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  • A Year and a Day/Playing With
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  • Basic Trope: The passage of a year and a day is significant. * Straight: Jack must travel a year and a day to reach a mountain in a Magical Land. * Jill must live in a city a year and a day to have the status of legal resident. * Exaggerated: Every journey in the Magical Land takes a year and a day. * Downplayed: It's a year and a day on a planet that travels around its sun much more quickly than usual, so it's not as long of a time period. * Justified: ??? * Inverted: Jack must travel a day, then a year to reach a mountain in a Magical Land. * Subverted: Having been warned about the year and a day, Jack talks with wizards along the way, and gets magical wings that will let him * The city's lawyers figure out a way to not grant residency. * Double Subv
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  • Basic Trope: The passage of a year and a day is significant. * Straight: Jack must travel a year and a day to reach a mountain in a Magical Land. * Jill must live in a city a year and a day to have the status of legal resident. * Exaggerated: Every journey in the Magical Land takes a year and a day. * Downplayed: It's a year and a day on a planet that travels around its sun much more quickly than usual, so it's not as long of a time period. * Justified: ??? * Inverted: Jack must travel a day, then a year to reach a mountain in a Magical Land. * Subverted: Having been warned about the year and a day, Jack talks with wizards along the way, and gets magical wings that will let him * The city's lawyers figure out a way to not grant residency. * Double Subverted: The wings cause him to crash at the foothills of the mountain; he has to recover before he can finish the journey, which takes only a day, but his recovery ate up the rest of the year. * The mayor's rivals use it as a campaigning point about how the law is not respected, and grant residency when they win. * Parodied: ??? * Zig Zagged: ??? * Averted: ??? * Enforced: ??? * Lampshaded: ??? * Invoked: ??? * Exploited: A city requires that yearly laborers be hired for a year only, because then they don't get the day that will make the residents. * Defied: ??? * Discussed: ??? * Conversed: ??? Back to A Year and a Day -- hope it won't take you that long!