That might be the thing I dislike the most about where I live. The leaves here do not change colors. Well, some of them turn brown just before dropping their leaves, but that’s the only color they change to.
I dislike fall in general here. I feel like we don’t get fall. We get a backwards spring. It always cools down extremely slowly, so that it’s hardly noticeable. The daily highs and lows stay relatively similar.
That means spring flowers start popping up again and flowering shrubs keep flowering non-stop.
It often doesn’t get cold enough for the trees to drop their leaves until sometime between mid-December and Mid-January. And then spring starts coming back around again in late-February.
I get massively cheated out of seasons every dang year.
We have the opposite problem where I live, we somehow have winter/slosh up until summer with spring being more of a “blink and you’ll miss it” type of deal. Not that summer’s bad or anything, but it doesn’t arrive any earlier.
As for fall… Fall is basically amazing ’round here until the first fall rain. After that all those lovely fall colored leaves are mush on the ground in a dark-brown, wet, cold and bananapeel-y sort of way.
ischemgeek
Sounds like where I live most years. Fall generally starts from mid-September and goes through to mid-November(ish) (this year is late – we’re still having mild fall weather in the last week of November, and it’s predicted to stay mild well into December, which is weird, and we only had our first snow like three days ago which is late).
Spring, though. What spring? We don’t get spring, we get Still Winter. Blizzards in May aren’t uncommon and then when summer DOES come, you’ll often get this bizarre temperature shock where it literally goes from -15C to +30C in the space of a week or two (a month at the very most). It comes all at once, and if we’re lucky it’s dry because otherwise the flooding is just unreal.
I live in south Texas. The few trees we have don’t tend to catch on fire as much as the grasses do.
And what we call a “tree” is more like a shrub to people that come from places where there are actual forests.
Summer this year lasted, I’d say, from late-March to last week. It was in the mid-70s today so that means we finally found fall.
Last year it actually never got cold enough for the trees to drop their leaves. In spring when the new leaves were coming in, they had to squeeze in because the trees still had more than half their leaves from the previous year.
And this year might be the same since they haven’t started dropping even one leaf yet.
The squirrels kind of go “hibernation? Huh? What’s that?”
I live in Miami and it is worse here. We only have the one season here: summer. Almost always at least 90F all year round, with like 70% humidity. Yesterday it was 80! Must be a sign of the apocalypse.
People here bundle up in winter coats if it ever hits 70. These people are what I like to call insane.
I’m in south Texas. Pretty much draw a line west from Tampa and when you hit land again that’s just about where I live.
People had their jackets on today because the high was “only in the 70s” and it was 90-100% humidity.
In 2004 we actually got several inches of snow on Christmas Eve and it was cold enough that it stayed on the ground all of Christmas Day! It was like a. Christmas miracle. It was the first significant snow since the 1890s.
By New Year’s Day 2005 the high was 82°. So, the miracle Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were the extent of our winter.
And I’d say that’s the average length of our winter except that normally it happens in mid-January.
Sounds like what happens in Central Florida, some leaves turn brown & die & fall off, some annuals remain green until say late January & February then decide ” OH! It time to drops my leaves at the same time the first false spring produces buds an green shoots come out.
Then wham! another late cold snap comes & kill those.
That’s how t is a bit further north of where I live now.
I currently live near Corpus Christi, and it really is more like southern Florida with less rain (but the same amount of humidity. Someone explain that to me!). But I grew up in San Antonio. In college I lived in Orlando for a year (Disney College Program) and the weather was so much like San Antonio that it sometimes made me homesick.
I worked Outdoor Foods at Epcot and my co-workers from Canada and northern states couldn’t figure out how I could spend all day working a popcorn cart and literally not break a sweat.
“Guys, this is normal weather. Y’all are the weird ones with your snow and blizzards and spring.”
Uruk-Hai Hockey team?…Congratulations, you’ve discovered the one thing that could make hockey more violent. The only question is, would they be penalized for eating one of the other team’s players?
inqntrol
When it comes to guys like them, rules don’t apply anymore.
SomeGuy411
Nah, we use modified bloodbowl rules at that point. Get some elves, humans, and dwarves too, and you have a small league.
brionl
Ooh, that would be cool. My pick would be a Skaven/Goblin team.
WolfLann
First they would need to eat the refs. Then they would be golden.
