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April 11 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? More...

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. More...

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. More...

February 10 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. More...

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. More...

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 20 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. More...

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! More...

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. More...

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. More...

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). More...

July 03 2007

Firefly at The Mission. Details of the upcoming Firefly marathon in Portland, Oregon. More...

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. More...

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". More...

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. More...

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. More...

January 03 2007

Bellflower: A Firefly Fanfilm. Currently in pre-production. More...

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 17 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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

September 16 2006

A chance to say thanks. Cool SyFy Portal interview with one of the organizers of the Big Damn Thank You website.

August 31 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. More...

August 18 2006

The Buffy Summers Bridge? Buffy Summers is included in an online contest to name a new bridge in Hungary. More...

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. More...

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 01 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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

May 01 2006

A roughcut trailer of the 'Vangelis' fan film. First look at the latest Angel parody.

April 28 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 22 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) More...

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 17 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." More...

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. More...

February 03 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. More...

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. More...

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.

January 12 2006

Angel Season 6 Opening Credits. Well, sort of. (requires Quicktime) More...

January 11 2006

Scifi. com pulls the poll. Remember the poll on what Whedon fans wanted to see him do next? Well, it's gone. More...

December 29 2005

Say Goodbye - Official Serenity site to close January 3rd. So long and thanks for the good times. More...

October 25 2005

Jon Christensen blogs about Serenity "fan boys" and prospects for a sequel at /FILM. Warning - the blogger has less than kind things to say about Firefly fans and sounds very much like one of those monsters who eats goats and lives under a bridge.

October 24 2005

Last chance to bid in the 'Conversations with the 'Verse' auction. Today is the final day to bid for a telephone conversation with the likes of Joss Whedon, Tim Minear, David Fury, Stephanie Romanov etc. Proceeds will go to those affected by Hurricane Katrina.

October 20 2005

'Conversations with the 'Verse' auction now back up. Owing to a difficulty with eBay, the charity auction has now moved to Yahoo! and will last until the 24th. So once again people can have the chance to win a telephone call with Joss Whedon, Tim Minear, David Fury, Stephanie Romanov etc.

October 18 2005

Save Firefly - a true story. An inside account of what really happened back in 2002. Highly recommended reading.

October 17 2005

The Browncoat Book. ( reg.req.) Some folks over at the movie board had the idea to create a book for our fandom.Thought that it was a great idea. More...
Browncoat Alliance interviews Nathan Town. The brilliant creative mind behind Mosquito, the hilarious short film send up of Firefly, addresses the edge of curiousness in this relaxed and longish interview. More...

October 15 2005

Variety AD: Serenity thank you from the Browncoats. This ad appeared on the back cover of the Daily National Variety magazine for October 14, 2005. It is a love note and a big thank you to Joss, the cast, crew and Universal for Serenity from the Browncoats and many other fans. Check out the color version - it's gorgeous!

October 05 2005

Whedon fans don't scare Chronicle critic anymore. The critic who posted the earlier blog about Scary Whedon Fans has retracted his statement based on a slew of positive emails. More...

October 03 2005

Officially 60,000 members over at the browncoat website. We may be at #2, but we officially have 60,000 members to back us up over at the other Big Damn Board. More...

September 30 2005

Seattle P-I's story about the fans' role in reviving Serenity is on the web and includes quotes from several local Browncoats. More...

September 23 2005

Chase Masterson to interview Joss Whedon. The former Star Trek-star now host and producer of Fandom Radio is interviewing Joss on Monday, September 26 at 4pm (PT)/ 7pm (ET) on The Fandom's website. More...

September 13 2005

Sneak peek for tonight's premiere of 'Bones'. Elsewhere on the TV Guide website, David Boreanaz says this about fans who might not like his new show "I think they'll continue to be my fans because they are such loyal fans and they've supported me and I love them to death". More interviews and coverage over at the SF Examiner and Chicago Sun Times.

September 09 2005

Mosquito Fanfilm Ready for Download. The 11 minute fanfilm which affectionately takes the piss out of Firefly, the cast, the characters and Joss is now available for your perusal (92 MB WMP version only at the moment). More...

September 07 2005

The Week In Whedon. "A weekly podcast of news highlights of news highlights from the expansive works and related universe of Joss Whedon". This is great stuff, very highly recommended. More...

September 03 2005

Trailer for 'Done The Impossible' DVD now online. The DVD (available for pre-ordering) is a documentary about the Firefly fans and the trailer itself looks pretty darn good. More...

