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Help us with This Year in the Apocalypse! (Patreon)

Published:
2025-12-26 22:07:40
Imported:
2026-11

Content

Hey everyone! The hosts of Live Like the World is Dying want to know what you'd like us to focus on for our This Year in the Apocalypse round up episode on Live Like the World is Dying. 2025 was a wild year and we'd like to know what you've learned in this year of resisting empire and preparing for disasters of all kinds. And so we've got some questions for you.

What topic would you like for us to cover in our This Year segment?

Do you have any questions for us (as relates to LLWD)?

What were your favorite topic that we covered in 2025?

What does living like the world is dying mean to you and how will you bring that into 2026?

What skills do you want to learn in 2026?

What currently brings you despair? What brings you hope?

What would help you feel more prepared or more resilient to the effects of empire?

Let us know in the comments! Answer one question, answer all the questions, answer a different question than we asked (and decide whether it's funny or not to tell us) and we'll try to cover it in This Year in the Apocalypse: 2025!

Comments

Sara H

I'm a girl scout leader in Texas. After the last election the first thing I did once I let myself have s good old fashioned breakdown was seek out good community organizing and affinity groups that had family and youth information. Instead of focusing on trying to flee to expat I doubled down on creating a safe warm useful place for my scouts and their families. Many of the skills from your shows have ended up at our meetings, albeit slightly changed for the audience. Your collective is doing immeasurable good out here, so thank you for that! The outdoor event, mesh network, and alternative fuel truck episodes were particularly memorable and the first aide zines are in our troop kit. You are all very appreciated and I hope we can all finally break free of our oppressors in the coming year, together 🫶

Libby Horacek

My small town's mutual aid group, Ohio Valley Mutual Aid, organized our first events earlier this year. We did a make-your-own-zine party, a community kitchen, and a gender-affirming clothing swap. It seemed like very little in the face of everything. But when the flash flood hit in June, we were glad to have already built trust and relationships with each other. We were able to organize hundreds of volunteers to muck out basements and try to save people's homes. More recently, the city announced they were going to shut down the only legal unhoused encampment in town, where dozens of people lived. Nobody in our group lived there or knew anyone who lived there, so we just followed the lead of some local nonprofits. I think this was a big mistake, because what we could do as a mutual aid group was different from what they wanted to do or were capable of doing. We could've done more if we'd had more personal relationships with residents of the camp. But I didn't fully realize this until just days before the camp was bulldozed. We were able to help a few people save some of their stuff, but the entire camp was bulldozed. So I think the biggest thing I've learned is that relationships and trust make a huge difference and are maybe the most important thing for being prepared for a crisis. I'm a introvert so it's not like talking to people or making friends comes easy but there's no substitute. In 2026 I want to talk to a lot more people and make a lot of friends. In 2026 I also want to work a lot on mental health first aid, preventing burnout, trying to put the mutual in mutual aid. No matter how often we say "solidarity not charity", it can still feel like a charity when everyone just fades away when they're struggling themselves because they don't want to be a burden. How can we change that culture in our community? How can I be more comfortable asking for help that I need?

C.R. Elliott

I finally started gardening this year. My aunts all garden and I've longed to have a little plot of dirt. I've killed all indoor plants and have found that incredibly depressing for the way that being unable to produce life can feel like alienation from the natural world. My first garden has been amazing! Every shitty news story sends me out to my little patch of dirt. I've composted, I've grown 8 foot tall chia plants that were killed by a cold snap in November. My one strawberry plant became 15. Every avocado seed I planted ended up growing even after I was sure they wouldn't. Its been a good year in my garden, not because its a survival garden because, no, I would starve. But, it felt like the natural world wants me and has a certain harsh love for me. It gave me a center that's seperate from the challenges of the broader world and even the social world. I also saw fireflies this summer. All of this was my way of living in a dying world. Seeing how dying plants and food scraps become dirt. Cutting off bits of plants to improve their growth. Being less afraid of these acts of destruction that are also quite creative. It was nice to see how this could drown out the stress and enable me to keep from disconnecting from the larger world and its problems. It makes me hopeful for 2026. I'm going to try flowers this upcoming year. I don't want to go numb or look away from our world but I need that time with my hands in the dirt, doing my amateur chaos gardening and leaving a few strawberries for my local chipmunk.

Georgie (they/them)

Thanks for putting on LLWD. I know it's just something on the internet, to listen to on the bus or whatnot, but it helps to feel a little less crazy and alone. I struggle to feel adequately prepared for anything at all- it seems that me and mine are always just trying to keep our heads above water. But we've kept up so far, as we get squeezed a little tighter and tighter, and we'll keep keeping up because we have to. Despair comes easy, but so does gratitude. I find a lot of comfort in taking care of my community and being taken care of in turn. I know it doesn't resonate with everybody, but it's been really helpful to me to think along the "Hope is a Discipline" lines lately. Maybe I don't feel hopeful hardly ever, but the way I live can be rooted in the belief that something better is coming, and it's coming from us. Hope is central to the Detroit-based abortion fund/doula collective I belong to. We do what we can in all sorts of little, exhausting ways, and it changes lives in the moment even if it doesn't prevent the worst of things from coming. To me, abortion is hope, in the same way that my transition is hope. It's an assertion that our bodies and our futures belong to us and us alone, that we deserve to live our lives in the way we want, built upon networks of community care. Every time we stay up with someone on the hotline, every time we pack up an aftercare kit, every time we drive across the state to get someone plan B day-of, and every dollar we scrape together to get someone to a clinic, that's an act of hope. In 2026 I want to survive, first and foremost. Other than that, there are a lot of things on my to-do list in terms of learning, so many skills and histories I know i'm only scratching the surface of. I want to learn more about children's rights. I want to learn more about other autonomous health movements, like harm reduction and HIV advocacy. I want to learn more about disability justice. I want to learn how to use a gun, even if I don't end up getting one ever. I want to build up my Spanish speaking. Also, little things, like canning food, auto maintenance, sewing my own clothes, etc. There's so much to learn all the time, what a blessing and a curse <3

Michael Belcher

Hi! I came here to comment after listening to the episode. I'd love to know more about the modern scouting options. I know (some) boy scout troops are doing more co-ed stuff but because of that a whole bunch of right wing groups sprung up. Also, I have a friend who helps out with the WoodCraft Folk in the UK, which started in the US as a proto-scouting organization but seems much more non-hierarchical than the Scout groups in the US.

Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness

I think modern scouting options is something that still has yet to be created, or is being currently created by people in small ways. W are planning a more in depth discussion about the idea with James at some point, especially talking about historical movements. I haven't heard of the Woodcraft Folk, though. Will check out!