Though this was relevant, since the West has decided that nuclear war isn't a big deal anymore.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    poof there goes my own imagining of this world as a nuked retro-50s atompunk Fallout society

    • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I had something similar, except in my own reading the whole neighborhood was intact; humanity had just vanished and this fully automated house and community just continued working in perpetuity for a human population that had simply ceased to exist. Nuclear annihilation makes perfect sense within the text of the story, but there was something inherently more sinister about my interpretation. I chalk it up to my youth.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        now i wish i had read it when i was a child because i probably would have had a year worth of weird dreams from it.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        i had a different interpretation of the story in my head. this is way darker, more industrial, and grimdark. i saw sort of light futuristic 1950s but in a devestated city with no living people. the surviving house more jetsons less industrial nightmarehouse

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          I've seen another version with a lot more pastel, and instead of the people being ash in their beds they're blast-shadows burned in to the pastel walls.