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amber-room-service · 3 years
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S9 Wishes II
Red makes a defiant speech about his identity to criminal cohorts wary of supporting him--
Red: "You want the truth? You already have it. Yes, I'm an impostor. I wasn't born a man.... I wasn't born a man named Raymond Reddington. I took on the identity of a good man whose death I caused, whose name I tarnished and then stole, whose body I buried under a marker that I could never forget. Now people know I used to be someone else, but I never, never, ever feared them knowing that. I only...I only feared the terror and hardship it would bring into my life--into the lives of others. Others I loved."
--and buries Daddygate for good.
(While also having fun with ambiguity.)
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amber-room-service · 3 years
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Presented without comment, except for this one.
My fandom has recently become a very unpleasant environment. It's a very small fandom, the people involved are very active and invasive, and there's no effective way of avoiding or ignoring them. Honestly, I kind of just want to leave the fandom entirely at this point. The problem is that I still love the source material with all my heart and I'm finding it hard to let go, even knowing it's for the best. Any advice?
This might be a situation where you let go of the fandom, but not the canon. Loving something doesn't mean you have to love everything that goes with it.
If the fans on tumblr or on AO3 are horrible to you, leave them behind. Try finding fans on twitter or tiktok or facebook. Post your stories to FFN or Wattpad or AFF or Dreamwidth.
If you're feeling strong and brave enough, you can always make a post explaining how you feel. You might find others who feel the same way. I'd suggest turning off anons before you do, though.
You can still love the source material with your whole heart, even if you're not a part of the fandom that goes along with it. 💕
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amber-room-service · 3 years
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These two posts list the issues with Daddygate better than I ever could, but I’m crying with laughter trying to imagine if DG had been the reveal instead of Redarina.
All I can think of:
Liz: “Who are you, Red? Tell me who you are!”
Red: “All right, I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you the terrible secret I’ve hidden all these decades and killed so many people for”--dramatic pause--“is that I’m your father, the real Raymond Reddington.”
Liz: “What.”
Red: “That’s the truth.”
Liz: “What about the bones, the DNA test?”
Red: “I had my DNA planted in those bones.”
Liz: “Why would you ever--”
Red: “Because it’s the greatest disguise of all time, Lizzy. Who would ever suspect a man of pretending to be himself?”
Liz: “Literally everyone. But why would you even need to do that? No one knew about those bones except you, Mr. Kaplan, and maybe Dembe. Who were you trying to fool?”
Red: “The audience, of course.”
Liz: “I have a headache.”
Red: “I knew you would. There’s some aspirin right over there.”
Liz:“Thanks, I guess. But what about Katarina Rostova? Where’s my mother?”
Red: “Her? Oh, she’s Carla.”
Liz: “Who?”
Red: “Or maybe she’s Panabaker. Her hair’s red, you know.”
Liz: “...Thank God Townsend’s on his way here to kill us both.”
I keep saying I’m done with the Blacklist but here I go posting stuff. But one of these days I’ll be D O N E. For realsies. 
Anywho. Rant O The Day. 
I’ve never understood the argument that Red is called “Reddington or Raymond” in private (Dom, Dembe, Kaplan, etc) therefore that debunks Redarina. Um, hello??? Why would Mr. Kaplan say: I loved you Katarina before jumping off the bridge? Preposterous. They’d give away the main mystery. Duh.
They’d have to retcon the whole show if Red is the real RR.
In the beginning. Kat DECEIVES the RRR. We see he is opposed to who Kat is so he takes his daughter. she proceeds to tarnish his name and he ends up in cahoots with her because he wants to protect her. When all he had to do is release the fulcrum. 
Take his wife and two daughters and live his best life. Apparently, he survives the fire??? And decides to become a criminal. He has surgery because??? 
And then dom blames HIM for the colossal mess. 
