#kfr@&

[that1valiantcougar]

Chapter 1 of Part 3 of my Kakairu series "A Kid-Friendly Road-trip" will be published tomorrow! There's a ridiculous amount of action, angst and plot to the part, so be forewarned. The entire 13 chapter story is written, so updates should remain consistent (Every two weeks)!

Thanks for checking us out!

[herbertwest]

I just found a really good Korean restaurant within a ten minute walk of my new apartment, so needless to say I just ate half my bodyweight in kimchee fried rice.

[aprao22]

SOP for Operation and Calibration of Karl Fischer Apparatus

OPERATION AND CALIBRATION OF KARL FISCHER APPARATUS

SOP NO.: EffectiveDate: Review Date: QC00X-01 DD/MM/YYYY DD/MM/YYYY

Supersedes Page No.: Department: NA 01 of end Quality Control

I           OBJECTIVE 

            To describe the Operation and Calibration Procedure for the Karl Fischer Apparatus.

II          SCOPE

            This Procedure applies to the operation and calibration of the Karl Fischer Apparatus in the QC Department of ABC Ltd, Location.

III        RESPONSIBILITY 

            1. The analyst, who operates the instrument, is responsible for following the procedure.

            2. The QC Manager / Designee is responsible for implementing the procedure.

IV        DOCUMENT REFERENCE(s)

   SOPs:   a) Policy on calibration (Current version of QA 0XX)

                 b) Operation and calibration of Analytical Balance (Current version of QC00X)

                 c) Maintenance of desiccants (Current version of QC0XX)

Forms

S.No Detail Format No 1 KF Standardization Calibration Record QC00X/F01

V        SCHEDULE:

1.0      External Calibration shall be carried out once every 3 months.

2.0      Internal calibration:   Daily  

VI        PROCEDURE  

1.0       Precautions:

1.1       Keep the lid of the KF vessel tightly closed to protect against atmospheric moisture.

1.2       Care should be taken while transferring the test sample to the KF vessel so that the test sample does not fall on the wall of the KF vessel.  

1.3       Ensure that the KF tube is free from any air bubbles.

1.4       Ensure that the Silica gel is good in condition.

2.0       Operating Procedure:

2.1       Transfer about 50 to 60 ml of fresh methanol into the clean and dried titration vessel Fill the 25 ml burette with KF Reagent up to the mark.

2.2       Switch on the instrument and observe the END LED glow.

2.3       Press the start button to start the addition of KF reagent to the titration vessel.             Observe ADDLED glows.

2.4       Wait until methanol is neutralized and fill the burette to the mark.

2.5       Now add a small quantity of sample into the titration vessel.

2.6       Again press the start button to start the KF reagent addition.

2.7       Wait until the END LED glows and note down the KF consumed.

2.8       Finally calculate the moisture content of the sample using the formula given below and document the details in the equipment log.                                      Volume of KFR consumed X KFR factor X 100           Calculaton      =  ______________________________________                                   (Volume /weight) of the sample X 1000                                                                                                

3.0       Calibration Procedure    :

3.1       Fill the KF reagent in the reagent bottle.

3.2       Switch on the instrument.

3.3       Remove the mixture of KF reagent and sample solution from the titration vessel.

3.4       Wash the titration vessel with 10 ml of methanol.

3.5       Place about 50 to 60 ml of methanol into the titration vessel.

3.6       Neutralize with KF reagent to an electronic endpoint.

3.7       Weigh accurately about 0.1 to 0.15 gm of Disodium tartrate (DST) and transfer it to the titration vessel.

3.8       Stir to dissolve and titrate with KF reagent.

3.9       After completion of titration, note down the burette reading (TV) and calculate as follows:

                                             Weight of DST X 15.66 X 100              Calculaton      =  ________________________________                                                               T.V X 100                                                                       

3.10    Repeat the same from step No. 3.7 to 3.9 and take the average value of the KF factor.     

3.11    The tolerance limit for two trials should not be more than 0.15. If doesn’t comply repeat the same.

3.12     If the Karl Fischer Reagent factor is less than 4.8 mg of H2O/mL discard the Karl Fischer Reagent solution and take fresh reagent.

3.13     Ensure the details are documented in the calibration log.

3.14     Enter the breakdown details & spares utilized in the Equipment History Card.

 REFERENCE:

*  Instrument Manual of KFR Auto Titrator.  

