#Heat Management

[vexwerewolf]

update:

mech has been structured for the first time

currently contemplating

Do I really need >4 heat if I plan to overcharge a lot?

The answer is of course, If Tom Hadn't Wanted You To Do It, He Wouldn't Have Given Us 4 Stress

Seriously though, what do you think? Projected shield spam is becoming... warm.

Um, no, you should definitely have more than 4 heat for a huge variety of reasons, not least of which is that at 4 heat, higher tiers of Witches could triple stress you with a single action

[hasellia]

HELLO HI HESSILIA HEYO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :3

Alrighty so I know it gets HOT in Australia so how do you deal with that??????

Here when it gets super hot like it is right now I stay in front of the fan and try to move as little as possible

GGGGRRRaaaaaaaaPPPPPPEEEESSSS!!!!!!!!

I guess it's the same for me, but if I can find an Air conditioner, I would sit in front of that and turn myself over like a reverse rotisserie chimken. That and copious amounts of sugary drinks and ice blocks.

[space-blue]

Reblogging this for brits who also very much are in the 'not conditioned for this' and 'houses not built to make it easier' camp.

For all of the northerners that stood up for Texas during our freeze and said, "Don't make fun of them, they've never dealt with this before. Their infrastructure isn't made for snow and freezing."

This one is for you.

Where I live 108°F with 80% humidity with no wind is normal.

Pacific North West is dealing historic best waves 35-40°C or 95-105°F.

First of all. Don't make fun of them for bitching about the heat. Just like Texas isn't built for a freeze and our pipes burst, Pacific North West isn't built for heat and a lot of their homes don't have AC.

If you live somewhere with a high humidity like 80+ HUMIDITY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. The "humidity makes it feel cooler" is a lie once it gets beyond a point.

If you live somewhere with a lower humidity, misters are nice to cool off outside.

Once you get over 90°F (32°C) a fan will not help you. It's just pushing around hot air. (I mean if you can't afford a small AC unit because they're expensive as hell, by all means a fan is better than nothing).

If you have pets, those portable AC units aren't safe. If your pets destroy the outtake thing, it'll leak CO2. Window units are safer.

Window AC units will let mosquitoes or other small bugs in. Sucks, but that's life.

Now is not the time to me modest. If you have to cover for religious reasons, by all means. If you don't, I've seen people wear short shorts and a swim top. It's not trashy if it keeps you from getting heat stroke.

If you do have to cover up for religious reasons, look for elephant pants or something similar. They're made with a breathable material.

Shade is better than no shade, but that shit it just diet sun after some point. Don't think shade will save you from heat stroke.

I know the "drink your water" is a fun meme now, but if you're sweating excessively you need electrolytes. Drink Gatorade, Powerade, or Pedialite PLEASE. I don't care if you're fucking sitting in one spot all day. That shit WILL save you from heat stroke.

Most importantly. RESEARCH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEAT STROKE AND HEAT EXHAUSTION PLEASE!

If you're diabetic and can't drink Gatorade, mix water, fruit juice, and either lite salt or pink salt

If you can afford it, cover windows with thick curtains to insulate the house

If you have tile floors, lay on them with skin to tile contact. If you don't, laying your head on cool counters works too.

If the temperature where you're at is hotter than your body temperature, don't wear heat wicking clothing. Moisture wicking is safe though.

Check your medication labels. Many make you more susceptible to sun and heat

-Room temperature water will get into your body faster. This is something I learned doing marching band in high summer in Georgia, and it saved all of our asses. Sip it, don't gulp it, especially if you're getting into the red; same goes for whatever fluid you're drinking. And just in general drink during the day.

-If you are moving from an air conditioned space to an un-air conditioned space, if at all possible try to make the shift gradual. When my dad and I were working outside and in un-ac houses a few years ago, he'd turn the air down to low in the truck about ten-fifteen minutes before we got where we were going. This way your body doesn't go from low low temps to high temps. S'bad for you.

