Okay, I'm gonna need some help here.

[conuly]

It's like banging my head against a wall, but more painful. And if I'm going to keep wasting my time on this futile effort, I could at least get a little company there.

I mean, I'm not wrong, am I? My facts aren't wrong, are they? My thoughts aren't missing a crucial point, are they? This person IS being willfully annoying, right?

HELP ME OUT HERE I FEEL SO ALONE.

Also, I didn't know this as I don't really follow celebrity anything (I'm lucky if I know who a certain star IS, much less what they've done and why people care) or watch many movies or TV shows (I do watch TV, of course, but I seem to limit myself to three or four shows. If I add a new one, an old one inevitably drops off my list), but I'm realizing it now by looking at these pictures...

WOW does that girl look like her dad. Will Smith? HIS DAUGHTER LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM.

It's sorta creepy to look at, but I'm sure as she gets older it'll be more her face and less her dad as a young girl. (Kinda like a kid down her block who looks spookily like her grandmother... or she did at four. Creepy seeing a four year old who looks like a 50 year old woman, but now that she's 12 even though her face hasn't changed, it looks like HER instead of her grandma.)

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[conuly]

I did actually watch the whole thing, but it was a really boring movie. I had nothing better to do.

As it happens, the Earthsea books are some of the LeGuins that I haven't been able to get into. Ever. I don't know why, but she's like that - some of her books I *adore* beyond all reason, and some are just... meh.

However, they deserved better than to be turned into standard-ass European fantasy world.

[silver-chipmunk.livejournal.com]

Well I have the opposite thing towards the Earthsea books. They have always been one of the fantasy series that I've loved the most. And partly that's precisely _because_ they were something other than the standard European fantasy world. Don't get me wrong, I love books set in that milleu, too. I'm a major Tolkien fan, for instance. But there is something just so... different about Earthsea that makes them so much more... fantastical. Which is, after all, what one wants from a fantasy, right? And part of that is that the characters aren't white, and that it's apparently set in the southern hemisphere of the world (it gets colder in the south), and in so many ways it's obviously not our world, and it's certainly not European, or even particularly close to it. It's something completely separate.

[conuly]

I think you misread. I didn't say I object to them not being standard European (and I don't think that's why I couldn't get into them either, some books are just like that), I said they deserved better than to be made INTO standard European.

[silver-chipmunk.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, sorry, I was agreeing with you, actually, and then expanding on _why_ they deserved better than to be turned into the standard etc. Because part of what, to me, makes them so awesome is that they _aren't_ the standard etc.

My bad for rambling and not making it clear that I _was_ rambling.

[conuly]

So long as we understand each other now, let's hug!

[silver-chipmunk.livejournal.com]

HUG!