Yay speculation time! My ideas, in no particular order:
Dorothy (from the existentially jealous perspective of Joyce)
Dorothy (in Becky’s eyes in composition for Joyce’s preference)
Amazi-girl (in Amber’s self-depreciating eyes)
Amazi-girl (in Daisy’s lustful fantasies)
Sal (In Amber/Amazi-girl’s viciously judgemental inner conflict)
Joyce (in her mother’s ideal eyes of who she wants her daughter to be)
Amber (In Danny’s bi-confused eyes, baffled by why Ethan is so distracting)
Becky (in Joyce’s conflicted eyes wondering how Becky reconciles religion and recent events so well whereas Joyce has a faith crisis)
Joyce (ironically, in the eyes of her parents, since she is no longer the perfect naive believer she once was I.e. “I’m not that girl” contrasted with her past self)
Joyce (in the eyes of Dina, relationship drama over Becky’s lingering feelings)
Dina (in the eyes of Joyce, jealous that she couldn’t have been gay for Becky and happily paired with her best friend)
Senator Desanto (in the eyes of prof Bean. Lol)
Joyce in her own eyes, but in a semi-ironic sense where “perfect” means “willing to blindly follow her upbringing without questioning the shittier parts of it.”
Gamaran Sepudomyn
So yeah, I’d say it refers partially to Joyce becoming more self-aware.
Billie (In her own eyes. Well not Billie at the moment. More of how Billie sees her past before the DUI).
Mary. (In her own eyes of course. She’s a sterling example of how to live life in Christ’s example! For some strange reason nobody else sees it this way)
My guess? We’re going to be looking at ‘perfect girl’ from two angles:
1) Ruth and Billie continually telling each other that the other is the ‘perfect girl’ for them, despite the fact that they’re almost continually arguing and angering each other;
2) Joyce taking clear and overt steps to stop being ‘that perfect girl’ that her parents had wanted her to be.
I’m going with Mary. Preview panels show Mary appearing a bunch. And Willis did joke about making a storyline all about Mary. It could be a red herring, but
The sad part of this is that in her various bouts of suicidal ideation, she probably envies those leaves. “Stupid leaves get to flame out and die young, why can’t I?”
AAAACtually, leaves have to actively destroy their chlorophyll in order to ensure the nutrients they laboriously collected over the spring (and used to collect more nutrients in the summer) don’t fall to the ground to be laboriously recollected.
The red leaves work even harder in their suicide mission, by actively producing the red pigments to shade the chlorophyll so they have enough time break it down. This is because the mechanisms the chlorophyll feeds are broken down first, leaving the chlorophyll nowhere to store all their solar energy except mechanisms that really don’t need it.
So, sorry to burst your bubble, but SCIENCE must prevail.
Discussion (211) - “Deep”
DarkoNeko
I really like the leaves colour, as well.
Annie
That might be the thing I dislike the most about where I live. The leaves here do not change colors. Well, some of them turn brown just before dropping their leaves, but that’s the only color they change to.
I dislike fall in general here. I feel like we don’t get fall. We get a backwards spring. It always cools down extremely slowly, so that it’s hardly noticeable. The daily highs and lows stay relatively similar.
That means spring flowers start popping up again and flowering shrubs keep flowering non-stop.
It often doesn’t get cold enough for the trees to drop their leaves until sometime between mid-December and Mid-January. And then spring starts coming back around again in late-February.
I get massively cheated out of seasons every dang year.
Havtorn
We have the opposite problem where I live, we somehow have winter/slosh up until summer with spring being more of a “blink and you’ll miss it” type of deal. Not that summer’s bad or anything, but it doesn’t arrive any earlier.
As for fall… Fall is basically amazing ’round here until the first fall rain. After that all those lovely fall colored leaves are mush on the ground in a dark-brown, wet, cold and bananapeel-y sort of way.
ischemgeek
Sounds like where I live most years. Fall generally starts from mid-September and goes through to mid-November(ish) (this year is late – we’re still having mild fall weather in the last week of November, and it’s predicted to stay mild well into December, which is weird, and we only had our first snow like three days ago which is late).
Spring, though. What spring? We don’t get spring, we get Still Winter. Blizzards in May aren’t uncommon and then when summer DOES come, you’ll often get this bizarre temperature shock where it literally goes from -15C to +30C in the space of a week or two (a month at the very most). It comes all at once, and if we’re lucky it’s dry because otherwise the flooding is just unreal.
But fall is gorgeous.
Clif
Where you are, what time of the year do the trees catch fire and burn?
Annie
I live in south Texas. The few trees we have don’t tend to catch on fire as much as the grasses do.
And what we call a “tree” is more like a shrub to people that come from places where there are actual forests.
Summer this year lasted, I’d say, from late-March to last week. It was in the mid-70s today so that means we finally found fall.
Last year it actually never got cold enough for the trees to drop their leaves. In spring when the new leaves were coming in, they had to squeeze in because the trees still had more than half their leaves from the previous year.
And this year might be the same since they haven’t started dropping even one leaf yet.
