oh SPN fandom, why do you keep embarrassing me for liking the show...
I don't get it even slightly. I mean, I *get* wanting to write in quasi-or-actually-post-apocalyptic* settings, but that's why you MAKE ONE UP. Dean and I have had an extremely positive response to our post-apocalyptic BigBang fic. This would partly, I think, be because it did NOT treat real people's pain as colourful backdrop to Our Boys.
(Of course, ours actually also had non-white characters, since, in our universe, in addition to non-white Americans, there are soldiers from Japan, the indigenous Canadian peoples including Aleuts, some surviving Mexicans, and refugees from the far eastern end of Siberia in the amalgamated military forces of the North American Protected Zone, so some of them made appearances in the story. But you know, we could have had every single character who gets named, let alone a speaking/important role, be white as the lilies and still been doing better than this.)
(The regions most devastated are determined by a combination of climate and population density. Warmer areas are harder hit, but more isolated areas are safer. Perth fared much better than the east coast of Australia; northern Europe survived better than the Mediterranean; northern Siberia is dangerous ground, where humans still live but the defences aren't great; a lot of China and India are gone, but Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan are intact. That kind of thing. Northern South America was devastated, Chile and Argentina are almost untouched. That kind of thing.)
(Sorry, I'm rambling.)
* I kind of believe in the concept of localised apocalypse, when talking the kind of apocalypse by which "post-apocalyptic" as a description is triggered. Massive devastation of an area, you're basically looking at post-apocalyptic, thematically, if you set fiction there, which, in most circumstances, you BLOODY SHOULDN'T DO.
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oh SPN fandom, why do you keep embarrassing me for liking the show...
I don't get it even slightly. I mean, I *get* wanting to write in quasi-or-actually-post-apocalyptic* settings, but that's why you MAKE ONE UP. Dean and I have had an extremely positive response to our post-apocalyptic BigBang fic. This would partly, I think, be because it did NOT treat real people's pain as colourful backdrop to Our Boys.
(Of course, ours actually also had non-white characters, since, in our universe, in addition to non-white Americans, there are soldiers from Japan, the indigenous Canadian peoples including Aleuts, some surviving Mexicans, and refugees from the far eastern end of Siberia in the amalgamated military forces of the North American Protected Zone, so some of them made appearances in the story. But you know, we could have had every single character who gets named, let alone a speaking/important role, be white as the lilies and still been doing better than this.)
(The regions most devastated are determined by a combination of climate and population density. Warmer areas are harder hit, but more isolated areas are safer. Perth fared much better than the east coast of Australia; northern Europe survived better than the Mediterranean; northern Siberia is dangerous ground, where humans still live but the defences aren't great; a lot of China and India are gone, but Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan are intact. That kind of thing. Northern South America was devastated, Chile and Argentina are almost untouched. That kind of thing.)
(Sorry, I'm rambling.)
* I kind of believe in the concept of localised apocalypse, when talking the kind of apocalypse by which "post-apocalyptic" as a description is triggered. Massive devastation of an area, you're basically looking at post-apocalyptic, thematically, if you set fiction there, which, in most circumstances, you BLOODY SHOULDN'T DO.