David Lister - Blog Posts
Just you wait, it gets gayer.
Truly I have been hardwired by having tumblr throughout my teen years and into adulthood to look for every single gay shipping opportunity no matter what. Often when it's not even there. I literally cannot turn this part of my brain off that begins looking for conspiracy-level reasons that the thing I'm watching is actually gay.
And like, I wonder what future generations will be like?
If you have real actual queer rep as a kid do you still spend all your time imagining it with your friends? Or is this particular brand of deranged a tumblr-specific thing?
I have no regrets. We had crumbs and made ourselves feasts in any way we could.
Anyway, this is just to say that I am not yet three seasons in to the 1980s absurdist British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf about two chicken soup machine repairmen and a man-cat stranded alone in space and I am literally unable to stop my brain from forming an earnest and rabid argument for why the chicken soup repairmen are in the midst of an enemies to lovers arc. One of them is dead and a hologram. It doesn't matter. They are going to fall in love. I know it.
T-Shirt design:
Keep the change, ya filthy animals!
Local man refuses to pay attention, instead draws gay men in class. Teachers all over the globe hate him!
One thing I’m really excited for about Red Dwarf Titan is hearing that classic theme song again
Lister: “ugh I hate Rimmer”
Anyone: “So you’re gonna move out now that the crew’s gone?”
Lister: “oh no, I’m gonna live everyday with him for 30 years, have gay dreams about passionately making out with him, then say that he’s the moon to my sun and that I’m incomplete without his presence with my life”
Anyone: …
No one:
Not a single soul:
Rimmer every 5 seconds in season 1:
Lister: exists
Rimmer:
Every time I see this. I can only think of these two
“Even though a moon cannot make light. Moonlight exists. Like you, Smeg head”
One thing I noticed when rewatching Red Dwarf for the 5th time, was that Lister has a pink handkerchief on his left arm and a red handkerchief on his left leg. I know on the surface that doesn’t seem like much, but hear me out. The Handkerchief code was something used by Queer people to determine their roles in seggsy time, shown by colour and wether it was placed on the right or left side of the body. If the handkerchief was on the right side, it showed the person was a bottom, and if it was on the left side of the body they were a top. Go and search what the colours mean, specifically what light pink and red mean, and you’ll never be able to look at Lister the same way again
I think as a fandom, we can all agree that Rimmer is in no way straight. If you headcanon him as Bi, gay or anything else, I think it’s kinda common knowledge that he isn’t straight. I personally kinda headcanon him as a weird in between bit for gay and Bi, he gives off both (Also, can we please just appreciate my boy Kryten in this image)