get beamed, idiot

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

Hey there! Just a friendly reminder/PSA from your friendly neighborhood Pixiemage!

“Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” is too often (incorrectly) used as a cover-all tag, on fics ranging from Vaguely Uncomfortable to Serious Shit, as a replacement for any intense tags relating to the story. People will use it to say “Holy shit guys some INTENSE SHIT happens in this story” without actually saying what that Intense Shit™ is.

In actuality, the “Dead Dove” tag is meant to be used in addition to other warning tags. Pulled from a scene from the show Arrested Development (look it up on YouTube!), it means “Hi! Hey! I labeled this fic to warn you of what’s in it, so you might REALLY want to read those labels! This fic is exactly what it says on the tin! The tags are accurate! Don’t say I didn’t warn you, because this is me warning you! Read the tags!”

So before you accidentally use the “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag without context, here’s your preemptive lesson for next time. Please tag your fics accordingly! Ta!

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the middle of the twentieth century, and the material remains stable for decades. Then, in a flash, they can dramatically decompose. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.

this is Ceres. she's a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. she was discovered on Jan 1st 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, 45 years BEFORE Neptune was discovered. like Pluto, it was originally classified as a planet before being reclassified in 2006

its a little blurry, but this JWST picture is of Eris. discovered in 2005, it was called the "tenth planet" for a time, before its official reclassification. it's actually more massive than Pluto, about 27% more to be precise. although Pluto is very slightly larger.

Haumea is another Trans Neptunian Object (TNO) and dwarf planet with several moons. fun fact about her is that based on calculations, its very likely that she's egg shaped, or at least very oblong.

Makemake (pronounce mah ke mah ke) is another dwarf planet far beyond the orbit of Neptune. a recent JWST exposure hinted at the presence of methane gas, which would make it the second ever TNO with gas. although at the moment its unclear if this is an atmosphere or vents from seismic activity.

i bet everyone reading this post has learned at least one cool thing just now. and that's my goal. i had fun writing this post, and i also leaned some new things.

dwarf planets are not "lesser" than the main 8 planets. they are a different classification based mainly on size and orbit. and the thing is, there are a Massive amount of TNOs that we can't possibly label all of them as planets or even dwarf planets. space is big. even just our solar system is massive and scientists are discovering new things all the time.

and because we learn new things all the time, our older understanding gets updated. we change our perspectives, we accept new formulas or scientific theories, and we reclassify things that dont fit in with our new models of how the universe works.