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One of my favorite topics to discuss in apocalyptic stories is how would the environment would fair, particularly animals (This thanks to ''Aftermath: Population Zero''). By the time there's a global disaster and civilization collapses, so what animals will survive the post-disaster world? Which species will surely had become extinct? How will animals adapt and evolve to deal with our actions to the planet?

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The virus is spread by blood to blood contact and usually takes three to four hours for the symptoms and sulfur to manifest. It is a demonic Virus created by the demon Crotoa.

The infected become homicidal to non infected, cutting themselves on blades and dousing their bullets in their blood to infect others.

The infected are capable of using weapons like any normal person, and are smart enough to appear not infected to their targets so they'll let their guard down, going so far to make themselves pathetic to garner sympathy. There is no cure

The Virus is the devil's plan to finally wipe out Humanity, so not only will you be dealing with Infected but demons also

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So I'm writing a short story for one of my classes about the aftermath of an apocalypse - a disease that wiped out most of everyone on Earth. The assignment was to rewrite the ending of the novel we read. Anyway, keep in mind that the disease is not transferable - it feeds on nostalgia and routine, then puts people in a vegetative state until they inevitably wither away (infected are harmless btw). It takes place in a metropolitan city in the northern midwest US area (Chicago, I think). What is the ideal survival group while still being realistic? Location-wise I'm thinking of an abandoned high school. Let's be so fr who in their right mind would want to raid a high school when everything went to shit? It still probably has a ton of useful materials (food, first aid, space) big city schools will also have more of everything anyway. The group should probably consist of a healthcare worker, an avid gardener/botanist type, a home-ec teacher could def be resourceful, and maybe a mechanic, but beyond that what else could be useful? What can the average person do???

My first one, it’s really exciting, I promise it’s an awesome read from start to finish. Currently self published on Amazon, free to read if you have kindle unlimited!

Is anyone else just ready to get it over with? I've been reading and watching a lot of apocalyptic fiction. Instead of building a sense of hope, or learning to love what I have now, I've kind of going the other way. I've kind of decided that there are too many people and a "hard reset" on society is needed to make things better. It might be time to turn it off and turn it in again to see if it works.

I'm not suicidal or homicidal. I don't wish ill will on anyone in particular. I'm not depressed or lonely and I haven't given up on life. I just think a giant metor might be a net good for everyone.

Okay, since a Solar Flare (along with WW3) is the current threats facing humanities survival, due to a Carrington Level solar flare cause the destruction of all circuitry, would that mean Nuclear Powerplants would go into meltdown mode since the failsafes are now destroyed? And should we buy gas masks to be safe?

So This October, we Saw Three auroras in unexpected places such as central Europe and there was Even that Green tint visible. I am starting to be afraid that as this solar maximum is supposed to be strongest over 165 years and now auroras are on simply daily basis. We might give goodbye to our modern technology and experience Return into ancient medieval times and dark age, where first more than 90% of people will die in northern hemisphere due to hunger and deseases and survivors experience Wars far worse than WWII and on daily basis. There could be theoretical return of Viking invasion that will not be Only on coast but Deep inside a Europe and parts of eastern America. And we know Last viking invasion felt like Alien invasion from fictional stories. Reason Why I am saying because Scandinavia has still surviving Viking tribes up to this Day just like we have neo nazis, but unlike us arresting associated with supporting Nazism and Russian communism and occupation in Ukraine, Scandinavia hypes these vikings like America hyped psychedelics Last year now experiencing backlash. So I am afraid of the worst if Carrington event Will came. How likely it is going happen? Few months Old studies said that risk of Carrington event is up to 12% per two years, but that was because auroras were as common as per 2 and three months, and now we have 3 auroras per begining of the October, up to today in unusual places. That is really horrifying. Is risk of Carrington event Rising and auroras are sign of it getting more likely? Because I don't want to return to ancient medieval times as it was worse than hell from Abrahamic mythology.

