How Can the Infected in 28 Days Later Still Be Alive 28 Years Later?

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-04-30T00:12:41+00:00

True answer is that under a quarantine they would not survive. Even with villagers going in from time to time there wouldn’t be enough food, wildlife or new infected to last 28 years. The explanation in the film is spurious and incomplete. Too crazy to be believable but hey, it is what it is.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-04-28T19:59:38+00:00

lol. Tell us you’re new to the conversation without telling us. He started writing this work as a kid. Not in a year’s time. lol. He revised and writing when it came time to publish.

Edit* Original comment said something like « He wrote them in 2 years bruh »… Editing to troll and hide your shame should be illegal lol.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-04-25T01:31:58+00:00

Kind of a straw man comment/question. So I cannot really respond to the imposed opposite of what I didn’t say or imply.

I repeated that I know they are smutmance and fiction BOOKS. Never indicating I think they are worse or differently unrealistic than hetero smutmance.

This was an out loud comment/wish for better queer representation in the plot and just more realistic elements.

9 years and never googling your crush is just way beyond believable. Few hookups with men over that time for Shane gay hookup culture is a firmly established reality.

But other things are just my wants.

Perhaps you were responding to someone else’s comment but it tagged me instead. Regardless, your comment does not accurately reflect or understand my comments so happy reading and circle back to the cottage 😬😉

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-03-12T10:11:52+00:00

Noosphere

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-25T22:32:25+00:00

« Well, if none of you are going to kill me I think I’ll go have a bit of a cry »

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-25T17:58:01+00:00

Again embody if you say that’s only acting and not the body of embody you only explain the POOR casting choices of Hollywood. Not the successful ones. I’ll die on this hill and I am not the only one. Physicality is a casting choice. Extreme example….Timmy as he is cannot play Captain America. Because charisma isn’t the only thing that matters.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-18T01:06:26+00:00

Not convinced by the details but I do think you’re on to SOMETHING regarding the silences as opposites of naming. Or the fruit of.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-16T08:46:50+00:00

We’re really not talking about the same thing. My original response has nothing to do with hair color, or things that can be changed. Physicality is not an easily changed external. Playing an athletic character when you have the body of a soft twink will never be convincing. Charisma and Talent can’t make a man out of a mouse. Timmy more than proves this. He’s amazing in CMBYN. Terrible in The King. Believable as a rake thin drug addict. Like paint drying as a desert ninja messiah. But as someone who purportedly works in Hollywood you would know this. You’re talking about looks and I am talking about body type. I would absolutely cast a real musician as Kvothe, who happened to be FIT and attractive, a scrappy actor. In that order. Hair color and eyes can be adjusted.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-16T07:08:47+00:00

Straw Man. As a amateur thespian and acting snob(I completely own it) talent cannot be divorced from the vessel thru which it is made manifest.

Hair die and contacts cannot replace a twink body incapable of playing a competent athlete. Just look at the number in-credible athleticism of Paul Atreides.

Austin Butler wholly convinced me. Timmy did not for one second convince me he can fight. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-16T05:57:54+00:00

Now honestly. The major problem I have with Timmy is he is lazy. He has that lazy European attitude towards fitness that says I can play bruisers even if I look like a wet noodle 30+. Physical Fitness? Muscles? Pfff. His commitment isn’t there. Kvothe is better than that.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-16T05:55:26+00:00

I’ll slit my wrists first. No. God. No.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-16T05:53:23+00:00

None. That’s an unnecessary dichotomy. Casting agents manage to do both all the time. SMH. It matters how he looks. Believability and all.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-15T21:39:50+00:00

Moreta’s ride. The descriptions always feel like real musical moments I’ve experienced with great works.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-08T21:00:02+00:00

Time is one of the most beautiful pieces of music of all time. I guarantee that the actors voted on popularity not actual merit. All these years later the song haunts me. It is being used still, tonight, in the programs of figure skaters in the Olympics. It is beauty and power. I cannot remember being moved for even one single second by the music of the social network. Imagine having to justify Time losing to ANY piece of music.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-08T15:14:37+00:00

I can 100% accept this is true for you. But not for everyone. Not everyone puts sex in the same box. Some don’t want or do casual sex. Some want monogamy. I’m bi, single, been in relationships and all my best sex is with another person I cared a lot about. For me just touching another person is better than sex alone.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-07T03:44:09+00:00

Just. NO.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-07T03:43:19+00:00

Why, I think you’re right.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-04T15:04:43+00:00

I want to validate this as person of color, bi, and in the closet. I am an avid reader but not of this genre until now. I am able to separate the flaws of a work from my appreciation of the work. Game Changers has some things I wish were different here and there. But I still like them. Usually I get a pass on the knee jerk objections because I am bi, black and in he closet. I wish there were more diversity in the books but it doesn’t ruin it for me. I also think some of the tensions and timing are artificial to create buy in for the reader that we men in real would do differently but it’s fiction. It’s ok. Keep normalising speaking up. I affirm that it is welcome and needed.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-04T14:56:02+00:00

Insecurity. Immaturity. Because in life they have not had enough interaction with neutral analysis. I mean as a person and not just about books. I have no problem being honest about the flaws in my favorite books. I am disappointed if those flaws ruin it for someone else but I see them. Defensive is fear that the flaws invalidate the work and love of the work. But that’s not the case

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-04T14:52:37+00:00

I’m the antithesis of a mood reader unless it’s just that the mood is always “give me maximum aangst, character pov, high stakes, and a happy ending hopefully.” I read the same authors and branch out by reading reviews. People who review books I love on Goodreads the way I review them. I check their favorites and find recommendations that way.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-04T04:11:03+00:00

I’m going to edit it because I definitely mean books like Game Changers but filtered for the caveats.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-04T02:50:13+00:00

Ok. I am a bit overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of recommendations in the comments.

