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In case you hadn't noticed, everybody has a reason to hate anyone, or to lie about hating anyone. So what would I gain by actually hating anyone? I'm better off liking people, whatever that may entail.

I plan to talk to you again tonight, Himekawa.

Hmm? I never said who I was and I don't plan on doing it. I am simply speaking my mind as you want me to. You decide what you read in my words. I will not be the arbiter of who has any good left in them, but I will be attempting to reach out to this goodness regardless.

I don't hate the prince. I don't hate anyone. I think about the future of the land and I see it be damned no matter who will lead it, I would rather foster whatever inch of goodness there is left anywhere.

If we're airing out crimes, can we talk about the fact you've stabbed me, Himekawa?

Do we get to know who binarysoap was?

I didn't feel the need to start a conversation because I thought having two would be enough to chew on already :blob_teehee:

If anybody else wishes to discuss with me, I'll be in the garden tonight. I find the stars to be lovely from the castle court.

That is true, and I hope we will get to know each other in a way that respects our mutual boundaries.

Acquaintances, sure. Friends, I'm afraid I'm not sappy enough for that just yet.

Hello there! There's a magic academy in the castle...? Well, I suppose that's where the sorcerer teaches, yes. How's everyone?

*shrug* eeeeh I can spare 30 minutes a day playing a forum game. Sure, why not, sign me up.

Oh god dialogue tags. Ever since I became consciously aware of them I feel like I've gotten a thousand times worse at them. They are my kryptonite, impossible to get right.

I'm guilty of always going back to old works and editing them again and again long after I should've stopped touching them up. There isn't a time where you can know when to "stop" editing, only one where you do stop editing.

It's still an example of telling being used to talk about fiction, or even be fiction. Another example that comes to mind is SCP stuff, if you prefer that? Look, my point is, telling is a-ok, know when to use it.

Oh I mentioned Tolkien because he's the easy example. I couldn't finish the book either lol I guess a more relevant example would be, like, wikis? Wikis are all about telling, and yet they can be genuinely enjoyable to read.

Fun fact, and I'm not making this up: "show don't tell" was advice invented by the CIA for the purposes of anti-communist propaganda. the goal was to prevent people from writing any perspective that the average 50s white middle class american wouldn't be inherently familiar with, and that meant...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiVillain

I don't think offering jobs to children is actually long term help, considering that, you know, child labor is kind of a shitty thing. But you can always make your character the harbinger of societal change in the long term; either by becoming a rich philantropist, or a myriads of ways that the...

For my current fanfic, I am absolutely enamored with the source material but at the same time painfully aware of all the ways it aged super poorly, and I want nothing more than to go "I can fix this" so I get to share the world and cast with my friends I couldn't recommend the source material to.