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FransMonthly: Cuddles

Esp: Holaa mi querida comunidad frans :D! Este es mi primer post acá en tumblr y espero que les guste :]

Ing: Helloo my dear frans comunity :D! This is my first post on tumblr and i hope you guys like it :]

@frans-monthly

(this counts as cuddles right? I hope)

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BTS Miembros en sus solo presentación en “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”

JiminonFallon The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon 23-24Mar 2023 JIMIN: LIKE CRAZY JIMIN_FACE

SUGAonFallon The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon 01-Mayo 2023 SUGA: HAEGEUM D_DAY

JungKookonFallon The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon 6-Nov 2023 JUNG KOOK: STANDING NEXT TO YOU JUNGKOOK_GOLDEN

JiminonFallon The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon 23-Jul 2024 JIMIN: WHO JIMIN_MUSE

JinonFallon The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon 20-Nov 2024 JIN: RUNNING WILD JIN_HAPPY

toddowyoung X 21 nov. post fotos de jinsugajiminjungkook

[starscelly]

the playoffs are basically upon us and i (with a lot of help from @stickypucky​) wanted to make a resource/primer for new or temporary fans to get the vibe for the stars this season! these are mostly about the Vibes rather than real technical facts. which is what truly matters. 

(click the images to make them bigger/more readable)

(as i said in the first slide, please do not hesitate to send me an ask or message if u have any questions or corrections !!! <3)

[shimera]

Ooh I guess I'm doing it... The post about car paint job from the worker's point of view.

Tiny disclaimer: I'm not an overly experienced professional (even tho I've been doing all this almost every day rn) and some things I'll mention may vary from workshop to workshop so yeah I'mma explain the way I've personally experienced this kind of job

Also I'm not talking about small touch-ups like a scratch or a small ship of some sort, this post is about going BIG starting from repainting a rusted corner of a door and to a fully new paint job like if you want to change the color of a whole car.

Don't feel obliged to follow all this in your fics and other works tho, I completely understand that sometimes you simplify stuff for the sake of the plot, and to be honest I do that too.

I also sincerely apologize if some of the terms aren't completely correct as english is not my first language

Warning: long post ahead

So, where do I start... Well, the whole process is in fact REALLY time consuming. You can do all the steps as fast as you can, yes, but still you'll be stuck with drying all the layers of the primer, base coat and clear coat anyway (this can be sped up with some infrared lamps and stuff but if you don't have these... Well, it is what it is). Also it usually takes at least 2-4 people to get the parts ready. Depending on your skills you can do it by yourself as well but for that you'd need to know how to disassemble and assemble a car, the process of preparing the parts you're gonna paint and master your painting skills to get the result you're looking for (plus sometimes you'll need to know how to weld and fix some big dents too). At my workplace all these jobs (except preparing the parts and painting them) are done by separate people, but as I said earlier, it may vary.

DEMOLISHING

First, you decide what are you going to take off the car and how much of it has to go. I'm not really involved in the process of it as I'm not a mechanic (fitter?), but yea usually you need to take off bumpers (especially if they're a part that's getting fixed and repainted), doors, hood, trunk and front&rear window glass are optional most of the time; if the hood or a door is getting painted we usually take it off. The trunk is also taken off to repaint but sometimes it can stay if there are parts close enough to it that get painted as well (for example, I've prepared a trunk and both of the rear fenders, so the trunk stayed on the car). Also most of the time the inner door panels are taken off when the door is painted, the window glass is optional but to avoid damaging it if something goes wrong we keep it in closed position or take it off; door handles always have to go separately. Oh and sometimes you'll have to take the wheels off too if they're gonna get in the way later on.

PROTECT ANYTHING THAT'S LEFT

So, the first step was successful: you figured out what, how and how much to disassemble and may think now you can start preparing the parts-- Oop, not so fast. Now you have to protect anything that you didn't take off and don't want to accidentally damage/get dirty. If the part is still on the car and any door opening is gonna be involved (and believe me, it most likely will) or they were taken off - you better cover the doorways with paper and masking tape, because you don't want the interior to get all dusty and filled with sand!! And the absolute best thing will be to cover all the remaining parts too (there are covers made for that but technically any overly huge plastic bag thingy will do) because you don't want the primer to leave any residue on them. Also you absolutely don't want to damage anything that's close to the repainted part so it's gets covered with some masking tape and/or reinforced tape - the more, the better, you can never be too careful, but remember that it's also kind of a time consuming process (sometimes it takes up to half a day to cover everything up if you're doing it alone, but most of the time it's from about twenty minutes to an hour or so)

REPAIRING AND SANDING

Finally you made it through this step too, congrats! Now the action begins: you need to get that baby ready to get a new paint job.

