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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:33 PM

NANOMOOSE


Last year sometime, my brother picked up the box-set DVDs of Firefly. I watched them. I thought they were good. In fact, I thought they were really good. I started saying the word 'shiny' more often than I really should, and scribbled fanart and quotes and incredibly short fanfiction in the margins of my notebooks. I ranted about the cancelation in my blog and carried a fuzzy feeling in my heart because I could still watch the DVDs when I got home.

A few months later I was looking up info about Firefly and realised there was going to be a movie. I 'yay'ed.

I saw the movie.

Now, I wonder how I could have totally missed this community. I have my favourite episodes, quotes, characters and all that kind of stuff, I refer to the crew as the BDH, I cried for most of the end of Serenity, I got all the series related in-jokes in the out-takes for the movie, Joss Whedon is on my list of acredited Gods, I randomly exclaim the words "Fruity Oaty Bars" when I can't think of anything else to say, and I spend a lot of time pointing at people and saying "You will watch Firefly. Yooooouuu will watch Fiiiireflyyyyy" while waving the DVDs at them.

I think it's time for me to shelve my lurkdom, don that hideously expensive brown leather coat and join the rest of you Independents in singing the praises of Firely to the tune of The Hero of Canton.

So.

How 'bout that local sports team?

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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:39 PM

CHRISPV


Wait, wait, we have a sports team!??! Shiny!

Seriously, welcome to the 'verse!

(Hah, I beat Followmal to the punch!)

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:43 PM

NANOMOOSE


As far as I know, you don't have a sports team. I was trying to...I don't know what I was trying to do, and anyway my whole conversation could have been recorded as "Yeah, I'm not into that whole thing with the unorchestrated grunting and throwing of balls. Can we talk about something else?"

That was a very long sentence.

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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:44 PM

FOLLOWMAL


Actually, ChrisPV, we were doing it simultaneously, LOL

You were posting here and I was posting on the other one.

Did I tell you your fanfic was good, I did, didn't I? Well, it is!

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:50 PM

CHRISPV


Quote:

Originally posted by NanoMoose:
As far as I know, you don't have a sports team. I was trying to...I don't know what I was trying to do, and anyway my whole conversation could have been recorded as "Yeah, I'm not into that whole thing with the unorchestrated grunting and throwing of balls. Can we talk about something else?"

That was a very long sentence.



No sweat, I've composed some run-on sentences in my time that go on for half a page. I wish I were kidding. As for the grunting and throwing of balls, well, I prefer the hitting other people that you get from good ol' American football. Hockey's nice too, on that score.

Followmal: Yep, you did. I blushed, if memory serves. Stay tuned, the latest installment featuring Simon will be up soon, I hope. Assuming, of course, that I can break this crippling writer's block I seem to have that prevents me from gelling my ideas into anything even resembling prose.

See, NanoMoose? Long sentence. In all honesty, I don't want you to intrepret me as giving you TOO hard of a time. It's just my way of saying "Hi!" Wouldn't ever want to make a new recruit feel uncomfortable!

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:55 PM

NANOMOOSE


No no no, you didn't make me feel uncomfortable. I seem to give people that impression without meaning to. Just not a big fan of sport, I prefer me the grunting and the punching and the gunplay and the martial arts of action movies.

And run-on sentences are fun. If I keep saying that, maybe people will find it cute enough to forgive me for using them all the time...

Yub, yub.

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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:57 PM

FOLLOWMAL


Quote:

Originally posted by ChrisPV:
Stay tuned, the latest installment featuring Simon will be up soon, I hope. Assuming, of course, that I can break this crippling writer's block I seem to have that prevents me from gelling my ideas into anything even resembling prose.



Oh, Chris, I can't wait! Here's hoping the writer's block disappears quickly!

*going off to read ChrisPv's Mal story, because so far it's my fave!*

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:00 PM

FOLLOWMAL



In your intro, NanoMoose, you said you did fanart and fanfiction... you'll have to post some in our Blue Sun Room. We have lots of shiny stuff there and it'll be fun to see and read yours too.

I have no such talents, but I sure do enjoy my shipmate's pics and stories.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:09 PM

CHRISPV


I'm not much of a sports fan, either. At least, I'm not rabid like my younger brother. I'll watch a game if it has some real talent in it, and the contest promises to be intriguing. As for kung-fu movies, have you seen Kung Fu Hustle? It's brilliant. The best analog I can give is if you put live-action Warner Brothers cartoon on screen and let them beat on each for a bit. Plus, there's an axe wielding song-and-dance number in it. Great stuff.

