Leading up to last weekend, all I could think about was my Inara Training House Costume. This post, however, will show you pics from the bash itself and I’ll dive into more details of my Inara costume in another post. Don’t worry, there are costume pictures in here.
This Browncoats’ Bash comes just once a year and last year was my first time going. It was so fun to, once again, hang out all afternoon with fellow Firefly fans. The t.v. was playing Firefly the whole time…except for when we were watching fan films or Dr. Horrible.
We had a singalong, singing the Firefly songs like The Hero of Canton, some Marian Call songs. It was actually at a Marian Call house concert that I found out about the Bash last year. Later in the day there were simultaneous games of Shiny! (think Bingo) and a role playing game based on the show and movie. I played last year and this year for some reason just wasn’t feeling up for it.
It did get colder than I expected and my friend D and I went for a walk to warm up. All along there was a silent auction going on with some killer swag. The live auction caught everyone a little broke so people walked away with some amazing prints at some low prices. All proceeds were going to charity so it was all good and this year we hit a new record and are pretty excited to send that check to Middle Way House.
Remember the inspired River at Maidenhead costume I made last year? I finally got pictures of it! Woot.
Costume Contest participants
Bridget and Inara (D and me)
I got the award for Most Accurate Costume!
One of the two cakes! The other one said Shiny! on it.
Model of the mule!
“…she’s the smoothest ride from here to Boros for anyone can pay…”
Do you see Inara’s shuttle!! And inside of the main ship you can see the crew. Yup. The tiny crew in there. I did squee a mighty fine squee and I’ve seen a model before. It’s just too cute! You can sorta see them in my blurry photo. I’ll update this pic if someone else posts a better one.
These are the awesome watercolors I won in the silent auction:
I had to get the pair!
Poster I won in the auction.
There was several awesome moments throughout the day. For instance, when we all broke out into The Ballad of Serenity and the organizer’s 2.5 year old sang along. Another moment was when we had put on Dr. Horrible. D and I were hanging by the t.v. while everyone else was just milling about until a bunch of us started singing My Freeze Ray all together. It was awesome! Of course, it was also super cool when we had two guys and another woman and I doing the duet from My Eyes. Oh Jed Whedon, you make me tear up every time. Such a beautiful melody. So you can see how a live singalong of it would just do you in. And it did me in for sure.
I will now make promises that I will show you more pictures of my costume. You might have seen some pics on Instagram but I want to show you front/back/side of all the components of the costume. I’m really proud of it so of course I’d like to show it off.
Until then, stay Shiny!