REVISION HISTORY Version Effective Summary of Revision

0.0 DD/MM/YYYY New SOP

END O F THE DOCUMENT                                   

                                Prepared By           Checked By             Approved By

Sign & Date

Name & Dept    QA Executive         QC Manage               QA Manager

[sonicziggy]

"Pure Smile Snake Venom - KFR Remix" by Eartheater, KFR https://ift.tt/OwIaKEW

[crguang]

607. I MISS YOU.

" And I found photographs of our school, on the day we met I thought that you were so beautiful, it was love, I guess."

VIOLINIST AU MASTERLIST

It's here!! The official lore-filled post for the Violinist AU that my wonderful anons, @shalomniscient's godly input and I have concocted over the past three months. This masterlist will serve as guidelines for the AU so that newcomers and current enjoyers (me included lol) can easily refer to it and see if any burning questions have already been answered or not. Speaking of, every anon questions and rambles can currently be found under the #violinist au tag. Things will inevitably be added as time goes by, so I'll do my best to update this post when they do. Let's get into it! ♫

SOME BASICS!

SUMMARY ♫

╰┈➤ Kafka and Reader are classical musicians and childhood best friends who have been playing together since their respective instructors discovered their potential and made them work together on a piece at just 8 years old. At the time, they are both young prodigies in the making who share a dream of becoming the best in their field. They navigate the carefreeness of childhood, heavy expectations, close friendships and tumultuous high school years hand in hand. As they grow, so does their music. The two are intrinsically tangled up; where there is one, you can surely find the other. One day, when they're around 16 years old, R moves away. Their last bus ride together is a memory Kafka holds close to her heart and she remembers it viscerally whenever comes the time to bring an especially complex composition to life. This musical prowess eventually becomes the source of her recognition and success.

After R moves away, Kafka loses herself in her ambitions and Elio's strict teaching. He continues to groom her into the perfect musician and has little regard for her self-destructive behavior if the results surpass his expectations. She isolates herself from her friends, practices until her fingers ache, and spends a long time exteriorizing her feelings of abandonment through her music. She’s snarky, irritable and mean. She grows up to play the violin professionally and is recognized as a prodigy in that world. She goes through pianist accompaniment after pianist accompaniment, always looking for the “missing key” to her art that’s disappeared alongside R, but it remains unattainable.

R grows up insecure due to Elio’s hurtful favouritism towards Kafka; they never feel skilled enough to keep up with her, strong enough to shoulder their instructor’s expectations for them and thus worthy of Kafka’s attention and respect. When they move, they stop playing the piano for a while. Even they pick it back up eventually, it’s never in a professional context. While KFR have different relationships with music, since they’ve learned it as a duo, they understand each other’s art like no one else. R now makes records of songs covers that they’ve only recently started selling due to their popularity among the locals. It’s a hobby, not a career.

PRESENTING... KFR ♫

╰┈➤ KAFKA

We all know her, we all adore her, forever a superstar... Kafka's as close to HSR's canon as I could make her. Since this is an AU, there are obviously backstory/character traits that I've added to further flesh her out but the base of her character remains the same. Classical music is her life and she's played professionally as soon as she could; praised and admired almost all of her life (by her instructor and her fellows), she's a goddess with the violin. She's playful, confident with the skills to back it up, and guards her true feelings behind easy smiles only the ones closest to her can pick apart.

Some Kafka facts:

She's most definitely a media sweetheart. Her practiced elegance and distinct fashion style make her look very Cool, and it's an image she's carefully built brick by brick!

She lives in a condo with minimalist design, so it looks pretty empty despite her collections of records, musical instruments and mini libraries filled with books, music sheets and the likes. You can find an intricate, pretty vase in almost every room.

Outside of music, she doesn't do commitment. She sucks at it, hates feeling "hindered" and is often preoccupied by someone something else anyway. Hookups and FWB are more her style. She’s had like one serious relationship up until the present time.

As a teen, she was pretty rebellious. Though rigorous when it comes to the violin, she was never above skipping a day or two of class to have some fun and almost always dragged R along whether they thought it was a good idea or not. As an adult, she still enjoys the thrill but is much more calculated due to being under the spotlight most days.

She’s always heard humming! Though singing’s not her thing, she’s constantly humming her favourite orchestras, pieces she’s currently learning or just songs that she likes.

Heavy smoker, especially when she’s feeling some type of way.

She has no living relatives.

She harbours some repressed anger that she’s never fully healed from until the present time. That explains a lot of her defense mechanisms and current guarded behaviour.

