Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-173.58.251.107-20141213200633

LiveandSound wrote: ^That would not work. There's something called Show, Don't Tell. That, the example you gave, is Tell, Don't Show.

What we want, and need, is to be shown the discrimination against them. They can tell us all the times they want about the discrimination they face, but until it's shown, we can't believe it. It's an important thing to have in mind when writing the story.'''

You can be told "There's an ice cream with a spider on the fridge" countless times, but unless you're stupid or trust too much that person, you won't believe it unless you see it. Yep. As they say, seeing is believing. Or hallucinating, if you're a skeptic. Or if you're a conspiracy theorist, everything we see isn't real, we're all really in tubes like in the matrix, and what we see is actually what we think we see, and it doesn't exist, because it's a virtual reality.