Special Occasions

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

This may seem a little random, but it's Mother's Day in the UK and I'm in a happy, fluffy mood, which set me wondering about which special occasions people think are best suited to the Boyz from the Dwarf, fic-wise.  With Lister's romantic nature, Valentine's is obvious, but getting Rimmer to join in would be the hurdle there.

Also with Mother's and Father's Day for obvious reasons, but Lister's unusual background has yielded a few stories there.  Kronette's given us a few lovely Christmas fics.

I have head canon regarding Rimmer's childhood experiences with Halloween which probably rules that out too, unless you're feeling sadistic.

Perhaps the more obscure ones like Pancake Day and Bonfire Night, which boil down to an excuse to pig out, are more IC.  (I have a bunny regarding the latter and Deb, Arlene, Jim and Bexley which will hopefully get written one day.)

And then there's the most personal one, birthdays or in Rimmer's case, deathdays as seen in "Thanks For The Memory".  I wonder if he now considers that to override whatever his birth date was?

Did Lister (or Cat) ever mention Gazpacho Soup Day again? :p

Comments

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I don't know any British holidays, really. Perhaps another date Rimmer celebrates, in private, is his emancipation date - privately, because he doesn't see it as particularly a thing to be proud of in wider society, but it means something to him. He might do something unusually nice for himself that day each year. Another day he likely remembers but doesn't celebrate, necessarily, is when Yvonne slept with him. A regular person may not remember the date of their first (I sure don't), but as he waited so late in life, and given his nature, I bet he would.

I feel like Cat would celebrate all sorts of personal holidays just to enjoy the treats he gives himself or that he can wheedle from others. He probably has a set of cat holidays too - like the date the first cat figured out the can opener, the birthday of the steam iron inventor, Cloistermas, etc.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

That's the beauty of the futuristic setting though - you could just make one up that we invented or adopted in the interim. ;) Or an Ionian one.

Rimmer might consider the anniversary of becoming hardlight as something to celebrate too. Or even - now - the date he learnt the truth about who his father was.

Good point about Cat - I'm sure he would. But I see the chief proponent of celebrations as Lister - after all, he organised Kryten's party in "The Last Day".

Things Lister might celebrate apart from the designated ones - finding Kryten, Rimmer's return (assuming he did). And then it gets sad - giving birth to Jim and Bexley, Kochanski's birthday...

So many bunnies.

[laurenthemself]

"Yvonne McGruder. A single, brief liason with the ship's female boxing champion. March the sixteenth, seven thirty one PM to seven forty three PM." -- 'Thanks for the Memory'

He remembers, all right.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Damn, I knew I remembered something from somewhere. Something vague, obvs ...

[laurenthemself]

TftM was my first episode, so I remember bits out of it a little better than the others. Also I did a fic called 'March Sixteenth' but I don't remember if it's still online.

I kind of did my holidays dash with the Taking Liberties series.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

It's on AO3. And March 16th is my birthday, so no danger of me forgetting either. ;)

[kronette.livejournal.com]

I really like the idea of Rimmer celebrating the day he broke away from his parents. I mean, that's a pretty serious thing to do, no matter what time period you're in, especially at 14.

Cat holidays: planned for all 365 Earth days!

[rosecathy1.livejournal.com]

I would love to see more deathday parties in fic. Maybe not my fic because they're total fluff overload already :p but the L/R interaction in Thanks for the Memory is soooo sweet.

I wonder if there are mechanoid holidays that Kryten would celebrate privately until Lister finds out about them and turns them into parties. The day he got his serial number? Professor Mamet's birthday?

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

It really is, so much so that I ripped it off was inspired by it to write a fluffy little Christmas ficlet. *Shameless plug*:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/339585

I wouldn't say your fics were totally fluffy; there's enough angst in there to balance them out. :)

I may have to write a fic about all the crew's celebrations, if I can get it to cohere.

[rosecathy1.livejournal.com]

Do iiiit (although, of course, no real pressure at all, etc.). I could always use more cute!drunk!Rimmer.