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I tried to explain to Aubrey exactly what about her current projects, while not post-apocalyptic, still remind me so strongly of what I consider "post-apocalyptic Americana".

It's the silences in between the explosions and the world-saving and the zombies and demi-gods and immortals. Not that there's nothing to do, just... life goes on, unobtrusively, underneath all this action, and in between, it's very profoundly felt, somehow, and that, to me, is part of the essence of the weirdfun genre that has developed (probably differently to everyone) since that first came up, to my knowledge, in regards to Unlined.

And I don't know if it makes any sense, but that's the best way I can put words to it, and I don't know if I could do it any better. It's post-apocalyptic settings, not the big cities and settlements, but little farms and communities, and all the unobtrusive LIFE that goes on in the face of so much loss.

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(and, incidentally, that icon is sort of the visual epitome of that feeling to me. ...just sayin'. There's a reason it's my icon for posts of the "November Skies" variety, as that's my own post-apocalyptic Americana piece.)

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Oh wow -- this is a really important element that I hadn't consciously cued into before, but you are so very, very right.

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*FLAILS* I AM SO GLAD I EXPLAINED IT RIGHT. Sorry, it's just... people will have their different elements that are important, and that, to me, is the essence of what makes it different from other genres. Yes, life always goes on, but it's usually going on somewhere distant from the characters involved in the action. It doesn't affect them, they don't need to be involved in it. But to me, the post-apocalyptic Americana is where everybody's just LIVING, and then sometimes they have to save the world or their little tribe of survivors or whatever. But they still have to do the laundry and cook supper and bring in the crops or whatever. Life goes on and that doesn't change just because they've got this epic thing to do. Or even some not-so-epic thing.

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Lady, you kind of nailed it on the head. I think my quintessential short story would almost be interchangeable with an Iron & Wine song.

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XD Aubrey says she's amused by how you're both writing it and haven't actually figured out how it worked, at least consciously, and I'm just like "but... but THIS".

Of course, to be fair, I'd never at all tried to put it into words before just now. XD I just had this FEELING. I knew what it was, it was just a bitch to try to explain. And when I tried to say it out loud to Aub before writing up the comment, she just sort of went "....okaaaaaaaay."

But that is it, now that I think about it. That "life goes on, whether you're a hero or not" sense, permeating the story. Laundry, dishes, bathtime, marriage, babies. Because you get stuff like that in chicklit. But that's not what this is. This is something totally different, with those things in a completely different context. Life goes on.

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