A little help from my friends

[jadesfire]

I'm trying to sort out the prompts for bringthehappy (all 780 of them) and I need some help with fandoms.

Specifically, I've got "DC Comics" "DCUniverse" "DCU" and "DCAU", which I'm assuming are at least 3 different things, but I can't be sure... I think I've got this now...

Also do people know generic comms for TV, Book and other fandoms that I can promote to? The full list of things that make me go 'um' is under the cut. If anyone could say "this is a good comm to catch these 20 fandoms", I will love you forever. There are about one hundred and eighty fandoms here. Oh, and it doesn't include all the crossovers and the one RPF prompt I got *boggles*

I'm not asking you to do the promoting for me unless you want to, but I do need to know where to go! Most fandoms have a newsletter/central comm, so that's the name I'm after. I've already crossed out the ones I know about.

Er.

Help?


Avatar the last Airbender, Bleach, Dragonball Z, Full Metal Alchemist, Hikaru no Go, Naruto, Romeo X Juliet, Rurouni Kenshin, Sailor Moon, Tokyo Babylon/X/1999, Tsubasa, Witch Hunter Robin, xxxHolic, Yughio, Cardcaptor Sakura, Count Cain/Godchild, Death Note, Dramacon, Full Metal Alchemist, Gorgeous Carat, Hellsing, Kobato, Magic Knight Rayearth, New Dominion Tank Police, Peacemaker Kurogane, Prince of Tennis, Rosario+Vampire, Final Fantasy IX, Fire Emblem 7, Kingdom Hearts 2



Die Hard, Happy-Go-Lucky, High School Musical, Hot Fuzz, Iron Man, Labyrinth, Saw, Star Trek (Reboot), Star Wars, The Little Mermaid, Transformers, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Wilby Wonderful



Bizenghast, Captain Britain and MI:13, DC Comics, DC Universe, DCAU, DCU, Deadpool, Earth-3, Iron Man, Marvel, New Avengers, Spider-Man, Strangers in Paradise, X-Men, Y: The Last Man, Young Avengers



A Song of Ice and Fire, Abhorsen trilogy, Anansi Boys, Discworld, Dresden Files, Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Good Omens, Harry Potter, Havemercy, Howl's Moving Castle, Lord of the Rings, Modern Faerie tale trilogy, Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, The Cal Leandros Series, The Dresden Files, Twilight



Alias, Angel the Series, Ashes to Ashes, Avengers, Band of Brothers, Batman, Batman (Nolanverse), Batman: The Animated Series, Battlestar Galactica, Being Human, Black Books, Blood Ties, Bones, Boston Legal, Bramwell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Burn Notice, Carnivale, Castle, Covenant, Criminal Minds, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Days of Our Lives, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Dresden Files, due South, Durham County, Ed Edd n Eddy, Eleventh Hour, Eureka, Firefly, Flashpoint, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Heroes, Highlander, Highlander The Raven, House, In Plain Sight, JAG, Kitchen Confidential, La Femme Nikita, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Leverage, Lie to Me, Life On Mars, Lone Gunmen, Lost, M*A*S*H, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Merlin, My Name is Earl, NCIS, Numbers, One Tree Hill, Parks & Recreation, Primeval, Prison Break, Pushing Daisies, Quantum Leap, Reaper, Roswell, Sarah Jane Adventures, Six Feet Under, Smallville, Sons of Anarchy, Spaced, Spooks, Star Trek, Star Trek (TOS), Star Trek: the Next Generation, Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Supernatural, Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles, That '70s Show, The Bill, The Listener, The Mentalist, The Middleman, The Pretender, The Professionals, The Sentinel, Tin Man, Torchwood, True Blood, Veronica Mars, Xena:Warrior Princess, X-Factor, X-Files, X-Men Evolution.



torch_wood, doctorwho, NCIS/Man From UNCLE Mod, criminalxminds, sga_noticeboard, spnnewsletter, discworld, sg1_debrief, comicstore_news, whedonverse_nb, soniclipstick, ds_weekly, the_wireless, trek_news, mars_daily, that_other_show

Comments

[thalia]

"DC Comics," "DC Universe" and "DCU" should be the same thing. If you want to e-mail me the DCAU prompts, I'll see if I can make sense of them.

*looks for excuse to use Matter-Eater Lad icon*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

that would be wonderful, thank you! Sending now :)

[thalia]

Good Omens: There's lower_tadfield and stjamespark, and there's also neil_gaiman for everything Neil Gaiman. There must be some Pterry comm that would catch Discworld and GO, but I don't know what it is.

Star Wars: The only newsletter I know of is jedi_news, but I asked them to promote Bringthehappy, and I don't think they did. If the prompts are Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan I can help, otherwise not so much.

SG-1: The newsletter I'm familiar with is sg1_debrief.

[laurab1.livejournal.com]

DCAU ie DC Animated Universe is also known as "toonverse". It's the WB cartoons with DC characters, in the style of the 1940s Superman cartoons. The toons are: Batman, Batman Beyond, Gotham Girls (online only), Superman, Justice League and Teen Titans. Bruce and Clark were often in each others show, and Justice League included Diana, and pretty much the rest of the DCU.
<--- That's Jor-El and Lara.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Right, got it - that makes sense :) It's all a bit confusing if you haven't come across it before!

[hllangel]

ninth_wonders for Heroes.
bbc_merlin_news for Merlin.
soniclipstick for Sarah Jane Adventures (you should know this one! :P )
daily_snitch used to be the big overarching HP newsletter, but There are separate ones for each corner of fandom these days.

