#year without a summer

[fox-bright]

Years before the covid pandemic began, author Naomi Kritzer wrote the charming, emotionally genuine short story "So Much Cooking," which was a pandemic log through the eyes of a cooking blog. The premise is that the author is a home cooking blogger raising her kids, and then a pandemic hits--and bit by bit she's feeding not only her own, but her sister's kids, some neighbors' kids, and so on, in a situation of pandemic lockdown and food shortages.

It's very good, and was prescient for a lot of the early days of the covid pandemic. I found myself returning to it often in the first couple of years because of how steadfast it was in its hopefulness.

Last year she wrote a novelette, "The Year Without Sunshine," which attacks a similar problem in a similar way; instead of pandemic, this one is about the aftereffects of a distant nuke or a massive volcano explosion (it doesn't say), which has churned a great deal of dust into the air, causing massive damage to society and agriculture. The story covers one neighborhood, pulling together to keep each other alive--not through violence, but through lawn potatoes and message pinboards and bicycle-powered oxygen concentrators.

I recommend both stories. They're uplifting in a way that a lot of what I see lately isn't. They're a bit of a panacea for constant fearmongering about intracommunity violence and grinding hatefulness. We can be good to each other, if we try.

[darkdaysgeorgianbritain]

Year Without a Summer,1816: Mount Tambora's Impact on Europe and North America

[hinamie]

green

[anbaisai]

Happy New Year!! 🎉🐍

It's the year of the snake, so who better to celebrate it with than our resident snake boy?

I may not be the best with words, but I really appreciate everyone that has showed me support in the past year. You guys have been amazing, and I hope to see you around in the new year too ❤

Thank you for an incredible 2024, and wishing everyone a wonderful 2025!

[thebluebygracieabrams]

"underconsumption" and it's just how normal people live

[spuffybot]

It will never not be super ridiculous that Buffy had to single-handedly protect the world from demons, raise her teenage sister, manage a household, and work a full time job, all at the age of 22 and everyone around her is like “god Buffy just grow up and deal with it, stop acting like it’s hard.”

[burningvelvet]

"Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face . . . are not the mountains, waves, and skies a part of me and of my soul, as I of them?"

— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1816)

Sabine Jeanson, Geneva, Switzerland

[cammy-mcspammy]

Vent translated through a komahina comic to comfort myself 💜

Also a skip and loafer ref AGAIN YOU CANT STOP ME

[ella-mella-p]

x men textposts!!!

[acatandamouse]

It's the year without a suuummmmmmer!

(See the song by rasputina)

Man, I love living in a hot region where I don't have to worrry about cold temperatur-

fuck

There's this at least... Snowman,,,

Unrestrained Summmer Fun

[dailyfigures]

hiiiiii everyone i'm just popping in to say that i probably won't be online much for a bit, meaning the queue will go on as always but i can't really answer asks much :( will be back on track as soon as i can!

[charmac]

do you think s17 will cause a resurgence in the fandom? like inactive blogs becoming active more fanfiction just a more active fandom in general?

Yes! It always does. Beginning of the resurgence will definitely be when the first official trailer drops (with clips from each (or most) episodes) and then we’ll pick up more and more as we get closer to the premiere.. after the premiere there will for sure be an explosion in fandom posts/fics/art, etc. to build up to the finale and then we’ll continue being pretty active for a few months after, tapering off until we’re back to our hiatus-sized crowd…

It seems like we’ve picked up a ton of new fans in this hiatus (which makes sense, due to the Abbott exposure and prolonged amount of time between seasons) so I’m predicting we have an even bigger fandom for Season 17 than we did for 16! (For some reference, during 16 we were regularly breaking 1k+ notes on dozens of posts about new eps and we charted on fandometrics a few times!)

[skunkes]

[sualne]

was checking my emails before going to bed only to find out my endocrinologist casually scheduled an appointment at long fucking last

[everythingwasalreadypicked]

I find it so hilarious how no one in Camp Jupiter takes Octavian and his predictions seriously (even when the books says they do)

Oh, you say Greek gods exist? That they have children too? What's this about a camp? Don't be silly Octavian of course they don't

Sybillyne books? No they are a myth. Like an actual myth. No that harpy didn't memorise them before they burned down. Harpies can only cook and clean, everyone knows that.

Look Octavian, we're at war. Tensions are already high. We don’t need you to sow even more with your insistence on Titan army sneaking into camp and sabotaging weapons. Yes yes, you got stabbed by Saturn's general before, when you were right, that sucks— please shut up now

[yourfaveisanavatar]

American Murder Song's album "Murder Ballads of 1816: The Year Without a Summer" is an Artefact of the Slaughter

“murder ballads of 1816: the year without a summer” by american murder song is an artifact of the slaughter!