The squirrels kind of go “hibernation? Huh? What’s that?”
Pope William T Wodium
Where do you live so I can move there.
Hampsterpig
Oh, so you live in Florida too then?
Dragon_Nataku
I live in Miami and it is worse here. We only have the one season here: summer. Almost always at least 90F all year round, with like 70% humidity. Yesterday it was 80! Must be a sign of the apocalypse.
People here bundle up in winter coats if it ever hits 70. These people are what I like to call insane.
Annie
I’m in south Texas. Pretty much draw a line west from Tampa and when you hit land again that’s just about where I live.
People had their jackets on today because the high was “only in the 70s” and it was 90-100% humidity.
In 2004 we actually got several inches of snow on Christmas Eve and it was cold enough that it stayed on the ground all of Christmas Day! It was like a. Christmas miracle. It was the first significant snow since the 1890s.
By New Year’s Day 2005 the high was 82°. So, the miracle Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were the extent of our winter.
And I’d say that’s the average length of our winter except that normally it happens in mid-January.
Sunmaster57
Sounds like what happens in Central Florida, some leaves turn brown & die & fall off, some annuals remain green until say late January & February then decide ” OH! It time to drops my leaves at the same time the first false spring produces buds an green shoots come out.
Then wham! another late cold snap comes & kill those.
Annie
That’s how t is a bit further north of where I live now.
I currently live near Corpus Christi, and it really is more like southern Florida with less rain (but the same amount of humidity. Someone explain that to me!). But I grew up in San Antonio. In college I lived in Orlando for a year (Disney College Program) and the weather was so much like San Antonio that it sometimes made me homesick.
I worked Outdoor Foods at Epcot and my co-workers from Canada and northern states couldn’t figure out how I could spend all day working a popcorn cart and literally not break a sweat.
“Guys, this is normal weather. Y’all are the weird ones with your snow and blizzards and spring.”
Akiosama
Ha! We say almost the same thing down here in Los Angeles. “We have two seasons here, green and brown.”
Although it’s more brown than green, these days, due to drought and water conservation measures.
Winter is coming doesn’t mean much here. :p
AutobotDen
Ah, Ruthless, don’t ever change.
shadowcell
Ruth needs to be making this observation from the top of a tower with a huge flaming eye behind her or something
spriteless
And the eye has almost the same name as her, and then they try to magically cure her depression and rule the world.
Disloyal Subject
In any particular order?
Doctor_Who
Ruth would make a pretty good supervillain. Can’t wait to see her daring heist of the Stanley Cup.
shadowcell
and then when she talks to her wizard friend on the phone she’s all BUILD ME A HOCKEY TEAM WORTHY OF MORDORRRRRRRRRR
Rukduk
Uruk-Hai Hockey team?…Congratulations, you’ve discovered the one thing that could make hockey more violent. The only question is, would they be penalized for eating one of the other team’s players?
inqntrol
When it comes to guys like them, rules don’t apply anymore.
SomeGuy411
Nah, we use modified bloodbowl rules at that point. Get some elves, humans, and dwarves too, and you have a small league.
brionl
Ooh, that would be cool. My pick would be a Skaven/Goblin team.
WolfLann
First they would need to eat the refs. Then they would be golden.
Thrabalen
To be fair, that’s probably the only way a Leafs fan will ever see the Stanley Cup. (Says the Flyers fan… yeah, I know.)
Rutee
I’d like to see what happens to Billie for making that observation.
:3
Cephalo the Pod
You…you mean that all of that isn’t there right now?
Ohh, I think Harvey’s gave me a bad burrrgerrrr.
inqntrol
Sauron wouldn’t agree on that.
DarkoNeko
All trees in Mordor seems to have died a long time ago, anyway.
merbrat
…or, walked off.
DarkoNeko
…heh.
oysteinthenoisy
Ent it the truth?
Noclevername
Mordor pines for its trees, but they all had to leaf. It’s the root of their problem.
OsoPescado
Aaaaaaand scene.
TheTJ
Hell Yeah! Screw foliage! Gimmee snow year round baby!
Stephen R. Bierce
Then it would be Icing of Age.
Disloyal Subject
We’d need a lot of frosting to ice the hole cast.
Liokae
Is the hole cast everyone that’s been on video having sex?
Hijean
That’s most of them, if we count anyone who’s been in a slipshine.
Spencer
I can’t remember the last time we saw these two sober.
Gespenst
Who says they’re sober?
Spencer
I prefer to think that means that Billie and Ruth have drank so much that they’re blood is now partially made of alcohol.
leadsynth
Well, they don’t have the little bubbles floating by their heads.
Cephalo the Pod
The end of Book5Chapter3, after Joyce’s dorm party.