August 25 2005

Joss receives 'Thank You Joss Project'. Remember this thread from earlier in the month where fans were asked to send messages to Joss? Well he got them. And just for good measure, here's some more pics of the premiere. And in related fandom news, Universal has just told Dragon*Con that Joss will not be attending. More...

August 24 2005

How the fans helped reincarnate Joss Whedon's Firefly. Wired Magazine tackles the Browncoats and gives a timeline from the show's birth to its eventual rebirth on the big screen.

August 15 2005

A review of the Serenity fan table at Memorabilia. Remember this link about a Firefly fan event in the UK? Well it happened last weekend and seemed to go very well. There's even a video clip too. More...
Tell the world why you love Serenity. "Universal Pictures would like to invite you to come to the Universal Studios lot this Wednesday, August 17th, where you will have the opportunity to be filmed talking about what makes Firefly, Joss Whedon and the Serenity 'verse so shiny." More...

August 07 2005

Thank Joss Whedon project. Joss (and some cast) will be in Edinburgh later this month. One of the Birmingham NEC fantable people intends to present Joss with "with a big thank you in the form of a folder with all your personal thank you messages, artwork or however you would like to express yourself". See site for information. Share the love.

July 25 2005

Crews forming on the Serenity site. "In order to spread the word about Serenity more effectively throughout the 'verse, Browncoats will now be able to form their own Crews. These Crews are small groups you create amongst yourselves that will enable you to compete against other Crews and get more Credits faster." More...

July 22 2005

The signal podcast #3 is up, since wednesday. More...

July 21 2005

(SPOILER) MetroWest Daily News article on Firefly and Serenity. Extensive look at Firefly, Serenity and the fanbase from a Massachusetts paper which I think is technically owned by the Boston Herald. More...

July 12 2005

Firefly Episodes on the Big Screen in Kirkland, WA. On September 17, 2005 at 7:00 pm, Kirkland Performance Center will be showing 4 episodes of Firefly. (reg. req.) More...

July 03 2005

Amid rabid fanship, a shot at Serenity. "People love Serenity not because a carefully orchestrated PR campaign enticed them to, but because they have genuine respect for Whedon and his work. The fans created this movie, not the other way around."

July 01 2005

Selling Serenity to the UK - one fan's campaign. Very interesting idea to raise awareness amongst British TV and film critics. In related news, click here to read some tentative good news about the likelihood of UK fan screenings. More...

June 30 2005

Sean Maher talks Serenity fandom. In this Spacecast.com video clip, he says "I'm still not used to the fan reaction". Bless. Most of the trailer is shown in this clip, so if you're trying to remain totally unspoiled stay away.

June 26 2005

Big Damn Heroes: A Quest for Serenity. A video of two Browncoats in their search for tickets to the Portland Serenity screening on June 23rd. Also, check out this photo gallery of the event. The costume pics are a special treat.

April 07 2005

A Firefly Cast Painting by Jason Palmer. "Shiny!" as someone once said. According to Jeremy who runs the fansite SerenityMovie.net "Rumor has it, Joss has a copy of this hanging in his office". More...

December 28 2004

Firefly Song. Sung to the lyrics of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"! More...

April 13 2004

(SPOILER) Fallen 'Angel' prepares to turn to dust. Coverage of the impending end of Angel the series on MSNBC (and the fan campaign efforts). There's a poll to vote if it should continue...uh vote yes?! More...

March 02 2004

The second annual Buffy Slay-A-Thon to benefit Make-A-Wish Foundation takes place on July 10 2004 in Chicago. The organisers have signed goodies from David Boreanaz, Anthony Stewart Head, and James Marsters and more to come.

November 12 2003

Fox act over another fan site. In October, Fox lawyers took action over a German site. This time round they request that the Ducks Fanfic site "immediately remove all image galleries" amongst other things. More...

August 05 2003

Discovering Buffy. First-person accounts of how Buffy followers from around the world came to watch the show. More...

July 21 2003

Aussie fans throw finale party. Its in Melbourne (Australia) at the All Star Cafe on Tuesday August 12th, 2003.

May 08 2003

Thank you Buffy. See the forthcoming Hollywood Reporter ad where Buffy fans worldwide have thanked the cast and crew for 7 terrific years of television. More...

December 12 2002

Joss's reaction to the Variety ad as told by Kelly in her weblog. More...

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