#headlamps

[life-spire]

@ mono_log

[clouds-by-me]

"Helou, I was wondering if I could order Asano Gakushuu headcanons with a reader with the personality of Mitsuri Kanroji- it came to mind and I thought it would be a fun dynamic to watch- The 'perfect' student council leader and model student x Reader with a somewhat bubbly and clumsy personality"- obviously nothing spicy- more like pure fluff.

It's okay if you don't want to and you can just ignore this request- ^^"

Characters; Asano Gakushu

Au; Mitsuri! Reader[black coded reader, but anyone can read]

An| I hope you enjoy. Thank you for requesting<3 I really enjoyed making this though I had to restart this shot so many times just bc I didn't like it

Dating the most popular boy in your school was definitely...Something

Asano loves you don't get me wrong, but sometimes things get stressful for him because of the high expectations that are held for him so having a very sweet and caring s/o is just what he needs

Asano often parades you around

Not in a loud way but while walking around the school or just anywhere in general, he has his hand in yours or is always with you

He doesn't like being away from you, not really because he's clingy, more like he needs to watch who you talk to

Don't get me wrong he loves your charming and fun yet clumsy personality, but he has to make sure your not around those class-E students

Somehow you were transferred into class 3-A with him and your schedule also changed to match his...Strange...

The two of you get sooo many complements about how cute you look together

Many of your dates consist of shopping sprees and fancy restaurant dates because he only want you to have the best

He always keeps extra clothes and accessories just around so if you had to rush and don't really look the best that day he always has stuff for you to change into

He knows exactly what you like and where to get it from

I like to think that he'd be really protective of you

He knows how overly nice you can be and just doesn't want anyone to think that they can use you for their own personal gain

As your boyfriend he feels like he has to make sure everyone knows that the two of you are eating for so many reasons. The main ones being because he wants to make sure that your well respected and he's proud of you as well as your relationship

When they are having some competition with class E, he loves when your on the sidelines cheering for him

If he happened to lose that game he'll be really frustrated and felt like he let you down

He's not rely great with comfort of any kind. So if your having a rough day for some reason, his first reaction is to go get you something. Some items that he knows you like, it'll take like one conversation for him to understand that hugs or words of affirmation are sometimes better than gifts

He's not really used to any form of physical affection so it'll take time for him to get comfortable with hugging and wrapping around you, but once he does, he can't stop

Homeboy can't get enough of your touch and love

He's not really into PDA, but in private he's a big cuddle bug

I would say you made him a lot more a affectionate, and open. Bc we all know his dad ain't give him enough love

All in all he loves and adores you. He's really protective but you made him better and that's one of the many reasons why he loves you

Depending on what kinds of foods you like, I also think you widen his taste in food. We all know his dad wasn't feeding him any soul food, bc neither one of them got a care for the world or a soul

[j-august]

"Well," said Wimsey, "I'm inquisitive about papers. Still, if you've burnt it, you've burnt it. It's a pity. If you could have found the paper, it might be worth--" The beautiful eyes of Leila directed their beams upon him like a pair of swivelling head-lamps rounding the corner on a murky night. "Yes?" breathed Leila.

Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase

[bigcheese327]

Bring back sealed-beam headlamps!

[asteroidtroglodyte]

5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

10 years ago, I was watching my Potential and Opportunities dissolve and evaporate in an ocean of cheap gin and expensive whiskey.

But 5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

One of the exercises they had us perform was to imagine ourselves happy, 5 years in the future.

Many of us in that room had forgotten how to imagine nice things happening to them. A few snorted (well, I snorted), finding the notion that we’d even still be around in 5 years grimly humorous.

For about half of us, it was the last stop on the way down.

But I indulged the therapist. I was there, after all, because I did not want to die. So, I imagined myself, 5 years hence.

Happy.

It came to me all at once; an artistic remix on Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want, reframed with myself placing food at the table.

Sunday Dinner At My Place, I answered, when it came my turn to share my fantasy. I was asked what food I imagined eating.

It’s not the meal itself, I said, it’s the implications framed around it. Sunday Dinner At My Place means that I have a Place. It means that I have Family that will actually speak to me and friends who actually want to see me. It means money enough not just to feed myself but others too. It means having the time to spare to take the time preparing the meal.

A lot of nodding heads all around me. A struck chord. Many people with no Place, in that place. Nowhere that would lament their leaving.

5 years hence, as I lay down to sleep in my Home, with my Wife and my Son, surrounded by my Art and my Flowers, I reflect.

It was a long road. It was hard. We lost people. So many people. There were long days and long nights and hospital stays. Angry arguments with ghosts. I changed, in ways I never hoped for, or expected. Good ways, finally, for once. Slowly, against the backdrop of a world in chaos, I found my mind.

Sometimes, My Wife wondered aloud, what she did to deserve me. After some stumbling with my feelings, I eventually settled on an answer.

I’m a Rescue.

She gave me a Home.

And, so, I gave her a Family.

