Genre Talk: Post-Apocalypse- Scavenging for Hope

In the apocalypse, libraries are the most valuable resources that can exist. Knowledge becomes more powerful when access to it is lost.

Wow... I am kinda speechless after watching this one. It was truly engaging to listen to the historical facts as well as your perspective on hope and growth in face of an apocalypse. The things you said really resonated with me on levels I didn't even expect going in. Thank you.

This spoke to me. As an artist who is often cripplingly aware of the passage of time and the decay of manmade structures, I chose clay as my medium. The same material that preserves so much of our ancient history. My current project is transcribing poetry onto ceramic tablets, and hoping that some time in the future, I can find a place to put them where they will be found

Saving this one for tomorrow, uni is kicking the sh*t out of me 💀

"Even Paper Decays" is the name of the Doom Metal band i'm starting after watching this video. It's also a poignant summation of the daunting scale of apocalypse, its slow onset, endless duration and pointless experience. Thinking about the vastness that exists outside of my brain is scary but helpful some times. It makes it all the cozier inside my comfort zones, a much needed periodic reprieve from caring about the outside. My issue with a lot of apocalypse media is the simple clear cut reason and starting point for the "collapse" when in reality an apocalypse probably won't even present itself to us until we've already stopped caring, or are focusing somewhere else. Worse than not knowing what's going to happen, I fear not realizing what is happening as it occurs.

Oh I loooove that tidbit about marking life-ending waste so that future civilizations will be warned regardless of their language. So wild to think about.

I think I need to sit down after this one.

Interesting how this video connects with me so deeply. I find myself as a single father struggling to connect with people in reality and quite frequently finding comfort in these kinds of media.

Choosing hope, ignoring the thoughts of "it doesn't matter" is one of my favorite ideas every time I hear it. It's such a great response to a statement that is too easily interpreted as a correct argument. I love how you wove it into the video, a relevant message pre- and post-apocalypse. It's all kind of a matter of scale. And an excellent quote pick for the end! :) The parallels you drew between all these different games and movies were seriously intriguing, I have never thought to compare something like Hollow Knight and Darkwood in that way. Light Criticism: Even with the thumbnail, I did not expect half of the video to be about TWD. I was a bit surprised when I checked how long that segment would go, I think that weakened the structure a little. Not because the analysis isn't good, it was very well explained and interesting, but it didn't feel like the genre was the focus anymore, it was now a genre study by the example of TWD. (Apropos cultural fragments that need not be elaborated on in the culture itself, it was funny to hear you bring up a greentext, a concept that will probably fall into even deeper obscurity in the next decades.) (One more note, I enjoy it a lot whenever I can spot familiar soundtracks like Hollow Knight or Nier Automata. Good picks!)

I bet this channel is going to grow quickly. This is some great content.

"Find your shrimp" I love that

I love the stars and vastness of space because they constantly remind me of my insignificance and by extension the insignificance of my problems. As insignificant as I am however it's also impossible to understand just how lucky I am to exist on this planet. For the right ancestors to meet and create my family line and the millions of sperm to find the right egg, the right people survived and the right people died so I could exist on this planet and actually experience how wonderful it is. Before you ever took your first breath you already won the lottery a hundred times in a row and the universe around you is vast and unexplored ready for you to embrace it.

I find your video essays incredibly compelling and I really enjoy them. Your Visceral Femininity one first popped on my radar and I loved it so much that I'm binging through the rest of your videos!

Honey Bat your channel has been my go to comfort channel for the past two months. And as someone interested in reading Terry Prachett I'd love to see a video on his work with your words. You are a good person, I won't see the uglier parts of you anymore than you see the uglier parts of me, but you're a good person regardless. Thank you so much

I finally got around to watching it! Your content really deserves to be seen by more people Have a nice weekend Honey Bat

Bread is actually pretty easy to invent. I did it a few times, with a few different grains, over the course of 2020. Start with a grass seed, grind it into a dust as fine as you possibly can, mix with water, cook on a hot flat rock. Whatever you made with those instructions is edible, even if its hard tack. All else is experimentation to make it good.

I teared up multiple times watching this, and I'm not quite sure why. Thank you

What is an ocean but a multitude of drops? Every drop in the bucket matters. Every act of kindness. Every smiling moment. Less bad, even if it doesn’t make it good, is still less bad. Every breath is resistance. We are a remarkable creature, and it is together we have come this far.

I may come back to this multiple times. I’ve been thinking about/tinkering with a post apocalypse saga for an embarrassing number of years without having published any of it, and this video is FANTASTIC.

The phrase "spare part sanctuary".