The Science of Mass Effect

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Closing ceremonies! Only a month late! Will the wonders ever cease.

Anyway! This one-off event for PJÕL's big day was a smashing success - I was crossing my fingers for ten works tops and we got thrice as many, and with so much creativity?? Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and for all the beautiful works posted! I hope we all had fun. And if anyone's still working on something, just whistle to be added!

So, without further ado:

@ambrosiussaintmiro (your excellency...!): happy 10 years (art, collage, Zigi, Khan, Tereesz, Jesper, ibex)

@brennisteinnexe: FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE KILLED IT AND THEN KILLED HIMSELF (webweave, the end of the world)

@citronellals: easy there, tiger / it's a meat grinder (art, Tereesz, Vidkun)

@hopelessandcalmless: Turquoise, violet and orange (friendship bracelet, Iilmaraan flag)

@ignitingthesky: Ann-Margret Lund also sits there somewhere in her kitchen, in the middle of the pale; (art, Ann-Margret)

@kaktoherovato: Please, tell me who you are... (art, Khan)

@kala-mies: In honor of today, here's the trio! (art, Khan, Tereesz, Jesper)

@kala-mies: It was a popular vacation area just outside of Vaasa that swallowed the four Lund girls. (art, Lund girls)

@kitkat-cafe: Jesper's cube-ish tea set (art, Jesper's designs)

@muitosmezaninos: Decided to use drugs and remember things yesterday / Tonight I had a nightmare and I woke up but I did not cry (art, Khan, Målin)

@myfriendfaust: I’m making you into a cretin, ya feelin’ it?? (art, Tereesz)

@parasolemn: ADD NUKE TO REVACHOL (art, Harry, Sunday Friend, Ambrosius, Khan, Jesper, Tereesz)

@parasolemn: the Lund girls in the pale (art, Lund sisters)

@permablu3: personal take on portraits (art, Khan, Tereesz, Jesper, Linoleum Salesman, Målin, Ulv)

@revacholianpizzaagenda: Aspects of the void. To a crumbling future. (art, Khan, Tereesz, Jesper, Lund sisters)

@revacholianpizzaagenda: Esteemed entroponauts & plot derailers extraordinaire (art, Zigi, Nilsen)

@revacholianpizzaagenda: The only revolution they have left is that the world keeps turning (fic, Nilsen, Rodionov)

@revacholianpizzaagenda: fellas is it bisexual to- (shitpost, Rodionov, Voronikin)

@ritual---impulse: the pale as Michael Biberstein's works (webweave, the pale)

@ritual---impulse: book fanmix (fanmix, PJÕL)

@runfreebirdrun: what if i was a decaying rock star and you were the memories made cytoplasm of a communist revolutionary and... (art, Zigi, Nilsen)

@smellslikegeraniums: "The Farewell Song", sung by Andrei Mironov (song link, PJÕL vibes)

@smellslikegeraniums: Khan’s popular-science dream (art, Khan and the ancient satellites)

@tereesz-machejek: Discord emojis (emojis, assorted items and symbols)

@theinklingofcats: Station Annihilation (fic, Harry)

@turianhumanclient: Revachol '74 (art, the bomb)

@yarrowdraws: “They are no longer there. But I still see them.” (art, Målin)

@yarrowdraws: I held Graad gently, like an architect holds districts of panel-houses… (art, Nilsen-related symbolism)

@yescking: nihilism and absolute innocence (art, Ambrosius, Lund sisters)

We and our 3 kids are all (likely) auDHD and us adults are feeling pretty good burnout. It's making it hard to get our feet under us. Any gigs she's getting profit from disappear under negative balances in our account. We're behind a couple months now on several important bills. Our EBT card balance is out for the month. So all around, in a little bit of a hole. Whether it's enough to pay a bill or pay off debt, or just enough to snag a snack or pull-ups, anything is appreciated.

Venmo is https://venmo.com/u/CathrynPls

PayPal is https://paypal.me/V79?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Cash app is https://cash.app/$operativearrow

In the event that anyone is interested in the sticker shop mentioned in my previous post, we're starting it up over here! As of the moment I'm posting this, we just have a couple designs up. But as she draws more, I'm working on getting them into Printify and then onto Etsy.

More are currently in the works because there's a little bit of a backlog of her designs that I haven't gotten switched over yet. But they're coming!

We and our 3 kids are all (likely) auDHD and us adults are feeling pretty good burnout. It's making it hard to get our feet under us. Any gigs she's getting profit from disappear under negative balances in our account. We're behind a couple months now on several important bills. Our EBT card balance is out for the month. So all around, in a little bit of a hole. Whether it's enough to pay a bill or pay off debt, or just enough to snag a snack or pull-ups, anything is appreciated.

