#firefly au

[nessypanda-art]

Y'all are always so stinking cute with y'all's compliments on my art, so consider this a small present (and because I might have promised that I would post this based on a poll)

So I present you a few pages from the first Episode of Firefly as a little treat!!

‼️SPOILERS BELOW‼️

Limiting myself to 6 pages is hard! Honestly, I want to just post whatever I have and move on but I have to stay strong!!

Production has slowed down since I'm struggling a little bit, but I'm making sure to keep slowly chipping away at it!!

Consider this one of the last Firefly AU related posts I'll be posting under the official MotH tag!!

[hurglewurm]

@excalibros i've been watching all of firefly/serenity and the ragtag team found family on a spaceship... that's food. i love space western. gave some of em earrings bc i do what i want

[id: an illustration of a five-character line up from merlin in the firefly universe: morgana, gwen, arthur, merlin, and gwaine. morgana is roughly based on river, wearing a green dress with a short leather vest and cowboy boots. gwen is taking kaylee's role, wearing a lavender top and grimy orange coveralls tied at the waist. arthur is wearing mal's outfit: red shirt, big boots, and suspenders, with several belts. merlin is wearing a red scarf and blue shirt with a brown vest and fingerless gloves. gwaine is roughly dressed like jayne, in a grey shirt with brown camo pants, as well as shoulder holsters, thigh holsters, and two belts. end id.]

[crookshallowao3]

Into the Ether

Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku ; Complete ; Explicit ; +12K

[A tale of thick-headedness, thievery, and finding your family in the vast frontier.]

The party moves away from the ballroom entrance and up through the hall, not unlike a massing swarm of antelope, and Katsuki is careful to stick to the edges lest he end up crushed amongst the socializing herd. But a hand hooks around his elbow.

"There's our interesting guest. Dabi sent me to fetch you," teases a low voice in his ear.

"Great," Katsuki deadpans, firming his arm for escort, and resisting the urge to lean into him.

"And what brings an esteemed Captain like you to a party like this?" Midoriya teases again, as if he might be able to flirt the information out of Katsuki. Yeah, right.

Katsuki stops still in the hallway, turning to drag his eyes once over the man. So many prying eyes.

"I've got some property I'm hoping to pick up."

"Doesn't everyone," he returns, lifting one eyebrow and smiling smugly before dragging them forward back into the throng.

Smarmy little shit is enjoying himself.

If you ask Katsuki, taking dinner in an aviary is a great way to get shit in your salad, but everyone oohs and ahhs as they move into the lush room. There's a sprawling table about 80 miles long and sunset spilling into the candlelight from the glass-domed ceiling. Candy-colored crap machines squawk annoyingly overhead.

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[vague-shadows]

A Captain's Goal is Simple

by Vague_Shadows | Batman - All Media Types

Batfam AU/Fusion of Firefly started to fill Birdwatchers365 Challenge One Word Prompt for Day 53: "Simplicity" (and as a self-indulgent birthday present to myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

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“I cannot believe you’re actually making me do this,” Jason grumbles as Tim delightedly forces a recording device into his hand.  

“Come on, Little Wing,” Dick wheedles - like Jason isn’t the goddamned captain of this spaceship. “You lost the bet, fair and square, which means I get to decide how we’re gonna keep the ship’s records, and I say you gotta do a captain’s log.”

Jason had protested vehemently - supposedly because it was pointless and childish - but the truth he would never admit was that the idea only brought to mind bittersweet memories of listening to Bruce record mission debriefs when they were kids - when there was still a Mission to serve and a Gotham to protect. Jason used to be bored to tears half the time, but some days, he would give just about anything to hear Bruce droning on about mundane patrols.  Those days are long gone - Bruce is long gone - no matter what conspiracy theories Tim is clinging to in his grief. They failed the Mission - failed Earth - failed Gotham.  

Now, like most of the surviving remnants of the Justice League and its allies, Jason has drifted to the edges of the system, far from President Luthor’s control. Out here, people struggle to get by with the most basic technologies, but Jason knew how to survive by scraping by from one day to the next: a ship would bring you work; a gun would help you keep it. 

When the Justice League - the Bat among them - fell to Luthor’s ironclad hold on the system, Jason’s goals became simple: find a crew; find a job; keep flying.

 “Fine, then.” Jason huffs, snatching the device from Tim.

Jason might not be a scholar anymore, but he still knows the value of a decent prologue. If he’s going to do this damn thing, he’s going to do it right.  He sighs and presses the record button.  

