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Chapter 24: talk thermodynamics to me baby

Summary:

IN WHICH spaghetti > exams, math is loved, Shiro is Excitement™, and tables are turned.

Notes:

also hey, if any of you are feeling like you’re not handling the new school year as well as other people, just remember that on my second day of college I got really overwhelmed and found out that apparently my default reaction was to order a store-quantity box of dove chocolate bars and then not remember that I did that. cue surprised pikachu face @ the package that showed up for me out of the blue. trust me, you will be ok.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

MEME TEAM

romellifluous: LOOK WHO JUST CAUGHT LUGIA BITCHES

pidgeotto: WE GET IT YOU’RE EXCITED IT IS TOO EARLY SHHHH

romellifluous: shut up and let me HAVE THIS you pokemon thieving ho

pidgeotto: for the last time, you can’t steal pokemon in pokemon go, when it vanishes on your screen that’s a YOU problem 

alluring: my goodness the children are rowdy this morning

pidgeotto: i’m not a child

hunkerdink: man you sure could have fooled me shortstack

hunkerdink: haha never mind, no child could look that sleep deprived and grumpy in the Starbucks line

pidgeotto: i’m gonna murk you

kogayness: don’t be upsetti, have some spaghetti

kogayness: but i don’t have spaghetti i have an exam :(((((

pidgeotto: also romelle babe i love youuuuuu i’m super glad you got lugia this morning!!!

romellifluous: thank u for helping me get enough research tasks done this week lol

romellifluous: sorry for getting up so early idk why the advising appointments have to be SO EARLY 

hunkerdink: @ keith rip rip potato chip, i’m sorry dude

pidgeotto: what class?

kogayness: astrochemistry

pidgeotto: oof ouch my brain

kogayness: pidge you’re a genius

pidgeotto: i do computers and tech not weird chemical thingies

pidgeotto: you keep that “bond this” and “electron orbits that” away from me

kogayness: but there’s a specific order of events that forms stars and eventually kills them and it’s just like a coding program

pidgeotto: NO

pidgeotto: chemistry is ALMOST math masquerading as MATH THAT MAKES SENSE but everything actually has their own little rules and NO BUENO 

lancinglights: sweetheart, i love you, but i agree with pidge, please suffer as little as possible while we throw support and sympathy at you from afar

kogayness: I mean I could talk about thermal physics topics instead…

lancinglights: I’M JUST A HUMBLE MARINE BIO MAJOR TRYING TO LIVE MY LIFE

pidgeotto: [hisses]

takashishirogone: I WILL TALK ABOUT THERMAL PHYSICS,

mattatta: we know, Shiro

takashishirogone: I LOVE THERMAL PHYSICS.

mattatta: we know, Shiro! <3

alluring: talk thermodynamics to me baby

takashishirogone: are you parodying Talk Nerdy To Me or are you serious? Because I WILL

alluring: I’m serious, I need a distraction from lawblr scrolling, please save me from procrastination with more procrastination, but like, educational

takashishirogone: Okay, so we all know the first and second laws of thermodynamics from the general physics perspective,

romellifluous: it’s cute that you think I understand any words in that sentence besides “so we all know” and “okay”

shayliens: it’s cute that you say this as if I remember anything from gen physics three years ago

lancinglights: it’s cute that you say this as if I remember the laws of thermodynamics from this semester

takashishirogone: (quiet in the peanut gallery, you’re terrible teenagers, you’re tearing this family apart)

lancinglights: I’M 21 YEARS OLD I CAN DRINK AN ALCOHOL

kogayness: “an alcohol” 

lancinglights: SHUT

alluring: SHIRO LIGHT OF MY LIFE STARS IN MY SKY CONTINUE

takashishirogone: Total energy of an isolated system remains constant, and total entropy of an isolated system can’t decrease over time, blah blah blah, now make them STATISTICAL and do STUFF WITH THEM and you have a large fundamental chunk of thermal physics which is NEATO

