I browse Tumblr to pass the time.

There are many animals I expect to see in caves, but I can confidently say that this was not one of them.

The elephants yearn for the mines

They crave that mineral

The above is doubly true if the content of the email is something that will be important to the person receiving - especially something that affects them negatively. They see that this thing that affected them so much didn't matter enough to you to write it yourself. I was a bystander to such a thing not long ago and it was just awful.

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

Incredibly powerful

This was the first Ace Attorney game with motion capture so obviously they had to do shit like this

No idea if there's a formal name but I think of it as "you have to play by the rules of the universe you create". Like okay, I'll buy that Superman can fly into outer space because those are the rules set up by the Superman universe and so the author and audience both agree that this can happen in the story. The minute Superman picks up a human woman and flies her into space with him, the author broke the compact they made with the audience and now that story is bad.

Ironically, the wikipedia article for verisimilitude cites Superman as an example

I think "it violates the rules of verisimilitude" is as good a name for it as any

It's walruses vs. fairies. If a fairy shows up at my door, okay, fine, I don't know how fairies work. But a walrus is not qualified to be TA for a lit class.

The fact that the last three sentences added here made complete sense to me instantly is making me feel some kind of way

That's because it stuck to the laws of the written tumblr universe

The story follows the rules of the real world except where exceptions are explicitly spelled out.

I took a writing class a while back on worldbuilding where this was sort of one of the lessons, there was a good article we read about it that I still think about for anyone interested in more on the topic: https://tinhouse.com/engineering-impossible-architectures/