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this is a dumb cliche, I agree, but I guess the thing that can be useful is Chesterton's Fence. ie, know what the purpose of the rules are before you break them. @ellaguro/1453762957851115533
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of course in a creative field the easiest way to find that out is to break them, and often the reasons are "because the stuff we grew up with did it this way", so.
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but like... "practice doing it this way and perfect your application of these rules... and only then decide they're bad" is garbage