jam but shiny

that one simon tam fan that just gotta go 22 | he/any

[jaynestownn]

Hellooo Firefly Tumblr!

intro post slash formal request to join you all here

-I'm Jam! -22 -agender, he/any -Very Normal about Simon Tam and Jayne Cobb (lie) -simal/malsimon warrior

I've been a fan of the show for a few years; it's always been very special to me but I recently started a rewatch so it's reawakened my autism sleeper agent activation code.

Unfortunately I'm a bit of a nervous person in new spaces/places at first but please say hi and let's be Firefly buddies :)

[jaynestownn]

Hi guys I've been going through the torture nexus but to had to come back for the announcement FIREFLY ANIMATED SERIES???)? HOW ARE WE FEELING ?:'s:?/&?4&:!4!

[jaynestownn]

the concept of apologizing for not being active is so chronically online but also I am sorry if I have not been super active participating in the community college+work is lowkey kicking my ass💔💔💔I am lurking from afar

[wateronagreasefire]

Something about how Jayne could only respect someone he was genuinely afraid of

[wateronagreasefire]

What's your favourite Firefly Episode? (Can you even choose one?)

After some time I've gone with "Out of Gas", but it's gorram hard 'cause the episodes are all so good!

It's Ariel!!

Okay so MAYBE I have chronic Simon Tam brainrot, but also Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job were my comfort movies growing up. Of course this is my favorite episode!! It stands out purely BECAUSE I love Simon (and River) and also heists. My second place slot is the one that I have trouble deciding on.

I am end of the world obsessed with Ariel as an entire episode. I love the balance of how Mal deals with danger on his crew (with regard to Jayne AND River). I love I love the introduction scene with everyone being casual and domestic (Wash bullying Simon into saying good things about Ariel's attractions will always be funny to me). I love the planning montage of them learning their lines. I love the heist. I love the tensions within the crew. I love bitchy Simon. I love the taste we get of Mal's anti-Core world prejudice that even Zoe seems put off by. I love learning that Simon considers the ship his home. I love how quickly we learn to what lengths people will go to to get River back. I love hyper-competent Kaylee. I love lovey-dovey ZoeWash.

The only flaw in the entire episode is that there's no Shepherd (and minimal Inara ☹️). And while I know why they couldn't have him there ("Rob a hospital? Captain, really? And Dr. Tam, I'm so disappointed.") I would have loved to see how he would have played into the danger in the second act; maybe he's quietly judgmental and disapproving until he hears something over the security radio chatter that Kaylee is listening to and instantly recognizes what sort of danger they're in and takes over on the radio. While he very obviously starts to reveal a bit about his background in War Stories, I think Ariel could have offered him a little more of a subtle opportunity.

[homosexual--mothman]

My thoughts on Serenity (2005): A Powerpoint

This will have to be posted in multiple parts.

DISCLAIMER!!! This is all fun and games!! My thoughts are a mixture of actual analysis (of which there are of course many possible interpretations) and personal preference, so in no way shape or form should this stop you from enjoying any aspect of the film. I do have a few moral issues with the film, but like the show it is a very mixed bag!! So, onto the powerpoint.

[homosexual--mothman]

Thank you for reading!

[tamsiblings]

InaraZoe Shipweek 2026, March 1st - March 7th

Hi all!

As many of you know, from the poll series run from late November to late January, Inara/Zoe was the ultimate winner of The Firefly Rarepair Tournament and as such, I feel they should be celebrated! Anyone is welcome to participate, and there is also zero pressure for anyone to participate. All I can tell you is I will be doing this even if I am literally the only person doing it, lmao.

This is, comparatively to most fandom events out there, a fairly informal affair. I cannot emphasize enough that I'm doing things the way that they make sense to me and what I think will work best for this fandom and this event - which is to say, not the way most advice for running a fandom event of any sort will tell you to do it. Oops! All I can say is that I'm doing it this way because anything else A) will drive me insane B) doesn't make very much sense to me based on the way the Firefly community on Tumblr works. We are Not Massive (though very mighty and very pretty) to begin with, and on top of that, this is By Design an event for a small ship. So!

With that in mind: I debated making another poll giving options for people to vote on, but that ultimately would have made this a longer process than it's already been. I considered the whole 'making another blog for it' thing people do, but that seems counterintuitive to getting the people who follow me here and want to know about it the information, and if I make another blog, it's probably not going to get much use after that. (Note: I love the idea of this and love the idea of doing more fun event things, but I'm not super into the whole 'I do this every quarter/month/year/whatever'. In case it isn't blatantly obvious about me, I like trying different stuff!)

