ASARIAN

Oh man! I just saw the "This is My Sister" Fan Vid (schmacky), and now I'm sobbing, and there's no power in the 'verse that can stop me. :( I am biting my lips in anguish; I shatter completely. I am in pain, and yet I embrace this pain as if it were my very mother. As if it were my little sister, I should say, of course; but I have no stomach for clever repartee now. My darling River! You trigger me in a way that makes a dilettante of the Fruity Oaty Bar. Oh, that I could really melt like that! to just fade away, and merge with the Serenity boat itself, and be there for my River in the realest, most literal possible sense! O, I would not just adore the ground she walks on; instead, the ground she'd be walking on would be me! And I would so gently hold her afloat, always there, always supportive, never intrusive, ever watching over her. And then, at night, I would dim all the lights for her, and steer her safely through the dark. And should I ever see her scared, cropped up against her bed, "2x2, hands of blue," I'd hum gently back: "We'll take care of each other. I'll knit for you." * back to crying * -- pausing -- Oh man, I could do a whole fanfic about this! teehee. And you know I'm not too fond of a "ship" involving River. But this one gives a whole new meaning to the term, doesn't it? :)

VIOLETRIX

as a followup to my "who would win a fight, starbuck or jayne?" question, i have to say that all y'all who commented were right. (i am, of course, referring to the new [i]battlestar galactica[/i] and not the old one.) starbuck and jayne probably wouldn't fight. they'd smoke cigars, play cards, compare guns or something and then make out. lucky starbuck. :P (and for that matter, lucky jayne. i have a crush on starbuck, in case you were wondering.)

GYPSYLIFE

This is my soap box, I just wanted advice/comments from the other firefly women. Here's the thing. I am 22, 23 next month and it's like Firefly/Serenity opened up this emotional well in me. Due to a very 'colorful' childhood, I have ended up somewhat jaded. I have never considered myself an emotional person by any means, but I am somewhat of a bottler. Before the 'verse affected me so strongly, the number of times I had really really cried was minimal. However, now...well geez..I just watched Rudy again and I'm bawling like a little baby. It seems that I get really emotional now, at everything... forgive the cheese factor, but everything seems to hit me more poinantly... sadder things are sadder to me, heart string moments just make me tear up at a moments notice. And no, guys, it's not just one week out of the month lol. So then, what's the deal with me, am I just totally girlified and emotional now? This is me stepping down off the soap box now.

NUCLEARDAY

Had an especially shiny day today for my day off. Looks like some of my plans are coming to fruition rather nicely and infected a few more people with an obsession of all things Firefly. So if things go how they look, I may have finally earned my browncoat ;p I was originally dissapointed with my lack of success at trying to turn my friends into fans. My brother is the one who ruttin' rented Serenity in the first place, and he's a beige-coat if I ever saw one. Hasn't even seen more than a few episode of the series, and he frelling lives with me, gorramit! However, I think I've hit on a winning plan to converting people now, cause this couldn't have gone better. Takes a bit of time, but I think that helped in this matter. For me, it was all about not seeming too overt and shoving it down people's throats. Here's the story, maybe it'll prove useful to others. My sister's boyfriend (John) happens to be a good friend of mine. (We'd better get along, too, cause well... like I said, he's my sister's boyfriend. Otherwise he'd landing in a whole heap of trouble ;) Spend alot of my days off over at their place, and they happen to be pretty big movie fans. So, step one: We trade off movies every once in awhile anyway. Cancelled series can sort of bring a stigmata with them. (If they didn't last what's the point, is the way alot of people seem to view it.) So, I figured I'd start them out with the movie. I lent them my copy of Serenity, which wasn't anything out of the ordinary. However, I also lent them my first disk of the boxed set, and told them to watch the pilot first so they'd have a better idea of who was who and such. They seemed to like it, no big deal. I was careful not to launch into fanboy mode a few days later when we were talking about it. I just made sure they understood the finer points of what made it so good, and tried to plant some seeds for later on. Stuff like "Yeah, the movie was good, but I really liked the series." They liked all the banter and such from the movie so I made sure to talk that up as well. (We all have a running thing about the Star Wars movies and how that's what we really felt was left out in the prequels was all the great dialoque between Han, Luke, and Leia.) So, seeds firmly planted in their heads, I figured I'd let them stew for about a week or so. (Also cunningly managed to 'forget' to take disk one of the series back with me, so they could watch through The Train Job and Bushwhacked.) So phase two then was all about trying to play it cool. They'd seen three episodes now plus the BDM. They thought it was good, but weren't exactly jumping on the bandwagon, so to speak. This part was all about planting seeds. The next week or so, I'd try to casually insert some conversation about Firefly and how I have to watch an episode every day before I go to sleep and such. Had to play this very cool, as too much would turn them off. The point was to get them to wonder. If this show was good enough to pry me away from my videogame obsessions, then maybe, just maybe, there was something to this after all. So, I came up another day off. Hung out during the day before they went off to work, and again I'm playing it cool. Just happen to mention that maybe I'd bring some more Firefly for us to watch later on, you know, if nothing good is on tv. Luckily, there's never anything good on tv. So we're getting bored and I'd strategically placed disk two of the series on their coffee table. I didn't even have to mention it. John makes the decision all by himself to put on some Firefly, and it all goes rather swimmingly after that. So, Shindig is the first episode. I've been very specific that they are to watch these in order. Otherwise they're likely to miss things, like the cows they pick up in Shindig are the same ones they're dropping off in Safe, for example. Now, I've got a soft spot for Kaylee, so I'm a little partial to Shindig (plus you've gotta love that swordfight at the end.) John wasn't really that into it, though. Still, they are like potato chips, you can't w

