Eliana Rose

I always see posts about layering clothing, but there are so many more creative ways to help keep you warm if you don’t have a lot of warm clothes. But first, a note on layering clothing:

-Your underlayer is your WICKING layer. That means it is a layer specifically to absorb the moisture your body produces. DO NOT USE COTTON AS A BOTTOM LAYER. Use merino wool if possible, but other good substitutions are nylon, polyester and rayon. 

-Your middle layer is for insulation. You want AIR POCKETS in there, NOT tight fitting clothes. This is where you want to put your fluffy sweaters, your fleece, down, fur, flannel, or vests. If you do not have these, you can substitute with multiple layers of long sleeve shirts.

-Your outer layer is for keeping the cold away from your body. If you do not have a jacket, you can put on your thickest piece of clothing and then a raincoat over it. Windbreaker if you have one. 

ALSO

-Jeans are the absolute worst at holding heat. Use only as a last resort. 

-You can’t really ever have too many layers on your feet. Alternate tucking your layers of pants into your layers of socks to keep your ankles warm!

-Wear a hat OVER a hood if it will fit! This will keep your ears warmest.

TAKE OFF/OUT ANY AND ALL JEWELERY/PIERCINGS

-If you have a medical bracelet, DO NOT REMOVE IT. If you can, tuck a layer of clothes between it and your skin.

NON-CLOTHING TIPS:

-Raid your recycling. Gather all cardboard boxes and break them down so that they are flat. Put them on the floor to add more layers between you and the cooling house. Newspaper will also serve the same purpose.

-In an emergency, you can also layer newspaper between clothing layers. Don’t worry about looking stupid if you’re staying warm.

-If you have a tent, set that sucker up in whatever room you have decided to stay in. Stay in it and keep it zipped shut as much as you can, but do NOT cover the vent at the top. You can put the rain fly up, but make sure there is circulating air for you to breathe.

-You are probably not going to feel very hungry at times. DO NOT STOP EATING OR DRINKING. Digestion produces a lot of body heat and the food will give your body energy to keep itself going.

-The best foods are heavy and full of carbs and proteins. Eat nuts, eggs, pasta, meats, and beans. If you are on a diet, now you’re not. If you’re vegetarian… bulk up on those pastas and nuts.

-Try not to sweat. If you are finding yourself getting damp, take off the outer layer just until you start to cool slightly. Then redress! Your bottom layer should dry quickly, and being wet is dangerous.

-On that note, STAY ACTIVE. You are probably going to want to hunker down and snuggle up, but that will make your muscles cramp. Every 15-20 minutes do something that gets you up and about. Walk circles in the room, do a couple jumping jacks, stretch, whatever. Just enough to move some blood around your body. Don’t get sweaty or out of breath, it’s just a little movement.

-CHAPSTICK. ON YOUR LIPS. ON YOUR NOSE. ON YOUR EARS. ON YOUR KNUCKLES. Don’t let your extremities get dry or cracked.

SIGNS OF HYPOTHERMIA:

-Uncontrollable shivering -Slurred speech -Confusion or memory loss -Dizziness or lack of coordination -Inability to be woken from sleep

CHILDREN AND INFANTS!!!! I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH.

-Children WILL get colder before you. Make sure they are properly bundled up.

-If you need to breastfeed, put a blanket over the both of you and wait a few minutes for the air to warm before removing or shifting your clothing.

-DO NOT COVER AN INFANTS FACE. ESPECIALLY WHEN SLEEPING. Keep them tucked inside your own clothes when possible. As close to your heart and stomach as possible. 

-Put chapstick on children’s cheeks and clean their face often if they are crying or wiping at their nose. This will prevent cracked skin and irritation.

-Make sure your children are staying as hydrated as you! They are going to fuss and not want to drink cold things, but they NEED liquids.

SIGNS OF HYPOTHERMIA IN INFANTS AND TODDLERS ARE DIFFERENT:

-Shortness of breath  -Cold, red skin -Lethargy or listlessness

Finally:

It’s important to get your chimneys inspected if you have a wood stove/fireplace/ect to make sure they are clean and safe. Store wood an appropriate distance from the heat source.

If your power is out and therefor the water as well, and you HAVE to flush that toilet, you can take the top off the tank and pour some in before each flush. DO NOT waste your drinking water on this. Use a bucket of water from a pond or run the bath and fill up a bucket beforehand. Do not use pool water. I haven’t looked into what chlorine would do to a septic tank/public water supply but I assume it’s nothing good.

