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Hey! Hey, Europeans and Brits on my dash!

I'm eyeing the temperatures we're expected to get here in The Netherlands today and tomorrow, and I've compiled a list of tips that should work for my boyfriend. Since these are actual life-threatening temperatures for you, I thought I'd quickly give it here too, in the event some of this is new information.

Tips for Getting Through Heat, Especially Without Air Conditioning:

Rule 1: The Bathroom Is Your Friend

Showers. Tiles. Water. In a heatwave, the best room in a well-insulated house — which, near as I can tell, is every house north of Spain in the Northern Hemisphere — is the bathroom. But assuming you can't just camp in the bathroom all day (though if feasible, freaking DO) — here's how to maximise it.

1) Showers. Plural. As in, multiple, short, lukewarm to cool showers throughout the day. (If you've got long hair, bonus.) The water will help mentally, as well as physically, as your body lowers temperature to adjust. Do NOT make it a cold shower, though; I don't care how tempting it is, type body WILL overcompensate.

2) Get a large salad bowl, a basin, whatever. And soak your feet in lukewarm or coolish water. You know how in winter, you always need a good pair of slippers, or UGG boots, or thick socks? Because otherwise, your not properly warm? Same thing here in reverse. If your feet are in water, that's half the battle.

3) honestly not sure how well it works, especially in horses that have less ventilation than Sydney standard build— but my Dad's favourite standby is to wet a bunch of towels, and lay them against the bottom of doors, windows, essentially every draft point in the house. Cooling whatever air makes it into the house.

4) when in doubt, there's always wetting a washcloth, or putting something cool in the fridge, and rolling the cool surface against your skin, for some relief. Hell, wet a T-shirt, let it dampen, and then put it on, if you really want to go big.

Rule 2: Stay In Place (When You Can't Get to Air Conditioning)

5) Stay inside until AT LEAST early evening, wherever possible. I can't emphasize this enough. Do NOT to outside in the heat, once it's peaked, if you can possibly avoid it. Don't go out BEFORE the peak if you know you have trouble with heat.

6) What that means is, whatever you need to get done, get it done as early or as late in the day as possible. You're basically on mandatory resting in place for most of the daylight hours. That's how a heatwave works. If you've got groceries, try to get them literally just after the shops open, or as late in the piece as possible.

Rule 3: Hydration

6) Hydrate. I'm not just talking water! Fruit juice, water with salt and some honey or sugar — heat makes your appetite, energy levels, blood sugar, and mineral levels all go whack. Making sure you drink plenty and a variety of fluids is part of the process.

Stay safe, everyone, take care of yourselves, and, pardon my profanity, be like bad coffee: stay fucking close to water.

[charanteleclerc]

To all the writers who haven't written in a while. May the right words come to you and may they actually get written down.

#yeah so writing with a toddler in the house just doesn #it does not work #especially with no 2 on the way and I am back to chucking up my guts again #one day... I will write again #but maybe whe the kids are teenagers

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This chore system actually looks really helpful!

[charanteleclerc]

let’s do something fun. there’s probably no correlation here, but it’s still cool to see, so reblog this with your one (1) or first favorite driver on the 2022 grid and your sun sign. i’ll go first. i’m a taurus, and my first favorite driver is danny ric. i’m going to put all the data i receive this week into an excel sheet on friday, may 13th! it’s all for fun, but i still think it’s cool to see the connections.

#pisces and seb

[charanteleclerc]

i appreciate ofmd’s “it’s only 1717 when it’s funny” approach to historical accuracy. pinnochio was written in the 1800s. the real israel hands should be 16. pyramid schemes. stede being in that incredibly modern theater teacher outfit. anyway i think lucius should know who lady gaga is but no one else does

#ofmd

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Debatable. Go support me on twitter or leave tips!

#ofmd #accurate

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-i hope you find that.

-i think i have.

available as a set of three 5x7’s in my store now ✨

#ofmd

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Big bad pirates in love ❤️

#ofmd

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our flag means death edit meme • (1/3) scenes → “what makes ed happy?”

#ofmd #this scene is living rent free in my head

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Twi | ins

#star wars

[charanteleclerc]

the human body is an engineering marvel. I sneeze in bright light. if I dont get enough sunlight on my skin I get tired and sad and have to drink a lot of milk to fix it. standing too much hurts, but sitting too much also hurts. if I get a virus, my body will increase its temperature in an attempt to cook it, which also cooks my brain cells. toenails exist. I have to turn the radio down to see better when I drive. there are 17 genes dictating what my hair texture is, but it completely changes when the air is too humid. yawning is contagious. there are more species of bacteria living in my body than there are species of birds in the entire world. every few months I grievously injure my neck by "sleeping on it weird." it took seven million years of human evolution to form me, and now I'm afraid of phone calls.

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#ofmd

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Reactions to Stede’s onboard library | Our Flag Means Death

#ofmd #who doesn't want a library on a boat

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Can you see me now? You were always gonna realize what I am.

#blackbeard #ofmd #edward teach

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i may have made something

#ofmd #accurate

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“How’s it feel? To be in love?” | Our Flag Means Death

+ the actual clip because they really made a Stede/Ed fancam for all of us….

#ofmd

[charanteleclerc]

after stede and edward stop fighting eds gonna be like "fuck.. sorry about all your books.." and stedes gonna be like "oh no matter i have secondary copies of every one" then he's gonna open another secret passageway and lucius is gonna be in there eating paper

#ofmd