Because I find myself consulting these whenever I write; here they all are in one place for my convenience and yours :)


’Geography’

( ’The Worlds of the Alliance’ educational chart )


Serenity

( cross section map of Serenity )


Lexicon

Consequence Free: Chinese translations from Firefly
Very quick & easy list of the Chinese used in the episodes, their translations, quote where they’re used, suggested spellings & pronounciations. Listed in alphabetical order.

Firefly Chinese Pinyinary
If you want to go into more depth with the Chinese, use more unique phrases, look up translations that occur outside the show.

Cortex Lexicon at FireflyWiki.org
A dictionary of both slang and technical terms used in the Firefly ‘verse.


Also see FireflyWiki.org for episode scripts, timelines, and background on a range of other things in the ‘verse (technology, medicine, weapons, & more).


The writing and the sharing of fic

the_cortex
Links to fanfiction posted on a day-to-day basis.

fireflyslash
The main slash community for the fandom.

ff_fanfic
The main fanfic community - for slash, het, gen, whatever you like.

ff_friday
Fic writing challenge community, for the participating in and posting of a weekly challenge.

Firefly’s Glow Archive
Fanfiction automated archive covering all genres also (slash, gen, etc). A lot of the fic here was posted when the show was first airing.

If you’re after inspiration, Still-Flying.net has wonderfully extensive pic/screencap galleries.


Generally useful sites for writing

I always end up at Thesaurus.com/Dictionary.com when I’m writing.




Suggestions for things to add to this post are very welcome at all times. Feel free to link this where you think it might be useful.

ahahahhaha i am just reading bits from the Serenity magazine. Here’s an exerpt from the Simon profile page (no spoilers)

Child of a weatlhy and cultured family, Simon was a successful surgeon on a Central Planet until he discovered that his little sister River was in trouble. He spent years planning her rescue, then fled with her to the outer plantes and took passage on Serenity. A city slicker on the wild frontier, he’s often lost and out of place in the rough places Serenity lands. His exquisite manners seem pretentious or laughable to most on the outer planets, and his self-defense skills are almost non-existent.

The one place where his courage never fails is protecting his sister. His attraction to Kaylee is severly hampered by his shyness and his knack of always saying the wrong thing to her. If he ever had to choose between River and Kaylee, that would be a very, very bad day for all of them.

Job on Serenity: Doctor
Loves: River, Kaylee
Hates: The life of a refugee; the people who tried to hurt River

My emphasis: er, yeah. because River would spend the day being all “I TOLD YOU SO” and Kaylee would spend the day biting everyone else’s head off and making sure their entry coupling (so to speak) was a rather jerky one, while Simon hid in the infirmary “doing doctor things to get River better”.


Also, god, I love that last bit with the loves/hates. SNORT. I think emosimon needs to write himself a profile that include those categories.

super_pup just pointed out this to me; a video interview with Joss in which he talks about Serenity (with some footage), Star Wars and Harry Potter.

stimpson, you must watch it! It is awesome.


eta: Shiny Shirts are now selling buttons! awesome :D

This is from the section on River, a quote from Summer Glau where she talks about the performances in Serenity from Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin & Sean Maher.

Serenity spoilers within!

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The first day's box office for SERENITY was $280,763.

This placed it 5th on the national box office chart for the day, behind all of the school holiday features (in order: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY $378,428, WALLACE AND GROMIT $373,464, SHARK BOY AND LAVA GIRL $303,328 and SKY HIGH $293,961), but ahead of all other product including new openers CINDERELLA MAN ($275,831) and TRANSPORTER 2 ($185,557).

Important to note is that out of all films in the top 20, SERENITY had the highest per screen average (which, for the uninitiated, means that when you take the box office, and divide it by the number of locations at which it is screening, the film came out at number 1). This is a very good omen for exhibition, because in a lot of locations, SERENITY was the largest film in the cinema complex...and that bodes well for maintaining the number of screens for the film and the size of the cinemas.

Australian figures, taken from here.


HAPPY SERENITY DAY, USA!!