-If you can, keep your lights off during the day. Light bulbs may not generate a lot of heat, but the difference is noticeable when it gets hot enough. I literally only turn my bedroom light on in the evening when it gets too dark.

Don't be afraid to just like... pour water on yourself if you need to. The evaporation will cool you off.

Put your hand to the cement for 15 seconds. If you can't handle the heat, it'll burn your dog's paws. Don't let them walk on it.

Dogs with flat faces are more prone to heat stroke. Don't leave them out unsupervised.

Frozen fruit is delicious in water.

Wet/Cold hat/handkerchief on your head/neck will help you stay cool.

Pickle juice is great for electrolytes! You can even make pickle juice Popsicles!

Heat exhaustion is more, "drink water and get you cooled off." Heat stroke is more "Oh my god call 911."

Image Description provided by @loveize

[Image description: an infographic showing the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. The graphic is labeled "Heat Dangers: First Warning." Signs of heat exhaustion: faint or dizzy, excessive sweating, cool, pale, clammy skin, rapid, weak pulse, muscle cramps. If you think you or someone else may be experiencing heat exhaustion, get to a cool, air-conditioned place, drink water if conscious, and take a cool shower or use cold compress. Signs of heat stroke: throbbing headache, no sweating, red, hot, dry skin, rapid, strong pulse, may lose consciousness. If you think you or someone else may be experiencing heat stroke, call 911. End description]

Be safe.

-fae

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Firstly, if you have brain damage you are likely also suspectable to the heat now, it's a very common long term complication (not sure of term).

Secondly, as someone who is now VERY temperature sensitive (fun), I recommend an ice pack vest. You can buy some online! But if YOU actually cannot, you can make some!

Thanks to Cosplayers and Furries, here's some online tutorials on how:

A real basic flat pack

A vest you actually freeze (advanced)

A video with front and back

How to make your own ice packs

I bought my ice packs and use some cell ice packs that are hard - soft ones are more comfortable but these things have a lot of staying power and my research doesn't go far enough to find out if i could get flexible ones that can also handle several hours outside.

With pride month here, allow me to STRONGLY RECOMMEND for anyone who is heat sensitive who intends to be out and about in crowds in the northern hemisphere.

I can recommend the make of the ice packs if anyone is curious.

psa to everyone on antipsychotics during the summertime

some antipsychotics can make you more susceptible to heat exhaustion because they make it so your body cannot regulate your body temperature correctly. I learned this the hard way last summer, I got really nasty heat exhaustion while on a high dose of quetiapine. so check if your meds react badly to heat, and if they do, please be sure to wear your sunscreen, have light cover ups on or with you, wear a hat, and stay hydrated! be safe

[rottengurlz]

she’s like if the virgin mary smoked a pack of pall malls every day 🚬

[o0kawaii0o]

Even more summer vibes!

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Thank-you sentences for an anon behind the cut; alpha Jazz, a dark alley, and a very pretty omega. (( chrono || non-chrono ))

“Naw,” Red Hood breathes, and grips the back of her neck with both hands and squeezes her sides tight with his thighs. Tight enough that she actually notices the strength behind it, which isn’t particularly typical for her these days. The liminality usually means baseline human strength just doesn’t register the same way. 

Well . . . if he is another liminal, that would certainly explain that, she thinks. Even if he is, though, the muscles squeezing her sides and the muscles her hands are squeezing are, well . . . definitely authentic muscle, put it that way. And much, much more of it than most people have. 

It would also explain why his scent filters don’t seem to be functioning as effectively as they would be for a baseline human. 

Jazz really needs a moment here, but she cannot actually imagine finding a chance to take one in this situation. Just–definitely not, no. 

Again: ngh. 

