Browncoat Playing Cards; or, 52 Reasons to love Firefly/Serenity
This was an idea I conceived last night, inspired by a post about a cute gift for a significant other (if anyone has a link to the post, I’d be much obliged!). The idea being that on each card you write something about that person that you love. So for a pack of Browncoat playing cards, you do the same, but with things from the show/movie. My list of ideas, mostly quotes, in the order they occurred to me last night:
- Can’t stop the signal.
- I aim to misbehave.
- Also, I can kill you with my brain.
- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
- It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
- Well, my sister’s a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
- Yeah… that went well.
- At last, we can retire and give up this life of crime.
- Jayne’s cunning hat
- She is damaging my calm!
- What was that?!
- We may experience some slight turbulence, and then- explode.
- Captain, can I have some money for a slinky dress?
- Sad little king of a sad little hill.
- but face it, hubby. I’m really hot.
- I shaved off my beard for you, devil-woman!
- You’re going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
- You can’t take the sky from me.
- I swallowed a bug.
- Wash’s mustache
- To hell with this! I’m gonna live.
- You take care of me. You’ve always taken care of me. My turn.
- Fruity Oaty Bars
- Eta karoom na smecht [the safeword- literally Russian for, “this is for hens to laugh at!”]
- And if we’re very, very lucky, they’ll do it in that order.
- Mr. Top Three Percent
- Mal. They killed me, Mal. Killed me with a sword.
- It isn’t what we thought.
- Please god make me a stone.
- How can we know unless we interrogate it?
- We are just too goddamn pretty to die.
- Two by two, hands of blue…
- Blue Sun Corporation
- When I talk about faith, why do you always assume I’m talking about God?
- When you can’t run anymore, you crawl… and when you can’t do that, you find someone to carry you.
- The hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne!
- You know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who’s in ruttin’ command here.
- Work, work, work…
- Every well-bred petty crook knows that the small, concealable weapons always go to the far left of the place setting.
- Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I’m just a good one.
- Have good sex!
- I’ll be in my bunk.
- She feels everything. She can’t not.
- It’s just an object. Doesn’t mean what you think.
- Here lies my beloved Zoë, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now that she’s all corpsified and gross.
- Yes sir, Captain Tightpants.
- She’s tore up plenty, but she’ll fly true.
- Call him captain, he likes that.
- I know it’s a difficult mission, but you and I have to get it on.
- What does that make us? Big damn heroes, sir.
- Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down.
- Still flying. It’s not much. It’s enough.
There are a thousand and one other ideas that I didn’t think of last night, too!
The possibilities are endless- you could add images, attribute the quotes or not, assign each suit to a specific sort of thing (hearts is for the Tams, aces for Mal and Book, or maybe diamonds are humorous quotes and clubs are heartbreaking, etc). There’s a lot of room to play! Feel free to kidnap my idea, list and all, or change whatever you want. I’d love attribution if you do decide to use it, though!
I’m considering doing more than one pack of cards, for example Sherlock or Doctor Who cards. If you’re interested, let me know!
