Moonlight is the story of Mick St. John, an 85-year-old vampire, trying his hardest to not be too much of a vampire. He has his boundaries, rules that he lives by. He doesn't hunt women, children or the innocent. But he does deal with the predators out there that prey on the helpless or unsuspecting.


( Being a vampire sucks. It's a bad joke, I know, but it's the truth. )

( come with me if you don't want paint on your clothes )

Co-created by Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, and Brad Falchuk, Glee is an hour long musical comedy-drama that airs on Fox. It focuses on a high school glee club called "New Directions" ran by Will Schuester (played by Matthew Morrison), located in the small midwestern town of Lima, Ohio. It follows the club's struggles of trying to climb up from the bottom of the social ladder while dodging taunts and slushies from the popular kids of school. Meanwhile, cheerleader coach Sue Sylvester (played by Jane Lynch) is determined to destroy the Glee Club and reestablish social order.

The show has met much success, winning several awards including Golden Globes (Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy), Peabody Award, People's Choice Award (Favorite New TV Comedy in 2010), and four Emmys including Ryan Murphy's Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series. It has a vast selection of merchandise spanning from a Wii Karaoke Revolution game to a clothing line carried by Macy's. The music is also highly successful and each song is available for download via iTunes.

Season 2 premieres Tuesday, September 21st at 8/7c on Fox.

( Wait for the kick... )

How I met your mother (HIMYM) is a sitcom. The main character is Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), who in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting their mother. Ted's friends are Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segal), Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), Barney Stinson (Neil Patrik Harris, aka NPH), and Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders).

The show premiered on September 19th, 2005. Airs on CBS on Mondays, 8:00 PM. Official website.


Please note: I have listed each community under only one category. Many of them have several other purposes as well, so check their info pages. Also, I've only included the comms that have been active within the last year and have at least one post.

( It's gonna be legen- wait for it- )

Richard Castle is a bestselling novelist. After Castle kills off his main protagonist because he is no longer interesting to write, Castle finds new inspiration in NYPD Detective Kate Beckett, a savvy homicide detective with a penchant for unusual cases. Castle uses his friendship with the mayor to arrange an indefinite ridealong with Beckett for the purpose of doing research for his books. Castle gradually becomes a valuable part of Beckett’s team, providing unique insight into the criminal mind, while Castle and Beckett banter in the best will-they-or-won’t-they tradition.

Other regular characters include Detectives Kevin Ryan and Javier Esposito, Beckett’s fellow homicide detectives who work under Beckett’s direction, Captain Roy Montgomery, Beckett’s mentor and immediate superior, Captain Victoria Gates, Montgomery's replacement, and Dr. Lanie Parish, the medical examiner usually assigned to Beckett’s cases. On the home front, the twice-divorced Castle lives with his teenage daughter, Alexis, and his mother, Martha Rodgers, a Broadway actress.

The format of the series is that of "murder of the week" stories, with a sometimes-grisly crime scene at the beginning of each episode. Beckett and Castle interview witnesses and suspects and follow clues that eventually lead them to discover the identity of the murderer by the end of the episode. A handful of episodes have touched on the unsolved murder of Beckett’s mother. The tone of the series is comedy-drama, with characters bantering at murder scenes and immune to the perils of serious illness or morally ambiguous decisions.

Although Richard Castle is a character on a TV series, he has a real web site and Twitter account. Additionally, the novels he has written based on Detective Beckett have been published in Real Life, so viewers can go to their local bookstore and purchase books by Richard Castle.

( Big list of Castle fan communities under the cut. )

Last Updated: February 21, 2012

Usual Business: Updates/Surrenders

This is a reminder to update your overviews, or to surrender your overviews if you no longer intend to update them. Comment here to surrender!

Usual Business: Non-Fandom Overviews

We do have a small selection of overviews on topics that are not a specific fandom, and I’d like to expand this section. We currently have an anti-racism post, for example, and if anyone would like to tackle other topics (such as gender, kink, poly, whatever!) I’d love to include them.

New Business: Dreamwidth

There is a Newbie Guide community on Dreamwidth, but at this time it has only a single post listing fannish communities there, which is updated by me using info provided in comments. I did not know, when I created that post, that there is a page on that wiki-I-can’t-remember-how-to-find that also lists communities on Dreamwidth, which makes my post redundant; I don’t think I’ll be maintaining that post in the future, as I am morally opposed to pointless work.

(If you have strong feelings about keeping that post going, I am perfectly willing to hand it over to someone else to maintain!)

What I would like to do is start getting some overviews up for specific fandoms in the DW community, just like we have in the LJ one. What I’m going to do first is give people who currently run the overviews on LJ first crack at also maintaining that fandom overview on DW.

• If you currently have an overview in the LJ community and would like to do an overview for the same fandom on DW, please comment and let me know. (Remember to tell me which fandom!)
  
  
• If you currently have an overview on LJ and are NOT interested in also covering DW, please comment and let me know. (Remember to tell me which fandom!)
  
  
• If you currently have an overview on LJ but would rather cover the same fandom on DW only, please comment and let me know. (Remember to tell me which fandom!)

Eureka

Eureka takes place in a high tech community of the same name, located somewhere in the Pacific Northwest and inhabited entirely by brilliant scientists working on new scientific advancements for the United States government that frequently go disastrously awry. The town's existence and location are closely guarded secrets.
U.S. Marshal Jack Carter stumbles upon Eureka while transporting a fugitive prisoner - his own rebellious teenage daughter Zoe - back to her mother's home in Los Angeles. When a faulty experiment cripples the sheriff of Eureka, Carter finds himself quickly chosen to fill the vacancy. Despite not being a genius like most members of the town, Jack Carter's ability to connect to others repeatedly saves Eureka, and indeed the entire world, from one would-be disaster after another.

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