“Look, here's how it is: the Earth got used up, so Lex Luthor and his buddies moved out and terraformed a whole new set of Earths on all the other moons and planets they could get to some rich and flush with the new technologies, some not so much. Once folks were pretty dependent on Lex’s infrastructure - or his allies’ - they took the Central Planets, formed the Alliance, and waged war on the Justice League to bring down the only organization that stood a chance at challenging their rule; a few idealistic idiots gave just about everything they had to try and fight it, including all of us: the crew of the Serenity.  I'm Jason Peters, captain of Serenity. She’s a transport ship, repurposed after the war from a Chiroptera class megashuttle. I worked my ass off getting her ready to fly again, so she’s my ship - no matter what my First Officer or anybody else might try to tell ya.”

He glares at Dick, but his brother doesn’t rise to the bait of the jab.  Jason is about to stop recording, but Dick flaps his hands at Jason, and urges, “Good, that’s great! Keep going, keep going.”

Dick’s usual scowl of annoyance at Jason claiming full ownership of Serenity is nowhere to be found, replaced with a bright-eyed joy Jason hasn’t seen in a long while.  So he rolls his eyes and gives in to his brother’s request.

 “Got a good crew,” he admits, grudgingly. Dick does frown a little at that, but Jason refuses to call them all a family , like this is some fairytale and not just the epilogue to their nightmare of a life.  “All pretty decent fighters when they need to be, even if they’re ridiculously pompous and showy about it.” 

He smirks at Dick who gives an exaggerated frown and punches him not-so-lightly in the shoulder.

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[damniteggs]

playing around with color schemes and Donnie dressed as Malcom Reynolds to keep on theme with the rottmnt cowboy trend

[mangetsuame]

Sketch dump 1/2 of stuff I drew for the greed island server's game!! I will also include the stuff I wrote in a separate post!

[baconwaffle2016]

so...i published something. whoo hoo

a One Piece fic featuring Ace x Isuka, commissioned by @ PiratePlunder (on AO3)

hope you enjoy reading it!

[nephilimeq]

take me out to the black (far enough to say we're gone)

(aka the Firefly crossover fic no one asked for where Buck is a Reader and ends up on Tommy's ship, the Safe Harbor)

Chapter 2 -

…and then he turned his head and saw the two strangers that he had seen only a few hours before at the spa emerging from the back of Captain Nash’s mule.

“It’s okay, Buck. We’re safe,” the short, dark-haired woman said, grasping at the hand of the man with the beautiful long legs and striking blue eyes.

Just as he was about to open his mouth to ask about them, Bobby said, “Kinard! These are the two I was telling you about,” and stepped towards him and said with a wide sweeping arm, “Captain Thomas Kinard, I would like you to meet Maddie and Evan Buckley. Maddie’s a nurse and Buck is…well, he’s good at everything else.”

Evan.

It suited him.

LINK: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63827149/chapters/165764161#workskin

[directionerplusgleek]

Alby's trying his hardest to keep his ship in the air, but managing his chaotic crew and his own emotions is beginning to take its toll.

Submission for AU-gust 2024 - Crossover/Fusion

[rhythm-catsandwine]

Life Finds a Way

Master list

Chapters

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Summary

It can be dangerous and lonely in the black. The only thing you can do is cling together and protect those you love. Reavers aren't the only thing to fear in the black.

Will life find a way? Or will they die an early and horrific death?

Notes: This is a Firefly Au with a few additions and changes of my own. They are in a polycule, but the main couples are Danny/Maynard and Justin/Adam.

I also have no clue how many chapters there will be, and if you think something is a reference to something. It probably is.

Chapter One: Inspection

 Justin opened his eyes and stretched. “Adam.” He gently shook the man sleeping next to him. Two weeks ago he had his own bunk. A tiny space on the ship to call his own. Now he slept in the captain's quarters, but he was just the pilot. “Adam, wake up.” 

Justin opened the hatch to their bunk and climbed up to the walkway that led from the galley to the bridge. The crew bunks lined the walkway. The two biggest were across from each other where the four of them slept.

Maynard smirked before stepping down into the kitchen to make breakfast. “You two still fucking like cats in heat?”

“Least I don’t fuck Danny in the engine bay. With the door open.” Adam squeezed Justin’s shoulder before heading to the bridge. 

“You're the only one on this ship who doesn’t.”

“You two should just move in together,” Danny said.

“We already did.”

“When?” Danny his way towards the gallery, stomach growling.

“Bout a week ago,” Justin answered then turned to head up to the bridge. 

“I told you they would.” Maynard held his hand out to Danny. “Come on, pay up.”

“How? Thanks to you we have one account. How would that work?” 

“Then you do laundry for a month. Cover both our turns.” 

“Why laundry?” 

