Occasionally Snarky and Meta

I just realized I never shared this bit of Firefly meta with anyone.  What did the Tams know?

When we meet Gabriel Tam in a flashback (with Zac Efron playing young Simon), he seems like a strict, but not unloving father.  We don't see Regan Tam with her kids when they're young, although we do see her in a flashback that's closer to when the events of Firefly take place.

If you recall, Simon tries to tell them that something is wrong with River. He uses her letters as an example, saying how she talked about parties they went to that, in reality, never happened. Her parents deny it, and when Simon gets into trouble for snooping, he gets a stern warning.

This begs the question: What did the Tams know?
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I decided to sit down, write, and see what I came up with. It's probably not a bad exercise.

These may or may not be edited at a later time. There are also mild spoilers for each fandom.




( Hair (Harry Potter; Andromeda, Alice, Tonks) )


( Mustache (Firefly; Wash/Zoe )

 

( Columbia (Community; Jeff, two Original Characters) )

At some point this past summer, not_last_resort requested a drabble. I wrote one, but for some reason it never got posted.

I found the drabble, but then I kept forgetting the notebook at work, and I don't really have LJ access at work anymore.

That's the story of the drabble never posted.

Onto the drabble itself!

Fandom: Firefly

Title: The Trouble With Wash: A Quartet

Author: author_by_night

Summary: When Mal meets a peculiar man named Wash, he is instantly pleased. He doesn't realize how quickly things will change.

Ships: Wash/Zoe.
( The Trouble With Wash: A Quartet )

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Note to certain flister: This is not only related to my comment last night. It's more like... the comment I made made me think of an entry I've needed to make for a while now. (Of course, I probably have written about this before and forgot... forgive me if I have.)

I've noticed that a lot of times in fandom, I see the following question: "do you like slash?"

( Why that question is a conundrum )


* Of course, this is Whedonverse we're talking about, and from what I've seen of Whedonverse, he does like his characters to "jump ship" quite a bit, so perhaps it's not that implausible.

Want me to write a drabble for you? Comment here with something - characters, a missing moment, a random prompt, etc. When I'm doing replying, I'll post another entry linking to my responses. (I'll actually respond to the comment.)

Fandoms I will write:

- Firefly

- Heroes (though I'm only really good for season 1 canon)

- Harry Potter

- Buffy (though I'm only really good for the first two seasons canon - everything else I've seen bits of)

- Doctor Horrible

- Rent

- Wicked


Ships I will write:

- Remus/Tonks (include post-TDH AU if you'd like!)

- Charlie/Tonks (I'll only do post-TDH AU or pre-OoTP with that)

- Ron/Hermione

- Harry/Ginny

- Kaylee/Simon

- Zoe/Wash

- Neville/Hannah

- Hestia/Kingsley (it would be fun to try, anyway)

ETA: I'm also more than happy to write genfic. :) I love exploring friendships and siblingships and so on.

So Joss Whedon is sexist.

If you ask me, I think anyone who assumes a man talking to a woman in words other than "what a beautiful morning" must be an evil sexist is actually sexist themselves.

And I dunno, one of the things I most loved about Firefly was that it wasn't a bunch of uberwomen in tight clothing having sex with every male passenger, or shy!women who were completely submissive and cried all the time. Inara even never sleeps with any of the passengers, and her sleeping with other men is a very complex matter. Saffron acts submissive and cries all the time when we first meet her, but that's part of her act.

Even Buffy (also Joss Whedon)... I've never watched the show, but as far as I can tell, it is fairly free of sexism. Okay, so Buffy is pretty much the pretty blonde girl with superpowers, but from what I've read, none of the other typical cliches are present. She doesn't sleep with every male character, she doesn't dress to please the male audience, nor does she need the man to save her or fall into love triangles "by accident," despite being an otherwise nice girl next door. (LOL to that plotline - you don't accidentally end up in your boyfriend's brother's bed  if you're a nice person, okay?)

If you want to accuse something of being sexist, I'd go with Indiana Jones (and even that, with hesitation, as I only know about it through hearsay.) But Joss Whedon isn't the evil sexist man you want to point your finger at.