mattatta: Yeah, if you LIKE statistics

pidgeotto: I would rather get gastroenteritis on Yom Kippur than take another stats class, you can keep it Shiro

takashishirogone: You all just haven’t gotten introduced to stats properly. It’s beautiful and fun if you give it a chance

kogayness: do you all see what I had to listen to during high school while I was trying to survive AP calc

kogayness: Shiro was a lovestruck fool about math then and he still is now ugh

takashishirogone: You won’t be so dismissive when my lovestruck fool self is the one doing the calculations for you to get to the Moon one of these years, little brother. See how you feel about my triple checking of orbital equations then. 

kogayness: I promise I’ll eat my words if we both make it that far, okay, but for now you don’t get a “get out of roasting free” card sorry pal

lancinglights: Shiro no offense, but I’m in awe of and terrified of your love for equations in equal measure

lancinglights: I’m just gonna be over here showering love on endangered whale populations 

pidgeotto: so valid

romellifluous: ^^^^

shayliens: ANYWAY WHO ELSE GETS TO WATCH A BRAIN SURGERY TODAY??? JUST ME????? COOL COOL

mattatta: HOLY SHITTTTTTT THAT’S COOL

pidgeotto: you gotta report back

shayliens: I will but I ain’t violating HIPPA 

lancinglights: shay ain’t no snitch

hunkerdink: I’m literally SO PROUD OF YOU I love you SO MUCH

hunkerdink: Look at you just!!!!! Shining as the gold standard of your whole class!! THEY ASKED YOU SPECIALLY FOR THIS OBSERVATION THEY LIKE YOU ALREADY

shayliens: shhhHHHHHH

hunkerdink: NO I’M GONNA BE PROUD OF YOU ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US

shayliens: <333333

hunkerdink > shayliens

hunkerdink: you’re coming over to my place tomorrow morning after you get a good sleep

shayliens: !!!!!!

hunkerdink: we’re going to celebrate

hunkerdink: nice candle, fruit tea

hunkerdink: we’re going to make an irresponsible amount of cookies

shayliens: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

MEME TEAM

takashishirogone: So when you define the entropy of a system in the number of accessible microstates in that certain energy range from something to something that you define.

takashishirogone: It turns out that as you approach the system’s /ground state/ energy, the number of energy states available is actually WAY less than the estimate that classical mechanics would give you for it, which is why you have to follow the new set of rules from quantum mechanics principles!

alluring: hUH! interesting

mattatta: SHIRO

takashishirogone: Yes babe?

mattatta: YOU TEACH CLASS IN TEN MINUTES 

takashishirogone: OH NO!!!!!!! AW FUCK HANG ON THANK YOU MATT

lancinglights: I’m sorry

lancinglights: did space dad just CUSS

kogayness: LANGUAGE

pidgeotto: LANGUAGE

hunkerdink: [captain america voice] language!!

shayliens: language!

romellifluous: laNGUAgE

mattatta: lmao oh how the turn tables,

takashishirogone: You’re all terrible children, you’re killing me, you’re killing your father,

alluring: L a N g U a G e

takashishirogone: :’(

takashishirogone: Et tu, Brute?

alluring: When it’s this golden of an opportunity? Always, honeybunch.

mattatta: I GOT YOUR FRAPPUCINO RUN BOY RUN I’M ALREADY OUTSIDE YOUR CLASSROOM

takashishirogone: I’M RUNNING I’M COMING

kogayness: RUN FORREST RUN

kogayness: have fun teaching the poor undergrads, godspeed and go loose

takashishirogone: Thanks, I’ll need it, it’s the optics lab today.

takashishirogone: Shattered industrial prisms every 15 minutes, here I come!

 

Notes:

I hope you enjoyed it! I'm sorry it's not longer, but I have more plans popping up for this story now that the ball is kind of rolling again! Thank you to those of you who commented last chapter, you really keep me motivated to keep going, ily <3

Notes:

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