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    29 days ago

    The latter paragraph is a pretty common argument about realism in fantasy, but when authors ask you to suspend your disbelief about what’s possible in the setting, that doesn’t mean you have to suspend your disbelief about every plot point.

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        29 days ago

        Yep, even fiction is expected to have its own internal consistency within its proposed reality, known to Tolkien as “secondary belief.”

        People who read fiction don’t like it when authors break their own rules.