#Red Dwarf (1988)

[coeurdeverre82]

loving this tv set holly travels around in 📺

[raidermomma]

There is an outtake from season 8 where Craig says, and I quote:

"I think you're gorgeous. I want to run naked through your underwear."

TO CHRIS!

[historicalreusedcostumes]

This yellow gown with trimmed with brown fur on is worn on Sarah Alexander as Queen in Red Dwarf: Stoke Me a Clipper (1997) and years later on Tracy-Ann Oberman as Gweneth in Robin Hood: The Enemy of My Enemy (2009)

[gcballet]

HAPPY GAZPACHO SOUP DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!

Red Dwarf I 'Me²' S01E06 (1988)

[bargarean]

red dwarf 1988 - current

[a-little-revolution]

do you have any little people authors that you would recommend?

Hello! Unfortunately, I do not know many published authors with dwarfism, I mostly end up reading other disabled authors myself, but here's the few I can suggest:

Angela M. Van Etten is one of the most accomplished authors with dwarfism, who published several books including her most famous Dwarfs Don't Live in Dollhouses (1988), as well as Pass Me Your Shoes (2020) and Always and Advocate (2021).

What I will say about Dwarfs Don't Live in Doll Houses (1988) is that is very true to the time and now quite dated, so it should be read with a grain of salt. Trigger warning: mention of corporal punishment and other traumas. I would personally recommend Always an Advocate as a good read.

The Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey from Public Curiosity toward Social Liberation (2005) by Betty M. Adelson is my personal favourite. It's pricey, but it is an excellent collection of dwarfism in history, art, writing, and theatre. The author is a parent of a child with dwarfism which is usually a red flag for me, but she keeps very true to the experience and most educational! It's an excellent book if you want a more complete history of the community as well as a modern collection of our culture. Really really good!

My favourite book for disabled justice in general is Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018) by Leah L. Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha! She discusses how disability and care are at the root of everything, and provides lots of good resources as well! She's a queer disabled trans woman of colour and her works are amazing!

Hope yall check these out and find them useful!! What an excellent ask!

Elliot (they/them)

[chief-eunuch]

Just something I've been curious about. Thought it would be interesting to see how many people in the community saw it as it aired, and how many people discovered it after.

[vintagetvstars]

Craig Charles Vs. Daniel Dae Kim

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Craig Charles - (Red Dwarf (Seasons 1-8), The Governor, Doctors) - Multi-talented Craig is also a DJ, performance poet and presenter, but I'm nominating him primarily for his long-running acting role as protagonist Dave Lister in sci-fi sitcom "Red Dwarf". He's played the role of this cheerful but tough, self-described space bum since 1988 and emotionally anchors the show as he and his small ragtag crew of accidental space adventurers wander deep space three million years into the future and attempt to find Earth. He may be the last human alive but he won't let that get him down. He can and will befriend any sentient life-form, plus his semi-canon homoerotic relationship with his neurotic hologrammatic bunkmate Rimmer adds slashy vibes. Last but not least, they're hilarious.

Daniel Dae Kim - (Crusade, Angel) - No text propaganda

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[seekanddestroy13]

one of my favourite science fiction shows growing up was Red Dwarf (1988) about this guy, Lister, who illegally brings a cat on a deep space mission. When the crew finds out he brought it he's given the option to kill it OR go into cryosleep. He wakes up 3 million years later as the last surviving person a ship stranded in deep space where something has gone terribly wrong. Except he's not completely alone. The ancestors of his cat (just one guy, Cat) have evolved into a humanoid person. And here's the real kicker, Lister was the lowest of the low on this ship (rank wise). The maintenance guy. But to keep him from going insane now that everyone is dead the ship generates a Light Hologram of his direct supervisor, the guy 1 single step higher than him on the thousand person crew and the most pedantic, annoying fucker dead. It's so fucking funny to have the second lowest guy, one single rung higher then him on a deep space mission where no one is coming to save them and nothing matters be constantly be up his ass about literally everything.

Anyway, if anyone is looking for a show to watch that's my recc.

[janamelie]

New Red Dwarf Challenge

Day 11: Favourite Dynamic (romantic, canon or noncanon)

Lister / Rimmer.  Duh.

