AN OIL PIPELINE IS GOING TO POISON AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY:
A huge company is building an oil pipeline through the Missouri River. It’ll transport the dirtiest oil right through some of the cleanest water in the US. If there is a crack, leak, spill, any breakage, (which is super common) that oil will seep into the water and that water will become toxic.
The company that owns Sunoco just got their permit approved (btw Rick Perry is on their board of directors, in case that gives anyone else the fucking creeps). In response, a bunch of kids from Standing Rock Reservation physically ran across the country (1800 miles) in protest, carrying a petition w/ over 140,000 signatures, and met with the white house. NOW these kids, members of indigenous tribes around the nation, and their allies, are standing in front of massive equipment, using their bodies to stop construction and putting their lives on the line to protect this water.
WHY IT MATTERS:
When that water gets contaminated by oil, it will be poisoned, essentially deadly, within the hour. It’ll effect anyone in any community along the river or connecting rivers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois. More people than we can fathom will lose access to clean water, and it’ll happen quickly. These kids are fighting for our access to clean water, too.
What happened in Flint could have been avoided if we had known about it. This time we have a shot.
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
This is a big list of things we can do. Sharing info, donating funds, sending supplies… We all have different abilities and means so here are a number of ways you can help.
SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION: bit.ly/SacredStonePetition - This is the official White House petition, their original Change.org petition has over 200k signatures, since this one is
CHANGE.ORG PETITION: bit.ly/SacredStoneChangeOrg - Sign and share, the more numbers the better and they will keep you updated via the petition, let u know what’s going on at Sacred Stone and ways you can help as the fight continues.
so you guys are facing down yet another global warming summer and as an american i feel entitled to barge over and give you a lot of advice about how to live your life. also i’m used to surviving 90-110 degree summers (32—43 celsius) with no ac. so here we go.
you need to drink a lot of water. on average you should be drinking about two liters. on hot days, double that.
fill plastic water bottles halfway up and stick them in your freezer. take them out once they’ve frozen and fill the rest up with water, drink the water, fill it up again, and carry it around with you until it’s time to get the next ice bottle. also you can put the icy end against your throat or over your chest for maximum refreshment.
consider making a lot of sun tea. get big glass jars or a pitcher. put a bunch of your preferred teabags in it with some sugar. if you want to be an american southerner, your tea should be green or black and your sugar amount should be enough to kill a child. if you want to be sane, put in as little sugar as you can get away with so it’s not dehydrating, and stick with herbal teas because the last thing you want during the heat of the day is a caffeine boost. leave your tea on a windowsill. after a few hours it’s steeped and you can put it in the fridge. tadaaa.
fruit juice, soda pop, beer, and a lot of sports drinks like gatorade all dehydrate you, and in really hot weather they’re dangerous because people will drink them instead of water. drink an equal amount of water as anything with sugar. see prior point about sun tea.
when you sweat you lose salt. so don’t feel bad about eating some junk food.
freeze grapes. eat the grapes. repeat.
get a hat with a brim. baseball caps are ok but wide brimmed hats are better because they shadow the back of your neck and that’s one less thing to have to worry about.
don’t wear knit caps. just… no.
you don’t get more sunburned because it’s hot, you get more sunburned because when it’s hot you wear less clothes. so don’t freak out.
if you don’t have AC you can put a bowl of ice behind a fan. this creates a swamp cooler, by pulling the air over the ice. also, put on a wet t-shirt and sit in front of it, and you’ll cool further by evaporation.
speaking of evaporation, watch out if it’s humid. you don’t cool down from sweating as much when the air’s already saturated. drink more water, have more salt, and change your shirt a lot.
heatstroke is serious shit, and kids and the elderly are prone to it. but whatever your age, if you feel nauseous, headachy, or short of breath, the heat’s getting to you. pour your water bottle over your head and go sit in the shade. keep an eye on friends and family as well.
if someone stops sweating when they’re still out in the heat, that’s serious business and get them medical treatment as soon as possible. it’s a case of dehydration and/or heatstroke.
