#ways to stay cool

[breelandwalker]

Beating The Heat On The Cheap

For all my European darlings who are suffering through this horrible heat wave, my American friends who don't always have access to air conditioning, and anyone else who needs it....

Here are some tips on how to survive the heat of summer at home when you have next to no money and only household basics to work with.

(I'd love it if readers would reblog this and add their own ideas - people need all the help they can get right now!)

Stay hydrated. This is the most important thing. You're going to sweat a LOT and your body needs that replenished as often as possible. Drink WATER as much as possible and cold is best. Soda won't cut the mustard and sports drinks may replenish your electrolytes, but they are not meant for subsistence. If you need to flavor your water to make it more palatable, do it. And I know cold tea is anathema to some, but a glass of sweet or citrusy iced tea might be just the thing to get you through.

Wear loose, breezy clothing. I know the instinct is to wear your smallest, briefest summer garments, but sometimes wearing something larger, looser, and flowy helps to cool you down. The movement of the fabric creates a little bit of a breeze to draw heat away from your skin and helps all that sweating actually cool you down.

Draw the shades. If you have curtains or blinds or window shades, cover the windows, especially on the sunny side of your home. Shading the place will help keep the heat out, at least a little.

Use fans and appliances judiciously. Keep the air moving. I know sometimes it's just blowing hot air around, but it's better than stagnating. Also if you have an exhaust fan above your stove, USE IT. Draw off some of that heat from your cooking and for the love of all things holy, try not to use the oven. (Also, if you're not using your desktop computer or gaming system, unplug it for a while - those things generate a lot of heat!)

Eat cool and light. Try to avoid making meals that are going to heat up the house. If you can, make cold meals or use the microwave instead of the stovetop or oven. If you have an outdoor grill, use that for the evening meal instead of the stove. Also, if you have a blender handy, smoothies are a great way to cool down and also get in a few servings of fruit or vegetables.

Swamp coolers are your friend. If you've got a towel, a drink cooler, a bag of ice, and a box fan, you can make a homemade swamp cooler as well. Put the towel on the floor and the drink cooler on top. Fill the cooler with ice and position the fan so that it's blowing over and around the open cooler from less than two feet away. Elevate it on a box or chair if necessary. This isn't going to cool your entire home, but it can cool a small space and provides a little relief. Just be aware that there will be some sweating from the cooler and you'll need to replace the ice after a while. (The meltwater may be good for watering the garden or doing the washing up though.)

Cold showers take the edge off of many things. At the end of the day, take a shower that's a few degrees cooler than body temperature. Even if you don't do a full scrub or wash your hair, get in and sluice down, or use a pitcher of room-temperature water to give yourself a rinse. This helps your whole body cool down, cleans off the sweat of the day so you don't get breakouts, and helps you sleep cooler and less sticky. (Also, try sleeping under the duvet cover without the duvet inside to stay cooler at bedtime. And definitely have a fan in the bedroom.)

Make some homemade cold spray. This is something I used to make for camping trips. In a spray bottle, combine tap water and aloe gel in about equal measure. Then, if you have it, add 2-3 drops of peppermint essential oil. Shake to combine. You can store the bottle in the fridge when you're at home or tuck it into your bag if you're out and about. A few spritzes on the chest or the back of the neck helps immensely. (Don't spray it on your face or near your eyes. If you have any allergy or sensitivity to peppermint, leave the essential oil out.)

Keep reusable ice packs in the freezer. These can be a lifesaver. They're a quick way to cool down during the day, by cuddling or leaning against while sitting. If you can't find ice packs, fill a freezer bag 3/4 full of ice water with half a cup of rubbing alcohol, squeeze out the air before closing, and reinforce the seams and edges with duct tape. In an emergency when nothing else is working, or if someone starts to overheat, take an ice pack and put it under the arm. There's a whole host of major circulatory vessels in that area and it's a fast way to bring down body temp if someone's in trouble or while you're waiting for emergency services.

