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parents: if we take you drinking do you promise not to talk about anime science for one fucking night?
me: yeah ofc
me three strawberry daiquiris in: but it’s actually NOT impossible for shouto todoroki’s father to have O type blood while his father has AB as he’s a natural occurring chimera. there is one very famous case of a living chimera human with 61% type O blood and 39% type A blood. this is because chimeras can break genetic inheritance rules resulting in impossible heritable traits- which is probably why Shouto is perfectly split down the middle in regards to his generics in both quirk, hair, and possible other features unseen in the manga or anime like melanin production. it’s not unres-
no no, this is exactly why we SHOULD take you drinking
so what does that mean for him if he needs blood or tries to reproduce? does that affect things?
one sec i need three strawberry daiquiris 
(generally applying real life science to an anime that thinks hair has DNA in it is a bad idea so keep this with a grain of salt)
okay so a chimera is formed by the fusion of two (sometimes more but that gets messy quick) embryos in the womb. usually this is twin absorption and it’s actually a lot more common then people think. this can result in many things, like todoroki’s supposed strange blood type along with his split hair and facial features. one VERY famous case actually involved a chimera mother who took a DNA test for a court case and the results showed that she was not the biological mother, despite uh yaknow, giving birth to them. when taking dna samples from her cervix, she was able to prove that her kids were hers.
i’m going to take the logic of anime and assume that todoroki is a perfectly formed tetragametic chimerism - basically a perfect blend of a total of four parent cells rather then two and each population of cells keeps its own character and the resulting organism is a mixture of tissues. (basically, a set of fraternal twins that fused in the womb). usually this is characterized visibly by two different eye colors, two different red blood cell types, and patchy skin. you see this more often in tortie cats, but in-vitro fertilization increases the chances of chimerism.
a famous example of the “patchy skin” and seems relevant to this particular case is model/singer taylor muhl who has
(her particular case of chimerism is linked to her autoimmune deficiencies, as her two sets of genes are not fully compatible with one another.)
chimeras can often have kids with no issue, but the fertility and type of offspring depends on which cell line gave rise to the testes.
basically, say he had a kid with an unnamed background character. if the kid exhibits more of his genes, itll be EITHER uh… to use todoroki terms, his father’s visible biological traits or his mother’s biological traits. the chance of todoroki having a kid with an identical quirk or similar quirk to his own is almost zero percent. plus you have to combine some genetic factors with his unnamed background character wife
as for this particular case for blood typing, type O+ is the most common blood type and that’s usually what blood banks have in stock. so if he gets stabbed he’s fine.
tl:dr he can have kids (but the kids will either be redheads or whiteheads, no mix of colors) and he can get blood just fine.
Wait, sorry... Doesn't hair have DNA in it tho? As long as it still has the root attached, anyway
you are right! only the hair follicule (the root) contains a full DNA profile. notibly, all might’s hair did not contain a hair follicule as it was not plucked directly from the root. even with his super strength its more likely the hair broke before the root.
hair does contain fragmented nuclear DNA, but it does contain a full mitochondrial DNA profile. the fragmented nuDNA profile is usually not even looked at because its useless in identification.
i have a running theory that OFA is actually passed on through mtDNA instead of just DNA. mtDNA is passed on through the female ancestor.
so for example, siblings and their biological mother have the same mtDNA, but the biological father will NOT pass on his mtDNA.
so! if you did a DNA test on all might and deku with this theory in mind, they will show that they have a common female ancestor (even tho its just OFA lol)
I need more anime science like this.
Seriously I live for shit like this.
okay since you asked! :D! i like chemistry a lot more then biology anyway. Here’s the most efficient way to diffuse a wild bakugou!
Sodium hydroxide completely cleaves nitroglycerin because nitroglycerin is a nitrate ester. So not only is it safer then aluminum powder (which has been proposed by some fans), it actually gets rid of the substance instead of absorbing it and making it worst.
In theory it’ll completely cleave the nitroglycerin on a molecular level and basically disable Bakugou’s explosions until he sweats more nitroglycerin then the sodium hydroxide could neutralize. Technically what he sweats isnt pure nitroglycerin (it’s described as “nitroglycerin-like”), so theres some margin of error. Below i’ve measured how many milliliters of sweat he used to destroy ochako’s attack in the sports festival, the biggest explosion he can make without his gauntlets.
This math is coming from one stick of dynamite containing 76 grams of nitroglycerin, and 76 grams of nitroglycerin can reach a blast radius of about 1 cubic meter, so you’ll need about 300ml to blow up a diameter of a football field. Granted it may not be POWERFUL enough to do any damage, but the explosion would cover that volume and there would be considerable force. The magic of anime makes Bakugou’s explosions powerful enough, so I don’t really mind. This is assuming the stadium used in the sports festival meets standard 100 meters used in most sports.
So with these measurements it’ll take 300ml of pure nitroglycerin (UNLIKELY as its unstable in that form without additional compounds) so with a margin of error its about 500ml of Bakugou’s sweat to blow up a volumetric length of 100m cubed (considering the force behind the explosion I went a little higher then my earlier estimate of 400ml). But there’s a little kink in this- Nitroglycerin is somewhat stable at regular temperatures but usually explodes at 122°F (50°C)
The rise in temperature may come from an element not present in most people’s analysis of his quirk- barium, sodium, and potassium.
His dad’s quirk is classified as the “ability to rapidly oxide his sweat.” Combined, barium, sodium and potassium are some of the most explosive prone elements when exposed to peroxides. Hydrogen peroxide is produced naturally in the body, so with the ability to combine that with sweat filled with one of those three elements can make sparks and small explosions. Perhaps not enough to do a lot of damage on its own, but combined with another aspect of Bakugou’s quirk it can do AMAZING damage that i’ll explain now!
