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DIRK: Smell this Terezi?

DIRK: This is a panel.

TEREZI: OK4Y

DIRK: Can you tell what it's depicting?

TEREZI: 1... H4NG ON

TEREZI: N33D TO G3T CLOS3R TO TH3 SCR33N

TEREZI: *SLUUUUUURPPPPP*

TEREZI: HM

TEREZI: NO, NO GOOD

TEREZI: 1M H4V1NG 4 H4RD T1M3 M4K1NG 1T OUT OV3R TH3 D3L3CT4BL3 RUG YOUR3 ST4ND1NG ON

DIRK: That's alright. This actually helps me illustrate my point.

DIRK: The panel is a drawing of me showing the panel to you.

DIRK: ...

DIRK: Now, what did I do there?

TEREZI: YOU DROPP3D 1T B4CK ON TH3 FLOOR 4G41N

DIRK: Yeah. But in the panel, I'm still just standing there holding it up.

DIRK: In order to communicate what I did to anyone watching, you'd need another panel to show the result.

DIRK: Or I suppose they could listen in on the conversation we're having right now, and infer that I dropped it from what we're saying. That would also work.

DIRK: In that case, the words provide the information that the picture would have done, without me having to pull a whole new panel out my ass just so that someone could confirm that yes, I did in fact drop the panel on the floor.

TEREZI: TH4TS TH3 ON3 TH1NG 1 4LW4YS FOUND D1FF1CULT 4BOUT M4K1NG COM1CS W1TH D4V3

TEREZI: YOU H4V3 TO DR4W 333333V3RYTH1NG >:[

DIRK: Exactly. But sometimes, visuals are just a more effective way of doing things.

DIRK: So finding the right combination of words and pictures to communicate an idea efficiently is where the artistry lies.

DIRK: And sometimes that means dispensing with one or the other entirely when appropriate.