Please feel free to add your own tips and stay safe out there!

#Beat The Heat #summer #heat wave #ways to stay cool #life hacks #practical advice

[domirine]

ever seen a man so beautiful you ram your bike into his flowers?

my full piece for the retrouvailles zine! i had a lot of fun painting it. hope you enjoy looking at the lil details, plants, and the only character who has his shit together (the dog)

#art #jjba #avpol #mohammed avdol #jean pierre polnareff #iggy #i suppose! he sure is here after all. #i sat on this for a long while and i'm very happy that the whole zine is out i had a nice time working with everyone there #also i like participating in zines. just saw another jojo one i would have loved to apply but you know how it is #the world shows you zine info only after the artists are announced lol looking forward to seeing it either way #ok enough babblin. stay cool

[hotwngz]

Took a trip to New Mexico to watch the ring of fire eclipse. So here's that as seen thru my phone camera, which actually captured it fairly well- u can even see some sun spots in the first 2 pics ✨️

#happy to go out of my way 2 appreciate the wonders of this universe. #on this episode that was driving 5 hours to watch the sun do something cool for 5 min #actually was well worth it i enjoyed the art and history of santa fe #would honestly have stayed there longer if i could #og #solar eclipse #annular solar eclipse #ring of fire eclipse #space #solar eclipse 2023

[finleymcr]

mcr & green day!! >_<

#alternative #emo #frank iero #mcr #mcr5 #my chemical romance #silly #silly little guy #nostalgia #green day #billie joe green day #billie joe armstrong #mikey way #gerard way #ray toro #tre cool #mike dirnt #2000s emo #2000s #stay 2005 #pop punk #punk rock #:3 #sillyposting

[musubiki]

danmarch 🐉💎

#honkai star rail #dan heng #march 7th #danmarch #fanart #hsr #what else do i tag. i have no idea #anyway. im breaking my VERY LONG oc art streak to post my one(1) contribution to star rail #i care them very much #ive been playing this game so religiously and they have not left my team #tragic past(emo) vs tragic past(girly pop) #theres NO WAY with marchs very teenage girl mind that she does not have a crush on the hot cool mysterious yet caring dragon guy #who stays in the room right next to her #and the fact that he teases her so much........ #the whole ass belabog quest he throws in little harmless march roasts every so often #he fucking CARE her #i bets shes like a filipino mom with that camera. every oppertunity (picture!!!!) #and dan heng gets dragged into it #he is honing his photography skills against his will #any nice place? shes like (lemme pose can you get a photo of me?) #dan heng just sighs #they bond over silently judging stelle rummaging through the garbage #cast each other that best friend glance as half her body is sticking out of a trash bin #i like to think you see them hanging out on the train together #with dan heng reading some obscure 8th century book on civilization pattern and development #and march is humming and putting stickers and aesthetic shit in her scrapbook #taping a piece of antimatter legion loot in the middle of a page #and with bubbly handwriting (we beat some bad guys today!!! <333 so fun!!)

[ch1zzie]

