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[When the video turns on, there's Riley, and she's holding up what looks to be at least a few sheets of posterboard. On the very front is a drawing of a smiling planet that looks like it's holding a heart.]

Ooookay, so it's come to my attention that there are a lot of people here that don't know about Pluto, the last planet in Earth's solar system. I'm going to change that. First things first! This is what Pluto looks like. We got pictures back recently and it looked like it had a huge heart on it. [And she'd totally called it before the pictures even got recieved too, having always said Pluto had a lot of heart.]

I couldn't get the actual picture so I asked Maya to draw it.

[And she drops that top piece of posterboard, revealing something that looks like a bulleted list???]

The first important thing is that Pluto used to be a planet. Eventually a bunch of scientists decided it was too small to be an actual planet though, so they called it a dwarf planet instead. From the time it was discovered to when it got demoted to a dwarf planet, it didn't even have a chance to go all the way around the sun! Because it's that far away from us! That's pretty unfair, since Pluto never really got a chance.

[She huffs.]

That's why I still call it a planet, though. I'm always gonna believe that it's a planet, even if everything says it can't be. We don't know what it could do or anything about it because it's so far away. I just wanted to make sure that everyone here knew that.

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Iiiiit sounds like you've got a story. I can see how that would get pretty annoying.

The only thing I talk about from space is Pluto.

I somehow doubt that any answer I could provide regarding myself would be to your satisfaction.

[And beyond that? Rip isn't going to make the argument that he's a good person. He cannot.]

Do you consider yourself to be a good person?

Nah it's too late for me. But she's something special.

And if you do anything to wreck that, don't think I won't break your nose.

You're threatening a fully grown adult for daring to contradict your friend, all in the name of protecting her innocence, and you don't see the good within yourself?

Most people would consider such loyalty to be a positive trait, even if your proposed methods are decidedly less so.

Are you making fun of me??

[Some of those words were out of Maya's vocabulary range. Her default assumption is that the missing contextual holes are insults.]

Not at all. If anything, it was meant to be a compliment.

[And then it does click; this girl might indeed be a great deal like Mick. Someone who prefers a more straight-forward brand of speech.]

I was pointing out how your loyalty and faith in your friend are good things, in spite of the fact that you don't seem to think so.

If it wants to, more power to it. Wouldn't want any strings keeping it from what it's actually after.

[No, he's not even going to think about his last words now, this is a silly conversation about a planet that's not even a planet.]

All the more reason I doubt it cares what we think.

Yeah, well.

[She's not sure how to take a compliment, actually. She brushes it off, stiffly.]

Like I said, good people don't stay good without help.

[Sans hasn't wanted to talk to pretty much anyone in about a week now, and he just sort of happened to glance at the network and.]

[Huh. Space stuff.]

[He doesn't really know who this kid is, but...but space stuff...]

you guys actually...people got pictures of it? like up close?

[It has a heart on it? What??]

Indeed.

But knowledge and goodness aren't mutually exclusive things. I won't pretend to be an example of it, but one need not consider Pluto a planet to be good.

I like the picture of Pluto your friend made. It's very cute!

Anyway, your passion for astronomy is admirable. Did you know that Pluto's name was suggested by an 11 year old girl? She wanted to name the previous planet after the Roman god of the underworld. Incidentally, the names of Pluto's moons also share names from Roman mythology - Styx being the river to the underworld and Charon is named after the ferryman who would carry the dead through the underworld, to name a few.

[The more you know~]

It had to have been disappointed when it was demoted.

Oh yes. It was nineteen twenty-six when I arrived in Wonderland.

Most certainly looking forward to it though, even if I may not remember to look for it if I leave here. It has been so long since they've spoken in my world about a new planet.

[Thank god this isn't technically canon.]

Scientists don't know shit anyway.

That is an excellent drawing. Also, you're absolutely right. Plus, demoting Pluto totally ruins the mnemonic device teachers use to help kids remember the planets. What do they tell kids now that they can't use "My Very Energetic Mother Just Sliced Up Nine Pizzas"? "My Very Energetic Mother Just Sliced Up Nothing?" That's just depressing.

[Wait, what? Pluto's not a planet anymore? Wow, the things that happened in the future.]

Sometimes it's even closer to the Sun than Neptune in its orbit.

[But that didn't matter though but its size, it seemed. Man.]

I like the drawing, by the way.

Nothing. It's pretty useless. There's just a couple of science stations and military bases in orbit. And it's not that far away. I mean, not from Earth anyway. Short jaunt.

Earth-centric bullshit.

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My Very Educated Mother Just Served Is Nachos. Nachos are almost never depressing. Unless they're the nasty rubber cheese kind. Or my mother is serving them.

I might have seen something like that. I don't know.
What's so great about it?

[At least Len is humoring her, that's the best she can ask for.]

Pluto's gonna do what it needs to do for itself, and it's gonna be a better planet for ignoring everyone that fights about it.

If it even knows.

Len suggested that Pluto probably doesn't care too much.

[omg he's so old-fashioned, that's cute.]

I bet it'll be all over the... um. Newspapers? That's what you used back then, right? Definitely not anything like the internet.

I know the difference. I just have hope for something all the way out there and that things could change. It doesn't have to be whatever it's labeled as now for forever.

Really up close. New Horizons was the spacecraft that took the pictures.

Maya's the best. She can do all kinds of things with art.

[Gotta plug how good Maya is, okay.]

I knew that!! It's pretty cool, isn't it? I mean... I guess the underworld isn't that cool, but I like that they used a theme. Astronomers really like their themes.

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