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[la_belle_laide]

I'm really bummed out about Pluto losing its planetary status. I mean, I'm almost taking it personally. I'm all for science making changes and moving forward and all, it's just that, you know, Pluto was my planet. Not only my ruling planet, but it has always been a favorite of mine. Deep, mysterious, powerful Pluto, planetary ruler of the 8th house and the underworld.

I'm dejected.

In other news, hey, check it out, Taking Back Sunday is headlining over 30 Seconds to Mars in that concert I'm going to. My friend I'm going with is really into TBS. I wonder if she would mind if I bounced for the TBS show, or at least some of it, to see if I can't go and catch 30STM at a little post-concert thingie. She really wants me to see them, though. But really, how often do I get to go to concerts and maybe say hello to my favorite band? Try never. I'll have to see how it all works out. The good news is that it means we can probably leave right after the show and maybe get back to LI at a time that's not completely ungodly. I guess we will just have to see where this adventure takes us.

In other fangirling news, I've just finished the part in Dirge of Cerberus where Rosso the Crimson is the boss battle. I don't know how this story ends, obviously, but ... how weird is it of me to be sort of into Vincent / Rosso? I swear she's got a thing for him. I'll bet it's out there.

In yet other news--I've said this before and I hope not to say it again--if anyone out there on my f-list has any racist tendencies, or culturist tendencies, or simply thinks it's all right to lump an entire nation or culture into one little paradigm, please just de-friend me and save me the trouble? I really do not want to read that crap. Like, ever.

ETA: Here's something weird, I think. Is it a bad thing that, when going through my "manage friends" list, I don't know who many of the people on there are, or where I met them? O_o It doesn't sound too nice, when I put it that way.

Comments

[fierynotes.livejournal.com]

Not a planet? It has a fucking moon! They named the moon after the ferryman who takes the dead across the Styx!

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

I know; This whole thing has really depressed me.

[bladed-crescent.livejournal.com]

It has a moon a third of its own size - and is suspected to be a part of it - is of a composition believed to be different from the rest of the rocky bodies within the solar system, has an irregular orbit that more closely matches a chunk of captured space debris than a planet formed with the rest of the system.

Plus it's far too small; Uranus was discovered because gravitational tugs were noticed in Saturn's orbit. Neptune was discovered because those same wobbles were detected in Uranus' orbit. People were looking for the ninth planet because Neptune is being influenced by another large celestial body, one so far unseen but massive enough to influence the orbit of a gas giant.

Its status as a planet was always tenuous at the very most, even going back over a decade. Proper astronomical research has always dismissive and/or suspicious of Pluto's "planet" label.