December 21 2013
"The Age of Enthusiasm": Internet memes, viral marketing, and Jayne hats.
A discussion of how "enthusiasm" spreads rapidly online, and how corporations struggle to understand it and turn it into profit. The iconic Jayne hat is one of the article's central examples.
October 29 2013
The fifty biggest movie fandoms.
In which we feature not once, not twice but three times.
July 06 2013
6th Annual Browncoats Backwoods Bash.
The 'Bash is a FREE pitch-in picnic for fans of Firefly/Serenity and all things Joss Whedon. Held every year at the Waterfall Shelter at Lower Cascades Park, Bloomington Indiana. September 21, 2013 - 11:00am until 9:00pm.
June 10 2013
New York Times reports Stark Industries CEO to offer 2.5 bn relief package to NYC after alien invasion.
Just one of the headlines on MediAvengers. A pretty well put together tumblr blog featuring fan made newspaper/magazine covers, articles, and blurbs set in the MCU.
May 24 2013
Joss mentioned in Daily Dot story about fandom and Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr.
Aja Romano name-drops Joss in her piece arguing for Yahoo to embrace fan norms and practices.
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April 18 2013
Mark Ruffalo reacts to "Science Bros".
Mark Ruffalo received a activism award last night and was shown Bruce/Tony fan art for the first time;giggling quickly ensued.
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November 16 2012
Which tv show has the best fans?
TV Guide does their best to get more site traffic.
October 29 2012
First part of the long-in-the-making Australian Firefly fan film "Bellflower".
They've been working on this film, which set in the Firefly universe, for over six years now.
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August 08 2012
Fan pitches naming SpaceX's first private spaceship "Serenity".
In the spirit of getting the first shuttle (although it never flew into space) "Enterprise" after Star Trek.
May 12 2012
A Fan's Firefly license frame.
YouTube reviewer Jeremy Jahns shows his new license plate frame, personalized for a Browncoat.
January 05 2012
Donate to St Jude Children's Research Hospital and you could win a prize!
The Supernatural fansite Winchester Bros have set up a fundraising page in honour of Jared and Genevieve Padalecki's new baby. If you donate, you could win some rather exclusive items which include a Dark Willow figure signed by Alexis, a signed pic of SMG and David Boreanaz and a book signed by the Buffy cast and Joss.
November 10 2011
Cheezburger Network launches FandomBase, with plenty of Whedonverse goodness.
The good folks who brought you lolCatz and Failblog have launched a new site devoted to expressions of fandom, and the Whedonverse is heavily featured, such as here, here, and here.
November 09 2011
Nathan Fillion: Pop Culture King Beyond Castle.
LA Times Hero Complex talks to Nathan about his rock star cult status.
October 17 2011
Summer Glau On 'The Human Preservation Project' And Fandom.
Some MTV coverage from the just-concluded New York Comic Con this weekend.
January 05 2011
NikatNite Great Buffy ReWatch now underway.
This may have been posted back when it was announced, but it's a great time to re-watch, or introduce newbies.
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January 03 2011
Summer Glau Gets Physical as a New Superhero on 'The Cape'.
MSN's Wonderwall chats on set with Summer about her background as a dancer, becoming a superhero, and having loyal fans. Update: For a companion article from MSN TV go here.
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December 17 2010
Summer Glau Turns Crimefighter for The Cape.
IGN talks to Summer Glau about her role on the upcoming crime-fighter drama as well as about what it's been like to have been on a tv show with a solid audience impact.
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November 30 2010
Read an essay from "Whedonistas".
It's called "The Girls Next Door: Learning to Live with the Living Dead and Never Even Break a Nail" and it's about Buffy and her fandom.
August 03 2010
Scott Allie apologizes to crew behind the Serenity fan film "Bellflower".
The Dark Horse editor acknowledges the unintentional influence of the fans' work on the comic Serenity: Float Out.
