Wouldn't Superman's cape add drag when he flies?

All you drawingly types, fanart's answer to yuletide is here! I've been waiting for something like yuletart all my life. *weeps* Please pimp this out, as the thing about rare fandom exchanges is they need to be fairly large before there's even a chance that someone else has heard of your fandom. Although in this case it seems to be "every fandom other than HP" ( Read more... )

From flemmings:

YES THANK YOU

My general impression is that most publications here still use "him" as a purportedly gender-neutral pronoun; I don't see "him or her" so much (and yes, it is a good point, why not "her or him"?) but it is an unbelievebly cumbersome substitute. English needs a proper gender-neutral pronoun; but lacking that "they" can damn ( Read more... )