It's REALLY TELLING about the Millenial generation that their escapist YA fantasy is about being forced to fight to the death by elites.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Nobody wants to get picked at the Reaping. Our fantasies have switched to being about surviving the apocalypse.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
@BootlegGirl I read somewhere once about a correlation between down economies and zombie fiction popularity2 replies 2 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @tyunderwood
@tyunderwood@BootlegGirl "Let's just get the apocalypse over with instead of constantly dreading things will get worse"3 replies 2 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @MetroidThief
@MetroidThief@BootlegGirl things 'falling apart' is satisfyingly crunchy compared to slow extisential creeping horror2 replies 3 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @tyunderwood
@tyunderwood@BootlegGirl@MetroidThief Post-apoc stories usually have the rich & powerful suffering and underdogs becoming heroes1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect@BootlegGirl@tyunderwood Why don't marginalized folks like them? Opportunity to tell stories about oppressive structures1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @MetroidThief
@arthur_affect@BootlegGirl@tyunderwood vanishing in an instant1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @MetroidThief
@arthur_affect@BootlegGirl@tyunderwood how come noone exploits that. Let the powerless get their Cozy Catastrophe1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @MetroidThief
@MetroidThief@BootlegGirl@tyunderwood RL marginalized folks generally know better than to believe a bomb going off would change everything5 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
@MetroidThief @BootlegGirl @tyunderwood This goes back to the beginning of the zombie genre - racism in Night of the Living Dead
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