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Sorry guys, couldn't get a less blurry screenshot but ...

That flash of tummy is doing things to my head.

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In Back To Reality, Lister catches Rimmer when he stumbles. He has one hand over Rimmer's as he waits for him to get his bearings again.

Whether you ship them or not, Lister is def a kind and empathetic person. My favourite Lister moments are when he looks after the other's wellbeing no matter how frustrating or selfish they're acting.

There are times when Rimmer really irritates him - understandably - but he also defends Rimmer to others, like asking Ace not to be too hard on him.

Lister is the glue that holds them all together, even inventing the "boys from the Dwarf" shake your hands - thingy as a sort of nerdy rallying cry.

Lister is an underrated male character from the 80s. He's a slob, sometimes he acts a bit laddish, but he has a big heart and is a softie. I love him, custard stained shirts and all.

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Arnold Rimmer is possibly one of the best written characters to exist in media. He manages to be both sympathetic and unsympathetic at the same time. It makes us love to hate him, honestly. Most characters like this normally have unrelatable or fragmented backstories that don’t do much garner sympathy. Rimmer’s backstory is both relatable and it doesn’t intentionally try to garner the audience’s sympathy. He’s the way he is for a reason, and as the audience we get to see it from Rimmer’s perspective quite often. He never felt like he was enough, so being this way is second nature, making himself feel better by bringing others down. He’s confused at how Lister can be perfectly happy at such a low rank and such a meaningless life.

He built up almost impenetrable emotional walls, which is why he never lets anyone in, and why he’s such a smeghead. When most people try to write another Rimmer in modern media, the character just comes off as an asshole without any redeeming features at all. Yes, Rimmer’s actions throughout the series can’t be justified or anything like that, I’m absolutely not saying that. Rimmer is one of the most dynamic characters I’ve ever seen before. He goes through so much character development, gets it taken away, then goes through another set of development. People who aren’t fans of Red Dwarf could dumb down his character to “haha snarky asshole” which isn’t a stretch honestly-

Drop your views on how Red Dwarf characters are written! Who has the best writing?

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oh my little mouse how you shine so dimly in the caverns of my mind 💗💗

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Red Dwarf as text posts part 2

(part 1)

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Chris and Craig totally enjoying Tongue Tied.

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they are mourning doves!!!!! thank you for letting me know! :DD

mourning is such a sad name for these cute berds ꒰ঌ( •ө• )໒꒱

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I think we all brushed over this line way too quickly- 😭

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the silliest guy in the universe istg- I love nanorimmer so much <3 😭😭

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more rimmers (and co)

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Keep thinking of this idea: Lister travels to an alternate universe where Rimmer was the sole survivor locked away in stasis and Lister was the one to die - but to his shock he wasn't brought back as a hologram. An officer was (not important who).

And Lister has to grapple with the fact that while Rimmer was the most likely crewmate to keep him sane, Holly deemed that he wasn't Rimmers.

It makes Lister question who really needs who more in this dynamic.

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having a lot of Thoughts about Lister's relationship with Kryten, specifically in the later series when they play up how dependent on him Lister has become/how he acts like his mother

it's such a contrast to the earlier series where he encourages Kryten not to do things for him, and obviously the characterisation needs to shift slightly with a series that long running, but I keep coming back to the fact that Lister lost all of his parental/caretaker figures in childhood

we don't know how old he was when he was adopted from the orphanage, but both his adoptive parents died when he was six, then his grandmother died when he was thirteen

after that we don't get any mention of what happened to him re fostering/going into care, but series one Lister is twenty three years old. that's ten years he's spent taking care of himself before we even meet him, and i really think it shows (I think his commitment issues extend to all his types of relationships, not just his romantic ones, and you can see it in how the Vibe from the team changes over the course of the series too)

Idk where i was going with is really. I just think that, although it's very much Not That Deep (this is the Plot Hole sci fi sitcom after all) it's a shift in Lister's character that I think is very interesting, and every time they make a joke in that vein i'm just kind of nodding along like. yes. of course he would get to this point, because Kryten looking after him for thirty years is the most stable thing he's ever had in his life

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Every Rimmer Look

Chef Rimmer in Better than Life

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different ways to express rage

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happy pride month red dwarf fandom heres a pride flag color picked from the kiss from blue

(thank you colour directors of this show for inserting some super not subtle gay lighting in this scene)