The original in the bottom

Plus the picture I mainly drew but decided to draw the rest for funny

#thats not my neighbor #milk man #just tried to draw something in my mind to post along with saying some updates #monday the people are gonna give my grandma the keys to the house! while i have to stay at my aunts place for wifi for school #(online school) #my moms gonna be moving things out of storage into the house! AAAA I CANT WAIT #also little welcome home update #im not sure if i said here? wait nevermind i just remembered while typing (it was that i got barnaby and the pins) AAA silly me #also im making a little julie out of clay (if i wake up and their messed up i am NOT redoing that😭) #the legs are a little messed up because julie was gonna be the size of an hatsune miku figure on accident so i chose to shorten her a bit #only because im not sure if im gonna make the others too AND because theres no way hes gonna be THAT tall😭 #also! im making easter art #yes its barnaby and wally again just for fun! but a few changes like keeping their regular outfits because i cant think of anything else!!! #why not the ones in the old easter drawing? welllll a follower said that wallys outfit looked a bit familiar to another not so good thing #it wasnt on purpose just an accident because i hadn't notice BUT im glad i know now so i can be more careful! #im not sureeee if im gonna finish the easter art OR the julie clay thingy but I'd love too! and honestly HOPE to #high chance i will (well maybe the easter art could be late or not) #maaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAA trying to think if theres anything else but cant! ill try posting this hoping my wifi wont hate me... #also i know i said this account was for welcome home posting but i didnt have any cool welcome homey things to put here gahhhhh #ehehehhe once i get my new room and its allllll just me #imma post like crazy (wellll that IS the plan so i hope) #even if its little dumb posts #by the way this post was gonna say on top “i know i said this account is for welcome home posting but TAKE THIS FOR LITTLE UPDATES” #just removed it because i dunnooooo just didded #hehe didded

[xbomboi]

5 times Apple hugged Raven…

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…and the one time Raven hugged back.

(see my previous eah comic here)

#sorry that this is so sloppy #i just couldn’t let this idea stay in my head too long before it got lost in all the rubble #my god drawing eah characters in their basic outfits is bad enough #and then their other ones just get Worse #looking at you raven dragon games #i half assed that because no way am i gonna try to do all that #sorry #also just pretend that i intentionally left the booking glass out of every drawing after the first one it’s in #let’s just act like apple was so shocked raven hugged her that she dropped it #eah #eah fanart #ever after high #raven queen #apple white #rapple #could be platonic or romantic #i didn’t make it with a shipping intent but #it’s totally cool if you see it that way #and understandable. lol #either way the bond these two have is literally what defines ever after high at its heart #they are just important to me #duncart

[pbnmj]

i deserve a spider-woman nepal..... miles doesn't have to be the only teen spider with a terrible bisexual mentor (enter my own sketches of the world's most annoying spiderperson, who i fling towards pavitr, complete with a design that's subject to change)

#geeta methodically puts on all her jewelery before going out as spiderwoman <3 u cant fight crime if u are not cute #spidersona #of sorts? i think but everyone should have expected this from me. there was no way sony was going to give me spiderman india #and not receive spiderwoman nepal (THE KATHMANHATTAN JOKE IS TOO EASY) in response #im tackling south asian unity one spidersona at a time! #pavitr prabhakar #spiderman #my art #also ofc one specific mention to demigod-of-the-agni who inadvertently triggered my actual posting of geeta #who was just supposed to stay in my psd files forever..... #mythic mumbattan au my beloved. hindu mythology my beloved. genuinely so so cool to see and it enabled me being self indulgent on this blog #for some extra context: im very much still workshopping her and me and my nepali friend were drawing her tgt #as in she would say something and i would hurriedly scribble/sketch it down #and then i kept kinda building on it. ofc i could not resist being inspired by the comics noirverse #so here she's also gifted her powers by a goddess (durga!!!!!) and almost works w her like a much less deranged moon knight. yeah... #don't look too closely at these pls . the design/sketching/etc is kind of everywhere #edit: forgot to adjust colors so theyre up again and a little more vibrant nyeow....

[mayasaura]

Going into Alecto, I think it's important to expect that the series won't conclude with a clear lesson. Either about morality—what makes a good person, evil getting their just desserts, ect—or a thesis on decolonization. It's not that kind of story.

