Newbieguide

Name:	The Newbie's Guide to Fannish LiveJournal
Date(s):	Feb 2005 -
Moderator:	Devil Doll, marag
Founder:	Devil Doll
Type:
Fandom:	multifandom
URL:	http://community.livejournal.com/newbieguide/ http://newbieguide.dreamwidth.org/
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The Newbieguide livejournal community provides overviews, written by different fans who claim a fandom, of where to find various fandoms on LiveJournal. A typical post includes a brief summary of the source material and lists of associated resources and communities. It is a good first stop for newbies.

Besides fandom overviews, Newbie Guide posts include "Other Fannish Topics" such as:

• Basic Do/Don't Post (for the comm) by devildoll
• Fans & Characters of Color/Anti-Racism Resources [1] by zvi_likes_tv
• How to post your fanfiction on LJ by brown betty
• Multi-Fannish Meta by cathexys
• Podfic [2] by general_jinjur
• Vidding [3] by permetaform
• Writing & Writer Resources by mass_hipgnosis
• Dude, Where's My Fandom? (on Dreamwidth) post by devil doll

The Fandom Overviews include:

• Alexander the Great [4] by drbillbongo
• Alias [5] by xanateria
• Angel the Series [6] by sweptawaybayou
• Avatar: the Last Airbender [7] by dharmavati
• Bandom [8] by wistfuljane
• Battlestar Galactica (2003) [9] by jengrrrl
• Blakes 7 [10] by vilakins
• Blood + [11] by poisonangel7
• Blood Ties [12] by spikedluv
• Bones [13] by lizabethweir
• Boondock Saints [14] by unperfectwolf
• Brokeback Mountain [15] by spikedluv
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer [16] by yourlibrarian
• CSI [17] by pluvial_poetry
• Castle [18] by december21st
• Community [19] by ceridweyn_lin
• Criminal Minds [20] by sperrywink
• DC Comics (includes movies/cartoons/Vertigo/Wildstorm)[21] by brown_betty
• Dante's Cove [22] by spikedluv
• Dark Angel [23] by shopfront
• Dead Like Me [24] by trascendenza
• Doctor Who [25] by spiralsheep
• Dresden Files [26] by soophelia
• Drive [27] by sanguinepen
• due South [28] by spikedluv
• ER [29] by frack412
• Eroica [30] by sookail
• Eureka [31] by christinchen
• The Fast and the Furious [32] by wistfuljane
• Final Fantasy [33] by heyheyrenay
• Firefly [34] by inalasahl
• Fringe [35] by muses_mistress
• Glee [36] by ipickquinn
• Good Omens [37] by nike_victory
• Grey's Anatomy [38] by shopfront
• Hairspray [39] by trascendenza
• Harry Potter [40] by penknife)
• Hawaii Five-0 (2010) [41] by the_other_sandy
• Hercules [42] by elke_tanzer
• Heroes [43] by scribewraith
• Homicide: LotS [44] by smashsc
• Horatio Hornblower [45] by nolivingman
• House [46] by angelwen99
• How I Met Your Mother [47] by bananacosmic
• Inception [48] by ipickquinn (24 August 2010)
• Jeeves & Wooster [49] by jenavira
• Jericho [50] by sunryse00
• King Arthur/Arthurian legends [51] by yueni
• Kyou Kara Maou [52] by poisonangel7
• Legend of the Seeker [53] by wildalyss
• Leverage [54] by spikedluv
• Life on Mars (UK) [55] by general_jinjur
• Life Unexpected [56] by alwaysparis
• Live Free or Die Hard [57] by spikedluv
• Lord of the Rings [58] by spock74
• Lost [59] by cmere
• The Magnificent Seven [60] by spikedluv
• Man From U.N.C.L.E. [61] by st_crispins
• Marvel comics & movies [62] by devildoll
• Master & Commander [63] by nolivingman
• The Mentalist [64] by ebonyfeather
• Merlin [65] by shopfront
• Moonlight [66] by angelus2hot
• Mutant X [67] by firstmutant
• NCIS [68] by spikedluv
• Narnia [69]] by mjules
• Numb3rs [70] by spikedluv
• Ocean's 11/12 [71] by musesfool
• One Piece [72] by justira
• Oz [73] by foxxcub
• Pirates of the Caribbean [74] by fabu
• Popslash [75] by wistfuljane
• Pride & Prejudice [76] by imacartwright
• Primeval[77] by cordeliadelayne
• Prison Break [78] by sunryse00
• The Professionals [79] by mab_browne
• The Prophecy [80] by hannahrorlove
• Psych [81] by hermitsoul
• Queer as Folk [82] by pluvial_poetry
• Rare books [83] by norah
• Riptide [84] by tinx_r
• Robin Hood 2006 [85] by spikedluv
• Roswell [86] by aliaspiral
• Saiyuki [87] by permetaform
• Sarah Jane Adventures [88] by spiralsheep
• The Sentinel [89] by spikedluv
• A Series of Unfortunate Events [90] by emcharlotte
• Shark [91] by shopfront
• Sherlock Holmes [92] by prof_pangaea
• Sleepy Hollow [93] by hannahrorlove
• Smallville [94] by svmadelyn
• Sports Night [95] by hermitsoul
• Star Trek: Original Series [96] by elke_tanzer
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine [97] by rae_fa
• Star Trek: Enterprise [98] by rae_fa
• Star Trek: The Next Generation [99] by rae_fa
• Star Trek: Voyager [100] by rae_fa
• Stargate: Atlantis [101] by spikedluv
• Stargate SG-1 [102] by galaxynumber5
• Supernatural [103] by scribewraith
• Tin Man [104] by spikedluv
• Torchwood [105] by otoselkie
• True Blood [106] [107] by abalonedreams15
• Twilight series [108] by whomever
• Veronica Mars [109] by ancientsavvy
• Weiß Kreuz [110] by penelope_z
• The West Wing [111] by raedbard
• World Wrestling Entertainment [112] by shy_bunny
• The X-Files [113] by melannen
• Young Dracula [114] by ssquirrel_fic
• Xena [115] by elke_tanzer