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Glitter GIFs were very popular in my youth. I loved them. For me, Lolirock is something that goes back to childhood, something that I want to add sparkles to.

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12 years ago, when I came across an animated series about magical girls, I didn't even think how much it would change my life. For 10 years we waited for the sequel, joked, but did not lose hope (some especially strongly).

I've been drawing designs and adoptions based on this fandom for 10 years. by far, this is the most favorite style and theme for the paradise.

Hello and welcome to this summer’s heat wave!  I just did some heavy lifting and now I’m sitting in my apartment with the fan going and the AC cranked up, and I’d like to share some cooling-down tips.

1. Hydration

Water is super great.  We live off it, we’re mostly composed of it, etc.  When in doubt, drink some water.  But sometimes, you drink water and you don’t feel that much better, or you feel better very slowly, so here are some tips to help with that: -Have some salt!  If you’re like me, you need a lot.  You can lose a lot from sweating, and having enough salt can help you absorb all the water you’re drinking.  (I also do this when I exercise; I almost passed out at a dance hall once bc I was drinking water and not eating salt!) -Instead of a sports drink, which is more or less expensive sugar-water with some salt and seemingly random vitamins, try weak lemonade or a mix of half water and half orange juice (or your citrus juice of choice).  You can even try just water with a squirt of lemon juice in it, if you don’t mind the sourness!  Any whole juice would work, probably; if it’s cloudy, it’s probably just fine.  The vitamins and nutrients in the juice are very healthy and, just like salt, will help your body absorb the water.

2. Cooling off

“But I just pulled two bikes and a vacuum cleaner all the way from my car up the stairs; I’m hot!” you say.  Well, that’s oddly specific, but here’s what you do if you don’t have air conditioning: -Fans are literally the most energy-efficient way to cool things down.  Buy one.  Buy three.  Get the air in your apartment circulating. -Close the drapes/blinds.  It sounds trivial, but all the sunlight coming in heats things up more than you’d expect. -While you’ve got the fan going, put on some light cotton clothes (t-shirt, cami, nightgown, w/e) and hop in the shower (maybe don’t wear your good bra).  When your clothes are nice and soaked, sit in front of the fan.  The evaporating water getting whisked away makes you cooler! -Alternatively, get a hand towel or dish towel, get it damp, sponge your sweaty face and neck down, and lay the towel across your shoulders for the same effect without drenching yourself.  (I’m doing this right now, and two nights ago, when the heat was unbearable, I fell asleep w/ a damp washcloth on my chest bc that was as close as I could get to cooling down my bloodstream.) -Come to think of it, if you’re somewhere hot and dry, like California, who says you can’t do this with your top sheet on those ultra-hot nights?

3. Emergencies

Know the symptoms of heat stroke: faintness or dizziness, nausea, headaches, weakness, and other things that are your body telling you something’s Really Wrong, combined with overheating.  Even if you don’t have heat stroke, symptoms like that indicate that you’re headed there, so treating yourself (or a friend) before it’s an emergency is a smart move.

If you’re outside: -Get to the shade -If you have water, drink some and, if there’s a breeze, soak some into your clothes -If there’s a house or business nearby, ask if you can come in and have a drink of water.  Most people are very understanding. -If you don’t feel safe moving, don’t.  If you have a cell phone with reception, call or text someone to come pick you up.

If you’re inside: -Put ice packs (ice in a towel or a bag of frozen peas work great) to areas with lots of blood flow – WebMD suggests the arms, groin, back, and neck. -Do the cool-shower-followed-by-sitting-under-a-fan thing I described above.  Or fill up your bathtub with cold water and sit/lie in it. -Look up heat stroke treatments on the internet, or have a friend do so.

I’ve never lived in a hot and humid place and I am only 17 but here’s everything I know.

W A T E R. DRINK AS MUCH OF IT AS POSSIBLE. You will have to pee more but that’s better than dying. If you start to feel thirsty, you’re already dehydrated.

If you dont have AC, a bowl or tray with ice in front of a fan works wonders. Basically get all the cold, moisture, and air movement you can. I learned this when my family’s AC broke in the middle of three-digit temperatures :/

Close the windows during the day, and open them at night. This seemed counterintuitive to me at first, but you want to keep the coolest temperatures inside. During the day, you also should have curtains or blinds closed.

Take lukewarm showers. You’ll want to take cold showers, but you’ll just feel hotter afterwards.

