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god blake's 7 would have been so good if they remembered all the awesome female characters in the main cast instead of just putting them on teleport duty. like cmon man we got

Jenna Stannis, tough-as-nails smuggler and ace pilot, as cool as Han Solo thinks he is

Cally, surprisingly nurturing suicide bomber telepath who's exiled from her planet and has a whole honor complex about it and is also maybe a clone(?)

Deyna Mellanby, martial arts expert and engineering genius, whose excitable and somewhat naive personality contrasts darkly with her obsession with revenge against Servalan

Soolin, mercenary sniper with a tragic past

like please come on you could do so much with all that!!

#second on how they often forgot to use their female characters to their full potential #but still there are some progressive stuff on the show regarding these women #at least I feel like the main crews does have certain levels of agency #not counting Ben Steed episode and Animal 🫠#still many of fan writing does these women justice #blakes 7 #b7

finnamin

hi!!! im not new to red dwarf by any means and I've seen the whole series and everything, but what is the appeal of rimmer/lister ship? /gen btw, im not disrespecting and i dont dislike the ship, im just curious and want to understand!!

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?

I'm so curious to hear what the appeal is for other folks, though, because everyone has their reasons for enjoying the two of them together!

janamelie

Glad I'm not the only one who took a while to see it. I started watching it as a kid with my family on original airing from about 1990 onwards (so long ago I'm not sure which was the first ep I saw). I had no idea slash existed even though I already knew I was gay.

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.

And we see them age in real time over three decades which not many pairings give us. It's just such rich material.

aq2003

i can't get over this. this is fucking killing me

mxtheo3

Red Dwarf be like : no alien, everything are made by human in some point in time and make its name by some acronym that conveniently pronounceable

Blake’s 7 : We gonna use Doctor Who alien but they thought it would be too much of a push so we might said “well they from Andromeda” and the rest of the species we have just look either ethnicised people living in jungle or British white collar employees

#star trek #star wars #doctor who #red dwarf #Blake’s 7

aq2003

i can't get over this. this is fucking killing me

byjove

do you remember when we could post boobs and and pussy and penis and balls and taint on this site and nobody had to show their license and registration to see it 😔 was that developmentally good for 13 year old me? no. but I genuinely believe it is better than living in a dystopian advertiser friendly state with no anonymity and I would pick opening my Tumblr and seeing untagged porn at 14 over this bullshit any day

pluralzalpha

Especially as there's still porn on here, it's just from spambots and AI ads instead of actual humans

finalfrontierpsychiatrist

Just thinking about the moon/sun dynamics with Rimmer and Lister. Rimmer unintentionally killed the entire crew whereas Lister unintentionally created an entire race

gr3yh0und-01

i fear that there is no heterosexual explanation for this image.

#doctor who #classic who #third doctor #brigadier alistair gordon lethbridge stewart #the way they look at each other

the-worms-in-your-bones

I love when the brigadier meets a new incarnation of the doctor, takes one look at them, and goes ‘well there’s only one person this freak could be’

fancy-a-dance-brigadier

Tarrant fans if you're out there

#blake's 7 #fanvid #del tarrant #the more I think about Tarrant and watch this the more I question my sexuality #I could be more Bi for Tarrant I suppose 😭

001x456

“ships should at least make sense.” no. ships can make sense, sure. but they’re just fictional characters we play with for fun. they’re fantasies, not a fucking thesis paper. so no, they don’t always have to make sense. they just have to make you happy (or horny).

let people enjoy (fictional) things however they want to enjoy.

#inspire me to continue my blake/deva/avon/tarrant polycule #I don’t care if they all die I will make it work in hell if I have to #there are a lot of nonsense ship I have for Blake’s 7

carmilla-minus-one

ds9 AU where traitor weyoun lives and joins the core cast. everyone hates him because he's still a little shit but he's incredibly valuable to the war effort and they know he'll never betray odo so they have to put up with him.