A little somethin' I've noticed....

[fire-charmer.livejournal.com]

Hello to everyone out there, I'm new to this community and am a die hard Rimmer/Lister shipper. I have been looking through all of the wonderful fanfic's everyone has posted, and I've noticed that nobody has really written anything about Listers pregnancy. The only fic I have found is on fanfiction.net by Justina Moriarty, called "Dr WatsonSmyth's Guide to a First Pregnancy" (go check it out, it is fantastic!) but nobody else has.

So, since I currently cannot for the life of me capture the essence of the Red Dwarf characters yet, I extend a challenge to anybody brave enough to tackle it. Write a full length fic, not a drabble, about what happens during and after the pregnancy, and for good measure try and throw in some Rimmer/Lister slashiness. Good luck to all who try (and I really hope somebody tries, please try).



"Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love."
- Charlie Brown (Peanuts)

Comments

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Whoa man... You know, I can't say I haven't thought about it. I should, really, given that I'm writing him for (http://kahvi.livejournal.com/513913.html) fanfic100... It's just that I think it would be so majorily angsty that I'd have a fit. I don't do angst well if there isn't a happy ending, and obviously there wouldn't be, as he does end up giving them away.

Hm... I could... Meh. Yes. Anything is possible, I suppose. ;)

[fire-charmer.livejournal.com]

Yeah it would be angsty, but sometimes you need a little angst to have a really good story. I don't know, that is one of the reasons I myself have not written any, that and all the characters would be majorly OOC. I just want to know what other opinions are on what happened in the huge gap between the episodes, so if you feel up to it go for it, if you don't than don't. :-)


"I'm sorry,
my tongue got wrapped around my eye teeth and I couldn't see what I was saying"

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Nah, I think I have an angle now. ;)

[shivvlan.livejournal.com]

Who says you have to write it like it happened in the show. Personally I've always wandered what Life in Red Dwarf would have been like if the twins had stayed and grown up normally.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Why would it have to be angsty? He's annoyed at how it happens, but he does seem to be boffo, in general, about the idea of having his Jim and his Bexley, and when he emerges from the medibay in Future Echoes, he does look - dare I say? - radiant.

Rimmer will give him unutterable $hit about it - which I think would only steel his resolve to enjoy it. I'd think the pregancy would be hella funny.

Erm, I'm not so sure the dude would actually be able to give up smoking and drinking for nine months, though. Although - since everything re: the twins is accelerated, why would it be nine months? Maybe it's nine days, and he still whinges unmercifully about how long it's taking, and how he's having to give up smoking and drinking...

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's nine days, and he still whinges unmercifully about how long it's taking, and how he's having to give up smoking and drinking...
You know him well. ;) I am so stealing that idea...

I'd say why I feel couldn't help but be angsty, but I'll let the fic speak for itself. It's coming along nicely in my head. Yes.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Go fer it. :)

You know that Rimmer would make himself the Official Monitor Of The Twins' Health, because it would give him an excuse to be an twit to Lister over the drinking and smoking, quality of food, exercise - maybe the swearing, too (they can hear that!).

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness... That is so sweet beyond words. Unintentionally, yes, but oh wow.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

This is deepindenialsmeghead!Rimmer...

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

I think I might have met him.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Yep. Bastid.

[fire-charmer.livejournal.com]

Nice (giggles uncontrollably), I love it

[ekisa-himani.livejournal.com]

I thought about doing a fic about Lister's pregnancy, but then I found a problem: how would he carry them? He doesn't have the equipment.

I read that fic, in fact I have it bookmarked. It's funny, isn't it?

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

He doesn't have the equipment.

Of course he does. He's in their universe. Their physical laws apply. ;)

Some of us were having a discussion of male pregnancy on another forum, and the thought of having the babies carried in the testicles came up... I mentioned that it would work for a humorous pregnancy, like Lister's. It's something that doesn't work on a hard sci-fi level, but for humor, what the hell?

It certainly makes this exchange more fun:

Twins? No way, Rimmer, not twins!

Oh yes, big bonny strapping bouncing boys they were, as well. With huge heads!

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Not in my universe! *gets sympathy pains* Hehehehe...

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Awww...

But it gives such a nifty mental image... like those toys that have the handle that you sit on and bounce on...

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you...

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Sorry, couldn't resist. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my..... that's all I can say

[fire-charmer.livejournal.com]

I love it, tis one of my favorite fanfics.

Well according to Arline (sp?), since the twins were conceived in the parallel dimension, those parallel physical laws apply, and the great thing about Red Dwarf is that it is a sci-fi/comedy so any whacked out idea on how he would carry them would be acceptable. Gotta love the sci-fi.

(I don't know if any of that made sense, it did in my head, but my mind is also an uncharted territory)

[ekisa-himani.livejournal.com]

Oh right. I thought when Arlene said that, she meant those rules applied only in the parallel universe. I've spent ages trying to figure out where Lister would carry them...

[fire-charmer.livejournal.com]

I don't know, maybe his body would grow a separate sack-like-thing in his abdomen that would serve as a kind of artificial womb, then be re-absorbed when the babies are born??? Either that or the babies grow in his stomach, but that's gross, plus the babes would be digested (ok, need to stop this line of thinking, am making myself sick). I'm not sure.