“That’s not a good–” she tries to start, but Red Hood halfway-headbutts her again and she is increasingly convinced that he’s trying to kiss her right now. Which is bad, because if he figures out what’s keeping him from kissing her right now– 

Red Hood huffs roughly and reaches to grope at the bottom of his helmet–and not anywhere near the filter controls he hit before–and Jazz, in what is very literal self-defense, buries her fangs in his armored, leather-wrapped, blood-spattered neck and bites. And she doesn’t let her fangs puncture all the way through that armor, but they definitely do puncture it, cutting right through the gritty leather jacket and sinking in. 

So Red Hood definitely feels the pressure of her teeth pressing against his mating gland, is what she means by that. 

Red Hood immediately and very obviously forgets what he’s doing to grab the back of her neck again and dig his fingers in with a breathless, gut-punched moan, grinding down clumsily against her embarrassingly hard clit and half-blown knot. Just–Jazz isn’t actually a virgin, given the fact she’s spent more than a few of her ruts checked into carefully-researched and reliably-recommended clinics, but being in rut in a clinic is very different from the experience of a heated-up omega built like what a brick house can only dream to be fucking climbing her for her knot. She’d hoped the pressure of her teeth would settle him a little, or at least help him snap out of it enough to realize what he was trying to do, but it very clearly has not. 

Not even slightly. 

This is also not even slightly like any of her previous dating experience. 

Not that this is a date, obviously, Red Hood is compromised by both whatever’s in his system and the heat it’s triggered–and possibly also the fact that they’re apparently very, very, very, very compatible mates, which is something Jazz needs to not think about right now–and they’ve also literally never met before, and she really knows better than to jump right into things with someone she’s just met by now, considering her life experience up to this point. 

Thanks, Johnny. 

But even if Jazz were a less meticulous and deliberate and “been-burned-before” person, she really, really wouldn’t be the type to knot somebody on the first date. 

Though again, this isn’t a date. And it’s also extenuating circumstances. And– 

Oh, she really needs to do something about this before she does something about this. 

“Your filters, omega,” she tries, her head feeling a little dizzy, and Red Hood whines like hearing it hurts. Which–saying it also hurt, so it probably did, yeah. And just saying it to begin with didn’t hurt anywhere as bad as hearing an omega in need whine like that did. 

Jazz, also, doesn’t have any filters, flawed or not, and her scent-blocker vials are still in her pocket and currently out of reach, given her hands are still full of pleading, whining omega. 

That’s–an issue, yeah. Yes. Very, very much is that an issue. 

She needs to do something about that. Definitely. Just–something. 

Red Hood smells so good, though. Just from one stripped-off blocker, even, which–Ancients, that really implies a lot about how his pheromones would smell if he took off all his scent blockers. 

Jazz is trying very hard not to think about that, but unfortunately she’s not dead yet and is therefore still beholden to her own pheromones and literally everything about having a physical form, even with the liminal senses and strength. 

. . . actually, come to think, the enhanced senses are probably making this situation worse for her too. 

She very much needs to do . . . something. Yes. Yeah.

Something. 

Red Hood halfway-headbutts her again, and her inner alpha has several feelings about how bad he apparently wants to kiss her, and she clenches her teeth before they just bite through the stupid thing, the inside of her mouth tasting like flowers. Which she really, really wishes she were doing right now. Had done already. Could do– 

Red Hood whines again, sounding sad and hurt and like he needs a baby in him so bad, and Jazz’s alpha fangs bite straight through the stupid armor keeping his needy, seeking mouth all locked up away from hers. 

So much for the filters, Jazz vaguely manages to realize, and then Red Hood kisses her like a punch, the broken edges of his helmet dragging against her cheeks and its broken pieces still half-in her mouth, and she forgets . . . whatever she was thinking about. Something. Just . . . something. There was . . . something, that she was thinking about. 

Red Hood makes a breathy, hungry noise with absolutely no trace of a vocoder warping it, and Jazz crushes metal and kevlar and polycarbonate and literal circuits and wires into shards between her teeth, then turns her head just enough to spit them all out onto the ground without quite managing to take her eyes off his bared, pretty mouth. The shards aren’t sharp enough to cut liminal skin, but they’re in the way. 

