what the hey?
May. 13th, 2020 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
branchandrootOkay, so I'm a detail oriented kind of person when it comes to fic research, as many of us are. Research something for two weeks, for one throw-away line? Yeah, right here.
So, when I got to Sunshot in the "Meng Yao winds up in Lan instead of Jin" story, I immediately went and looked up the actual locations of all those districts they keep throwing around the names of (Yunmeng, Gusu, Lanling, Qinghe, Qishan). And then I carefully marked them on a map, and glowed with the feeling of a mind well-oriented in space, satisfied that I could describe the campaign and make some kind of sense.
And then, while rewatching for details, I got to the line about how Gusu /and/ Qinghe were both closer to ANY GEOGRAPHIC POINT, LET ALONE ONE IMPLIED TO BE PROXIMAL TO QISHAN than /either/ Jin or Yunmeng is, Yunmeng implied to be furthest away.
*looks at her map for a long moment*
*balls up map and throws it over her shoulder*
FANTASY GEOGRAPHY IT IS.
So, when I got to Sunshot in the "Meng Yao winds up in Lan instead of Jin" story, I immediately went and looked up the actual locations of all those districts they keep throwing around the names of (Yunmeng, Gusu, Lanling, Qinghe, Qishan). And then I carefully marked them on a map, and glowed with the feeling of a mind well-oriented in space, satisfied that I could describe the campaign and make some kind of sense.
And then, while rewatching for details, I got to the line about how Gusu /and/ Qinghe were both closer to ANY GEOGRAPHIC POINT, LET ALONE ONE IMPLIED TO BE PROXIMAL TO QISHAN than /either/ Jin or Yunmeng is, Yunmeng implied to be furthest away.
*looks at her map for a long moment*
*balls up map and throws it over her shoulder*
FANTASY GEOGRAPHY IT IS.
