ZARK1976

Lately my thoughts have been bleak and grey and dreary, but y'know that doesn't make anything better. So tonight I thought I would post something positive. I want to say that I am thankful for lots of things. I'm thankful for my family and for my friends. I'm thankful for the loves I have known and lost, to let me know that there is love. I am thankful for this community that lets people of different social strata in different places of the world communicate and share and generally just support each other. I am thankful for the food for my belly and the roof for my head. I am thankful that I have the leisure to watch things such as firefly and to make the plans for things like my shindig next week. In short, when I think of what I do have, the things that depress or irk me pale in comparison to what I do have. Although that isn't to say I wouldn't be more thankful if I had tons of money and a girlfriend. :wink: Happy Thanksgiving all. I love ya.

THATWEIRDGIRL

i'm a freak, let's just get that out of the way now. Okay, I would like to recreate some stills from the series. Not just Kaylee stuff...

INARAESQUE

To my dear Browncoats: With the news of Serenity being delayed, we're all so disappointed, so, as I've said, I expected more sniping, more bitterness; I expected the in-fighting and snapping at one another that I've seen throughout all my other fandoms. Apparently... not so much. You're all awesome. You've made me cry a little in a good way, seeing how awesome everyone is here, how tenacious and devoted to our show/movie, our cast/crew, to the [I]message[/I] of our show/movie... and to each other. I'm seeing the spirit of theme song embodied in so many posts here. I'm seeing Mal's refusal to lay down and die in the face of bitter disappointment. I can't help but think about that big red button to call everyone back, about Mal's rallying of the troops in Serenity Valley. I'm seeing everything I love about our show and our big damn heroes embodied in the fandom. We're going to hold this valley, browncoats, until our movie comes out and awes us all. Next summer and fall, we are going to share delighted grins at every scan of a magazine ad, every tv spot, every poster spotted, every trailer. There's going to be merchandise and every browncoat's wallet is going to be hurting a bit. I have no doubt that, if there's action figures -- and there better be gorram action figures *ahem* -- we're going to get posed photographs with captions running from the sublime to the obscene and it'll add to the general excitement. The novelisation will come out and there will be much debate over reading it or not, over needing a fix because it's been so long versus not wanting to be spoiled for the actual movie experience. I heard talk of a comic-book adaptation, too, so we'll have the art to debate/delight over, and which lines are included from the movie or not... And we're going to hit that last ten-day countdown so utterly giddy and when we see our little ship and our disreputable crew up on the big screen, we're going to know we've made it this far, we've done the impossible and it does make us, Joss, our BDHs -- all of us -- mighty. Then we're going to watch the money the movie makes and grin delightedly and smugly to one another as Fox and all the detractors are proven so very, very wrong. We're going to have the sheer glee of sequels being announced, and the countdown to an amazing dvd release. And we're just going to go from strength to strength. So we hold this valley, no matter what. We hold. (Adapted from a reply over here:

HUITZIL

well I passed the stupid exams and got a bottle of champagne - which is being given to my aunt as an xmas prezzie cos i hate the foul stuff! date for the nisi (not mine) is 13th december, winter has rid us of of the bite-y little buggers but now my bed's full of catpawmud. going to scotland in jan - never been to scotland / on a plane on my own before (not including the jumping out of one, a real big plane, you know a jet) so should be fun - also it better snow and might go on a haunted house thing to accompany the hugely drunken binging of my friend's sister's hen night! fancy dress themes pending. oh and i'm reeling from buying the buffy box set - after much pondering i thought the best way to decide whether to spend 200 of your earth pounds was to flip a coin. Thanks purely to Rosencrantz I lost, but i bought it anyway. She's sat on my desk - pride of place next to Hsien-Ko, Dark Willow and the Blue eyes white dragon. I've named her Elizabeth.

PSYCHICRIVER

Heya, I'm working on trying to get together some clips so that I can make some fan videos. But I'm having some trouble finding somewhere where I can download all the episodes as wmv files. I have a few ideas for fanvids, and some music lined up...if I get what I need, it'll be great!

KESTRELSEMPAI

I have been involved in various fandoms since I was a teenager reading sci-fi and fantasy novels, watching Star Trek and Buck Rogers. I remember how comforting it felt on my first night away from home at college to turn on the TV and seen an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Not having cable or broadcast access these past years has limited my involvement with network sci-fi. The Stargate SG-1 box sets fed me well, and there was always anime, the fandom I have been a part of and will never leave. And then there came Firefly. And the local Browncoats I met through