In my workplace the cars we paint almost every time have some chips (these can rust really well quite fast so it's important not to miss out any), scratches (they can show through the new paint if you don't sand them down completely) and of course some amount of rust, so first thing you want to do is to make sure none of it stays where it was. Most of the time you don't need to take all the paint amd primer off, so that's when you take an eccentric machine and start sanding away everything you want gone. Sometimes if the paint peels off by itself at some spots you have to sand all of it or it might start doing the same in the other spots. Sometimes you'll find out the car was already repaired and there are layers of putty there - if there's no signs of rusting underneath, you want to sand it as little as possible because the other option is to put it all back on by yourself AND make the shape of a part look like it's never been repaired, and it's not a simple task if you don't have years of experience behind your back.

The dents are treated depending on their size: if it's small enough you sand it until bare metal shows up and then cover up with some putty - make sure to really press it in so it won't sag after you finished everything. If it's big you grab some tools and fix it or call someone who knows how to fix those (that's my option at the moment sadly) and get them to fix it. Some putty still will be applied on top to make sure the detail is smooth just as new.

Sometimes it's necessary to wield parts that were too damaged. Sadly, I don't know much of it, but it's most likely a job for a couple hours or so (but there was a really fucked up extremely rusted car that's been in work for almost HALF A YEAR- yeah our wielder quit right after finishing the poor thing😭 and the car itself was released into the wild just a couple days ago). The thing I know tho is that even after sanding down everything you welded, you most likely still will have to cover it all up with putty because it won't be looking good without it. And make sure to use the right grit sandpaper because if it's too harsh it Will Absolutely Show Through after you paint it. Even if you did put some putty on top.

The rust itself may be treated a couple ways. If it's light enough that there are just some spots sitting on top of the metal then you just sand it down and call it a day. If it's so bad that chunks of metal are falling off by themselves or there are holes in it you call your wielder to cut the thing off and put a new piece of metal to cover the hole up. And if it's something in between, you go grab a sandblasting gun and all the protective gear you can find because it's about to get DIRTY. The process is quite simple: all you need to do is to connect the thing to a compressor, get yourself some clean fine sand (or else you'll be REALLY annoyed when you'll need to adjust it every ten seconds because some shit got stuck in it TRUST ME I KNOW (and also it can damage the equipment)) and start blasting the rust with it. But it's also really slow as the range of where the sand is hitting the metal is small, and you'll have to go over the same spot a couple times from different angles to really get all that rust removed. And if you blast a spot for too long it also may develop a bulge. After all this you also clean it all up and (optionally) add some putty on top. If you really want to get it extra protected you can first apply a layer of epoxy primer to the area you just relieved of rust and only after it's cured you can add the putty.

If you're working with bumpers tho it's best if you put as little putty on it as possible. These things are made to be flexible and the putty is not so it can and will fall off if any accidents that involve the bumper being squished happen. If you can sand that chip off - you do it. Also the fact of them being kind of flexible leads to paint developing some cracks that go deep through the layers and sometimes into the plastic as well. This mostly happens when it developed too many layers of paint over the years of repainting the thing, what leads to losing a lot of flexibility of the said paint, so while the bumper gets a hit and bounces back - the layers crack. And yeah if you see it you sand it down COMPLETELY or it will show through.

Last step is to make sure everything is smooth, the layers (top coat, base coat, primer and sometimes additional coats of paint from previous jobs) are stretched while sanding those (so there are no bumps there) and the grit of the sandpaper Was Small Enough because otherwise It Will Show Through.

PRIMER AND SANDING AGAIN

Now that you've got through the first round of sanding you need to put a coat of epoxy primer if there was bare metal involved and 2-5 coats of acrylic primer on top (both preferably two-component and applied with a spray gun). There's not much to say about this except that you most likely will need to do some additional masking. And if you do fuck up on this step (like overflow the paint at some spots that it starts dripping) it's still fixable: the second round of sanding is waiting for you just as finishes drying. The time of curing for the primer depends on it's type, manufacturer and the temperature you're working in, but mostl likely it's gonna take around 8 hours at the room temperature or around half an hour with the lamps.

