Fic - Flying. Rimmer/Lister. PG.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

This is a bit of an odd thought exercise. The topic of RD as the Flying Dutchman came up in a conversation with kahvi, and I wanted to try it out. Needless to say, concrit could really help this one sit more solidly.
Set in VII. Spoilers up through Beyond A Joke. A recasting of Blue.

I will see you again, my friend.

Comments

[lady-draco.livejournal.com]

=( Okay - that wasn't fair on ol' Arnie. Not fair at all. Stoopid Lister *kicks him*.

Oh, well done to you of course. Once again you've made the characters come alive to the point where I giggled when Rimmer was giggling and felt like crying for him at the end.

I also really enjoyed the beginning =) Very interesting hee.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks! As for Arn and Lister - well, see below...

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

Nonono, don't stop there! *flail* We need happy endings!

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Well, they both die in the Wagner version, so I'm tryin'. ;)

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Oh, but this was wonderful! I might have concrit; I'm too tired to tell. All I know is that this was all kinds of good, and just what I needed right now.

I'll be back for some detailed feedback later, just wanted to check in. :)

"Rimmer... man... what the smeg are we doing?"
*smack* I *smack* though *smack* I *smack* told *smack* you *smack* to stop *smack* doing *smack* that!!

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I love detailed feedback - thanks in advance!

Well, let's be fair to Lister - it all did happen too fast. That's one of the things I take away from the Wagner version. The captain sees Senta talking with her boy, freaks out, and splits, while Senta is running after him and saying, "Dude! You have it all wrong!"

Details!

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Daaf Licher is hawt. Don't ask me how I know this, it just felt that way. In my brain. Yes.

The Miners of Jove - inspired genius.

"when I have left this earth and this body behind, and am naught but light, we will meet again among the stars."
*happy romantic sigh* And it's truuueee!

Great Rimmer/Lister interaction. Geez, why didn't you script Blue?

Kiss details - yum. Makes me happy.

"Rimmer... man... what the smeg are we doing?"
*eyes Lister again*

Lovely, lovely...

Re: Details!

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Dear lord. Sorry, I was off being killed by a video clip. Oh. Yes. Fic? Fic.

Heh.

Aww, thanks! I was trying for something halfway between the dream and the waking of Blue. I thought Lister might be livin' somewhere around there...

Re: Details!

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

He does! And he's in my head! So wait... Does that mean hawt "Blue" snogging goes on in my head?

...

Well, it does now, at any rate.

Re: Details!

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Yes'm. And hot smegup snogging, now, too.

[jargonelle.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it is you're trying to cross-over/recast as, so may I just squee in delight at the whole first section? Sea captain!!!! You've just nailed one of my kinks, right there, and then "I promise you," and here, a rare, true smile lit the Captain's face, "when I have left this earth and this body behind, and am naught but light, we will meet again among the stars." - by this point, you've finished me off. Totally.

Her list of the differences between the two was becoming very detailed, and despite his randiness, Lister was half-afraid that she might finally give in and sleep with him simply to make the list comprehensive." - Hee!

And of course, the Rimmer and Lister interaction is great. The hug had been a sincere, mately gesture, while this cupping of his cheek, along with the oddly direct stare... :) :) :)

Actually, I was wondering if you'd mind answering a question that has ridiculous ramifications for the fic I've been thinking aboutplanningarguing with writing for what feels like years and still hasn't got anywhere? : Where do you think the planet with all of Ace's coffins around it is? - In Ace's dimension? In 'ours'? In some weird pan-dimensional rift? Argh.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

You've just nailed one of my kinks, right there

*takes notes* :D

As far as how I wanted to do this... well, given the number of lightbees and assuming a halfway decent lifespan per Ace, that's easily a few million years of Aces. So I figure the recruitment has been going on for at least that long. As for the voice in the head - just a little spiritual nonsense I felt like throwing in. Echoes of ancestors.

