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Showing but not telling is very important in writing. E.g.
“He looked down, ashamed.” (This is good).
“He averted his eyes to the floor, avoiding her gaze and shuffling nervously in place with guilt swimming in his eyes.” (This is showing that he is feeling ashamed, but not telling).
How to show emotions
Part III
How to show disappointment
swallowing hard
low, monotone voice
clucking their tongue
rubbing their face
shaking head
clenching hands
sighing
frowning
pursing of the lips
slumped shoulders
looking away
scowling
How to show relief
exhaling deeply
tension in their face going away
closing eyes for a moment
tentative smile
eyes brightening up
small giddy laughter
putting hand on their breast
joyfully tearing up
looking up
How to show desire
gaze dropping down to the other's lips
opening mouth slightly
small smile around the eyes
eyes widening
pupils dilating
biting lips
following them with their eyes
inhaling deeply
licking lips
How to show tiredness
closing eyes
slowly opening them again
long sighs
yawning
no eye contact
head lolling to the side
closed mouth, neither smile nor scowl
not moving a lot
doing everything slower
staring off into the near distance
How to show confidence
prolonged eye contact
nodding to show they are listening
putting their shoulders back
holding head high
leaning forward
standing tall
smiling openly
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#Writing#authors#fanfiction#writing tips#word choice matters#mood#creating mood#showing but not telling
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"There were also reports that Taylor was upset that Karlie had leaked personal information to Scooter, 42."
they could have chosen the word rumors instead of reports
also that sentence implies that the reports were about taylor being upset about something karlie actually did
"...upset that karlie had leaked personal information to scooter"
#word choice matters#😡#maybe i should be glad instead of mad about nitpicky word choices#but i know the haters will grip that sentence and wave it like a flag the way they did with 'community i'm#not a part of'#but the haters gonna hate hate hate#just gotta shake it off and celebrate the good in this#kaylor
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Lokius + never saying goodbye
#mobius#loki#lokius#marveledit#lokiedit#mcuedit#hope is hard!!!!#waking up thinking about comic!mobius holding out faith in loki no matter what...#him trying to downplay the possibility of ever seeing loki again#wanting him to know he gets to make his own choice about where to end up then loki reciprocating in kind#the shift from 'my friend' to simply mobius' name because at that point how can he even put into words what they've become to each other#especially not to a version he met specifically to avoid such since he'd never be able to make the sacrifice otherwise#the way they never stop thanking each other for a completely new spin on the life they'd wanted all along until those last few scenes#where mobius isn't able to thank loki in person anymore and chooses to wait until he can as his own chosen purpose 😭💖#owen wilson#tom hiddleston#marvel#owenwilsonedit#dianagifs
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this is oddly specific but i absolutely adore the way you draw fur.... it looks like if you were to pet it down it would just fwip back up its wonderful and i love it
I think I know what you mean! That's so nice to hear, it's precisely the look I often aim for!
This is maybe a little off topic but there's this one particular coat type I try so hard to capture believably. I always think of it as "borzoi back fur" because a friend of mine had a borzoi with this sort of fur on her neck and back and they were just the softest, bounciest, most gravity defying curls ever.
I do my best but the results vary.
