Zaravyn Vlad Adrian Salvatore

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Rick, over the radio: Daryl, we need you on lookout.

Y/N, fumbling to reach Daryl’s radio: Not gonna happen.

Rick: Why not?

Y/N: He’s not feeling well and I’m currently his mattress.

Rick: So, that cold finally caught up with him?

Daryl, lifting a middle finger from his position, face hidden in Y/N’s chest: Translate.

Y/N, patting the back of his head while speaking into the radio: Consider him deceased until tomorrow.

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Rick, over the radio: Daryl, we need you on lookout.

Y/N, fumbling to reach Daryl’s radio: Not gonna happen.

Rick: Why not?

Y/N: He’s not feeling well and I’m currently his mattress.

Rick: So, that cold finally caught up with him?

Daryl, lifting a middle finger from his position, face hidden in Y/N’s chest: Translate.

Y/N, patting the back of his head while speaking into the radio: Consider him deceased until tomorrow.

found this on twitter and yeah — while a part of me is convinced this one’s a bot, unfortunately there are people who actually leave this kind of comment on writers’ works — this and the ai witch hunt are the exact reasons more and more writers stop sharing their works. the level of entitlement to be walking inside someone’s house, after they were kind enough to let you in, and then starting to criticize the way they decorate their rooms when you can just quietly leave if you don’t have anything nice to say.

fanfics are something writers do for themselves. we don’t get paid for it. we write whatever makes us happy for our own enjoyment. if you dislike it, that’s cool. quietly exit the fic and find something else to read. or better yet, write it yourself.

you as a reader are not our customer. we don’t write for you. we don’t write to please you. we just give you the privilege of reading our works for free. whether or not you’ll read it, whether or not you’ll like it, is not our business. but you are rude and entitled to be criticizing fanfics like it’s something you paid for and not a gift people were kind enough to give. if we want constructive criticism, we will ask for one. if we didn’t ask, stay quiet if you don’t have anything nice to say.

not to mention, more often than not, your constructive criticism is never really a constructive criticism but what you personally want to read. keep this up and eventually there will be no fanfics for you to read because no one wants to share their works for free anymore if people will just be this rude and entitled.

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Merle: Why the hell y’standin’ there like a kicked puppy?

Daryl: Shuddup, Merle.

Merle, watching Daryl track Y/N as she walks by: Oh. Oh, I see.

Daryl: Don’t start.

Merle: Lil’ bro got put on a leash an’ liked it, huh?

Daryl: Ain’t on no fuckin’ leash!

Y/N: It was a collar! It was one time! And he loved it!

Daryl, mortified: I—

Merle: Did it have a bell?

Y/N: No! It had little spikes.

Working at Harvard in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s as a “Computer”, Annie Jump Cannon cataloged stars using their spectra from photographic plates, in an effort to understand the mysteries and peculiarities of stellar spectra.

This was hard, detailed, nuanced work. By 1889, three years into her work, she had classified over 1,000 stars. By 1913, she could classify 200 stars an hour. She could classify three stars a minute, just by sight. Using a magnifying glass, she could classify stars down to 9th magnitude, 16 times fainter than the human eye can see. And she did this all with exceptional accuracy.

Over the course of her career, she personally classified more than 350,000 stars, accounting for a mind-boggling 98% of all contemporary stellar spectra classifications, a feat that wouldn’t be bested until the 1990’s with automated digital sky surveys.

Cannon used these classifications to develop the Harvard spectral classification system (O–B–A–F–G–K–M), organizing stars by surface temperature and physical properties.

It is hard to overstate just how foundational her work was to modern astronomy and astrophysics. Her classifications have enabled more than a century of breakthroughs in stellar structure and evolution, including the understanding of how stars change over time and how temperature, luminosity, and composition are related. The system underpins the Hertzsprung–Russell (HR) diagram, one of the most important tools in astrophysics, and remains embedded in modern research, from stellar population studies to galaxy evolution.