Say what you will about the show ...

... but the fandom itself can be awesome.

In case you hadn't already heard, the people who were running the Firefly con being held this weekend cancelled at the last minute. And when I say the last minute, I mean the day before. A week or so ago when they'd admitted they were having difficulties, some fans offered to help only to have the people in charge respond that it was okay and they could handle it. Then -- BOO.

So even though it was last minute (and because a lot of already paid-for stuff was nonrefundable), people came anyway fully expecting it just to be a bunch of fans hanging out.

Then Adam Baldwin showed up, free of charge, just to hang.

Then he made some phone calls.

Then a whole bunch of the other actors showed up.

Oh, FANDOM. *cuddles everybody*

I started my Yuletide fic!

No, really, that's cause enough for the Kermit icon. I was starting to worry there, for a little while.

I can already tell it's going to be longer than I thought it would be, and it's going to take a bit of work to steer it back to the prompt in question, but still ... SCORE. \o/

Here, have a non-spoilery behind-the-scenes photo from Heroes that's too cute for words.

( AWWWWWW. )