A while ago, I read a column by a guy who said he'd always thought he read equal parts male and female authors, but when a girl dared him to make inventory of his bookshelf, it turned out the names in it were overwhelmingly male. He then talked about this experience with another guy, who bristled: of course he read equal parts male and female ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I had some fun over at the website for Statistiska Centralbyrån, or more specifically, with their name search. I typed in every Lord of the Rings name I could think of, and the site gave me a remarkable number called that as their first/used or middle name ( Read more... )

After writing the WW vignette (which is still in beta process since my first beta claimed there was nothing wrong with it and I refuse to believe that) one of my first thoughts was "Well, yet again a story about a disabled character ( Read more... )