Raise the Gates!

Sigrid said “You can't imagine what it feels like to have someone who's always on your side, how much that strengthens you” and I had to laugh because

What would happen if Runner Five didn’t make it home from a mission?

COME GET YOUR ANGST! FRESH BREWED, PIPING HOT

So remember this small side blog I used to run where we all collected our fun ZR Playlist coincidences? This one right here?

Yeah, it got marked as explicit by tumblr...

Honestly, of all my little side blogs and my main blog, that fact that THIS ONE was flagged is hilarious to me. Let's see if tumblr support can sort it out...

i've downloaded zombies run & i'm three missions in & enjoying it so far, but it's also so Tragically and Hilariously clear how much this story was written in 2012. and how it was also less interested in subverting genre expectations than making you move your body (very fair!! given that that's what the game is designed for!!)

the two most egregious things in these first three eps are:

1. i was paired for a run with a coughing woman who insists she "just has a bad chest cold," and even though the camp supervisor firmly establishes that coughing is THE FIRST SYMPTOM of an infection, i'm instructed to go out running alone in the wilds with this lady. who's coughing. so much.

she keeps being like "it's just a cold 💕" while refusing to let anyone examine her and i'm like. YOU GUYS DONT HAVE QUARANTINE PROCEDURES?? PUT HER ASS SOMEWHERE AWAY FROM THE REST OF US?? DUDE??

2. it's then established that everyone at the camp is suspicious of me because other camps nearby have been torched after being visited by shady-ass secret-keepers very similar to myself. but i'm still allowed to roam around and do supply runs like it's nothing. the NPCs just mutter mutinously about me and make allusions to how i'm gonna get everyone killed.

PUT MY ASS IN QUARANTINE?!?!? DON'T LET ME LEAVE WITHOUT ANSWERING QUESTIONS??? WHAT???? YOU GUYS HAVE GOT TO GET A GRIP?!?!?!

the lack of quarantine, safety, and hardass procedures would be excusable if this was a hippie commune or solarpunk future or whatever, but it is Not. this is an AMC's walking dead style deal where the only people more dangerous than the zombies are the non-zombies.

so i'm like.

YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE LAST RUGGED BASTION OF HUMANITY. WHAT ARE YOU DOIIINGGG.....

so i was relistening to some of zombies run and like

we're at a point where there is a cure for the zombie virus, but it's not a vaccine and it doesn't cure you if you were bitten a while ago - it's just to be used immediately after being bitten, and the zombies are very much still a threat, including other, newer strains of the virus

anyway so a character was literally like 'well we have the cure so the plague is over forever now and i don't have to take reasonable quarantine measures against someone with a new strain because they're not real oh no i just got my face eaten by a new zombie and now i am also a zombie how could i possibly have seen this coming'

and i'd love to call this heavy-handed satire of our current times

except this series first came out in 2018

Runner 5 in a Picrew Time!

Picrew

There wasn’t many of the options I view my Runner 5 to wear (like tracksuit bottoms, over the ear headphones and the t-shirt is the wrong colour) but I made do and I think she’s pretty cool!

i desperately want to follow more runners 5 to see some zr on my dash but I’m horribly behind (just finished s3) and I don’t want to get spoiled on things :(

Frances: Hey how’re you-

Five: *snarls*

Frances: *screeches*

Frances: GET YO FUCKIN RUNNER BITCH

Sam: She don’t bite.

Frances: YES SHE DO!

it remains runner five hours, this time with @crownleys‘ speed creature

feat. dr maxine, queen of my heart

Hey runners (and walkers)! Thought this might be helpful :)

Shoelace Voodoo

The heel slipping one is awesome if you have to wear orthotics because it stops them from slipping round inside your shoe

Oh! I’ll have to try this

oh my god. oh, oh my god. the wide forefoot one… oh my god bless you you beautiful hero

Ian’s Shoelace Site – https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ – is the page for all these lacing patterns and more.

He’s got specific lacing advice for skates and tall boots and there are decorative patterns and I recently relaced my skate shoes for both a wide forefoot and less friction on the laces so it’s easier to tighten and loosen them but he also has lace-locking patterns so that shoes stay exactly as tight as you laced them the first time and it is just a VERY GOOD website.

Like. I’ve been buying shoes the wrong size because it’s often hard to find wide shoes but the lacing pattern for a wide forefoot means that my big hobbit feet actually fit into the previously too-tight running shoes and sneakers I had.

One of the few perks of being a runner...

Hey…ZR, why are you trying to make me care about this Peter/Necropolis guy?

today in "i wanted these, so i made them": some zombies, run! catchphrases

Abel township is unofficially known for the fact that Everyone There is Hot and you cannot change my mind on this

Sam: Five, you’re giving me anxiety.

Five: I give myself anxiety.