It seemed fair

This Sunday, my folks, which whom I have not had a shouting match in years, will come over for dinner. We will cook and eat together. My Friend became My Wife, and she took a piece of me and with it she made Our Son. There will be many hugs, and no violence. Good Things Happened.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t know what the future holds.

don’t give up yet, ok?

It could get good, even.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

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[narse-tantalus]

I looked a bit into replacement headlamps assemblies a while back, and what I learned (accurate or not!) was that light patterns are regulated by NHTSA - asshole lights either LED or HID or even miss-aimed Incandescent beams are all prohibited. But enforcement is basically non-existent. The only actors who bother complying are really big auto part manufacturers who are concerned about legal liability. Anyway, long story short getting OEM headlamp assemblies properly optically engineered to comply with the standards (when correctly aimed!) is 2 to 3 times more expensive than buying an aftermarket part from asia that was made to be inexpensive and/or look cool.

So sometimes the people with these lights might just be ignorant and/or cheap.

But this is an interesting case where the most problematic actors aren't big corporations - they're small and midsize importers and installers.

Enabling or prioritizing stricter enforcement against all actors might help.

Also, there's an incorrect assumption that more light = better vision that fuels the drive for these brighter lights. In many cases what helps a driver see better is having their eyes adjust to the darkness. You still need some light on the road, but you actually want it as far down the road as possible because the stuff that's close by makes up a greater share of your field of view, and if it's well lit your eyes adjust to that. This is why aiming beams is so important. And why poorly aimed or too wide beams on oncoming traffic are so bad.

P.s. I also wonder if trucks getting higher and higher are messing things up for other drivers. Iirc the federal rules are based on the angle of the beams -- and if they start out higher than other drivers then other drivers end up in parts of the beam they're not supposed to be in.

I honestly feel like the proliferation of LED headlights was the canary in the coalmine for the general attitude we see in the political climate these days and i'm not even remotely kidding

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[life-spire]

@ Jorgen Hendriksen

See more cars.

[narse-tantalus]

They are Regulated! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regulates them and there are very strict requirements on beam pattern to restrict how much light goes into oncoming driver's eyes. Unfortunately, my understanding is that NHTSA's only good at enforcement against car manufacturers -- they basically don't do any enforcement against aftermarket imported lights even when those lights clearly violate the existing rules. (Color is also regulated - it can be white or yellow, but some blue-whites qualify as white). Unfortunately blue lights got popular as an aftermarket mod, so lots of (ignorant) people put them on cause they think they look cool.

Long story short, any yahoo can put too bright, non-calibrated, blue headlamps on their car or truck, and they will. All cars that are configured by an OEM likely have headlights that won't blind oncoming drivers, but they do have to be aimed properly and many folks don't bother to aim them when they swap them out. Regulations on all this stuff exist but are only enforced against car manufacturers.

Headlights are just too bright now. We gotta regulate them.

(And before anyone says it’s just an aiming problem - no. Like I apologize to the headlight aficionados clearly lusting after lighthouses, chernobyl, or the death star, but no amount of aiming is gonna fix the fact that the moment your car encounters any kind of hill, curve, or bump, my retinas are vaporized by a shade of blue-white previously known only to god. Just accept your limits and settle for a soft orange like the rest of us)

[cyanskyflashlight]

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[amatlcomix]

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[taevisionceo]

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[bastionofbibliophiles]

Fun trivia: the reason flip-up headlights exist at all is because, for a few decades, US regulations required that every car use the exact same headlights (one 7-inch circular on each side of the vehicle starting in 1940, then two 5.75-inch circles were allowed after 1957, then rectangles were allowed after 1974), positioned at a very specific height. If car manufacturers wanted to make cars more aerodynamic or stylistically distinct, the only option was to somehow hide the headlamps when not in use. And thus, Hidden Headlamps were born.

Flip-up headlights are basically the only thing that can reliably bring me joy in a car. 8500-rpm redline? Heated leather seats? Mid-engined twin-turbocharged V8? Yeah, those are nice and all – but have you seen how this thing looks like a weird frog when I push this button?

The thing about cars is that they were never meant to be taken seriously. Sure, they were originally developed for rich people to use to run over poor people with. Then they became race cars, and racers are very serious about everything except for the survival of the car (and sometimes themselves.) After that, though, they became proletarian transport. With that accessibility came genuine fun. You can’t do a four-alarm burnout with a horse, and if you tried, you’d probably end up going to jail because of the horse police.

So, anything that can increase the amount of fun you’re having with a car is great, especially if you don’t have to burn fuel, brake pads, and oil to do it. And flip-up headlights qualify. They’re fun even when the car is turned off. They make the car look either super-sleek, aerodynamic, futuristic, or… goofy. The designers picked up on this duality, and they often add wacky transitions to draw attention to the party piece.

Sure, they’re not that great for pedestrians, so don’t hit any. Their utility in the unimportant field of “being able to see” are in question. Big deal. That’s why they have 80s-style rally lightbars, which also look a little bit goofy, and tell everyone around you (especially the cops) that you are not a serious race car driver. Those folks would never put such an aerodynamic limiter on their exotic lap-killing machine.