Survival/post-apocalyse skills/reference
- Wilderness Survival Skills (link to a masterpost of resources)
- Woodland Wisdom (by Dave Canterbury of the Pathfinder School) - topics include fire kits, primitive navigation, tanning a beaver hide, making a folded canvas water bucket, building a shelter
- Self-Reliance Outfitters - topics include primitive fishing traps, animal traps, "bushcraft activities for the suburban survivor"
- Fat Guys in the Woods - Survival Skill Series (firestarting, traps, etc.)
- Practical Survivor (tips on survival skills -fire, food, water, shelter, plants, etc.)
- Distances and times for travel without modern transportation
- Apocalypse Survival Equipment Checklist
- Writing Realistic Injuries
- The Survival Doctor
- Medicine in the Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland (scriptmedic on Tumblr - "A medical consultant for writers")
- Keeping Chickens Without Buying Feed
- Gun Basics for Writers - Handguns
- Gun Basics for Writers - Long Guns
- Gun Basics for Writers - Modern Ammunition Basics, Part 1; Part 2
- (For TWD-specific gun information - i.e., "what kind of gun does Carol use in X episode?", go to the TWD links page.)
- Why is There No Electricity After the Apocalypse? (tumblr post)
Some points on running water:
Running water requires power. Even if there's a well, for a house to have running water requires a pump, which means power of some sort (windmill, solar panels? Maybe a roof cistern could work, because gravity is a valid source of energy.) Water does not automatically rise from underground to fill pipes and allow showers to flow and toilets to be flushed. So any post-apocalypse fic where the continued presence of running water is explained away by "there was a well"? Probably wrong. About as likely as the continued presence of the internet.
How to get well water without electricity
How to get water from a drilled well when the power is off
People are the Danger (Social Psychology)
Social psychology is the study of people in their social context, and how they perceive, influence, and relate to others through social interactions. (paraphrased from Boundless.com.)
Mob Mentality
The Psychology of Groups
10 Rules That Govern Groups
Groupthink, Groupshift, and Deindividuation