#everything is Due South

[inconclusionray]

Okay I have questions.

Why is Vecchio's car parked on a neighbor's lawn?

...and do you think it's insured against explosions?

[rabbitcruiser]

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was formed by the merger of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police (RNWMP, founded in 1873) with the Dominion Police (founded in 1868) on February 1, 1920.

[juniperpomegranate]

It’s too early o’clock, I have not gotten enough sleep, I will need to go into work in a few hours, and I have a sudden urge to learn how to screencap so I can learn how to make icons because a) I still use old-style journal sites, it’s fun and b) there are no icons of Beth Botrelle and that cannot stand.

[gayvecchio]

Benton Fraser & Ray Kowalski in "Mountie on the Bounty pt.2"

[sammaggs]

1x08 Chicago Holiday Pt. II | Stillness

Benton Fraser’s life philosophy in a nutshell. Be the eye of the storm.

[mortmere]

​A quick Trent Crimm portrait to finish my very Ted Lasso day - got up early to watch Sunflowers, then apparently managed to spend most of my day off rewatching it and refreshing the relevant tags here and just enjoying the reactions and gifs. Finally thought I might do something mildly productive with my day and made this, because this guy is absolutely my favorite character in the show. I envy Trent Crimm, and not just for his hair (though his hair is particularly fabulous). He needs so much more screentime!

(Oh dear, my first fanart this year and it's not due South? I haven't abandoned the fandom, I've just been in the doldrums for a long time now and can't seem to find my way out. I did start watching Ted Lasso because some people compared it to due South, and yes, it's quirky and uplifting in the same way. If anyone in the Ted Lasso fandom needs something to fill up the nerve-racking weeks of waiting for new eps, search for "Due South HD" on YouTube and enjoy!)

[spaceradars]

forever thinking about ray kowalski's "you ever feel like you don't know who you are? like if you weren't around somebody or somebody wasn't around you, that, uh, you wouldn't be you? or at least not the- the you that you think you are? you know you ever... you ever feel like that? me neither"

[pigtailedgirl]

Due South Docs and extra episode.

[thepunkpanther]

Asylum — 3.09

[inconclusionray]

I've just read some of your Due South fic and they're all so incredible! I started rewatching the show and am almost done season 3 and it's really interesting to see Fraser so protective and drawn to RayK. If you don't mind me asking, what's your thoughts on why Fraser became so attracted to RayK? Like not physically attracted, but why he bonded with him so quickly? (also nonbinary Fraser is the best Fraser)

Okay so first off this is the literal best ask anyone has ever gotten in the history of everything, thank you so much, and yes non-binary Fraser is best and only Fraser obviously.

Secondly, I think Fraser is someone who wants A Person. Before the show starts, he's implied to be a loner, but he doesn't actually seem HAPPY with that, y'know? He just doesn't fit anywhere or with anyone. He doesn't socialize normally, he has friends and meaningful relationships, but it's like they don't count to him, because they're not His Person. (He tried having His Person be a woman he imprisoned, but he also wouldn't let her be a real person in his mind so it didn't work, but that's a different rant.) Then Vecchio shows up, and they are prickly as fuck, but basically as soon as Vecchio reveals himself to be An Decent Person underneath the wow is he bad at being a bad cop exterior, Fraser gradually attaches himself to that Ray. And it IS an incredibly strong attachment -- I don't read it as romantic/sexual (though DAMN they flirt sometimes), but there's no denying they're deeply connected by the end of the first season and throughout the second, even when not ponchoed together.

And then Vecchio vanishes.

And yeah in a Doyleian sense, the buddy cop format requires, y'know, buddies, and a certain intensity of attachment, but for Fraser? His ONLY healthy attachment is gone, and replaced, in a am-I-finally-experiencing-full-psychosis way, by... that guy. That hot as fuck, insecure as fuck, cocky, hyperactive little shit who rarely shaves and doesn't even try to dress regulation and let's be real is signaling masculine queerness ALLLLLLL over the godsdammed place. He's a guy who absolutely exudes (queer) gender but fucks with gender (while Fraser is someone who lacks gender and so follows gender, at least when it suits him), is secure in ways Fraser doubts himself, is insecure in ways Fraser is UTTERLY arrogant, and... he's a good cop. A mostly good cop, a mostly good person, mercurial where Fraser strives for stoicism, AND he'd obviously be incredible in bed. (And out of bed. And anywhere Fraser could, and does, imagine.) And WORST, he won't let Fraser get away with his usual manipulative shit. Yeah, he'll follow Fraser's lead, he'll trust Fraser, but unlike Ray "we'll get you a new hat/I'm your best friend??" Vecchio, he won't let himself be MANIPULATED like almost everyone else Fraser interacts with. He demands Fraser be real with him, and he's vulnerable and real (and shitty and a massive asshole and did we mention insecure as fuck?) in return.

