all? Those are the days I try the hardest to do something with my hands, to go for just a few hours without relying on the new skeleton of our planet.)

[trylch]

One infected dog bite's a mailman and three months later yolo is the shortest pickup line of all time