Spnnewsletter
From Super-wiki
The Supernatural Newsletter (spnnewsletter) is a community on Livejournal bringing a daily overview about fandom's activities, sharing links to news, meta discussions, fan fiction, fan vids, fan art, icons, graphics and other products generated by the fandom. It is not a selective or recommended reading list, rather by tracking communities and individual journals on its "Watchers List", it links to all fannish activities.
It provides a vital function in creating and maintaining the Supernatural fandom community, meaning that fans are exposed to what's going on beyond those journals they have personally friended.
- All of the fic listed in the newsletter is tagged here at del.icio.us by black_samvara. For more on this project see Supernatural Fic Link Archive
The History of the Supernatural Newsletter
- The original newsletter was marecagee's sn_newsletter on LJ.
- The first post on October 28th, covered the days October 24th to 27th and included 5 links for gen fics and 14 links to Sam/Dean fic. Hookman (1.07) had just aired, and Skin (1.06) had a huge impact on the blossoming slash-fandom. marecagee last posted on December 16th, 2005, before being MIA for the holidays. She returned in early January after having had computer troubles and promised to have the new newsletter up and running soon, however, there was never another post in the community.
- On February 16th,2006 a similar community, called spnnewsletter was up and running, with its first edition going live February, 17th, providing the fandom with a now daily newsletter run by geeky_dani, winterlive, vylit, bunnymcfoo, marishna, and magickly, supported by monkiedude and estrella30.
- The spnnewsletter was awarded a Lawrence Award in 2006 for Best Website.
- In September 2007, before the commencement of Season Three, there are 3,594 journals watching the newsletter. The newsletter compilers are bunnymcfoo, marishna, researchgrrrl, clex_monkie89, innie_darling, truffle_shuffle, and green_queen, with honorary editors vylit, winterlive, and annalazarus. The community moderators are estrella30 and monkiedude.