Deep down, this series is two drunk girls bearing their souls in a dark corner of the bar. An hours-long conversation that wheels wildly through pop culture, past trauma, theoretical physics, dreams and aspirations, global warming, hairstyling, friends, family, gender, personal insecurities, world history, favorite foods. It has a lot to say, and a lot of it profound, but it's not trying to teach anything. At the end of the night, the point was how fucking cool that girl was, and the potent electric potential for something lgbt to happen

#the locked tomb #alecto the ninth #ofc this is just my perspective #but I've been thinking of how the author said that the way she stays true to her story is by giving herself permission to not be a teacher #and that one of the driving forces behind her writing is the rpgs she played as a kid #and how everyone online made fun of the girl characters like they were weak and not good for anything #when she had played the game levelling them up and properly equipping them and beat the boss with them #and how she wants to be able to tell those stories where girls are just really fucking cool and get to have the adventures #so I'm kind of nervous about the idea that tlt is about the evils of colonisation or about taking on God as a symbol of the patriarchy #bc.... I think it might be exploring all that while really being about how girls are really fucking cool #and I'm worried about the potential fallout if a large portion of the fandom goes into the finale expecting those priorities to be reversed

[hayden-christensen]

EWAN MCGREGOR & HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN Lucasfilm’s Studio Showcase Panel @ Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022 | May 26, 2022

#star wars celebration #sw celebration #ewan mcgregor #emcgregoredit #ewanmcgregoredit #hayden christensen #hchristensenedit #haydenchristensenedit #swcastedit #starwarsblr #sw cast #kenobi #kenobi press #*mine #*2022 #*gifs #4k #back to these two haha I was hunting after hd footage all day yesterday #they way they didn't include their cool af duel of the fates entrance in the recap smhhh #the way I stayed up until 4 for this and they didn't even have a livestream rip

[whollyjoly]

hot in the day, hot in the night, hot as the coal coming to tread, light on your bed, here we go oh, listen whistle roll (baby the, the sun is getting low)

the bucktommy cowboy au nobody asked for part two (part one) (part three)

(song insp.)

#these two have me in a chokehold FR #look i just love the idea of them lying on the hood of their truck in the middle of the night sharing a beer and looking at the open sky #buck has one hand in the air tracing the constellations while the other is tangled loosely with tommys at his side #he's talking about how cool it is that different cultures will look at the same stars and draw different pictures #and isn't that a wonderful thing about humans? that we can look at the same set of dots in the sky and through them tell different stories #about what is SO important to us that it must be literally written in the sky? isnt that just amazing? #and tommy isnt looking at the constellations - how can he when theres a star of his own right next to him? #so its evan he's looking at when he softly lets out a quiet “...amazing” #...whoops my fingers slipped #ANYWAYS #stay tuned for more in this moodboard series because it WILL happen #the bucktommy cowboy au nobody asked for agenda is REAL #bucktommy cowboy au #otp: better ways to get your attention #bucktommy #kinkley #tevan #firepilot #fireflight #evan buckley #tommy kinard #911 abc #911 on abc #911 moodboard #em's moodboards #mine #im back on my cowboy bullshit

[aroaceleovaldez]

I never quite finished these two cards the first time i tried making a PJO major arcana and I never posted them. I really like the designs though so I’ll probably try to do something similar when I draft them again

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #leo valdez #my art #tarot #hoo #the main thing i wanted to adjust for the Leo card was the Festus cause. i was struggling to simplify a mechanical dragon for tarot #also wasn't 100% on the embers detail cause wasnt sure how well that'd translate to a physical card #nico's was pretty close to done though #also i never figured out a boarder / font #im still obsessed with the way Leo was described during the fight in the end of BoO for the record #just ''yup he was MADE OF FIRE'' so cool #i can go through my list of my card assignments if anyone's curious #a couple of cards arent fully solidly decided but a decent amount are #also looking at my old art is reminding me the colors on my old monitor were a Lil Skewed #so saturated.... #nico's card will prob stay mostly the same though cause hell yeah that rocks. still love it. #if anyone's curious for these card reasonings - #judgement is traditionally depicted with an angel raising the dead and the planetary association is pluto. #i couldn't NOT. also card meanings: destiny / upcoming decision / putting past behind / healing / judgement / self-reflect / self-doubt #which is very nico vibes to me #then death is resistance to change / major change / endings & start of something new / personal transformation #which feels very Leo to me! plus i like the imagery of instead of Death on a horse it's Leo on Festus at the end of BoO #cause that was him ending a chapter of him trying to find himself and starting anew

