Plutoisnotaplanet - Gnat In Space

Maki Naro @ The Nib

message from Pluto (SBE 2)

seriously, why did i use all those hashtags?? who was i trying to impress? what teen audience? just impress yourself guys. don't use hashtags if you think they're stupid. but also don't make fun of people who use hashtags. #spreadlovenothate

This was the crossword puzzle in the New York Times yesterday. 

Tausig’s crossword is a so-called Schrödinger puzzle, named for the physicist’s hypothetical cat that is at once both alive and dead. In a Schrödinger puzzle, select squares have more than one correct letter answer: They exist in two states at once. “Black Halloween animal,” for example, could be both BAT or CAT, yielding two different but perfectly correct puzzles. Only 10 such puzzles have now been published in Times history.

It’s the theme of Tausig’s puzzle, though, that makes it special. Four entries in Thursday’s crossword can include either an “F” or an “M.” Both are correct; neither is wrong. For example, “Part of a house” can be either ROOF or ROOM. The long “revealer” answer, tying those select entries together and spanning 11 squares smack-dab in the middle of the puzzle, is GENDER FLUID.

This puzzle, with “M”s and “F”s that aren’t fixed, is a masterful blend of subject and structure. “It potentially really evokes what gender fluidity is, which is not moving back and forth between two poles, but actually not being committed to either pole, and potentially existing in many states at different times,” Tausig said.

It’s weird to think that nighttime is the natural state of the universe and daytime is only caused by a nearby, radiating ball of flame.

just because im covered in ice doesn’t mean im cold hearted

oh wait, it does nvm

Every time NASA announces new findings:

Me: *my longest yeah boy ever*

I Spent So Much Class Time Making This

Please follow it. Maybe I’ll get extra credit.

why do you waste your time like this

because i literally have no life 

ha ha get it because i’m a planet with no life on it ha ha ha 

being uninhabitable is kinda lonely tho tbh someone move me closer to the sun pls

I remember first learning that you can cry from any emotion, that emotions are chemical levels in your brain and your body is constantly trying to maintain equilibrium. so if one emotion sky rockets, that chemical becomes flagged and signals the tear duct to open as an exit to release that emotion packaged neatly within a tear. Everything made sense after learning that. That sudden stability of your emotions after crying. How crying is often accompanied by the inability to feel any other emotion in that precise moment. And it is especially beautiful knowing that it is even possible to experience so much beauty or love or happiness that your body literally can’t hold on to all of it. So what I’ve learned is that crying signifies that you are feeling as much as humanely possible and that is living to the fullest extent. So keep feeling and cry often and as much as needed

message from Pluto (SBE 4)

hello? it’s me, pluto. i might be light years away but that doesn’t explain why you stopped texting me, eris. i thought we were going to make this long distance thing work.