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This is probably a stupid question, but while sitting in my room I randomly thought about how I've never really heard any apocalypse media talk about this and I'm genuinely curious. According to Google there's over 20,000 prescription drugs available in the United States, but without pharmaceutical scientists making more in the event of an apocalypse wouldn't we eventually run out? Especially considering how people would probably hoard what they can at the start, and what medicine is perishable after a certain amount of time, wouldn't we eventually run out of all man made medicine???? And how long would that take to happen???? If anyone could give me any sort of answer I'd be really interested in hearing it.

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So , you believe the apocalypse is coming. What are the 3 signs that you are looking for? What kind of apocalypse do you predict?

I live in the san Diego area an am trying to make a bug out bag In the case a civil war happens I don't think its likely to happen but It still might so Im making a bag that will last at lest 5 months for me to get into living off the land so what would be a good gun for hunting animals like deer and wild pigs and smaller stuff

So your in a super market where going outside titans will turn you to stone but before that a creepy employee asks you this same apocalypse as a hypothetical but you answer jokingly what would you say

What is better for an apocalyptic situation? Me and my friend are in an argument because I said that mechanical engineering is more useful than a doctor in the case of an apocalypse. My argument is that yes general first aid knowledge is needed but you do not need to be a doctor to have this knowledge. A doctor would be good in a surgery situation but there are many different specializations of doctor and most likely there wouldn’t be a specific doctor nearby to preform your specific surgery and even if there was, you would need months to heal and in a survival situation you don’t have months, you need to be on the move scavenging and fighting. His argument is that a doctor can save your life and that if you are out healing you can depend on others to take care of you. He also says that parts would be hard to find to make innovations. So my question is, who is right, would a doctor or a mechanical engineer be more useful?

Me and my friend are in an argument because I said that mechanical engineering is more useful than a doctor in the case of an apocalypse. My argument is that yes general first aid knowledge is needed but you do not need to be a doctor to have this knowledge. A doctor would be good in a surgery situation but there are many different specializations of doctor and most likely there wouldn’t be a specific doctor nearby to preform your specific surgery and even if there was, you would need months to heal and in a survival situation you don’t have months, you need to be on the move scavenging and fighting. His argument is that a doctor can save your life and that if you are out healing you can depend on others to take care of you. He also says that parts would be hard to find to make innovations. So my question is, who is right, would a doctor or a mechanical engineer be more useful?

I scrambled out of the shower to write this in my journal. Because to me, safe self-expression is everything...but we say and express so much online instead of in a physical medium that can easily be at least looked at.

The Romans used pumice stones to inscribe on tablets. This is why we have a huge amount of information about daily Roman life as well as the fact that they wrote plays and many many such plays are actually extant.

Stone is much more immutable than, say, parchment. Which is one reason why there is an absolutely gargantuan amount of poetry and writing from the 1500s that is not extant. Upon looking up William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe recently (and their compatriots), very little is actually known about their lives in most cases in no small part because things were written on something writable that wasn't hugely durable over large periods of time.

Fast forward to now. Everything online...except for hospital and insurance bills. We do so much speaking and share so much of our lives and trials and tribulations online. So, when the servers die (incidentally, huge amounts of data from hard drives from the 90s—and more recent--are being lost because the drives are finally failing and no one migrated most of the data), when this civilization as we know it ends, when the bombs drop, whatever happens....so much of what we say will be lost.

What will archaeologists find? The stuff that didn't perish through time or action.

I may print this out.

(Also, is there another sub suitable for this post? I thought about r/writing but I'm not sure)

I'm binging Fear the walking dead and watched TWD when it came out. I've been thinking about how to build defenses that could stand up to very large numbers of walkers.

Anyone have ideas or know where I could find something like this?

I’ve been thinking about recent films like Leave the World Behind and Don’t Look Up and how they seem to hint at bigger issues, almost like Hollywood is trying to convey something more profound. Do you think these movies are meant to direct our thoughts towards real-world concerns, or is it just a reflection of societal anxieties?