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Reblog if you think it’s okay to platonically say “I Love You” to your friends

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it's a lot of stuff...

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'He Who Dreamed of Oblivion'

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'She Who Danced Among Mortals'

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Obligatory Nufymeric

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DANCE TO THE SONG OF RINGING STEEL 🦋

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Reblog if your an FFXIV blog!

Help the lost Twitter spirits find us all.

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i think men are too emotional to own websites

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Nothing like coming back to revive this account lmao.

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Estinien's worst nightmare

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sunder.

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This is from the garlemald part of the msq and im just gonna say. There is absolutely NO timeline where alphinaud says this and doesnt eat shit on the ice within a minute.

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Huh. I am surprised I didnt get nuked from this place.

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Person A is in bed reading a book. Person B enters and climbs into bed with them. Without looking up person A raises their arm so that person B can crawl under and snuggle up with them. Person B falls asleep.

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I feel like a better rule than “Show, don’t tell” is “Express, don’t state”

Because a lot of people interpret “show don’t tell” as “use visuals instead of dialog” or “play out scenes instead of referencing/describing them” which is an arbitrary rule that doesn’t communicate well what the issue is.

What I mean by “Express, don’t state” is that the facts of your story should be conveyed through the story’s elements instead of stated in the story.

If a character is depressed or guilt ridden, it should be expressed through their attitude, their actions, their decisions, their reactions, etc. instead of stating “this character is depressed”. Whether it’s done through dialog or a visual of a rainy cloud doesn’t matter, because it’s still conveyed directly to the audience instead of being evident in the text itself.

In fact, sometimes having a character describe a scene or a diagnosis or whatever using dialog can express a lot more than showing the scene itself.

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“Just remember, Hero, you can’t please 100% of the people 100% of the time, but you sure can piss them off all at once.”

— Emet Selch to the Warrior of Light, probably