#sunscreen favorites

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[icehaus]

i hate small talk but i do love blogging about the most mundane boring shit in my life… the duality of man

[dubinadawkinss]

well since I already made this blog I think I need to post this one Stephanie art of mine I mean why not yep

[lamboficarus]

Kicks legs and whinesss

Waaaaaa i have to. Wear plastic wrap on my arm because we have no bandages this is hell on earth. It is COLD. COLD PLASTIC !!!!!

Im wearintg a jacket cause inneed to sleep soon and keep it on while i do so but i dont wwnnnaaaa its gonna get so messsyyyyy its gonna be hell on earrtttthhhh

[dapper-nahrwhale]

The end of summer feels like 1am in a backyard firepit and smelling like smoke and old bugspray and unneeded sunscreen and staring at stars but you can never be sure they're stars because your glasses broke last year so you're stuck just hoping those little blurs of light really are stars and your marshmallow is on fire because again you were looking up at what could be stars and it's okay even burnt it's still gooey inside and you eat too many burnt marshmallows and it feels so good right up until it doesn't and everything hurts but it's worth it when the smoke lingering on your favorite shirt feels more like home than being home feels like and you would stand out there forever getting bug bites through the worn bugspray but nothing last forever and isn't that wonderful that the bad doesn't last forever but neither does the good and that just means we get another chance at this right

[icewindandboringhorror]

a littol rats 

[supercantaloupe]

went to the farmers market cause i was going to rot if i stayed in the house any longer.

got a tomato (for dinner) and a peach (for dessert)

one lady asked me how i could stand wearing leggings out in this heat (95f/35c) lol

another lady saw my necklace and said shalom

tried a free sample of baklava (delicious) and some instant health/energy drink stuff (not bad but not my thing)

i'd had almost nothing to eat up to that point so i got a tamale for an afternoon snack plus a hibiscus agua fresca on account of the aforementioned heat. best decision ever that was one of the best tamales i've ever had and the drink was both huge and delicious. absolutely worth going for made my afternoon

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[alittleemo]

girllll work hasn’t even started yet and I already have a sunglasses tan line we are literally so cooked

[daydreamdoodles]

Can't stop thinking about my friends being like "yeah we can go on a hike or something" when I brought up doing something for summer solstice. Like besties, it's the peak of summer and probably gonna be hotter than satan's tits.

I'm personally content with being in a pool and eating popsicles all day

[thelaughingmerman]

Wip of some sillies

[profoundathletecowboybanana]

Duke Thomas being the only bat to get tan lines bc he’s the only one who patrols in the sun is one of my favorite personal headcanons

Bruce, who has been doing this for years now, forgot to even take this into consideration (because no other bat has ever had to worry about this before) and so now Duke has to provide proof of sunscreen application before each patrol for secret identity preservation purposes

[finnickodaiir]

And my room key isn't working

[marzipanandminutiae]

ok but what are YOUR favorite and probably real victorian funfacts?

There genuinely were some doctors who thought riding in trains would cause uterine prolapse [uterus falling out], when trains were new. The concern was that the vibrations from travelling so fast would break the fibers connecting the uterus to the abdominal wall. Unsurprisingly, this did not stop women from riding in trains. Because fuck that noise- trains!!!

One time in the 1840s a bunch of doctors shellacked live horses and rabbits and concluded, when the animals died (probably from heat exhaustion after being unable to sweat), that they had suffocated and that mammals breathed partially through our skin.

Some beauty manuals of the era may have created accidental sunscreen. Occasionally you see advice to wear cold cream on your face when going out, to prevent sunburn. This probably mostly didn't work- but some cold cream recipes contained zinc oxide for a "white foundation" effect, due to beauty standards favoring very light skin, which may have created a low-level SPF. Other manuals also advocate sealing the cold cream in with powder...which even more frequently involved zinc oxide.

A dentist may have gotten away with a malpractice death by blaming tightlacing. A 23-year-old maid named Annie Budden, of Preston, England, went to have a tooth pulled in January of 1895 and suffocated after the procedure, during which she had been dosed with nitrous oxide. The dentist said she was tightlaced and therefore the coroner ruled that he was not at fault- however said dentist claimed that her natural waist was 23" and her corset measured 18". Presumably that's the closed measurement, and corsets were commonly worn with at least a 2" lacing gap at the time (one corset ad I've seen mentions that women liked to give the theoretical closed measurement of their corset as their waist measurement, to make it sound smaller, while actually wearing it with the customary gap). Ergo, she was only laced down about 2-3 inches, a difference unlikely to cause asphyxiation. The fact that she worked as a maid similarly calls the assessment into question- how could she have successfully done physical labor while laced down in a way that diminished her lung capacity so much? Her employer vouched for her good character and excessive tightlacing was seen as vanity- and would have been noticed by making Miss Budden look out-of-proportion physically. That doesn't add up either, to me. The dentist went on to become mayor of the town where this all happened.

That thing above started as a fun fact about the only credible death due to tightlacing and then I looked into it more and now I'm just mad.

Justice For Annie Budden

Sorry this has gotten off-track but I'm still mad about the whole Annie Budden thing

[xmfxne]

“I need new sunscreen.”

[foldingfittedsheets]

With permission I will now be sharing my absolute favorite story from my friend Buck. For flavor, here are some facts about him.

Buck, like myself, is on the spectrum. Most comfortable in a cowboy hat, he grew up rural and was named after his grandfathers favorite horse. He carries that same grandfathers ashes on his person. He is often mistaken for a staff member when he goes to the zoo.

Back when Buck was a small little lad his father took him and his sister out boating. His dad judged that he was old enough to apply his own sunscreen for the day on the water and subsequently filled his tiny hands with a dollop of lotion.

He cautioned, “Here, just be careful not to get it in your eyes.” Buck held out his hands to receive the sunscreen, and his dad turned away to attend to Buck’s sister.

Buck’s dad had only turned away for a moment to start on his daughters protection when Buck’s shrieking cry cut through the warm sunny day. He spun back around to behold Buck, sunscreen spackled completely over his eye sockets, screaming his tiny head off.

Buck’s dad was absolutely flabbergasted by having issued the warning “Be careful of you eyes” only to have his son immediately slap a half a tube of sunscreen directly into his eyes. He couldn’t have foreseen the twists of Buck’s tiny autistic mind.

Buck had looked down at the sunscreen in his hands. He had heard the warning. It naturally made him think- he had to be careful of his eyes… BUT! What about his eyelids? If he didn’t get sunscreen on his eyelids then they might burn!

Tiny Buck could not imagine anything worse than sunburned eyelids and slapped his hands up over his eyes after that brilliant realization, only to instantly self inflict the burning he had hoped to avoid.