post apoc media is always banging on about the necessity of macho survival skills but frankly it’s the gardeners/farmers who know 150 preservation techniques for winter beets and who understand the art of good pH balance in compost who will survive on our non energy dependent farms while you all butcher each other with katanas in burnt out shopping centres
im finally understanding the research struggle that occurs while writing because i wrote about an orc twisting open a jar and now i have like eight tabs open on the history of beekeeping and painting pigments and apothecaries and essential oils to figure out what kind of containers orcs would make and how they would seal them
if it happened at all, it happened like that 