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@TarkabarkaHolgy

I love your list, but I want to add a "hot take"...

... how much one should believe of a source, & how to proceed in using it, depends (in my opinion only), on how one intends to use it.

If I'm planning to write a (semi)academic treatise on something, sure, I need to be careful af.

But if I'm writing e.g. a "pop-mythology" booklet, or a fun Mastodon post (hehe), I don't feel it is necessary or even useful to be too deep.

Or maybe I'm wrong!

@mythologyandhistory I wouldn't say deep, but I'd still want to be accurate, unless I'm doing a creative take 😄

@TarkabarkaHolgy

I agree that accuracy is wanted, but it's not always really possible (or so I've found).

Sometimes, I decided to go with the "most common opinion" in e.g. a Mastodon post, because I would need to write a lot of "allegedly"s & "possibly"s otherwise :P

I try to get more accurate if someone challenges the notion. It's actually a really neat way to have conversations here!