If you have questions about the blackouts, I suggest calling your energy provider (I need to do this too) to see if they have more information or a schedule of when they might need to start implementing shut downs.

(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)

it’s been a few weeks, I suppose we should check up on the AHSGSHGAFB?!

ajdhf.

well that’s just,,,

REXCELLENT

HELL

YES

HELL

FUCKING

YES.

HAIL TO THE QUEEN

LONG MAY SHE REIGN!

this year we’re doing a much-beloved character from classic literature, “Dracula with inappropriate straw hat”

thanks everyone, may your weens be hollow and your candy be many!

she’s… (WEXTER! here girl!) she’s a… a…..

she’s a T. Rex.

GOTTEM!

ERASERHEAD BABY.

ohshit

everything will be fine.

Something I made while dealing with my own stuff and hoping drawing this would pick me up somehow. Maybe it worked.

I had randomly generated 2 words, which is where “mole interest” came from. I failed to consider that by generating a new tag, it wouldn’t have had enough posts already in it to prove what I now call “the mole interest effect”.

But now it does.

In 2023, we said “fuck it” a la mythbusters and ended up doing whatever it took to get #mole interest to trend. And it did. And it happened to be September 11th that day, and we managed to get #mole interest to trend ABOVE #9/11.

The whole; "Pigsy and Tang raised MK together" situation become 100% funnier if MK didn't have a human form at first.

It one thing to have a baby monkey wander into your kitchen, its another thing when it's obviously a baby demon monkey!

And he only knows one person who'd have even an inkling of what to do.

Pigsy, calling Tang: "Tangy, what do baby monkeys eat?" Tang, half-asleep: "Uh... depends. How baby?" Pigsy, pausing: "I dunno. It stands but not walk so good." Tang: "Urmmm... I'll come over. Keep it warm. Give it warm fluids."

Tang, understandably, nearly blows up when he gets there and sees a baby-baby, not a baby animal!

The weird muddy demon baby looks to be, from a wild monkey standpoint, barely a few weeks old! Though thats a super-rough estimate given that neither of them know how the demon ones work, or even what kind of species the baby is. Or if they're okay to be eating noodle soup.

Tang: "Do you even have a name for them?!" Pigsy, holding baby in a sling: "Mentally I've been calling 'em MK." Tang: "MK is not a name Pigsy. They need a real name. Something that embodies who they are, or what you feel about them." Baby MK: (*tiniest yawn! snuggles deeper into Pigsy's chest, little hands grasping his tank top*) Pigsy, tears forming: "I swear on Guanyin, he's like a little piece of heaven that fell down and landed outside my restaurant." Tang, adoring smile: "Xiaotian it is then."

The pair quickly realise that they might need some outside help once lil MK discovers he can climb and hop. XD

Demon monkey elders in the nearby village are happy to help the new parents with their newest member.

Pigsy has to work around the whole "Baby needs to cling to parent or they will scream and cry*-thing when he's in the kitchen; so he either has MK strapped to his back in a papoose (as shown in canon baby photo), or he hands MK over to Tang for a few hours. Odds are that Tang will go about his day, working, studying, teaching, all with a *fascinated* baby monkey on his chest. Then he gets back to Pigsy's, and demands "noodles for two!".

holy FUCKING god it is done!

set a challenge for myself to do as much of an animatic in two days as i could, and lo and befuckinghold, it is finished

you can tell where i accidentally spent too much time lmao

listen to the full song here! AU information under the cut!

Do NOT, I repeat,

DO NOT

Absolutely! The Last Peace is itself a sort of hub for the afterlives, where people can gather from their own afterlives. They can't travel into other ones, and they can't stay in the Last Peace, but they can always visit. The dead who devoted their lives in the Lamb and Narinder's cult call the Last Peace their natural afterlives, however, and can travel to whichever one they please. The sheep are definitely going to get there as well, so it's a shame that Esriaal themself can't go - they're the god of death, which isn't the same as being the god of the dead, or at least not directly. They're extremely careful about their disciples, because their disciples are the stewards of the Last Peace after their deaths.

But yes, the sheep do get to come and go from the Last Peace, and lemme tell you hwat they're proud as hell

like they all died, and that fuckin sucks

Just a heads up, there are bots going around on AO3 accusing people of using AI. Considering the timing, this is likely AI bros' retaliation for AO3 users calling them out for scraping their work. Examples of what you might be sent:

Screenshots from here.