#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

[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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[rogdona]

[impulsivelycontentious]

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!

Sanji ver. [x]

Zoro ver. [x]

[museofvoid]

i can't read posts defending ascended astarion because they make me so angry so i need to rant. and no it's not because i'm a "hater". i love astarion! and while i do prefer spawn astarion, that doesn't mean i don't enjoy ascended astarion as well!

yes if romanced he still loves tav, but he does so in an unhealthy and obsessive way. he literally forces tav to become his vampire spawn (just because he calls them his "consort" doesn't change that) if they want to keep their relationship with him. he doesn't even give them time to think, they have to decide right now. and if they say no, he gets mad.

and if tav asks about becoming a true vampire astarion will avoid the subject and say something about them needing time to adjust. he's afraid of tav leaving leaving him and so he needs control over them. if tav questions him about their relationship before making a choice he'll even say, out loud, that he views sex as a means of control. right before he plans to have to sex with you.

i've talked about this before but the line - He will see you as degrading yourself if you continue to be with him. But perhaps you wish to degrade yourself. And he knows it. - that you get if you read his thoughts later, literally confirms his motives. Tav will always be in a position below him, they will never be equals. But to him, if Tav still says yes, that means they consent to that. (and maybe they do, who am i to judge! my first durge certainly liked that idea)

astarion is bad at relationships, understandably. he doesn't know how to do romance proper, all he knows is practiced lines and physical touches. but if he loves you he'll want to get better at it! spawn astarion knows that a relationship with him takes a lot of work, both from his partner and himself, and he's willing to put in that work, but also understands if it's too much for you. meanwhile ascended astarion completely skips that step and takes the relationship he wants by force.

i've kinda lost the thread of where i was going with this, but the first time i ascended romanced astarion he made me deeply uncomfortable. and that's the point. now as i said, i still enjoy him, while also recognising that he is fucked up and abusive. the main difference between his ascended and spawn endings is that aa doesn't work through his trauma, he sweeps it under a rug of power and influence, and that will show in a relationship with him. and that's not a bad thing from a story perspective! it's very good and well done actually! i like it!

anyway i like ascended astarion and you're also allowed to like ascended astarion for whatever reason but please at least recognise the red flags

[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

[suzukiblu]

WIP excerpt for Marina behind the cut; “alpha Jazz, a dark alley, and a very pretty omega”. (( chrono || non-chrono ))

Though it’s hard to tell from how loud he yowls if that volume's because he’s coming or if it’s just because of his wail. 

Well–she doesn’t think as much glass broke that last time, at least. 

. . . though there also just may not be all that much glass left to break in earshot, considering. Might also be that. 

Probably is actually that, yeah. 

“You’re loud,” Jazz observes stupidly, which is incredibly obvious and therefore a totally unnecessary observation, though she’s gonna forgive herself for that because going bareback with an in-heat halfa after dropping into rut cold is nothing like in-clinic rut management and it’s very–it’s very distracting, it’s absolutely entirely distracting, it’s–every time she thrusts into Red Hood she can hear the wet, filthy sound of it, can hear the impact of her hips hitting his absolutely perfect ass every time he takes her to the hilt, because he does take her to the hilt, because he wants her in him to the hilt, even with her knot half-blown he wants it–

She thinks she was thinking about something else, maybe, but Red Hood’s hole keeps clutching her clit like it never wants it to pull out, so that’s really taking up most of her bandwidth right now. Or–all of it, maybe. 

��Why yuh smell like that, why yuh feel like that, sho good, why’sit sho good,” Red Hood slurs, sounding this close to wasted, his hips jerking in desperate, erratic shudders as Jazz snaps her full length into him again and his hands claw at her back and his hole somehow manages to get even tighter. “In me, wan’ it in me, feels sho good, feels like m’dyin’ again.” 

Definitely all her bandwidth is right here, yeah. 

“Oh, did–fuck, ah–did dying feel good?” Jazz asks distractedly as she fucks him hard enough that this time he sinks into the wall because the cratered bricks give even deeper, and not because of any intangibility. She only asks because Red Hood seems like the talkative type and she feels like she should be supportive of that while he’s treating her clit this good, and also because she needs something to concentrate on to keep her from blowing her knot before Red Hood’s hole gets treated that good itself. She can barely breathe, but she can–talk, she thinks. Mostly. Mostly she can talk. “My brother just said–ah, ah–he said it tasted like batteries, but backwards, whatever that means, Ancients, you’re so tight. I didn’t think anybody could be so tight.” 

