i desperately need like a canopy bed or a tent bed or an in-wall bed or something i need to be tucked in i need to be protected from the elements i need to be in a little hole in a den in a nest im just a prey animal trying to get by
do you get it or do you not know anything
call out post now
I need UK journalists to not show 43 degrees is not beach weather like people are gonna die
Americans do not interact
Im Australian, and 43C is NOT beach weather. That is VERY hot, even for us, but for the UK its apocalyptic. At 43C you should not even be going outside if you can help it, treating it like beach weather is a one way ticket to heatstroke.
I agree with not going outside for long periods of time but you will have to plan something to reduce the heat within your households. Especially if your house is designed to retain heat
Fans pointed at open windows will pull out hot air and allow it to circulate - don't put them IN the window, leave some room by the side for extra air to get drawn in.
If you can't afford cold packs (and if you can, stock up on some NOW), get some ziplock bags and freeze them, with wet washcloths or ripped up towel inside. You want them to be ready in the freezer when you need them. Wrap them in a tea towel and put them on your wrists and ankles.
A big bowl of ice water in front of a fan will blow cold air into the room and make a massive difference. Again, if you don't have ice cube trays get some and freeze them *now*, don't wait until you're already in trouble (although I am melting at quarter past nine but my thermoregulation is bollocks so I don't know if that's the heat or just the me). If you can't afford to get any, clean out empty yoghurt pots or Tupperware or whatever you have that can hold water. Even if you end up with a giant ice cube from a lunchbox, it'll help.
Even just opening two windows at a crack will allow some air circulation - I sometimes prop open my bedroom door and leave the bathroom door open, both windows are locked at a crack because of the cats but it creates a nice little line of wind along the landing.
If you're someone who needs something on them to sleep, take your duvet out of the cover and just use the cover.
Remember that water acts as a lens - you do NOT want to wear a wet t shirt in the burning sun. I did this when I was 8 and if I tan on my back you can still see the scars.
Read the instructions for sunscreen carefully, and use the highest spf you can find. Reapply as per the instructions. If you get burned, Malibu do an amazing aloe-based spray on after sun, I got mine from Savers for 3 quid and it lasts ages. I keep it and any other after sun in the fridge, which means it's incredibly lovely to put on. Aloe is magic for burns so definitely gravitate towards that if you can. My son got badly burned (he's ginger, he went to an outdoor pool and they forgot to give him sunscreen) and he's had 2 helpings of it and you wouldn't believe how much better he is (he couldn't even really wear a shirt).
Make sure your pets have plenty of fresh cold water to drink, and if they usually have dry food consider giving them some wet food for one of their meals (cats are notoriously not always great drinkers but wet food will get them some liquid). Keep the curtains and/or blinds closed in south-facing rooms. I have blackout curtains in the front room and the front bedroom (my son's) and they make a MASSIVE difference to the heat. Make sure pets have access to these cooler spaces if you can create them.
Keep oven/hob use to a minimum if you can. I like making a massive pot of something that can be reheated in the microwave if necessary - the oven especially adds a lot of heat. Or get some wraps and ham and cheese and eat those.
Cordial or fruit juice can be better than water if you're sweating a lot. Cordial is cheap as chips. Salty snacks are also good.
Go to Iceland and buy a billion lolly ices. It's especially a good way to make sure kids stay hydrated.
I realize op asked for Americans not to interact, and whether or not they're being cheeky, I feel obligated to reblog this to save lives.
That temperature is absolutely murder, even moreso with humidity.
Please, be safe and stay hydrated!
For reference, 43 degrees celsius is roughly equivalent to 109.4 degrees fahrenheit. That’s bad.
This is nearly DOUBLE the typical average temperature of the UK. I don't care if you grew up in Satan's asshole, if you woke up one day and it was twice as hot as it usually is, you're gonna have a bad fucking time. The infrastructure is not built for 40+ degrees, and with the government doing... The thing it's doing, I doubt they're gonna even bother to help people, so people need to see things like this post to be able to help each other instead.
Heads up UK folks, we're looking at hitting 40°C again in about two weeks. Now's a great time to prepare however you can, figure out what you can do to make things more bearable
Putting a wet tea towel in the freezer for 20 minutes (in a freezer bag so it didn't stick to anything) then tying it to my wrists/ankles helped a lot last year, so I'll share this post in the run up in case it helps anyone else
Keep an eye out for people struggling, including yourself
For people with latex sensitivities: aloe contains a natural latex, so do not use it on any burns you may get during this, it'll just feel worse
So, Matoran on Metru Nui used to just hide things and send each other on fetch quests for fun.
This explains so much.
It’s such a shame we never got that book with Teridax possessing/ impersonating Matoro…
Because that one time he tried to impersonate Nokama…
She Would Not Fucking Say That, Terry.
Vakama’s just deliberately riling him up waiting for him to snap.
Teridax may be a master planner but just sucks at improv.
My spirit he's literally asking the most Makuta questions he can. Taunting his ability to stick to the plan and not blow up in his face, bringing up the free will of his future subjects. He's absolutely fucking with him.
He is so desperate it makes him look stupid. Every time Vakama tells somebody about the mask of time, no matter what guise he’s in Teridax responds with a barely concealed “GIMME!”
