Must Reads??

[ratherbe4gotten.livejournal.com]

Ohh I'm so excited to find this community! I help run the spnstoryfinders comm for Supernatural and I was really hoping to find something similar for numb3rs!!

So I’m pretty new to the numb3rs fandom and I started thinking: in every fandom I've been in, there has been a handful of stories that everybody has read. These classics of the fandom are the kind that everybody's familiar with - except us newbies.

So what stories are the ones you'd nominate as classics? I’m mainly looking for slash or gen (feel free to rec me Don/Charlie). I love h/c, angst, first time, humor/crack... oh and kink, kink is a very good thing XD but mainly I'm just genuinely curious to learn which fics are considered the well-known, cut-above-the-rest ones.

Very many thanks in advance for any responses!

EDIT:

Also, is there a newsletter community for numb3rs, something like spnnewsletter?

Comments

[emmademarais.livejournal.com]

Hi and welcome to the fandom! /is also an SPN author so thanks you for running that comm!/

There is a newsletter: numb3rs_news. You'll find it's *way* lower traffic than you're used to in the SPN fandom.

You can also go to numb3rs_notice and look on January 1st of 2009 to find the Master List of Master Lists: a list of master lists from N3 authors. It's a good way to track down a lot of fic by a lot of good authors.

The show's on Season 5 so plenty of good fic to catch up on. I'd look at past winners at numb3rs_awards.

The one de rigueur Don/Charlie fic in this fandom is Parallel Connections over Symmetric Spaces. Mostly because it was the first huge Don/Charlie shame epic in 2005 - the one that made so many cestfic fans out of people who didn't read cestfic previously.

Past that the authors that used to be big in the fandom were dsudis, audrarose (both names you might know from SPN now) and missmollyetc. Pretty much all of their old N3 fic is what people are going to have you read. I also personally like knotted_rose and raeyashi even though they don't have much, what they have is very good. If you like comment porn, we have two Queens of Comment Porn who write together: penguingal (aka Mags) and schnaucl (aka Cyn). They have long fic posted at Mags' comm penguin_fics and Cyn has her solo work at den_of_cyn.

If you like short fic, I'm going to take a moment to pimp the comm I comod: numb3rs100. If you click on the Table of Contents link on the home page it will take you to more links including a list of N100 authors (different from the Master List of Master Lists so helpful) and a the Drabble Series Master List, which is a great way to get into some authors universes.

A lot of our authors write at rounds_of_kink so you might want to check the tags there for kinky N3 fic. We're one of the well represented fandoms at that comm so there should be quite a bit there.

I'm sure other people will come along and rec individual fic to you - and I wish I had time for that - but I figured I'd at least come and say welcome and point you in a direction to begin. I heartily suggest you check the archives of this comm. Past posts will net you a link to Parallel Connections. (Beware it's SERIOUSLY long.)

There's more, of course, but hitting the archives of numb3rs_slash in 2005 will go a long way to getting you caught up on the classics of the fandom. It's where we all tend to gravitate back when it comes to Don/Charlie.

Oh and if you like that pairing, check out eppescest. It's the pairing specific comm for them.

Good luck and welcome! Happy to finally have an SPN person come here when we've sent so many the other way. ;-)

[ratherbe4gotten.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you so much!! I couldn't have asked for a better reply!

I'll definitely check out Parallel Connections. I've got two weeks off uni so long is good XD Usually I don't have as much time for fic, so numb3rs100 and rounds_of_kink are prefect. I'll check out numb3rs_awards too!

[emmademarais.livejournal.com]

Oh, you could have! LOL I'm sure others will come along with specific URLs for you, but I wanted to take time out - even though I'm swamped today - to get you started. Everyone will tell you Parallel Connections. It's the one fic we agree on as a fandom classic. I'd check out the awards first. You'll find the most loved fic there. Oh and numb3rsficathon and numb3rs_newyear tend to have good stuff as well. N100 had over 1000 fic last year alone so that's a long term investment in reading. /big grin/ RoK is uneven in terms of quality, but I figure you'll quickly figure out which authors you like and be able to find their works there to get their kinkier efforts.

