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The Artful Dodger
Wash Wednesdays: "disability"
Rating: General Audiences Additional Tags: POV outsider, original characters, flight school, Wash Washburne has ADHD, dodging the draft, exploiting the system Summary:
It took Hoban Washburne six years to finish flight school; two more years than was average.
The Right Guy
Summary: Mal’s being a little picky about who their pilot should be, until he sees the same name crop up over and over.
Word Count: 2,622
Notes: written for the june 3rd prompt: disability for wash wednesdays!
This was originally something else? And was supposed to be from Wash’s POV but yk
wash wednesday, day 1, june 3rd prompt: disability
for anyone who wants to use the prompts/themes, here’s a reminder! but also literally do whatever you want. the idea is first and foremost to make things about / related to wash
and here is the collection again!
Another goofy ask time!
If everyone on the crew were modern day internet influencers, what sort of content would they be making?
sorry this took 5 approximate forevers! (if y’all ever see my executive dysfunctioning no you don’t)
tysm for the ask! 💕
mal: handy diy hacks and tutorials for a variety of topics. because why the fuck is he gonna pay for anything he can do himself. he will teach you how to build a bookshelf and jumpstart or hotwire a car and paint your ceiling and pasteurize your own milk you can DO IT he BELIEVES IN U. really resents that he has to take ad deals for this to be a viable venture for him.
zoe: struggled with zoe so bad i’m so sorry zoe my love. i think what i’m landing on is athletics/physical challenge videos? it starts as a form of therapy exercise but she gets kinda big online? lots of rockclimbing and hiking and soccer and trying out those “impossible workout routines”. she likes showing people modifications they can do. her comment section is heavily moderated and she is NOT afraid to turn the option off bc it’s a privilege.
wash: based on my longstanding headcanon of wash as a music guy, music reviewer type! has an impressive vinyl collection. known for listening to ever kind if music that exists and his lasting love for weird al. has collaborations with the most RANDOM people.
inara: a little bit of beauty and a little bit of wellness, i think? makeup and perfume and lotion but also candles and tea. has a side channel where she does daily yoga vlogging. has this very elusive allure where people are so utterly enamored by her that they feel very personally attached even though she never says ANYTHING about her personal life!
jayne: guns. gun safety. aim training. antique guns. latest model reviews. would y’all be mad if i said i think he is well-known in the conservative-online community
book: cooking channel! he makes his favorite recipes and tries new things that people suggest and recounts stories from his travels, occasionally getting into spirituality mode. very known for being the kind of content that’s nice/comforting to fall asleep to.
simon: this man does not know work-life balance. medicine. debunking medical myths and general public education. some of those “real doctor reacts to [xyz]” videos. does a lot of sponsorship research and refuses to promote anything that makes unsubstantiated health claims. gets in into some internet beef over it with another influencer.
river: cryptic 4+ hour video essays where she never ever shows her face but they’re known for her voice captivating people. about just about anything you can name though mythology, literature, art, philosophy, and theoretical physics and its relationship to, well, everything are all common threads.
kaylee: repair videos!!! she likes fixing cars best but she will fix anything she can get her hands on that needs it and explain the process as best she can! it’s a niche-ish area of interest but the followers she does have are the kind to watch and comment on Everything, they’re just that dedicated. she likes it but sometimes feels a little boxed in bc she has other interests!! she meets inara who encourages her to explore those and she starts a fashiony channel - some of its reviews and some of its showing stuff she embroiders! then she and inara make out
More than any other fanfic project, Wash Wednesday has made me fit the "writers have the weirdest internet history" joke the best.
btw, if you’re participating in wash wednesdays, an ao3 collection you can add you work to now exists!
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Firefly (TV 2002) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hoban “Wash” Washburne/Zoë Washburne Characters: Hoban “Wash” Washburne, Zoë Washburne, River Tam Additional Tags: Autistic Hoban “Wash” Washburne, ADHD Hoban “Wash” Washburne, AuDHD Hoban “Wash” Washburne, autistic everyone else too but wash is the main one getting focused on, Hurt/Comfort Summary:
“Do I talk too much?”