Oh, and serious bonus points from me for your sig. Yub, yub, indeed.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:17 PM

NANOMOOSE


Oh yes, Aaron Allston is another of my accredited gods. The X-wing series is one of my happy-time reads.

And maybe I will post up some of what I've written...I'm in the middle of a Wash-centric one at the moment. (Pause to think 'Whedon, you bastard!' loudly. Pause over.) It's tough because these characters are so - themselves. I can never be sure if I'm being deeply philosophical or talking out of my...well, never mind.

Yub, yub.

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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:28 PM

CHRISPV


Tell me about it. I'm in the middle of a series of little vignettes featuring each of the BDHs seperate from the whole. Some are set before the series, some after the film. The point is, I don't have the option of just defaulting over to another character's POV when it becomes convenient to do so. Wash just flows easily for me, but writing Zoe was, say we say, a challenge.

They're posted over in the Blue Sun Room, a place where I will second Followmal's urging for you to place your own stuff. If you're interested, give it a look!

"The sun offends me. Go up in your X-Wing and shoot it down."

Wedge Antilles on Adumar, or me on a Monday morning.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:28 PM

NANOMOOSE


Quote:

Originally posted by ChrisPV:
As for kung-fu movies, have you seen Kung Fu Hustle? It's brilliant. The best analog I can give is if you put live-action Warner Brothers cartoon on screen and let them beat on each for a bit. Plus, there's an axe wielding song-and-dance number in it. Great stuff.



I'm a relative newbie to watching things smash and blow up, so no. I just love explosions, and well-choreographed fight scenes, but I don't much like wire-fu or slow motion. Warner Bros. axe weliding sing and dance number sounds like fun though, so maybe I'll wrest the DVD player from the clutches of my brother and check it out.

Yub, yub.

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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:33 PM

NANOMOOSE


Quote:

Originally posted by ChrisPV:
Tell me about it. I'm in the middle of a series of little vignettes featuring each of the BDHs seperate from the whole. Some are set before the series, some after the film. The point is, I don't have the option of just defaulting over to another character's POV when it becomes convenient to do so. Wash just flows easily for me, but writing Zoe was, say we say, a challenge.

They're posted over in the Blue Sun Room, a place where I will second Followmal's urging for you to place your own stuff. If you're interested, give it a look!

"The sun offends me. Go up in your X-Wing and shoot it down."

Wedge Antilles on Adumar, or me on a Monday morning.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!



I'm in the middle of reading yours right now, actually. I got through the River one with only mild weeping (I love her, but she's so very broken) and am starting on the Wash one. You write him good. And me grammer go boomness.

And yes, I've figured that's where the fan-stuff goes.

Also, I hear impersonating an Ewok is illegal on some worlds. Any hints as to where I could hide from the Feds should that turn out to be true?

Yub, yub.

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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:35 PM

CHRISPV


Well, there is some slow-mo/wire-fu stuff, but it's all used in service of the joke. Not like in the vast majority of films these days, where it's just supposed to be a given that everyone can walk up walls and stay airborne for hours on end.

Hong Kong films generally tend to be like that. The wirework is there, but it's in the service of plot or for artistic expression. Hero and House of Flying Daggers are both excellent on that score as well. With American films, however, it's generally more of a "Lookit what we can do!" sort of thing. Annoys me no end.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:38 PM

CHRISPV


Quote:

Originally posted by NanoMoose:
I'm in the middle of reading yours right now, actually. I got through the River one with only mild weeping (I love her, but she's so very broken) and am starting on the Wash one. You write him good. And me grammer go boomness.

And yes, I've figured that's where the fan-stuff goes.

Also, I hear impersonating an Ewok is illegal on some worlds. Any hints as to where I could hide from the Feds should that turn out to be true?

Yub, yub.



Thanks! I appreciate anyone who takes the time out to look at my work.

As for the Ewok thing, try Santo. That is one crazy world. What happens there, stays there. Most of the time because you don't remember what you've done there by the time you leave atmo. But still, fun times.

Incidentally, don't be offended that my messages are about to stop suddenly. Real life has, again, intruded into my Browncoat-ness. Accursed reality!

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:38 PM

NANOMOOSE


Quote:

Originally posted by ChrisPV:
Well, there is some slow-mo/wire-fu stuff, but it's all used in service of the joke. Not like in the vast majority of films these days, where it's just supposed to be a given that everyone can walk up walls and stay airborne for hours on end.

