Feb. 25th, 2010

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Well, I'm up early, Dear Readers, after a nightmare about zombies as detailed and macabre as anything I've ever seen in a movie.  It pilfered elements of my life, Doctor Who, Varsity Blues, Eberron, and Persona 4 together to get its setting and cast of characters, which was a little bizarre I admit -- especially the inclusion of Varsity Blues, I mean, really?

But it also contained ideas and sequences I wish I could forget, including a very fucking creepy explanation for why traditional movie zombies shamble and mumble a lot.

They're toddlers.  Precocious viral consciousnesses, only newly woken up in a dead body and needing to rebuild it - eating human flesh is the logical way to get all the right building blocks.  For a few minutes, a newly animated zombies flops about... then it crawls and teethes on everything around it... then, within hours, it stumbles to its feet and starts making more coherent sounds...

...eventually, it walks and talks just like a person.  Good enough to fool you, at least for a little while.  And according to the ones I met in my dream, given enough time and enough to eat... the transformation goes on.


Can't sleep.  Zombies will eat me.

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