[shrews-things]

Things about top surgery that I didn't expect (double incision)

It hurt so much less right after waking up than I thought it would, it was similar to pneumonia lung pain like kind of a burning sensation

Wasn't hard or upsetting to get used to my new look!! Also there isn't an ounce of regret in me, I thought I'd have some at least in the first few weeks

I had the posture of a shrimp for like two whole weeks from that compression garment

It itches as it heals which is fucked up bc I can't feel shit in any of it and also when I try to gently pat it to make the itch go away, I can't feel that either so it doesn't help :')

I'm like 5 weeks post-op and I still can't raise my arms above my head gdkdhskhdn

Still reaching for a bra or binder out of habit when getting dressed

It still feels like I'm somehow??? Hiding my chest???? Like when I was still just binding, I still go like "oh this is a good outfit, it hides my chest well" boy you haven't got a chest to hide

The urge to pull out the loose ends of my dissolvable stitches,,,,

#this stayed in my drafts for a while as I went about my recovery and collected them dgkdhdkd #anyway not much reason for it I'm just compiling my thoughts and documenting my experiences #ftm #top surgery #might add onto this as I go #anyway the scabs from my grafts have almost all fallen by now! there's just one tiny bit left #it makes me super happy #I love the way I look #it fills me with this joy and excitement and comfort that I didn't think I'd ever feel about my body #huge shoutout to that one person here on tumblr who helped me through a lot of the process #<3 #also I know my experiences aren't necessarily universal #just thought it'd be cool to share

[flashdoesahundredyarddash]

Under blue moon, I saw you 🦇

#who is up thinking about cass cain guys.. #actually... this is a design for my au im making rn... #reading batgirl 2000 btw... #her design has a lot more bat coded traits #alike the bruce in my au... he also has the bat ears instead of the pointy look.. #biomimicry designs i tell you!!!! #cass cain #cassandra cain #uhmm idk what else to tag #speedster art #i drew this recently but i am trying to keep my tumblr up to date.. #more art soon (<-- this dude literally has hal jordan parallax fanart rn that is about to be uploaded...stay tuned..) #guys she is sooo cool #i love the way shes designed in my au because her suit is different too #anyways..uhmmuhmhmhum i love colors and i love coloring digital pieces thank you goodbye :33 #my art

[magnusthepuppet]

hm. interesting (i’m going insane)

gif by @figmentof

#cooooool cool cool cool cool #i’m normal ! #my dumbass never stays past the credits #so my first exposure to this clip was a gif on tumblr……. #THE WHIPLASH #‘let’s take things slow’ #immediately sees them about to fuck #😭😭😭 #i’m cheering for them in every way possible #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #!!! #‘spoilers’ we all knew they’d fuck nasty this season don’t lie /lh #ed teach #stede bonnet #ed x stede #blackbonnet #gentlebeard

[panncakes]

"Drive safely."

LAWS OF ATTRACTION (2023)

#laws of attraction #laws of attraction the series #charntinn #tinncharn #jamfilm #film thanapat #jam rachata #mine* #loaedit #bledit #the way tinn visibly works up the courage to say something and then immediately back tracks #how despite charn having been flirting with him since the first second and they had a genuine Moment but a few hours ago at most #he is still such a school boy with a crush trying to play it cool when he is the one taking initiative #and god how delighted and fully charmed charn is by him and his awkwardness #and the endless lingering stares as tinn moves to go when he actually really doesn't want to go #im so obsessed with everything about them #theres absolutely no reason for this gifset ot be this long but i just really love all their nuances here #especially tinns bc we've seen so little of it around charn until this episode but look at his little face!! #give him a reason to stay charn!!