Now that it's all cured the parts are ready to sand yet again - even if it was all perfect before you still need to make sure it's smooth, looks like it's supposed to look and has enough sandpaper scratches because the paint won't stick to a shiny-smooth surface. So sanding down it is - finer grit this time, but it is still necessary, especially if there were any repairs. The area you're going to sand this time (if just a part of a detail is going to be repainted) also is a lot bigger than you prepared at this point because to make it look as if there were no repaints at all the base coat and the top coat both need to be applied in a way that will not look bumpy. Also there are some steps to take if you've repaired some stuff there: first you sand the thing with your hands and a sanding block, and after that you get a finer grit sandpaper and - again - an eccentric machine and make sure you got all the previous scratches out or else It Will Show Through.

Finally, it's all ready - now you need just to rip most of the previous covers off, tape on some new ones adjusted to the new sanded area (takes a shit ton of time again and you better not miss this step) and you're ready to degrease the thing and FINALLY paint it. At this point depending on the equipment you've already spent around 1-3 days on the thing (including all the waiting and stuff. You absolutely can and will prepare other parts while you wait).

WOW YOU DID IT! NOW PAINT AND NOT DIE

I'm not really involved in the painting process yet (oh the lack of skill), but what I know about it is the fact that the white paint is the one which lets you get away with the biggest amount of mistakes of all. And if the paint has any shimmer/glitter in it... Well, it takes some skills to make it lay flat and not become a spotty mess (if you do fuck up at this point you'll have to repeat some sanding). Also the base coat is usually really thin as it only gives the color to a piece. The clear top coat is the one that's both the heaviest and the thickest because it's supposed to protect everything else. After applying all this you leave it to dry for around 17-24 hours (the more the better), assemble everything back together and technically you're done. Or are you?

MAKE IT SHINY

Now we've come to the additional step. Polishing. Some workshop do it, some don't. In my workplace we don't go an extra mile for it, but we still do polish the parts we painted to give it some extra shine and get rid of occasional dust that landed before painting process was finished and small drips of the top coat. First you sand these - and only these - down with a really fine grit sandpaper (preferably also wet) by hand and polish it until shiny again using different compounds and fur/foam discs and the machine almost like you've used before but this one has even more speed and power. Finding all the dust pieces especially on the big surfaces like a hood or a roof is quite a challenge - sometimes you will miss a couple and will have to go back a few steps back to sand them off. You should also rinse the car after the polishing because it gets quite dirty from time to time and these compounds are not very easy to get off when they dry.

Finally, everything is nice, smooth, shiny amd clean, and you can finally say you're done! Thanks for reading everyone, I hope you learned something useful today! If I missed out on something, feel free to ask any questions, I'll do my best to clear all that up for you!

[lycankeyy]

Anyway. Last night while trying to get myself to sleep I was taking a bunch of mental notes on BF's speech patterns maybe I should actually write a post about that lol

[mate-y-viajecito]

Estoy en un paraje que se llama Payogastilla y me dejaron tirar la carpa atrás de la iglesia, re amable la gente de acá.

[cielrouge]

You know...perhaps one of these days I will actually be capable of writing a first draft that doesn't exceed 200K, so I don't have to like...delete an entire whole-ass novel in between when I'm trying to shave done the word count (clearly not the case for this new women's fiction WIP) but I am DONE for now!!!

[w00fwoof]

anoche estaba mal d la panza e igual comí choris con muchas salsas, hoy realmente me arrepiento en parte pero no completamente

[sillygirlb]

Un fanart de: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

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jin weverse live

D-day 진 BTS 06.11. 21:27

(https://weverse.io/bts/live/2-143218822?hl=es)

(tresveceslointentoporquesecaíaweverse)

jin comento en su live que sus compañeros de unidad en el servicio militar le dieron una gran hoja de papel con mensajes de despedida y leyó algunos y en esa hoja viene la foto cuando hobi y jimin fueron a visitarle en marzo 2023 y que aquella vez subió foto jin en instagram de ese momento y en BTS_twt

(https://www.tumblr.com/aricastmblr/710842622361681920/jin-instagram-foto-con-jhope-y-jimin-uarmyhope?source=share)

[trayzen-the-infinite]