In searching for the above, though, I found this, which is a GIANT list of LJ newsletter comms, listed by fandom.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Yes, I'd just forgotten the SJA one!

Oh wow, that's PERFECT, thank you! *smishes you* That's going to save me so much time, I can't begin to tell you. Woot! Much appreciated :)

[zippitgood.livejournal.com]

the_wireless is the newsletter for Battlestar Galactica.
dollverse, I think, is the main comm for Dollhouse.
trek_news is the newsletter comm for Star Trek.
bcc_merlin_news for Merlin.
soniclipstick for Sarah Jane Adventures.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thank you! I've got a huge number of ST prompts and knew there had to be a central clearing house :)

[btw, I updated the author spreadsheet, thanks - I wanted to put the post in the comm this morning and needed the figures. Looks perfect!]

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Leverage: leveragenews
Life on Mars: mars_daily (I think it's Ashes to Ashes too)
Supernatural: spnnewsletter

Did you consider putting up a notice at that_other_show

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

that's brilliant, thanks.

AHA!!! That Other Show was the comm I've been trying to remember all day. I really should go through my own profile, shouldn't I? ;) ta muchly, hon.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

For "Avatar: The Last Airbender" the main comm is avatar_fans.

For House there's house_md_news.

I have a few anime fans on my f-list who may know about anime newsletters, can I link them to this post?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's awesome, thanks. I'll unlock this post so you can link to it :) Much appreciated!

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

You've got both Dresden Files and The Dresden Files in your book list, scrap the second and it will make your list shorter.

Dresden Files comms...

bookverse
dresden_files

both verses
dresdenfic
dresdenflashfic

There are others but they don't seem very active.

Highlander comms (all accept Highlander: The Raven too)
highlander_lj
highlnder_fic

Highlander crossover fic
highland_cross

The newsletter bases are highlanderer and hl_flash (sign up in one, subscribe to the other)

Whoniverse crossovers
dw_crossovers
crossing_who

And for general crossover fic there's
crossoverfic

HTH.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

That's a fantastic list, thanks. I've got prompts for both Dresden-book and Dresden-TV, so I need to cover both. The Highlander ones are hugely useful thanks!

I can't use crossover fic, since they don't let 'general' comms promote - I might ask, but I think I might have more luck with fandom_of_one and that_other_show.

Much appreciated!

[stackcats.livejournal.com]

For the anime and manga, you could simply post at manga. I can pimp it at one or two Fullmetal Alchemist communities. Oh, and the difference between anime and manga is simply that manga = comic books, and anime = animated cartoons (often adaptions of manga) :0)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ooh, manga is utterly perfect, thanks. I think I'll stick at just that - I don't want to hit saturation point, and I'm already trying to work out how to annoy the fewest number of people ;)

*g* Okay, that makes sense, thanks. Nice and simple, I can handle that!

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

I don't know of a central comm for The Mentalist but there is mentalistlist they seem to be quite active.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Woot, thanks. There's only 2 prompts, but I don't want anyone left out!

Note to self: remember to turn off notifications on the fic post... ;)

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

I believe the newsletter for the Bones fandom is 206_bones. There's also a fanfic comm called thejeffersonian.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Neat, thanks. It's fascinating to see what fandoms call their newsletters!

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

anomaly_news is the newsletter for Primeval and primeval_fanfic, well, does what it says on the box.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Great, I'll make sure they're included :)

[xwingace]

For Full Metal Alchemist (which is in there twice, btw): fullmetal_info and fullmetal_herald, I think.

There's also crossover_news, for all those crossovers.

sanfordpolice might be useful for the Hot Fuzz fandom.

XWA

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I think I had "Full Metal Alchemist" and "Full Metal Alchemist (manga)" on my list, and knowing nothing about these things, I didn't know if that made a difference!

crossover_news is the best news I've had all day! The fic comm doesn't like general posts, but the newsletter is JUST what I want. Thank you!

[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

due South's is ds_noticeboard :D That's the one everyone in the fandom has friended regardless of pairing inclination.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ah, I knew there had to be one. Thanks :)

[akamine_chan]

Wilby Wonderful = wilbywednesday
Durham County = most probably hughdillon
Flashpoint = theconstabulary

All of these fall under the "Canadian 6 Degrees" fandom, which is mostly covered by c6d_weekly.

[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

*stealth hug*

[catwalksalone]

Hi, Miss Z sent me. Sort of.

Life on Mars (UK) = lifein1973

[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

I CAN HAZ INFLUENCES \o/

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Being Human: beinghuman_fans. There used to be beinghuman_news, but either the fandom is too small to support a regular newsletter or the person running it isn't updating it anymore.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) There's only a couple of prompts, but I figure it's good to give small fandoms a boost (especially since there are SO MANY of them on this list!)

[azure-chaos.livejournal.com]

NCIS:ncisfanfic

CSI has a couple of boards that serves all three: csi_fandom or csi_slash (I dunno about popularity etc as to whether they would be considered 'main' comms)

btvs_slashTends to cover both Buffy & Angel but again, don't know if it would be considered the main one in the fandom.

Primeval has two that are equally active: primeval_fanfic (the one that I moderate and you're more than welcome to pimp there) and primeval_itv

The only numb3rs comm that I know is save_colby

I don't know how active these comms are:
bloodties_slash
trueblood_slash
numb3rs_slash
muncle

Hope some of those are of use :)

Nate