This one’s weird but I learned it from two separate events at school and I swear it works: put alcohol on your wrists. Alcohol evaporates much faster than water, so it will help cool you faster; there are a lot of veins in your wrists, so it’ll help cool your blood down.

Speaking of which, it is also helpful to put ice packs or basically anything cold in areas like the sides of your neck, your armpits, the insides of your elbows and knees, your crotch, just everywhere that’s “inside.” It helps if your pits are shaved, even if you dont like that.

Keep your hair short if you can. If you can’t, keep it the hell UP.

If your house has two floors, stay low if you can. Heat rises. Unless you find the opposite to be true, in which case lmao do whatever works

Make a hand fan by folding a piece of paper a bunch of times and pinching it at one end, like so. I think we all learned this in kindergarten.

Dont go outside if you don’t absolutely need to, but if you have an air-conditioned place to go that you can stay for the whole day (like a library) stay there as long as possible. This also applies in bad air quality.

Bonus: if your glasses are falling off because you’re sweating too much: take them off, wipe down the nosepieces and earpieces, and then get a cloth or a piece of your shirt or something and s c r u b the grease off your ears and nose. It wont last forever but it does make it so much better.

Also, if you have pets, it is totally safe and good to put some ice in their water. They will thank you.

Avoid drinking cold water when you are overheating. The body needs to work harder to handle it. Not only that, but if you're hot enough and the water cold enough, it could send you into shock. The same is true for animals. Instead, drink room temperature water. It's easier for the body to absorb, and will better hydrate you. Do not chug the water, as it will, again, take longer to absorb. Take small sips every few moments, and don't drink fast. You will hydrate faster and better this way.

Other ways to cool down involve leaving these areas uncovered, if possible. You can also place something cool on these areas, such as a wet towel. When it comes to using ice packs however, or frozen veggies in a bag, be sure to only leave it on any given area for fifteen minutes, as it can cause nerve damage if left for longer.

Alcohol and caffeine are diuretics, meaning they cause you to pee more. Coffee, tea, energy drinks, and most sodas contain caffeine. The more you pee, the less hydrated your body gets. These are not good drinks to hydrate you. They will lead to dehydration. Soda especially so, as it often quenches thirst - but quenched thirst does not mean you are hydrated!

ok so i live on a flat that has 5 out of seven windows facing southeast. which means in summer, the sun is shining (burning) inside of my flat from 7am to about 3pm. I only have blinds on the inside of my window, so the heat is still stored between the window and the blinds inside of my flat. So here's what to do if you have the same problem:

Tape rescue blankets to the outside of your windows.

thinks you need:

-Rescue blankets (number depending on how much space you want to cover) -double sided tape -(scissors, measuring tape, a pen)

How to:

Measure the sizes of your windows, cut pices from the rescue blankets that cover the whole window. Put double sided tape on the golden side of the rescue blanket. Stick it to the outside of the window with the silver side pointing outwards.

(the orange things in the picture is the double sided tape)

Tip: make sure its really close to the window, maybe use more tape if necessary on bedroom windows, bc if the wind is strong it might be noisy otherwise

Why this works:

a rescue blanket is designed to reflect heat to keep you warm in an emergeny situation. We're turning this concept around by keeping the heat away from your flat. Because rescue blankets are farily thin, while you won't be bothered by the sun burning into your flat and warming surfaces and air, its thin enough for light to still come through so you're not sitting in the dark.

Tip: do this before it gets really hot and the sun burns through your windows every day. I'm trying to put them up about a week before the weather forecast says its gonna get really hot. takes not even an hour.

Advantages: -cheap (a rescue blanket costs like, 3 bucks the most, less if you order like 10 of them) and you need probably two - three, depending on the amount and size of your windowns -easy to do -its not gonna be completely dark inside like if you used cardboard -its durable against rain and wind -you can still open the windows without issue as long as you stick the tape directly onto the glass and not the outer frames.

Pic: this is what it looks like from the inside, as you can see there's still enough light coming through but the sun is kept out. also you can even see partly though it.

Disadvantages: -it looks weird on the outside, also maybe property management might not like it - the double sided tape is hard to get rid of when taking this down again in autumn, maybe use cleaning alcohol to get rid of them -most of the time you can not take it down without ripping the rescue blankets, so you might need new ones every year -if it isnt very sunny outside, it might be dark in the flat and you'd need to turn on the lights, which again generates heat

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Remember; this is just an additional way to keep the sun out of your flat, you still need to do all the other things to keep your living space cool!