Browncoat Army: Serenity Day, June 23rd
POSTED BY: Kaele
UPDATED: Thursday, April 27, 2006 05:25
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Well said FM.
I've been out in the black and just gettin back to the verse. Started reading' up on this 'nitiative yesterday (on the old thread) and continued to this one today. And for the most part there are warm and fuzzies abounding, although the not so warm and fuzzies that exist are jarring. We're all on the same track, just some is stubbing toes while walking on the ties!
That being said, we are the army of browncoats. There are upwards of 20,000 of us on this one site alone. We have the numbers, we have the one purpose. I think it's extremely shiny that we're doing this. I also think since we're asking the browncoats to participate in this, the wording of the sig is appropriate. We are trying to reach browncoats with this message, not joe what's your name. We'll reach him after we get our new copies of the movie!!
I want to help because I believe in the goal - we can get more of our BDH's. How will i do that??? Buy DVD's and help ensure the preplanning for a charity screening here in Ottawa DOES in fact happen. Oh, and maybe make use of 11th hours fantastic gorilla marketing posters, with overlay of Charity event info! (if' she's okay with that??)
my .02 on name of day = how'bout de-unification day. I'd like to undo what the alliance did!! All kididng aside, any of the proposed names would do.
As for writing a book FM - heck, you t'wern't even close! JBW
I'll be in Jaynes bunk
One day
One mission
One army of browncoats
On June 23, We Aim To Misbehave!
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I've been casually lurking, visiting this site every few months. Then I rented serenity on a whim and it got me really excited about the whole firefly universe again, but also sad because I knew there wasn't any firefly stories left to see, and prospect of a new series with dead characters is disheartening.
So I checked this site again, and what are the odds, its a day after this original post. O_o!
So yeah, I'll be buying serenity&firefly June23 off amazon, and I'll try to get involved with whatever flash skills I have.
If anyone else is lurking, just post and say hi, visable support can snowball. 
As for names, I like the name Fireflyday because it rolls off the tounge so much more easily than anything else I've seen.
Will there eventually be a giant "June23, etc." static link blatently obvious at the top of this site? As it stands, one really have to hunt for this thread and any info reguarding June23 right now.
And if theres 20k people here, why are there so few votes on http://www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly/ ?
June23 needs more advertising, even if its just giant static text, it'll work just fine :)
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Ok guys and gals. BIG news here.
Go vote over at the new thread for Browncoat Army: Firefly Day vs. Serenity Day.
Second issue, our main slogan we're pushing is:
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
I know I wussed out earlier, but crew doesn't have the ring to it that Army has. We're an army, no denying. And Joss called us that. He's the creator. He's the genius.
So everyone who's working on adverts, run with it. Everthing I've seen so far has ROCKED!
Keep up the excellent work.
You all are one shiny group of folk.
~Kaele
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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YAY!
But, ehm, WASN'T FIRFLY DAY TAKEN? I'm pretty certain it was. 11th hour reported this, I think, something about December. Wouldn't wanna steal some fellow Browncoats' day there. We didn't know about that when the poll was put online, and Max wasn't around, for understandable reasons.
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly
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Ok, I was going to post something comparable and hoped to get lots of support, but it's faster this way.
Thanks, Kaele.
I wished for Serenity Day too, but I'll take what we've got and get on with it.
I'm ready to work!
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave!
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Originally posted by Kaele:
Ok guys and gals. BIG news here.
We're going with Firefly Day because everyone voted on it. I know I disagree, but the masses have spoken and that's what it's gonna be!
Well yeah, when the votes are that heavily weighted for "Firefly Day", then that seems like the fans have spoken. But I'm still scratchin' my head over it. We're pushing to buy truckloads of the "Serenity" DVD, but it's called "Firefly Day"? Honestly, it does tend to confuse... but, oh well...
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Second issue, our main slogan we're pushing is:
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
Of all the different combinations, this one seems the best. "Mission" does describe our endeavor and is a very activated word.
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I know I wussed out earlier, but crew doesn't have the ring to it that Army has. We're an army, no denying. And Joss called us that. He's the creator. He's the genius.
Joss is Boss.
"Army" does go together with "Browncoat", just like healthsome apples goes together with some kind of protein cheese food substance.
As for folks concerned about the whole "browncoats" and "brownshirts" association, this should be able to be avoided because our promotional materials will have Sci-Fi/Westerny imagery on it. So NO swastikas people!!!
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So everyone who's working on adverts, run with it. Everthing I've seen so far has ROCKED!
Keep up the excellent work.
You all are one shiny group of folk.
Yeppers!
11th Hour
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Okay, once again...
I THINK 11TH HOUR SAID THAT "FIREFLY DAY" HAS ALREADY BEEN TAKEN.
I think this is an important piece of information, don't you? I mean, I'm confused.
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly
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Originally posted by Agatsu:
YAY!
But, ehm, WASN'T FIRFLY DAY TAKEN? I'm pretty certain it was. 11th hour reported this, I think, something about December. Wouldn't wanna steal some fellow Browncoats' day there. We didn't know about that when the poll was put online, and Max wasn't around, for understandable reasons.
Actually what I posted was that "Browncoat Day" was already taken. It's December 9th, the day the Firefly DVD was released.
I think someone got the words a little confuzzled. But Agatsu, I do appreciate that you stepped up to defend the name of the day!
As far as I know, "Firefly Day" was not officially designated by the fans yet. But it may have been... this campaign hasn't really reached other message boards in a big way yet. Those folks also didn't vote on the name of the day.
But I still don't get why so many people want to use "Firefly Day" as the name to mark the day we all push to buy "Serenity". Really, shouldn't we save "Firefly Day" for when we something that's really centered around Firefly?
I know a lot of fans had resistance to the word "Serenity" because it's a very misleading word to new folk. But our plans include flyers and banners and the images connected with "Serenity" would be our gorgeous cast, Sci-Fi/Western, and probably lots of pics of Serenity flying in space. So people would see the unsual combination and it would get their curiosity going.
People may not all agree that "Serenity" is a good name for the movie, promotion-wise, because the word does not say "Futuristic Adventure Story"... but like it or not, it IS the title of the movie and should be dominating our promotion. We can't dance around the subject that Serenity is a misleading name, we gotta keep putting it out there SO PEOPLE KNOW WHICH DVD TO BUY.
I know the votes are in, I don't really want to cause strife or nothin'. But if we don't want to come off sounding a bit amateurish in our promotion campaign, we really should name the day after the DVD we are pushing so hard to get known.
Otherwise, if the media does pick up on the story... I can tell you right now, THOSE writers are going to snicker a bit over how the name of the day and the DVD we're promoting don't match. We fans could end up looking like we didn't think the name of the day through well enough.
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Calling it "Firefly Day" when the whole thing is about buying "Serenity" could end up causing us embarassment. We're going to be pouring all kinds of time and energy into this promotion... we may be shooting ourselves in the foot to have a contradictory name.
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Okay, I've said it... but it was said with love...
11th Hour
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Darn double posting!
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I know, 11th, because those were my thoughts as well. But people have been pushing me towards fireflyday and the website is fireflyday.com.
Although...let me speak to Pizmobeach. He also purchased serenityjune23rd.com and I'm thinking we can run with that to be the website for Serenity Day IF that's how we feel.
Serenity Day makes perfect sense to me.
But it's gotta be decided because there are tons of people working on flyers/avatars/banners who need an answer.
Now, I ain't a dictator, and this is why I went with Firefly Day. If you all want Serenity Day, then I'll go with that. Making a new thread for people to vote... Since Max isn't here for us to use his nice voting software. (I'm so computerally inept.)
~Kaele
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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