spacetwinks:

like i’ve been thinking about zombie fiction for the last month or so and all these things about it that frustrate me and leading me more and more to being so frustrated that it makes me wanna write my own damn thing and one of the things that’s eating me is, like, the tautological way zombie fiction stuff carries itself? that in this scenario, suddenly basically everyone will be out to kill each other save for small, shabbily formed groups, and the only communities that end up being semi-stable are almost constantly fascistic because blah blah blah “only the strong survive” and because it’s in control of the narrative it gets to present that in that sort of tautological way that’s so goddamn frustrating

anyway rick grimes should die

American zombie fiction is mostly an excuse to retell frontier narratives in a modern setting - a small band venturing into the wilderness, building civilized society, all while fighting off/exterminating the savage hordes. I’m honestly a little surprised I haven’t heard any tales set in a universe where where zombieism IS (or is rumored to be) reversible so you could do a captivity narrative.