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

[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*)