#I've been trying to find a word to describe this fur type#in finnish you might say taipuisa which means bendy#and it specifically means that it bounces back in shape no matter how much you try to smoothen or control it#I guess wavy is the most obvious choice but it doesn't quite match the “has a will of it's own” aspect#answered#anonymous
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rewatched madoka magica again today bc i fucking hate myself and to absolutely no one’s surprise i went through all five stages of grief in a single evening
#let’s talk about sayaka miki for a second#genuinely the fact that her whole character is centered around tragedy almost to a shakespearean extent#she’s selfless and brave and values her justice and righteousness above all. calls herself an ally of justice#in fact i think it’s rather intriguing how her whole character is centered around “justice”#her story being a more twisted retelling of the original little mermaid#how she is initially portrayed as a very heroic and confident character even before becoming a magical girl. always shielding madoka#selling her soul to heal the boy she loved out of a selfless desire to see him well again#her being absolutely distraught abt being robbed of her humanity and betrayed by kyubey#she combats this harrowing realization by immersing herself in her duties not caring that she is slowly deteriorating in the process#becoming numb with pain and fighting recklessly and psychotically trying to drown out the pain#finally coming to the sickening conclusion that humanity doesn’t deserve her saving and she succumbs to a fate of her making#last words being “i was so stupid” which trumps her previous statement of “there’s no way i’d regret this”#ALSO? the fact that her costume and weapon are symbolic of a knight. she rly portrays this hero of justice who will protect and defend ☹️#i think abt the fact that homura said that sayaka’s wish was so selfless it was only a matter of time before she died#sayaka being the example of what happens to magical girls who go through the entire cycle and eventually become witches is so sad to me#genuinely just like. sick and twisted#very very fucked up.#characters who have their own misconstrued interpretation of “justice” or who are centered around justice in general.#you will always be dear to me.#sayaka reminds me a lot of akechi in some ways ngl#harboring an almost idealized vision of justice but it slowly rots and festers and corrupts their hearts the more immersed w it they become#actually losing their sanity when they fight bc of how much pain they’re in but refuse to acknowledge it until they break#refusing any help and wallowing in misery despite having ppl who love them and want to save them#last words are those expressing regret for being such a fool. for being ignoring#being used by yhe main villain as a stepping stone towards their true goal. they were merely a pawn#also doomed in every version of their reality. always doomed by the narrative no matter what choices they make#i have a type i fear#HAHAHAH ALSO the fact that they’re both dressed so regally compared to everyone else in their respective series#meant to portray them in a virtuous and princely light. only made more apparent by the sword being their weapon of choice#i’m gonna shut up now but they’re soo eerily similar its unnerving tbh 💀
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I don’t know how to explain any more clearly that it doesn’t MATTER if it seems legitimate to you. You have got to fact check every single headline and post and claim on the left just like you need to do on the right.
The left is NOT immune to misinformation and rushed reporting. And the more emotionally polarizing or shocking the talking points, sound bytes, and headlines are, the worse it is and more frequently it happens.
Learn to verify through multiple independent sources. If you can’t do that, you can’t trust it.
If you have to wait extra hours for the real information to come through vetted channels—NOT just one individual somewhere everyone links to, and not just one single media source either, EVEN if it’s a major news network—thats just how it has to be. What news outside of genuine local disasters near you TRULY needs your outrage and post-sharing in the next hour specifically?
Misinformation works best by not seeming like misinformation and by fitting in with the rest of what you already expect to see. It doesn’t help anyone to not be able to recognize and avoid the stuff.
#hey little star whatcha gonna queue?#and before I get any angry anons saying I’m making the argument that both sides are the same#I am not. and nowhere did I say that#and if your immediate reaction to any amount of criticism of leftist spaces or communication#is knee jerk outrage and defensiveness#this is an invitation to explore why that is for you.#this isn’t about anyone on here this is from conversations I’ve had with a few people IRL who have shared leftist misinformation a lot#so if you’re feeling attacked by this post and I haven’t directly spoken to you multiple times about misinformation with you responding bac#this isn’t. a vague post. about you. okay?#I cannot reiterate enough THIS IS AFTER IRL INTERACTIONS NOT A CAL OUT VAGUEPOST#and as one final note. IF YOU FOLLOW PEOPLE. WHO CONSTANTLY USE. THE MOST INFLAMMATORY WORDING CHOICES POSSIBLE.#YOU SHOULD NOT FOLLOW THOSE PEOPLE NO MATTER WHAT THEY TALK ABOUT.#no one communicating in true good faith to ALL PEOPLE about facts uses loaded language more than occasionally#the sooner you learn that the better. and that really starts narrowing down the pool of who you want to actually listen to (while still#verifying anything they tell you)#get higher standards!!!! and read some books or watch lectures about actual effective communication to broad groups without using tribalism#and also. anyone on the left trying to convince you of massive efforts and conspiracies that are anti everything#is also wrong 99% of the time and not a good source to listen to#never EVER assume conspiracy when it can be more simply explained through either#ignorance obliviousness incompetence financial greed or misunderstandings#the end. I’m really done this time. I’m just sick of seeing so many people fall prey to this#shh katie#cult escapee#politics and current events#don’t get swept up in the constant tsunami of performative online activism#election 2024#world events
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anyway Dr. WD Gaster being a soft and kind soul makes his character infinitely more interesting to me than him being evil or even just kinda mean. like his passion for his craft lies not in fucked up experiments, but in a genuine love for learning and the opportunity to teach others and do good by his people. he's definitely strange (all scientists are) and kinda intimidating but he's literally the most thoughtful and considerate person ever it's just a little bit hard to tell because of the way he speaks does anyone HEAR me. he's one of the few characters that WOULDN'T benefit from the mad scientist trope.