Venmo is https://venmo.com/u/CathrynPls

Cash app is https://cash.app/$operativearrow

PayPal is https://paypal.me/V79?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Perhaps you’ve heard of the deplorable situation of Disco Elysium’s fired leads, of the oust by majority shareholder and CEO, of the lawsuits and rest of the cultural association and ‘old guard’ still at work there, quiet and held quiet by corporate policy and perhaps embittered by the 'auteur’ theory holding parasocial public.

What I am going to share with you is information that is publicly available through Estonian and United Kingdom company registers. I haven’t seen any news outlet feature this information yet.

There is so much more I could say about this, but there is not enough room. Remember to check with reality rather than believing conspiracy theories promoted, supported, and funded by white nationalist hate groups.

Missouri is proposing 20% of the nation’s anti-trans legislation this session. Gender-affirming care for young folks is on the edge of being criminalized (so much love to trans friends in states where that has already happened).

Please keep up with the anti-trans legislation in your state and combat it. There are lives at stake.

Transphobes do not touch this post.

Image ID: a 10-image cartoon comic featuring Joey, a boy with short hair.

Image 1: Joey, upset, gesticulates towards an open laptop. Text reads: The reality of St. Louis trans kids. Last week, a former (non-medical) employee of Washington University’s Pediatric Transgender Center was featured in a viral article about how the clinic was “rushing” kids into medical care and “mutilating” us. Every single thing she said was a lie, but the media loves it. Footnote reads: I wouldn’t give any more attention to this, but it is immediately endangering the lives of trans people. Missouri has launched a state investigation and is actively attempting to criminalize gender-affirming care based on conspiracy theories.

Image 2: Joey points to a map of the United States where Missouri is singled out, and a map of Missouri where St. Louis is indicated with a star. The text reads: The Transgender Center, located in St. Louis, Missouri, has been the target of hateful attacks from the far-right state legislature for years. It is part of Washington University Hospital, a branch of a prestigious private university.

Image 3: A younger Joey injects his T shot in his leg while someone takes a photo. Text reads: I can tell you that everything in the article is false because I received care at the Transgender Center beginning at 16 years old. My medical transition has brought me nothing but joy. What a gift it is to be trans!

Image 4: A younger Joey sits on a couch and stims with a tangle fidget toy. Text reads: No one is “rushed”. I sat on many waitlists, had to have 6 months of specialized gender therapy and a diagnosis of gender dysphoria before even being referred to the Center, and I was denied as “not ready enough” by an endocrinologist the first time I finally got an appointment. Footnote reads: If you’re curious about what it looks like to be a trans kid, I did another piece on that! Check out tinyurl.com/transkidscomictumblr.

Image 5: A colorful map of the United States shows how many states have a Negative Gender Identity Policy Tally and how many states have criminalized gender affirming care. Joey holds a credit card. Text reads: St. Louis’ Pediatric Transgender Center is the only one in the region, meaning the waitlists are extremely long. Plus, no one in the only industrialized country without free healthcare is getting medical care for fun. Many American trans folks have to fundraise for our care.

Image 6: Joey, distressed, sits on a couch while talking on the phone. The person on the other end says: “That’s me!” Text reads: This former employee spoke about specific cases, and patients have been able to identify themselves. She shared our private medical info and called us horrifying.

Image 7: This is split into two panels. In the first, Joey holds up a box of condoms and a packet of birth control pills. Texts reads: She especially hated trans men such as myself, saying that trans ideology was destroying “girls”. She lamented about hormones making us “sterile”, which is a complete lie. We trans mascs have to actively prevent pregnancy. In panel two stands a doctor. Text reads: Every time I had an appointment at the Center, doctors reminded me: Remember: testosterone is not a contraceptive! Footnote reads: The wonderful Erin Reed wrote a breakdown debunking all the lies in the article. See tinyurl.com/erinreedmissouri.

Image 8: Joey, masked, sits at a circular table with his brother, an unmasked boy with fluffy short hair. Joey’s brother is showing him his phone. Text reads: Major newspapers continue to platform these complete lies because they bring in engagement and money. The Washington Post tracked down my little brother’s personal cell phone number to try to get in contact with our mom – the president of an organization supporting trans kids in Missouri. Freaky, right?

Image 9: Joey, looking disgusted, leans against a door frame while talking on a cell phone. Text reads: But no one wants to talk with me, the adult who medically transitioned at this clinic as a minor and has not “desisted” in six years. The Washington Post reporter, who didn’t know anything about trans people, talked with me for 20 minutes and used a sentence of mine in an article about “both sides of the debate”. She didn’t mention that this former employee is being legally represented by a recognized anti-LGBT hate group, nor that all of her claims are unsupported by reality or science.

