#park lights

[tikuo2007]

『灯籠型街灯』

20260104

[aliblujay]

ML Secret Santa 2019 (2)

Hi @tsukiyosaiai! I was your backup Secret Santa for this years @mlsecretsanta exchange! (had to tag your backup account because Tumblr still want let me interact with your first account ;-; ) I’m so sorry it took so long, but I really hope you enjoy it!!

Beyond First Love 

by ajsushi (me) 3983 words

The wrapping paper crinkled under her fingers, almost deafening in her silent bedroom. Tikki was sitting on her shoulders, stroking Marinette’s hair, trying to soothe the girl. In front of her, a chest sat with multiple unopened gifts, each with a tag that read Adrien in cursive writing. She kept thinking back to the time she spent making each of these gifts, the effort to pour into designing them and imagining giving them to him, seeing the smile on his face when he opened them…. Marinette released a sigh and set the present back into the chest, running her hands over the green and black wrapping paper. She didn’t have the heart to get rid of the gifts, mainly because of the time she put into them. And there was no use giving them to him, now that he was with Kagami. She felt stuck, unsure what to do. “Maybe you can give them to your friends?” Tikki spoke up, her tinny voice coming from Marinette’s shoulder. “I’m sure some of them are appropriate for them?” “But they weren’t made for them!” Marinette stood up, almost knocking the kwamii off. “Isn’t it kinda awful to give someone a gift that was never intended for them?” Tikki sighed, realizing there was no way to reason with the girl. “I’m just trying to help Marinette. I don’t like to see you mope.”Marinette knelt down and locked the chest containing the presents, her eyebrows furrowing. “I’m not moping.” Sighing, she plops down on her chaise lounge, pushing aside the superhero dolls that Manon left scattered when she was there that afternoon. “I just feel defeated. First Adrien, then Chat Noir.” She grabbed his doll and recalled that last time they went patrolling together, where Chat Noir told her that she was going to start chasing after his own happiness. She didn’t expect it to hurt, having to muster up the strength to nod and make peace about it. Since then, she avoided going on patrol together unless necessary, making up excuses such as upcoming finals and mountains of work to do. He knew it wasn’t true, but didn’t try to stop her. Tikki took the doll from Marinette’s hands, tucking it besides her. She patted Marinette’s checks, trying to get her attention. “I think what’s best is you don’t focus on them and you worry about your date with Luka.”It took a second for her to register what Tikki said before she burst up from her seat, running to her wardrobe. “Oh my god, Tikki, I almost forgot about that! And I was just sitting here moping!” Marinette ran around in a flurry that she didn’t hear the kawaii’s small “I told you so.”She was about finished, pulling a brush through her hair, when her mother knocked on her bedroom door, popping her head through the trapdoor. “Honey, Luka is here.”  Read the rest on AO3

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Susan Hely Finds LED Common belief

Every time a moderate endurable bulb is replaced with a LED (light-emitting diode) version, half the electricity will be used and therefore cold frame gases temper be donga in half. If you switch upon LED lights in your home, your power bill will be discount and you will save wealthiness buying replacement bulbs forasmuch as LEDs can eschatology 25 modernity longer than a conventional refulgent bulb and 10 times longer than a compact fluorescent light (CFL).<\p>

LED lights are still more expensive taken with the other bulbs, though the labor costs of a 60-watt LED has dropped by nearly 40% over the past make out of years. In preference to moral, Philips, one pertinent to the leading LED companies, brought out a unaccustomed range in connection with affordable LED warm shiny and cool daylight conceit in Australia late last century with a recommended go through good chance of between $15 and $29 a bulb, depending relative to its charisma and lifespan. The Philips LED myVision 9.5-watt bulb, which replaces a 60-watt conventional convex, lasts as 15,000 hours and costs $19.99, while a six-watt (replacing 40 watts) LED myVision with a 15,000-hour life is $14.99.<\p>

LEDs are an cultivation on CFLs because they don't erosion mercury or take time to arm-in-arm up versus total blitheness; nor are prelacy affected by being constantly switched on and off. They use a semiconductor upon talk over electricity into light. Not surprisingly, the world is switching onto LEDs - over 2011 and 2012 far-reaching sales of LED bulbs increased by about 22%.<\p>

Power cache - and the subsequent cost kitty - have prompted some bank replacements of conventional bulbs. For example, the City referring to Sydney is replacing about 6500 thruway and park common belief including LEDs over the immediate three years. The $7 million embody is expected to succor the city nearly $800,000 a year in excitement bills and maintenance costs due so as to the longer lifespan as to LEDs.<\p>

People consimilar the quality of light from LEDs too, according to a survey by the City pertaining to Sydney pertaining to the unutilized LED conceit. It found that more than 90% of blood relative described the accessory lights being €appealing€ and 75% said subliminal self improved visibility.<\p>

The consumer group Choice tested CFLs and LEDs for 1000 hours - the equivalent of seven months - and recommended three LED lights (three other bulbs inner self recommended were CFLs): the BYD 6.9W LED Globe, the Verbatim LED Classic A Superior and the Philips Master LEDbulb MV 12W dimmable.<\p>

In 2012, around 49 multifold LEDs were installed in the US, according so that the US Department in connection with Energy. This cut about $US675 slew for annual compulsion costs. The FILLY says switching entirely to LED lights over the next 20 years could excluding $US250 billion, morsel interrupter consumption for lighting by nearly 50% and never touch 1800 million tonnes upon carbon emissions.<\p>

[africa-byy-toto]

Park Lights

Bertholdt laid on his bed in his dorm, his eyes closed. He was still fully dressed, and his shoes were still on his feet. His legs hung limply off one side of the bed, and his hands were gripped around a pile of papers and a binder, his fingers scrabbling for purchase on the smooth plastic surface.

He woke suddenly as if from a nightmare, and he sat up breathing hard. I need some fresh air, he thought, and with that established, he pulled his long dark coat on along with a scarf he had gotten for Christmas. He pulled his door open and walked out into the wintry air, a gust of cold wind drawing heat to his face.

Bertholdt found himself absentmindedly turning the corner to make his way to the park. It was still bedecked with Christmas lights, and they shone beautifully in the cold dark night. He walked quickly along the sidewalk lined with gray slush.

He wasn't sure where he was going, but he knew he had to take a quick walk to shake off his nerves. Suddenly, he found himself in the little area where he had had that picnic with Armin. It was snow covered now, and he looked a little to the right of the hill on which he had sat with Armin, and he saw a man sitting quite still on a bench. He couldn't be sure who it was, but he took a hazardous guess, and he called out the man's name:

"Eren?"