Two siblings, one blog, too many posts. At least one of us (Core[nah man, it's NN]) is horrendously forgetful and doesn't tag things. Sorry. But hey, sometimes we're funny!(NN has a sideblog @tamlins-stories-and-poems for art, writing and religion. Core also has a sideblog but NN doesn’t remember the url off hand)
If Sinnog had had an X-tranceiver moment that would have been so cool I think….. Imagine barry shouting at your ass through the screen how cool would that have been? hehehoho
Don’t know the details, but honey, if they didn’t like you before, this interview isn’t going to help.
I have seen the second homers come into my lake community and ruin it and push people out and take control of the HOA and try to turn this place into Disney Celebration Village II and now with this air bnb crap where it's even easier to monetize these second homes it's gotten ten times worse. These locusts come in try ban certain colors of houses, and work vans, and at home businesses, and police peoples yards, and mandate any farm equipment must be barn/garage kept and out of sight from the road and this and that and this other thing. They get up at HOA meetings and read reviews of renters and try to pass ordinances to prevent whatever the air bnber complained about. Like no mowing your grass in your bathing suit and only being able to mow or run power equipment certain hours of the day and only on week days. And these air bnb assholes complain about everything like this was some resort and everybody that lives here is like there for their entertainment or convenience. Right now our HOA meetings are like some country about to devolve into civil war. We have factions and caucuses. If you air bnb I hate you as much as the people you rent from.
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
If you've got a cold pack of some kind, the fastest way to cool down is to put those wherever arteries run close to the skin. Wrists and ankles are good, so is the back of your neck, the small of your back (along the spine), and the backs of your knees.
If you are opening windows, open one on the shaded side and one on the sunny side, if you have that option; it will give a cross breeze. If you can open one on the shaded side and one on the side not in direct sun, even better.
I live in San Antonio. 43° is fucking MURDER. 43° is when they open government building so people don't fucking die.
Stay safe. Drink water. Good luck.
this honestly just came out of left fucking field i would have never expected to hear anything like this in this show. consider me Pleasantly Surprised tbh
This was the autism episode
people seem to forget that house was a multiply disabled man, so it should be a given that he’d be against eugenics and eugenicist doctors
It's gotta be a situation that deserves it though. Like, as much as I like Mass Effect 2, the objective in the thresher maw fight in Grunt's quest was bullshit. Is there anybody who actually ran out the clock instead of killing that thing? No, it was barely a serious threat, even at low levels and high difficulties.
But the Vader fight at the end of Jedi: Fallen Order? That's a point where your one and only goal is to get the hell away from this guy, because no matter how many thousands of troopers, how many monsters, how many Inquisitors you've fought, you're still orders of magnitude beneath him. You don't even register as an enemy to him. He's somebody else's nemesis, the climax of a story you're not even in, and it's going to take every trick you've learned so far and the help of every surviving ally you have left to escape.
Similarly, "press X to not die" is usually stupid bullshit, replacing actual gameplay with 'respond within 0.3 seconds in the middle of this cutscene to continue the story, otherwise watch the first half of the cutscene over and over again'. But at the end of the intro to Ghost of Tsushima, when you've been shot in the back a dozen times, lit on fire, and left in a pool of your own blood until long after your comrades have all fallen, then the camera focuses in on your corpse and the button prompt appears? And you press it, and the wind swirls dramatically, and you proceed to spend the rest of the game as an unstoppable supernatural revenant? That fucking delivered.
Asterios (fate grand order) vs Raphael Kirsten (fire emblem: three houses) vs Yasutaro “Chad” Sado (bleach) vs Hunk Garret (Voltron)
Asterios
Raphael
Chad
Hunk
Don’t worry
If they tie I will put them in my sims 4 torture chamber
Raphael Kirsten propaganda!!!
He's constantly dismissed as nothing more than a one-note dude who only cares about protecting his sister and eating. If you just skim the character, or only go by his monastery dialogue, that's a fair assumption to make. But Raphael's simplicity masks an, imo, necessary and actually really good character.
In a cast like Three Houses, full of people that have suffered trauma and grief and unfairly heavy burdens, Raphael is unique in starting the game with his "arc" more or less finished. He's a commoner who's parents died horribly to monsters just a few years ago. His best friend felt (incorrectly) responsible for the deaths and stopped talking to him out of shame. He has an aging grandpa and a little sister to support. So what does he do? How does he respond to this chain of hardships? Does he grow jaded? Does he pine for the better times? After all, this all sounds like it could lead to a character with heavy internal angst, but... we don't get that with Raphael. He's just not that kind of guy. When you first meet him, he's all smiles and himbo cheer. He's already embraced life and has moved on. And he loves life, every day!
What Raphael lacks in "complexity" or cutting wit, he makes up for it with honestly the healthiest approach to grief out of everyone in the cast. And this makes him a great support(pun intended. Fire Emblem fans know what I mean). Raphael is all about the simple joys of life and works to remind other characters to stop getting so wrapped up in their baggage. He's the emotional intelligence, even if he's not completely aware of it. Ignatz overthinks his role in the death of Raphael's parents and assumes Raphael must hate him? Raph's like, "dude, what are you talking about? I just want us to be friends again, there's nothing to forgive? I love you, bro?" and helps him leave that headspace. Marianne is swallowed by her depression and only talks to animals, because she believes she's cursed and other people should stay away from her? Raphael misunderstands and tries to chirp at Marianne like a bird, startling her into actually, sincerely laughing(this is after he tried to find "birds that talk like people", btw, and also one of the cutest moments in the whole game). Byleth loses a loved one? Raphael offers actually good advice at managing the grief and a shoulder to lean on. There's tons of examples like this.
Idk. I'm running out of time to write this up as nice as I want. I love this idiot. He's so kind. Also he was an absolute beast on my first playthrough. If the character analysis didn't sway you, vote for him for punching a genocidal racist wizard to death in one round for me.
