aviary of mana

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[marzipanladyart]

commission of Gaetana for @birdyaviary, thank you!

[sucka99]

[obaewankenope]

I've given myself heat exhaustion AGAIN (heck, I hope it's only heat exhaustion, rip) and I am not here for it ffs so to make sure y'all know about it, imma share the signs of heat exhaustion!

Heat exhaustion is quite literally your body getting too hot and Exhausting itself to cope. Heatstroke is your body Failing To Cope.

Heat Exhaustion signs include:

You get a headache that Will Not Go Away

You feel confused and dizzy (balance who? Idk her)

You don't feel hungry but you feel sick as well (this sucks and happens a lot in high heat so try and snack regularly)

Sweating and clammy skin like the kind that has people go "you're freezing!" because you've sweated so much you literally end up with a chill on your skin

Cramps. Feckin cramps. Arms. Legs. Stomach. They suck ass.

You have a heckin fast pulse or you're hyperventilating like you've just had a Scare

Your body temp is over 38°c (because you're literally boiling like a lobster in a pot)

You are Beyond Thirsty and no matter what you drink it Does Not Abate

If you end up experiencing any of these symptoms, or multiple, and you're in a hot/warm environment, then sit your ass down in the shade, get something to drink, and get a damp cloth on your head or a change of clothes that are cool.

Basically, stop what you're doing and give your body a chance to Not Keep Boiling

Heat exhaustion is NOT THE SAME as a heatstroke.

Heatstroke is So Much Worse™.

Heatstroke signs include:

Still feeling like utter shite 30 minutes after you sat your ass down, rested in a cool place, and rehydrated

Not actually sweating even though you really do feel like a lobster in a pot that has the heat up High

Your body temp is 40°c+ (which is bad btw, that's temp for causing your to pass out etc)

Hyperventilating/fast breathing or actual shortness of breath (I struggle with this because asthma so I'm always like "idk if I got this oops)

Feeling confused but in a like "I don't know what's going on, I can't think, I have no idea about anything, someone help me please I'm crossing into traffic and don't even realise" way

Having a fit/seizure because your body temp is so high your brain is Actually Getting Boiled In Your Skull 🙃 [upside down smiley emoji]

Passing out and not actually responding or waking up from a brief fainting spell (this is the Serious™ kind of passing out that has doctors going "oh shit, we need an IV STAT!" or whatever it is they say when Shit Is Going Down)

Heatstroke can be really dangerous if it isn't treated quickly so please don't ignore these signs. Right now, I'm in a cool environs, with hydration, and am avoiding moving and am gonna have a nap because I'm going very dizzy, can't focus properly, have a headache, and am only coherent here because I'm HyperFocusing on this post. I can't even understand words being said to me right now hence nap, hydration, and cool environs.

So please, y'all, take care of yourselves. Seriously.

[hidesinthedark]

Very good advice

Some additional hot weather tips

If you have low blood sugar, but are having a hard time eating because you feel crappy from the heat, try sucking on some hard candy

If possible, after you get out of the sun/heat drink Gatorade or something similar to replenish what you've been loosing from sweating

When drinking water or Gatorade (no matter what you have it is important to stay hydrated!) it is important to drink slowly, even if you are very thirsty, because if you drink too fast the water might come back up

In hot weather, bandanas are very useful, even as a preventative measure, because you can pour some water from you bottle (or anything else) on them, and then put them on your head (as mentioned above) or neck. A few other areas help as well, like armpits, but I would personally recommend your neck.

It is not recommended to use a fan at or above 99°f or 35°c, because they can actually start to make the heat worse. (I know these are different temps, the recommendations come from different governments, 35°c is around 95°f, but this also depends on conditions like humidity, so just use your best judgement with this info)

Most importantly, if you think you are getting heat stroke call 911 or your equivalent, heat stroke kills several people each year, even in my area, where it normally only gets to 100°f for a few days each year

For fahrenheit users,

38°c = 100.4°f

40°c = 104°f

Remember to stay safe in warm weather

[artisanscribbles]

Well shit, I had most of those Sunday Morning, can heat exhaustion continue to hit even after you've moved into a cool environment, rehydrated, eaten, taken a long warmish-coolish shower and then slept for 7 hours?