July 06 2010
Whedonites United host their second annual "WhedonFest" charity convention/camp-out.
This year it's in Scottsville, Kentucky, August 6-8.
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June 25 2010
Charisma Carpenter talks fandom.
It's always interesting to hear what actors think of the fans. She also chats about Joss and Wonder Woman and trying to change her pic on IMDB.
May 19 2010
Which TV show's fans get to claim the actor: Joss Whedon edition.
In which we must ponder the likes of "should Adam Baldwin be best known for playing Jayne on Firefly or playing Casey on Chuck?" Decisions, decisions.
September 24 2009
New Social Network for Whedon Fans.
It looks like another Whedon Fan Group just sprung up.
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September 22 2009
Whedon's hit-free adventures.
Variety's television columnist, Brian Lowry, dissects the niche appeal of Joss's shows.
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August 31 2009
"Everything Is For Sale" - a look at the sucess of Buffy.
PopMatters examines the fandom and the merchandising of Buffy.
August 28 2009
Comments about, and by, Joss re: the "fangirl invasion".
Newsarama looks at a posited increasing presence of women and girls in genre fandom. Joss is spoken of, and also himself quoted on the issue.
July 24 2009
'Participate: The Revolution of Fan Culture' - a documentary.
A very interesting look at fandom, features some great quotes from Joss.
March 27 2009
Yet another Firefly-related xkcd.
"The Uncomfortable Truths Well".
March 04 2009
Cut! Actors take five to Twitter their fans.
LA Times discusses use of Twitter by celebs, including Felicia Day (who was famously caught "twittering under the table" at the Dr. Horrible panel.)
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March 01 2009
Extras sought for the fan film "Browncoats: Redemption".
If you've ever entertained the notion of appearing in the 'Verse, well this could be your lucky day.
February 21 2009
Activate Dollhouse - share the show with friends.
Like Dollhouse? Then spread the word with the help of this latest fan effort.
January 11 2009
Actors Who Get Fandom: Felicia Day, Nathan Fillion.
Just another reason why we love them.
December 26 2008
Whedonesque made TV.com's top 100 list.
A list of the top 100 TV-related items of 2008, with Whedonesque at number 53.
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November 22 2008
Browncoats: Redemption - a fan film for charity.
The makers plan for it be released in Fall 2010 and the intention is donate proceeds from the sale of the DVD to charity. The latest update on their Facebook profile says "received word that THE MAN sent word that we "have his blessing and it's cool as far as he is concerned"".
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October 29 2008
Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom.
This scholarly look at the wackiness that is our fandom will be coming out some time next year. Buying the book will set you back $35 and it's available for pre-ordering over at Amazon.com.
July 20 2008
Dr. Horrible: The Early Years.
The dawn of a new fan series?
July 14 2008
Megan Gogerty puts out "I Miss Buffy" tribute album.
She previously released the "I miss Buffy T.V.S." single; now she's updated it (with electric guitars!) and has a whole rockin' album.
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July 07 2008
In Popular Culture.
Webcomic xkcd uses Firefly and Buffy (among others) to illustrate the wonderful world of editing Wikipedia.
July 06 2008
Cult film’s local showing aids charity.
Boston Herald's business section reports on success of Serenity screening at Brookline's independent Coolidge Corner Theater.
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July 02 2008
Joss Whedon hopes to tease fans into buying DVDs of his musical.
ValleyWag's San Fran editor takes the view that Dr. Horrible is sure to be pirated, and posits that Whedon's "distribution twist" is just free publicity.
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June 11 2008
Some more Serenity Tales.
Plenty of good reading material for you today, there's four new comics set in the 'Verse and also links to a couple of webcomics.
April 12 2008
(SPOILER)
The Flip, the Flail and the Flounce: When Fandom Implodes.
Merlin Missy takes a humorous look at fandom. "This essay contains spoilers of Torchwood S2, episode one of S4 Doctor Who, episode one of S4 Battlestar Galactica, and Issue 12 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8".