Other things that freeze really well, a short list:
Orange juice! Other fruit juices too, but I tend to have best results with oj or cider. Pour some into an empty ice-cube tray, let them freeze, and the result is slightly-flaky frozen goodness. This is also an easy way to make homemade popsicles–put a sheet of aluminum foil over top of the tray and stick toothpick/popsicle sticks in so the juice freezes around them.
Grapes were mentioned. Grapes are TRUE.
NOT SODAS. Do not freeze sodas! They explode.
Strawberries! These can be hard to find cheap, especially outside of strawberry season, and I don’t know about their availability outside of my part of the US, but if you can get them they’re great frozen in your water. Freeze-dry strawberries by laying them out on a tray or sth in the freezer, and then when they’re frozen just put them in a bag to conserve space.
Other general tips:
Fruit in water is amazing when you’re someone like me who doesn’t like water’s lack of taste. Strawberries and mint leaves are fairly traditional, but basically anything you like will work. there are lots of combos online.
If you have a blender or a food processor, smoothies are a good way to eat something when you’re too hot to function. Fruit+ice+milk+yogurt is pretty traditional.
Have sunscreen. Make sure you don’t have any skin reactions to the sunscreen. If your sunscreen has fragrance, make sure you can deal with the fragrance when it’s constantly on your face in heat.
Speaking off: sunscreen is not just for arms/shoulders. Put sunscreen on your face, especially nose/cheekbones/forehead. Put sunscreen on the tops of your ears! If your hair has a tight part, try to put sunscreen there if you don’t wear a hat (scalp burns are PAINFUL). Put sunscreen on your legs, especially the backs of your calves. Put sunscreen on any visible parts of your feet.
Wear loose clothing if you can, especially if you’re wearing long sleeves. Any constrictions on your breathing feel much worse in the heat.
If you need to cool down quick, run cold water over your wrists (or put ice cubes on them maybe?). This is a trick they taught us in gymnastics class but it works just as well on hot days.
When you start getting that feeling like you’ve adapted to the heat, like it’s not bad, like you could just stay where you are for hours and hours, even get a blanket, and maybe you feel like you’re zoning out a little, it’s time to reconsider, move around, have something cool to drink.
And it can be hard to remember to eat when it’s so hot, for some reason. Cold food in small portions is generally easiest to manage. But remember to eat food with a lot of salt, a lot of potassium, a lot of vitamins. I can’t believe bananas aren’t on this post. My god, get your potassium, you’ll feel SO much better. If you’re eating something salty and it tastes unusually, amazingly good, it’s because you’re running low on salt, so keep eating it.
and seriously yeah keep an eye on people like kids and the elderly and anyone who’s under your care. ask them how they’re feeling if they’re able to tell you, and if not, try to see if they’re looking unusually unfocused, breathing too hard, haven’t had anything to drink in a while, etc.
If you bind, be even more careful about how long you bind and pay even more attention to your binder’s effects on your body.
sometimes there’s nothing else for it but to just fill a bathtub with cool water and get in. Seriously, it can be so helpful. Also, showers. Showers are good.
also take care of your dogs I don’t know anything about dogs but be careful for them! maybe look up some tips.
also could anyone who even thinks about reblogging this from me to make fun of brits, pls stop?? when it gets hot here it’s kind of awful bc A/C is rare and they’re really not used to this kind of heat. if you add any sort of teasing if u reblog this for me i will find u and push you
Seriously, air conditioning is basically not a think here. And most of our houses are designed to trap heat. Our old people’s homes are not air conditioned. Our hospitals are not air conditioned. When we have unusual heat waves people die.
If you find yourself shaking, feeling dizzy, or feeling cold in the middle of a heat wave, sit yourself down in the shade and sip water (don’t chug, you’ll make yourself throw up) until you feel normal again. These are some of the first warning signs of heat exhaustion and ignoring them is dumb. If you’re at a sports practice or being otherwise active in the heat and you recognize these or other symptoms of heat exhaustion/heat stroke, don’t let yourself be pressured into playing through it. Listen to your body and take care of it.
I have so many British buddies, you guys, pay serious attention to the tips up above. For those who don’t know, I live in Australia, one of the driest and hottest places on earth, and we get those same temperatures that the first poster quoted, hotter in the centre of Australia. I didn’t know half of those tips, and I’ll likely utilise them next summer myself.