Well, maybe. Billie was drinking at the party, but then Ruth showed up and everyone watched a movie, so maybe she sobered up.
Who knows what Ruth was doing, but I doubt she’d bust up a dorm party drunk.
Anyway, neither of them had Drunkeness Bubbles above them in the aforementioned scene, so
Cody
The leaves also represent the hopes of the Leafs.
Mo
They don’t usually fall off until February, though.
Mr. Mendo
And here I thought Ruthless would be a fan of…Leafs. 😉
Cephalo the Pod
So.
Who’s That Perfect Girl?
Proxiehunter
Dina, duh.
Edupoet81
Too early to tell, but I suspect That Perfect Girl is gone.
No need to dread the approach of winter when the cold never bothered her anyway.
Ellen
Yay speculation time! My ideas, in no particular order:
Dorothy (from the existentially jealous perspective of Joyce)
Dorothy (in Becky’s eyes in composition for Joyce’s preference)
Amazi-girl (in Amber’s self-depreciating eyes)
Amazi-girl (in Daisy’s lustful fantasies)
Sal (In Amber/Amazi-girl’s viciously judgemental inner conflict)
Joyce (in her mother’s ideal eyes of who she wants her daughter to be)
Amber (In Danny’s bi-confused eyes, baffled by why Ethan is so distracting)
Becky (in Joyce’s conflicted eyes wondering how Becky reconciles religion and recent events so well whereas Joyce has a faith crisis)
Joyce (ironically, in the eyes of her parents, since she is no longer the perfect naive believer she once was I.e. “I’m not that girl” contrasted with her past self)
Joyce (in the eyes of Dina, relationship drama over Becky’s lingering feelings)
Dina (in the eyes of Joyce, jealous that she couldn’t have been gay for Becky and happily paired with her best friend)
Senator Desanto (in the eyes of prof Bean. Lol)
Any more to add, fellow readers? 🙂
Ellen
*in competition, not in composition LOL
Gamaran Sepudomyn
Joyce in her own eyes, but in a semi-ironic sense where “perfect” means “willing to blindly follow her upbringing without questioning the shittier parts of it.”
Gamaran Sepudomyn
So yeah, I’d say it refers partially to Joyce becoming more self-aware.
Mada
Sal (in the eyes of Jason who’ll never admit such a thing out loud.)
Mada
Sal (in the eyes of Jason who will never admit such a thing out loud.)
Lord Stoneheart
Billie (In her own eyes. Well not Billie at the moment. More of how Billie sees her past before the DUI).
Mary. (In her own eyes of course. She’s a sterling example of how to live life in Christ’s example! For some strange reason nobody else sees it this way)
DarkoNeko
Mike.
Ellen
I like this one 😀
Smiling Cat
“Blithe smile, lithe limb
she who’s winsome,
she wins him,
gold hair with a gentle curl,
that’s the girl he chose
and heaven knows,
I’m not that girl”
BenRG
My guess? We’re going to be looking at ‘perfect girl’ from two angles:
1) Ruth and Billie continually telling each other that the other is the ‘perfect girl’ for them, despite the fact that they’re almost continually arguing and angering each other;
2) Joyce taking clear and overt steps to stop being ‘that perfect girl’ that her parents had wanted her to be.
Cephalo the Pod
I’m going with Mary. Preview panels show Mary appearing a bunch. And Willis did joke about making a storyline all about Mary. It could be a red herring, but
Historyman68
Oh man Mary’s gonna get character development, isn’t she :/
Gamaran Sepudomyn
Ways Mary could stop being hated by the commenters:
…Start a relationship with Daisy?
That’s pretty much all I can think of.
Hijean
You forgot stop being a massive ego and start being a person.
Wublub
No, no, you’re reading too much into it. This chapter is going to be about Joyce and Co singing Frozen karaoke.
inqntrol
I prefer winter for the beautiful sights, but I can’t say that I like shoveling my car out of the snow..
Cerberus
The sad part of this is that in her various bouts of suicidal ideation, she probably envies those leaves. “Stupid leaves get to flame out and die young, why can’t I?”
tim gueguen
They also don’t have to make an effort to die.
No Name
AAAACtually, leaves have to actively destroy their chlorophyll in order to ensure the nutrients they laboriously collected over the spring (and used to collect more nutrients in the summer) don’t fall to the ground to be laboriously recollected.
The red leaves work even harder in their suicide mission, by actively producing the red pigments to shade the chlorophyll so they have enough time break it down. This is because the mechanisms the chlorophyll feeds are broken down first, leaving the chlorophyll nowhere to store all their solar energy except mechanisms that really don’t need it.
So, sorry to burst your bubble, but SCIENCE must prevail.
Plasma Mongoose