March 27 2008
Geek - Stories of People Taking Things Too Seriously.
Call for submissions: artists, writers, everyone... what are you a geek about?
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March 14 2008
Click Critics: The Power of Fan Websites Tickets Go On Sale.
Whedonesque readers are eligible for discounted tickets (member price, $8) to the spring Paley Center event in New York City on May 19th. Tickets go on sale at noon Eastern Time today. Note: this is a panel of fan website mods/admins, not the actors/creators panel taking place in LA. Additional details on the event below.
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February 22 2008
A Map of the 'Verse.
It's an unofficial fan effort for the Serenity RPG and it's really good. Even if you're not into role playing it's well worth checking out. And if you want to know more about the making of it, then click here.
February 19 2008
California Browncoats have a new and improved website up.
danregal of the SoCal Browncoats has announced that a swanky new website is up that offers lots of details on the California Browncoats' fundraising and volunteering efforts. An RSS feed is also available.
February 13 2008
Skinny White Chick skewers fandom in celebration of the end of the Strike.
Video from Skinny White Chick celebrating the end of the strike, but asking the Browncoats to leave her alone. It's all in good fun, but the song does contain some NSFW language.
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February 11 2008
SC3: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse.
June 5-8, 2008--Scholars and fans gather for a third time to analyze all things Whedonesque. Jeanine Basinger is a keynote speaker.
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January 10 2008
Buffy get-together in Melbourne next Saturday.
A bunch of fans will be watching the Buffy season 2 finale and an encore screening of Once More With Feeling and are looking for more like-minded people to join them. And if anyone here wants to mention their Buffy/Angel/Browncoats meetings, please do post about them in the comments section.
December 18 2007
Cash for the Crew - a fandom campaign.
A chance to help crew members affected by the production shutdown. If you make a donation to The Work Stoppage Fund and forward the acknowledgement onto Crew for the Crew, you get a change to win signed scripts donated by striking writers. This is a really worthwhile thing to do especially at this time of year.
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December 17 2007
First March of the Mutant Enemy, Part 2.
The Mutant Enemy Day Documentary concludes, interviewing more folks, including William Mapother (Lost) and Joss Whedon himself. As someone who was there, this video (and the part before it) shows exactly what it felt like to be there that day.
November 29 2007
November issue of the Big Damn Zine now online.
If you haven't been reading it, you've been missing out. There's some interesting stuff to be had. There's a look at the 76th Battalion and the latest fan tactic in raising awareness for the Verse.
November 21 2007
Buffy vidder profiled by New York Magazine.
Luminosity, creator of the amazing Scooby Road, was featured in New York Magazine discussing vidding and its history.
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November 09 2007
Online trivia quiz this weekend at SaveAngel.org.
The winner will receive signed copies of books by Jeff Mariotte.
October 20 2007
Sending a Wavecard - a new fan campaign.
Some fans have come up with a new idea to let Universal know how much they want a sequel to Serenity.
September 15 2007
Final day to purchase Browncoat Ball tickets.
This is your last chance to sign up for the shiniest shindig of the year!
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August 03 2007
The He and She of It.
Read "Gender and Fan Culture" by Derek Kompare and Cynthia Walker. Its subsections include "Fandom Meets The Powers That Be," and "Fanboys/Fan Girls Revisited," among others, and several fandoms, including Joss Whedon & his fans, are mentioned in passing.
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July 19 2007
Allyson Beatrice interviewed by SerenityStuff.com.
Covers many interesting things including, of course, her book, fandom, saving shows, Whedonesque and Tim's ugly child...
July 10 2007
'Bellflower' begins filming.
Production has begun on the first episode of the Australian Firefly fanfilm.
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July 08 2007
BuffyWorld.com has gone the way of a... gone thing.
Another Buffy fansite bites the dust and this time it's one of the big ones (the link goes to BuffyForums.net which is the new home for the former BuffyWorld posting community).
