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Profile pic and banner credits: sharkaeopteryx art by @superkiak! eggbug by eggbug! Mash-up by me!
[Alt-text for pfp: a cute sharkaeopteryx sat on the ground with legs out, wings down, jaw ajar, and hed empty, looking at eggbug and eggbug's enigmatic smile.]
[Alt-text for banner: a Spirit Halloween banner with eggbug and the sharkaeopteryx that Superkiak drew for me looking at it with inscrutable expressions]
I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.
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That's the flaw in Red Dwarf, isn't it? that we're supposed to despise this guy but he's actually incredibly funny
I think it says about as much about us as it does Arnold Judas Rimmer (BSc, SSc.) that "he's saying what we're all thinking."
I'm not upset by it, it's just more telling than I'd like.
I did like the couple of early episodes where they pursued the idea that he isn't a bad person, he's just horribly broken... but of course sitcom dictates require that the status quo be restored at the end of each episode, so the idea that he might develop as a character was an awful tease. [edit: I'm thinking about this now, the way they restored the status quo was by having Lister be a shit, which is itself interesting as a character beat but still comes off as a contrivance.] (I don't consider Rimmer's character shift in later seasons to be development so much as laziness.)
fiiiine, I don't favorite things, but I'm favoriting this...