I do NOT WANT TO WRITE THIS WEEK. I love ghosts, but I will have to postpone the ghosting. This week I’m going to talk about… er.. uh…. why I like zombies so much!! Not my usual dead people, but they’re still dead! That’s morbid, but I know you guys don’t care about morbidity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to start this with the fact that the most realistic zombies are The Last of Us’s zombies, but I will be talking about the more known zombies akin to The Walking Dead and like Dawn of the Dead. They’re my favorite breed of zombie because the writers focus more on the world building and the characters rather than trying to make the zombies unique. This isn’t always the case, but from what I’ve seen that’s usually what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dead people just wandering around. I don’t think enough zombie media expresses how terrifying that would be. Honestly, I think with the way social media works these days the most recent generations are somewhat desensitized to the idea of people dying because of the early exposure to things like Instagram reels where you can see people being executed or YouTube where you can find literal recreations of these situations. It’s saddening and distressing, and I think it takes away an innocence that would make these types of zombie media more terrifying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You’re walking down the street and you see someone who’s literally decaying just strolling towards you. I think written zombie media, which doesn’t really exist all that often, is the scariest because it can go deep into the feeling of the characters and the description of the zombies. With shows like The Walking Dead and All of Us Are Dead, you see the zombies so often that they kind of become less scary and more cartoonish. Not in a literal way where their costuming changes, but again it’s a desensitization. The only think I can think of that has stayed consistently scary is the 28 Days Later series. We see them less often, and their ability to keep going is just EW. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you get into a zombie apocalypse, literally what would something like homophobia do. Genuinely, hey, there’s a dead lady over there that wants to eat anything that’s still alive. Who cares if I kiss boys, brother we are gonna DIE. I appreciate the way these pieces of media show people letting go of their phobias and isms until they find somewhere peaceful. People causing problems for themselves after so much fighting for everyone to stay alive is so interesting to me, and I think apocalyptic situations are such a good way to show that these are purely human concepts instead of instincts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The instinct is to survive, that’s the base of us all. Shows where the big bad starts as zombies are able to explore these concepts so well in my opinions. I’m not saying that these concepts can’t be explored in different ways; I’m just saying that this way is one of my favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Man, I feel like I didn’t say much this week! I mean, that’s around 500 words so it isn’t nothing, but it feels like I could’ve done more. Didn’t have the energy to do so though. I might go more into these thoughts another week. Anyway, I hope everyone had a good Easter Break. ByeBye!!<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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