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July 04 2007
Firefly at The Mission.
Details of the upcoming Firefly marathon in Portland, Oregon.
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June 11 2007
Blogsight and How Fans Overestimate Their Importance.
A blogger ponders on the effectiveness of fan campaigns and uses the grassroots efforts to promote Serenity as an example.
May 31 2007
Livejournal Censors Adult Content, Fandoms.
A CNET article about Six Apart's recent deletion of 500 communities, including fandom groups. Mentions Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfiction.
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April 23 2007
Just which is the rockingest fan community?
Sci Fi Wire asks the question and gives us the Buffyverse fans and Firefly fans as options. Both groups would probably wonder who in this day and age uses the term "rockingest".
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February 09 2007
Big Damn Chefs Rise Again.
Less than 2 months after the release of Big Damn Chefs: The International Browncoat Charity Cookbook, the Browncoat Relief Corps have announced a second cookbook in the works. Submissions will be accepted starting March 1st.
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January 14 2007
'Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?' available for pre-order.
Book by Whedonesque's own Allyson about her life in online and offline Whedonverse fandom is due in August 2007.
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January 03 2007
Bellflower: A Firefly Fanfilm.
Currently in pre-production.
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December 27 2006
Browncoat Cruise Reservations Opened Early.
The organizers have opened registration for deposits on cabins/suites. Get a discount for early deposits or full payment on the cruise. Click on the Reservations tab when you get to the site.
December 18 2006
The results of the Whedonverse fandom survey.
Remember the survey from last month? Well the results are in and there's some interesting findings.
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December 12 2006
Official forums for Tim Minear's "Drive" open.
Notice how I'm not saying "race on over"? I think I've grown.
November 12 2006
Browncoat Poster Project.
Adam of the SF Browncoats is creating a poster entirely of text.
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November 09 2006
A Whedonverse fandom survey.
Help fellow Whedonesque poster yourlibrarian with her research into online fandom.
October 21 2006
Fans of cult shows like Buffy may get "fantasy-prone personality disorder"
says Australia's top expert on cyber-psychology. Apparently some people might think they're in an alternative reality, identify too strongly with the characters and stuff like that. Who knew?
October 11 2006
Into the Black trailer.
Official trailer for the Fan-film "Into the black" as shown at V-Con.
September 30 2006
Firefly and Serenity marathon in Cleveland, Ohio.
When? Tomorrow actually. So no time like the present to get tickets if you want to go. All proceeds will be split equally between Equality Now and Cleveland's Domestic Violence Center. Last year on this day Serenity was released in the United States.
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September 21 2006
Photo Contest at Big Damn Thank You site.
The big damn thank you site is holding a contest for the top ranked photo. The deadline to upload a photo is Sept 30th, and the deadline to vote on photos is 11:59 GMT Oct 1st. The winner will get a t-shirt of their choice.
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September 16 2006
A chance to say thanks.
Cool SyFy Portal interview with one of the organizers of the Big Damn Thank You website.
September 01 2006
Deadline for SSC Firefly Episode Trailer Contest is Today!
As the title suggest, today is the last day for the trailer contest. Apparently the ornaments for the trophies were in last week, and Hera is working on the trophies. And if you check the link on the thread linked here, you can see there have been some entries posted at the end. Check it out.
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August 18 2006
The Buffy Summers Bridge?
Buffy Summers is included in an online contest to name a new bridge in Hungary.
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August 17 2006
SSC Firefly Episode Trailer Contest.
This fan contest is hosted by fireflyfans.net and part of the Summer of Serenity Campaign. Participants are asked to make trailers (not fanvids) of Firefly episodes. Deadline Aug 31st. "The purpose would be to tell enough of the story to intrigue someone unfamiliar with FF so they would rent and/or buy the DVDs. " -Hera.
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August 08 2006
"Done the Impossible" reviewed at IGN.com.