“Wuzn’t. Wuzn’t good,” Red Hood mumbles blurrily, his head lolling back against the bricks and a note of distress slipping into his scent and a flicker of near-intangibility chasing its way through just about every part of him that isn’t death-gripping her clit. Given the reaction, Jazz figures it’d be rude to press, but also she definitely needs to make that distress in his scent go away; needs to make him feel better. Omega needs to feel better. Omega needs to feel perfect. Omega needs to feel so perfect he forgets he’s even dead. 

She can make that happen, she thinks. 

She will. 

And if he really is a halfa . . .

[atalana]

so i finally cleared prometheus on 32!

(and now i can get round to testing out the other weapons bc i unlocked eos' torches and then never looked back)

[micewithknives]

100% recommend everything everyone has said in this thread, and would add the two things that at a skim I haven’t seen anyone mention:

@petrock-rambles makes a great point, keep an eye out on other people, you’re often a better judge of whether they’re getting heat exhaustion than they are. Keep chatting - keep a particular eye on whether what everyone is saying is making sense, that’s often one of the first things to go!

Also of note, keeping scarves damp around your neck, and refreshing them with cool water is a good way to enhance cooling through evaporation, without it costing you sweat!

hi reid! i was wondering if you had any tips for staying cool (and sane) on digs in the heat. i have an opportunity to do an excavation this summer but the heat often goes about 95f. as always i ♡ your blog

Hi there,

There's some advice from old posts in my advice master list—go and check that out! My favorite hack is to freeze a bottle(s) of Gatorade and then drink it as it melts throughout the day. BUT!!! If you do that, YOU HAVE TO TAKE A SIP OUT OF THE BOTTLE BEFORE YOU FREEZE IT OTHERWISE IT WILL EXPLODE.

However, the two most important things you can do for yourself are 1) learning the signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke, and 2) advocating for yourself (and others) should you begin to experience them.

As always, feel free to chime in with their own tips and tricks. -Reid

[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."

[singularscissor]

so uh. i don't really like the previous ref post i did for Bright Crown so. i made a new one that gets to the point and also actually looks good. it's still not really an art reference per se (consistency is for losers 😎), more like a general summary about them

much yapping and elaboration follows below

Bright Crown was initially designed by a member of the Assembly in Recognition of Ignorance. The Assembly was a scientific trancendentalist organization that believed the Solution could only be found through a deeper and more complete understanding of the world in general, in particular various natural laws and phenomena.

The Assembly conducted research in a variety of fields, astronomy/upper orbit conditions were only one branch of the organization. For much of the Assembly's existence, the work of Bright Crown's development and construction progressed slowly. Scientists built ground infrastructure (the Endless Sea Facility) and refined the superstructure's design in anticipation of its construction.

When the Great Equalization came, storms and flooding began to threaten the Assembly's complexes, and the leadership fell into agitation. The branch responsible for Bright Crown suddenly became politically powerful because of the infrastructure they had built -- the automated facilities were already designed to supply the superstructure, and it was not difficult to adapt them to also support the Assembly's general population. In particular, the half-constructed communications spire was modified to include a sizeable city, safely above cloud level.

With control of the Council, the Bright Crown branch was able to more fully commit the Assembly's resources to the project, and construction proceeded considerably faster (though, compared to other contemporary iterator projects, progress was slow. Building in space is difficult.)

During this time, all five launch rails were used to deliver components up the the station for assembly. The rails use a combination of gravity manipulators and magnets to accelerate the supply capsules past the cloud layer. The capsules are also equipped with their own thrusters for use once the rails are cleared.

After the structure's completion, the launch rails were used less -- though, as an mostly isolated and definitely not lossless system, Bright Crown requires regular shipments of fuel, replacement water, raw materials etc. All five rails were kept operational for the sake of redundancy, but only half of them were ever used at the same time.

Most communication receivers are designed to catch signals from other ground based sources, rather than from space. Even proper equipment (such as the specially designed ESF spire) can only pick up a signal when Bright Crown is at the proper point in orbit above it. This left Bright Crown socially isolated -- though they are assigned to a local group based off ESF's geographical location, they are more or less ignored by its members due to the infrequency of their transmissions.

Bright Crown also often worries about their long term survival. There are a lot of inherent complications with being in space -- damage that might be ignorable to a normal iterator would be crippling in such a precariously balanced system. A hull breach in the wrong place, or a breakdown in the groundside supply chain could spell disaster.

Relations with the Assembly eventually degraded. Bright Crown hated being dependent on Endless Sea Facility and the Council's goodwill, and also held a grudge against them for continuing with their own construction even after it was clear their longevity would be substandard.