we need to instill a new storytelling rule of thumb into people called "show don't tweet" where we encourage them to put all pertinent canon information into the actual story and its official supplemental material instead of using reddit AMAs as lore dlcs
I'd say we need to instill a new storyreading rule of thumb into people called "understand that creators have thoughts about their stories that don't make it into the final work because it's a detail irrelevant to the story" but you all already bastardised Chekhov's Gun so fuck it I guess
I must have missed the storytelling rule of thumb where "pertinent information" means "irrelevant information"
Show me literally one published story that is incomprehensible without tertiary information.
Fair warning, if it's from a Neil Breen or Tommy Wiseau type creator, I will laugh at you.
where tf are you getting "tertiary"? they said "pertinent." you're willfully misunderstanding at this point, and you look like you're just embarrassed to admit you misread the post
"Tertiary information" as in "reddit AMAs", as in "from a tertiary source", as in "give me an example of the thing in the post". If you don't know what words mean it's okay to stop talking or ask for help.
except "tertiary information" directly implies that the information is tertiary. as in its dictionary definition, "third in the order of rank or stage." if you meant "information from tertiary sources" then you should've said "information from tertiary sources."