“Fuck,” Red Hood says. His voice is ragged and breathless and so pretty, and so is the hard, smooth curve of exposed jaw she can see now, and the full lips and flushed skin, and–

[overenthusiasticcartoonlover]

As someone that worked for the post office in the middle of a heat wave: you have to drink more than just water.

Water is super good and important but when you sweat you aren't only getting rid of water, you're also getting rid of electrolytes. You need to be replacing those electrolytes as well, so electrolyte drinks are wonderful; just don't overdo them and definitely drink water with them.

Also, and it seems very silly but pickles and pickle juice are really good for replacing electrolytes. Around here people will make pickle juice into popsicles in the summer, especially for kids and kid's sports.

And if you are feeling signs of dehydration, room temperature water is important. It gets into your system quicker.

If you aren't dehydrated though, ice water is your best friend. I always had a gallon sized thermal water bottle with ice water in it.

How to Stay Cool Without A/C

A lot of Northerners were very kind during the freeze in Texas this winter with tips on how to stay warm for people who had lost heat. This is an attempt to repay that favor for people in the Pacific Northwest and other northerly locations who are facing dangerous heatwaves without built-in A/C. My qualifications to give this advice are that I was a summer camp attendee and counselor with no A/C for many summers in humid-ass central Texas with highs over 100F basically every day. Hopefully some of it will be of use to somebody who isn’t used to the heat.

1) PUT ICE WATER IN YOUR BODY. Ice water is your best friend and the #1 way to drop your body temp. Drink more than you think you need (like, at least a half-gallon a day and closer to a gallon or more if you have to be outside doing manual work all day) to cool your insides down and stay hydrated. Have some bananas, trail mix, or a sports drink to help replace the electrolytes you’re sweating out and keep you from getting cramps, but try to have most of your fluid intake be water. I used to take a giant water bottle, fill it part way with water, and freeze it on its side so the ice would slowly melt over the course of the day and my water would stay cold longer.

2) PUT ICE WATER ON YOUR BODY. Cold water, ice, or a damp rag on your head and neck, the backs of your knees, the insides of your elbows, and under your armpits will help you cool down the best, because your blood runs close to the surface in those places. Cold packs designed for injuries or lunchboxes, bags of frozen vegetables, etc. can substitute for ice water as well. Even room-temp water will pull heat away from your body better than body-temp sweat will, especially if it’s humid, so if you don’t have enough ice, the sink, bathtub, or hose will do fine. Dipping your feet into cool water helps a ton as well if you have to sit and work and don’t want your clothes to be wet.

3) WHERE AM I SUPPOSED TO GET SO MUCH ICE?  To make sure you have enough ice to last you the weekend, especially through a potential power failure, I recommend getting a cooler (even one of the cheap styrofoam ones is fine in a pinch) and ~10lbs of ice from the big coolers at most gas stations, drug stores, or grocery stores. Try to do this now, before anybody loses power, and store as much in your freezer as you have space for to keep it from melting. You can use it for drinking or to keep your food cold in a power failure. You can use it for a party later if you don’t end up needing it during the heat wave, but you will probably be very happy you had it.

4) AIR FLOW. Being inside a room with the windows closed is the worst possible place to be if you don’t have A/C, because glass windows create a greenhouse effect and the hot air can’t escape. If at all possible, find a shaded place outside where you can catch any possible breeze. If not, open all your windows and, if it’s safe, doors so you can get a cross-breeze. Hopefully you have window screens to keep pets and kids in and bugs out. If not, you’re gonna have to do your own risk assessment. Fans of all sizes and descriptions are your friend; ceiling fans should be set to spin counterclockwise in summer. Even if you have A/C, finding or making a handheld fan will be worthwhile for when you have to venture outside. If you aren’t in a situation where you need to conserve ice, blowing air over a cooler full of ice will give you a makeshift A/C. 