Mr. Kaplan decides to shift her loyalty from Kat who’s hiding to the real RR she hated. The last time Dom saw his daughter was in the rearview mirror. And somehow, he lies to Liz about who became RR because he couldn’t accept the truth that the RR became, RAYMOND REDDINGTON. . 
He chases some person’s bones for a whole season that shows his DNA but they belong to some random. And he was petrified Liz would get the random person’s bones. Season 6 never needed to happen with Liz and Jennifer putting him in jail. 
He could’ve cleared his own name. And he didn’t need to get all teary-eyed and emotional talking about himself on the stand. And his poor miserable wife lives in Witsec and the lesser daughter can go outside and touch some grass while his golden child reaps all the rewards. 
Idk man.
I could be here all day. He whispers to Kirk that he’s the RR but to please not kill him because he’s protecting Katarina. Liz dies without Red ever telling her she DIDN’T kill her father and never told her where her mother is. 
I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch of other relevant stuff that debunks Daddygate but this is all for now. 
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amber-room-service · 3 years
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Keenler Thoughts
Writing a ship in this fandom was something of a personal challenge since I’m not a shipper for any pairing in The Blacklist, except maybe for Red/Lying.
But one dynamic that has always interested me is like-attracting-like or “birds of a feather.” In other words, characters with similar personalities, dispositions, what have you, getting together.
Liz and Ressler have that type of chemistry in spades. From the start they’re two characters fighting to do right, but touched by past and present darkness. It’s a refreshing change of pace for me from perennial favorites like the enemies-to-lovers trope.
I hope I’ve done this pairing justice. The (NSFW) fic can be found here, on Ao3.
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amber-room-service · 3 years
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That Keenler Fic
There is still some polishing to do on that Keenler AU fic. It's a one-shot I'm hoping to edit and have up some time this week.
Here's a SFW rough cut snippet (S1 SPOILERS) below:
He swallowed and couldn’t think of anything to say.
Keen pulled back just enough to look at him. “Would it be okay....” She bit her lower lip for a second. “Would it be okay if we forgot?” Her hand was biting into his shoulder now, and her eyes pleaded. “Just for a little while?”
Something hung there in the air between them. Tension, need. If they reached out to each other they’d be breaking so many rules, both of the Bureau and common decency. She was married. It didn’t matter that her husband was a criminal and a liar. There were some lines Donald couldn’t cross. But God, he wanted to forget just for a little while, and she looked so sad, so lonely, so hurt. He didn’t want to see Keen be any of those things.
Keenlers, your ship was robbed. (Can I blame Tom? I blame Tom.)
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amber-room-service · 3 years
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First Fic
Posted my first fic in this fandom. It’s a canon compliant one-shot that’s been rolling in my mind since the S8 finale.
S P O I L E R S below the cut and if you read it on Ao3 or FFN.
The start:
She saw it.
At the end, she saw his face.
And Liz couldn’t do it. She could not kill Raymond Reddington, even if he had asked for it, even if she hated him, even if she loved him.
Ao3
FFN
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amber-room-service · 3 years
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Theory No. 378
The signs of Keenler were there in S1.
I can see it and I have no ships in the sea of this fandom.
(But I have somehow started writing a Keenler AU one-shot, so I may need to reevaluate that whole "no ships" thing.)
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amber-room-service · 3 years
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Shh, They're Just "Resting"
Contemplating editing my fics is more satisfying than actually editing my fics.
(But I really need to; my fresh fic accounts accuse me with their emptiness.)
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amber-room-service · 3 years
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Current Time-Waste
Lurking on The Blacklist subreddit and marveling at the theories on how Red isn't trans and really disguised himself as...himself.
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amber-room-service · 3 years
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S9 Wishes
Somewhere in the first episode:
Red raining hell on his enemies while Danzig’s “Mother” blasts in the background.
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amber-room-service · 3 years
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We're Not All Nice
I am trans and love that Raymond Reddington was Katarina Rostova.
We need more badasses.
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