What Serenity Means to You can be hard to put into words. But ever the creative force we know all Browncoats are, you find a way. With pictures, with music, with dance. Even in the way you teach our children.

As Cory described so eloquently in his first place essay last week, Serenity means family. But family is more than just the people who give us support and help us through the thick and the thin. Family can also be about what we do for those same people. Our second place winner – a video by Lindsay Coderre – explores that aspect of What Serenity Means:

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That’s the thing about Browncoats – they’re talented, smart and so damn pretty. Here we have this little essay thing to win an Inara’s Shuttle diorama and not only do we get flooded with entries, they’re all so awesome it makes it almost impossible to choose.

In acknowledgment of this fabulous outpouring of creative brilliance, we’ve decided to award three grand prizes instead of just one. That’s right, we’re giving away three Inara’s Shuttles instead of just the original one we committed to.

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