fast moving pulmonary anthrax zombies?!

[thejunipertree]

I have continually attempted to have this conversation with myself, but it never works out quite so well.

Zombies are, after all, pretty fucking scary.

Although, I still think the fast moving ones are scarier.
I mean, c'mon. My fat ass running away from Olympic sprinting-type zombies? That's a laugh, I tell you.

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[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Someone on my friend's list had written a wonderful essay a while back about why fast zombies are just wrong (because the living dead trying to eat your brains is scary in and of itself, without them being quick and coordinated), but sadly it was later deleted.

[serpent-sky.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. I made it my desktop wallpaper.

I think about zombies a lot, myself, though I agree fast ones are scarier. Ever see the "Kids in the Hall" zombie sketch? Where the zombies are coming, saying "do-da-do-da-do-da-do" and they're stopped by things like chairs? It's hilaruous.

I trust you've also read "The Zombie Survival Guide."

I also sometimes like to go back and look at the years-old alt.gothic thread, which was similar, with people theorizing the best ways to protect themselves in a zombie attack. I'm pretty sure you were in on that one, as was SkellingtonScribe Matt.

Good times.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

When the_axel and toured the Thousand Islands we rhapsodized about buying one. One of the major factors in our discussion was how defensable it is from zombie attack.

These are important things to know!

speed as a matter of freshness

[mrbadluck.livejournal.com]

ok so there has been way too many nights overthinking the whole zombie doomsday thing. It would make sense that a recent corpse would be able to use all its muscles without triggering those pesky and limiting pain sensors that stop us from all having retard strength. So an hours or day old zombie could easily be a super fast ninja zombie.Now if the muscles are not regenerating like they do in the living these creatures would be destroyed after one good run or flying ninja kick leaving them the slowest shambler around. The body simple couldnt go any faster without the muscle structure, so in theory the older they are the slower they are.

Sweet Jesus I need a life

[sola.livejournal.com]

That reminds me. Do you think you would be pleased by a small stuffed Chesire cat from Japan what is supposed to also function as a cellphone holder thingum?

Slow moving walkers for me, please.

[capnsparky23.livejournal.com]

I'm in the minority on this, in that I find the good ol' fashioned Romeroesque living dead to be much scarier, because they're so slow and apparently ineffectual that they sort of fade into the background. But they're patient, and they're always there, just waiting for you to fuck up. Because they're always out there, and they won't stop, and they won't go away until you're in their bellies or your lurching along beside them.

And, eventually you will fuck up. You'll be lulled into a false sense of security, you'll become overconfident, and you'll stop seeing them as a threat, and that's when the biting and the ripping and the rending start. Or just the biting.

Either way, as you're slowly being ripped to shreds, or your body and mind are failing from the ravages of mad zombie disease, you'll have plenty of time to reflect on your own stupidity. "They're so slow, they're so stupid, and they still got me. Because I'm a dumbass. Because my friends are dumbasses."

Yep. That's way scarier than the adrenaline rush and panic of fighting off the more athletic cousins of the living dead. At least to me.

[thane-of-ghosts.livejournal.com]

Well the key to surviving any Zomibe attack fast or slow is being able to out run the people your with not necessarily the zombies!!
The Zombies wil stop to Munch on the slow pokes, people you shoot in the leg or trip LOL
If you can hide out someplace warm the insect life will eat all the zombies in the area in about 2 weeks reducing them to smelly bone piles...