Please, take care in the heat, I’ll make sure to reblog this later on when it gets closer to you guys’ summer, but please, take this seriously. Even with us being used to the heat the way we are, we still have fatalities because people do not properly look after themselves.
also, since everyone always forgets – if you’re wearing sandals or flipflops, PUT SUNSCREEN ON YOUR TOES. Those little piggies are not used to being grilled, and sunburnt feet isn’t fun. Actually, suncreen everywhere (nape of neck, all over your ears, right down to your figures. Put your sunscreen on before getting dressed, and let it soak in, so you don’t get burn lines along the hems, and re-apply FREQUENTLY. In fact, if you don’t regularly use sunscreen, read this helpful FAQ
As someone with skin cancer, let me tell you, DON’T LET YOURSELF GET BURNED!
/psa
another point to cool off is behind the ears, press an ice cube there when your head feels hot
lie down on the floor to refresh, if your house is all wooden floors and carpets, the floors won’t be fresh but where there are tiles (like the bathroom) would work
and yo, if u have towels, u should soak ‘em in cold water or a tub of ice if one is accessible, and just wear it around your neck
also, the sunscreen thing is rly important even if you don’t think you need it, you can still get sunburnt and have ur skin peeling, and that’s no fun.
If you have access to multiple floors, it can be a good idea to set up an air mattress or even just pile up some blankets on the floor and to sleep on the lowest floor you can. Heat rises, and even with a/c we used to sleep on the ground floor when we were in an old farmhouse. It’s also not a bad idea to wear loose, light colored clothing that’s a little more covering, since this helps keep the sun off of you and makes it easier for sweat to evaporate, which both help keep you cool. Idk if anyone’s mentioned this, but you can tie up loose hair in a bun or braid to keep it from sticking to your neck. It’s a small but quick thing that can make you feel a bit better, just make sure to keep the back of your neck in the shade and sunscreen.
If you plan on lying on your stomach in the sun SUNSCREEN THE BOTTOMS OF YOUR FEET. Really sunscreen every 1-2 hours and make sure you apply at least 15 min before going outside.
I like sticking my top sheet and pillowcase in the freezer about 30 min or more before going to bed. And cold wet hair is a blessing for a while if you have longer hair
About clothing: If you can wear loose clothes made of 100% cotton or linen, wear them! A lot of synthetic fibers (I’m looking at you, polyester) will stick to your skin like plastic wrap.
Also, FROZEN BANANAS. Frozen bananas are excellent. And having something salty to snack on, because it will make you thirsty and remind you to drink water, as well as replacing any salt you lose by sweating. Just keep a bag of chips (er, American-style chips, I mean) or pretzels handy and munch on them.
I get super dizzy in the heat- not related to dehydration or heat stroke or dangerous things, it’s just a thing with my body. If you’ve figured out that you do the same (and aren’t suffering heat stroke) it can be a pain. Best thing I’ve found to counter that is rest my head between my knees or on a table or whatever, face down, and put something frozen on the back of my neck. A frozen towel or ice pack or whatever. Like all the other cool down points people mention are good but I’ve found that to be the best one to counteract dizziness is the back of the neck at the base of the skull.
Reblogging because this information is helpful for everyone around the world. I’m heat-sensitive so I’ll be trying some of these this summer myself.
It’s been almost two months since Craig announce that Wander Over Yonder will be cancelled by the end of June, and to this day pretty much every fan even the ones who aren’t fans of the show have been putting aside their time to help get Wander another season, and i think that’s just awesome!
So much has happened thru out those two months that i would like to tell you whats been going on down below.
First off one of thepetitions to help save Wander has reached over 17,000 signatures and counting! This is simply incredible, knowing that there are SO many people who want to save the show really does give you all kinds of hope~ Now the petition is expecting to reach 25,000. Seems like a long run, but with all these increasing fans it might be possible.
Also someone usernamed Peepsuqeak just finished up this map pinpointing almost all of the fans from around the world who signed the petition. Not too much info is leaked, but i think it’s a great way of knowing how many fans of Wander there really are and how spread out they are.