“By whose standards?”
Title from Sick of the Silence by Mother Mother.
The first of @tamsiblings‘ Wash Wednesdays - disability!! Technically I should wait until the evening to post this so that it’s actually Wednesday for everyone, but I never claimed to be patient.
The Signal (Lootcrate Pamphlet): Issue 10
FIREFLY 2002 – 2003・1x09 Ariel
can you believe that the whole serenity pilot was simon’s background check. and he somehow got the job
the duality of malsimon
@floorbed @friendraichu @homosexual--mothman
lmaooo the duality of malsimon. You Are All So Correct
Not to mention That Whole Bit where Mal pretends that a Crewmate who was Shot DIED.
To the Person who he threatened to THROW OUT AN AIRLOCK if she DIED. As a Joke.
10/10 Insane Behavior. Why did he Do that.
Firefly identity headcanons: revisited
In honour of pride month I am going to #redux my Firefly identity headcanons, now that it's been about three quarters of a year, I've discussed the show more with other queer people who've seen it, and I've gotten more into the behind the scenes stuff.
Mal
Still bisexual. I think that's more or less implied canon, through "sly? No, no, I lean towards womenfolk". I assume what they meant to convey was that he's, like, chill about being read as gay, but that's not actually what they said, which I think stems from them not considering that people might actually read him as queer.
I'm adding trans man into the mix. I have a full post dedicated to that, but honestly I can't be assed scrolling far enough to find it, so I'll summarise here.
This is from the script for The Train Job. This combined with the reveal in Our Mrs Reynolds that he's worn dresses before, lead me to headcanon him as trans. I think he's on t and has had top surgery, but not bottom surgery, and I don't think he plans to get bottom surgery, which creates clashes with Jayne's rigid ideas of masculinity and manhood (said clashes exist in the show already, but I think it's fun to extrapolate on them from a trans perspective).
Zoë
My thoughts on Zoë have remained unchanged. She and Wash are in a bi4bi relationship. She identifies as a cis woman but at the end of the day she doesn't really care. She's greysexual. Actually I don't think that last one was in my original post that might be a new addition.
Wash
That man is NOT cis. The direction in which he's not cis is fairly ambiguous, I can see arguments for every trans identity, but I personally lean towards nonbinary, in the sense that his gender is whatever's funniest. His gender is The Bit. I think the important thing is that no matter what his gender identity is, his gender expression does not change in the slightest.
Also, as previously mentioned he's bisexual. Look at him.
Inara
Canonically bisexual, and I think there's room to say that demisexuality is also supported by canon, considering how much she emphasises the emotional connection with her clients.
I'd also say polyamory is sort of implied by her job, seeing as the whole deal is that she has multiple romantic and sexual partners at any given time. And I don't think she'd want to date someone who wasn't ok with an open relationship, because she wouldn't quit her job, so one of them would always be unhappy. This is one of two main sticking points that's stopping her from confessing to Kaylee, the other being how restrictive the Guild is (I really need to make a full post about that).
I think she's cis, but I could absolutely see a transfem interpretation, which could also be super interesting to explore the intersections between trans people and sex workers, especially as it pertains to the decriminalisation and government affiliated unionisation of the Guild compared to the lack of support on the Rim.
Jayne
The most consistent of my headcanons. Bisexual aromantic trans man. Has had both top surgery and bottom surgery. Is on testosterone but will NOT trust Simon with managing that. Basically, trying to be as cis as possible. Not necessarily stealth, but won't bring it up unless it's in an argument with Mal or an environment in which he's SUPER comfortable (yet to be seen on Serenity. Maybe with Book)
Kaylee
Lesbian. That's also her gender identity. But it takes her a while to figure that out, so I'd say for most of the show she's identifying as bisexual due to comphet. In my rewrite, the turning point comes through a conversation with Inara in The Message.
