#Due South

[how-queerious]

due south is now a farming sim (stardew! fair warning, i know very little of the lore)

frase is the farmer on a community centre run. ray k is kinda shane (you gotta domesticate that man), but less of an alcoholic. speed run of the others that i can think of

mort: krobus (my literal first thought after realizing the game and show dynamic. like a vision from god)

lt welsh: willy (dad dad dad dad)

francesca: haley

I've got nothing for the others ime sorry 😭

[variousqueerthings]

save me benton fraser's unshakeable belief that the world can be improved upon if we just have courage and hope.

[systematic-and-somehow-tragic]

Ray's face while Fraser is attempting to lie

my fav is the last gif hhh

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

10.A

Sometimes you can sing Northwest Passage while pinned belly to balls with your life partner in a crevasse

Top Ten Shanties and Sea Songs That Perfectly Embody The Line Between Homosocial and Homoerotic in Naval History

[petymology]

Many things suck, but F/K sex pollen is in beta.

[sammaggs]

3x01 Burning Down the House | Continuous

THIS IS ALL ONE SHOT!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS ALL. ONE SHOT.

A nearly two-minute walk and talk in the precinct set with NO CUTS. For TWO MINUTES.

This is TWO FULL YEARS before The West Wing, which popularized the long hallway single shot walk and talk.

Genuinely hard to convey how difficult a shot like this is to choreograph with so many different moving pieces. As one continuous take this shot is WILD. It means everything—including the push in to Ray and Elaine, the pull back out to include Fraser stepping precisely back into frame, the ACTUAL LIVE DOG, the walk into the bullpen with all the extras cutting in front of camera, the gag with the ink—all of that is in ONE GO, NO FUCK UPS.

INCLUDING!! One of the best pieces of acting in the ENTIRE SERIES right here:

THE love at first sight moment. In the MIDDLE of all this.

My favourite thing about this is imagining Gordon Pinsent standing patiently in the bullpen waiting for his moment for the 45 times it took to get the first ninety seconds of this shot clean.

Oh I will never be done being obsessed with this show. The level of stagecraft involved here alone is insane. Paul Gross the man you are,

Happy 27th birthday today, Burning Down the House (Sept. 14, 1997)!! You are still iconic🇨🇦🍁

due South Long Shots [one] [two] [three] [four]

[blueniverse42]

A while ago, I found this pic, and then came across this on TV tropes:

Leslie Nielsen, who played Sgt. Buck Frobisher, was the son of a Mountie in real life. During his first appearance on the show, he took Paul Gross aside and told him that he was lacing his boots incorrectly and then proceeded to teach him the proper way for a Mountie to tie his shoes.

I find the whole quote extremely endearing (and also vividly Canadian).

P.S. If you want to see more Due South stuff, go check out the fest for the 30th anniversary! There's a lot to see! @ds30below

[jedusaur]

I know I'm 25 years late to the party but I'm finally watching Due South and this is the hardest I've laughed in MONTHS

[thepunkpanther]

"Does this conversation seem strangely familiar to you?" "Oddly, yes." @ds30below's 30 BELOW FEST: canon appreciation week DUE SOUTH x BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID

[eaion]

DUE SOUTH S03E02 - Eclipse

[merv606]

My loves!!

My first ship!

Shipped before I even knew what shipping was.

...and the princess smiled at him. And for a brief second, Lou Scagnetti could hear his own inner bell ring as though it were rung by a thousand angels.

[gayvecchio]

It recently occurred to me that one of my fave feel good/comfort movies, Big Eden, could be included as part of C6D because it stars Eric Schweig who was in the due South pilot.

Big Eden is a sweet film about a gay man who returns to his small hometown in Montana to take care of his ill grandfather, and pretty much the whole town then proceeds to play matchmaker between him and the local general store owner, Pike (Eric Schweig).

This film means a lot to me as Native/Indigenous representation is hard to come by, and queer Native/Indigenous rep even more so. I highly recommend it to any dS/C6D fans, and anyone in general, who wants to watch a lovely queer romance.

[liminalmemories21]

Apparently there's going to be a Law & Order: Toronto, and I really desperately need them to make the world's most niche joke and have a detective from Chicago who came to Toronto on the trail of the killers of his father, who stayed - for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture - because In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.

This is a post that will make sense to . . . I think actually literally nobody on my feed, but is nonetheless really entertaining. I promise.

[alexandramrobertson]

These designs are beautiful!

have I spent several nights designing RayK/Fraser book covers to vent my obsession with them YES

are they full of imperfections YEESS

do I need to post them to finally stop going over them OH YEAH and I just want to share them because they make me happy.

the color choices are based solely on the materials I have on hand since I am going to attempt to bind them all eventually to have them on my shelves (personal use only, no profit)

you might notice the distinct theme of purely speranza fics because I am obsessed with their writing. I think I've read almost all their due south works by now. Go and read or reread their work and show some love. I am so late to this fandom but it is so alive and the content analysis is on another level.

(1) Eight Sessions using lineart by awesome schadenfreude523 on deviantart

(2) being a big fan of the fanart above this is my first ever attempt at lineart of my own (digital art is something I have never done before if we don't count MyPaint, and it is midblowingly overwhelming. I tried tracing a reference promo photograph. I think I am proud of how Diefenbaker came out but geez Ray is so hard to put into lines!)

(3) just Canva shenanigans but the fic link

(4) the design is heavily inspired by vaulteditions' vintage anatomy book designs. They are just so neat and satisfying. I found the picture of sled dogs on pinterest and can't find the original author so if you recognize it let me know.

(5) This one uses promo picture I subjected to heavy Canva abuse. I have actually finished binding it yesterday. Enduring Distance by speranza. It is my absolute fave, a fandom staple, if you haven't read it, it is sooooo goood. The binding was a pain, the galaxy brain when I finally figured out how to make it work with my joycricut, bookcloth and iron-on... unbelievable. Bookbinding is still something I am trying to get a hang of and it is testing my patience big time (I barely have any to begin with btw). The spine is misalinged, the page margins uneven but otherwise I am pretty happy about it.

So that's it. My first ever due south fandom post (sending love to everyone that keeps the fandom alive, I love each and every one of you even though from a distance thus far) and first fanbinding post *big breath aaaaand post*

[tgtbata]

oh canada for @flownwrong 💛🎂

[mortmere]

"The Sea Wolf"

A scene from an imaginary naval adventure, featuring the Royal Navy officers Fraser and Kowalski and the courageous sea wolf Diefenbaker who has (again) saved the day. Wolves are very good swimmers btw, unlike Ray. 

I had long planned some kind of due South Age of Sail AU picture with Fraser and RayK, just to get them into these uniforms. My original plan was, of course, to let the boys kiss (in a more tropical setting!), but the good boi Diefenbaker wanted to be in the center of things and all Fraser gets now is wolf kisses.

The uniform style is based on the later seasons of the Hornblower TV series.