#and THEY ARE GOING TO KISS IN MY MIIIIIIIINNNNND

[andthebeanstalk]

Truly I have been hardwired by having tumblr throughout my teen years and into adulthood to look for every single gay shipping opportunity no matter what. Often when it's not even there. I literally cannot turn this part of my brain off that begins looking for conspiracy-level reasons that the thing I'm watching is actually gay.

And like, I wonder what future generations will be like?

If you have real actual queer rep as a kid do you still spend all your time imagining it with your friends? Or is this particular brand of deranged a tumblr-specific thing?

I have no regrets. We had crumbs and made ourselves feasts in any way we could.

Anyway, this is just to say that I am not yet three seasons in to the 1980s absurdist British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf about two chicken soup machine repairmen and a man-cat stranded alone in space and I am literally unable to stop my brain from forming an earnest and rabid argument for why the chicken soup repairmen are in the midst of an enemies to lovers arc. One of them is dead and a hologram. It doesn't matter. They are going to fall in love. I know it.

#original #red dwarf #arnold j rimmer #david lister #cat red dwarf #lister is like if fry from futurama was kind and hot idk how else to explain this #and rimmer is like if malvolio was in space and the same level of hot #and THEY ARE GOING TO KISS IN MY MIIIIIIIINNNNND #i am guessing this popular 1980s British tv show isn't gonna go canon #but if it did it couldn't be worse than destiel XD #tho i would die of shock #that said there is no heterosexual explanation for Spock and Kirk #and also a lot of things from the past really were gay in a genuine and intentional sense. I am just pretty sure this is not one of them. #and of course you can always find opportunity regardless of author intent. #I often wonder how aware the Star Trek writers were that they were writing a married couple when they were writing Spock and Kirk #I should clarify. rimmer is not the same level of hot as lister. i meant he is the same level of hot as malvolio usually is. #notice I am not making any quantitative statements there. #I know for an absolute fact that one of my dear friends thanks malvolio is one of the sexiest characters in theater #which is unusual. But valid. I just have a compulsive need to make sure my phrasing is completely clear #the actor is not a bad looking man. But he is basically playing space malvolio in terms of tone and personality. also I have decided he gay