I've listed a few prompts a day for people to pick from, but note! These are literally just guidelines, because I know if I stare at something that says 'do whatever' too long, I will get overwhelmed and then not do it. There is also a more official free space because I wanted there to be one. But if that's also overwhelming, feel free to pull from one of the leftover prompts you didn't use.

Also note: most of these prompts work best for fanfic, but please trust that I would so completely adore participation with any and all types of fan creation, including (but not limited to), gifs, edits, meta, playlists, fanart, etc. Whatever works best for you is welcome! Fic unfortunately just tends to be the easiest thing to provide prompts for. You are also welcome to mix and match prompts or do multiple prompts in a day, should you so desire. You're also, again, welcome to more or less disregard them. I'll probably tag those with some sort of misc note for categorization's sake, but other than that!

Now that you've read my wall of text and answered my riddles three, here are those aforementioned prompts:

Undercover / Rain / Transference

Roleswap / Canon-Divergence / Battle Couple

"Who are you?" / Unrequited / Heist

There's Only One Bed / Pregnancy / Mutual Pining

Soul Bond / Time Loop / "How can you say that?"

Search and Rescue / Assassination Attempt / "Don't say I didn't warn you."

Free Space

I'll probably rb this post a few times for the sake of reminders and any updates. Once the week itself starts, I'll post a reminder of the specific prompt for that day at a specific time - likely 9 AM CST. Cheers!

Guidelines

Don't be an asshole

That's kind of it

Okay, being more serious: it would be helpful to me for record-keeping purposes (ala tags) if you indicate whether through a title, within the post itself, or your own tags, the prompt it's meant to respond to, if any. Also, while I'm totally fine if someone skips a day or is running behind and wants to do a prompt for the day prior etc, it is helpful to me for you to indicate along with that prompt the date it should go with. (So, say you post something for the prompt of 'Rain' on day 2, you would still post indicate it as being intended for day 1.)

Please tag #inara zoe shipweek 2026, which is a tag I now follow. Capitalization shouldn't matter. This is so I can check whatever anyone's posted and reblog. I'll follow the tag without the spaces as well, just in case, but the benefit of this being a small fandom and small ship is that there is literally nothing else in that tag.

That being said, if for some reason I do not rb something you've made for the event within at least a few days (and I'm going to try for daily), that is not on purpose! Please feel free to reach out.

Also: consider rb'ing other people's stuff! It's definitely not required or something I am like, Checking On, but I <3 fan community engagement, I think it's so beautiful and one of the draws of something like this To Me is the excuse to interact with more cool people who make cool things!

Has not been an issue around these parts and in full earnestness I do not foresee it being one, but do not harass other people, use hate speech toward them, etc. Again this is aimed at no one in particular because this fandom is very lovely, it's just a thing I feel should be said. TLDR; don't be an asshole.

That's it for now, but I'm so excited! Femslash reigns supreme, as it rightfully should.

[wateronagreasefire]

Firefly Textpost Meme 102

[homosexual--mothman]

Simon edited to American Teenager by Ethel Cain. I think with the show's themes of humanity is the same but in space this time, this song exemplifies Simon's inability to be who his parents want him to be and/or a good Alliance citizen because he cares too much, which seems to be how a lot of people become politically aware; find out about one bad thing, especially something done to you or yours, and the rest of what you were taught about how great your government is kind of unravels. His extended conversation with Inara in Bushwhacked (below) also adds to this, as we see his guilt over supporting the Alliance and Unification.

Aaaanyway. Ramble over I just think he's fascinating. Hence why he has been the subject (or at least a subject) of probably most of my edits. Also I finished watching Percy Jackson s2 last week after being a longtime reader of the books and so I've been thinking about Annabeth being left by everyone, including her parents, and Percy whose fatal flaw is loyalty............. malsimon is everywhere for those with the eyes to see

[homosexual--mothman]

Love keeps her in the air when she outta fall down. Tells you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.

Firefly edited to Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie.

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The other Tam!

