when there's no more room in hell

[mimesere]

I'm not fast, but I've got a machete[1] and pretty solid car[2], so I'm pretty sure I'll be okay for making it to the library[3] without being tastybrained[4].

Yes, in fact, I do have an actual strategy for what to do JUST IN CASE the apocalypse happens and I'm not taken out in the first wave. No, I'm not kidding. There's a five gallon bottle of water, a tent, a machete, a first aid kit, a maglight, camp stove, and as many MREs as I could get my hands on in my garage. Partially this is because it is my Earthquake Preparedness Kit and partially this is because it is my Apocalyptic Disaster Preparedness Kit. I know it sounds crazy, but you know what? When the apocalypse comes, I'm gonna be laughing from my fortified house with my emergency supplies and weapons. Not for nothing do I watch Sci Fi Original movies.

In other news, I sort of want to read the epic hooker AU. My problem with it lies largely in who the hookers are. I don't think my selective reading filter is up to replacing that many names. Ponder. annavtree, you've read it, right? Will I like it? I liked the one about the clinic.

goluxexmachina and I did worldbuilding last night for a story I want to write. It was *awesome*. Awesome like an awesome, awesome thing. I love worldbuilding like cake. I love worldbuilding way more than I actually like writing. But I like this story. I like all the stories that live in my head (vampires in Chicago...ooh, vampire hunting shenanigans in LA, the repeating day alternate universe lateral slide, the hive mind, Curt and Byron, Leatherwing and Norrington, cyberpunk LotR, all of them. If I could make the stories go directly on to paper, I would). Anyway, the worldbuilding had all the things I love: horror and California and a sort of apocalypse and California and stoics and violence and grim determination and did I mention California?

That sound you hear? Is the sound of a hundred shuffling zombies moaning their way toward my house. I gotta go.

[1] Would it scare people to know that I really *do* have a machete? I've got two. If I were crazier more prepared, I would have one in my car. Upside: no recoil, does not require ammunition or reloading. Downside: they are not *long* machetes and I am short. If it comes down to facing a zombie, I'll have to get up close and personal. Unfortunately, the shotgun I have is as big as I am. No, I am not kidding at all. My mom knows how to use it. We're a special family.

[2] Good for running over the animate corpses of the undead, decent gas mileage, emergency kit in the back. Come the zombiepocalypse, Rosencrantz will get me to Boston with a few stops to pick up others on the way.

[3] Ah, the weakness in my plan. The library is not easily fortifiable and has many windows. OTOH, it also has many tables with which to block said windows and heavy shelves that can make that solid. Also, is located next to fire department and community building and has nearby source of clean water. Not the best place to make a stand, but not bad.

[4] Blog Like it's the End of the World

Comments

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I think less often about the zombiepocalypse than I do about the global warming apocalypse/peak oil apocalypse, when we aren't being menaced by flesh-eating undead but instead by the self-created collapse of our civilization.

I try and imagine what skills and knowledge I have that would keep me from being killed or enslaved or just plain starving to death once we all have to live without electricity ("Don't kill me! I can make a delicious meal out of just about anything!") How would I get from SF to someplace food can actually be grown? Where there's fresh water? How much toilet paper would I be able to bring with me?

Speaking of travel, I will be in your town Friday night! W00t!

[cyprinella]

I figure I've got horse skills (very, very rusty but there), basic gardening and canning/preserving so that's gotta get me somewhere provided being able to avoid the initial anarchy. My plan has always involved heading out into the surrounding horse and farm country when they decide to nuke DC.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Note to self: overcome horse fear.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Ooh, see, the fatal flaw in my apocalypse survival plan has always been um, my inability to grow/preserve food. I could *learn*, but...yes. I lack those skills!

...I should totally get my mom to teach me.

[cyprinella]

You Grow Girl comes highly recommended by a gardener on my flist.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I think about the collapse of civilization-pocalypse too, but there is far less I can do to ensure my survival of that. I'm a jill of all trades, really, and I pick things up quickly. Plus my daddy made sure I had basic survival training. So mostly I'm good to have around 'cause I don't take up a lot of resources and I can do handy things and 'cause um, yes. It's like Survivor, where the goal is not to be the *best*, but to be somewhere in the middle so that no one feels threatened by me or notices me much at all.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Right, so when the end of the world arrives, I should leg it down to the OC and cozy up with you, then. Because dude, I have zero basic survival training. ::clings::

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*clings back* You are always welcome in my fortified bunker, darling.

(and eeee! soon you will be here! that is much with the yay!)

[donella.livejournal.com]

Several of my friends and I developed a zombie outbreak survival plan last year. My old high school is located by an Army Reserve base. They have a tank. In the event of an apocalypse, we've modified the plan so that my friends (who still attend my old high school) will highjack the tank and pick me up at my current high school. Shall we come pick you up as well? And then crush zombies?

(I also have an Apocalypse Survival Kit. *sniffles* I feel so much less alone!)

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

See, the big problem is that I absolutely need to get to Boston, otherwise I would totally take you up on the tank plan. Because dude, seriously. Tank!

Also, knowing that you have an apocalypse survival kit also makes *me* feel better about having one.

[donella.livejournal.com]

I have a bow and arrows, a sword, two daggers, and a crossbow in my room. (Mostly decorative, except the bow, but they'll do in a pinch.) Also, tank! A bunch of teenagers with no training trying to drive a tank may just be the funniest thing in the world to watch. We'll see.

I was reading some demon related posts in a community dedicated to background research for Supernatural, and someone said something akin to, 'This confirms my belief that when the demonic apocalypse comes, LJ will be the headquarters of the resistance.' Same basic principle here.

[3jane.livejournal.com]

When the world ends, you can use your kit to come up north to me. Then we can raise goats in the wilderness, far from the zombies.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*snuggles* I have to stop in Boston and a few other places first. Is it okay if I bring people?

[3jane.livejournal.com]

As long as they like goats.

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

You've seen the rusty knife in my bathroom? Right? The one for a zombie attack?

[annaalamode.livejournal.com]

You would go kinda crazy with the hooker!AU. I loved it like burning. LIKE BURNING OMG. And I would like nothing better than to tell you you would love it, but I can't. Cause you wouldn't.