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rimster week day 3: starbug/guitar

i maybe traced the interior of starbug for this.... i fucking hate backgrounds. i just thought this was cutie :-) rimmer is pretending he's not singing along and having fun but internally he's singing his whole heart out

ooooooh!!! thanks so much for ending my suffering with this question!

the first thing that springs to mind, rather than a single episode, is series 7. yes, there’s no rimmer in a lot of them and it’s tragic, but there’s some really solid story lines, juicy lister lore, a woman main character (no matter what you think of the writing for her), and kryten’s just so, SO hilarious when he plays jealous. i laughed at him more in this series more than any other.

thank you you so, so much to this question! i’m so glad people are willing to end my laryngitis suffering 😅

i’m a combination of both for different elements. overall i’m really excited, especially for the mention of more female characters, but i’m scared for the details about the new “romantic relationship” plot rimmer and another character. i don’t want one because it won’t be with lister XD

Before his death earlier this year, Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant completed his final project: the spin-off novel Red Dwarf: Titan.

Now, Grant's co-author Andrew Marshall has opened up about his hopes for the beloved band of comedy characters as they return in the alternate reality novel – including a more fleshed out Dave Lister (who was played by Craig Charles in the TV series), and more developed female characters.

"Rob wanted Lister to show a little bit more maturity by the end than we usually see, which I think makes an interesting part," Marshall explained to Radio Times. "I was very interested in showing there's a tiny speck of something in Rimmer that he might just be saveable."

He added that Grant "was very keen – as was I – to develop the female characters a little bit more".

"So Kochanski has a much, much bigger role in this, and there's also a couple of other new female characters for you to have a look at," he continued.

"So that's that was quite interesting, and certainly creating a sort of nemesis/weird romance character for Rimmer was also an interesting challenge, and you'll see how we got around that."

Asked whether the show needed updating for a modern audience, Marshall added: "Yeah, it did need updating a little bit. That's the way we looked at it, anyway. It's just bringing it more into line with how things are these days, but it was very interesting.

Guess who’s been alone and lonely a lot?

Our boy Dave, that’s who.

He kinda learned how to play properly. Silence will teach you about harmony and the lack thereof.

(I know it’s been half a week and I haven’t posted anything smutty yet, it’s coming (heh) on Saturday I promise.)

Hey! Always happy to answer questions like this about the ships I like, haha! Apologies in advance because I always set out to give a succinct answer, and then... well, that rarely ever happens 😂

I didn't always ship Rimmer/Lister, actually! I've been a lifelong RD fan, and the first time I started writing fic and engaging in online RD fan spaces was when I was a 13yo closeted kiddo who never considered putting the two of them together, because "what, no, they're just straight friends. Why would anyone pair them together?"

But then I started actually reading fic with them together, and I went back to watch the show with the idea of them as a couple in mind, and... it sort of clicked. I'd even been writing some fem OC fics around that time, fics where the OCs were... basically just gender swapped versions of one of the boys that I could pair with the other. Their dynamic was always what I wanted to engage with, I just hadn't considered actually putting them together because I was 13 and stuck in heteronormativity hell 💀 (Literally, I've held onto this old RD fic for decades now because this author's note kills me every time... 13yo me you had no idea what was coming...)

I absolutely understand seeing them as friends and nothing more than that, and I think their relationship is lovely regardless of whether they end up as something more than that. But I think that's part of it for me - the dynamic they have, especially when you get to see it grow and change and evolve over 30+ years of canon content... it's just so easy for me to see that becoming more with time? Even when they bicker, even when they get on each other's nerves... they miss each other when they're away, and they're so close, they share a room and an entire life together, they become so intertwined over their decades spent together... and they didn't have to do that. They chose to do that, to stay like that, and it's sweet to see it as something between them that grew to be more than just friends, y'know?

It took the DVDs coming out for it to click. I got a bit obsessed with "DJ" because a version of Rimmer who wasn't antagonistic towards Lister somehow made me see it. Still love that ep.

Anyway, I love them as a ship because they contrast each other so deliciously. They skirt the boundary of canon / not canon so intriguingly and writers can do a lot with that. Plus there are so many alternate versions to play with too. Name a fic trope and it's probably in Red Dwarf.

No angst today, just Lister going for a ride with Ace.

Make no mistake, this is our Rimmer, Blue was not a dream, he figured out a way to jump wherever and whenever he wants to.

The only argument here is if the suit stays on or not when these two get down and dirty back home. 🤭