Two weeks, huh? Oh, we've got more than enough fic to keep you busy! /beams/

Enjoy!

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest checking out numb3rsfanrecs which offers recs on specific themes, characters etc. The current theme is "rec your own 2008" as part of letting people know what's fairly recent for the current Numb3rs Awards, so maybe not what you're looking for. But there's older stuff there too.

I'd also recommend checking out the Numb3rs fandom newbie guide, written and maintained by the brilliant spikedluv as it will guide you to all the many and various comms around, which cover just about every genre and most of the main pairings in the fandom.

[ratherbe4gotten.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I know spikedluv from smallfandomfest. I'll definitely check out her guide!

[spikedluv]

Andi got here ahead of me; I was just coming here with a link for the Guide. *g*

Welcome to the fandom! We're pretty small compared to SPN. *g* As Andi said, I created A Guide to Numb3rs on LiveJournal for newbieguide; it has the all the Numb3rs comms listed.

I also second the suggestion to check out numb3rs_awards, both the nominated and winning fic. You'll find a lot of great stories there. (Links to past noms and winners can be found on the main page links section and on the profile.) And numb3rs_slash; we just finished a huge tagging project there, so everything is tagged by pairing and author (among other tags).

Additionally, I love to rec my personal favorites (which up til very recently has consisted mainly of Don/Charlie - I'm starting to branch out in both my reading and writing *g*) so you can find a bunch of recs in my journal if you're interested in checking them out. They're tagged as "fic rec: numb3rs".

Enjoy yourself! *g*

[ratherbe4gotten.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think I had forgotten how welcoming small fandoms can be XD The guide was exactly what I was looking for. I'm already finding loads of fic that I love!

I know how tedious tagging large numbers of posts can be so congratulations on getting it done at numb3rs_slash, it really is amazing helpful ♥

[spikedluv]

You're welcome! I'm glad you're finding a lot of great stuff to read. *g*

(I must admit that ladygray99 took on much of that tagging project for me, so most of the thanks go to her. *g*)

[ladygray99]

she wont self rec but anything emmademarais writes is worth reading. Just start going through her back catalog.

[ratherbe4gotten.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've seen a lot of her fic posted, I'm really excited to get stuck in XD

[ladygray99]

Emme's probubly our best and most versatile author. She writes something to float everyone's and does not get nearly enough love for it.

[mercilynn]

I think everyone else has pretty much covered it, but I'd also like to mention sororcula's pet project a delicious page tagging every fic posted to numb3rs_news. She's only finished a few months, but it's an easy way to find things!

AND! You'll come across it at the numb3rs_awards but irena_adler's Watson 'verse. It's long and plotty and has a couple of OC's but it's AMAZING. *nods* Very first piece of fic I read in the Numb3rs world was in it. The master list is here!

[ratherbe4gotten.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Wow, that delicious page looks like a job and a half! Thank you for the fic link too, it's kind of daunting to knowing where to start.

(I've just started watching Leverage too XD )

[mercilynn]

sororcula's a friend of mine, so I keep poking at her to work on it.

I think each of us has our own favorite writers in the fandom... I know I have mine *g*. And a lot of our writers have multiple fandoms that they play in (SPN is a big one), so you'll probably see some familiar names!

(Ugh Leverage is absolutely AMAZING. Chris Kane FTW)

[boymommytotwo.livejournal.com]

i don't know how to put the links in my comments, but it doesn't look like ladygrey99's fic actually got _recced_ and another personal favorite of mine is the conference wives series by dancethecode...

enjoy yourself. there's lots and lots and LOTS of wonderful reading out here for N3. :)

[ratherbe4gotten.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've found some really great fic so far. I'll definitely check those authors out ♥