The Last of Us Season 2 Covers Only Half of Part II Game Content
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I made some time to watch #GreenlandMovie this last week. I had missed it when it came out. I'm usually a fan of apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic fiction and this movie definitely fits the bill. A comet flys by the Earth and part of it of various sizes start impacting the Earth. Chaos ensues.
It definitely has a lot of tension and suspense. Cast is really good. #GerardButler #MorenaBaccarin I've gotten to enjoy #ScottGlenn lately as the old curmudgen and he does it here faithfully.
I think I expected a little more from it though I'm not sure what. But... I hear there is a sequel planned. It will poke my post-apocalyptic button, so I'm sure I'll see it when it comes out.
Did you see it? What did you think?
💬 What would you do in a fractured world? Share your thoughts in the comments—we’d love to hear from you!
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Hey, everyone! This Ellie. It’s been a bit of a long day and a longer night, but things are quiet and calm as the sun is coming up. So I’ve put our cozy East Coast playlist on and am rambling here to get my thoughts out before I finally pass out for a while. I had an idea to write about the first song that comes up here and any associations that come up with it. The song that came on first was “I Wish I Was The Moon” by Neko Case, an exquisite and warm sounding folky song (I apologize for not being the most articulate at present). Fortunately, I have associations aplenty with this song via my headmate Allēna’s memories.
Allēna with a rather frightening facial expression at age 17, about a decade before we made our East Coast playlist, but just around the time she discovered Neko Case.It All Started In Our Teens
Allēna may have in fact wished she was the moon when she discovered Neko Case in the system’s teens (see: our Tragic Backstory and Lore) but we didn’t discover “I Wish I Was The Moon” first. Instead, Allēna heard a song of Case’s playing on our local public radio station back where we grew up in Texas, “Night Still Comes”. At the time, she was taking a break from writing the story that would later become her science fiction audio drama The Third Prophecy and preparing to revisit her post-apocalyptic novel 2029, which she had written entirely longhand some years prior when she couldn’t access the Internet during school days. As she reconstructed 2029 in her mind, she played “Night Still Comes” on a loop. She played the goddamn thing so many times, in fact, that our brother, Blue, loudly complained about it to anyone who would listen.
2029 and Other Writings
I will put it to you all bluntly, 2029 sucked ass the whole way down. There are no two ways about it. However, it was a fascinating concept she simply didn’t have the skill at the time to execute. Set in the nearish future in Central Texas after a massive solar storm takes out all of the power worldwide, it was chillingly prescient in a lot of ways, especially in light of the recent solar storms in the past few months, and considering that she began work on the story when she was only fourteen!
She also later married a man she had based a character off of, Fang, who was an unhinged Doomsday prepper in the story. This ended up not being too far from the truth. When she revisited the story, however, she drew heavily from “Night Still Comes” and music like it, creating a very dark folk/alt country soundtrack for herself to listen to while she wrote. She followed this pattern for a lot of her later work, as well, using the music she loved to listen to as a tool to help with world building and to unblock her when she got stuck. I believe she made a grand total of four playlists while drafting the first Third Prophecy audio drama that we later combined into one huge playlist.
With the first Third Prophecy audio drama, the musical tie ins went a bit deeper than simple musical accompaniment. While not necessary to understand the plot, several songs did play key roles in helping her shape the setting and determine where the story was going. One such example of this is a town called Sunday. She named the town Sunday in honor of a song she cherished, “Sunday Bloody Sunday” by U2. Now, I don’t want to spoil anything for you, but if you listen to the song and read the script (or listen to it once we have a production of it ready), you’ll notice some, ah, key similarities. These are intentional.
What About The East Coast Playlist Itself? What Is That One For?
If you recall, we’re practicing sorcerers. This playlist is, in simplest terms, a spell. It’s intended to manifest a move back to the East Coast over time. Eight made a mad dash to Philadelphia in 2021 and had to leave pretty shortly thereafter, but we keep getting summoned out there for one reason or another about once yearly and we miss it every day in the interim. So we want to move back there and stay there. The East Coast is home, even though we were born and raised in Texas. We feel like we’re in exile living in the Midwest in the meantime, and we hate it here, to be entirely honest.
Yet, while we’re stuck out here, we are determined to make the best of it to the fullest extent of our ability. And if we hadn’t moved out here, we would have never met our beloved Emerson, so good things come even from shitty situations sometimes. He feels even more like home than the East Coast does, and he makes this place with its overly friendly people tolerable. He’s a very sweet baby.
So three cheers for a very slow acting spell in the form of this delightful East Coast playlist! Hip, hip, huzzah! You get the picture..
