#Deb Lister

[wiverscuomo]

deb and arlene fanart!!! they mean so much to me! redesigned arlene a little bit with the hair but otherwise i tried to stay true to the originals. i knew i had to draw their female counterparts after seeing someone comment about lister’s butch swag.

first time posting red dwarf??mainly a serial red dwarf tag lurker so this feels odd

[nerdsandbabyteeth]

Deb and Arlene

[smghead]

[a-literal-toaster-wtf]

i see your old man yaoi and raise you: old woman yuri

(arlene’s outfit is based off katerina bartokovsky’s from BTE, but if i draw her again i might put her in rimmer’s outfit just for funsies)

[4749-82]

[ostaramaclay]

WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT THIS?!?!

[rubydreamsuwu]

SPACE YURI 💥💥

[funnywormz]

i put my heart inside a microwave for u!

[thewronglong]

Can we talk about how Deb Lister ended up having to take care of what was essentially 2 disabled adults. In deep space. No respite care, no home care nurses coming to help clean up. Would she have felt the need to rebuild her Kryten before the kids got there? Lord, err, sorry, LADY knows.. that she wouldn't have time after they got there. Dog helps the best he can, but bless his heart, he's just another dependent. Things get better as they catch up to their bodies, but those first 3 or 4 years had to be rough.

[crownofbegonias]

top 10 most pathetic women

[red-dwarf-bracket]

Propaganda under the cut!

Deb Lister

Literally Lister but a woman, #feminism Kryten

Why I think Kryten should win is because he wouldn’t think he would be able to. He’d see himself as too worthless to even be able to be entered in the first place. So basically he should get pity votes… actually no, he shouldn’t. He deserves to win because he gives, and he gives, and he gives, creating himself as a reflection of who they want him to be instead of figuring I out for himself because he’s scared to lose the crewmates, the friends he’s made for seeming too opinionated or rude or otherwise not what they want him to be or who he thinks they want him to be. He’s a sweetheart who tries to go the extra mile but misses barely, either causing disruption or, in Nova 5’s case, complete destruction. He’s pushed either to be a servant or copy of Lister, neither of which are who he truly wants to be, but he feels that by adapting Listers’ selfishness and deceit through learning and observing that it’s get him closer to becoming more human-like. All he wants is a garden, and to take care of only that garden instead of being bound by a code he never asked for. But if he’s not useful, then he’s insulted and belittled, not that he wasn’t insulted or belittled to begin with. And being useless is something he fears more than anything. Even though he is just as deserving of a happy ending as Lister or Rimmer or Cat… the former two receive a lot more attention than him or the Cat… which goes without saying if Kryten loses before Cat I will vote for Cat because he’s also entirely deserving of praise [and not just because of his beautiful ass] In the books, Kryten spends most of them wanting to either kill himself for not being what he was made to be. But in the end, he kills himself to save Lister and the Cat, his last bit of ‘usefulness’. He doesn’t just deserve to win, he deserves to be happy instead of living a life hurtling through deep space ironing someone’s’ socks. He deserves his garden, he deserves to enjoy nature fully instead of rushing through an episode, he deserves to sit without worry and love himself and just allow himself to exist. And to realise that nothing was his fault, that he doesn’t have to bend over backwards to meet anyone else’s’ standards. He deserves to win because he’s not ‘so much more’. He just is. And I will spread every bit of propaganda I can even if it’s a futile attempt, because he’s been a comfort for me since I literally six years old, before rediscovering him at twelve, before letting myself enjoy him years later when I realized just how important he is, how much I relate to him, and how wonderful he is as a character in general. (via @cinnamon-phrog tysm for this)

[goblininawig]

Red Dwarfcember: Miracle

Summary: Deb pulls off a Christmas miracle for her boys.

Prompt: Miracle

Rating: T (no warnings)

Words: 605

A03 link or keep reading below.

Arlene watches the twins ripping into their sloppily-wrapped gifts beneath the large, tackily-decorated artificial ficus that Deb and Dog had brought in from the Officer’s Club. She smirks at their childish enthusiasm and leans over to murmur in Deb’s ear, “It’s a miracle you pulled this off.”

Deb, looking knackered with dark circles under her eyes, nods. 

Her parallel universe male version had suddenly returned earlier in the week, bringing with him two nearly-full-grown men, “their sons,” he’d explained, and turned her entire world upside down. She’d gone from spending her time in whatever way she wanted, minus the odd job here and there to keep things going, to trying to be some sort of emotional support and adult example to the emotionally-undeveloped teenagers. 

According to Dave, the boys had grown at an accelerated rate, and would’ve died if they stayed with him. The way they’d grown had left some understandable gaps in their learning. They needed structure and schooling, and to have their endless questions about themselves and their existence answered. Truthfully, Deb thought she was the last person who should be in charge of shaping someone else’s personality. But she hadn’t exactly had a choice in the matter.

It helped that the boys had a sense of humor. Jim and Bexley didn’t take things very seriously, which was lucky, considering their unusual circumstances. They were good lads, and Deb really was trying to make them feel loved and at home.

Which is why, when she’d realized that, by old Earth calendars, it was nearly Christmas, she’d enlisted the Dog to help her hunt down some appropriate gifts and passable decorations. The Dog had also helped her set it up inside the twins’ sleeping quarters on Christmas Eve. Luckily, the boys were used to sleeping through the ruckus of each others’ snoring, so they didn’t wake up, even when Dog accidentally drop-kicked one of the wrapped presents into a wall.

Arelene, of course, being a hologram, couldn’t touch anything. But she’d tagged along while Deb and Dog had pushed everything down to their room on a trolley, nattering on about how the whole thing was bound to go wrong somehow. When Deb had told her to shut the smeg up, she’d sniffed dismissively and marched off. So really, Arlene’s jab was basically a compliment.

“Yeah well, I do things right now and then,” Deb returns, bumping Arlene with her shoulder. 

She’d wrapped up a couple sets of artificial reality goggles, along with a few total immersion video games, the safe ones, like Zero G Kickboxing, Camelot Game, and Conan Doyle World. Deb had also found some London Jets jerseys in someone’s previously-unexplored sleeping quarters, so she’d wrapped them up as well. Then she’d stuffed a clean sock full of sweets for each of them, since she didn’t have Christmas stockings. (Luckily Arelene hadn’t noticed they were hers, as Deb didn’t have any clean socks.)

The twins start to fight over which game to play first as Hilly appears on the video screen. “Happy Christmas,” she says, before bursting into an off-key rendition of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.” The twins cringe and cover their ears, while Deb and Arlene can hear the Dog howling along with Hilly from somewhere along the nearby corridors.

Arlene’s expression grows stern. “Now, see here, you baboon’s rump! Can’t you see Deb’s trying to have a nice moment with her boys?”

Deb grins, bumping against Arlene again, and this time, staying there to lean against her. “Aw, babe, I didn’t know you cared.”

Arelene blusters and blushes, but, Deb notes, she doesn’t shift away from her at all.

[sournote2014]

It was inevitable that a Lister and a Rimmer would hook up.

Is it inappropriate to say that Deb looks a bit like Shirley Scott? I can see Ace fancying Hammond Organ musicians.

[sapphothemself]

exams are over, my creativity has reared its head, and ive finally finished the smutty epilogue for my fem Rimmer/Lister fic. there really should be more lesbians in red dwarf, but i'll take what i can get and run with it.

[a-literal-toaster-wtf]

red dwarf fandom we need more arlene and deb content STAT

[gothwizardmagic]

goddd david tennant has literally always been the greatest actor of all time