Day 2. “Damn Your Eyes”, Part II. Rescott/Pressler

Day 4: “I’ll Take Care of You”. Liz/Samar

Who would’ve known xD

Well, we pledged our lives to each other.

The Blacklist Rare Ships Week Day Five: “Come on Closer”

Guidelines

Your participation may include, but not limited to: manips, edits, fanarts, gifs, collages, fics, vids, screenshots, metas, poetry… Anything you wish.

NSFW content—allowed.

Problematic content (drugs, alcohol, abuse, etc)—allowed.

RPF—allowed.

Ships connected with fan theories like Rederina—allowed.

OT3 (if your ship includes more than three people)—allowed.

Extreme AUs (e.g, Reddington teaches Dark Arts at Hogwarts while falling in love with young wizard named Berlin)—allowed.

If English is not participant’s first language, they’re still allowed to contribute. If they want, they may add G-translated captions to their edits.

Number of posts per person is unlimited. However, we’d kindly ask you to queue them with 30min-1hour interval, so Tumblr wouldn’t shadowban you or your posts get lost in the dash’s whirlwind.

Please, tag stuff accordingly—we have no issue with spicy stuff, but Tumblr does. We don’t wanna get flagged ;D

Main rule is: be nice to each other. Remember, we’re here to celebrate what we enjoy. It’s not a contest, you don’t have to compete with others.

All ships are valid and have a right to exist.

You’re only limited by your imagination, so let yourself free and create what your heart desires! WE TRACK: #the blacklist rare ships week, #TBLRSW.

Make sure you put them within first 5 tags.

Addendum: your hosts have -7 hours difference with New York (EST time zone) and -10 hours with LA (PST time zone). So we’ll reblog the posts into the blog when we wake up ;D

Good morning, fellas, and let’s roll!

Day 1: “When I First Saw You”

The scene which made you fall in love with your ship/the first scene your favs meet each other.

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* We'll be queuing everyone's posts to keep your dash busy ;)

Day three: Hands All Over

A/N: Ever since seeing a guitar in Ressler’s apartment I have always been convinced that Donald is a blues-guitarist. I’ve never been able to see him differently. Enjoy!

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Red keeps a recording of Donald’s guitar playing in his desk.

It’s a silly keepsake, one he has been tempted to trash a few times over. But he can never quite bring himself to do so. How he came about such a keepsake is not exactly a thrilling story, but he does remember it clearly.

Once a long time ago, Red came into the habit of bugging the home of the FBI Agent who was currently assigned to catching him. It was a guilty pleasure. That delicious satisfaction when he could drop events, names and dates of their lives like hand grenades to shake their foundations.

They always took a moment to recover. Sputtering and stuttering to get themselves going again, by which point Red was long gone. He missed those days.

But then Ressler came along. The same routine was followed, a bug slipped into his home where he wouldn’t see it. Activated only when there was activity, or movement nearby and everything was recorded. And Red had picked up excellent facts, good little titbits, to spit out when Donald was in front of him.

But it never shook or rattled him like the others. Donald, sturdy like marble, simply took it on the nose, as if he’d half-way expected Red to know these things.

Needless to say, it sucked the fun right out of it.

He wanted to cut off the bug. Leave it dead and quiet in Donald’s apartment, what’s the point if Red couldn’t have any fun? When next the bug crackled to life over the speak and the recording clicked alive, he had stood to turn it off. No point in listening to the boring life of an Agent when he had better things to do.

“I’m not very good…” you’re at least a decent pain in the ass, Donald.

“Just play already!” He paused, his hand hovering over the volume.

“Alright, alright!” a long breath of silence, then the raspy voice of a guitar started playing over the speaker. At first it was tender, almost timid, as if he was apologizing for playing. But the notes were sweet, a blues tone with a warm resonance. There was no singing, just the soft ship-cha, rhythm carrying through the song. He could so easily imagine Donald’s hands, so quick to punch, shoot or kill, tenderly gripping the neck of his guitar. His other picking the strings with a tenderness he would never see in person. He was surprised to find he wanted to.

The song grew in strength and voice, and when it finally trickled to a stop, Red found himself sitting next to the speaker completely enraptured.

“That was amazing!” Audrey squealed.

“Thanks, it –“ Red cut off the volume, and immediately stopped the recording. He removed the tiny cassette, still more reliable than USB sticks in his opinion, and shoved it in his pocket. Later, when Dembe came home he would ask him to remove the speaker, they had no more use for it.

Years later he still has the cassette, tucked away in the corner of whatever desk he currently owns. He doesn’t listen to it often, but every now and then he slips it into the cassette player, sits back and listens to the raspy notes a blues song. Perfectly imagining Donald’s hands around the neck of his guitar.

Day 3. “Hands All Over”, Resslington. Partially whump, but everyone’s seen the show, eh?

Good morning, fellas, and let’s roll!

Bonus Day: Free Theme

Anything which pops into your head. Or a daily theme you’d like to repeat once again.

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Day 1, “When I First Saw You”. The scene which made you fall in love with your ship

It was my engagement with you that ended that relationship.

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Good morning, fellas, and let’s roll!

Day 5: “Come On Closer” 

Are your favs social distancing these days? Or is it, “Personal space? What space?”

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WE TRACK: #the blacklist rare ships week, #TBLRSW (#tblrsw).

In case you're late, you can also send entries. Just put the tag day, and we'll post it.

Good morning, fellas, and let’s roll!

Day 4: “The Things You Do Aren’t Good For My Health” or “I’ll Take Care of You”

Whump moments with your favs. If that’s not your jam, alternatively, you may show us the moments they care about each other.

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WE TRACK: #the blacklist rare ships week, #TBLRSW (#tblrsw).