Tuesday DE

[inlovewithwords]

What is your character's idea of what winter should be?

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[takethatnature]

Absolutely not this.

[death_gone_mad]

A slightly cooler version of summer.

Slightly.


Snow is annoying

[childofrebellion]

For Cassian, cold enough that you have to put on at least one if not two layers of clothing before going outside. Snow and that the air feels different, crisp cold where when the visibility's good, you can see everything and when its not, you shouldn't be outside. Its a cold that never really leaves you and its one that he misses though he still never feels like he can get warm enough.

Editing to add Quentin who misses proper winters since he leaves in Northern California. There should be snow enough snow for snowball fights and having it change the landscape.

[snarky_spider]

Using a pup journal as DW doesn't seem to want to play with LJ Juggler today.

Jess: For all the time that she's lived in New York now, she still thinks of a chill rain and windy days as a normal Winter. All this snow and freezing temps is just wrong! (Jess is a pure San Franciscan and I will die on that hill.)

Ahsoka: Any planet that makes the insides of her montrals ache is Winter to her.

Sabine: Thanks to season 03, I can say Winter is snow and ice and home to her.

[moisturewave_aesthetic]

Alternia does have a tilted planetary axis and therefore seasons, but its sunlight is too intense to allow for below-freezing or even near-freezing temperatures during the dim season except in polar and mountainous regions. (For some reason they also seem to have at least 3 sets of seasons in the course of a 2.16-human-year solar sweep. Maybe they have a lot of axial precession or something.) The word 'winter' is probably the fancy highblood word for what lowbloods call dim season, for that matter; I think the only one who uses English season vocabulary in reference to Alternia is Terezi, who is in the upper-middle range as a tealblood and says the forest she lives in looks nice in the third autumn.

So, Aradia and Cirava's idea of what winter should be like is that it stays dark much longer and it's cooler outside. Maybe even chilly, but not really cold. And neither one of them would refer to it as winter.

Meanwhile in Fallen London: Thurlow's from Surface England, so their idea of what winter should be like involves a mild to moderate amount of snowfall and cold temperatures, but not enough to be a serious danger to life and limb. They always liked building stuff with snow and going sledding and skating in the winter.

In the Neath, snow... sort of happens. The only place where the conditions are right for real snow made of frozen water with no more than a trace of any other weird stuff is the northern edge of the Unterzee, which gets quite cold. The middle latitudes where Fallen London is have mild seasons; the temperature gets freezing-ish around December and unpleasantly warm, damp, and muggy around June. However, the notable thing about winter in Fallen London is that the Bazaar emits a lot of lacre from its internal reservoirs - in vapourous form, presumably, because it doesn't visibly spew out of the building - and it freezes and falls as 'snow'. In quotation marks because it has several supernatural properties and also some less numinous non-water components like a substantial portion of ammonia (which gives it a distinctive unpleasant smell). It's partly made of frozen water.

Bastion just thinks winter is supposed to be snowy and cold. They don't have much else to say on the topic.

[a1enzo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7OqRmLcc8g

[cameoflage]

This is not the first time I've wished one of the Games depicted on the show was real so that I could play it.