Betty ([info]brown_betty) wrote in [info]newbieguide,
@ 2005-05-20 19:51:00
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Fandom: DC Universe
Because our fandom is so large, it acts like a much smaller fandom.

…Wait, let me try that again. In addition to approaching a century of comics canon, there's also canon from spin off movies, from spin off tv shows, from tv shows now only available on the black market in Asian countries, and from comics which spun off from the spin off tv shows. Our fandom has more canon than the Bible, and is as difficult to reconcile. It's impossible to be familiar with all of it, so most fans stake out a corner: a book, a character, or a team they like, and inhabit it. DCU is less a fandom than a loose collection of small interlocking fandoms. Fans tend to segregate themselves by their canon, rather than their 'ships, or by het vs. slash.

FAQ:
What is the DC Universe?
Books published under the DC imprint are assumed to take place in the same fictional universe. Books published by DC under the Vertigo or Wildstorm imprint don't necessarily take place within the DC shared universe, but are are considered within the DC fandom and included in this guide.

Communities of note:

Information:

The [info]dcfic_index is a no posting community that exists solely to track fic written within the DC universe. These can be found, sorted, in the memories.

[info]dcu_slash_index for fic which is outside of, and mostly predates, live journal.

General Comics: (mostly stolen from [info]devildoll 's Marvel fandom Guide)

[info]canonistas
A slash and het friendly place to discuss comic canon and continuity. Any and all comics as well as related movies, television shows, books, etc.

[info]comic_addicts
This is a community for folks who need to blab about comics and your addictions to them.

[info]the_comic_trade
This is a place where you can sell and trade new or old comics, graphic novels, posters, action figures and anything else comic related!!

[info]comica_obscura
The community for the Obscure Comics Character Challenge, but it also has links to fics about obscure characters.

[info]comicbook100
One hundred word challenge community.

[info]comicbook_icons

[info]comicbooklovers
This community is about comic culture, plain and simple. The entire comic book culture, not specifically limited to printed comics, but movies, toys, and all else you might find relevant.

[info]comicbookmovies
This is a community for the discussion of comic-book/superhero films.

[info]comicfangirls
A community for girlfans of any and all comic books.

[info]comics_fanart
For fanart for any comic book, any company.

[info]comics_genfic
It is a forum for the posting of stories, fic announcements, and recommendations for comics-based fanfic of the gen persuasion.

[info]comicslash
Discussion, fics, rants, and reviews, all with a slash bent.

[info]comicstore_news
A Comic Book Based Newsletter

[info]scans_daily
Community for posting scans of pages from comic books and manga.

[info]superherofanart
This Community is for comic book lovers and fan artists. All forms are welcome, coloured pencil, paint, photomanip, markers, collages… everything!

[info]superhero_icons
A place for fans to post icons of superheroes from films, tv, books, video games and comics.

[info]toons_daily
Community for posting screen caps from comics-based cartoons.

[info]wednesdaycomics
A community for the Saturday of comic fans, new shipment day! Come here to discuss the latest in the world of funnybooks.

DC Comics:

[info]dc_clocktower
A place to post links to your meta, reviews, rants, etc.

[info]dc_ficfinders
When you want to reread a story, but can't remember who wrote it.

[info]dc_flashfiction
On-going fic challenge community.

Specific Books, Teams, Families, etc.:

[info]bat_brats
Primarily for the current sidekicks, Tim Drake and Cassandra Cain but past Bat-Brats, including Stephanie Brown and Jason Todd are welcome as well.

[info]asylum_foraloon
DC Villains Fanfic Community

[info]batfic
Fic about Batman or the Batclan. Fairly active.

[info]birdsofprey_fic
Birds of Prey TV or comic fic

[info]dakota_bangs
Static Shock! For discussion, fic or art based on the animated series and comic of that name.

[info]the_gas_station
Dedicated to discussion, fic, art and pretty much anything relating to the Static Shock cartoon.

[info]get_vertigo
For all Vertigo comics fic and art, as well as discussion.

[info]glcorps
For fans of any Green Lantern.

[info]gothamgirls
Focused on the women in Gotham.

[info]jl_fic
For fic written about the Justice League Cartoon.

[info]jl_virtual
Justice League virtual season.

[info]jla_fics
Fic about the JLA and members.

[info]jlu_slash
Slashing the cartoon show, Justice League Unlimited.

[info]legionnaires
A Legion discussion community.

[info]opalcity
For appreciation of Starman and the Starman characters.

[info]secondbananas
For appreciation of the lesser known characters of the DC Universe.

[info]sprock_you
This is a community to post fan fiction and fanart for any of the incarnations of The Legion of Super-Heroes.

[Bad username: teentitans_slash]
For slashfic using the characters of the Teen Titans tv show.

[info]theauthority
For fans of the Wildstorm Authority books.

[info]titans_together
For fic, fanart, and discussion about Titans team members, current or former. Very active.

Challenge fic communities, past and present:

[info]4colorheroines
Archive for the Four Color Heroines challenge, featuring fic about a wide variety of DCU women.

[info]dc_flashfiction
On-going challenge community.

[info]jbbs Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, a Titans/Outsiders Secret Santa challenge

[info]timfinity
Alternate histories challenge archive for Tim Drake, Robin III.

Character:

[info]agoodsoldier
Community dedicated to Jason Todd, Robin II

[info]heartbart
For appreciation of Bart Allen.

Pairings:

DCU ship manifestos at [info]ship_manifesto

[info]dccbatflash
For anything related to bat/flash pairing.

[info]robincest
For stories contain a pairing made up of robins.

[info]roydick
Featuring a Dick Grayson/Roy Harper pairing.

[info]royxtim
For stories focusing on Roy Harper/Tim Drake.

