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!