#i think these numbers check out

[gcballet]

We can kind of brute force some numbers on his age in Io years, if we assume Rimmer is the same (physical) age as Chris Barrie throughout the show, and gloss over the timeskips Rimmer ages through, just looking at the age he's supposed to look like.

So in February 1988 when Series I began airing, Barrie was 27 and turned 28 on the 20th of March, the day before the last episode of SI - Me² - aired on 21/03/88. Series II aired from September to October 1988. Because Rimmer clearly doesn't have a birthday between Confidence and Paranoia and Me², let's pencil in Rimmer's first post-Lister-waking-up-from-stasis birthday as happening between I and II, and not worry about it. Maybe they missed it because of double hologram shenanigans.

We know the Boyz celebrate Rimmer's death day (aka drive plate accident day) in the opening scenes of II:3 - Thanks For The Memory, and for a second I thought 'oh maybe holograms don't celebrate birthdays' but then I remembered 'no this is Rimmer' the idea of him passing up the opportunity for special treatment or gifts and stuff is a stretch.

So within say, seven months (March-Sept)? Gazpacho Soup reveal, Rimmer's first post-Lister-waking-up-from-stasis birthday, first meeting with Kryten, Better Than Life, Rimmer's first post-Lister-waking-up-from-stasis death day.

Okay, not going to find any exact dates obviously, but let's go with him physically equating to 28 just before Kryten.

Io orbits Jupiter every 42 Earth hours?

How many Earth hours are in 28 Earth years?

I *think* this would make a 28 Earth year old Rimmer 5,840 Io years old on his I-II birthday.

Obviously, the length of all these years would change as orbits shift over the 3 million (Earth?) year stasis timeskip, but let's fix them to where they are when Red Dwarf leaves the solar system.

Of the 67 known moons of Jupiter, we know Ganymede, Titan, Europa, and Io are inhabited in Red Dwarf, but the only implication we have that Jupiter itself is colonised is in Legion when Kryten mentions Jovian boogle hoops - a kind of local utensil.

If there are up to 67 Jovian moons, plus Jupiter proper, all inhabited, could they plausibly be grouped with a unified calendar? The JMC is known for big overarching bureaucratic stuff like Esperanto language. We mark years as an orbit round the sun, planetary orbit isn't really a unit we use, and Io would be following the length it takes for Jupiter to do a solar orbit.

Because guess what, a Jupiter year is 12 Earth years long, and a 28 Earth year old Rimmer would only be 2.3 Jupiter years old. Just the comedic potential of Rimmer telling Lister he's nearly two and a half is delightful.

I think it also meshes with Rimmer's general garbage childhood if he had exactly one (Jupiter year) birthday with his family/parents before he divorced them.

The most recent episode airdate was 09/04/20, at which time Barrie was 60 years (and a few weeks) old, the equivalent of only 5 Jupiter years old.

In your proposed Io years, 60 Earth years becomes

So to recap:

28 Earth years = 5,840 Io years = 2.3 Jupiter years

60 Earth years = 12,514.3 Io years = 5 Jupiter years

Here's a fun fact for you all to ponder on.

Rimmer was born on Io.

Io has a very short year in comparison to Earth's. In fact, it only takes Io 42 hours (Earth hours) to orbit Jupiter.

There's no way I could personally work out the maths on this, but in Ionian years Rimmer must be hundreds of years old (am I correct in thinking that?)

I'm guessing this may be the reason why we don't hear any references made to Rimmer's birthday ....

but I would like to make an argument for the 40th hour

No months, no seasons, he was just born on the 40th hour of the year.

Or to be more precise for the birth certificate: he was born on the 40th hour/20th minute/32nd second or 40/20/32/YEAR

[sisaloofafump]

I know we always talk about the funny ways supers carry bats but how about this time we mention the cat

[3-aem]

universal healthcare is not broken and anyone trying to convince you it is is delusional and a dckrider for big health insurance. yes there are wait times but waiting for care is Not the same as being denied care.

in america your physician prescribes care and an insurer can still cuck you out of it because someone across the continent who has never met you can say: doesn’t seem medically necessary. Leaving you to handle a bill that is wildly inflated by the same insurers that just denied you.

let me drill it through your head you can pay thousands a year in premiums and still end up sick and financially burdened for years by One incident. no insurance company is Avoiding going broke by denying claims. theyre doing it to profit off your misfortune and your illness. Because healthcare fundamentally does not cost the amount that they claim it to be.

[doux-amer]

[promithiae]

Hi do you want to read all of Discworld but wow that's a lot of books and books are expensive? Humble has all 38 of them up for $18 in ebook format.

