The first day of summer in the Gregorian calendar isn't until June 20, the summer solstice, but the Universal Solar Calendar divides the year into five seasons (Childwinter, Spring, Summer, Fall, and Hagwinter), and summer begins this Sunday, May 26. Tomorrow is the last day of spring in the USC.
With the change of seasons comes a change in the avatar used here in the illustrations, and since today is called Shutout and Changeover in the USC, it seems as good a time as any to retire Springs' Earth Mother and introduce a new avatar for the long, hot summer.
The ROM avatar, that wiry, bearded old man, doesn't scream "summer fun," and I want to have some fun with this season's avatar. Hot fun in the summertime to one generation, hot girl summer to another. So why not a surfer girl? A beach blond, but not a bleach blond (and certainly not a bleach-blond bad-built butch body). An innocent wild-child. "Sun Girl," after the Julia Holter song. We can pursue a broader color palate in autumn, we can do something age-appropriate in Hagwinter. The avatar for Summer 2024 is the Sun Girl (at least until I get tired of her).
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