Hmmm... (Not Rabbithole!)

[stevieannie]

I was endlessly amused to get an email from a good friend about my Rabbithole posting. "Grim", was pretty much the judgement.

I laughed a little, as it was a funny post (complete with shocked smiley - like this :-0 ) and then reread the posting to see how right the friend was.

I suspect I may be walking at right-angles to the rest of humanity here, as I actually thought it was quite an upbeat posting! OK, it's set after a Nuclear War, but the war didn't affect us here in the UK - (apart from killing our chickens and cutting down on strawberry production). We're not dying from fallout (one of the nastier ways to snuff it, I can tell you), and apart from some large scale loss of life in rioting (entirely predictable in cases of global political change) we're just getting along with things in a different manner.

But then, this is from the woman who collected pictures of dead people to use in "Call of Cthulhu" games, can tell you ranged survival rates for 1990s nuclear weapons (I lost track when I left the industry in 1995 or so) and thinks that "The Last Samurai" has a happy ending.

Maybe I'm just odd.

And that thought makes me happy :-)

Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

You are odd. But you're odd in just the precise way that I personally adore. :)

[guyelfkin.livejournal.com]

Odd? You?

Absofragginglutely!

But I thought it was way upbeat for a post-nuclear survival scene

Teddy

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

I think "Wyndhamesque" might be the word.

[deborah_c]

Actually, Wyndham was exactly what I was thinking of when I read it. Which, given he's one of my favourite read-and-reread-and-reread again authors, is high praise, I think.

[billroper]

Yup. Rebirth, most specifically.

[oreouk.livejournal.com]

Oh it was, it's just the concept that we might find ourselves living in a post-apocalyptic world in our lifetimes that I find grim. It's like you and newspapers, I just don't want to go there. Says the woman one of whose favourite books is a post apocalyptic one, but it's an exception!!!

Meh - I'm sorry Annie!

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I thought it was quite positive. But I'm a miserable bitch :)

(I did have to stop reading a novel called 'Children of the Dust' which was about dying of nuclear fallout. Made me feel too ill to continue.)

[bardling.livejournal.com]

Well, a post-apocalyptic setting is dark, in a way, simply by implying an apocalypse happened. It is also light, if humanity survives. In your short piece, you do, and as you said, in a not-too different, if more basic manner, and clearly with a sense of humour.
I found the storylet different & interesting.

But then, I'm probably just odd, too, given I agree about Last Samurai & liked things like The Tribe, as well, although if your piece was a series, I'm sure I'd much prefer it for greater realism! (And no, I'm not a great fan of Cthulhu - well, except for one very special little black feline one - or zombies/horror in general. Otoh, I laughed loads at Shaun of the Dead... )

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're normal like most of my friends, and in mathematic 'norml' meand "at right angles to everything else". I thought that post was pretty upbeat as well, because it was saying that even though nasty things happen "we will survive" (to almost quote the song). And if anyone can do it, I'm betting that you and Tim would, possibly not exactly as you describe but not far off. To borrow a phrase, your story is "after the dawn", it's been dark but it's now getting lighter...

[stealthgoth.livejournal.com]

Last Samurai was a happy ending. Anybody that says something different so doesn't understand the samurai concept and should just shut up.

Just because one person didn't like the post doesn't mean it was badly written or anything.

Imagine this:
JRR Tolkien is sitting in a pub and having a beer with some of his friends and is talking about this book that he is writing. One of his friend says that that Elves, Dwarfs and Hobbits don't exist and that as a professor of English Literature he should keep to academic writing and stop this nonsense.
Tolkien goes back home and throws all of the stuff he had written in the bin.

You can't please everybody.