Yeah, this is an angle I understand as well. I think a lot of it has to do with my actual struggle of not being able to see it. It’s a real struggle with my mind processes time both having a hard time with seeing as well as the concept of it passing (and not seeing it). There’s jokes about having to be effected by time passing, but it actually a real concern for me, because I genuinely dislike thinking about a major aging for my characters. It’s a bit stressful and means I have to consider how they might have changed mentally.
And how were their birthdays? How harsh were their winters? Am I going to have to start drawing Gotosh with some gray (which I don’t really want to) , but he’s a few years younger than Thrall, and this will put Gotosh I think close to 40 now. Thats a lot for me to think about! Especially consider how much I draw him and the characters in his life.
I considered me and my best friend doing something close to that one table top concept called the Quiet Year where you go through a civilization through a whole year I think, but more so cataloguing what happened in the 3 years of something. Biggest problem is that there are multiple stories that are on going, and I have to determine how much did and did not get done in the 3 years where my characters would have been working on it and that I would of wanted to be there for the progression…