Because those symptoms match the the symptoms I had last Sunday and made me feel like shit upon waking up.

[obaewankenope]

They can yes @artisanscribbles because heat exhaustion takes time to go away. You may well feel a bit under the weather for a few days after experiencing it, and any sort of exposure to heat without proper precautions can make it flare up again and worsen into heatstroke.

It's why it's so important to rest and keep hydrated when it's warm. I hope you eventually felt better and maintained your hydration levels with water and other fluids.

I had three days of feeling the after effects of heat exhaustion myself and felt like I had a cold, a constant headache, and random chills all at the same time as having a dry throat, not sweating properly, dizziness, and even muscle cramps from the rapid dehydration I experienced.

In general, to anyone who sees or reblogs this:

It's really important to take care of yourself, both immediately after you recognise you've got heat exhaustion, and in the long term. It can affect you for days after.

Please take care of yourselves aka TAKER:

Take breaks

Avoid too much sun

Keep hydrated

Eat regularly

Rest

[obaewankenope]

Reblogging this again because hello heat and fire and death, that's a bit not good.

Look after yourselves y'all

[obaewankenope]

Once again, in honour of 2024. Enjoy the advice on Heatstroke and Heat Exhaustion that I still have to remind myself of every darn year.

Stay hydrated folks!

[obaewankenope]

Annnd in honour of summer 2025!

Don't die y'all.

[obaewankenope]

BECAUSE THERE'S RIDICULOUS HEAT RIGHT NOW IN THE UK.

STAY IN SHADE.

HYDRATE.

EAT IN EARLY HOURS AND LATE EVENING.

NAP WHEN YOU GOTTA.

PUT. ON. SUN. SCREEN.

[irumicomics]

THIS IS NOT CANON ACCURATE AT ALL BUT ME AND MY WIFE THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY FUNNY 😭🖐️

[mushroomofficial]

An Oven is a kind of European above-ground umu typically constructed from metal and ceramic. Originating in the 18th century, ovens are primarily used for preparing several kinds of Western-style hāngī, such as Sunday roasts, casseroles, and pies, which are cooked in various types of specialised poti. Ovens are usually constructed off-site in dedicated facilities before being installed in the whareumu, or kitchen, of a European whare. They are typically not able to be moved once installed, quite unlike umu which may be constructed anywhere and are readily deconstructed and moved as needed. Another limitation of ovens is that due to their small internal volume relative to their overall size, they are generally restricted in the amount of kai they can produce. An oven will produce only enough kai to feed a few people, whereas a hāngī cooked in an umu can feed an entire village.

[apesoformythoughts]

“One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

[fairycosmos]

did you know that apparently if you try to act normal the normalness doesn't come through but the acting does. and did you know apparently everyone can smell this on you like a bloodhound

[yoooyooyoo]

@unofficial-autism-post

[tieflingkisser]

[gayvampyr]

me after a minor inconvenience: i hope i get hit by a [remembers i’m anti car-centric infrastructure] pedestrian

[memories-of-ancients]

Banded agate inkwell, Middle East, 10th century

from The Khalili Collection

[romanceyourdemons]

shakespeare was so funny for that scene where the antagonist tells the protagonist “let the record show that i AM into women THAT BEING SAID holy shit, thou mars, seeing you here is like an even better version of my wedding night. like WAY better. i’ve been dreaming about you every night for years, and in my dreams we take off each other’s armor and beat each other to a pulp and i wake up all hot and sticky 👍”

[romanceyourdemons]

coriolanus 4.5.126-131, 135-139 be upon ye

[romanceyourdemons]

holy shit i didn’t even realize today is st. george’s day. happy birthday + deathday to mr. william shakespeare, who has been gone for 410 slutty, slutty years

[soft-lovely]

loving cuts

[tuesdayisfordancing]

Man, I officially don’t know what the hell a deconstruction is. I mean I knew that but I’ve been reminded. “Deconstruction is when it’s a particularly grounded example of the genre”? Like man, I don’t think those things are deconstructions but I can’t give you a definition that excludes them either. Deconstruction is when you show something that somebody else telling a similar story didn’t. I fuckin guess.