So Bakugou’s sweat is a two part deal- his “fuel” and his “ignition.” Nitroglycerin is his “fuel”- a semi-stable sweat compound that is only dangerous when either friction is used or when temperatures of 122°F are reaches. And the “ignition”- rapidly oxidizing the sodium/potassium/barium compounds in his sweat to reach temperatures high enough to cause a chain reaction.
Keep in mind, I measured Bakugou’s BIGGEST explosion without his gauntlets (can’t get reliable measurements when he uses his gauntlets) so we can assume 1000ml of sodium hydroxide or 1000 cubic centimeters of sodium hydroxide powder can completely neutralize Bakugou under the right conditions.
Nitroglycerin also has a reputation of hanging around and getting more explosive as time goes on, so any of Bakugou’s clothing would have to be chemically bathed in a sodium hydroxide solution before being washed. Unless BNHAverse has adaptive clothing that can absorb one of the most explosive compounds on earth without major side effects, which is probably the case considering Bakugou’s hero costume does exactly that.
Also I like to think that anytime Momo is fed up with Bakugou’s bullshit she makes a bunch of sodium hydroxide and dunks him in the sauce. get sodium hydroxided idiot.
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They are tightening the noose and there is very little room left for any kind of meaningful protest. Minnesotans over the weekend organized massive demonstrations, with thousands of people marching through the south side of Minneapolis several days in a row. But there was no law enforcement there, nor were there any ICE officers (at least in uniform). No one to whom they could direct their anger at. As for local leaders, Rep. Ilhan Omar spoke to the crowd on Saturday, but even she looked shaken. A few hours before the march, ICE agents blocked Omar from inspecting the federal building and even threatened her with pepper spray. Right after Good was killed last week, Noem created a policy that blocks congressional visits without a seven-day notice. The protestors I spoke to in Minneapolis were not antifa super soldiers. They were normal people who hoped that the show of support would force the media to cover it and maybe convince people to join their local ICE watch. Their demands were clear: That ICE leave the community and that Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent accused of killing Good, be charged with murder. And as inspiring as it was to see a community come together like that, I can’t help but wonder what a protest can even accomplish when those in power do not think they will ever have to lose that power. It brings us dangerously close to the point where a “fuck Trump” sign at a No King’s Rally amounts to a viral Bluesky post and little else. And it won’t be long until a much darker, far more unpredictable form of opposition replaces that.
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one last dance
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In 2023, I did a survey of military contractors trying to target policymakers with ads on WMATA, Washington DC's public transit system. Since then, WMATA actually changed their rules to make it easier for military contractors to advertise. This has led to an absurd double standard: WMATA recently denied an ad from anti-war group World Beyond War on spurious grounds even while accepting massive numbers of pro-war ads from for-profit contractors.
Under the old rules, military contractor ads were in apparent violation of Guideline 14’s straightforward ban on ads “intended to influence public policy.” But under the new rules, government contractors are now exempt from Guideline 14 via a carveout for advertisers that are “offering goods and/or services to the government.” No such exemption was made for peace groups like World Beyond War, who typically take the opposite position of military contractors in debates over Pentagon policy. WMATA’s new rules gave military contractors other exemptions as well. Guideline 9 — the legally questionable rule that [World Beyond War] was accused of violating — now explicitly prohibits advertisers from taking a position on any “governmental action or inaction, other than offering goods and/or services to the government” [emphasis added]. In other words, for-profit advertisers with money at stake are now one of the only groups allowed to share their opinions on political issues surrounding military spending and acquisitions. The ACLU seems to regard WMATA’s “internal procedures” with skepticism, requesting a discovery process into [their] “development and meaning.” It’s easy to see why: if upheld, these new rules would effectively legalize for-profit advertising in favor of militarism while banning most non-profit advertising critical of militarism. There is also another reason to be skeptical of the new rules: WMATA does not seriously enforce them. In the year since its “internal procedures” document was released, WMATA has accepted multiple ad campaigns that are in clear violation of Guidelines 9 and 14.
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One of the city's busiest Metro stations is currently running ads from a company bragging that its software "achieve[d] the first-ever simulated air-to-air combat kill against another F-16 in a live flight test."
But when World Beyond War added the words "*Including in Venezuela" to their previously-accepted "Peace on Earth" advertisement, their proposal was denied. From their statement:
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design comm for a bioluminescent wizard
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Thesis statement for all of USA history forever
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sad part about sex being a taboo topic is that sometimes really funny things happen during sex or related to sex or at weird sex clubs and you cant tell the story to like 90% of people in your life because of the sex context. the contsext. do you ever wonder how many people have funny sex stories theyre just sitting on. its tragic.
Same for kink regardless of if there was sex involved tbh. Basically the only times I get to talk about things like “harmonica impact play” or “falling down a mountain during a sub hunt”, etc. is on the internet, in kink clubs, or with other trans girls regardless of how objectively hilarious any individual event was.
was literally having this conversation yesterday about how socially acceptable topics are always just the most inane and boring shit, like one of the guys in the group is in the process of building a padded cell for asylum play and management have decreed that he's not allowed to talk about this thing that brings him joy because it's taboo; it's tragic, and it minimises us as people
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Expressing affection can be hard sometimes, but it's always appreciated.
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probably feels good as hell to jump backwards during a swordfight and throw a fan of daggers at your foe
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hate when mummy movies use Imhotep as the big bad. He was an architect. Imagine a mummy movie but the mummy is Frank Llyod Wright. And he was buried at the House On The Rock. Ok nevermind that would be a sick ass movie.