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Video evidence that Mark and Fraser totally did it. No other explanation for those looks. You can't convince me otherwise.

Song: Would You? By Touch & Go mixed with some voice clips

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HOCKEY ROMANCE. It was the 90s and Due South was doing Hockey Romance.

(because come on Constable Benton Fraser is heart eyed and very thirsty.)

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More people should tell Benton Fraser that he is a very good boy.

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I don't know if I already posted this, but I was going through my clips and I was reminded that Fraser had a crush on that creepy landlord.

Ping ping ping

He knows how to pick them, right?

Cut for messy meta

If I were to analyze him (which... Duh, that's what I've been spending the last few decades doing) I'd say that it happens because he's really bad at able to detect when he's being manipulated (until Odds, and that's why this episode is so super important to his character development!).

And people who get what they want by manipulating others see that in him immediately. He's so honest about what he wants and needs. He's practically telling everyone what buttons to push to hit him right in the feels.

(But... but I might be wrong because he manipulates Mackenzie King in this episode... And before, in the parking lot, when he meets her for the first time).

Maybe it's really simple: he made a conscious choice to always see the best in people. And he is convinced that he will be the one who'll save them/change their mind. And he often does!

He makes one mistake though. A big one. Not everyone thinks and feels as deeply as he does. But he has trouble understanding others. Ooh. Maybe that's why he doesn't see when others manipulate him. He doesn't even get it when he's literally told that he's been manipulated (ugh Janet).

(pretty niche probably but he is going through his positive disintegration phases all throughout the show.)

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I just found a song that is so heartbreakingly Fraser/RayK. It would be perfect for a fanvid.

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Thatcher was either going to out him, or hard launch them.

"I see..." "It's very nice."

Well...

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I saw this and thought of them

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beautiful Mountie art linked from FB Due South Trading Post

Regina Keim sent the Facebook Due South Trading Post group a link to this fabulous "Super Mountie" art on the German Etsy site.

I thought people might like to see it. Not sure if it's available outside Europe, though.

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We all casually invent characters with tragic backstories in our heads and then spend weeks crafting lore, playlists, audio dramas and teaser trailers about them.

Everyone does this.

Right?

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Signs you may need to take a break from ao3/tumblr for a little bit:

an author/blog being “mean” to your favorite character causes you uncontrollable anger

an author/blog being “mean” to your favorite character feels like a personal attack on you

a fic makes you depressed for several days (not just sad, but uncontrollable crying, depression, despair)

you feel like your mental health is hinging on the outcome of a WIP or cliffhanger

you’re making threats, death threats, etc on anon or leaving abusive comments

you’re unable/unwilling to block/mute people who cause these reactions

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It's pumpkin time!

Utrecht / Chicago / Tromsø / Rotterdam

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Thank you! I haven’t watched the documentary or read the book yet, but I have watched clips of the former and listened to the abridged version of the latter. I want to check both out in full in the future — but I find what I’ve come across so far interesting.

I have always liked his candor and his ability to express that quality without being cruel – especially when you consider how many people love to use the whole I’m - just - being - honest when really it’s just a cop out to be a jerk. As far as the public facing appearances, their interviews, event summaries, etc, that I’ve come across, I haven’t seen such a thing like you, I like to investigate and really get a sense of what a public figure is like before I decide to check out their work.

Speaking of the son/father patterns that ran in his family: I feel bad for Matthew, his oldest child. I remember reading in his play girl interview that during the first few years of Matthew‘s life, Christopher said he wasn’t terribly interested in him, didn’t really know what others were talking about whenever they would describe him (as a baby) as cute because he felt he looked like a reason, and wasn’t really interested in being present for his birth.

In both the interview and a clip, I caught where his ex talked a little about that that period of time, both revealed that Christopher had to be convinced to show up for the birth of his first child and after that was done, he immediately left to go skiing with his friends the next day. The mention that most of Matthew‘s childhood really consisted of his mother and later on, his sister because his dad just wasn’t that present = sad to hear. Matthew sharing later on that he wasn’t able to get to the hospital in time in order to say goodbye to his father before he passed away? Especially after how tough aspects of his early years were with him? Devastating.

I wonder if his second child, Alexandra, had a bit of a better experience, but it sounds like it was kind of similar to Matthew’s. I think will got to have a different experience with Chris even before the accident. I find it even sadder that- based on the clips, I watched from the documentary and from the interviews his kids took apart to promote the documentary - It seemed as though the aforementioned didn’t really change until post accident. They shared that by then, they felt that he was taking the time to really get to know them/be emotionally present for/listen to them as people.

I appreciated the honesty of all those involved, especially Chris’s willingness to even go there and admit to having shortcomings since that is incredibly difficult for most people.

Anyway, that’s what I found captured my attention the most but again, I still need to read and watch.

**Please excuse any typos – I am using voice to text

I am going to get back to you because I have so many thoughts about this. Especially about the Matthew part and that Playgirl interview (in which he seems like a completely different person).

It's all really messy and not a good look.

Just wanted to share this too:

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Have you seen the Christopher Reeve documentary that came out last year? Have you read his book? Do you mind sharing your thoughts on both? Is there anything you learned that surprised you, you didn’t see coming, or changed your perspective on things?

A few weeks ago I finally made myself watch the documentary after listening to him read the abridged version of Still Me.

What surprised me about both the book and the documentary was how honest he was about missing his life before, his struggles with depression and how this existed beside him never giving up and fighting for a cure.

I was impressed by how he could recognize what he gained after the accident. How he finally managed to break the string of bad father/son relationships in his lineage. How amazing his three kids are.

I still haven't read all of Still Me. I'm going through the book slowly.

But I have read Nothing is Impossible. A book of short anecdotes written after Still Me. What I liked about that one is his search for some kind of spirituality that suits him. People get stuck on the Scientology part (which he just went to because he was bored), but I loved that he even tried rebirthing and that he was open to so many things to see what made sense. But that in everything he tried he found that he was acting/masking to not disappoint others.

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I'm really curious about what you think as well!