Spnnewsletter

The Supernatural Newsletter (spnnewsletter) is a community on Livejournal that provides a daily overview of the 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" and linking new and relevant posts, it functions as a catalog of most fannish LiveJournal-based activity within the fandom.

It serves a vital function in creating and maintaining the Supernatural fandom community, giving fans a chance to be 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

• On October 28 2005 marecagee created the first Supernatural newsletter on LiveJournal: sn_newsletter.

• The first post, on October 28, covered the days October 24-27 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 16 2005, before going 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 were never any new posts made for the purpose of cataloging Supernatural fanworks.

• On February 16 2006 a similar community called spnnewsletter was created. The first edition went live February 17, 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 were 3,594 journals watching the newsletter. The newsletter compilers were bunnymcfoo, marishna, researchgrrrl, clex_monkie89, innie_darling, truffle_shuffle, and green_queen, with honorary editors vylit, winterlive, and annalazarus. The community moderators were estrella30 and monkiedude.

• A database of all the fanfic listed in the newsletter -- over 17,000 stories -- has been compiled at the Supernatural Fic Link Archive on del.icio.us.