#hes just a nice old man to me. he LOVES his job and his friends and his people so so so much#and loving the world around you so much that you want to know everything about it is all science is really#he just speaks so matter-of-factly that its hard to find all of that emotion in his words#but the emotion isnt IN his words. its in the pauses in-between#its in the beat of quiet in the middle of his sentences; where he searches for the exact words to describe what hes thinking or feeling#because every experience is worth that much effort. no single thing is insignificant enough to be mindlessly approximated and forgotten.#its in the moment of silence after the player gives up. accepting your choice as it is --#-- but holding you on a dark screen just a moment longer to mourn a world lost to darkness#we always talk about “very very interesting” being one of his calling cards. but “wonderful” is one of his favorites as well.#undertale#deltarune#utdr#wd gaster#dr gaster#gaster#gaster undertale#gaster deltarune#wingdings gaster
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Word choice absolutely matters, and words have meanings and implications, and maybe we're in a little bit of conflict over the chosen words used to describe Sam: spoiled, self-centered, sheltered, babied. If we step back and actually look at the facts of Sam Winchester's life, these are not words I'd have chosen to describe him or his situation. But the fact that others do says something about the way they view the situation, yeah? Negative words have negative connotations. Sam, not wanting to be homeless and desiring an education and to not die young doesn't actually make him spoiled. These are reasonable, normal, good responses to poverty and in this case also to abuse and neglect. But it does make him a bit of a class traitor to his family, which isn't necessarily untrue! Yet I still can't blame Sam for wanting to get outta this class and make change.
Here are a few things I'm mulling over:
The show adopts Dean's POV early and a lot (for smart, storytelling reasons), however Dean isn't exactly a consistently reliable, nuanced narrator. Dean was shocked as heck that Sam confessed to being a lonely kid. "Hey, you had ME, wtf??" But …
If you're left by yourself much of the time, and you hop from school to school and have no friends for more than a few months at a chunk (then you're ripped away from those scant friends repeatedly, no forwarding addresses, no phone numbers allowed), and you develop into a self-reliant kid, navigating an adult world largely alone because your dad and brother are either off working together or it's expected of you to know how to wield a gun at nine, stay off the cops' radar, etc, you think nothing of doing that at, say, 15. It's not like Sam was sheltered or coddled; he was uninformed and felt unheard, and there's a big semantical difference, to me. Like you touched on, fandom-hoarder, if anything, he was left out of the loop and had to come up with his own assessments and solutions, regardless of Dean's best intentions. If Sam’d had all the facts (that Dean had, at any rate), if Dean would've told Sam how John treated Dean, or what John expected of them and why, instead of just demanding compliance without explanation, Sam would almost certainly have made different choices.
And also, here's a thought: John might've had a vested interest in putting distance between the boys. It served his purposes. Keeping Sam out of the supernatural fray—because John knew Sam had a direct tie to it—and using Dean as his support and instrument of control, was the tactic John took but it was incredibly alienating for Sam, as a smart, independent personality who knew full well he wasn't being told the whole story. He felt discounted, not protected. If Sam hadn't been innately inclined to these traits, John's protocol might've worked brilliantly. But alas!
