#im the son of a teacher

[cute-girls-from-vns-anime-manga]

Ah yes that bullshit forced engagement shit from schools.

Let's make everyone miserable by making people that hate this shit do it and force those that love it and would volunteer for it watch someone hate and probably be bad at it.

Though I can tell this mangaka agrees with me on this point what with this surprisingly accurate joke here.

[firefluy]

I like to think they all went and got matching jackets, redson tried to run, but they got him anyway lmao

This is how I imagine their study group, all different majors, more gossiping than working.

Red Son's complaining about how one of his lecturers is an idiot

I believe in Wukong and MK being brothers supremacy :D

[faaun]

what draws you back to your country what draws you back to your land when i was a kid i told myself if i ever left iran i'd never go back 2 years into living in the UK i started looking at news on iran again 10 years in and i visited it for the first time again and today i heard an iranian mother talk in farsi to her child on the train to london the way my mother used to and i wanted to cry i wanted to ask her whether they're still cutting the mountaintops whether the lakes are still drying today i showed the person i was with pictures of waterfalls and palaces and forests and snow-white north something odd pulls me back with increasing force i can't ignore it ever again

[figgiun]

steve the terrible and his son the wolf

[certainlyathrill]

is this anything beatle people?

[moonilit]

13 cast in my AU where they live on pulse and no one get sucked into an alternative demotion

[asthmaticplushiedragon]

In honor of season 5 I present:

The Samadhi Fire: Chemistry Analysis

The Samadhi Fire has dark red flames, which are obviously only supposed to show us how incredibly hot and inextinguishable they are, but as a chemistry nerd I feel obliged to look more into it.

The Basics

In nature, Red flames are most commonly produced by burning of Lithium (Li). Lithium is an Alkali metal, a group of elements known for burning when touching Oxygen or hydrogen - meaning spontaneous and immediate burns when touching air. And, well, who kept on burning until they literally split the flames? That's right, our boy Red Son.

In The First Ring Princess Iron Fan says that Red Son was a "promising addition to the Demon Bull Family. Too promising". No one predicted the Samadhi Fire, it was spontaneous. like the burning of Lithium. In JTTW they needed an entire fucking ocean to put it out, a terrible idea when we're talking about Alkali metals (that also burn in reaction to water), but. fine. okay. it's an Alkali metal that burns in red, so it's lithium.

The Splitting Ritual

During the ritual, Tripitaka used magic to hold the fire while they separate the fire into three - an act that would obviously be impossible according to science, but we'll let it slide. So assuming this can separate the fire: what would it be separated to? Lithium is an element, you can't just split it. That would cause an atomic explosion. So what is it?

The answer is that it's not pure Lithium - that kind of substance is extremely unstable. the substance burning in the Samadhi fire is a molecule called Lithium Chloride (LiCl), and the ritual was a simple chemical reaction that turned the Lithium Chloride, with a little bit of Copper, to Lithium and Copper Chloride, with a reaction i will explain in the next part.

The Rings And Mei's Ritual

In her vision, Mei sees three rings, each burning in a different color. in the original JTTW lore the fire is made out of all the elements combined, so that's how i'm going to refer to it. But, like, also scientifically correct.

We have the orange fire, created with Calcium Chloride and representing Fire, mainly with its color.

next is Blue, created either with Alcohol or Copper Chloride and representing water with the molecule shape and type (alcohol is a type of a molecule build, and although water fits this category it is an exception and is NOT considered an alcoholic molecule).

and lastly there's the green fire, which is created with Copper Sulfate and represents earth, because Copper in one of the most common Precious Metals found inside the earth.

The original ritual starts with one Copper chloride ring, one Copper Sulfate ring, one Calcium Sulfate ring, and a big ass Lithium Chloride fire.

Then we have a chemical reaction when Tripitaka uses his magic, and it turns into one Copper Sulfate ring, one Copper Chloride ring, one Calcium Chloride ring and a harmless little Lithium Sulfate that hardly ever set fire.

Mei's ritual is kinda just the opposite, but with a big twist: when Lithium Chloride is created it releases a heat wave much hotter than its regular burning, creating white sparks. In the beginning of the ritual we can literally see a huge flash of light before the fire is created.

Ao Lie And The fourth Ring

There wasn't supposed to be a fourth ring. Sun Wukong said it clearly. He lost control and Ao Lie had to take the hit so Tripitaka doesn't die, turning himself to the fourth ring. Now, is this chemically possible? Of course not! So what is going on here?