Hong Kong films generally tend to be like that. The wirework is there, but it's in the service of plot or for artistic expression. Hero and House of Flying Daggers are both excellent on that score as well. With American films, however, it's generally more of a "Lookit what we can do!" sort of thing. Annoys me no end.



Which is why I love a film like 'Equilibrium'. It's American, yeah, and...well, it takes itself far, far too seriously, but the fight scenes have no wire-fu, but a few flips. They're real flips, and they look awesome.

Yub, yub.

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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:39 PM

CHRISPV


Okay, quick flying out the door post to say Equilibrium rocks and Christian Bale is the epitome of manliness.

Now I'm leaving. Honest!

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:39 PM

NANOMOOSE


Quote:

Originally posted by ChrisPV:

Incidentally, don't be offended that my messages are about to stop suddenly. Real life has, again, intruded into my Browncoat-ness. Accursed reality!



Is okay, mine has too. See you in the 'verse.

Yub, yub.

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Friday, February 17, 2006 3:18 PM

CHRISTHECYNIC


Welcome here, we're weird.

Quote:

Originally posted by NanoMoose:
Now, I wonder how I could have totally missed this community.


The important part is that you are here now. We're always happy to welcome a member of the family home.

Welcome home.

(We must be happy.)

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Friday, February 17, 2006 7:00 PM

KAELE


Christian Bale!

*drool*

Ok, now my night is perfect. I thought I was the only one in the 'verse who owned and actually liked Equilibrium.

Kaele
AIM - Dewlanna
YID - jedi_kaele

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Friday, February 17, 2006 7:14 PM

NANOMOOSE


Really? Well, I'm glad to prove you wrong. I love that movie. I have this vague hope that one day someone'll make Gun Kata classes that I can attend.

Yub, yub.

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Friday, February 17, 2006 7:16 PM

FOLLOWMAL



Naw Kaele, you are not alone. One of my fave movies. Christian Bale....mmmm sorry Matrix fans, better than Neo in this movie.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Friday, February 17, 2006 7:26 PM

NANOMOOSE


Holy god yes, so much more graceful and convincing. Not that I don't like Neo (at least he's pretty) but Preston brutally slaughtered a dozen guys to save a puppy. A puppy! I thought that beared repeating.

Yub, yub.

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Friday, February 17, 2006 7:29 PM

KAELE


Supposedly they resurrected the Gun Kata in one of the new movies coming out.

I wanna say either V for Vendetta or UltraViolet.

I'm leaning toward UltraViolet because it has the same feel and look as Equilibrium in the previews.

Yup. Kurt Wimmer film. UltraViolet it is.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370032/

Gotta give the luv to IMDB.

Kaele
AIM - Dewlanna
YID - jedi_kaele

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Friday, February 17, 2006 8:28 PM

FOLLOWMAL



*goes to get "Equilibrium" off the shelf and put it on her desk, cuz she wants to watch this one tomorrow!*

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Friday, February 17, 2006 8:41 PM

KAELE


*borrows A Knight's Tale just to see Wash*

"It's called a lance. Hello?"

Kaele
AIM - Dewlanna
YID - jedi_kaele

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Friday, February 17, 2006 10:36 PM

BITTERBIERCE


Quote:

How 'bout that local sports team?


Oh the locals! Wow, did you see them against the rival team? Wow, that was something else. Did you see how that local did that thing and the rival was all upset? Good times, good times.

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 4:14 AM

FOLLOWMAL



Yea, Browncoat teams ALWAYs kick ass!

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:02 AM

CHRISTHECYNIC


Quote:

Originally posted by Kaele:
Christian Bale!

*drool*

Ok, now my night is perfect. I thought I was the only one in the 'verse who owned and actually liked Equilibrium.

Kaele
AIM - Dewlanna
YID - jedi_kaele


Can't truely say I like it, I don't mind it though.

What I can say is that my mother likes it, so you two aren't alone.

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:21 AM

FOLLOWMAL


Quote:

Originally posted by Kaele:
*borrows A Knight's Tale just to see Wash*

"It's called a lance. Hello?"

Kaele
AIM - Dewlanna
YID - jedi_kaele



Awww, now I gotta watch that one too. I forgot about that one.

Kaele, how in the heck am I gonna get any work done watchin' all these movies.

Ah, what the hey, I didn't wanna work anyway!




" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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