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Lister / Rimmer / Ace - so many scenarios here but the most likely to me is Ace "teaching" Rimmer how to please Lister and enjoying himself at the same time.

Lister / Rimmer / Todhunter - yes, I've written it. The most intriguing scenario is pre-accident because Rimmer's canon authority kink could be used really well.

Lister / Rimmer / Kochanski - I imagine most people are thinking KK2 and this could work well, either by having them both there during Series VII or if we have to, incorporating VIII and developing it from that. "Cassandra" has fic potential.

Ace / Spanners / Mellie - I nearly put AU KK here but thought I'd mix it up as Mellie has such good chemistry with Ace. I guess maybe people don't like the idea of Spanners' Kochanski being cheated on, but it doesn't necessarily have to be that. There are other ways.

Lister / Rimmer / Nirvanah - this is the one for those who like Rimmer having two options, I guess. I can't imagine Lister and Nirvanah fighting as they're both too nice so the obvious solution is a throuple.

Lister / Low Rimmer / High Rimmer - have also written. Look, it doesn't need to be realistic when it's hot as hell. Also, if someone really wanted to, they could make it work outside of a dream sequence.

The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.

You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.

Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.

But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.

I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.

Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:

You have to rest in your own desire to create.

But, because I see statements like this turn into a sort of general notion of “it’s bad to want validation or attention or engagement”, and to me, that’s not what this means.

It’s perfectly valid to want people to like and engage with what you create. In a general sense, when you create anything, you do it to share with other human beings. Art, craft, food, anything you create is a way to connect with others through our shared humanity.

And wanting someone to like you fanart or read your fanfic is part of that.

RIMSTER SHIP WEEK!!!

the official event will run from the 8th - 14th of june, but the list will be open forever for people to use!!! you can use either one or both of the day’s prompts, depending on what you feel like doing <3 i’m so excited to see what all the wonderful artists, writers, editors and other such creators will cook up for the week!

(text ver. of list under the cut!)

(rimmer/lister drabble)

In disliking Dave Lister, generally, Rimmer had found himself with a bit of a problem. The problem was that he did not dislike Dave Lister quite as much as he used to anymore. Yes, he still disliked him. But not quite as much. 

That was the problem. And it was very alarming. At first Rimmer had wondered if his disk was malfunctioning. He had casually asked Holly, a few times now, if there was anything peculiar happening in the hologram simulation suite. Perhaps some disk data had got jumbled in with, god forbid, Petersen’s disk, or something horrific like that. But Holly always reported in the negative;

‘Nothing is untoward, Arnold. You are not going mad, Arnold. You are definitely entirely and absolutely Arnold Rimmer, Arnold. Unfortunately.’ That could not be true, Rimmer had thought. How could he not be mad, if he found himself not disliking Lister so much, if not entirely liking him? Something was definitely very wrong. He walked into the bunk room that afternoon, hoping Lister would not be there in all his smeggy post-pregnancy mostly naked glory. All to save Rimmer the job of asking how he was doing; if he wanted anything, if he needed any help, even though Rimmer couldn’t really do or touch anything to help Lister anyway. Not that he wanted to, of course.  He hoped Lister would go away long enough for Rimmer to start disliking him properly again. 

Bless series 5 for giving us a more serious and sexy Rimmer for a while in Holoship (and Terrorform to a lesser degree)

It had, in fact, taken a few days before Rimmer was ready to go beyond their lone shower encounter. He’d been quietly reticent about Lister around the others - not, Dave reasoned, because he wasn’t interested, or ashamed, but because the man simply didn’t know how to be involved with someone romantically around others.