Keep your hopes high and your expectations low

hi hi! I understand your scepticism, but I lived Here for half a decade:

and nnno we don't call it "winter" when it's december even though we're TECHNICALLY in the northern hemisphere. because it is 35+ degrees during december and 35+ degrees during july and 35+ degrees every other time of the year as well. so it doesn't really make sense to reference the typical northern/southern seasons when you live right on the equator!

Second reblog. tags. #i like the implication that there are multiple other hemispheres #<- prev I know right #do we have posters from mars or something?

A map of 13 countries lying on the equator. Kiribati. Indonesia. Maldives. Somalia. Kenya. Uganda. Democratic republic of Congo. Congo. Gabon. São Tomé and Príncipe. Brazil. Colombia. Ecuador.

Third reblog. Tags. #ehhh that last bit feels like a stretch. #do people in equatorial places really not even reference seasons like just as a way to break up the year?

But in daily life? It’s dry or it’s rainy. You have to choose your clothes and especially your footwear based on if it’s dry or rainy. If you forget your raincoat when it’s dry then you’ll almost certainly be fine but if it’s rainy you’re SOL. By the end of dry season you’re begging for a drop of water to keep the dust on the ground instead of in your eyes, and then a month later you’re realizing that you now have six more months of rain, which somehow always happens to be right when you’re heading to work on important days and right when you’re meeting friends on your days off. (Unless you’re on the Caribbean coast of CR, then you get a few dry reprieves from rainy season, iirc because of the rain shadow of the mountains?)

So yes. In most of the Northern Hemisphere right now we have settled into Summer — except for the really northern places that are just finishing up Spring. And anywhere tropical that’s a month into rainy season. Or anywhere that has different seasons. And then in the Southern Hemisphere it’s starting to be true winter — that’s why so many knitters from AU/AO/ZA/South America are working on winter knits now. Because it’s winter. Because it’s JUNE and that’s wintertime in those regions, for the most part.

HIS ACTIONS HAVE ONLY MADE SENSE FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE

KILLING THE SERVANT WITH INFO. SUMMONING THE TWINS. CAPTURING THE ROYCE CARAVANS. MAKING HIS NEPHEW IN CHARGE OF THE POLICE INVESTIGATIONS.

Primus thought that the first half was going as rehearsed and planned. And then Otto got his hands on the candle and realized he could make a real power move and take out Tachonis.

HIS ACTIONS HAVE ONLY MADE SENSE FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE

KILLING THE SERVANT WITH INFO. SUMMONING THE TWINS. CAPTURING THE ROYCE CARAVANS. MAKING HIS NEPHEW IN CHARGE OF THE POLICE INVESTIGATIONS.

Goodmorning to the Anthropic Claude AI training scraper that suddenly decided to request 660 thousand pages (exactly the number I had remaining on the starter plan) and brought Pikiwedia down. 

Sudden switch from diverse user agents like chrome, safari, messenger preview to Just Claudebot. I'm not even mad though, this is maybe the funniest thing possible, because I've inadvertently poisoned their training data with thousands of fucked up articles with normal urls. 

...Those souls might actually get a chance to see for themselves that, not only did their descendants succeed in killing Azgra and freeing their people, but that they are thriving, and making art, and honoring their history, and continuing to resist oppression.

The spirit of Vokjan Murzat, the first orc to lead an organized rebellion against Azgra, might, maybe, get to see that his sacrifice was not in vain, and now his people have reclaimed the dithyramb they were once forced to worship in, and are using it to tell HIS story, to THOUSANDS of people.