Baldur’s Gate Primer

I’m realizing Baldur’s Gate is (fittingly enough) the gateway for some people into DnD. I’m also seeing some of these tourists complaining about the rampant fantastical racism throughout. So just as a quick overview of the world as a whole to explain this here you go:

The world of DnD is basically fantasy Liberia. Everyone and I mean everyone was a slave to someone else, sometimes they took turns being the slave and slave master. Which creates a lot of understandable resentment with everyone else. Then theirs the half breed races like Half Orcs and Half Elves. The Elves and Orcs have cosmic beef with each other because the Orc god is a salty bitch and passed his resentment of the Elven God onto his children. The Orcs are generally tribal people with a culture of violence and zealotry for their God who is basically spite and violence incarnate. Half Orcs carry the genetic violent tendencies but if raised in general society are much less belligerent and are thus usually looked down on by Orc society.

Similarly to Orcs, Half Elves are also generally looked down on by full Elves as Elves generally have a bloated sense of self worth. They have this whole reincarnation thing about their life cycle and Half Elves are exempt from this which makes them freaks in the eyes of elf society.

Dwarves are probably the only mortals that can match the Orc god in holding Grudges and have a bone to pick with Orcs and Elves for various reasons. They’re very proud people and take pride in their lineage. Dwarves, in spite of how prickly the average dwarf can be, are loyal people when won over.

Teiflings are half demons who are typically used as foot soldiers for devils (willing or unwilling) tieflings are unfortunately connected to the ones that terrorize entire societies. While that resentment is unfair it’s also not unwarranted. Although this racial prejudice also pushes them to the clutches of devils and general crime, deciding to embrace their demonic heritage rather than suffer discrimination. It’s a dangerous cycle which only exemplifies the kindness of the ones that don’t turn to darkness.

These next two are particularly important especially for the context of Baldur’s Gate: the Mind Flayers and the Gith. Starting with the Mind Flayers they’re either unfathomably ancient as even the Aboleths who have existed since the beginning of the universe and have all knowledge of the most ancient past, have no memory of the Mind Flayers or they’re so new they technically don’t exist as it’s believed they might be from the future. In any case they had a massive and powerful empire that extended not just to another plane but into actual space. The Gith were their primary slaves. Being that they reproduced by body snatching the Gith were also more literal sacrifices for the growth of the empire.

One day they rebelled against the Mind Flayers and not only succeeded but completely dismantled their entire empire and the Mind Flayers hid, barely surviving in our plane. The Gith would be the embodiment of not only the racial tensions of the setting but also meta commentary for something that happens in the real world. As rather than learn from the failures of their former masters The Gith just mimicked the Mind Flayer society wholesale and became terrors upon all other beings. They were pirates, conquerors and the racial cleansing of the Mind Flayers itself has become part of their culture as once a Gith reaches age they are tasked to claim the head of a Mind Flayer as a trophy before they’re allowed to come home. The Gith have even claimed the home of The Mind Flayers for themselves in an outer plane. Time runs differently there so the aging of a Gith really only happens while they’re hunting for Mind Flayers or otherwise causing problems for everyone else.

[aldieb]

sangfielle is probably furthest toward the “yes” end of the “art can change the world” spectrum of media i’ve encountered (ex. they see a model of a city and the hitman stops tracking pickman, the painting that changes you into one of the people depicted). which makes me wonder in a somewhat curmudgeonly way: who’s making art about how art can’t change the world? i would like to see it

[amateurchefstuff]

Llenties vermelles amb curry casolà

Ingredients (2 px): 125 gr. de llenties vermelles 300 ml. de brou de verdures o d’aigua mineral un bon grapat de tirabecs, a ull, una mitja safata petita Una ceba de Figueres, i un moniato una culleradeta de za’atar sal i pebre negre una cullerada de llavors de cilantre mitja cullerada de llavors de comí 1 cullerada de pebre negre en gra 1 culleradeta de llavors de sèsam amb cúrcuma mitja…

[miss-floral-thief]

lol sweating on left side of

Face even tho

Sun coming down from right

Don’t have cleanser on me but I should be able to wash fade in cvs bathroom assuming they don’t have it blocked off again

[taniushka12]

estaba tan preocupado estudiando q se me pasó completamente la fecha de inscripción al segundo parcial.................................................................. me quiero matar, me quero pegar un tiro, dios........

[aroaceofthesea]

Vale va necessito un 2 avui es pot es pot