#Browncoats
Anyway, the point is that his resistance group wore and called themselves Browncoats, and fans of the show adopted this to back the show's struggles against the idiots at the Fox network.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
More knowledge of US history in re the "West" than is taught in most American schools, to be clear. But to clarify:
The referents of the Browncoats of Firefly and their post-war occupation in the milieu of the show are the unreconstructed rebels in the US Civil War who headed west to be "Cowboys."
January 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
And his Browncoats were fighting for independence in a vague never clearly defined way that wasn't for slavery but really didn't seem to be for much except the former Confederate is a stock Western character so he wanted that in his Space Western. It's not one of his finest ideas.
January 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Firefly was a Space Western series by Joss Whedon with a lot of fans. The Browncoats were the quasi-Confederate losers in a war for independence and the heroic space captain was a former Browncoat. Whedon claims he wasn't trying to stir up pro-Confederacy stuff.
January 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Because it used "browncoats," then clearly it's the US Civil War. Instead of the US War of Independence.
January 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Cult TV show by Joss Whedon, the rebels who failed were called the browncoats.
January 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The Browncoats in Firefly have a bunch of Confederate Lost Cause stuff. I find heroic space confederates about as appealing as heroic space nazis.
January 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Very roughly, mostly in the sense that they lost a war.

As far as I recall, the Browncoats were not fighting to own people, nor did they state racial superiority in any founding government documents like the Confederacy did with their constitution.
January 9, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Eh, browncoats = confederates, so is it really that big a stretch?
January 9, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Ah. Fair!

I figured both Mal's browncoats and TLoU's Firefly both have issues with fascist governments, didn't clock the last word might've been botched. 😁
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
"Browncoats" is however going to be the name of my next fictional fascist movement ...
January 9, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Former. Wrote "browncoats" instead of "brownshirts"
January 9, 2026 at 3:06 PM
BROWNCOATS ASSEMBLE
Apparently the rules were designed to leave #TwinPeaks out.

Cowards.
January 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
January 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
But to be clear they are NOT the Browncoats
January 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
this is how little respect i have for browncoats in 2025

I don't even remember them correctly.
January 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
* Google affectation * did you mean: Browncoats?

The Browncoats were in-universe and real-world nomenclatures for the Firefly/Serenity fando--

* i am forcibly removed from the establishment *
January 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Firefly #Browncoats 2002.
January 4, 2026 at 4:54 AM
first ever miniature painted

what is @gendercrook.bsky.social doing to me
January 4, 2026 at 2:08 AM
BROWNCOATS!
January 3, 2026 at 7:13 PM
The theme of the Bird of the Day was “serenity”. So I chose a bird with a brown coat, like the Browncoats in the show Firefly. Serenity is the name of the ship
December 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #serenity. My choice is the Limpkin, because it has a Brown Coat. #birds #limpkin #browncoats #firefly.
December 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
As soon as it hit the torrents, it was already over. Even if they go after internet service providers, they can't stop it anymore.

"You can't stop the signal."

- Browncoats everywhere
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December 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
“𝙎𝙪𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛, 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤 𝙞𝙩.”

#Firefly #Serenity #Browncoats
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December 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“Dear Buddha, please send me a pony, and a plastic rocket, and -“

Yeah, this Serenity quote has nothing at all to do with christmas. But doesn’t Lego Mal look happy with his long deserved pony and plastic rocket? Merry Christmas to all browncoats who celebrate!

#firefly #serenity #scifi #christmas
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM