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some people cannot understand that fiction is not made on top of some objective formal logic, i mean you straight up use the word "precedent", as if that means anything outside of your own pattern-recognizing brain
toby is also to blame, stoking the fire and TAKING TOO LONG, but for as long as you insist on some overall grand design, one that will tie sans deltarune and ralsei's hat and every fast travel boatman's line together, you just reveal that (you) yourself have never FINISHED a single creative project
fanboys can only see things in terms of "setup" and "payoff": anything that isn't a payoff must be a setup, and if there is a setup then eventually there must be a payoff

in terms of another took-way-too-long metanarrative, i can phrase it as "with love, one sees things that aren't truly there"