Instead, it got Sam's roommate possessed by a demon, and his girlfriend fried on the ceiling of their shared apartment, kicking off the adventures (and misadventures) of the family Winchester and hit show “Supernatural”. ;) Sam somehow managed to preserve his sense of self, and the feeling that he deserved to wrench himself from a dangerous life (even though cosmic destiny had other plans, regardless). This is just a different flavor of “selfishness”, to John's (and sometimes Dean's) “My way or the highway” demands. Sam took the highway, and John told him to never come back. Dean felt abandoned by Sam, but he stuck with John. Sam was literally abandoned by both, but to him, the risk was worth it. (This reply is a conglomeration of thoughts from not just me, but a gaggle of my fandom buds who have many good thoughts and POVs, and are as weary of exaggerated sacrificial parent!Dean and spoiled brat!Sam as I am. It's a trope that often gets a lot of traction in fandom due to delicious iddiness and less-delicious projection, so I do get where it comes from! But I disagree with how often it's asserted as unquestioned canon, and the empathy and pathos fandom feels towards Dean’s position in the narrative, but relatively little reciprocal sympathy for Sam’s.)
A lot of people seem to be taking that "s1 sam is kinda spoiled" post as wank and sam negative/dean glorifying and... idk if I'm just reading it wrong, but I didn't take it that way AT ALL, and seeing people pop off upset over it is weird rn. I'm kinda reeling. It's just...commentary on s1 dynamic? Yeah 'spoiled' is not exactly the term I would've used, but I didn't take it as a negative like others apparently have??
Bratty, somewhat self centered S1-Sam is my beloved. Because he has to be that way. Because he doesn't have all the info --and that's not his fault, and it was self preservation to want out of that life, but the fact remains that some of the things Sam doesn't KNOW he doesnt know gives him space to BE self centered. Most young people are self centered in some way -- this is not a moral judgement; it's how brains work. And Sam HAD to be self centered, because he was so often responsible for himself.
Sam being alone a lot does not negate the ways his family sheltered and babied him, though. Some people also seem upset about this word choice, as if it means Sam had it easy and didn't have to deal with the trauma of hunting life -- um, NO, that is not what I mean. When people shelter and baby someone, it hampers their agency. Life is multifaceted that way. The reasons for doing it may come out of deep love -- in spn it's a combination of misguided love AND emotional self protection that lead both John and Dean to not tell Sam key things about their life. Even so, Sam not having all the information DOES affect his behavior -- even his snark -- but because of the baby of the family effect, s1 Sam isn't even aware of some of the ways Dean tried to protect him by omission; has seemingly never considered there's things about Dean he doesn't know, or aspects to situations he wasn't aware of at the time -- things that may have, in his own opinion, changed how he reacted to Dean about it.
Maybe it's the part about Dean sheltering Sam from truths 'the way a mother would' that has everyone really upset. I think the post took liberties with their read of parentified Dean there, but I still enjoy the idea that some things Dean never told Sam was him trying to preserve some vestiges of Sam's innocence. Liking/exploring that idea doesn't have to mean thinking Dean was a selfless paragon of motherly virtues or whatever. C'mon, y'all -- nuance.
