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I've been finding a lot in Firefly communities where I've gone to post my fic, Wash/Jayne is one of the only ships without its own tag, and there are a lot of weird and disturbing ships that have one. So I decided to rate every possible Firefly ship into four categories. They are:


I SHIP IT
[This is pairings I actively ship through writing them, actively seeking out fics or cannon material of them, or just squeeing about how much I love them - internally and externally]
Jayne/Kaylee
Mal/Inara
Wash/Zoe
Jayne/Wash

MEH
[These are pairings I couldn't care less about, but that don't squick me and that I don't find implausible when written decently.]
Kaylee/Simon
Mal/Simon
Jayne/Simon
River/Jayne
Kaylee/Inara
Kaylee/Wash

THAT'S NOT QUITE RIGHT
[These are ships that either squick me a little or don't seem quite plausible to me, but if you want to ship them more power to you.]
Book/Anyone
Jayne/Zoe
Jayne/Inara
Mal/Wash
Kaylee/Zoe
Kaylee/River
Simon/Inara

TOO WRONG FOR WORDS
These are ships I actively do not ship because they are majorly squicky to me and/or they contradict a ship I feel very strongly about and/or they are completely implausible to me. If you ship these in a really dead serious and not cracky fun type way I will ask you FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY?. Some of them I object to because they have really problematic aspects, others I just don't get. Some have been influenced by particular horrible fics that treated the concept of the ship in a really squicky and/or idiotic and/or horrible way and scarred me for life.]
Simon/River
Mal/Kaylee
Mal/River
Mal/Jayne
Mal/Zoe
Wash/Simon
Wash/Inara
Wash/River
Inara/Zoe
Inara/River
Zoe/River


Also: found some fun Firefly gifs and added some silliness to the end of my fic post which is friends only, so I'll just post them again here:
[What if Wash & Jayne found out that Wash/Jayne was a thing?]
Hey, Wash & Jayne. Did you know Wash/Jayne was a thing?



Yeah, sure. *Shows them fic*



Plus some more random Wash/Jayne related ones here:
[Fun Wash/Jayne moments]




:P The chemistry, it is overpowering. Seriously, don't ask me to explain how cannon supports Wash/Jayne because I will find a way and it will be very long and detailed and read way into things that weren't meant to be like nobody's business.

I've done a lot of internal tv/movie related squeeing lately which I felt the need to post suddenly.

-OMG ADAM BALDWIN WAS ON CASTLE!!! He was a tough rebellious cop type and Castle (Nathan Fillion for non-castle-fans) tagged along with him for one episode and it was absolutely brilliant to see Jayne order a slightly nervous, in awe, eager to impress Mal around :D :D He was all fanboy-y about Adam's character it was so fun to watch.
A little clip of them
And another

-Offspring is glorious and infuriating and I love it anyway! It's so great that even plot points which have me yelling in anger at the stupidity of them when they are first introduced win me over by the end of the episode.
[Offspring season 3 & 4 spoilers]
(Mainly the whole Nina and Patrick's breakup is permanent so there and now she might possibly pregnant to him and can't Billie have a break and some happiness now please) have me completely won over by the end of the episode because of the realistic awesome way they tackle them. Like Nina and Patrick are my third favorite couple in tv (After Wash & Zoe and Lily & Marshal) and the show has me accepting their breakup!

Anyway it is my favorite currently airing show and I love Asher Keddie and Deborah Mailman and the guys who play Patrick, Clegg and Darcy. And everyone else. I just love the whole series. <3 <3 <3
Quick promo of season 3 to introduce it for those unaware of its awesomeness (it's a medical drama - but don't hold that against it - centering on the themes of family and relationships and children).


[Castle latest season final episode spoilers]
Castle and Beckett sitting in a tree...
YAY! It finally happened!
See?!?!


I finally watched the Avengers and my feelings follow:
-Banner and Stark sitting in a tree...
-They ruined all the most funny bits by putting them all in the promos so that I'd already seen them a few times.
-But it was still awesome and hilarious and squee-worthy.
-Don't really get everyone's feels about Loki though. I mean each to their own, but I don't feel it (attraction). I did feel sympathy for him and I liked the way he was portrayed though.
-All of the leads gave me squiggly feelings in one way or another which was unusual. There's usually at least one I'm meh over. Well... Cap'n America was pretty meh but not completely unattractive.
-Hawkeye was the cutest though.
-Except for Natasha obviously. Scarlet is stunning.
-Robin!! I recognized her from her voice. Ant was all "What's she doing there?" and I was "Six degrees of separation" (HIMYM / NPH / Dr Horrible / Joss / Avengers) but I kid it's probably just because she's awesome (which she is).


ETA:
Also... While I'm here, some lists wanted to be shared:

Top five cannon tv couples:
5. Angela/Hodgins - Bones
4. Castle/Beckett - Castle
3. Nina/Patrick - Offspring
2. Lily/Marshall - HIMYM
1. Wash/Zoe - Firefly

Top five cannon couples in books:
5. Arthur/Fenchurch - HGTTG
4. Beka/Farmer - Tortal
3. Ron/Hermione - Harry Potter
2. Rushton/Elspeth - The Obernewtyn Chronicles
1. Daine/Numair - Tortal

Top five non-cannon slash pairings from anything ever:
5. Jayne/Wash - Firefly (I dunno why - don't look at me like that. It just... popped in my head one day)
4. Brydda/Reuvan - The Obernewtyn Chronicles
3. Vega/Cortez - Mass Effect 3
2. Banner/Stark - The Avengers
1. John/Sherlock - BBC Sherlock

Top five cannon slash pairings from anything ever:
5. Jeff/Deacon - Artifice
4. Tom/Alex - Khaos Komix
3. Justin/Brian - QAF
2. Michael/Ben - QAF
1. TJ/Amal - The Less than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal

Top five non-cannon pairings from anything ever - excluding those already mentioned in other lists:
5. Kel/Dom - Tortal (I'm pretty sure it's practically cannon but not quite officially?)
4. Does Lanie/Espezito count as non cannon since they broke up? - Castle
3. Ellie/Homer - Tomorrow When the War Began.
2. Jayne/Kaylee - Firefly
1. Joker/Beka Shepard - Mass Effect 3

ETA2:
Okay, I feel the need to monologue a little on Wash/Jayne. Until recently my most vehement rule about Firefly shipping (aside from no incest) was nothing that breaks up or interferes with Zoe/Wash. But really recently the idea of Wash/Jayne popped into my head. Probably for two reasons:
1) I have a soundbite of Firefly which includes the following dialogue as my alarm to wake up every morning:
Jayne: Does anyone remember [river] coming at me with a butcher's knife?
Wash: Wacky fun...
Jayne: You wanna go little man?
Wash: Only if it's some place with candlelight
2) I've been itching to pair Jayne in a slash relationship recently for some reason. And I'm just not feeling Mal/Jayne and I don't like Simon enough individually to be interested in Jayne/Simon although I concede it makes the most sense out of the few slash options for Jayne.
So.. .yeah. The more I think about it the more intrigued I am by it. I'm just really curious as to how that might work between them. And I don't mean how would Wash end up not with Zoe and then with Jayne. I mean I'm really interested in what kind of dynamic they would have in a physical and/or romantic relationship. Maybe it would be a disaster, I dunno. I'll have to think on it some more.
Although, I think I should make clear that this is only in an absolutely absurd fan fiction what if kind of way and not something I'm going to start actively shipping. Wash/Zoe and Jayne/Kaylee will forever remain my one true pairings for those characters. I think... :P