Well, in Last Human, we're lead to believe that the rift between the dimensions was not a stable or human-habitable place. As far as 'our' dimension or any other - well, the 'original' timeline was just a device for my fic. From what I gather from my limited knowledge of physics, all dimensions are equally 'valid,' so the planet could be in any of them. I like the idea that there's an idyllic, peaceful dimension out there somewhere where, from some fluke of nature, there is no war or evil, and that's where we find that faaabulous pink planet.
For a really eerie look at parallel universes, check out Larry Niven's All The Myriad Ways. The man is a hard-sci-fi god. *bows*

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Oh, and vielen dank for the review. :)

[jargonelle.livejournal.com]

Hmm... thanks for the rec!

well, the 'original' timeline was just a device for my fic. From what I gather from my limited knowledge of physics, all dimensions are equally 'valid,' so the planet could be in any of them. - Yes, it worked very well as a plot device, but physically I don't think it makes much sense (I'm a second year chemist at uni though, so my knowledge of physics is pretty patchy and well... dumbed down). I was taking the little swirly-purple-wormhole-thing they had to travel through to follow Ace's coffin to mean they'd jumped dimensions, but wasn't sure if that was a regular jump in space or not.

Was a nice planet though. Deserves to be in a nice dimension.

*takes notes* :D *grins* I'm just a sucker for the sea really. I miss it like crazy when I'm away from home.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

I think it was supposed to be a wormhole, but I think they were thinking more about visuals than science. ;) Well, why not hunt down Doug's email and ask? I will if you don't!

Where's home?

[jargonelle.livejournal.com]

I think it was supposed to be a wormhole, but I think they were thinking more about visuals than science. ;) - Oh yeah, at some point we're supposed to remember it's just a TV show, and I don't think we need to worry the poor man about this!

Home for me, is Torquay, a town on England's SW coast. Aside from being the birthplace of Agatha Christie and the supposed setting for Fawlty Towers, there is nothing else even remotely interesting about it. But we do have fake palm trees, quite a bit of beach (and as you may have guessed) quite a lot of sea as well. :)

Where are you from?

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Ja, we need to forget about the science and focus on the important parts - like whether or not Chris and Craig ever got it on. ;)

Nifty! I've always wanted to visit England. My grad school is too up in the air to do anything this year, but some year, I'd like to fly over, rent a motorbike, and do a blitz tour England, Germany, France, and time permitting, Scotland or Wales. Maybe drop in on DJ. ;) I did hike and bus through Greece in '98, and it was massively fun.

I'm from Chicago, and I still adore it. I think it's the best city I've ever lived in. I've lived there, Philly, two misguided years in Lincoln NE, Berkeley, and Seattle. I also spent some time in New York with a former boy. I've been here in Seattle since '99, and that's a long stint in one place for me. :p I love Chicago the best of all of those as a city, but I love the surroundings of Seattle the best (the natural beauty). I wish I could have both.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

If anyone has seen the "of" that should be in the above paragraph, please send it back here. :(

[jargonelle.livejournal.com]

:) Oh slash, how you have warped everything, ever. :) (Though not that we have to look too hard where Red Dwarf is concerned.)

Wow, that's a lot of places. A lot of big places as well. I spend half the year in Oxford and half the year at home, and whilst Oxford is very pretty and is tiny for a city, it still doesn't seem rural enough for me. Once I've finished my degree I'll probably end up living somewhere else though - and I'm looking foward to it. Torquay can be beautiful, but there's nothing there.

I'm ashamed to say I've never really visited Scotland. Have had hundreds of family holidays to Wales so the country, on the whole, brings back rather strained memories, but it's lovely (usual caveat: when it's not raining). I've only ever been to France, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland outside of the UK, and then only briefly. God, I could have stayed forever in Switzerland - but I don't think I can quite afford it! And of course, I'd love to visit North America and Australia, but can't quite afford that either!

I'd love to go on a cruise sometime - but only because I want to live on a boat for awhile. There's nowhere I'd particularly want to go!