calliopes_pen | Fannish Items of Interest

yuletide sign-ups open later today. For those that want to check the updated list of fandoms without characters included, you can go here. Justice League Unlimited, and Justice League International have both been added back. This is going to be so hard to narrow down to under 30 fandoms to write, and even harder to come up with any requests at all. The latter is almost impossible for me.

Back to the Future fans recreate the “It’s the Libyans!” scene.

The 16 Worst 90s Superhero Redesigns.

norah is hosting a love meme here.

I doubt this is true, just interesting. Dick Van Dyke claims that he was saved by porpoises while adrift at sea.

An old letter from 1978 shows how Kitty Pryde was almost given the codename Sparrowhawk. She was originally intended to be the first of the New Mutants—I knew that bit, but not the Sparrowhawk name.

Dino De Laurentilis has passed away at the age of 91. He was responsible for producing movies such as Danger: Diabolik, Army of Darkness, Flash Gordon, and many others. May he rest in peace.