5) SHADE. You will probably immediately notice that direct sunlight is a miserable place to be when it’s super hot. Find or make a shaded location, and don’t be afraid to move around to avoid the sun as the day goes on. Stay on the shady side of the sidewalk whenever you walk someplace. Try to shade your windows as best you can without obstructing airflow using blinds, curtains, shutters, etc. especially if they’re directly in the path of the sun. Do not be a jerk to your neighbors if their shade solutions are ugly. If you can get a shade for your car windshield, I highly recommend it, as the steering wheel, dashboard, seatbelts, and even seats can quickly become too hot to touch in a sealed car and will hold that heat for a long time.

6) CLOTHING. Light-colored, loose clothing that is as close to 100% cotton or linen as you can find is your friend. It doesn’t necessarily have to be short as long as it’s breathable. You will sweat through anything you wear, so I personally prefer only wearing machine-washable stuff. Sun hats, sunscreen, sunglasses, aloe gel for sunburns, mosquito repellent, anti-chafing supplies, etc are all worth looking into if you aren’t used to spending time in the heat.

7) TIMING. Try to stay out of the sun and avoid doing anything strenuous in the middle of the day when the heat is the worst. If you have a choice, plan to be more active early in the morning and late at night when the temperature is more bearable, and take a break in the middle of the afternoon.

Here’s a graphic from the CDC about how to recognize heat-related illnesses and what to do about them. I will add to this that if it’s hot and you stop sweating, you are getting to a dangerous level of dehydration and need to drink something BEFORE you start having more serious problems.

[fuzzypuppybuddie]

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[rustedleopard]

It's such a minor gripe but I hate it when people in fanon content make it so that the giant swelterstone in the Dunes has a habit of dimming/being covered up at night. It just. Feels like it detracts from the whole "ecological disaster" deal if the swelterstone can just be covered up (why not keep it constantly covered in that case? Then monsters can grow greenery in the Dunes and restore it back to the Meadows). And the Underground is supposed to be a stagnant environment (I think Alphys said that there's no real weather in the Underground. Also the Underground is literally underground. Of course it's not gonna experience weather like the Surface). Having a 24-hour "sun" that bakes the land dry and withers crops and throws off everyone's circadian rhythm feels more in line with the whole "hopeless, unchanging Underground" situation than an imitation sun that "rises" and "sets."

[s-b-york]

I wanna boost the tip about windows open and night and closed during the day. It makes a big difference just to get the air moving through your space especially after a day of sweating and feeling oppressed in there.

You see this thing? This is an air cooler. You can mimic it with water bottles and a piece of cardboard. One row, just at a gaped window. Place the fat side outside and the small bottlenecks inside. It compresses the air down and cools it off, so double that with the gaped windows during the day to keep some airflow without the windows being open fully.

I would also recommend as much as it sucks, a TV puts out a lot more heat than you'd expect so try to use smaller devices (computers, phones, etc) for your entertainment needs. Also easier to keep with you in front of a fan to keep them cool.

Genuinely, don't go outside and move if you don't have to. Don't exercise, don't decide it's the perfect time to declutter the whole house. Sedentary lifestyle sucks but don't move as much as you can, sit in front of whatever fan you have and stay put.

Last thing, if you have external batteries charge them BEFORE this hits. There may be power outages as everybody is running fans. Get yourself one or two small USB fans as backup that can run off the external batteries if the power goes out. Any airflow is better than none, especially when you're sweating it helps wick heat from your skin no matter how small the fan.

I need UK journalists to not show 43 degrees is not beach weather like people are gonna die

Americans do not interact

[exilethegame]

I'm curious how long will it take for the MC to recover from the new surgery assuming its successful? Will it be like a month of them hobbling around or like a day of them coming back like

MC will be bedridden for about two weeks, then have have another week or so to get back on their feet, so it'll be about a month of recovery! And then a lot of it is about MC reacquainting themself with their abilities... which may go smoother for some than others... 👀

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PATTIE BOYD in the German TV Series DER KOMMISSAR episode "Keiner hörte den Schuß". 1969.