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some firefly shipping in fanfic thoughts
I love how so much of my friends list has started writing tons of Firefly fic. It makes me incredibly happy for I've loved this show for so damn long, and I love finding like-minded folk out there. Suddenly, I don't seem so strange in the long haul.
It did get me to thinking quite a bit though about ships and such within the firefly fandom. Because I don't really have a ship for the show, aside from the canon of Wash/Zoe, and even then, if there is some pre-show Mal/Zoe fic that's good and really gets that tricky element to their relationship, then I'll read it.
So yeah, no real ship. I do have a fondness for Kaylee and Jayne, not necessarily together, but fics that center on them. I love the idea of Mal and Kaylee together, but I just as much love fic that focuses on the almost-siblingesque bond between the two of them.
Basically, I will read anything aside from Simon/River (and I'll admit that you might even get me on that if it's really dark and fucked up and amazingly well-written) and does anyone actually care about Book in fanon?
And this got me to thinking even more, because that's so unlike me to be such a multi-shipper within one fandom. In canon, I might like more than one pairing and watch/read it, but in fandom with my fanfiction, I tend to find a niche and stick with it. Don't know why that is necessarily, but that's how has always worked in the past (i.e. - For Roswell, it was and always will be about Michael/Maria. No other pairing interests me at all, really.) And that's not so much the case with this show. I might read a Jayne/River fic and then follow it up with a Jayne/Kaylee fic.
The only thing I can conclude is that this is one of those shows where I love all the characters so much and I love the interaction amongst all of them. It doesn't seem unbelievable to me that Jayne, in his own brute fashion, could care about any member of the crew on that ship because there is canon to support it.
And maybe that's what makes this show mean so damn much to me and so many other people...because there isn't just love for each character, but the characters as a group and the care every character seems to have for the other.
So, I turn this over to you, my wonderful friends list. Do you find the same is true of you - that you can ship almost anyone on this show? Why do you think that is? I'm honestly curious.
It did get me to thinking quite a bit though about ships and such within the firefly fandom. Because I don't really have a ship for the show, aside from the canon of Wash/Zoe, and even then, if there is some pre-show Mal/Zoe fic that's good and really gets that tricky element to their relationship, then I'll read it.
So yeah, no real ship. I do have a fondness for Kaylee and Jayne, not necessarily together, but fics that center on them. I love the idea of Mal and Kaylee together, but I just as much love fic that focuses on the almost-siblingesque bond between the two of them.
Basically, I will read anything aside from Simon/River (and I'll admit that you might even get me on that if it's really dark and fucked up and amazingly well-written) and does anyone actually care about Book in fanon?
And this got me to thinking even more, because that's so unlike me to be such a multi-shipper within one fandom. In canon, I might like more than one pairing and watch/read it, but in fandom with my fanfiction, I tend to find a niche and stick with it. Don't know why that is necessarily, but that's how has always worked in the past (i.e. - For Roswell, it was and always will be about Michael/Maria. No other pairing interests me at all, really.) And that's not so much the case with this show. I might read a Jayne/River fic and then follow it up with a Jayne/Kaylee fic.
The only thing I can conclude is that this is one of those shows where I love all the characters so much and I love the interaction amongst all of them. It doesn't seem unbelievable to me that Jayne, in his own brute fashion, could care about any member of the crew on that ship because there is canon to support it.
And maybe that's what makes this show mean so damn much to me and so many other people...because there isn't just love for each character, but the characters as a group and the care every character seems to have for the other.
So, I turn this over to you, my wonderful friends list. Do you find the same is true of you - that you can ship almost anyone on this show? Why do you think that is? I'm honestly curious.