“I need a break from washing your stinky socks." Maynard turned back to the pancakes cooking on the ship’s small stove. “Pancakes, Pancakes, sure do love them pancakes.” He handed the ship foodie the first plate of his sweet delicious creation. “Pancakes, pancakes, Danny loves my pancakes. “ 

“Danny! Will you wake her up? Breakfast can wait.” Adam’s voice came from the bridge. 

Danny mumbled through a mouthful,  that sounded something like “But a growing boy needs his breakfast.”

“Fine! I’ll do it.” Their captain grumbled as he passed the other two. Once in the engine bay, he ran his finger over the metal of her hull. “Time to wake up. It’s everyone’s least favorite day of the year.” He pressed the button that made the engine start spinning. “It’s only for a couple of days then we’ll find a job, and you’ll be flying through the black again.” Adam made his way back up to the bridge.

Justin flipped a few switches and started driving the ship forward. "Wot time is her appointment?" Their boat was due for her yearly inspection. So once a year every ship had to go to a moon located in the inner planets and let the feds look all over their beloved home. 

"Hour and a half," Adam answered.  He fell back into the captain's chair. Across from where his young pilot was. "When is-"

"Atmo in one hour. Go change.” The green and blue planet and its grayish mood slowly grew bigger amongst the stars. “ N braid yer hair it makes you look a bit more polished.”

“Only for you.” Adam left the bridge once more to pull the long coat that identified him as a captain out of his entirely black wardrobe. He was only captain because he owned the ship and he made some of the tough decisions as well as found jobs that put food on the table. Other than that they voted, without rank. 

They landed softly in their inspection slot. Adam walked down the cargo bay door which doubled as a ramp. 

"Registration for ship and crew?" The inspector asked. 

Adam handed over the paper sheets. "Firefly class B midbulk cargo ship. 6th model. "

"Name?" 

"Shadow."

"Crew?"

“Adam Thomas Jones - Captain. Danie Edwin Carey - Mechanic (and one half of security), Maynard James Keenan- medical ( second half of security and cook ) - Justin Gunner Walter Chancellor - Pilot. (the pretty one )”

"License?" Justin handed over the little metal rectangle. The inspector studied it and read the notes that came up on his handheld screen. His eyebrows raised and his mouth and lips curved down into a frown. He then looked at the man in front of him. Long curls and dressed in shorts and an old t-shirt. "You've got remarkably high marks. And you sure look a little young to piolet a ship by yourself."

"Mum said I was born to fly." He grinned. 

"I'll need one more person to look at this. "

Adam sighed and rolled his eyes." yeah. So he graduated top of his class and is already one of the best pilots in the verse. No need for that. How long will we be here?”

“Well, these Firefly models have quite a few hiding spaces. Common for smugglers and pirates to fly. So it will be two days. But I’ll give you extra night credits since you were early. How many do you need? 4?”

“Two.” Adam took the two plastic hotel keys from the inspector. Then walked over to the rest of the crew. Grumbling about paranoid and corrupt government.

"You're the paranoid one," Danny said just loud enough for him to hear.  

"Someone always stays on the ship."  That was the only rule Adam had. “Someone could steal her.”

"Only your paranoid ass thinks that."

"She was once!"

"Paul's fault," Maynard added.

"You mean the betrayer?" Adam hissed.

“Least it only happens once a year.” Justin tried to soothe the irritation in the air.

"So once a year we all have to be off the ship. Big deal!”  “ It's just a ship."

"Her name is "Shadow!"" The other three said together. 

They had split up. Danny and Maynard to stock up on food. Justin and Adam went to check into their room for the night. 

"Ask Miranda" was graffitied on a few walls, trash bins, benches, and signs. 

"Wot zackly happened with Miranda? I only heard rumors as a kid." Justin asked, walking next to his captain, shoulders almost touching. He was the youngest of the crew, and just a kid when the verse changed forever. 

"So I guess a Firefly like ours but the  3rd model went there. Found out the feds created the reavers. Apparently, they fucked with the atmo to make people more relaxed.  Some went too far. Didn't care about anything.  Not food. Breathing.  Just laid down and died. But a small population went the opposite way.  Went insane and became cannibalistic. And the reavers were born. Then they stuck the memories in the verse-wide broadcast channel. So everyone knows what they did. There were rebellions. Nearly started another war."

"But why ask Miranda?"

"Cus that was the planet where it happened.  And they had a government-created psychic that as it and which made them go there." Adam pulled the other closer by the hip.” More on this later. I need a distraction from all this stupid shit.”

“Strawberrie galaxy?” Justen read the name on the bottle of lube. “Again?”

“It’s basically tradition at this point.” Each time they had to stay in the hotel waiting for inspections to be over they fucked. Distractions could hold back any paranoia. And Justin was always the main part of the distraction. Normally Adam wanted to last longer than he did. Justin liked to push them both toward the edge and then jump over it, dragging Adam with him. This was different. The longer they fucked. The less everyone had to deal with the paranoia. 

