Fanfiction survey

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If you could fill out a very brief questionnaire for my college project, I would greatly appreciate it

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SW5V2SF

If this isn't allowed, please delete :)

another dynamic duo

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Long, long ago in a state far away, I graduated college, moved to a small town, and started working at a newspaper. Thankfully, I had free cable with my rent, and quite by chance, found "Red Dwarf" while surfing TV late at night, trying to unwind from work. (Back in the days when you had to wait for BBC shows to swim across the ocean and it took a few years, you couldn't just download them the night something aired. The Internet is largely a wonderful invention. But I digress.) I kept up for a few years, enjoyed the humor and comraderie of the guys, and eventually moved on to other humor and sci-fi interests.

Years later, my younger sister dahlianna took up watching RD in earnest (outside of earnest, of course, she didn't need a flashlight, to borrow from Groucho). I have no idea if this is because she watched it with me when she was a kid, but either way, RD entered my life briefly again, then disappeared. Recently, she gave me her Netflix password and I found RD again on the play-instantly feature. SCORE! Episodes I hadn't seen in 15 years; new ones I'd never seen or merely glimpsed! I had been searching for a new fandom and didn't realize I had an old one I'd never done anything WITH.

So, metalkatt and I have been watching episodes in order, as she's much more familiar with the series than I am. I've realized two things from this:

1. The Lister/Rimmer is far FAR more obvious than I remember back in the 90s. I know it's the same show, but I just didn't pay attention before. (We finally got to "Blue" tonight - you can imagine how this helped.) After years of cobbling together stories out of only hints and crumbs in my primary fandom and pairing - *points to icon* - I must admit it's a bit like getting drunk on the good stuff to have it more or less laid out for you in canon.

2. Nostrils and neuroses and all, Rimmer is an attractive bastard. I'm not sure I'd want to do him, but that's what Lister is for, IMHO. And the outfits - I do love a good male clotheshorse.

So, I've been going through this comm and reading old stories and generally gorging myself this past week or so, and the dusty wheels of my brain have begun sort of turning again with regards to stories. I don't know if I feel up to writing yet, matching a lot of the quality I've seen so far around here, but maybe it'll be fun to try at some point ...

Triple drabble: "Fire with Fire"

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(add tags "pov: Rimmer" "author: veronica_rich" and "drabble")

(While definitely not a songfic, it is something I came up with while listening to Kansas earlier today. I tend to write well with music, is all; be kind to me.)


Title: "Fire with Fire"
Rating: R for language
Chars: The Big Four (and some Lister/Rimmer if you turn your head sideways, maybe)
Disclaimer: Property of Grant/Naylor and the BBC. Yet more two-man writing teams who won't let me have a share of the profits!
Background: Takes place after "Rimmerworld" and at the end of "Out of Time," sixth season. My take on what drove Rimmer to what, for him, was drastic action. 300 words.
A/N: Thanks to metalkatt for beta and ideas to pep it up. I hope it worked ...

For too long, he'd ducked the responsibility of caring for others ...