by the first chapter, i can already tell this story is going to get on my nerves, and ik i...

by the first chapter, i can already tell this story is going to get on my nerves, and ik i'm being super nitpicky, but i really can't stop thinking about these reasons. like i feel like the author is just doing things that don't make sense? or defies common sense? Like it's one thing if people have superpowers or if universal laws are being broken through magic or god or smth that transcends science (so like if there are phenomena that messes with gravity or matter such as creating fire outta nothing, etc). But some things just don't make sense to me. Such as the fact that the sun is what heats up our world, but we literally see the coworkers outside on a sunny, clear-sky day while telling us the entire world is getting colder at a drastic rate in a single day. i could get behind a sudden ice age happening outta buttfuck nowhere, but if you tell me that the world is getting colder and you use scientific precursors of an actual ice age to foreshadow this period, why tf is it still sunny??? like if the author said magically the sun disappeared or the world shifted out of orbit for some buttfuck reason, ill believe it tbh, i do not need a strong explanation for these things. you can tell me it happened and nobody knew why, and i'd just think "hell, I also don't know!" and continue reading. i'll believe an ice age happening despite modern-day earth basically pushing the ice age to the backburner by hundreds-of-thousands of years bc of global warming if you tell me some supernatural beings or gods decided to forcefully kickstart an ice age to kill off humans, idk. but to literally have the sun still there while the earth is getting colder is smth that really like, got to me. I couldn't stop staring at the irony between the sunny day and the lady showing her goosebumps and how Africa was snowing.

which is also another thing that like, bothered me?? like idc if people call me sensitive, but like while i get the assumption that it does not snow in africa, common sense also tells me that this should not be crazy as the author makes it out to be, and if anything, common sense tells me it's crazy to believe the flipside of that. like. it is june in Korea. basic science tells me it is going to be winter seasons in the southern hemisphere. I do not exactly KNOW if there are winter seasons in Africa, since climate isn't impacted just by hemisphere, but i do know that to make it seem like Africa does not experience cold periods during June, when seasons are flipped for literally half of the world, feels off to me. like a single google search told me that from june-aug, Africa does experience snow. idk. i just like. i know i'm being super specific/particular/assholey about this, but like i just feel like when things defy common sense of science or like laws that cannot be shaken (i.e.: the earth tilts on an axis, seasons exist and are flipped across north/south hemispheres). Another thing is just that Africa is literally the 2nd biggest country. It tip literally shares a latitudal line with South Korea. Chunks of USA, Australia, China, all that shit shares the same latitudal line as Africa. I'm not saying that this means the climate is the same across all these locations, like Africa truly does not experience snow in multiple parts of its continent during the same time that those other countries will. I just think that the vast size of Africa leads anyone to logically think that it's pretty nonsensical to think that a single generalization of a specific feature would apply to every part of it. And I think these things should be taken into consideration when you are referencing settings that replicate real-life, bc your readers are going to know what real-life looks like. To basically show that seasons don't follow the same logic or climate doesn't follow the same logic basically destroys that connection between the reader's understanding of the setting based on their own world, and a good way to also destroy these text-to-real life connections is by generalizations since generalizations can be easily dismantled.

Also another thing is like, 10 yrs ago all parts of the world were talking about Mt. Kilimanjaro. like i know ppl are still pretty ignorant on what Africa is like, but like the one positive thing that even ignorant ppl knew Africa for was for having the tallest mountain in the world (above sea level). like in all photos of mount kilimanjaro, it's powdered like a doughnut- it has a ton of snow. idk i just think... by this point, c'mon man. it's one thing if you said africa doesn't have snow, i don't think that would take me outta the story. it's honestly just this combined with the fact that the author treats seasons, the fucking sun, and the earth's orbit as nonexistent to the world's current state even BEFORE the ice age happened, yet uses all of those things bc how else are global temperature dips and ice ages gonna happen without those things being messed with?