#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!

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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)

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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)

[oldschoolfrp]

Red Giant, the magazine "For the best in adventure games!," issue 1, Folio Works Ltd, circa 1990. Folio Works was the publisher of Fantasy Warlord, a 25mm fantasy battle game that attempted to compete directly with Warhammer. Red Giant seems to have been discontinued after only 2 issues. I don't know for sure whether Games Workshop's lawyers had a hand in that, but they might not have been amused by the similarity of the title to GW's White Dwarf, also coincidentally named for a star magnitude.

Red Giant included some recycled content, for example the "Sunstroke SF scenario" mentioned on the cover. That originally appeared in GDW's Challenge magazine 36 in 1988, credited to Roger Hamlin, and introduced the Little Sisters of Purification space marine chapter. For some reason the article in Red Giant was credited to Rowena Dell or Rowena Bell on different pages, and was edited slightly to remove the art and replace the Warhammer 40K stats with Laserburn stats. The bad puns about planet Lukaas and the city of Speelburg remained.

[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.

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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.

[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. 🤓

[coeurdeverre82]

[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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Red Dwarf I "Future Echoes" S01E02 1988

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

[lucky-draws]

btw hi guys. [blows a cloud of dust into your face]. i miss being on here regularly but such is life. hope everypony is continuing to sparkle on. a few updates from me and the team. (?) longtime followers may be mourning the mgs content. as am i. but unfortunately i think i need at least another year before i can start to feel insane about mgs again. im kind of all metal geared out. those 2-3 years i spent being obsessed with it are kind of a distant fever dream now. it remains always in my heart brain and pussy forever but i'm just not in mgs mode right now. the ocie that lives in my brain is hibernating for a while. don't worry he's nice and warm and i have stocked up on tuna and wet food.

i guess my current interest is iwtv so you can expect to see some more of that. (a while back i watched the show then watched the film then read several of the books and now that ive recently caught up with s2 im back in vampire mode. i prefer the tv show versions of the characters so sorry but you won't be seeing me draw t*m cru*se lestat or ginger armand. i do enjoy the books though. when i go home at xmas i'll have them to hand and flicking though them again might spark me into feeling even more crazy.)

i keep wanting to draw more dr who stuff but never getting round to it but i remain optimistic that i will do at some point. who knows. "WHO" knows ! . ha ha.

i also very recently got into bbc cult sci-fi sitcom red dwarf (1988-present) and im feeling the urge to draw some red dwarf stuff (for the handful of people who care) because it's extremely silly and what this blog and indeed myself need is a return to silliness. so if i suddenly start drawing d lister and gay rimmer and their funny friends you've been warned.

i sort of want to draw more random stuff outside of frequent interests tbh. like ive been watching/rewatching a lot of movies lately and id kind of like to draw bits and bobs pertaining to various movies whenever the whim strikes. so if i suddenly put withnail and the titular i on your dash you have also been warned of this.

however i should say that regardless of what i am drawing i might not be able to post often because unfortunately i have a bit more of a life now than i did previously. i socialise a bit and go to the pub with friends sometimes this sort of thing. it's quite jolly id recommend. i also might be working after xmas on top of uni work so i don't know if ill have time to draw much. i want to though. so i probably will anyway. fuck my grades. #cool

anyway i think this concludes my message. basically thank you to all followers old and new for being here. let's continue to stay silly together. happy holidays etc.

lucky

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