In Closing
I hope any of this made sense. Having a brain that feels like it is filled with 85% cotton balls and 15% water has its challenges. Mostly in the form of wet cotton. Oh, hey, “Angelina” by Pinegrove is on, but that’s a ramble for a different day. Now, if you will excuse me, I have a snake themed rager in the headspace to crash attend. I mean, attend. You didn’t see anything. It wasn’t me, I swear!
Stay tuned for more magic (and strange rambles), as always!
-Ellie, Your Faithful Super-Admin
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Peter Heller's #PostApocalypticFiction novel is a bit like "Earth Abides" from George R. Stewart, only with a plane. The plane reminded me of Mitchell Hashimoto (who is licensed private pilot since 2000) from #HashiCorp flying through California in a Cesna. Nice weekend reading.
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I've been editing my story, Howls & Hope, and I finally got to a chapter where I'm making major changes. I'm adding in a party scene where everyone is having a good time. In the next chapter, a whole lot of people are going to die, and I think this addition will make their deaths more poignant. #mywriting #mybook #amediting #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon #mastowriters #postapocalypticfiction
2023 #ShortFiction catchup: This one by @drfionamoore went in unanticipated directions. The billionaire met his deserved fate; I'd have recommended it for that alone.
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#Barbie: Post-Apocalyptic Fashionista - Surviving in Style!
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Here's a picture of my book's full cover with the blurb on the back (for those who want to read what it's about!). Unless you have supernatural vision, you'll need to click the picture to make the blurb larger/readable
Cover art by https://www.genemollicastudio.com/
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I sent my short story off to my copyeditor, hopefully it'll be ready to share with my newsletter at the end of August. Now to continue writing the first book.
Today:
- Work on the first draft of the first book in the new winter series #PostApocalypticFiction
- Start editing the first 15 chapters of the #litrpg collaboration
My review of Everything You Dream Is Real by Lisa de Nikolits is up at Carousel Magazine. http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/usereview129/ #BookReview #Bookstodon #CanLit #PostApocalypticFiction #WeirdFiction #CrimeFiction #CanadianLiterature #SpeculativeFiction #ClimateFiction #Cyberpunk
@reginasbread I saw some takes on this trope recently.
@jannem @schock I am reading this piece of post-apocalyptic fiction right now. Even this gentle depiction – some would say "dull" – requires a little suspension of disbelief when it comes to infrastructure and maintenance of equipment.
#yokohamakaidashikikou #ykk #postapocalypticfiction
2/ For the replacement blog artwork, I needed some #PostApocalypticFiction images. #BingAI kept generating people with faces that weren't even faces-- just huge eyeballs on a body. For the few that had recognizable faces, I was also trying to get it to STOP including guns in people's hands, and my request somehow triggered a safety in the system so it couldn't offer me anything. I wanted NO weapons, and somehow Google's AI took that command to be "unethical." 🤔
One image was supposed to be a lady sitting INDOORS at a desk in that post-apocalyptic society, & it insisted on giving me a female sitting at a desk that was out in open ground. Humanoids with huge eyeballs-for-heads (and guns again!🙄) were standing near the desk, even though I specified it was for a new image & indoors.
I was reminded why I've only used #AI a few times since it went public.
(Believe it or not, these are the best results from multiple attempts.)
2 - Were any of your fictional settings inspired by real-world locations?
All of my post-apocalypse novels are set in and around London and Essex/Hertfordshire because I live around here and love to visualise how the area would look like after an apocalyptic collapse.
23 - If you switched places with the MC, would you survive the story?
Probably not.
The odds of me randomly being underground on that Tuesday at 11AM? Not great.
Which means I would have collapsed, haemorrhaging from eyes, nose, and died.
11 - Does your MC laugh or cry more in the story?
Virginia doesn't cry a lot. She's quite stoic. Everyone she knows has died. She's suffering from migraines and nosebleeds. She's convinced that she's next. That thought is overwhelming.
The End We Saw is about found family, finding inner strength, and as the story unfolds, Virginia eventually finds reasons to laugh again.
7 - What does your MC look like? Share art, pics (face claims), and/or mood boards.
5 - What scents & sounds can be found in your MC's workplace?
On a Tuesday at 11AM everyone above ground dies, haemorrhaging from their eyes, noses, mouth. A few days later, buildings collapse.
They call it The Pulse.
Virginia & her friends have to learn how to survive in a decimated London, living in the back of a van.
Their work? Build a community and trust.
The dominating scent and sound? Decaying bodies & crackling fires.
2 - What is your favorite side character's relationship to the MC? Do they get along?
The gang meets Amira in a London Underground station on the day everyone above ground dies due to the Pulse.
They need to work together in order to survive. Not getting along isn’t an option.
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