She wears her sunglasses when she wants to hide.

Her closest relationships are: Blade, Acheron and Black Swan.

She meets Blade sometime after college and offers him a job as her personal driver. He understands her needs implicitly and she deciphers his moods just as easily. He’s the one who takes care of her when she drinks too much or needs to clear her head with a long drive. Sometimes, shared silence is enough. Kafka and Acheswan have been friends since high school and have stayed friends throughout adulthood. The three of them grew closer right after R moved away.

╰┈➤ Reader

Because this is still an x reader AU, they don’t have a specific appearance. All of their specificities lie in their character. R is an excellent pianist despite their traitorous mind convincing them otherwise, they genuinely have a passion for the piano and classical music as a whole so they’re very knowledgeable when it comes to it. They currently work at a record store alongside Serval and make music for themselves that others happen to enjoy. They’re an overthinker and tend to diminish the place they take up in people’s lives but they’re also very sweet, reserved and thoughtful.

Some R facts:

They’re a terrible liar. It’ll show on their face whenever they’re bothered by something, or they’ll have little tells like fidgeting or avoiding eye contact.

Funnily enough, they were the most direct one out of the two as teens. R had no issue calling Kafka beautiful on concert night or holding her hand unprompted as they walked to the bus stop. While she hid behind shitty humour and sarcasm, they were more open in their affection. It’s a little more complicated in the present time, as they have to relearn each other with their respective baggage.

Elio's berating is the reason why R starts hiding things from Kafka and their other friends. As a teen they keep more secrets from her than she thinks, it's something she'll come to realize in the present time.

R moves away for a couple of reasons; their parents consider moving due to having to take care of chronically ill relatives but that decision isn't cemented until R tells them that they're okay with it. By the time they make this decision they've let their dwindling passion for the piano, years of Elio's expectations and their own insecurities take up so much space in their mind that they simply don't believe they're needed anymore. They couldn't do it anymore, look at Kafka and be reminded of how insignificant they were. They don't inform her simply out of cowardice. At 16 they were going through so much that they just believed leaving was for the best.

They have a little sister! She's 14 years younger than they are, so she was 2 when their family moved away. In the present time she's 14!

R sings! Not professionally or anything, but their singing voice is (one of) someone's favourite sounds.

They live in the one bedroom apartment right above the record store. It's cozy and seems packed at first glance, complete opposite from Kafka's home. There are music sheets and drawings from when their sister was younger on the fridge, pictures framed on the walls, old posters of bands they still love in their bedroom, etc.

Their closest relations are: Serval, Acheron and Swan

Serval and R met at the record store, where she already worked at before they were employed there. R is often invited to her band's performances, and they grew close from working together so often (outside of the owner, they're the only two employees in the store.) They're here for each other as they both go through these ridiculous homoromantic situationships... Acheswan are high school friends and once KFR reconnects, so do R and our fav purple ladies. They're closest to Acheron.

TIMELINE ♫

╰┈➤ KFR are the same age and meet at 8 years old. They grow together under the same instructor, Elio. They go to the same school and don't live that far off from each other, only one bus ride away.

At 14 years old, in high school, KFR befriend Acheron and Black Swan who have just started dating. They're high school sweethearts!

At 16 years old, the Bus Breakup happens and R moves away. Kafka's left to finish the rest of the school year with Acheswan and throws herself into her music/goals to cope with R's sudden absence.

Kafka starts to get recognition in the classical music world in college, but more so in the years that follow. At 23, she's already pretty known as a violinist prodigy. Also the year she meets Bladie!

Around a decade after they last saw each other, at 28 years old, KFR meets again in the vintage record store R works at. When I say "present time" I'm referring to their first meeting and on.

KFR officially get together about a year later, at 29 years old.

SOME FUN STUFF!

DRABBLES

╰┈➤ I've written a few short drabbles for specific moments of KFR's lives together that particularly spoke to me. I intend to write more whenever I feel inspired, and you're all welcome to pitch in as well !

🎼 Bus Breakup

🎼 Record Store Shitshow

🎼 Random KFR drabble

HEADCANONS ♫

(more like fun facts since I decide what's canon...)

╰┈➤ These aren't in chronological order because that would take me an insane amount of time to figure out. As always, if anyone wants me to elaborate on any of these they can always send me an ask :)

R has natural perfect pitch while Kafka's worked hard to hone hers. In the present time, she’s much better than they are due to playing consistently and professionally.

