I can’t believe there are zoms on this route! What am I paying people for!
I used to love the Pettson och Findus (Pettersson und Findus) books as a kid - and still do - and always wanted to try the style. The wackiness of ZR makes a good fit, I think!
Had the opportunity to do this commission for my dear friend @tazzy-zooming !!!! It's her Runner Five, ready to kill zombies and then do some crazy dancing :3c
so i was relistening to some of zombies run and like
we're at a point where there is a cure for the zombie virus, but it's not a vaccine and it doesn't cure you if you were bitten a while ago - it's just to be used immediately after being bitten, and the zombies are very much still a threat, including other, newer strains of the virus
anyway so a character was literally like 'well we have the cure so the plague is over forever now and i don't have to take reasonable quarantine measures against someone with a new strain because they're not real oh no i just got my face eaten by a new zombie and now i am also a zombie how could i possibly have seen this coming'
and i'd love to call this heavy-handed satire of our current times
i've downloaded zombies run & i'm three missions in & enjoying it so far, but it's also so Tragically and Hilariously clear how much this story was written in 2012. and how it was also less interested in subverting genre expectations than making you move your body (very fair!! given that that's what the game is designed for!!)
the two most egregious things in these first three eps are:
1. i was paired for a run with a coughing woman who insists she "just has a bad chest cold," and even though the camp supervisor firmly establishes that coughing is THE FIRST SYMPTOM of an infection, i'm instructed to go out running alone in the wilds with this lady. who's coughing. so much.
she keeps being like "it's just a cold 💕" while refusing to let anyone examine her and i'm like. YOU GUYS DONT HAVE QUARANTINE PROCEDURES?? PUT HER ASS SOMEWHERE AWAY FROM THE REST OF US?? DUDE??
2. it's then established that everyone at the camp is suspicious of me because other camps nearby have been torched after being visited by shady-ass secret-keepers very similar to myself. but i'm still allowed to roam around and do supply runs like it's nothing. the NPCs just mutter mutinously about me and make allusions to how i'm gonna get everyone killed.
PUT MY ASS IN QUARANTINE?!?!? DON'T LET ME LEAVE WITHOUT ANSWERING QUESTIONS??? WHAT???? YOU GUYS HAVE GOT TO GET A GRIP?!?!?!
the lack of quarantine, safety, and hardass procedures would be excusable if this was a hippie commune or solarpunk future or whatever, but it is Not. this is an AMC's walking dead style deal where the only people more dangerous than the zombies are the non-zombies.
so i'm like.
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE LAST RUGGED BASTION OF HUMANITY. WHAT ARE YOU DOIIINGGG.....
If you like queer fiction and are into post-apocalyptic stories then PLEASE check out this book. I recently discovered it and it's my new favourite thing but it is not nearly well known enough. Its like the walking dead but without the zombies and more gay pining 🤣
It's funny, heart-warming, emotional and very gay. I literally devoured it in 2 days, even with a full time job. It really spoke to me in a way I can't communicate, It was like a book I didn't know I needed. I only wish I never had to finish it.
I think it's a crime that more people haven't had the pleasure of this book, so if you can, I cannot reccomend reading it enough.
IT'S NOVEMBER ONCE MORE AND THAT MEANS IT'S TIME FOR THE ZOMBIES, RUN! SECRET SANTA EXCHANGE!
You read that correctly - the time-honoured tradition is back and you can now sign up for the 7th ZR Secret Santa!
And we know - you'll be used to seeing these posts from @runnerzero, who started the ZR Secret Santa a frankly shocking seven years ago. Zero's been snowed-under busy this year so this year @delucadarling and I are taking over the posting duties in addition to helping out with the behind the scenes part as we usually do.
Entries are open from now (right now, actually) until December 1st - at which point we'll shut down the form and get to work assigning each of you a gifter and a recipient.
Gifts can be art, fic, a combination of both, graphics, compositions, interactive fic, playlists (so long as the playlist is complementing something else!), or whatever you think will bring some joy.
SIGN UP: https://forms.gle/ERzeAQBzN8yLP2916
The only rules are to keep it secret, and spend some time on it!
Dates!
December 1st: Sign ups end!
December 2nd: You recieve your secret santa recipient
December 24th: Entries due! Post em here, send em direct to your recipient, do both! Up to you.
December 25th: We post all the entries in one mammothly festive post (if you'd like to be included!).
If you've any questions, concerns, confessions feel free to message me or @delucadarling here or on Discord.
zombies run: it's a zombie apocalypse, like half the world is dead, and the only music that survived is folk music, show tunes, and stuff a 14 year old emo was listening to in like 2012