fic writer: I need to spend months writing a detailed backstory justifying everything I actually want to write before I can write the good part

me (internally);

me (externally): have you considered just starting at the good part? It’s called in media res. It’s a whole thing.

fic writer: but I have to establish-

me: characters and tropes your readers are already familiar with? The concept of an alternate universe? The reason why two characters are in a relationship, even though your reader has clicked on a story labelled as those characters being in a relationship?

fic writer: but-

me: it’s okay. This isn’t school. You can still get an A in fic writing without all that stuff.

me: need a hug?

a comic about fix-it fanfics

fic writer: I need to spend months writing a detailed backstory justifying everything I actually want to write before I can write the good part

me (internally);

me (externally): have you considered just starting at the good part? It’s called in media res. It’s a whole thing.

fic writer: but I have to establish-

me: characters and tropes your readers are already familiar with? The concept of an alternate universe? The reason why two characters are in a relationship, even though your reader has clicked on a story labelled as those characters being in a relationship?

fic writer: but-

me: it’s okay. This isn’t school. You can still get an A in fic writing without all that stuff.

me: need a hug?

"The magic system is never fully explained" yeah that's how life works. Imagine having a story set in modern day America and the characters have several pages of exposition on combustion engines and telecommunication networks before we get to the plot

someone actually did a parody of sci fi featuring exactly this and it's still very funny imo

Not only is having worldbuilding threads that are mentioned once and never picked up again not a flaw in fantasy media, I’d go so far as to say that a lack of such threads is a flaw. If everything ties up in one neat little package, you’re missing the point of fantasy worldbuilding. Like, don’t do it on every page, or your setting is going to be an overstuffed mess, but every so often you are not only allowed but obligated to casually drop some utterly batshit worldbuilding detail and then just never follow up on it. Maybe some rocks are sentient. You don’t owe your reader an explanation. Just fucking go for it.

Random thought of the day.

You know, it isn’t the first time I find myself lowkey thinking about this but….

1) I think we all have stumbled upon the casual post attempting to calculate the time the Chosen Children have spent in the Digital World during the events of Digimon Adventure.

We know for sure that 1 day in the Digital World roughly corresponds to 1 minute in the Human World. This means for example that 3 whole months have passed in the Digital World during Taichi’s short visit to Odaiba on episode 21. Meaning the kid has spent at least one hour and a half in Japan before he returned with Agumon. One clock points 12h35m, and Taichi catches the TV News that usually air around 1 p.m. there.

And assuming for example the children attending to the Summer Camp woke up really early in the morning and, like, imagine their buses arrived the mountains of Fuji around 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. or something like that - this adds at least four if not six more months to the equation. Then you have to take into account the Vandemon arc and add the whole Dark Masters arc, that I am sure should correspond to at least a couple more months, perhaps three or four months total, we really don’t know.

2) We know the story has roughly taken inspiration from the book “Deux ans de vacances” - which literally translates to “Two Years’ Vacation”.

And, heck, I don’t think the children have spent two whole years in the digital World - I am pretty sure however this whole ordeal must have corresponded to at the very least one whole year or at the very least several months that make it all pretty close to one year - if not more. Not only because not all episodes focus on events that happen one right after another, sometimes it feels like days if not weeks have passed between some events. Even if most of the time the episodes do keep a solid sense of continuity no matter how small.

And I have seen several posts rambling about this tiny issue, several fans trying to figure out exactly how much time has passed and many of us resorting to whatever means we have to reach solid conclusions.

So we know a lot of time has passed, we know the characters address it all the time, we know they miss it dearly, we all know they have matured a lot, but I am yet to actually see this being addressed a little bit more literally and phisically. Heck, it’s not mentioned not even in fanfiction as in, I mean… 

Aren’t the children all at the very least one year older than their so called “legal” age? XD

One year may seem like nothing to an adult alright, but to a kid? It’s one hell lot of time for a child my friend, and I cannot shake off the feeling this is something Taichi wonders about when he feels like counting his own age with the fingers of his hands lol. 

So yeah all this absolutely useless wall of text is just me wondering, doesn’t Taichi kind of feel like he is 18 instead of “17″ in tri or something - if nothing else the sheer situation the children have been put through should already make them more mature and experienced than the average kid, but you know… just random stuff noone cares about but makes a whole fic paragraph a lot more fun to write.

AH about this but I also grabbed more caps when I was rewatching episodes recently and!!!:

^ from Ep. 29, around the beginning! Jou clearly confirming “months” at least pre-ep 29

Also iirc during Koushiro’s Crest episode it’s definitely mentioned at least two months passed - I miiiiight be wrong but I think I even caught “three” when rewatching these episodes(?!) (The novels might mention it, too!!)

this also goes along with my posts / theories here and here, both of which contain a lot of official references to the timeline !! !!