Our second chat is coming up! For the second live chat for the 2023 due South/Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang, we have a choice of two times:

Chat 2A will take place at 11:00 a.m. Chicago time on Saturday May 13th (What time is that where I am?)

Chat 2B will take place at 10:00 p.m. (22:00) Chicago time on Sunday May 14th (What time is that where I am?)

Chats and check-ins take place on our discord server. We encourage you to check out the server in advance of the chat.

Live chat coming up in a couple of hours! All welcome.

Our second chat is coming up! For the second live chat for the 2023 due South/Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang, we have a choice of two times:

Chat 2A will take place at 11:00 a.m. Chicago time on Saturday May 13th (What time is that where I am?)

Chat 2B will take place at 10:00 p.m. (22:00) Chicago time on Sunday May 14th (What time is that where I am?)

Chats and check-ins take place on our discord server. We encourage you to check out the server in advance of the chat.

thinking about rayk in the infamous season 3 episode 2 crypt scene going "do you find me attractive?" and fraser taking a second before answering "very much so, yes" and ray almost accepting this answer that he clearly likes a lot, before turning back and worriedly verifying "you're not just saying that?" and then fraser hesitates a second and goes "well, i'm not really qualified to judge, ray" which is just. the most fraser thing he could possibly have said. it vaguely implies he could be (or he might think he is) straight while absolutely not saying that in any way, which leaves almost every option open, but it does sound like it's an actual answer, exactly in the way you'd expect from a guy who grew up with his librarian grandmother. it gives off demi/ace vibes. not to mention that it sort of sounds like he might think there's an actual qualification he'd need to get to be allowed to decide whether a man is attractive or not, making it entirely plausible to fill out the background of this situation as benton fraser, gay man, being asked if he thinks a guy is attractive and mentally reasoning that well, he's only ever had any romantic/sexual experience with victoria, so clearly he doesn't have the right stamps in his passport. he can't say, because he doesn't have the requisite two years experience minimum for the position. he's still on his learner's permit. he didn't graduate from Deciding If A Man Is Handsome university, so, sorry ray, but his opinion is that of a layman, not a man who's been laid (by another man). apologies that he couldn't be more helpful.

All this but also: Fraser’s qualifications to answer any given question depend on what the question actually *is*, and as a ??autistic spectrum/frequently autistic-coded person, he’s spectacularly unqualified to tell. Ray: “Do you find me attractive?” --Fraser hesitates, decides the question is meant literally, gives a direct answer. Ray: “You’re not just saying that?” --Fraser hesitates, considers a literal answer (”yes, that’s what I just said, Ray”), then realises the question isn’t meant that way, then stumbles over what it *does* mean, given that the uncomplicated truth doesn’t seem to have worked the first time around, and then realises he’s hesitated too long and the best thing to do is equivocate.

Ray, stop being a knob and just take Fraser’s first answer :)

2023 dS/C6D Big Bang Chat #1

Our first chat is coming up on Saturday, April 15th! For the first live chat for the 2023 due South/Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang, we have a choice of two times:

Chats and check-ins take place on our discord server. We encourage you to check out the server in advance of the chat.

Signups for the Big Bang are still open! For primary signups you can make 20k fics or equivalent art/craft/vids/podfic. 

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Fraser/Ray K- "Your Man" Fanvid

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“They have called this day The Eleventh of March! And whom-so-ever of you  gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain… you will stand at tiptoe… when e'er you hear the name again, and you will get excited!… At the name March The Eleventh! “We happy few, we few, we band of brothers… our names will be as like… household names. And those who are not here, be they sleeping or… doing something else… They will feel themselves… sort of crappy. Because they are not here to… to join the fight. On this day, the Eleventh of March!”

A poll for all the Due South fans. :'D

go OFF queen

that’s sandi toksvig! i’ve never seen her before, but i listened to her for years on the bbc radio 4 news quiz. she’s mighty.

The link she mentions

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DUE SOUTH (1994-1999)

I like to think that Ray asked Elaine what was the deal with Vecchio and the Mountie and she said that they spend a lot of time in the closet and Ray took that figurative (aka they are gay) instead of literally.

Elaine meant literally, Ray meant symbolically. (Because he tends to say things symbolically. :D)

But, on the other side, the whole closet thing was a symbol in the first two season, of course. 😆

The X-Files  | 1x03 “Squeeze”  (1993)  

but think about: a hallmark holiday fic with a self-aware rayk who is dragged kicking and screaming through the plot and insisting he will not, he will not, get suckered into staying in this little podunk town for anyone, especially this nutty canuck

It’s not Christmas without this perfect rendition of ‘Carol of the Bells.’

DUE SOUTH 3x02 - Eclipse and 3x05 Seeing Is Believing

Was watching Mountie on the Bounty and spotted this 🤣 Of course this is what Francesca’s computer would look like 💀

Fandom: Hard Core Logo (1996) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Joe Dick/Billy Tallent Characters: Joe Dick, Billy Tallent Additional Tags: Fanart, Traditional Media, Digital Art, Punk Rock, Musicians Summary: Freeze-frames from lomelinde’s wonderful video, not in the same order as in the vid, but telling a similar story.

Just in case it helps, here’s a list of all the symbols that went into a due South quilt that a friend made for me:

Fraser's half: maps, pirates, frigates, compasses, maple leaves, wolves, red ships, stetsons, smarties, hockey sticks, knots, flames, handwritten letters, fire extinguishers, beavers, pizza, moose, snow, sextants, huskies, handbills.

RayK's half: moose, glasses, green ships, american money, boats, maple syrup, boxing gloves, compasses, the L, turtles, otters, compasses, sextants, Canadian shacks, city streets, campfires, Pontiac GTOs, tents, hockey sticks, pirate treasure, playing cards, chess, city skylines, pizza, lake trout, handcuffs, maps, planes, rubber ducks, yellow submersibles, hockey pucks, mountains, coffee.

(I wanted a Champion logo fabric, but we couldn’t track one down. We also had a long conversation about how/why it had to be Smarties fabric, not M&Ms fabric, and whether we could find *exactly* the right car (we couldn’t but it was close))

god, but I love tumblr. I have whole days where I have to be a Responsible Grown Up With a Job ™ and then I come on here and I’m all THERE ARE MY PEOPLE as we froth and chortle gleefully over our Blorbos and communicate in phrases that are impenetrable to outsiders and examine tiny (1m 31s) snippets of actors we adore with the kind of attention to detail that forensic examiners WISH they could sustain. Keep it up, my lovely friends. I salute you.