#spn#I LOVE THEM BOTH I DO#i just wish there was more thoughtful balance in fandom discussions#word choice matters#parentified!Dean#sheltered!Sam
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isha's song got me CRYING FOR REAL FOR REAL
#text#nova shh#arcane#arcane s2#arcane spoilers#isha lol#arcane meta#music#crying aside i'm REALLY fascinated with the choice to make the song in mandarin#my mandarin isn't personally good enough to understand most of the poetic nuances of the song but#the melody and instrumentation and vocals are Impeccably expressive. i know what this song is about even if i don't know the words.#i don't love the take that a foreign language is being used as a metaphor for someone being nonverbal but#i do think it's smth adjacent. it's not a representation of being nonverbal but rather a very real communication barrier#and yet for the things that really matter at the end of all things - the feeling the loyalty the love - i understand it perfectly#just as isha is understood perfectly by jinx through physicality and mannerism and action. we perceive a barrier where there is none#and there's something to be said about the innate affinity we have for the human voice in deep emotional expression#as someone who dearly loves instrumental/orchestral music i know this to be true. the song would not have the same impact without vocals#thinking about the nier soundtracks too.#anyway. i'm crying for real for real idk what just came over me
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it kind of baffles me how little sympathy eurylochus gets :( everyone is so mean to him…
#idk i could on and on for hours about him#and maybe it’s just the spaces i find myself in within the fandom#why is he reduced to his mistakes and not his every attempt of redemption?#why is he reduced to a choice made at his breaking point?#i think. i’m going to get my period soon becuase im crying over eurylochus#he’s my babygirl#and he tried so hard to do the right thing#and he trusted odysseus until he died. the deep trust that survives the lowest points of your friendship#the trust that kept him coming back to odysseus. until he died.#he looked odysseus in the eyes as he was sentenced to death and still loved him#he doesn’t argue#or plead#he states the facts he confirms that odysseus understands#they’re in love they’re in love#doesn’t matter what kind#platonic or romantic or whatever#eurylochus loved him waaaah <- words of a delusional man
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i think i found a solution. you just introduced us to 800 wizard children. get going.
fionna: couldnt you just reupload our world to someone elses head
prismo: prismo: maybe. if i could get it out of simons head and find a willing wizard
simon: well theres no shortage of wizards in ooo
prismo i guess: hey. pep. mind if we store an illegal fanfic universe that mirrors your own in your head. do you want that.
pep: boy do i!
#pep anytime he is faced with a possibly distasteful decision: OHBOY! MILDLY EVIL JERKY WIZARD CHOICES!#he heard the word 'illegal' and lit up#hate drawing comics on digital wahhhafhg but i needed this and i didnt feel like finding my skethcpad#fionna and cake#adventure time#digital#fionna#simon#peppermint#prismo#i never draw fionna. or simon. sorry. or prismo for that matter but he looks ok here <3#put that thing in like. aRandom fucking wizard guard. 'hey Johnny what are you writing' '(in a cold sweat) none of your business malathor'
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"their relationship is romantic" "their relationship is familial" "their relationship is platonic" you're thinking too narrow. their relationship goes beyond labels. the family is inherently queer. their platonic love is romantic. the erotic is familial. each one is the other and the other is them
#.txt#i've gotten to the point of relationship anarchy where i no longer understand the obsession with labeling relationships#there's a post floating around like 'it doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic the point is that they love each other'#and i get the message. however may i propose that distinctions such as that don't even have to matter. consider#bold claim probably. but whatever i didn't have the choice to think about love in a normative way and as a consequence i have thoughts#of course i am thinking about wincest but it applies everywhere. jopzier even#jopson views crozier as a surrogate parent but in an inherently queer way. does that mean he want to fuck his mom? probably not#but the fixation and need for redemption turns the traditionally familial relationship into something far more#do you understand#once you leave the normative behind labels become useless#do sam and dean love each other romantically or platonically or familially? consider: it doesn't matter. there are no words to describe it#their love is queer in the sense that it extends beyond normativity. society holds no sway over them. they are ungovernable#i find it ultimately unhelpful to discuss fiction in normative terms when the characters themselves exist outside of normative society#shows like supernatural and the terror are perfect examples. sam and dean were never normal and franklin crew left normal behind#the arctic doesn't care if you fuck your mom. the impala doesn't care if you kiss your brother#this isn't really about anything i just saw that post the other day and i was like. why doesn't this Hit for me. well this is why#however it IS helpful to discuss fiction set within normative society in relation to normativity. it's relevant!#most stories are not however set within the bounds of normativity. that's kinda the whole point of a lot of fiction#baby i explore relationship anarchy in ways that you couldn't even imagine#<-tldr#i have a tendency to write essays in the notes every time i post something. sorry about that. it feels safer here and i am skittish
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"you can play harry dubois as a communist or fascist or boring neoliberal centrist" Wrong. you can follow along harry as he pretends to hold political convictions but he is forever harry dubois and you cannot change that about him. he has never been a communist in his life & you'll never make him one. he is a cop.