And I think she's demiromantic, because something about always wanting romance but never quite being able to make it click seems fitting to her character (which is me projecting) and the fact that I think she's in love with her best friend.
Simon
There is no universe in which that man is straight. If he's attracted to women he's bisexual. If he's exclusively attracted to women he's a lesbian.
There's an archivist on tiktok (@/butchboyfriend) who wears a lot of vintage fashion which then kind of masks the fact that he's actually jacked, and he describes himself as "transsexual twinkbutch", which I think would SO be Simon if he was trans.
As it stands, though, my main Simon Tam headcanon is gay, demisexual and demiromantic, cisgender. I think he's an incredibly supportive and well-meaning ally and he never says anything transphobic, but sometimes says things that carry unfortunate implications that he doesn't pick up on until they're pointed out (very in line with his canon struggles, if I do say so myself). Over time on Serenity he learns to recognise those implications, but he'll still occasionally find new ones popping up, and everyone on board knows him well enough to know that it's unintentional.
In terms of being gay, it's not necessarily implied by canon, but like... his struggles with Kaylee can definitely be read that way. Particularly, I didn't realise his "not with Kaylee" line was supposed to mean "we were drunk, I wouldn't do that to her", because what I heard was "I would never have sex with Kaylee". Some of that is for sure my literal thinking but I do think it was also written sort of clunkily to create the maximum miscommunication drama (which is my number one issue with the way saylee is written in the show. The way it's written through the eyes of my mutuals, however? Perfection). See also "tell me more good stuff about me!" "well, every other woman I know is either married, professional, or closely related to me, so, you're... more or less, you're literally the only girl in the world!"
And, quite frankly, if there's a non-zero amount of people who read his struggles with Kaylee as self-sabotage and use that to come to the conclusion that he's in love with his sister, I think it's more than reasonable for me to say that said self-sabotage is evidence of homosexuality. Not that I think anyone here is gonna call me unreasonable for that, I just hate that people seem to think incest is more likely than queerness. Anyway I digress.
River
Also has not changed. Agender and aroace. The triple A battery, if you will. Recognises gender as an invented social construct that she Will Not participate in. Doesn't care what gendered terms are applied to her, but you can pry mèimei from her cold dead hands.
I believe in the comics she has a girlfriend? I haven't read the comics, nor do I plan to, but I'm accepting that as canon. Whether that's a queerplatonic relationship or River choosing to partake in romance and/or sex without attraction is up to audience interpretation. This ties into her autism coding, as this is a relationship that has to be built outside of social norms.
Book
Aroace. The biggest indicator of this, to me, is in Objects in Space when he tells Jayne that some Shepherds do marry, but he follows a narrower path. The idea of someone becoming a Shepherd to get people off their backs about getting married and having kids is also really funny to me.
I think he's nonbinary but like at the end of the day also doesn't really care. Any pronouns, any gendered terms, whatever. I like to think "Shepherd" is a gender neutral title. Specifically, I think he's nonbinary because he identifies strongly with the belief that God has no gender, and he was made in God's image, so therefore part of his path as a Shepherd is to reject that human construct - though he's of course very understanding that that is his path, and doesn't push that onto anyone else. Tries to use it to connect with River, before realising that religion won't help with that and switches tactics to theology.
Firefly Textpost Meme 136 (Second Annual Pride Special Edition)
just got my @au-roulette assignments and I need input on one:
For my entry for "band/musician AU":
concert violinist River Tam
popstar River Tam
A Mal/Simon Fanmix
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On Spotify and YouTube (by song)
1. Father Figures by Mother Pearl
Just tell me you're proud and say it out loud 'Cause the need I have for love is just one of many triggers I take these stupid boys and I make 'em father figures So show me all the love I never knew I know you're just one man but could you be two?
