Fannish Items of Interest

10 Collecting Fads Worth Next To Nothing Now. I remember POGs, even if I never bought one. I used to buy X-Men trading cards around 1989 or 1990—there’s probably still a three ring binder filled with the things around here somewhere.

The first official trailer for The Cabin In The Woods. whedonesque discusses it here.

After more than 20 years, Universal is closing their Jaws attraction.

Tom Hardy happily breaks a crew member (as a joke) while in character as Bane.

A brief history of X-Force.

From Mental Floss: 11 Functional Homemade TARDISes

Best wishes to both Russell T. Davies and his partner, as they deals with the latter’s cancer diagnosis.

Oh, and the link I gave for using the old layout of Youtube? They’ve apparently done something to make it stop working, so now you should use this one while you can.

If you’re having difficulty cross-posting between LJ and Twitter or Dreamwidth, that’s because (according to the latest status update) LJ has temporarily disabled the function until the DDOS attack ends. I’m also hoping we will regain syndicated feed updates at that point in time. Until then, I’m reading them (transferred all of them on a day when LJ was doing well) on Dreamwidth.

Once I hear back from my beta reader, the Yuletide story can go up. I just now decided the title I originally had for the story doesn’t work all that well, and have altered it to one that does.

Fannish Items of Interest

10 Collecting Fads Worth Next To Nothing Now. I remember POGs, even if I never bought one. I used to buy X-Men trading cards around 1989 or 1990—there’s probably still a three ring binder filled with the things around here somewhere.

The first official trailer for The Cabin In The Woods. whedonesque discusses it here.

After more than 20 years, Universal is closing their Jaws attraction.

Tom Hardy happily breaks a crew member (as a joke) while in character as Bane.

A brief history of X-Force.

From Mental Floss: 11 Functional Homemade TARDISes

Best wishes to both Russell T. Davies and his partner, as they deals with the latter’s cancer diagnosis.

Oh, and the link I gave for using the old layout of Youtube? They’ve apparently done something to make it stop working, so now you should use this one while you can.

If you’re having difficulty cross-posting between LJ and Twitter or Dreamwidth, that’s because (according to the latest status update) LJ has temporarily disabled the function until the DDOS attack ends. I’m also hoping we will regain syndicated feed updates at that point in time. Until then, I’m reading them (transferred all of them on a day when LJ was doing well) on Dreamwidth.

Once I hear back from my beta reader, the Yuletide story can go up. I just now decided the title I originally had for the story doesn’t work all that well, and have altered it to one that does.