When I was young, I read Diane Duane’s The Young Wizards series, and I remember I loved it. Also Artemis Fowl, Sherlock Holmes, and The Inheritance series (C. Paolini). As an adult, I’ve read the LotR series which I highly recommend. Also, The Expanse series, 1984, Chronicles of Narnia.

Short enough to finish in a day…hmm that’s tough. Maybe Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis? The Martian. Lots of short stories out there by Isaac Asimov!

females

You already know the saying about one man’s trash. Just use that if they ask about it.

• Pirates of the Caribbean (personally, At World’s End has the best, Hans Zimmer)
• The Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore)
• Gravity (Steven Price)
• Tron Legacy (Daft Punk)
• Moonlight (Nicholas Britell)
• Harry Potter (can only speak to the ones by John Williams)
• Braveheart (James Horner)
• The Matrix (Don Davis)

and then it BEAMS

I’m not sure if that says LEGO or LEAD

Found Douglas’ Lemmy account. Hi, Douglas.

As you might note, the busier and more dense a city is, the closer things can be yet the longer it takes to get somewhere per unit of distance. Unless you walk. Sometimes you’re out in the burbs and something’s 10 miles away but it’ll take you less than 10 mins to get there.

I personally think it isn’t wise to use an actor of any race in substitute of another, if that character’s race is part of the story. The only reason I could think of to change the character’s race, gender, status, etc. would perhaps be to tell a different story, but then it should be renamed and be a different story. But if a character’s race, gender, status, etc. is tied to that character’s story, then it shouldn’t be discarded frivolously.

From what I see, I feel that a lot of the disconnect is based on whether people find an attribute (in this case, race) important or not as part of the character’s story.

With her no one could compete.

Yes, and I loved that they wrote the black samurai character into that game to tell that story! I don’t get your point?

But magic doesn’t have any grounding or association with the world as we know it. Neither does aliens. We can only use the world as we know it as a frame of reference for a story.

I’d argue in lbaudia’s example that it is confusing if in 12th century Mongolia, there was some Nordic guy walking around, I’d imagine there to be a backstory of some kind. If there wasn’t, then that would definitely be an example where I’d be annoyed at white people in fiction.

I thought a great example of casting was the TV show “The Expanse”. To be able to cast someone as specific as Bobbie Draper so well - these studios have no excuse to whitewash as they do except laziness.

But pants also always cover all the legs.

It’s pay to even play, pay way more to win.

ah, same vibe as “I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me”

Let’s just say that the dude is rich.

No, no, no! Don’t go back to just saying that! Then we’re back at square one, really underestimating just how rich Elon Musk and other billionaires are!

Many thanks! I’m intrigued by a lot of these haha

And on top of that, unfortunately I’ve only come across British TV in my college years. Even then, the shows I watched seemed to be of the same theme: WILTY, QI, 8 out of 10 cats, Mock the Week, and the like. Though I have seen Black Adder, which was great.

Just because that’s what you got out of it, doesn’t mean that it was the intended joke.