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Serenity needs an army and thats what the Volunteer Browncoats are, the ones who will not sit idly behind keyboards or TV screens

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Originally posted by TheInfamousShotgunLarry:
Howdy ladies and gents. Thank you for all your warm welcomes to the 'verse. I have two things for you today that I hope youll take the time to listin to, a story, and a proposal to speed along the resurection of the series.

All my life I have volunteered, I've been to Texas cleaning up flood damaged houses...I've seen miles of shelter material in Ohio and precut several tons of it to shelter the victems of the ethnic clensing in Kosovo some years back. and I have prepared hundreds of tool kits, trucks, meal rations and other essentals for hundreds of other missions operated by the disaster relief organization known as Service International...volunteering is a wonderful thing, it says something about you and about your values when you work for something without being told to or rewarded for...it means that you love something...Please read this post to the end, Please if you love the show and want it back please put up with my poetic reflections and here my proposal and just read, flame me, wave me, love me, hate me, The 'verse is my home now and I want to help. just read...

I'm brand new to the 'verse but feel I belong here as if I had always been here...this is my story...


Rainy sunday after noon, screend in porch and nothing to do, I'd just kicked off my tennis shoes.
my father tells me to sit down, we're going to watch a movie. I sat down in my chair in the living room and he turned on the tv and I saw Serenity for the first time...it was...interesting. Why did that teenage girl look like she was sweating all the time?
"Whats with the girl and why is she...OH GOD" I say as River suddenly "ticks" and starts kicking people...I'm a student of the martial arts and her grace was beautiful (Barely though had I recoverd from laughing at Kaylees infamous "twixt my nethers" line) but it wasnt the movie that got me interested, it was my fathers reaction to it. Dad sat forward on the couch...a look of anticipation on his face...the whole movie...My father never shows emotion, never betrays what he is thinking and never gives out heavy praise (which he did during the whole movie.) My dad explained that "In the series you never knew what river was going to do next." well the movie ended and life went on until this christmas when sci-fi aired the first episode of the DVD...I fell in love as soon as Mal ends the barfight by having Wash fly Serenity up threatining to "blow another crater in this tiny moon". at that moment I realized that the story I had been trying to tell in my own writing about what I termed "space rats" (Gypsys tramps and theivs in space ships) had already been told and in a much better fasion than I ever could. a day later I was walking around our little mall, in our little town, and something pulls me to the music/video store, I cant say what...Shepherd Book would understand...I look under the F section and there for 25 dollers is the complete series. I bought it and took it home and sat spellbound laughing and hurting and connecting with charecters and ideas that make us fundamentally human. the need to wander, the need for freedom of movement, the need to make a diffrence no matter how small...but most of all a need to be part of something small and chaotic yet strong and effective...the need for family. the crew had that...and you...we, now, the fans have that...I spent all my money on the series including some credit I didnt have...but as Early floated out in space and said the last line of the series...it just wasnt enough.
My change jar was full of pennys, it turned out to be just enough to rent Serenity...but this time I was a Browncoat, this time was diffrent. This time, I watched, and did alot of crying starting at about when Rivers face lights up and she says "My turn." (I'm getting choked up right now) tears came freely as Mal says the final message in the movie. Serenity needed my help and I was going to be there for my ship.

that was the story heres the proposal

I'm starting a group called the Volunteer Browncoats, people dedicated to donating volunteer unpaid labor on any Serenity/Firefly endevour. Serenity needs an army and thats what the Volunteer Browncoats are, the ones who will not sit idly behind keyboards or TV screens, but will get out there and actually "do" for Joss and our beloved show. anybody who will work for free doing what ever Joss needs us to do. you will find that I am a passionate person and when I ally myself with you...theres no power in the 'verse that can stop me. and if we put together, there will be no power in the 'verse that can stop us

So there it is friends my passion laid bare, if any of you can pledge even an hour or a day or a vacation to Joss and our dear ship reply to this post and become a Volunteer Browncoat ready to DO what ever it takes to bring back the series and get our old girl back in and on the air.

I'm a Volunteer Browncoat...lets go get the sky back

The Infamous Shotgun Larry

aka David

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