[info]tim_cissie
For stories focusing on Tim Drake/Cissie King-Jones

[info]timkon
For stories focusing on the pairing of Kon El/Tim Drake

Role Playing Communities: Not my thing, but by asking around I've found:

Titans Academy at Greatest Journal

Titans of Tomorrow at Greatest Journal

[info]jla_watchtower


Outside LJ

Fiction Archives outside of Live Journal - Not terribly active.

Birds of a Feather
An archive of Babs/Dick fanfiction.

Themed Response
A Robin III/Batgirl II fanfiction archive.

Yellow on Black
Batman and Black Canary.

Offpanel.net
An authors' collective archive. Contains an impressive links page, including many links to YahooGroups, which may or may not be active.

JLA Unlimited

Comments, corrections, additions solicited.

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[info]caia_comica
2005-05-21 02:13 am UTC (link)
There's also [info]kerithwyn's [info]dc_slash_index the current version of the DC Slash and Adult Archive, which indexes fic posted to lists or anywhere on the net other than Livejournal.

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[info]brown_betty
2005-05-21 02:17 am UTC (link)
Durr. I know I included that in the earlier, eaten by my laptop version of this post. Thanks.

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[info]red_eft
2005-05-21 02:21 am UTC (link)
There's also [info]comics_fanart Fanart for any comic books, any company.

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[info]brown_betty
2005-05-21 02:23 am UTC (link)
Okay, thanks. I'm much more aware of fic than the rest of fandom, but I really do want to include it.

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[info]unlovablehands
2005-05-21 02:47 am UTC (link)
Another comics fanart community: [info]comics_fanart.

The Jingle Bells, Batman Smells Titans/Outsiders Secret Santa is at [info]jbbs.

The Legion fic and art community is at [info]sprock_you not [info]sprockyou & there is a Legion discussion community at [info]legionnaires.

OffPanel links to a number of DC Comics/General Comics yahoogroups MLs. I have no idea how active they currently are, though.

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[info]brown_betty
2005-05-21 03:00 am UTC (link)
I caught the [info]sprock_you error, (after posting, because life's like that) and it should be fixed. Thanks for the other links.

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[info]kerithwyn
2005-05-21 05:26 pm UTC (link)
Most useful!

And an excellent reminder to *update* the offpanel links page. *snerk*

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[info]brown_betty
2005-05-21 07:12 pm UTC (link)
Oh... I didn't mean anything by that, just that I hadn't personally checked any of them out. But it's a very impressive links page!

I wasn't really sure how to describe Offpanel. Is that okay, or is there some better description?

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[info]kerithwyn
2005-05-22 12:17 am UTC (link)
No worry! I didn't think you did. That was a *snerk* at myself, because I really haven't updated it in forever, and it needs to be. :)

And that's a fine description of Offpanel. Thanks!

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[info]tooticki
2005-05-28 04:47 am UTC (link)
The Gas Station is an lj community dedicated to discussion, fic, art and pretty much anything relating to the Static Shock cartoon.

Basically, it's the same as Dakota Bangs, but older.

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[info]brown_betty
2005-05-28 04:53 am UTC (link)
Thanks! Static shock isn't my corner of the fandom, so I'm glad you caught me on that.

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[info]brown_betty
2005-06-08 08:43 pm UTC (link)
Well... Canonically, the Sandman books do take place in the same universe as mainstream DCU (I seem to recall an early appearance by the Martian Manhunter in a bathrobe and Dream), but I'm afraid I'm not up on the rest of those titles. Probably technically in the same universe while rarely crossing over? They're not very compatible in tone. This could be a good question for [info]canonistas.

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[info]amara_anon
2008-03-16 03:24 pm UTC (link)
Thank you for providing this guide. I found it very helpful. I don't know if you are still accepting additions, but in case you are, [info]batfic_contest is a new comm that holds bi-weekly fanfic contests for all versions and pairings of Batman. Thanks again.

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[info]brown_betty
2008-03-16 05:25 pm UTC (link)
I haven't updated this in forever, so thanks for reminding me!

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[info]kerithwyn
2008-04-03 04:34 pm UTC (link)
For what it's worth (minimal), the [info]dc_slash_index morphed into the [info]dcu_slash_index back in 2005. Not certain there's much to add to it at this point; the lists are as good as dead, mostly serving as pointers to fic on lj. But [info]dcu_slash_index will remain as given, as an archive list of pre-lj DC slash fic.

Offpanel links page...needs to be cleaned up again. :p

Edited at 2008-04-03 04:34 pm UTC

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[info]brown_betty
2008-04-03 04:36 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, I'll fix it.

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[info]saavikam77
2008-04-20 02:55 pm UTC (link)
Hi! Just wanted to drop a note to let you know that I've been amassing my own list of DCU-centric LJ communities. I've got easily twice or three times what you have listed here, just in the DCU-specific comms (and my eyes are bugging out because of it! :p), and I plan to post the completed list to both my personal LJ and to [info]dcu_freeforall. If you'd like, I can send you the list when it's fully complete, so you can update this. Also, do you mind if I use the format you used here? It's so organized and pretty! ^_^

Thanks!

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[info]brown_betty
2008-04-20 03:00 pm UTC (link)
Sure! I actually made a decision when I compiled this to cut out some of the smaller ones, because it's so huge! And steal away, I stole it from [info]devildoll

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[info]saavikam77
2008-04-20 03:13 pm UTC (link)
Excellent! :D Actually, here's the link to the list, as it stands (it's a WIP, of course, and includes SV comms). It's f-locked, so I'll add you as a friend so you can see it.

DCU Communities List

I'll send you the link to the completed list when it's done, too.

Thanks again!

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[info]brown_betty
2008-04-20 03:19 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, I appreciate that!

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