To be clear, I mean “Duh, of course I’m going to choose them”, not that they’re the only choice.  I’d be genuinely interested to read a post by someone whose primary ship isn’t them.

But I think even non-shippers would acknowledge that their relationship is the backbone of the entire show and the reason it’s lasted as long as it has.  They really are a classic case of “Opposites attract”.  Or should that be “Opposites are forced together and despite themselves come to care about each other”?

I honestly don’t care whether they’re officially canon or not (I know the answer is not and I can live with that).  They might as well be.  

Would anyone who watched their Series 1 clashes back in 1988 have expected the Moonlight speech 32 years later?  That is some serious character development.

I’ve written so much about them over the years (both fic and just general meta) that it’s hard to narrow it down for this post tbh.  But I do think that one reason they continue to fascinate me is because there are so many alternate versions of them and every single version - in its own way - works.  It just means there is so much to explore in fic.

Another factor is of course the chemistry between Craig Charles and Chris Barrie which is there from their very first scene and is only enhanced over the course of the show.  We’ve seen them age and mellow over what is now approaching four decades (help) and as the actors have become more friendly over time, so have the characters.  I really can’t overstate how fascinating it is to watch characters age and develop in real time over this number of years.

There is also the fact that somehow Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, despite being the furthest thing from slash shippers, managed to - mostly unintentionally IMO - incorporate so many fandom tropes.  Evil doppelgangers, sex viruses, dreams about kissing, female versions, body swapping, future versions, messing with people’s memories, changing your own destiny etc, etc.  I think the reason it works so well is precisely because they weren’t trying to court us.  Mostly.

The main obvious exception is the Moonlight scene which I personally think was Doug acknowledging Lister / Rimmer shippers whilst performing a delicate balancing act because that isn’t the way he sees it.  The way it’s been left, it can be read either way.

I’m personally OK with that, because I certainly never got into this ship because I expected it to be canon.  I did so because it shouted at me from the screen and my brain wouldn’t shut up until I’d written about it.  It still hasn’t, so I'm still writing.

And when I started doing so, I never expected Doug to come up with such a poetic way to describe the Lister / Rimmer dynamic.  Kudos.

P.S. Also kudos to Craig and Chris acting their socks off in this scene. <3

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[coeurdeverre82]

[krumpkin]

Red Dwarf ( S6 - Episode 3 ) Gunmen Of The Apocalypse. This was a great episode, I remember watching this series when it first aired on BBC 2 ( 15th of February 1988 ) It's a show I'll always love. Sci Fi mixed with great comedy and a fantastic cast. 🤓

[zarophod]

red dwarf is honestly the most brilliant show ever because it first aired in 1988 yet the most recent fanfiction was updated today. people have been shipping rimmer/lister for 35 years

[gcballet]

Red Dwarf I "Future Echoes" S01E02 1988

Red Dwarf VIII "Only the Good..." S08E08 1999

[futa69]

Even though it has never really been directly mentioned or referenced, elements of the ancient astronaut theory have influenced our popular culture for a hundred years. Practically, everything from books, movies, television shows and video games. Since we will never be able to definitely prove it here on Earth and we're also on the verge of going back to the moon, establishing colonies on Mars, mining the asteroid belt and exploring deep space, we might actually find physical evidence of advanced civilizations that existed for over thousands of years ago out there in the galaxy. Whether we like it or not, all of this is going to happen eventually. So, we should definitely have this conversation right now. The future of the human race may very well depend on this discovery.

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▪︎At the Mountains of Madness (1931)

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▪︎Quartermass and the Pit (1958)

▪︎The Twilight Zone (1959)

▪︎The Sirens of Titan (1959)

▪︎The Flintstones (1960)

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▪︎Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)

▪︎Known Space (1964)

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▪︎Chariots of the Gods (1968)

▪︎The Bible & Flying Saucers (1968)

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▪︎Land of the Lost (1974)

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▪︎Stargate (1994)

▪︎Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994)

▪︎Fingerprints of the Gods (1995)

▪︎Encounter with Tiber (1996)

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▪︎Earth: Final Conflict (1997)

▪︎The Fifth Element (1997)

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▪︎Naked Pictures of Famous People (1998)

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▪︎Heritage Trilogy (1998)

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▪︎Mission to Mars (2000)

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