Fraser didn't have a chance. He was lost when he was still on vacation in Canada and both Rays accepted their new assignments, he just didn't know it yet.

[rabbitcruiser]

The Canadian Parliament established the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on May 23, 1873.

[marley-manson]

Well I succumbed and watched the Pilot and first ep of Due South last night.

Really struck me how central the theme of Fraser's estrangement from his father is in the Pilot. Fraser mentioning that the last time they spoke was Christmas, essentially saying that the only times they speak are presumably brief calls at holidays. Gerard responding with a platitude - "I guess the more you know someone, the less needs to be said" - but it becomes quite clear that Fraser feels he doesn't know Bob at all, and has to learn about him through his journals.

And yet they're cut from the same cloth: "I always thought your father was the last of a kind. I was wrong - you are." And this is tied to the mountie stereotype lol.

Bob and Fraser both repeat the lines, "You're going to shoot a mountie? They'll hunt you to the ends of the earth," and they're both wrong. No one wants to pursue Bob Fraser's death except Fraser, and no one's happy with Fraser for solving the case because it uncovered corruption. He gets exiled for it. Bob and Fraser are the only mounties who "always get their man," lol, and it's because of Bob's neglect in the course of duty that Fraser follows in his footsteps and becomes so similar to Bob. He idealizes his father and wanted to grow up to be just like him - we can see that admiration in the drawing of him he finds in Bob's things that he made when he was a child eg, or in the song Superman that plays while Fraser reads his journal in the diner. But he doesn't know him. And he pursues duty above all else because he has nothing else of his father.

And then you have Ray, who seems to exist as the opposite of Bob. If there's one thing Ray is, it's there. He is there for Fraser to hunt down suspects, to invite him to a loud family dinner, to save him from an explosion, he tracks him down to apologize for being dismissive, to invite him to dinner, and he flies to the Yukon when he can't reach him by phone. In the diner scene in particular he's directly positioned as a contrast to Bob's absence both in life and death. Fraser is alone trying to understand his father through his journals (looking for something "he missed" ie his dad), and Ray joins him, ending the thematically significant song montage, and eases his solitude. Fraser says he doesn't have family, and Ray shares his own with him.

And after the pilot case, there's nothing drawing them together except friendship. They're not a mismatched pair of cops assigned together who have to learn to get along, they work together unofficially because they can't help but spend every waking moment together.

Bob represents absence and Ray represents presence, distant admiration vs actually knowing someone.

And I'll probably have more to say on that as like, poles Fraser is caught between, if/as I rewatch more of the show. Ray's position is a little muddy especially because pre VS he buys into Fraser's image to an extent, as pointedly examined in Heaven and Earth. But again, more on that another time.

[professorchaos]

there is only ONE docvic charm left in the shop! these are most likely not going to be restocked again, so if you want one, it's first come first served!

thank you everyone who nabbed one of these charms while they were up- it truly delights me to think that there are people out there walking around with this thing on their bags or kept up in their houses! long live bunny amen

[cyndrastic]

I demand more Borrower and Mythical au content 🔫 >:] /j

I'm excited to see the next creek page 👀

Have a cookie 🍪 :]

KEEP FORGETTING TO ANSWER THIS SORRY

here’s a quick sketch page doodle of Tweek and Craig in the mythical au

next chapter is probably gonna be mostly lore/world building and character reveals (👀) but once we get past all that I promise the boys will meet again properly

so yeah doodle isn’t canon to the story cause it’s not gonna be all sunshine and rainbows once they meet again but i just want them to be happy for now

[allofthebeanz]

Wakes up in a cold sweat: Fraser is attracted to RayK because Ray doesn't let him get away with his bullshit, he keeps him grounded, something Fraser desperately needs due to his huge fear he'll lose sense of himself ever since Victoria AND Ray keeps him genuine over the mountie persona, something Fraser struggles with since his father instilled it into him to follow in his footsteps

[imaginarianisms]

more asoiaf comparisons, parallels & antiparallels to the first dance of the dragons vs the second & final dance of the dragons (& possibly the sixth blackfyre rebellion): the blacks being daenerys i targaryen's supporters, the golds being aegon vi targaryen's supporters, tommen baratheon being a close equivalent to gaemon palehair & his mother essie & sylvenna sand which may be interpreted as a parallel with queen cersei lannister & taena merryweather of myr, trystane truefyre being a close equivalent to aegon/young griff & perkin being jon connington & the shepherd being the new high septon the high sparrow, dalton greyjoy being euron i greyjoy's ancestor & the latter surpassing him, alyn waters later alyn velaryon resembling aurane waters later aurane velaryon & finishing what their ancestors started. history repeats itself.