What are your Favorite Firefly sites? Help a new Fan.

POSTED BY: redhead
UPDATED: Saturday, May 12, 2007 16:16
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GORBISHUN

Friday, May 11, 2007 1:16 AM

Wow, this is a freakin' gold mine!
I'm definitely saving this thread, hehe.

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REDHEAD

Friday, May 11, 2007 5:16 AM

Here is another one. This has the River Tam sessions on it. I was over a month into searchs when I found this one. If you haven't yet seen the River Tam stuff, do it right now!

http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.html?id=2799

This can be found at fashionablybrown that Artcat recommended but it deserves its own link.

Also, the unfilmed script,DEAD OR ALIVE, which was (as I understand it) deemed not satisfactory by Whedon and has a similar theme as the Message is at

http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=45
Its worth a read, too.

GORBISHUN

Friday, May 11, 2007 10:42 PM

Oh yea, the River Tam sessions are so good. I downloaded the whole thing.

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If you haven't yet seen the River Tam stuff, do it right now!

I second that.

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NCBROWNCOAT

Saturday, May 12, 2007 3:03 AM

My favorites of course are fff.net and www.serenitymovie.org. Gossi runs a fun site. Besides the usual threads there are teams that have banded together in a common Firefly/Serenity interest.

If you like Firefly/Serenity fanfic these sites are good: www.fanfiction.net and www.livejournal.com.

At livejournal here are some of the groups. There are many many more.

http://community.livejournal.com/ff_fanfic/

http://community.livejournal.com/ff_friday/

and if you are a Mal/Inara shipper here is a treasure trove;
http://community.livejournal.com/mal_inara/

http://community.livejournal.com/sushi_fic/6323.html

http://community.livejournal.com/truthsome_fic/12486.html

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

FOLLOWMAL

Saturday, May 12, 2007 3:32 AM

Here are some more that I don't think have been listed. I went back and read thru the list.

The fan made series...Into the Black-- they just recently released their first look film, check it out on their site.

http://www.intotheblack.ca/

TheOneTrueBix has a blog like site with news about Mia the character in the next movie that Joss is working on, called Goners. Here it is:

http://www.whatismiamadeof.com/

The site for the Browncoat Cruise:

http://www.browncoatcruise.com/

Two convention sites:

http://www.starfuryusa.com/

http://www.creationent.com/cal/serenity.htm

The Skiffy ( Sci-Fi ) board and the Gateworld Firefly boards respectively:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showforum=80

http://forum.gateworld.net/forumdisplay.php?f=57

REDHEAD

Saturday, May 12, 2007 3:58 AM

While we're on the subject of fanfic, can somebody fill me in on the terminology. Like, what is a Mal/Inara shipper? (Does it mean something like one who likes to see the Mal/Inara pairing?)

What is slash?

Any other ones I should know?

I've been kinda surprised (okay, horrified) when I ran across some unexpected pairings! Everyone's entitled to their particular pleasure, I just want to stay away from any too unusual groupings--- so any help to understand the terminology would be great.

RMMC

Saturday, May 12, 2007 6:25 AM

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Originally posted by redhead:
While we're on the subject of fanfic, can somebody fill me in on the terminology. Like, what is a Mal/Inara shipper? (Does it mean something like one who likes to see the Mal/Inara pairing?)

Yep. Shipper fic is fanfic that has a focus on a specific intercharater relationship. Some pairing are cannon (ie: seen on the show or in the movie) such as Mal/Inara or Simon/Kaylee and some are not. Shipper fic is usually a romantic pairing.

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Originally posted by redhead:
What is slash?

Slash is fic revolving around a same sex sexual relationship such as Mal/Simon or Inara/Zoe. Most pairing in this catagory are non-cannon, but not all and most slash pairing seem to be male pairs.

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Any other ones I should know?

I've heard the term 'friendship fic' which is used to denote a fic that explores a non-sexual relationship between two characters.

There's also crossover fic. This is fic that usually uses two different fandoms in a single story, usually by having one or more characters crossover to the universe of the other one. the most common ones for this for Firefly are ones crossing with the Buffy universe. There's a good site for Buffy crossovers that has it's own Firefly catagory at: http://www.tthfanfic.com/Category-1-29/Firefly.htm

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Originally posted by redhead:
I've been kinda surprised (okay, horrified) when I ran across some unexpected pairings! Everyone's entitled to their particular pleasure, I just want to stay away from any too unusual groupings--- so any help to understand the terminology would be great.

Ah...that would be the non-cannon poairings I spoke of above. Most stories will tell you in the synopsis what pairings there are. And remember, if you find one you don't like, you don't have to finish it. Much better than school, eh?

BTW--nice to meet ya, redhead! Welcome to the board!

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REDHEAD

Saturday, May 12, 2007 6:46 AM

Thanks, by now I had pretty much sussed out some of those but I sure would have saved myself an "oh, my" moment or two if I had understood them earlier. And now I'll probably be spared a few more "oh, my" moments thanks to you.

BTW, your explanation was extremely lucid and informative

RMMC

Saturday, May 12, 2007 7:24 AM

Glad I was of some help, redhead. Sorry I was so tardy, but I've been kinda MIA for awhile.

And I quite understand the 'oh my' moments. I discovered all of what I posted the hard way. When I was considerably younger I'd gone to my first convention where I could find/buy 'zines (fanzines...this was the original form for fan fiction since the web wasn't around) and discovered that the fanfic for a show I like was about 97% slash. I was floored, and very quietly escaped from the discussion. It just ain't my cuppa.

Welcome again! If you want to read a few good authors here, check out Kaynara, ManiacGiraffe and EmmaRigby.

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NCBROWNCOAT

Saturday, May 12, 2007 1:16 PM

Redhead,
Welcome, welcome. I'm sure FollowMal will return with your virtual Browncoat if you don't have one already.

Here are a few more terms and authors of fanfic;

AU-alternate universe Sometimes it's way out there or just something not covered in the BDS/BDM.

OC-other character- sometimes you need to introduce a main character that wasn't in the series or movie.

IMHO Jane0904 is the master here. Her fics follow the crew after the BDM but she's introduced two OC's. Hank and Freya, that really have moved her stories along.

Hank is the new pilot and Freya is Mal's wife and mother of his son. Freya is a complicated character and makes a good triangle with Inara.

Some other good authors are Jetflair,TamSibling, Amodobell, Jaynesgoodgirl and ScrewtheAlliance.

Jetflair is writing an excellent series about Mal's experiences in the Alliance POW camp after Serenity Valley, "The Losing Side". She has a lot of insight into Mal and it helps to explain why he is so full of contradictions later in the BDS and BDM.

TamSibling of course concentrates on Simon/Kaylee but her stories contain all the crew. BTW she posted a Mal/Inara 3 parter called Dancin' that just blew me away.

ScrewtheAlliance has posted several complete serialized "novels" here and is in the middle of another. Unfortunatly, (or fortunately?), he's writing a book for $ so his posts have been infrequent lately, but it's well worth the wait.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

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