They also have smaller bundles, but $20 for 38 books is pretty good

EDIT: I put this in my tags, but realize I should put it in the actual body of the post; unfortunately this is only available in the US (BOOOOOO), and it's going on (I believe, they don't give an actual date that i could see, just a countdown) through January 21st

[xxplastic-cubexx]

waiting for marvel to take you up as their comic artist so that we can have amazing art with cherik official storyline

marvel hire me to draw professor x and magneto making out sloppy style for forty issues straight you will get a BAJILLION dollars i promise

[bfdifan26]

can you draw some seven x nine art

>:3

listen to valentine by laufey then youll understand (also keep giving me requests today i like to see it as giving people presents)

[tricoufamily]

pretty neat game

[sciderman]

what's a lesser known spider-man related thing that you don't see enough people talk about? (for me although its not lesser known, more like forgotten, only two people (you included) have recongnized my pfp)

weird al yankovic song

[sunshades]

MC Heath's chatter line about being able to move his arms weirdly while he sounds genuinely happy makes me sick he is so dear to me

LET'S ALL APPRECIATE THIS LINE HE IS SO ANNOYING GOD BLESS

there rly is something so bittersweet about this ID... that little self-esteem moment about his career in uptie chatter 2, then this one with that pride he shows at times about his body & strength... and at the same time that feeling that it's all for naught. the second of hesitation when he thinks abt what in his mind could POSSIBLY be worth returning to... you need someone to share it with. even if the person who loves you isn't here you can at least show your manager who has been trying to be your friend... argh!!

[daily-hanamura]

[pilonciillo]

lol didn’t think someone giving money would give me anxiety

[gomzdrawfr]

Gomzzzzz hello!!! I’ve been lurking in your blog for like, over a year now and I just wanted to say, your art is so freaking amazing and cute....the big cheeks!! I’ve always struggled with confidence in my own work, to the point where sharing anything felt almost impossible (stare at my stuff for hours only to delete them) But seeing you do your thing? I decided to try posting too. Okay it took a while but when I did I was fully expecting it to get like… 2 likes, max. But then YOU reblogged it, and my phone basically exploded. I’m not even kidding—my notifications were wild, and for the first time, I actually felt proud of something I made. It might sound silly and you probably don't know which art of mine you reblog but it really hyped me up and frankly...i found back the feel to draw again. I can't thank you enough for doing what you do, for making cod space a better and nicer place (your reblogs on others are always soooo positive and top tier)

Anyway, I’m keeping myself anonymous because, uhhh, social anxiety vibes and don’t want to overwhelm you;w; but I hope you know how much you’ve impacted people like me just by being yourself. I’m wishing you the absolute best for 2025!! zapping you with my beams to give you braincells for your school stuff

you deserve all the good things fr

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CryING iN THE CLUB— (my room)

Shark anon, thank you for the sweetest words, I really needed this today…and I’m so proud of you for finding back the love to draw again. I hope 2025 will be a blast for you too man!! Remember to take rest and have a good year ahead

[captainjonnitkessler]

I was trying to figure out why I was feeling so off and generically sad all day today until I opened up Stardew Valley and realized I haven't seen the sun in three weeks and no green plants for longer than that. I HAVE to move somewhere sunnier I was simply not cut out to live in this much gloom

[valentjin]

we've all seen the jokes about Raphael and clonefucking but what if we talk about Raphael and Clone. welcome to my TED talk, here's how Raphael can still win-

(don't take it TOO seriously, i'm just offering some info/lore/mechanics and whatnot from d&d that could be interesting to consider, for fics or headcanons or whatever else this might be useful for lol)

anyway onto the post. so while idk if 5e has anything particularly specific or definitive about this (knowing 5e probably not, though I haven't read descent into avernus so idk if they have more fiend lore in there) going off 3.5e cambions are just defined as another name for half-fiends, which the MM says are typically outsiders with the native subtype - meaning they can be "raised, reincarnated, or resurrected just as other living creatures can be". huzzah, this means they have souls (imo). presuming the same holds true for cambions in 5e, since 5e also just defines them as the offspring of a fiend and a humanoid, i don't see why Clone wouldn't be an option for Raphael. it's only 8th level (surely there's a few 15th level wizards out there), the material component cost is only 3000gp (for a diamond and a container for the clone), and once the clone matures it "endures indefinitely" as long as the container does; when the creature dies its soul transfers to the clone with all its memories, abilities, and personality (but none of its gear, so we still snatch his diary) + the body's physical remains don't disappear if they aren't destroyed, so the orb vision we got about Meph munchies still tracks

the only potential issue is that in order to transfer to the clone, the soul of the creature must be "free and willing to return", but idk why anyone would have a claim on Raphael's soul to prevent it from returning. since he clearly deals in other people's souls a lot, he would probably be pretty careful about not letting anyone else get their hands on his! (plus he makes a point of saying he's a devil not a cambion when talking about himself, he wants to act like he doesn't have one at least 😂)

Clone lets you make the clone look like a younger version of the creature as well (nooo dont make your clone look like a younger version of yourself Raphael you're so sexy ahah)

[platypusisnotonfire]

Something that you’re not prepared for when world building is that sometimes writing how a space station runs involves breaking down every single scientific, electrical, mechanical, and Human Resources parts of running a space station and logging these things over two dozen cross referenced spreadsheets and also gosh darn it you’re running on an alien time clock and calendar so you can’t use any premade employee schedulers you have to make your own which is another four spreadsheets

JUST to figure out where Corporal Cosmoulis is on Fifthday the 15th of Friass at 2830 hours.