For a while now a lot of fans have been sending letters to the people in charge of Disney TV shows and out of all the letters i’ve read a large majority of them were really polite and considerate! I highly recommend any and everyone to send a letter to the company. I just feel that sending letters are the most effective way of letting Disney know how much you want to save certain shows and the company does often read our mail, as proven by the crew members them self. [Link]
I think one of the more common things fans have done to support the show was make
#SaveWOY themed fan art which i find to be just as helpful! A lot of the fan art i’ve seen are so nice and creative, it really does show how much people love Wander Over Yonder. This site is a great source in finding all sorts of
#SaveWOY-esc fan art. [Link]
Speaking of fans, Fans from all around the globe have been creatively expressing how much they would love Wander to get a 3rd season and how much they are heart broken to know that it won’t. Some comments are good and some not so good, but either way everyone was really hoping for another season. If you need anymore proof just head on over here. [Link]
Right now on the official #SaveWOY Tumblr page they are hosting this big event called Operation: FAN BOOM. What this is all about is that fans must make a short video or take a photo of themselves holding a
#SaveWOY
sign saying “Save Wander Over Yonder” and then send their videos/photos via email to savewoy@gmail.com, and for those who are camera shy or don’t have the right equipment this event also accepts pictures, just as long as they have either “Save Wander Over Yonder” or “
#SaveWOY” on it. If any of you would like to participate then i suggest going to this link that should tell you all about the event. [Link] You better hurry cause it may end on June 30th.
It gives me so much hope knowing that even Craig McCracken and his crew want their show to get a 3rd season! Where they would sometimes give out a few hints on what the 3rd season had in stores to the fans, well mostly Dave Thomas and Frank Angones. Craig has even acknowledge how much the fans are willing to help save his show. [Link]
Now on with more events, the same person who worked on the SaveWOY fan map has been working on this project called 200 Reasons To SaveWOY, which is where people send their reasons as to why they want to save Wander to Peepsqueak so that the person can write down each of their reasons on pieces of paper which then get mailed off to the people who are in charge of Disney XD. The event might of already ended, but you can go to their page to see any info. [Link]
Not too long ago a campaign site called Save Disney Shows which is a site that specials in reviving Disney TV series has offered to help our cause in saving Wander Over Yonder, but for a while now the fans have been trying to find a leader for the unofficial #SaveWOY page that Save Disney Shows was kindly enough to make for us. So if you know anyone who knows how to use HTML and would like to run the #SaveWOY page please go to the Save Disney Shows site and let them know!
A while ago someone made a
#SaveWOY
page on a site called Thunderclapto help spread awareness around the internet about the cause. It managed to reach it’s goal to over 500 supporters and has socially reached up to 235,360 people. Not sure if it will do much, but it’s good to know that
#SaveWOY is reaching all though out the internet.
This isn’t really #SaveWOY related, but someone by the username commander-peepers has made a little survey all about Wander Over Yonder, such as favorite character or least favorite episode
Just a heads up on May 30th they will be a two new episodes of Wander Over Yonder called “the Hot Shot” and “the Night Out”, two of which might be Dominator episodes. So it’s very important that a lot of us watch the new episodes when they air.
I think that’s about all the info i have about the #SaveWOY movement. I’m glad to see that it’s still going strong. It may take awhile, but hopefully we’ll get the 3rd season that we always wanted if we all stick together and try to save the show however we can. Sometimes it can take months even years for a show to be revived. Take Kim Possible for example which took 6 months for another season to be announced thanks to it’s fans. Other examples can be seen in this page right here. [Link]
So no matter how things may seem hopeless never stop supporting #SaveWOY★
I feel at one drawing Frisk so much, and felt like sharing weird childhood stories through them for random surface world adventures (plus they’re the only ideas I can sit on that I know someone else in the fandom won'tve drawn yet hahaha)
So this was based on one time I was left at a crappy party with kids I didn’t know for the night while my parents were out for the weekend something :,D Thats why paps/mtt are getting frisk instead of sans/tori I also have not drawn MTT Ex yet and finally wanted to~
I am completely on board with the Papyton ship to the degree of them being the cutest uncles possible, spoiling the lil human babby rotten <3
