Hubble Views Final Stages Of A Star’s Life : NGC 5307, A Planetary Nebula That Lies About 10,000 Light-years

We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.

// Katie Thurmes

( San Marco and Rialto in quarantine)

@spanish speakers te amo feels weird to say??????

And some MMD videos have flashy lights and motion sickness too. Put a warning

Okay, now that I’m calmer. I could explain it better (maybe)

When I first discovered Vocaloid, I was very young, and with me being aspie, maybe I was even more naive than the average boy.

And that led me to see something that a boy or girl my age shouldn’t have never see

Someone in my fandom was 10, but faked their age just to fit in.

The fandom years ago wasn’t nice at all, and with we being really young, we made weird asks and we got treated harshily

I don’t want to talk about the fandom anymore, but I want to give you advice for the next video/fanart/song next:

Please, use trigger warnings. “Triggered” is not a meme, you could got triggered by something that scares you. If a video uses too many flashy lights, put a disclaimer in the beginning. If a song talks about something bad, put a warning in the beginning. If a song talks about something bad but it’s implied/open to interpretations, put a warning in the beginning and explain the real meaning in the beginning

Not only most of the songs were in Japanese/English (not everyone’s native language) but we couldn’t be able to understand if there was something dirty, we were too young.

Explain that Sh/ta e L/li doesn’t mean “cute boy” and “cute girl”, before young fans could look for pictures and got traumatized.

Explain that Y/ndere could be really scary and not “just a parody pf a clingy girl/boy” like I thought. Some y/ndere songs were really scary.

Explain them the risks of roleplaying online, that not everyone is a kid/teen and could have malicious intents

And tell them if they made bad experiences that it’s not their fault, and be there to help them.

Not every fan is American, and European fans don’t experience racism based on skin color, but on stereotypes. Some European kids would get confused if you draw your favorite vocaloid with darker skin. If they ask you about it, they didn’t make it to sound racist. It’s just something different between cultures

Don’t bully them because of unpopular ships, but tell them if is something illegal.

Some of Rin Len fans just saw them as robots/mirror images or something like Kokoro/Kiseki. Some of the Rin Len fans were so young they didn’t knew about tw//cest. Maybe they used it inappropriately without knowing the real meaning and then got exposed to something they never wanted to see(Some of us used inappropriately both English and Japanese words, like Arigatou instead of Ohayou,but we were learning, could you blame a young kid?)

And last, comparing Piko to Boku etc. was never funny at all. We were minors. And I don’t think an adult would find this funny as well.

Please, if you spot something young/immature in the fandom from now on, help them. They didn’t know a lot of things. Don’ t discriminate a fan because “has unpopular opinions” or “too annoying” or made “stupid asks”. Could be a literal kid,or somewhere in the autistic spectrum. And don’t use twitter to talk about them. If they are on tumblr, reply directly to them on tumblr. Even if you have to ask: Why did you tag my drawing as a ship?I never meant that. Don’t write on other social media “Uugh op wrote this as a ship it’s so stupid lol” because it’s rude.

I personally was never able to write fanfictions, and the most thing I did with my characters was… Holding hands??

TL,DR don’t be like the fandom was almost 10 years ago. Put trigger warnings, explain the real meaning of some terms, and be more patient.

Thank you for reading.By @cyberpiko

When even your dear "calm and quiet" childhood friend is fed up by your hesitation.

(If you want to use the last picture as a meme you're welcome)

Being weird together in museums is a love language

Agree, I'm between millennials and Gen Z and I know what that means.

Epiphany

As I was waking up this morning, I had a moment of absolute clarity. We, as Millennials, are a generation abused: mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Yet we have failed to do something, something that was within our power to prevent. We failed to save the Gen Z kids from the same fate.

Gen Z has taken their abuse with stride, turned it to humor and nihilism. They’re fighting back on behalf of their brothers and sisters, the siblings of their generation. And all I could think this morning….

If they can motivate the Millennials, and get our generation to move our asses, actual change could happen. Together, the Millennial and Z generations are bigger than the Boomers and the generation prior. We could enact real, lasting change on the face of the country.

I just hope it happens sooner, rather than later.

The Science Has Spoken: Pluto Will Never Be A Planet Again

“What’s perhaps most remarkable is that we can make a simple, mathematical relationship between a world’s mass and its orbital distance that can be scaled and applied to any star. If you’re above these lines, you’re a planet; if you’re below it, you’re not. Note that even the most massive dwarf planets would have to be closer to the Sun than Mercury is to reach planetary status. Note by how fantastically much each of our eight planets meets these criteria… and by how much all others miss it. And note that if you replaced the Earth with the Moon, it would barely make it as a planet.”

It was a harsh lesson in astronomy for all of us in 2006, when the International Astronomical Union released their official definition of a planet. While the innermost eight planets made the cut, Pluto did not. But given the discovery of large numbers of worlds in the Kuiper belt and beyond our Solar System, it became clear that we needed something even more than what the IAU gave us. We needed a way to look at any orbiting worlds around any star and determine whether they met a set of objective criteria for reaching planetary status. Recently, Alan Stern spoke up and introduced a geophysical definition of a planet, which would admit more than 100 members in our Solar System alone. But how does this stand up to what astronomers need to know?

As it turns out, not very well. But the IAU definition needs improving, too, and modern science is more than up to the challenge. See who does and doesn’t make the cut into true planetary status, and whether Planet Nine – if real – will make it, too!