2. u turn me on (but u give me depression) by LØLØ
I swear that I could punch a hole through the wall With all this pent-up aggression I embarrass myself 'til I need witness protection You get me so damn high I need an intervention Yeah, you turn me on, but you give me depression
3. Uncanny Valley by Avi Kaplan
Feels like you know too much A deeper understanding Hardwired to fall in love Should be running, should be running
4. The Devil and Me by Ira Wolf
So I kept on walking, I started talking with the devil And I asked him, "What's a life if you live it like you're dead?" He took my soul, then he washed it in a whiskey river I took his hand, we stood there and watched the banks turn red 'Cause I was born to be a sinner I was born to be free
If everyone in the crew taught a college course, what would be their discipline?
book: theology! seems obvious but like… yeah! people have a preconceived notion (because he’s fairly open about his own religion) that he’s going to primarily to focus on christianity with Maybe little nods to other faiths but he is actually very well-rounded and explores a Lot of different faiths in-depth. a very kindly man generally speaking, wakes students up after class and asks if they’re okay. so people don’t expect it when he can absolutely tear into some asshole who’s being prejudiced and cruel with that same friendly smile and somehow never crossing any potential boundaries. has office hours in which his favorite students come in and have philosophical debates with him. he adores this and serves them tea.
inara: art history! idk why i think this other than maybe the scene where she and mal talk about the mona lisa and just like. vibes. she is well-versed in many different schools and movements of art, but the baroque period is her biggest area of study. and every other semester, she also teaches an elective in calligraphy. bc she does do calligraphy in canon! idk why i love that sm but i do. she is perfectly polite and cordial to her students and welcomes any questions they have with grace but they know almost nothing about Her or her personal life. which is how she likes it. somehow word breaks out that she is, in fact, a quite notable artist herself. everyone’s a little intimidated until she snaps at them for it.
kaylee: something in mechanical engineering?? but that’s like a whole degree hm… probably some intro course in that degree, though occasionally her students have a hard time understanding because there’s some stuff she just Gets intrinsically but doesn’t always know how to explain. tends to take a very hands-on approach and encourages all of her students to Learn By Doing, to mixed results. somehow knows Everyone’s name and Everyone on campus seems to know her too. if her students ever talk about their car problems in front of her she’s like “you’re gonna pay WHAT for that” and then fixes it herself instead. they do not get that much say in the matter and the only thing they have to pay for is if a new part is needed so… win?
simon: gross anatomy and physiology. obviously something medical/for pre-med students and these made a lot of sense to me since trauma surgery (i mean all surgery and medicine obviously but as a specialty it) requires a really basic foundational understanding of the human body and its processes. i think he is a really big believed in establishing that you know the basics really really well before ANYTHING else. i also think he finds anatomy a tinyyy bit boring (important! but he likes explaining the Processes, the Why and How - “suffocation’s not exactly the most dignified way to go. the human body will — “) and so he says fine to teaching anatomy but only if they let him teach physiology too. everyone knows he’s going to be head of the department once the current head retires. in the meantime, gets mistaken by his students for a ta at first. basically every semester. and his peers like to rag him for being a Baby. (yes some of them are jealous that the Baby zipped through med school and his residency before deciding to teach, and is way way way more published than any of them). also the guy who has like three caffeine sources on him. how much of a hardass he is depends entirely on how much he thinks his students are trying. some students are scared of him. but he tutors a lot outside of class if asked and is really patient with students who are putting in the effort but struggling for one reason or another, and good at helping students figure out what path would actually suit them in a blunt-but-compassionate way.
