#plausibility

And the act of constellations/outer gods giving their plausibility support willingly so that a certain character can create the story he wants is like they saying: Oh I WISH to see this version of his so much more than I care about how this story WAS USED TO BE TOLD.

So, the plausibility is a scale that tilts under the combined influence of storytelling convention, popular tropes at a certain point of time, and the power of readers’ WISH.

Come to think of it, this is how stories change and evolve in our world, too. How the authors took this rule of storytelling and made it into the foundation rule of the new world that was Star Stream just like gravity in our physical world was the first few things that made me fall in love with ORV.

Thanks for your ask anon! 

I had heard something about that years ago but I never saw it. I wouldn’t be surprised if some ES had it and kept it hidden though. They’ve done so with other information that contradicted their ship (e.g., Tony at Cait’s marathon anyone?)

Unfortunately, nothing will change the way they think about MM. There was a lot of evidence that indicated she had in fact been in South Africa with Sam in 2017 (see POST) but the ES didn’t want to accept it. 

We definitely know she dated Sam. But conspiracy theorists never consider an important question that John Oliver says people should consider: 

“How plausible is this conspiracy, as a practical matter?”

Hello! 

I think rebels and revolutionaries fit well into a fantasy setting personally. It’s human nature to want a better life for yourself and when your leaders aren’t facilitating that, to rebel. 

As for tips, my best advice would be to not have your rebels win every battle even if they win the war. There are going to be failures and doubts amongst the rebels, including the leaders and that will only make things more interesting! Rebels/Revolutionaries are also not going to have the best weapons/technology barring magic abilities, so there has to be another reason they win besides that. Climate (don’t invade Russia in the winter), pure heart, a key assassination, and infiltration of the government/regime are all examples of something that could give your rebels a plausible upper hand, though there are many more, especially depending on the rules of your world. 

Hope this was helpful!

Never mind the previous quote, this is worth linking to on its own. (For the discussion of physics, cognitive science, and epistemology, not just for informing me of the giant oarfish: “a thirty-six-foot-long behemoth with a silver body, a bright-red mane, and a tendency to hang out in the ocean vertically, like a shiny piscine telephone pole.” Okay, partly for that.)

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency used one of the arguments for plausibility ("prefer a probable impossibility to an unconvincing possibility“):

“What was the Sherlock Holmes principle? ‘Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’”

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* Description: * We say we love "realistic" fiction like Batman, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Horizon: Forbidden West. We say we love when our characters "act like real people" and "have realistic dialogue." But it's worth asking: Are these things ACTUALLY realistic? And if not, is realism even worth trying to capture?

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Todays word of the day is: Verisimilitude

A very cool philosophical concept 😇