Kafka picked up smoking in college to alleviate her stress. Very bad habit that she can’t seem to stop.

Kafka has tattoos! I don’t care, she at least has a spine tattoo. Her and R probably get matching ones at some point, much smaller though. I’m thinking particular music notes.

R eventually comes to own the record store they work at.

Kafka’s very close with R’s family. They hang out without R often. Their sister loves her and they've had a few spa days.

R’s dog tag is from a grandparent that passed away. It’s sort of a way for them to remember to keep their loved ones close. I can see Kaf gifting them one with a date engraved on the back.

Kafka’s tried her hand at composition but the one she’s been working on and off on for years is still unfinished.

Once KFR gets together, they're always touching in some way. One of them toying with the other's fingers is a common occurrence.

R still has the drawing their 8 year old self made with Kafka somewhere in their teenage bedroom. They've also held on some specific annotated music sheets/partitions that they've worked on with Kafka when they were in the school orchestra.

Kafka and Serval have a funny relationship; Serval loves to get on Kafka's nerves because she's a rich snob and Kafka's always a fan of getting even. The passive aggressiveness between them is off the charts, but they can also be found giggling together when drunk. They'll deny it wholeheartedly.

R and Himeko are friends! They go to the same coffee place almost every day and see each other often but work in very different fields.

Serval and Cocolia have something weird going on. They've been friends who kiss sometimes since college and now they have different career paths that add some distance between them but they still want each other but Cocolia tends to prioritize her work and Serval feels she doesn't care as much anymore and--- it's complicated. Bronya doesn't exist at this point in the AU, but she likely will in the future.

R's followed some of Kafka's success on social media for a few years before they met again. Kafka has a little fanbase!

R sells their personal collection of the records they make at the store. When Kafka gets wind of it, she makes sure to have a copy of each (mostly by having Blade buy them from people’s hands…) and keeps the records at home. That’s before they get together.

R plays the piano for Kafka for the time the morning after they sleep together hehehe.

R confesses to Kafka about Elio's mistreatment after Swan convinces them to. I would say it’s the biggest chance Kafka has to make them understand that she wants them at her side.

Swan was the pretty but kinda weird girl in high school who was very into palm reading and tarot cards. Acheron was probably on the track team or something. Super sweet but reserved.

Kafka and Acheswan see each other pretty often. They have brunch.

Acheron studied philosophy in college.

Acheron mostly taught Kafka how to do her makeup as teens.

Swan has always been able to see through Kafka's bullshit and defense mechanisms.

When they were in high school, R’s house was the designated hang out spot for the 4 of them. At school they had classroom 311B which was often vacant so they hung out there most of the time.

KFR's confession happens in R's teenage bedroom after a family dinner. Sev and I already have the whole thing planned out...

Their bus number, 607, means “I miss you” in pager code! I thought I was being clever when I chose it lol. It’s kind of the official title me thinks.

CONTRIBUTIONS!

╰┈➤ KFR PLAYLIST MADE BY @blinkinn <3

Very grateful and giddy about this one because I still can’t believe my brainrot has inspired someone to make a playlist out of it. It’s full of angst, as it should be, so I’m very happy. I’m still adding on songs that make me think of them and have some instrumentals/violin sonatas that I need to add as well, and I'm always taking anon suggestions for songs y'all think would fit them <3

╰┈➤ KFR PINTEREST BOARD

This pinterest board is unfinished but is essentially meant to be a progression of KFR’s childhood to adulthood. It was supposed to start off representing childhood carefreeness and nostalgia then progresses into their angsty teenage years, their separate lives, all to come back to the time they meet again well into adulthood. However, the board is structured from most recent to older years, so the oldest memories are at the bottom.

Thank you to all my anons and Sev for brainrotting with me, this AU is getting kind of big now and I’m really happy about it. I’ll add more info to this post periodically, I think about it often and I’ve likely forgotten some stuff that has been mentioned to me before so it’s a work in progress!!! Hope more people enjoy what we’ve all made together <3

[shanks]

KFR

[twinprime]

tagged by @creaturecannibal <33 first time i’ve done this and actually felt that it’s representative of what i normally listen to lollll