Well, what if Ao Lie used the copper inside his bones and muscles to trap the fire inside a Copper Sulfate "ring", like the green one? He used the chemical reaction of the fire with his body (and probably a lot of magic, too) to make a ring inside of himself, trapping the last bit of fire. That would also explain how Mei has the fourth ring - it's like a defective gene, it's inside her bones. That could be the reason for her dragon form's "fire breathing" even before the ritual happened, she literally has fire in her bones.

Mei's Control Of The Fire

When Mei just gained control over the fire, the flames were red, like with Red Son before. She tried to use the fire like him, with lithium Chloride as her base. But she was afraid of the fire and didn't understand what's happening, so the fire was reckless and couldn't be tamed. It was affected by her feelings, and she simply couldn't control five different parts of the fire at the same time.

"Don't use the fire, Mei. BE the fire". It was only after Red Son told her this that she managed to really bend the fire to her will - because she used the copper inside of her to catch the fire and make it part of her, truly. She discharged the other rings and even the original burning Lithium and used the fire on her own terms, with Copper Sulfate as the base.

Minor spoilers for season 5!

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When the Dragon fruit Duo try to seal the Fire Creature Mei loses control, which shouldn't have happened according to this theory. If the fire is inside her bones, she shouldn't lose her ability to control it.

But look at what Red Son tells her (Translation by monkiemacaque on Youtube!): "You evolved with the fire! You didn't completely lose your connection, and never once gave in to its will! You are its master!"

Mei never lost her ability to control the fire, it was still there. The only problem was that it was inaccessible for her - it's like a reflex, it's an irrational response and she can't use it on command. Mei had to learn how to force the fire to obey her will, how to turn her reflexes to rational actions. Like how Red Son used to punch himself to activate the fire.

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I hope this was clear and easy to understand, I can try and explain more if not.

I don't think there's much to add, but let me know if i forgot anything!

Only thing I think is worth mentioning is that in some shots the flames are black, which is also impossible because. you can't make black (AKA lack of light) fire (AKA light source).

Also have these parallel screenshots I didn't know what to do with.

[jewishdainix]

Hmmmmm

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

real nonbinary experience tbh

[justarandomlambblog]

i.. actually really like this little doodle

Im still trying to figure out a style (im.... a realism artist, cartoons are hard t_t) but I like how they turned out in this one....

[timingmatters]

So that manga classmates (gay manga) like i had watched the movie (great 10/10) and had read the manga (so i thought) but recently found out it had like 5 other volumes. Got excited and got them all in the kindle. Tell me why the fuck is the creepy ass teacher such a character??? And the whole 4th volume is about him WITH AN EVEN YOUNGER KID???? Why the f u c k is the manga about a 15 year old with a 37 year old??? And why is the idea that the grown ass adults “waiting” for the kids to be of legal age supposed to be romantic??

Hara should have gotten with his old teacher, that even older guy did not need to have a new relationship with another fucking kid. This is not romantic these are all little pedos????? So happy the main relationship is between 2 people of the same age in this series. Im so mad i binged bought the volumes out of excitement and now i have a whole volume of just…. A pedo

[gourmetmilkshake]

i've always been very creative and when i would show my mother my arts and crafts as a child she would always say 'i can't believe you made this. i could never make anything like this. i can't even draw a stick figure!' and i always used to feel like wtf that's not even relevant right now but as I've begun to wrap my head around the concept of birth and motherhood in general im like wait i get it.... you yourself don't possess these talents or abilities but you invented a person that does. you had the talent inside you all along ... just in your ovary. what a trip !!

[tortoise-teapot]

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[zouisalmightie]

has a bad day at work and drank a bottle of wine and now everything is a lot less of a problem

[guinevereslancelot]

just met with my old coworker from my last job for breakfast and she told me all the gossip and how my evil old supervisor is going down in flames already 🤭❤️

[bigender-cowboy]

We had to write stories and mine was a tad bit gay but not mentioned and WHILE I WAS ABSENT THE WHOLE FUCKING CLASS READ IT

I can’t even make this shit up IN THE TWO DAYS I was absent he printed and put stories out even though NONE OF US HAD THE OPTION TO STAY ANONYMOUS AND IM CRYING???

it was so fruity…and had a Free Birds reference…end me…