Image 10: Joey looks angry and gesticulates. Beside the drawing are two photos of Joey, one of him happy in front of a trans flag, and the other of him drawing up testosterone to take his first T shot. Text reads: There is no debate. There are trans people, and there are people who want us dead. There is truth and there are conspiracy theories. Where is my viral article in a major paper?

It would appear that the length of a GST year in comparison to an Earth year was in fact 1.09 and not 1.1 as I had calculated previously. This information of the GST year’s length (and in fact all the GST measurements) came from a physical print of Mass Effect Codex that was given out as feelie in deluxe versions of the first Mass Effect game. What follows is a revised section of my old article with new numbers and higher accuracy.

Galactic Standard Time is what the Citadel Council races have agreed to use to measure time. 20 hours to a day, 100 minutes to an hour, 100 seconds to a minute, and one GST second equals 0.5 Earth seconds.

A GST hour holds 100*100= 10 000 GSD seconds or 5000 Earth seconds. This translates into 5000/3600 = 1.389 Earth hours or 83 minutes 20.4 seconds

A GST day holds 20*10 000=200 000 GST seconds or 100 000 Earth seconds. This translates into 100 000/86 164.098 903 691 (stellar day or the 23 hours 56 minutes 4.01 seconds one) = 1.16057617119369 days, or approximately 27 hours, 51 minutes, 14 seconds rounded up.

The Galactic Standard Year has been described to be an average of Palaven’s, Thessia’s and Sur'Kesh’s. Palaven and Sur'kesh both have orbital periods of 1.2 Earth years and Thessia has just 0.9. The average would have rounded up to 1.1 Earth years or 401 and a half days. However the physical ME1 codex states it is actually 1.09 Earth years or 398 days, 3 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds.

GST year in Earth time is 31471749.9002522 (Earth year in seconds) * 1.09 = 34304207.3912749 seconds. From this we can derive GST year’s length in its days.

34 304 207.391 274 9 / 100 000 (GST day in Earth seconds) = 343,042073912749 GST days. Rounding it up we come to 343 GST days and 84 GST minutes.

First division without remainder gets us seven 49-day months for neatest numbers. Anything beyond that goes into results with fractions. This can be also divided by seven to get us a neat seven weeks that are seven weekdays. Again, anything beyond this is ugly fractions.

There’s something to twist your head around.

and the same without clutter:

GST minute 100 GST seconds = 50 Earth seconds GST hour 100 GST minutes = 83 Earth minutes 20.4 seconds GST day 20 GST hours = 27 Earth hours 51 minutes 14 seconds GST week 7(?) GST days = 8 Earth days 2 hours 58 minutes 36 seconds GST month 49(?) GST days =  56 Earth days 20 hours 50 minutes 15 seconds GST year 343 GST days 84 GST minutes = 398 Earth days 3 hours 1 minute and 48 seconds.

Paintings of Rhea-on-Saturn, 2018 and 2019, as well as its sector seal. The second largest moon of Saturn, and its most populated in the Light Era. Commentary below the cut.

Yeah… it’s bad. 

My eldest sibling is in need of extensive dental work, my twin just got diagnosed with type 2 diabeties, and my mom has a deteriorating meniscus, which will most likely be needing surgery. To top all this off, my father has been completely unsupportive and downright psychologically abusive. Over the past several years, he has become increasingly demanding of them, making the three of them serve him hand and foot- making all of his meals and snacks exactly to his specifications, rubbing his back and his feet for him, even turning the damn lights on and off- as well as constantly throwing parties for his friends (despite the pandemic) and making his family clean up after them, increasing his alcohol consumption to very concerning amounts, and breaking out into fits of screaming and beratement at the slightest inconvenience. Meanwhile, they live in a house with only one working faucet, a leaking roof/rotting ceiling, and no light in the upstairs hallway due to electrical problems. All things he could have fixed, and has had friends offer to fix, but doesn’t seem to want to bother with. My mom is in constant pain and has been unable to work for a long time, my twin is autistic and struggles finding employment that would accommodate him, and my eldest sibling makes very little working part time, while trying to pay off student loan debt. They are all suffering from serious health problems and are all completely reliant on my father financially. 

My goal right now is to raise enough money to help them get some of their medical needs covered and help them cover other necessities for a little while, especially if they end up leaving my dad.

I’m going to keep it simple, because I don’t have a lot of energy for much else: 

I will draw your favorite Digimon (or Pokemon, if you prefer) for any size donation you are able to give.

 They will be simple drawings colored in marker, such as the examples below:

My Ko-Fi goal right now is set to $2500, once it’s been reached I promise things will go back to the usual. I am extremely grateful for any and all help during this time. 

***You can donate to my Ko-Fi here: ***

https://ko-fi.com/smacky