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I saw this post on tiktok and as soon as I opened the comments I started sobbing

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That last post I reblogged is funny and I'm not arguing with it, but I do actually think in many cases zombie media is justified in not using the word "zombie".

When you're writing a zombie story, you have to decide if zombie media exists in that setting. Unlike vampires or werewolves, zombies in their modern conception are pretty new to the horror genre, so it's not that wild to think, (taking The Walking Dead as an example) that Night of the Living Dead never existed to kick off the subgenre.

Most zombie media deals with the early days of an outbreak, so it makes a lot of sense that you wouldn't want those characters to already know, in broad strokes, what they're up against. If the characters call the monsters zombies, it can be assumed they know (or at least would have some conception) of things like, "I have to destroy the brain" or "these people are dead and cannot be cured." You lose a lot of story potential if your characters don't have to figure these things out from the ground up. Personally, a game I like to play with zombie media is keeping track of corpses, because characters will often do things like leave their dead buddy unattended in the next room because they don't know to be wary of him reanimating.

There are ways to get around this, like if you plan on subverting tropes in a big way, or if the story is set far enough after the initial outbreak that the learning process isn't a factor, or if you want to skip past the learning process to focus on other story elements. These are all things I like to see in zombie media! But I also like to play "count the corpses", and if genre-aware characters are leaving bodies unattended, that's just ridiculous.

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can u imagine if other pieces of media were as scared of calling their monsters what they are as zombie media is about calling zombies zombies

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just remembered that no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

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OKAY HERE'S WHAT I'VE BEEN KEEPING UNDER WRAPS SINCE LIKE MARCH LMAO

Iron on patches, Ninth House style! :D featured here is my first three attempts, it seems I forgot to take photos of the final product that was sent off to my friend, but you get the idea.

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Oh i am birthday drunk, which is a special kind of drunk i think

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Love the idea of fortified wine. We wanted wine that would get you drunk more efficiently

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Every year every single year this post reminds me that sonic and i share a birthday and its a suprise every time

ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on

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I'm 28 today!

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"I didn't have high expectations of this book because I'm not a big fan of storytelling..." I want to study the mind of this Goodreads reviewer

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I love media where a bunch of guys go into a cursed place where everything is fucked up, and then one by one they become fucked up. Love their little journals like “Day 28… Hector is worms now. Beginning to question our mission??” 

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🎃🍉🎃🍬🎃 Happy Summerween! 🎃🍉🎃🍬🎃

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Does he have ridiculous sideburns? Does he die a gruesome death? Is he on screen less than ten minutes total?

I spent a full day making this "Guess who? (is stuck)" The Terror game! Inspired by countless conversations about how hard it is to tell these dudes apart on first watch (and endless shitpost ideas with @merlintintintin ) This was honestly a lot of work, and now I really want to play it! I hope you'll find this cool, I'm personally really happy with the result! Would you play it?

I added Silna because I feel like the two boards kinda represent Terror & Erebus, and she's stuck here with these horrible dudes. Definitely more of a thematic easter egg rather than practical gameplay choice ahah.

To make this I bought a My Little Petshop Guess Who game (I liked the colors) second hand, took forever to cut out all the characters and color grade the pictures on photoshop (this serie is SO DARK, i'm thankful for the official pictures by Aidan Monaghan I also used), made the cards backing mostly using some designs I had already made, and then printed and cut the whole thing by hand!

I may share the template for this later on, if anyone is interested!

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Ooo yeah this has a lot of good stuff!

You know how it is with spaghetti

ok starting a picrew thing bc its fun!!! make urself using this picrew ^__^

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