So... what's your ship?
POSTED BY: Jacqui
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 04:33
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Jayne/Saffron
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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I guess I might be considered a little straitlaced in my fanfic preferences. I prefer canon because I love Firefly as it is so much, and anything the changes the dynamics of the show tends to bother me. And I'd never write anything but canon.
As far as slash goes, in general, I don't care for non-canon, and I prefer non-graphic hetero. Mal/River creeps me out because of the age difference, although it would otherwise be a logical pairing. YoSaffBrig's story The Innocents is a rare exception; I actually liked the Simon/Mal interaction in that one.
For the most part I read fanfic in search of "more Firefly." I've never spent much time (at all!) on other fanfic sites; I can't even keep up with half of what's posted here.
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I'll read anything. Pretty much. If it's good, and it hooks me in, and it can CONVINCE me that the pairing it's talking about is possible, even if I never would have considered it otherwise, then yeah, I'll read anything.
My favourites, though, are the Simon/Kaylee and the Mal/Inara, since that's where I started out, but right now, I'm all about the Mal/Simon. I wrote a 10,000 word fic based on the movie, pulling out all the subtext and pointing the movie in a Mal/Simon slant, with some extra scenes I added for fun.
I also have a soft spot for Wash/Kaylee, thanks to the "I would take you in a manly fashion" line from Heart of Gold...
Jayne/River is one of the few 'ships I can't see. I'll read Simon/River if its siblingish, but I can't read the graphic stuff, because I really don't see their relationship as being remotely sexual.
Anything else - if it's good, I'll try it!
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While it seemed like River _might_ be interested in Simon in the cut scene from 'Our Mrs. Reynolds'. Simon was shocked by it and I just don't see it ever happening. I thought it as likely as anything that River was just teasing Simon in that scene anyway.
I prefer cannon myself. My only interest in fanfic is, as was said above, to get more Firefly.
Anything that gets too far away from my 'take' on where the show was going tends to loose my interest very quickly.
That being said, there are many authors writing fantastic fanfic out there and don't for a second let me slow you down if you're writing doesn't fit my taste. There's plenty of room in the 'verse for everyone.
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I know when I write 'ship fic I write with Jayne as my primary character but when I do I actually like to invent new people to throw into the mix.
I don't think Jayne meshes well with any of the girls on the ship and for some reason I can't write slash- as much as I read it I can't recreate it (and believe me I've tried)
I have a problem with Simon/River because that's incest but aside from that I enjoy reading about all the other 'ships others can create.
I haven't found any Jayne/River fics tho- can someone give me a link or a few titles?
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I'm a canon-shipper (Mal/Inara, Wash/Zoe), but despite it being one of the actual romances both on the show and in the BDM, I just can't see the Simon/Kaylee thing working. They have NOTHING in common. AT ALL.
Now, since Joss admitted to Jayne's Kaylee crush in the DVD commentaries, I've been under the impression that he had plans to use that as a dramatic device on the show. I've found that he's especially fond of angsty love triangles, and he was setting up a doozy. (I could see, say, if Kaylee was getting too close to Jayne, Simon bringing up the whole 'Ariel' betrayal to split them up, etc.)
Maybe I'm deluded, but I'm a Jaylee-shipper at heart.
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Hmm now, I write gen fic (most of which isn't here, it's on the firefly friday LJ community), so I don't worry too much about shippage, although I might hint now and again about cannon ships. So I guess that makes me a cannon ship writer, but in my reading tastes I like a little of everything. Although CSI squicks me a little bit. I LOVE Mal/River, I don't know, it just makes sense to me after seeing some of the sweet scenes in the movie (didn't make much sense to me before then). Although a lot of Mal/River stories just don't work in my mind, but when a writer gets it right, it's beautiful. I've also read quite a few really good Mal/Simon, although slash isn't normally my thing, and I've found a whole lot of good Jaylee stories. Jaylee makes me smile. And one side of Jaylee is, in fact, cannon, because Joss said on the commentary for "Serenity" (the pilot, not the movie), that Jayne has a crush on Kaylee. BooYA!
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I know what you mean...I love firely sooo much that the canon pairings are great..i love wash/zoe for example...in fact i like anything with wash in it...but being the strange person i am i want, what seems to me to be the least writtn pairing ever..mal/wash...which is hard for me to comprehend as i love the wash/zoe thing, so how wash/mal would work i don't know.
Though I mostly like gen fiction...so not focusing on any relationship...just stuff happening and therefore supposrting canon.
MMM i think i maybe insane..but the mal/wash screams out at me in places...even though they don't seem to always get on..and although he denys it in Heart of Gold, something about Mal says he maybe a little sly at times.
Just thought I'd add my two cents worth.
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Jaylee, almost exclusively, although I've read some excellent Rayne fic. Common denominator: Jayne, of course.
Funny thing, though, I don't see either ship working from the show/movie. I know Joss said that Jayne has a crush on Kaylee, but doesn't everyone on that boat?
It says a great deal about how wonderful the writers are that I am so totally a believer/slave to the Jaylee fanfic when I can't see it in the series/movie!
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I tend to prefer all the 'canon' pairings. Mal more-or-less with 'Nara, Simon and Kaylee, Zoe and Wa... right...
One outsider that I've always kinda had kickin' around in the back of my head is Jayne and River. I can just see Jayne scared spitless of her for the longest time, both on account of her craziness and her startlin' proficiency with firearms, and she has to break him like a gorram horse.
Of course, since my fiction deals with a different boat with a different crew, the Serenity stuff takes a back burner. Which makes it a bit disorienting when they suddenly come back and one of the Big Damn Heroes makes an offhand remark about a relationship, what with my crew not bein' a part of them.
But what do I know? I write for Legacy, not Serenity 
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