A very thorough look at the Firefly fan documentary. Praise for the extras, not so much for the documentary itself.
August 02 2006
Movie Web site Cinematical talks about Done The Impossible.
The site talks about getting the film free via FreeTorrent and encourages folks to still buy the DVD.
July 28 2006
Two Firefly Fan Podcasts Nominated for People's Choice Podcast Awards.
Firefly Talk and The Signal have been nominated for the second annual People's Choice Podcast Awards, which allows listeners to vote for their favorite podcasts in more than a dozen categories.
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July 18 2006
Done The Impossible starts shipping TODAY.
Jeremy posted this from digg.com: "The discs arrived back from the replicator TODAY! There's nothing quite like holding a years worth of work in your hands. :) We will begin shipping discs out later today, in the order in which they were received. We should have them all out the door in about a week. Also to those that have already ordered, thank you. Be sure to check out the DVD-ROM."
June 20 2006
Fan made Spike TV movie credits.
Fun viewing especially for the jaw dropping moment when the final cast member is revealed.
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May 17 2006
'Not Fade Away' - the latest fan campaign for the Spike DVD movie.
If you're interested in showing support to get a Buffyverse straight-to-DVD movie released, well there's details at Support Spike.com.
May 08 2006
Wonder Woman audition trailer.
One "young, unknown" actress is so keen to play Wonder Woman, she's made her very own trailer. Whatever you think of it, you have to admire the fact that she's gone to all this effort.
May 07 2006
"The Ariel Ambulance is in Browncoat hands!"
Akin documents -- with text, photographs, and video -- Saturday's culmination of the ten-month effort to rescue the ambulance seen in "Ariel" from a scrapyard.
May 02 2006
'Cherub' season two coming soon.
The success of the first season of the Angel parody series (60,000+ downloads - pretty darn good) has convinced the makers to go for another one.
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May 01 2006
A roughcut trailer of the 'Vangelis' fan film.
First look at the latest Angel parody.
April 29 2006
Wired: Why Firefly will Never Die.
The May issue of Wired has a brief article on browncoatsriseagain.com, with a photo of Andrew Schultz, the founder.
April 23 2006
Serenity Fan Campaign.
Some Browncoats are organizing a fandom wide mass purchasing of Serenity DVD on June 23 to show support for future sequels.
March 14 2006
When Vern had Serenity.
Ain't it Cool's lovable lug and the leading seagalogist watched Serenity during the opening weekend. This is old, but looks like it's never been linked. (NSFW if plain text can be)
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February 22 2006
Is fandom taking over our lives?
Includes the utterly brilliant fact the Official Buffy Magazine published the mock "Joss Whedon's grocery list" article as fact.
February 18 2006
"Joss and cast wished us good luck with our show,"
says Barry the Demon Hunter: "The biggest independent sci-fi webshow in the UK."
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February 06 2006
Trailer for 'Cherub' - a vampire with bunny slippers.
Parodies of Angel seem to be like waiting for a bus these days. Wait ages and two come along at the same time. Anyhow, the first episode of 'Cherub' should be online this Friday.
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February 04 2006
Angel inspires fan film tribute called 'Vangelis'.
According to the creator, fans should be seeing the adventures of Vangelis, Cornelia, Leslie, George and Funne (with a cameo by Muffin the Turtle Killer) as soon as the San Diego Comic Con or earlier. This sounds utterly brilliant.
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January 20 2006
The Top Twelve Slashiest Couples in SciFi/Fantasy Fandom.
Find out which of our guys from Buffy and Firefly made the list (this thread contains adult themes).
January 19 2006
Slashdot posts a "correction" to an earlier story about Firefly.
Story mentions the browncoatsriseagain.com website trying to raise cash for a new season, and comments below bring out that they've already stopped.
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January 13 2006
The Siren Song of Fandom.
In the post Buffy era, here's five reasons to help you decide if you want to be part of a TV show's fandom.
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