Post by @JillsJoy@NerdJoy.social

2026-07-26 20:24 UTC

A bucolic kind of story. I especially appreciated the historical and scientific climate environment this was based on: 1816 after a volcano erupted in Fiji and caused the entire rest of the world to have no summer. And the impact of war on people: the participants, the families they left behind, the communities they left, and the families and communities they returned to. No bodices were ripped in this one, but corsets were unlaced. 😏

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@JillsJoy@NerdJoy.social 2026-08-02 21:51

When you buy a graphic novel "for the kid" and wait for years until he is interested in it, and bring it along on vacation, "just in case," and then finally break down and read it yourself... I cried! I did. I also was proud of myself of being able to read some of the Korean song lyrics. I could read zero of the Mandarin vocabulary. 🫣 Now I want pink toe nails.

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@ronsboy67@mas.to 2026-08-07 06:33

@JillsJoy@NerdJoy.social The Year Without a Summer is a common plot point in many Regency stories. The better authors use it to analyse the economic and sociopolitical impacts, even in romances. On a related note, the last time there was an El Niño as severe as this one was apparently in the 1860s, and was known in India as "The Year the Monsoons Never Came" - global death toll estimates at 50 million https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

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