Amusement, pondering.

[xyzzysqrl]

That "New Years Resolution" random generator (over here if you want a link) came up with some decent, sensible ideas for me.

In 2009, xyzzysqrl resolves to...
Buy new good eats.
Keep my mecha clean.
Eat more bad movies.
Cut down to ten dragons a day.
Put fifty working designs a month into my savings account.
Go to the zombies every month.


Speaking of zombies...

Okay. In zombie movies, you have some guys, and they get eaten at the end of the movie, and then another group is all "oh no hide in the mall" and they get shot and eaten, and then everyone escapes, but they really die in the end, etc...

I've been idly pondering what happens AFTER all that. The best I can come up with is a society of animated skeleton people who are all faintly embarrassed about the whole "brains!" thing in their youth.

Either that, or decomposition into mush and a massive surge of plant life cumulating in a massive amount of extra oxygen released into the atmosphere. I'm talking Ray Bradbury "Green Morning"-esqe shimmering curtains of oxygen here.

Thus I'm finding it increasingly hard to see the zombie apocalypse as a BAD thing, given the enormous environmental effects it could have, or the possibility of a society of adorable bony people.

This is what I get for idly sitting up reading the TV Tropes "Nightmare Fuel" page at 4 AM. Bedtime now.

Comments

[relee.livejournal.com]

It depends on if the Zombie Plague is confined to humans, or if it jumps to other species. Zombie Dogs are becoming pretty common in zombie fiction. The Zombie Zoo that produces Zombie Boss Monsters like the Zombie Lion, the Zombie Elephant, and the Zombie Elk is also pretty scary.

It also depends on if the Zombie Plague is affecting living organisms, like a rage virus, or if it's only affecting necrotic tissues. Living zombies are basically animals, so once civilization falls, they start to act like any other animal. Sometimes they're so sick that they don't reproduce, so they just go crazy and infect people then starve to death. Necrotic zombies are already dead, so it depends on the strength of the reanimation. If it stabalizes their body, they could live untill something destroys them. If it doesn't, then they'll continue to rot while they're walking around, and eventually fall apart. If it doesn't last, like one of those zombie 'one night stands', they all fall over together at once.

You're right that they would likely fertilize the world quite significantly, but there are only so many people in the world. If the zombie-producing force also activates plant growth beyond the normal fertilization of humans, then the plants would blow up in huge growths. What happens then depends on if the zombie plague jumped to other species. Of course, it also matters if the plants become infected with the zombie plague, producing giant monster plants. Then Godzilla would rise from his tomb at R'yleh and conflagrate the globe in atomic fire. If it was just humans, the animals and plants will take over, and then the octopods will rule the world.

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Something occurs to me--do they ever show the non-human zombies as being *infectuous* to anything other than humans? I've seen the Zombie Zoos in games, and it never seems like they're spreading anything--they're all either one-offs, or purposely created by a human zombie, necromancer, or mad scientist.

[relee.livejournal.com]

They had vampire-zombies like that in the movie I Am Legend. The disease had jumped to certain species.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the army comes in and saves the day, though. Especially when it's a local zombie plague (like 28 days later or Resident Evil) and not worldwide.

[ss-ebonclaw.livejournal.com]

your 12 days of christmas are better.
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/12days.php?user=xyzzysqrl

and yes, the post-zombie-apocalypse is something they need to focus more effort on. as the soft tissue is worn away and whatnot, they'd start losing their bones. It'd be cool to watch THAT movie, where the last few remaining humans have to basically outlive the zombies, and hope they don't turn to skeleton zombies.

[xyzzysqrl]

I think I posted that a few years back.

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

Yay, Good Eats! Alton Brown could make a documentary on how to prepare and serve cold cereal interesting! :D

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

You mean he hasn't already? One of his eps that I'm most likely to ever *try* myself was the one on good old macaroni & cheese...