mal: history! i think some intro courses because i think mr. “half of history’s hiding the truth” (and he’s right!) really believes in, again, teaching the foundational aspects of Knowing Your History but also the kind of things that tend to get swept under the rug. he comes off grumbly and sarcastic with his students and threatens to fail them for the most minor bs but they pick up on the fact that he’s a big ole softie really quickly and bully him for it (affectionately!) constantly. you actually have to be trying really hard to fail his class. someone definitely gives him a “world’s okayest professor” mug. Will square up with a bigoted asshole in class and narrowly avoid getting fired. he does Not have book’s restraint. (book hears about this and tries to teach him. it doesn’t go great.) sure does seem to hang around in the building where most of the pre-med classes happen… hey are he and the anatomy and physiology professor friends i thought they hated each other? hey why do they both have hickies who said that
zoe: civics? ngl i struggled. maybe seems at odds with her Independence soldier thing but. i think she is someone who understands that in order to dismantle and/or be aware of the government’s bs you have to know how it works. and i think she would lean hard not into “here’s what you have to do to be a Good Citizen and the Most Law Abiding Person Ever” but “here are the Civil Responsibilities you have To Each Other.” very very well-known to not take late work and has a glare some students can be a little intimated by. but actual class is a lot of discussion and activities students like and she finds a way to make it fun and interesting. also known as the professor to go to if you’re trying to get an on-campus job you need a letter of recommendation from a professor for (not how it works everywhere or for every job on campus but! in my experience it does for some of them) because she Gets It and if she can speak to your work ethic she will. everyone foes eventually figure out she’s besties with softie history professor, which (along w letter writing) does bring down her intimidating street cred a Little.
jayne: really really struggled with jayne. i do agree with @homosexual--mothman that a trade school would probably work better for him but i have a whole university thing going here so uhhh. intro to animal tracking is what i came up with. he is good with guns and i think is implied to have hunted? and one of the skills mal sees in him aside from that IS tracking — “found you easy enough” “yeah you did didn’t you?” i rest my case. anyway. does NOT want to be there have the time but these kids ARE gonna learn safety protocols bc it he ever runs into them out in the woods he does NOT wanna have to deal with trying to help them lmao. i think 50/50 on whether students love him or hate him — because he’s crass and inappropriate, which some students find funny and some don’t, and because he doesn’t care about latework and is kinda lax about the actual schoolwork, which sometimes students like and some don’t. does actually have lot of a good practical information. regularly scene arguing with the physiology and anatomy professor bc they ACTUALLY hate each other. no one can tell whether he and river (see below) are friends or not.
wash: flight safety and flight training in the aviation program! doesn’t like lecturing but knows the safety part is important. teaches best (and thinks students learn best) by first observing him and then having them get actual practical experience. BELOVED by students though some think his jokes are a little overrated. (wash i’m so sorry.) is really good at making things fun and engaging and being patient with any panicking students without assuming that doesn’t mean they can’t get the hang of it eventually. also! zoe doesn’t talk about her personal life at all in class. but wash does not shut tf about her. most think it’s cute! the ones in both classes only find it a little awkward. he and kaylee grab lunch a lot bc their schedules line up and buildings are pretty close.
river: existential philosophy—no, quantum physics—no, dance—no, theoretical mathematics—look river wants to teach everything and i’m going to let her. she somehow gets the university to let her teach something different every semester. she WAS a child prodigy after all, who is every bit as published as simon (who does also threaten to decline their offer, since he and river were both looking at the same time, if they don’t let her do this. river thought this was stupid. she was handling it!) they really really wanted her so… 🤷🏻♀️i also think she spends all the time she’s on campus and isn’t teaching auditing others classes. simon has to (very gently) kick her out a few times because she keeps answering before his students can. this is also how she meets book who she then goes to the office hours of to join philosphocal debate time. i think her students like her but don’t always know what to make of her her teaching methods are not bad but not always traditional, she murmurs to herself a lot, and is just generally not great at masking. most of them just roll with it because they know she’s a literal genius and she does make class interesting, though she does have a similar problem to kaylee (even moreso, probably) where because she just Gets some stuff, sometimes it’s hard to explain it. i also think anyone who’s taken a class with bother her and simon is not surprised to learn they’re siblings, even though in may ways they’re so different, because like…. it just makes sense, somehow.
Firefly Textpost Meme 31 (Pride Month Special Edition?)
being a fan of something with like 30 total fans on tumblr is funny bc you get like 12 notes on a post and you're like wow the gang's all here
