"Twenty-three Skidoo" - new Red Dwarf fic (PG)

[veronica_rich]

So I watched the first episode of Series XI, "Twentica," and this is the "ehh" bit my brain came up with. Try to enjoy it. ;-)

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Kryten was still trying to calculate just how many years away from their original jump Starbug had landed upon returning to deep space through the wormhole. Star positions were no help, since even in three million

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[metalkatt]

Definitely cackling with glee, trying not to cough. Excellent job!

[veronica_rich]

I would've had you read it first but I just wanted to get the blasted thing posted and rid of before I started finding errors in it. :-P

[lordvalerymimes]

I love happily married Lister and Rimmer so much. This is adorable! :-)

[veronica_rich]

YES. Married is definitely what I was going for, in spirit and action if not deed. I'm not as much into writing porn as I used to be (though the good stuff I'll still read), but I don't want to drop the pairing ... my effort now is to try to get across "these two are definitely fucking" without using that or focusing exclusively on that aspect of them.

One thing I have to note in Twentica, unless I just saw the movement wrong - when Lister gets into the front of the car, and then Rimmer gets in the same side and Lister has to shove over (or is it the other way around?). My point is, why didn't they just use the different doors? LOL. But the funny part I'm getting to is Rimmer asking why Lister didn't hotwire a bus, and the look Lister gives him - it reminded me of the look Grandma used to give Grandpa when she was trying to figure out if he was just being forgetful, or if it was truly something she hadn't already told him 560 times before.

[lordvalerymimes]

"...my effort now is to try to get across "these two are definitely fucking" without using that or focusing exclusively on that aspect of them."

You definitely succeeded it that. :-) That interaction between your grandparents also seems spot on. *laughs*

I hope there are more slashy moments to come in series XI. I think I'm starved for more Lister/Rimmer exclusive interactions. Not that I don't love Cat and Kryten too, but it's been so long since we had a good bunk scene that wasn't cut from the aired show. I really hope we get an episode that really focuses on their relationship. Fingers crossed. :-)

[veronica_rich]

Fandom legend has it (actually, I may have read it in an interview somewhere) that Doug's wife, Linda (who is the casting director), once told him while writing RD in later years that the interactions between Lister and Rimmer were the heart of the show and that he needed to work on those.

(Of course, there's also chatter/rumor/speculation/whatever that Linda goes out and surfs fannish interactions online, including fanfic, to get a feel for what the fans like best, too ....)