BOOKADDICT

It was everything a surf carnival should be. The water was clear, the days were hot. Saturday was overcast so we only fried. Today the sun came out and we fried as well as boiled. I burnt my feet on the sand and went crazy keeping track of the under 8's & under 9's events (age manager here!). But, I was internet deprived! No fan fiction. I didn't even write any. Didn't even realise how much I missed it, until I started looking for my computer to log on. But now look how much Firefly fineness I have to catch up on! I'll be reading for hours...great! And the carnival was worth it, our club did well. And my little guy got two individual medals and one in the relay.

MPHILLIPS

I've made a descision to put my strip on hold for a while..This is due to the fact that the way the last few looked were awfull. I think what I have to do is draw it smaller or take them to Kinko's and get them reduced..I think my main problem is I draw them like I would for newspaper and comicbooks, not computers..completely different animals. computers tend to magnify the slightest imperfection whereas reproduction in comics many flaws are hidden in the finished product..so I'll still do sepia stuff and inkwork and try to figure out how to get my strip to look like I want it..Anybody out there got any idea's I can try I'm open to them..see ya

CAPTBRYAN

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CAPTBRYAN

Im kinda inna pickle here...these peope aint to friendly here and Im havin a hard time findin the man who has my pay...This aint lookin to good for the populace here...I want me money and I want it now!... Ok I just give'm a 3 hour dead line ...I dont get my pay they all are dead...thats the line I use in these circomstances...its only fair 2 hours are up...still no money...im startin wonder if they know who they are dealin with or not...Booger just shot one stupid SOB for tryin ta sneek up and put a bomb on board... 2 hours 37 mins. ... these poeple think Im playin I guess...Booger just shot another 2 hours 59 mins. ... Chargin and bringin weapons on line...stupid people I'll get my money if I gotta pick over thier bodies...Its odd they see the cannons swingin out but they aint movin...

JACQUI

Holy mother of god and all her whacky nephews!! It's FINISHED! Numfar, do the dance of joy! Links to the vid can be found in this thread:

FFLY23

unlike really obsessed fans I've had a break from watching episodes of Firefly (I have got 2 more boxed sets of Alias to get through yet + about 200 films on dvd that I haven't watched!) but last night I watched 'Our Mrs Reynolds' again after a night at the pub (where I did spend some time discussing Firefly whith a friend I've converted to the cause). And, oh dear, I think Alias will have to wait once again.

CAPELLA

Well, that was a long night last night, inlcuding some weed and all the funny talk that comes with that. Mostly on music. Music is a great topic once you are stoned. Well, music is a good topic almost always. So today was just a totally relaxed day, slept long, did not leave the house at all, watched a lot of Firefly songvids on the PC, then watched some Farscape eps, because I was in the mood for it (it is a damn good show, too). I wanted to participate in an Instant Story contest that was on on a German website today, they have this every month, you get a topic and have 90 minunets time to write a short story about it. Normally I am quite good at coming up with something, but this month I am so in Firefly mode, that I could not think anything else. The topic they gave was: "three things somebody needs". You are not allowed to enter FanFiction in the contest, so I wrote some space opera stuff about a starship pilot who has a one man transportation business. His motto is he needs nothing but his ship, some business and depth of space, or so he likes to think. (Actually this guy turned out to be pretty much like Mal, no wonder, him being on my mind all the time). One day he finds a blind passanger on board of his ship, a beautyful young woman who holds him at gunpoint and forces him to change course... It was supposed to lead to all kinds of romance and adventure, but somehow I so fell in love with the characters and the spaceship that there was just no way to finish this story in 90 minutes time. I might make more out of it in the future. Mr. Universe just announced that he now has a Master Playlist and you can select songs and they will be played automatically in the next free slot in the program. That sounds really neat.