[ SECRET POST #2794 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2794 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets (random phrases on pictures) ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
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Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/814WGd6.png

[kaijinscendre]

You can create a community of glass wearers. And when everyone else is starving in the dark, YOU WILL HAVE FIRE!

[kaijinscendre]

Or be murdered.

[(Anonymous)]

You'll need people who wear lenses for long-sightedness though, not short-sighted vision correction.

[(Anonymous)]

Only if they're farsighted. We nearsighted folks have lenses that bend light the wrong way.

[(Anonymous)]

Funny, my first thought was that I would end up as the main character in "Time Enough at Last."

...so I keep every pair of old glasses, ever...

[(Anonymous)]

I do this too, and for the same reason.

[queerwolf]

Yep, first thing I thought of too.

[(Anonymous)]

All the more reason I'm grateful this weird, Ayn Rand flavored BS has been sidelined in SF.

[kallanda_lee]

But hey, if most of the human population is dead, you can basically just raid opticians. They tend to have some ready-made glasses unless your eyes are truly unusual.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

My lenses are really unusual, yeah. I'm doomed! But hey, at least I'm not "kill a sheep every month for their pancreas" doomed. That book made such an impression on me.

[rosefyre]

...Yeah, those of us with severe nearsightedness and astigmatism are screwed. Of course, as I pretty much have no survival skills, I'd probably be screwed anyway!

[cloud_riven]

I always picture as this really cool and handsome lone wolf kind of survivor. I reluctantly let others tag along with me until I scare them off on purpose because it'll save their lives if they don't have to see me sacrifice myself to a horde to ensure their survival.

Now imagine my face when I realise that in actuality I'm just a friendless loser getting abandoned all over the place because I sucked at having good eyeballs 8(

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! Exactly.

[morieris]

Only came here to lament the fact that you didn't use the word Apocafictic.

[cloud_riven]

According to a Canadian Google search, with Safe Search definitely off, nobody uses that.

[solarbird]

I can really get into some good apocalypse fiction but damn your example is a terrible, terrible book. Mmmm, let's watch Jerry Pournelle set his crazy racist political id loose while Niven drones on about orbital mechanics. (Manly men taking girl-scout wives by "conquest," talking about how the only good thing about the comet was ending "women's lib," socialist hordes of racially-integrated cannibal looters, and the re-institution of let's-face-it racial slavery? Wow.)

James Nicoll just did a hilarious re-read and review of it over on Livejournal, if anybody wants the terrible, terrible details.

Now, if you want some better skiffy planet-smashy, The Forge of God isn't bad. But I like Anvil of Stars (the sequel) better.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I was a kid, like 10? I was reading Lucifer's Hammer when I got my glasses; it's not a random example. But yeah, the cannibal thing was especially cringe-worthy.

Thanks for the awesome link.

[(Anonymous)]

I know who you actually meant but when I read "Dr. Forrester" for a split second I pictured the MST3K guy.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too, and I don't actually know who the OP meant.

[cassandraoftroy]

The trick is to develop one or more vital skills for a post-apocalyptic scenario. I may not be the best at fending off roving zombies or biker gangs, but they'll keep me alive back at camp if they want their post-apocalyptic civilization to have bread.

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[(Anonymous)]

Um...I write some mean porn? Oh! And I'm a potter.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have any useful survival skills, but I'm a Type 1 diabetic so it's kind of a moot point. If it turns out to be one of those dreary realistic apocalypses, I'll shoot myself. If it's one of those badass ones full of crazy mutants and raiders, I'll take some bad guys down first. Maybe garrote a few with my insulin pump's cord.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Dr. Forrester was a Type 1 (http://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/1069230.html?thread=776878510#cmt776878510)! That's what the secret's about.

[(Anonymous)]

This is the reason why I can't relate to people complaining about how technology x or y prevents people from having meaningful relationships with the natural world or whatever it is. Because if I didn't have my glasses, an artificial technological enhancement, I would fall into a ditch and die almost immediately, no more relationships to be had anywhere.


And actually, part of the reason I never got contacts is the thought that they would fail pretty fast if I ever got stuck in the wilderness for more than a couple of days. At least with glasses I have a fighting chance.