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F-list, pls help!

Jan 08, 2011 07:32

I'm looking to expand fandoms. Currently, I only play in Star Trek (Reboot & TNG), but it's not fulfilling all of my fanfic reading needs, as I'm not a fan of Jim Kirk. I can read up to 500 pages of fanfic a week, if I could find the stories.

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chaosraven January 8 2011, 15:50:32 UTC

What about old school fandoms, like Due South or The Sentinel? Other big fandoms that I've enjoyed at one point or another: Supernatural, Harry Potter, Merlin, Stargate Atlantis, and Doctor who. There's also bandom, if you like RPS at all.

Sherlock is my current fave which gives a lot of options, depending on which canon you like best.

If any of those sound good to you, I can give you some starter recs. I don't know how much you care about knowing the canon before you start reading.

random00b January 8 2011, 22:39:39 UTC

I'm thinking that knowing a bit of the fandom/story lines probably help, heck just knowing the show probably helps (I've never heard of Due South, Sentinel, or Stargate Atlantis; yay for wiki).

Do you have some good non-Sam stuff from Supernatural or Harry Potter stuff (no Harry or Hermoine)? Also, any Jeffrey Dean Morgan RPS? No clue, but he's super sexy to me.

chaosraven January 9 2011, 05:28:23 UTC

Wow, I'm surprised you've never heard of some of those! The Sentinel is probably impossible to find, unless you torrent it. I know the dvds were never released. DS and SGA should be easy finds, if you have any interest in watching them. The only DS season I personally care about is the last one, because they change who the main character is partnered with from someone I'm not attracted to to someone I am.

Unfortunately, I can't rec a lot of non Sam stuff as he's my favorite. Same with non Harry. >D I start all my fic searches at archiveofourown, because you can sort by tag for pairings and characters. Starandrea has some really long, really enjoyable spn fic that's mostly Dean/Cas with Sam/Gabriel in the background depending on which fic it is.

For HP recs, maybe try painless-j on insanejournal. She does a ton of recs and a lot of her rec lists are sorted by pairing so you can avoid the ones you don't like.

Hopefully that will help get you started but let me know if you want more details/links.

random00b January 10 2011, 21:15:58 UTC

Could you point me to the Dean/Castiel? It's funny how I've seen a grand total of 1 SPN episode, but I know all about the show due to LJ/fandom.

And thanks much for pointing me to painless-j. Very nice list.

chaosraven January 12 2011, 03:53:12 UTC

http://archiveofourown.org/users/starandrea/

The Sky "trilogy" is actually about six stories long right now, so if you check under "series" you can find the beginning of it.

And then "I've Got Soul but I'm Not a Soldier" is a standalone AU but has some similar elements.

random00b January 12 2011, 22:52:00 UTC

So I started the first chapter of "Ive Got Soul..." and realized it's 100k words. Weekend reading, whee!

Thanks so much for the recs. Between this and Hawaii Five-O, I'm set at least through the end of the month.

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