redvalley

John, 23 y/o UK male. I post art on other social media and write fic. Im here for the h:lots posts

[lenniebriscoe]

Secor says that the closeness of the relationship between Bayliss and Pembleton always raised the question of where you draw the line between platonic and romantic love. He says: “It brings up the great question of ‘What kind of love is there between men?’ It goes to the deeper questions that all writers attempt to [address]. You know: ‘What is love?’ The detective thing: ‘What is truth? What is justice?’ (x)

[the-technicolor-whiscash]

Homicide: Life on the Street, 06x09 - Closet Cases

[the-technicolor-whiscash]

Homicide: Life on the Street, 01x09 - The Night of the Dead Living

[howard-ly]

Andre Braugher and Kyle Secor as Frank Pembleton and Tim Bayliss in Homicide: Life On The Street (1993-2000)

Kyle Secor referred to Pembleton and Bayliss’s “very kind of ‘old married couple’ relationship”, describing them jokingly as “the deeply involved couple who didn’t have sex anymore”. Of the show’s ambiguous dialogue, he says that:

“It’s the writers, and Tom Fontana. He can split that dialogue both ways. Andre and I had many talks about it. And in a lot of the relationships in the show you see that, where the partners are very intimate with each other. They generally care a great deal about each other, and about their personal lives, and it feels like, you know, they know each other better than potentially their husbands or wives might know them, or boyfriends or girlfriends. So it was very intimate, what we were all going through.”

Secor says that the closeness of the relationship between Bayliss and Pembleton always raised the question of where you draw the line between platonic and romantic love. He says: “It brings up the great question of ‘What kind of love is there between men?’ It goes to the deeper questions that all writers attempt to [address]. You know: ‘What is love?’ The detective thing: ‘What is truth? What is justice?’

“And with Frank and me, it really was about that. How deeply can love go between two comrades, and not include sex in that? It’s unrequited [love on Bayliss’s part]. And it’s a marriage, and it’s all of these things, but it’s…you know, they don’t go at it.” He laughs.

He reflects on the nature of Bayliss’s feelings for Pembleton, which are never explicitly stated in the show: “[The writers are] very good about leaving a lot of stuff unspoken. And Andre’s such a powerful, masculine presence, but within the masculine presence he has a great feminine quality to him, a soft quality, and it comes through in his eyes and in his smile.

“And that’s the thing that gets to Tim, when he gets the smile.” He laughs. “Andre was, you know, sort of my perfect unreachable lover.” (x)

[valtsv]

real sadists understand that you can torture The Character simply by forcing them to live with themself

[hlotss]

Homicide: Life On The Street 1.09 "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"

[redvalley12]

I think about this scene every single day and I'm not joking. I think it awakened something evil inside of me. Whew

[nuffnotsaid]

[redvalley12]

[ej-brunson]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Homicide: Life on the Street Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Tim Bayliss/Frank Pembleton Characters: Tim Bayliss Additional Tags: i genuinely dont know what to tag, Chris Rawls (mentioned), Frank Pembleton (mentioned), Kay Howard (mentioned), Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Murder, spoilers for homicide: the movie, Homicide: the movie Summary:

Short writing exercise. 12 sentences starting with “Tim walked into the squad room…”

[puppeteerpoet]

Sometimes a comfort character is a character that barely had a moment of comfort their entire life

[redvalley12]

I have plans that I cannot share with you right now because the haters will try to sabotage me (frankentim edit to Fiona Apple) (fic where bayliss smokes with munch and gets sloppy) (i actually very much want to share these)

[gen-is-gone]

I mean what the fuck am I supposed to do with this, huh?? FUCK.