Rules: put your "on repeat" playlist on shuffle, share 10 songs, then tag 10 people ~

aquamarine / arcamarine - addison rae & arca

perfect stranger - fka twigs

mowgli’s road - marina and the diamonds

365 feat. shy girl - charli xcx & shygirl

we are making out - mura masa & yeule

there is something i can’t find - kfr & mayah alkhateri

room of fools - fka twigs

high fashion - addison rae

24hr dog - fka twigs

solid liquid gas - eartheater

@leopardette @loverangel @cruiserweightcoke @novemberrules26 @liefdesbriefjes @loveryoushouldvecomeovermp3 or anyone who wants to do this lol ♡

[kissfacility]

Mayah Alkhateri’s debut solo track with KFR was released as part of a techno compilation by ONES and ZEROS, a new label founded by Boys Noize.

lyrics description: the lyrics convey a sense of frustration, insignificance, and emotional detachment. feeling lost and small in the vast world, searching for something I won’t be able to find. Expressing disappointment as any efforts seems to never be enough. In response, the speaker erases any persons thoughts and discard them.

lyrics:

في شي في بالي مش لقياه

الكون كبير وانا صغيرة

تقولي مش كفاية الي أنا عملاه

أنسيك عقلك وأرميك انته معاه

الكون كبير وانا صغيرة

[crguang]

i’m thinking of making a complete post explaining the kfr violinist au, kind of a masterlist with everything on there? including some hcs, the timeline, their respective close relationships etc. and the few drabbles i wrote about them too, since im getting the itch the write some more (amongst the 2 thousand things i have to write). i think it would be easier to refer to that for people who are new to it instead of scrolling through the violinist au tag and reading my disorganized thoughts lol, would yall like that? it could be fun

[akhmadbaev]

NDRW-KFR-i03, 2024

[luciferinn]

music was too good today so heres a big dump lets have fun listening to music together

I literally cannot pick a song from this because this album is too fucking good but if I must "The Garden" or "Two Thieves" but the whole thing is produced immaculately so sexy and sleek and atmospheric

again this album was too good and I cannot bring myself to post just 1 song but if you wanna check out just one "Nice to Know You" pink shows her sampled and pop prowess in such a nutso way on this thing

f5ve album came out, wanted more from the non single tracks but this one stood out to me as a highlight in the b-side

new anamanaguchi single. band I kinda fell off for a hot minute but I really like the power pop direction they're going in here

last year's sega bodega album was one of my favorite releases that didn't make too many waves and this was one of my favorite tracks from it and this remix is fucking crazy I love it

[postsofbabel]

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[njelruch]

I'm starting to hear people get nostalgic for the George W Bush days again, and I realize that most people on this site were infants and small children during W's presidency, but no. Just no. I'm not even talking about the war crimes. Pretty much all presidents enable a war crime or two. But the Bush Administration was directly responsible for so much of what's fucked up about US politics in general and the GOP in particular that it's hard to even describe to someone who wasn't there for the before and after. Seriously, if I could time travel once, Quantum Leap style, I would absolutely Leap to Florida before the 2000 Election to sort out their ballot fuckery early so the Supreme Court couldn't hand the election to W. (If you're too young to remember that mess, googling "Election 2000" "hanging chad," and "Pat Buchanan" will give you the gist.)

Now, to be fair, W himself was not the main problem with the Bush presidency. W was an idiot burnout nepo-baby, but if that's all we had to deal with, it probably would have been mostly okay. But the idiot burnout nepo-baby was surrounded by a crew of Reagan-era ghouls led by Darth Cheney, and Karl. Fucking. Rove.

Cheney's team and KFR are responsible for most of what sucks in politics today. Cheney's team took the excuse that 9/11 offered to ramp up state surveillance, further militarize the police, and cement the idea that questioning the (Republican) government was unAmerican in the brains of the general public. "If you aren't doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide," was the quote of the day.

That fucker Rove is directly responsible for the rise of Fox News. "Alternative facts?" that's Rove. If you've ever seen Stephen Colbert's "Colbert Report" bit, the whole "truthiness" shtick came out of that. Others may have tried it, but he successfully married Evangelical Christianity to the GOP to the point where they're basically interchangeable and elevated being anti-choice and anti-LGBT to major selling points of the GOP platform. (Google "snowflake babies" if you want to get a taste of what was going on.)

W also gave us "No Child Left Behind," which has damaged at least 2 generations of kids at this point. I could keep going, but it's late. The point is, don't let the fact that he wasn't literally a live-action version of a Captain Planet supervillain blind you to the fact that W's presidency was one of the worst things that ever happened to the US. Bush sowed and fertilized the seeds that produced Trump.