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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Red Dwarf (UK TV) Rating: Explicit Relationships: Dave Lister/Arnold Rimmer

In an AU where the accident didn't happen, Lister and Rimmer are in a relationship.

Rimmer is a neurotic mess who can't relax for five minutes, but restraining his partner helps quiet down that panicky part of his brain. Lister is nothing if not open-minded.

They learn rope bondage. Or try to, anyway.

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Quiet joys w/ Marge

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love him, protect him is So So good. i love the use of an ama as a final chapter as it gives a he story a nice conclusion without impeding on the privacy miles has earned. it’s a really well placed device and it’s a super cool way of finishing off the story

Thank you! :D

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People who don’t like Emma Woodhouse as a character because: she’s too rich for anything to really go that wrong in her life, and she’s an insufferable know-it-all, and she meddles in the love-lives of her friends because ‘she knows best’?

Idk man, that’s pretty much Mr Darcy though. And he’s on merchandise tote bags. People seem to like him just fine.

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THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, episode 1 (January 5, 1981)

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"Was this book good or was I deeply 19 when I read it:" an investigative journalism series

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Art by Chloe’s arts

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"They would never..."

Ah. But, they would. In this AU, I will...

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Progress not perfection

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omg keanu

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I ended up writing a fic for prompt number three! Sebastian on a Tree (9303 words) by Bebopand Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Red Dwarf (UK TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dave Lister/Arnold Rimmer Characters: Dave Lister, Arnold Rimmer In an AU where the accident didn't happen, Lister and Rimmer are in a relationship. Rimmer hates himself and everything about himself. Lister loves Rimmer and wants him to chill the smeg out. They learn rope bondage. Or try to, anyway.

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three kinbaku prompts for Rimmer/Lister

These all take place in some AU where Rimmer is at least a little bit less repressed lol.

1) sub Rimmer loves being tied and loves beautiful, intricate rope work. Unfortunately for him, Lister, while being good, giving and game with his partners, does NOT have the attention span to properly learn kinbaku rope work. He’s much more of a novelty store fuzzy handcuff kind of dom. He’ll learn some really basic ties, but that’s all Rimmer’s getting. While Lister would probably be game to let Rimmer play with other tops, Rimmer is stubbornly old-fashioned and monogamous, and just quietly pines for the rope instead. 

2) Dom Rimmer loves tying and beautiful, intricate rope work. Like, he’s REALLY into it. This is probably also an AU where he can actually study for an exam without bricking himself, so he can actually apply himself to his hyperfixations and get something out of it.

He’s so good at rope work, in fact, that he’s the rope master of the Red Dwarf’s Kinbaku Society, and teaches all levels of rope bondage to any interested couple. 

His boyfriend Lister loves being tied up because he gets to switch off and bliss out and not think— same reason he gets drunk, basically. He’s not one of Rimmer’s models in his classes, though, because Rimmer has no shortage of beautiful women who volunteer for the role. 

Unfortunately for both Lister and the beautiful women, though, Rimmer is comically fixated on the actual rope and knots and tying, and is only tangentially into it as a sex thing. More than once a student has asked him “so once you’ve got them tied up like this, now you can have sex with them?” And Rimmer’s been like “Uh yeah I guess, if you want????”

Most of the time when Rimmer’s got Lister tied up in elaborate rigs in their bunkroom, Lister ends up begging him for sex. You’d think Rimmer was a master at tease and denial the way it carries on, but he’s actually just super, SUPER into tying knots that he’s distracted from everything else. “In a minute,” he says. “In a minute.”  The day Rimmer realized he could tie Lister's locs into the ropework, Lister despaired that he'd never get laid again. He just hangs there helplessly, bound and gagged, can't even move his head because his locs are tied in-- and Rimmer just sits down with a cup of tea and stares at him instead of fucking him! (Sometimes he blindfolds Lister and draws sketches of him that Lister doesn't know about.)

3) (This is the most realistic one) 

Rimmer really likes the IDEA of tying knots and beautiful, intricate rope work. Lister is GGG, and sometimes likes being restrained during sex so he can stop thinking and bliss out. 

But Rimmer is as hopeless with rope as is he with everything else. It always ends up in a jumbled mess. 

They attempt taking classes at the Kinbaku Society, and they spend all night furiously whispering at each other as Rimmer attempts to tie Lister, until finally the other students hear Lister, exasperated: “Stop smegging apologizin’! I already told you it’s fine! It was just pinching a little. No, I’m not having a go at you, I was just saying it pinched! Smeg’s sake Rimmer, start again if you have to. Everyone has to try it more than once. Yes, they do! No, I haven’t been letting other blokes tie me up! I know because I have smegging eyes!” 

Rimmer is never going to get a chest harness done in the seven minutes required to graduate to level two. Poor lamb.