#charlie words#i love him and i love disco elysium but harry is very much harry irregardless of whichever choices you make#“somehow all these routes you can choose still fit his character” thats because he lacks convictions and seeks identity in labels he doesnt#understand. no matter what you do hes still himself and he is very clearly playing pretend in a desperate attempt to be anyone other than#the shell he js
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how much of your writing is ai generated
ngl anon kind of fucking rude to come here and accuse me of that. i don’t make fic just to rack up some arbitrary numbers, be that wordcount or idk, kudos. i make fic because i fucking care about what i’m writing about. if i didn’t, i wouldn’t write it, i certainly wouldn’t post it. AI fic is a plague on fandom for plagiarism reasons, obviously, but also because why should anyone give a shit about your writing if you didn’t? I don’t care if one day we have AI that makes stuff identical in quality to what people can, or better, even, because the words on the page aren’t the point, it’s always about the reason behind putting them down.
So, to answer your question, none of it. And it never will be. I’d rather never write again than stoop to that. And I certainly think less of anyone who does it themselves.
#ask#why would anyone want to read an AI generated fic. just to have more content to consume?#it will never matter it will never say anything because a writing AI has no opinions has no beliefs has no feelings#at most it has biases inherited from the dataset.#an AI can’t explain the choices in a scene to you. or why it picked one word over another. it can spew a bullshit answer if prompted but#that’s not why it made it. it made it because it was algorithmically generating words.#i make shit because it matters to me. the craft is as important as the final product.#if i was reading a fic and the person dumped on me st the last minute that they’d used AI to make it i’d block them. immediately.
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You know what would be cool, if Sam Claflin and Pierre Niney, the two latest actors to play the Count of Monte Cristo, did a photoshoot together.
#sam claflin#pierre niney#the count of monte cristo#no idea whether pierre speaks english but it doesn't matter#they'll have an interpreter#or they can communicate without words you know#in fact it would be cool if all the actors from the film & tv show did a photoshoot together#but you probably won't get that many actors together at the same time and place#maybe just the pairs that play the same character (of those who appear)#jeremy irons and pierfrancesco favino#karla-simone spence and anamaria vartolomei#etc etc i don't remember all their names. or forgot how to spell & am too lazy to look up#it would show how much of a better choice nicolas maupas is to play albert#mypost
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Imo Jason is “irredeemable” by default because I don’t see what he needs redemption from.
#I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but joining this fandom made me fucking hate the word ‘redemption’#no person I’ve seen who is in love with the concept knows the who what where when why or how it should work in a story#apparently it isn’t just themes and tropes anymore people don’t understand the proper use of the word ‘villain’#kelseethe#also hilarious: Jason should recieve sensitivity training HR style from Bruce ‘I’m the government and children are my cronies’ wayne#if Jasons headstrong/‘answers to no one’ attitude towards vigilantism is what makes people think he's villainous#I hate to be a broken record but the baddie you’re describing is Bruce#nobody thinks he’s a villain for only trusting in his own methods/self and repeatedly isolating himself#and on top of that gaslighting and hurting people around him in attempts to do what HE **thinks** is the right thing#you people always thought *him* heroic not problematic for all these traits#the only difference is Jason isn’t psychologically abusive & controlling#yet he’s still the bad guy just cause he liberally kills folks in the crime business.#l'd argue goth ham war is the b*tman story to remind you of everything that makes Bruce authentically himself#Idk how to tell you that Bruce mentally compromising/crippling his son in a twisted attempt to ‘save him from himself’#is perfectly in line with slitting the same son’s throat because he couldn’t stand to see him avenge his own killer#and yk what a redemption arc could be interesting for someone like Bruce#because he rarely questions or doubts his choices esp wrt Jason. no matter how morally dubious they may be#I think it would be quite fun to witness his extremely restricted worldview be challenged/shattered he deserves that humbling experience
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