[homosexual--mothman]

Ok I know calling a man pretty is generally meant as an insult. But I feel like Jayne telling Simon to "stop flapping that pretty mouth" at him was not exactly the most heterosexual thing in the world. Bisexual Jayne Cobb canon

[jaynestownn]

ignore my crusty mirror but here's my closet Mal cosplay for a local art market I attend!! the theme this month was western. ^-^ it was also insanely cold so I did wear an undershirt. + my serenity I carried around

[wateronagreasefire]

Serenity (Pilot): Thoughts on cargo opening through arriving on Persephone

-"That was some pretty risky sitting you did there": First Jayne and Wash animosity!!  These two love to fight each other for no reason.  The ongoing Serenity battle royale of Which Man on Board is Performing Masculinity Correctly is very juicy to me.  I think Jayne has complicated feelings about Wash because while he dismisses Wash for not being a fighter, Wash is traditionally successful in that he's married.  I could see Jayne having a bit of insecurity around Wash for having "locked down" Zoe.

-This is also sort of our first instance of "Wash is joking at the wrong time".  I really love that while Wash is the funny guy, sometimes his humor annoys people.  Sometimes he just can't shut up.  It's not much of an issue right here but it definitely sets up him having bad moments about it further down the line.

-These two little Mal moments of gorrammit the Alliance will never stop fucking with me are really excellent.

-WHY does Mal lie to Zoe.  What is going on here.  Is this just pilot stuff?  I know they adjusted how Mal acts between the Pilot and Train Job.  This feels really off to me, like it would be something he'd tell her right there on the stairs; Wash can walk up to get them started on their way and Jayne and Kaylee are moving the cargo and can't hear him, but Zoe can.  I think it would have been good to keep their relationship consistent.

-How long do we think Zoe and Wash have been married?  I personally have no idea.  I've seen arguments for newlyweds just as often as I've seen arguments for five years and both of them check out to me.  I guess a lot of it hinges on the never ending blurriness of the timeline.

-Out of every single questionable thing that happens in Firefly, near the top for me is this specific scene of Inara's.  Not the sex scene (she's a sex worker!), not the reaction of the guy (some clients are fucking weirdos!), but the pan down her knees and then the shot on her face while she's talking in voiceover.  What was the reason for this?  (I know the reason for the knee pan and it rhymes with Hoss Bredon) But I can count on my fingers the times Firefly makes me genuinely uncomfortable and this makes me uncomfortable for reasons I can't entirely explain, seeing as it's just a pan down her knees.  Maybe it's because of the extreme shaky cam, so it feels like the camera operator just got distracted?  Like we get it!  Morena Baccarin is hot!  This really only happens in the pilot and I have to think someone on crew was like "dude we're wasting minutes".  The editing of this whole scene is really weird, and maybe the difference in editing styles is what's throwing me, but fortunately it doesn't last long.  It also might have something to do with the Inara recast?  Like they had to pad out her screentime in a rush?

-Anyway I love the curtain pull back to the shuttle cockpit reveal so much. 

-It's fascinating to see Persephone's different areas, from the wealthier and more high tech area where Inara had her client meeting to the docks…I think the docks scenes are so much fun (hello to the extra who had a specific cue for when to start walking and stuck to it). 

-Chekov's compression coil mentioned!!!!!  There's some jarring ADR here but at least the volume level is the same.

-"And I'd like to be the king of all Londinium and wear a shiny hat" so do we think this is just a turn of phrase, or has Londinium carried on some sort of aspect of the British monarchy?  There's a parliament for the Alliance, and comics canon features a Prime Minister, so maybe there's a figurehead monarch too.

-The little screen station that Kaylee taps on is neat!  She does program it to say their destination is Boros, so I assume that this is a sort of flight info board for potential customers (and Mal tells her to put the departure time as 3 hours from then). I love thinking about the way spaceships are integrated into the culture of the 'Verse, and I guess at a lot of docks there must be spots where larger ships can officially advertise their routes while also having a barker to do the convincing.  I wonder if there are more formal "airlines" that people usually travel on, or how much of the passenger transport market share is freelance.

-What happened to Wash's little black hat?  He never wears it again.

-Something I like about the Chinese dialog in Firefly is that even if you don't speak the language, you can always parse some idea of what the character is saying.  Maybe not exactly, of course, but Wash's delivery is pretty obviously some variation of "please stay safe". 

[tamsiblings]

the thing that is really key to understanding about simon To Me is that he IS hyper vigilant to the point of being at times (a term i hate to use bc of connotations and weaponization but yk) paranoid, like this guy is an anxiety king 365 days a year: but also he was literally RIGHT about the danger to someone he loved the time it really, really mattered. which makes it so much worse. like think about what that does to your brain lmao.

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[wateronagreasefire]

"You're servicing crew now?"

"In your lonely, pathetic dreams."

Firefly Textpost Meme 101