“Where ya going?” Adam wrapped his arms around his pilot's bare hips. Dark hair out of their braids, hanging down in slight waves.

“Shower. Want to join?”

The huge tub had a bench built into one side of it. Perfect for Justin to sit on the bottom and Adam to reach down and wash those long curls.

“This feels good?” a content hum answered him. “We both needed this.” Last time they were there they weren’t an official thing. One night after they fucked on the bridge under the stars, that changed. On their last job, Justin nearly died and realized how much he cared for the captain. “Okay, rinse.”  Justin sunk down under the warm water, letting the suds flow out of his hair “No. let this sit.” Adam kept him from washing off the lavender-scented conditioner. 

“Why do ya, always do this?”

‘Cus I don’t want your curls to turn into a ball of frizz.”

[reyev]

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From my Firefly AU that idk if it will ever get finished. Also I'm cheating this is 4 lines but it works best together.

“I am a smart man. I passed every exam put before me to legitimize my presence on my home world, have cracked the secure vaults of dozens of high society socialites, and can evade federal marshals while half asleep. I was once told that if I’d been admitted to Core academies I would likely have graduated top of my class. I make these claims to you only so that when I tell you that Slip Jackson makes me look like an idiot child, you understand my full meaning.”

[nessypanda-art]

I'm tired of pussyfooting around! Since I've got like half of the pages done for Episode one, this is my little treat for myself. Consider this the first of many posts related to my MotH AU comic titled Firefly!

To avoid spamming the actual MotH tag, I'll be creating my own specifically for this purpose: " firefly au ". Make sure to save it if you want to see episodes exactly when they go up!

I have a tentative date in mind of when I want to post the first episode, but I'll keep it to myself in case things go tits up.

I think that's about everything I can share at the moment, but in case you want to ask questions feel free to drop by my askbox!

[thewolfparadox]

November Word Count

Total: 9,086 words

(all for the Firefly AU)

I went back to my nanowrimo lessons and did two things that helped bolster my word count for last month

word sprints

killing my inner editor

editing as I write is my biggest problem in terms of speed so the later chapters of the rough draft are much rougher (but it's working)

I may start posting this month (possibly even before finishing the draft bc let's be real it's Really long)

[crookshallowao3]

"You get more interesting all the time, Captain."

"Glad to be a point of interest," he says, tone flat, but taking pains to put a companionable glint in his eye. There are too many people here, and Dabi doesn't seem to be turning his back anytime soon. "But we'll have to pick this up later, I've got someplace to be."

"Shame," Dabi says, "will you be at dinner?"

Katsuki rubs his hand once between furrowed brows at the thought of suffering through the droning meal, but he nods. He steps away from the column, passing his mostly empty drink back into Midoriya's hand, lets his fingers brush against his knuckles.

Midoriya twirls the glass in his hand. He spins it till he can line his mouth up exactly with the smudged mark Katsuki's lips have left on the glass. He tips it backwards and finishes it off.

Katsuki pretends he's not watching, moving his gaze firmly to Dabi's face.

"See you there?"

Dabi gives him a sharp smile and a single friendly nod.

"Later then," Katsuki says, disappearing back into the crowd.

[pluckysidekick]

Reblogging in honor of the Firefly reunion last weekend at Emerald City Comicon (https://www.youtube.com/live/uAxNVvUnk4Y?si=SWUDCBmr8PIS4_Cd)

Happy Sleuthmas @pressdbtwnpages! For @secretsleuthexchange I’ve written you a Space AU inspired by the world of Firefly: Nace: A Space Odyssey !

From your very first Nancy Drew fic I’ve been obsessed with your writing. I was so excited to dig into the world of Firefly for this story. In it the Drew Crew become the crew of the spaceship Florence led by their captain, Nancy (of course). On the lush planet Ceres for a simple job and some R&R, Nancy and her trusty pilot Ace visit a mysterious community where they encounter some familiar faces. Chaos quickly ensues, drawing them closer than they’ve ever been. Will they be able to admit their feelings, and rescue their passengers?

Preview:

“May I get a cup of the local tea?”

“It isn’t teatime!”

“Nancy, you’re here! Do you have time for a treatment? Is Ace with you?”

Nancy marched over to the tub and pulled the mask from Bess’ face none too gently.

“We’re on the run from a sex cult with two teenagers and a cat. Please get out now!”

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Special thanks to my friend @likestosolvethepuzzle who helped me shape this story, and who went above and beyond as my beta.

[damniteggs]

welcome to my Leo as Wash from Firefly agenda. All of the cowboy Leo’s awakened something in me and started a Firefly rewatch..