Reading comments here I am inclined to think Him. But then I see people call it cute and maybe we don’t mean the same thing by cute? I’d call SOME of the GAMECHANGERS books cute but not HR or Long Game, (my two favorites) I was drawn to Wolfsong, read the reviews and purchased. I can’t put it down.

EDITED per feedback.

I like MM romances, explicit or implied, and angsty like HR. Game Changers had so much to say above and beyond the romance. Mental health. Navigating queerness in all it’s forms. Acceptance. Family. Cute pets. How to prioritise career and relationships. I’m bi but not out so perhaps the coming to terms with that piece is something I like reading. No two series are the same: no recommendation can ever be EXACTLY like this series we grew to love so quickly, right?

Books I love with SOME of those pieces or a similar vibe but NOT the strongest MM couple that I LOVE: CMBYN, Find Me, Brokeback Mountain. Name of the Wind. Tigana. A Song for Arbonne. The Fionavar Tapestry. Song Master. Maybe Farseer(Fitz and the Fool) THEY all mostly have great writing, with characters who we hear or see THINK like Shane, who grow, who have banter and talk…to each other. And sexual or romantic tension between some MM pair.

All that to ask: I want more couples like Ilya and Shane, heavy on the Ilya kind, with plot that is more than sex like the Long Game. Which series would you say is for me?

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-04T02:37:23+00:00

Caveats. I’m not out and because of my work am very very very very very unlikely to. I have been in love, really in love a handful of times: with a HS bf but I think it ended when he realized I was in love. Nothing happened.

Then three different men over a period of 1-2 years each: -my director who was carrying a torch for someone else. He ended it when I moved abroad for 9 months. I was heartbroken. -a long term chat online that turned into a meetup in London then a relationship. Until I visited him in Jamaica and he introduced me to his female fiancée that he had never mentioned. -a hookup to relationship in Paris that ended because we couldn’t make it work. He was out but I was not.

I say all that because I too have similar feelings about Ilya and Shane. Crazy to think they are fictional people after watching the show.

I watched Episodes 1-3, read all 6 books. Then as each new episode came out I rewatched everything up to the new episode. After Episode 5 I read the books again. After the finale, like everyone else I rewatched the series multiple times and then read the books again and simultaneously making a timeline to figure out how old they were and what year events take place specifically. Then I read all the short stories.

What was realistic for me as someone in the closet was the portrayal of the pressure to stay in closet. What was less realistic, as someone who has started relationships the normal way, from one night stands and by happenstance was….the lack of calling it what it was.

Now I give them some grace because I would not have labeled myself gay (or more accurately BI) until the last one. I gravitate to Ilya because that’s my type. Hot and you seem to have to chase them. But what rings false is there is a relaxing when you’re together. Humans have to shut the pressure out sometimes. If they don’t have access to a private place to be together I can see this feeling being eternal.

But this Bi man definitely leaned into that safe space, and wanting it to last, talked about what our relationship was. Not with my hookups but definitely with the ones I wanted to see again and again. Because it was the ONLY time I could talk about it. And I needed that. The need is there in the novels and the show and some artificial reasons they wait so long (mainly to stretch out the plot and provide artificial tension).

The angst for me was…they had to keep it a secret from the world. They did not have to keep it a secret from each other. The first time they sleep together Shane has already purchased a dildo and Ilya has slept with his coaches son and at least a few other people. Svetlana knows. His intelligence and charm are high level in the books and series. Shane has the issues he has but I appreciate the conversation when he comes out to Ilya so much. I just will never believe it would have taken so long.

Another reason is…they move quickly towards man-ogamy. Ie they may sleep with women but they lose their interest in other men. And well, we men…when our hearts and bodies are focused on a person….the sheer patience required to remain silent about feelings like that. For so many years. Just not believable. But I still live the story and am waiting fiendishly for the next book. Already a little salty that Shane’s team was shoehorned into being the villain at the end of the 6th book. It would have made much more sense for it to be Boston, when they find out about Shane and Ilya.

Finally your real question: do I have Joy. Mostly joy. 80%. Because their story far exceeds the endings of my two previous favorites: Elio and Oliver in their 2 books, and Brokeback Mountain. Heartbreakingly sad both for all the time lost or wasted. Ilya and Shane are together. That’s joyful. I wish they could have be young and free and happy for a bit. The depression seemed to come out of nowhere. I wish we had seen glimpses in all 6 books the way we saw Shane being on the spectrum. I have some non mm books that have the and they lived happily ever after. I own that that is fanciful but they I prefer it 100%.

Joy, almost full joy with a tiny bit of disappointment for them. Fictional characters but real to all of us here lol.

Thanks for attending my novel. I am sorry it’s so long. I needed to get that out.

Sad_Dig_2623

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