Passed through the storm ~ message from 11th Hour
POSTED BY: 11thHour
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 01:43
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Hello 11th Hour:
This is a good sign. Cooperation and good will. I hope this brings you a lot of well deserved good fortune. Browncoats need to hear about triumphs like this. I sit here and look at all the wonderful posts and realise just what I have become a member of. I have not been a member of this site very long, but it is becoming a very comfortable place to a part of.
I have friends who have their own businesses and I know from talking to them it is not easy. They could work for others with less stress and more security, but they want to be independent. It is that spirit that Browncoats understand so well from watching Firefly.
I'm glad to have been here to see this moment.
Congratulations
Traveler
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11th Hour, I'm a lurker who's really glad you came through. I love you, Browncoats! You guys give me hope, too!
There is no such thing as a weed.
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Whew! Glad to hear you were able to work out something that didn't involve you paying massive quantities of money to Universal. Look forward to more of your original art.
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....aaaaaaaand, BREATHE!!!
Scary all done! Happiness ensues!
The adrenaline rush should wear off in a few months.
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Congrats 11th Hour! I am glad that it all worked out for you and you can finally let out that deep breath. Thanks for all the work you've done and the wonderful artwork that keeps us fans flyin'
Shiny!
Once you've been in Serenity you never leave. You find a way to live in it.
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Darlin' It sure is nice to know things worked out for ya, and even nicer to know our support helped ya get through this.
I agree this is a bit of a wakeup call for us, but more importantly this is a wakeup call to them, that while we play fair and civil, we don't lie down, and we aren't afraid. well we are afraid, but we don't let that stop us. Because thats what we do I guess, we keep moving. You know what they say
If you can't run, crawl and if you can't do that.
You find someone to carry you.
We carry one another in times like these most of all don't we?
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11th hour.... I am thrilled that you no longer have to suffer at the hands of the tyrranical beast and owner of our 'verse on paper. May you have many nights of undisturbed slumber ahead of you. You truly diserve it, and I can only imagine what you must have been going through while you were subjected to such a lowly stab in the back by a former friend and ally. May there be nothing but serenity in your verse while your nerves recover.
And CONGRATULATIONS BROWNCOATS!!!
Our voice has been heard!!!
Don't, for a second, fall prey to the silver tounges of the lawyers of the beast and their conjured up stories of misunderstandings and other such nonsense. More importantly, never forget what you've just witnessed in the last couple of weeks. FOX has shown us that Universal is not the only corporation capable of such bully tactics financially and morally. A company as large as Universal didn't get that large for being fools. There should be no doubt that a company that size would pay employees to surf message boards regarding their products and see what fans like and what they don't like. This ability that the internet brings them is simply free market analysis (minus the labor costs), and a huge corporations wet dream. They no doubt heard the Browncoats outcry against this injustice.
The theory that the lawyers at Universal may be the left hand that the right hand of Universal has no idea what they are doing could very well hold water, but this is no excuse and the corporation as a whole should be held accountable for such outrageous actions. Our voice was heard on message boards throught the 'verse and they realized what a large mistake they made, and how this could possibly end up blowing up in their faces. It would seem now that the P.R. departments have gotten involved and are doing their damndest to cover this all up.
I do not want to ruin the celebration here, so let me just end this by saying I am deeply and genuinely happy that 11th Hour is no longer playing their martyr and I am very proud of my fellow Browncoats for standing along by 11th's side through their darkest of times. This is truly something special that you don't see very often outside of our verse.
This was not about a little mistake of verbiage Browncoats. This was a battle, and we won! Whether they want to admit it or not is on thier souls... but then again, we are talking about lawyers.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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I'm sorry for everything you've been through, 11thHour, but there is definitely something good that has come out of all this. I don't come around these parts much anymore, and so I hadn't heard of your site. I just went to check it out, and I LOVE it. In fact, I'm ordering something right now. Thanks for putting all of these wonderful things together!
Julia
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Hi 11th-dahling...
So, I scanned down this thread & saw lots of congrats-'n-such but... I was wondering...
Had you never thought to go slightly beyond "guerilla-marketing" and simply go legitimate, that is, get together with the Universal marketing people, explain the depth of demand for Serenity items & why you managed to offer the marketplace things they wanted & then... sign-on to pay the royalties they want to turn you into a (the word is...) "licensee?"
I mean, I realize there's "official" Firefly merchandise wherein our BDJoss gets a nickel for the things they sell but, frankly... their selection-offering - last time I checked anyway - was flat pathetic compared to yours... a couple of bland t-shirts... who cares, eh? How is that kind of unfocused merchandising going to help spread the word of the 'Verse to the uninitiated? That IS the point of merchandising after all - spread the word so that people-who-aren't-already-in-the-choir can get preached-to about the lovely show we all love and they've never heard about.
It seems to me, if Universal hasn't locked themselves into an exclusive arrangement with their "official" merchandiser, it would only serve their own interests to allow another one (or 2) (or 3) (etc) - one with a track-record of innovation that Uni's current merchandiser hasn't been able to match - to bring her goodies to a, hopefully, ever-increasingly eager marketplace.
Any thoughts along those lines?
Yours truly from a person who's friends have sometimes accused him of being a "stupid, inbred stack of meat."
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