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The important thing about wool is that it continues to keep you warm even when it’s soaking wet.

Other natural fibers don’t do this. In fact, quite the opposite. Campers and boaters are usually familiar with the phrase, “cotton kills.” If you’re wet in cotton or linen, your clothes actually sap heat from your body.

If you sink in a lake in late October like I did today, staying warm is important. I was rescued long before I would’ve actually died, but cold makes your muscles seize up, which isn’t good if you have to swim to land.

Which brings me around to life jackets. If the water’s cold enough, you may only have five-ten minutes until your muscles seize (today I probably had 40-60, more than enough time to get to land if I hadn’t been picked up), and you’ll drown.

In a life jacket, even in extremely cold water, you can float semi-conscious for perhaps another 30 minutes or so before you actually freeze to death, which is usually when someone rescues you.

What’s more, you probably know that moving around on land warms you up. Jumping jacks, jogging in place, etc.

In water, moving actually makes you colder. You need to stay still curled up in a ball, which you can only do in a life jacket.

In wool AND life jacket, you’re warm, and your head’s above water, which is pretty much your only and entire goal.

Yep! A really simple “experiment” I learned as a kid and now use in my own courses is sticking your hand in ice water. Compare moving it around in the water to curling it up in a fist. The contrast is stark!

To increase your survival time in on cold water, you want to curl up! If you’re with others, you want to huddle!

This homeless person is making me uncomfortable. Should I call [a man with a gun]?

My neighbor is having a loud party. Should I get [a man with a gun] involved?

There are some teenagers skateboarding. Do you think [a man with a gun] would get rid of them for me?

The literal cofounder of queer theory as an academic field says that abandoning trans people is fascist logic.

The voices in our community trying to exclude us may be loud, but they are not right, and they do not speak for the community as a whole or our history or anything at all.

whatever it is, whatever it isn’t, make sure that it’s real - E

ships: aiku/barou/sendou, karasu/otoya, kaiser/isagi, niko/charles, other background relationships

tags: no blue lock au, mall employees, light angst, eventual smut, multiple povs, complicated relationships

ch 26/33 - shidou - 3.2k

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Do changing seasons bring a change of heart?

Sendou - propositioned by Itoshi Sae, of all people - has to contend with an unexpected resurfacing of emotions he never really considered he might have to confront. He definitely didn’t expect Sae to be the one to force him to confront them.

Kaiser deals with the aftermath of Alexis’, Sae’s, and Isagi’s confrontations while Isagi deals with the harsh reality that his expectations in a relationship might not always match what others want.

Karasu, still bruised from Hiori getting a new boyfriend, isn’t really looking for a relationship right now - good thing that whatever he gets into with Otoya, it’s not a relationship. Otoya won’t call it one, anyway.

It’s not that Niko doesn’t like Charles - completely the opposite, unfortunately - but this whole sudden obsession with Shidou’s really starting to make him feel like Charles never really cared much about him in the first place.

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[read mall au part 1]