[tuesdayisfordancing]

What’s the difference between a parody, a satire, and a deconstruction? 3 minutes no cheating.

[whetstonefires]

the difference between a parody and a satire is that a parody does not have to have an underlying thesis, while a satire does not have to be particularly funny.

the categories are not mutually exclusive, but that doesn't mean they're synonymous.

a parody that has nothing in it of satire is relatively unlikely to qualify as a deconstruction, due to not containing enough intellectual meat, but exceptions certainly exist. particularly when the thing being parodied is literary in nature.

meanwhile not all satires are deconstructions, because you can satirize things like 'the recent political drama' in ways that don't really involve deconstruction per se. (a lot of the time you will do this via parody.)

the distinctive element of a deconstruction is that it arises within the context of interpreting things structurally. this is a very common intellectual framework nowadays so this distinction can get lost, but the shift away from the platonic view, where any given sort of thing was assumed to have a single true self that you were trying to find or reach or understand, rather than arising through the interaction of contextual forces, was a big deal when it was happening, and opened a lot of new doors in terms of how to conceptualize...everything, but especially everything we now categorize as a 'social construct.'

which is why there's a sort of assumption that to 'deconstruct' something is necessarily to approach it in an intellectually complex or rewarding way.

not true. can have stupid deconstruction that technically qualifies. arguably can even have trite one. (can also just say something is a deconstruction when it isn't but that's another issue lol.)

this is because in the context of literature and related art forms this assumption disappears up its own ass fairly quickly, since writing about writing is one of the oldest tricks in the book. that doesn't mean you can't deconstruct a genre, or convention within a genre, etc, in an interesting and philosophically profitable way. just that being metatextual doesn't actually guarantee you have anything of value to say, either.

which is why saying you're doing a deconstruction while actually just engaging in sophistry and light satire is really easy, and thus attractive to people trying to look and feel intellectual without having to try too hard.

meanwhile literary deconstructions don't have to be remotely like either satire or parody, because the only thing they actually have to be doing is engaging directly with the structural assumptions of a genre in a way that draws out something about their constructed nature and. does something with that. basically.

it's just easiest to make this engaging to an audience (especially one already at least mildly accustomed to thinking in structural terms and thus less impressed by it) in the parody/satire/subversion format, so they tend to occur together and thus get balled up together a lot.

and so people who want to sound intellectual increasingly say 'deconstruction' and 'subversion' where they only very dubiously apply.

so...yeah, none of these are mutually incompatible, and you can stack them all at once but also find them separately, because they're talking about different things.

that was way more than three minutes let me go again.

[whetstonefires]

'Parody' emphasizes the stylistic engagement with the subject; the main thing you say by classifying something as a parody is that an unflattering depiction, arrived at through exaggeration of some kind, and usually oversimplification as well.

'Satire' describes the...ideological engagement with the subject, is i think the most accurate generalization i can make. the main thing you say by categorizing something as satire is that it is making an argument about something through the way in which that subject is depicted. a critical argument.

parody is a technique you can use in creating a satire, but is not mandatory, and if it's the only technique you're using your satire is necessarily rather cartoonish.

'Deconstruction,' finally, describes the intellectual engagement with the subject. the main thing this label says is that you are applying certain specific critical lenses to a thing (that doesn't physically exist) which explore how it is made, at least in part by taking it apart to look at the metaphorical gearwork.

they're hard to distinguish because they aren't separate silos of Things, but operating at different conceptual strata.

[sublimated-mother]

[godbirdart]

「 NO MORE EGRESS 」 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕

[ceruleanheaven]

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

[ceruleanheaven]

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

[ceruleanheaven]

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

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