• Author Jim C Hines tries out some female poses from fantasy fiction cover art – and discovers that bodies don’t work like that.
• Which doesn’t surprise anyone, because Ils at Justsayins is a martial-artist AND contortionist, and she can’t do the poses either. (Her reply post is well worth reading too.)

Some follow-up links to previous items now, as Lego‘s disastrous decision to make pastel-themed and differently-sized Lego just for girls has brought out a whole load of customisation from people who want to give them back an adventuring, building, exciting Lego experience.

• This Badass Retro Aviator by Nathaniel Brill made us very happy!
• And AWESOME 14 year-old Ann Garth wrote to Lego to complain.
• We also posted before on the Brony phenomenon, where guys of all ages are becoming fans of My Little Pony – Friendship is Magic, and now Jonny Sims suspects he’s cracked exactly why it’s happening…
• And finally, Fat Ladies In Spaaaaace! is the title of a children’s colouring-book, showing “Eighteen fat sci-fi heroines doing what they do best: trekking across the time and space, blasting off into adventure, and saving the day.“