And he was clearly having monologuing withdrawal symptoms during his time in the toa seal prison because he is just out of control here.
The Shadowed One: I demand to know who killed my henchmen!
Vakama: Just a shot in the dark here, but maybe it’s that guy wearing the suit made from their skin?
Today I’ve realized that part of the Rahaga’s teaching the Toa Hordika how to deal with their new situation included distracting them from despair. They had to be honest about the potential consequences and impress that the Toa Hordika had to learn to live with their new bodies and impulses or lose themselves.
But you can’t teach anybody if they currently lack the ability to learn because they’re being dragged down by their negative feelings. So they needled and annoyed the Hordika so they wouldn’t overthink. They made sure that they weren’t on their own for a longer time. (Which failed with Vakama when he was captured.)
Sure, sometimes they riled them up for the sake of it. But they genuinely wanted them to have the support the Rahaga didn’t have after Roodaka mutated them.
In the mid-2000s there was a brief fad in Australian government messaging where they went out of their way to insult the public as much as possible.
This fad eventually died out after the tourism board attempted the same style of messaging in the UK, causing a minor scandal which led to the head of Tourism Australia, Scott Morrison, getting the sack.
The first time we drove past the “don’t drive like a cock” sign, my mum looked at it was immediately SO confused - after all she’s a good semi-conservative Christian woman. My brother and I knew it right away but for the next half hour she guessed literally EVERY other word for cock (don’t drive like a rooster, chicken, hen, chick, bird, fowl, poultry) trying her goddamned hardest to make the sign make sense until my - at the time - eleven year old brother got fed up and yelled COCK at the top of his lungs from the back seat.
My mum was FURIOUS - we weren’t even allowed to say “heck” - until she realised he’d just been telling her what the sign was, and for the rest of the three hour trip our good semi-conservative Christian mother proceeded to amuse herself by muttering “cock” under her breath and giggling like a teenager every time she did.
We still bring it up every now and then. So that particular advertising campaign has been making my family laugh for over a decade.
This one was always my favourite, though:
Reblogging to make sure this excellent story is seen
Takanuva's going to love being a Turaga so much
What able bodied authors think I, an amputee and a wheelchair user, would want in a scifi setting:
What I actually want:
Kualus has been working with Nuju for like a day and can already press his buttons even better than Whenua can.
From this post on @takuas-eyebrows, which is my bonk shitpost chaos containment blog. peruse at ur leisure.
Sorry for the wait! Teacher AU time
Summary: Tahu goes home for the holidays.
(scheduling update: going on hiatus for a few weeks, should be back by September. this is the end of my buffer and work makes it difficult to write much)
Ok, one more for today since I powered through this one and I'm excited to share. ovo
I was CONFLICTED on this, guys, like I was asking myself do I make him intimidating like in the books or a simp goof like in the movie? Idk, maybe I got a good mix in here, the biggest trait I really wanted to highlight out of them is that he's a vainglorious bastard, putting a crown and cape on himself to play up that role of being a king.
Honestly, did enjoy designing him, I will say~
I’m tempted to just go wild with headcanons of the turaga as roommates. So much potential for hilarity. It’s one thing to spend time with somebody while on a mission, under a time limit, and constantly moving. It’s another to exist in the same place without urgency and not have any crisis as convenient distractions.
Starting with:
They discover that Nuju and Vakama’s ‘choice of heated discussion topic’ isn’t visions - not anymore, at least - but mathematics. The other four soon grow sick of it. Just because they can somewhat follow along doesn’t mean they want to.
Nokama occasionally throws in wrong equations, to make it at least more interesting. The two of them chuck pillows at her, Nuju with his mask power, Vakama with lethal precision.
A compelling potential and hilarious friendship:
Kualus and Lewa. Both because they love rahi so much, and flying rahi are just amazing! But Kualus also recruits him to help him annoy Nuju.
Also, it’d be hilarious if the Toa Nuva bonded with the Toa Hagah in general because of their love for rahi and the turaga just were: “Siiiiigh”.
To be fair, the Toa Hagah would be equally annoyed by the turaga.
They’re ride-and-die for each other. They just like to pester each other with the history they have.
Whenua should be friends with Kualus. With their niche interests combined they can annoy Nuju endlessly.
I'd imagine Whenua gets along with most of the Hagah, actually. Except for maybe Bomonga, who's not really the chatty kind.
I know there wasn't much time for it to have happened but I like to think Kualus got to meet Matoro at some point.
"Oh, I remember you, you used to run the pet shop! You must have looked after all kinds of fascinating little creatures! I see it's prepared you well for your current occupation!"
(Matoro nods politely, not sure if the rahaga was alluding to his knowledge of birdspeak or whether Kualus just deliberately called Turaga Nuju a creature. The disgruntled clicking sound coming from his Turaga implies it might be the latter).
in the words of the great Elizabethan wordsmith William Shakespeare, in Hamlet Act IV Scene V, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” or, in the words of the great Twitter wordsmith @Horse_ebooks,
this is 1947 Cincinnati Enquirer erasure
please do not forget your smash mouth
It's only right for Miss Italy to do this. As trans women, we have an unfair biological advantage in looking hot.
The list of eligible contestants is gonna be pretty short then, since most women are born as babies.
