[ID: a digital drawing of a black dragon with blue wings and blue belly scales, grey spikes all over their body, and bright blue eyes. they fly with an intimidating roar against a background of a purple sky with lightning. /end ID]
Gods that are not people. Gods who dont have morals. Gods that are animals. Gods that are forces of nature. Gods that move forward, regardless of what you do. Gods that are robots, following centuries-old instructions that no longer serve a purpose. Gods who are children that let a pop bottle expire under their bed. Gods who are dead. Gods that do not understand death. Gods who are farmers, and we their cows. Gods who bred us for the slaughter to feed their families. Gods who do not acknowledge that we are alive. Gods who do not acknowledge that they made us. Gods who are people who made mistakes and are begging us to forgive them.
Something deeply painful is the fact that seasons, especially fall, dont feel the same. Not because of individual maturity but because climate change has impacted the weather patterns so so so much that we cant even experience the same annual shifts that our ancestors have for centuries
I feel displaced, i yearn for the spring, summer, fall, and winter that i can barely remember experiencing
To make things worse, if youāre under 50-60 years old, you canāt even remember what normal seasons were like because you werenāt alive to experience them
In the graph above, you can see how thereās a clear tipping point in the late 1970ā²s, which is when global temperatures first began to really skyrocket.
I was born in 1997, so about 20 years after this shift occurred. There is an immense difference between the climate now and the climate I remember growing up in, but the way I experienced the seasons in my childhood was already fundamentally different from what the seasons were supposed to be like! My parents were pretty much the last generation to experience a normal climate, and thatās just… incredibly sad
I am processing this information in a normal way devoid of rabid rage and bloodlust i am processing this information in a normal wa-
