#Release date: October 31st 1995

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔖𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔢𝔯  -  𝔄𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔩 𝔬𝔣 𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 (𝔏𝔦𝔳𝔢 ℑ𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔳𝔥𝔰)

[pridequest64]

Static Shock Reading Order

This is, based of my research the complete reading list in release order for all Static Comics as of October 10th 2024. Release dates were used when available but compromises were made with cover date when necessary. If you see anything that is wrong or needs new additions feel free to let me know!

(Comic Vine was a massive help in this project!)

1. Static #1 June 1993

2. Static #2 July 1993

3. Static #3 August 1993

4. Static #4 September 1993

5. Static #5 October 1993

6. Static #6 November 1993

7. Static #7 December 1993

8. Static #8 January 1994

9. Shadow Cabinet #0 January 1994

10. Static #9 February 1994

11. Icon #10 February 1994

12. Static #10 March 1994

13. Static #11 April 1994

14. Static #12 May 1994

15. Static #13 June 1994

16. Superman: The Man of Steel #35 July 1994

17. Worlds Collide July 1994

18. Static #14 August 1994

19. Superman: The Man of Steel #36 August 1994

20. Steel #7 August 1994

21. Superboy #7 August 1994

22. Static #15 September 1994

23. Hardware #19 September 1994

24. Static #16 October 1994

25. Static #17 November 1994

26. Icon #19 November 1994

27. Static #18 December 1994

28. Kobalt #7 December 1994

29. Icon #20 December 1994

30. Superman & Batman Magazine #7 Q1 1995

31. Static #19 Janurary 1995

32. Static #20 February 1995

33. Icon #22 February 1995

34. Static #21 March 1995

35. Static #22 April 1995

36. Static #23 June 1995

37. Static #24 July 1995

38. Static #25 July 1995

39. Long Hot Summer #1 July 1995

40. Static #26 August 1995

41. Long Hot Summer #2 August 1995

42. Icon #28 August 1995

43. Static #27 September 1995

44. Long Hot Summer #3 September 1995

45. Icon #29 September 1995

46. Static #28 October 1995

47. Static #29 November 1995

48. Static #30 December 1995

49. Static #31 Janurary 1996

50. Static #32 February 1996

51. Static #33 March 1996

52. Static #34 April 1996

53. Static #35 May 1996

54. The World Needs Heroes #1 May 1996

55. Static #36 June 1996

56. The World Needs Heroes #2 June 1996

57. Static #37 July 1996

58. The World Needs Heroes #3 July 1996

59. Static #38 August 1996

60. The World Needs Heroes #4 August 1996

61. Static #39 September 1996

62. The World Needs Heroes #5 September 1996

63. Hardware #43 September 1996

64. Static #40 October 1996

65. The World Needs Heroes #6 October 1996

66. Icon #38 October 1996

67. Hardware #44 October 1996

68. Static #41 November 1996

69. Static #42 December 1996

70. Static #43 Janurary 1997

71. Hardware #47 January 1997

72. Static #44 February 1997

73. Icon #42 February 1997

74. Static #45 March 1997

75. Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool #1 January 2001

76. Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool #2 February 2001

77. Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool #3 May 2001

78. Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool #4 September 2001

79. 9-11 #2 February 2002

80. Terror Titans #3 December 4th 2008

81. Terror Titans #4 January 7th 2009

82. Terror Titans #6 March 4th 2009

83. Teen Titans #68 April 2009

84. Teen Titans #69 April 1st 2009

85. Titans #12 April 8th 2009

86. Teen Titans #70 April 29th 2009

87. Vigilante #5 April 15th 2009

88. Teen Titans Annual April 2009

89. Teen Titans #71 May 28th 2009

90. Superman #688 May 28th 2009

91. Titans #13 May 13th 2009

92. The Brave and the Bold #24 June 17th 2009

93. Teen Titans #72 June 24th 2009

94. Teen Titans #73 July 29th 2009

95. Teen Titans #74 August 26th 2009

96. Titans #17 September 10th 2009

97. Teen Titans #75 September 30th 2009

98. Teen Titans #76 October 28th 2009

99. Teen Titans #79 Janurary 27th 2010

100. Milestone Forever #1 February 3rd 2010

101. Teen Titans #80 February 24th 2010

102. Milestone Forever #2 March 3rd 2010

103. Teen Titans #81 March 31st 2010

104. Teen Titans #82 April 28th 2010

105. Teen Titans #83 May 26th 2010

106. Teen Titans #84 June 30th 2010

107. Teen Titans #85 July 28th 2010

108. Teen Titans #86 August 25th 2010

109. Teen Titans #87 September 29th 2010

110. Supergirl #60 January 19th 2011

111. Brightest Day #23 April 6th 2011

112. Static Shock Special June 1st 2011

113. Teen Titans #100 August 24th 2011

114. Flashpoint #5 August 31st 2011

115. Static Shock #1 September 7th 2011

116. Teen Titans #1 September 28th 2011

117. Static Shock #2 October 5th 2011

118. Static Shock #3 November 2nd 2011

119. Legion Lost #3 November 9th 2011

120. Static Shock #4 December 7th 2011

121. Static Shock #5 January 4th 2012

122. Static Shock #6 February 1st 2012

123. Teen Titans #6 February 22nd 2012

124. Static Shock #7 March 7th 2012

125. The Savage Hawkman #7 March 28th 2012

126. Static Shock #8 April 4th 2012

127. Ricanatruction: Reminiscing & Rebulding Puerto Rico May 29th 2018

128. Milestone Returns September 12th 2020

129. Static: Season One #1 June 15th 2021

130. Static: Season One #2 July 27th 2021

131. Static: Season One #3 August 31st 2021

132. Static: Season One #4 November 9th 2021

133. Hardware: Season One November 30th 2021

134. Icon & Rocket: Season One #5 January 18th 2022

135. Static: Season One #5 January 25th 2022

136. Static: Season One #6 March 1st 2022

137. Icon & Rocket: Season One #6 March 22nd 2022

138. Milestones In History June 21st 2022

139. Blood Syndicate: Season One #3 July 19th 2022

140. Young Justice: Targets #4 October 25th 2022

141. Young Justice: Targets #5 November 22nd 2022

142. Static: Shadows of Dakota #1 February 7th 2023

143. Static: Shadows of Dakota #2 March 7th 2023

144. Milestone 30th Anniversary Special March 21st 2023

145. Static: Shadows of Dakota #3 April 18th 2023

146. Static: Shadows of Dakota #4 May 23rd 2023

147. New Talent Showcase: The Milestone Initiative June 6th 2023

148. Static Team-Up: Anansi June 13th 2023

149. Static: Shadows of Dakota #5 July 18th 2023

150. Icon Vs. Hardware #4 August 15th 2023

151. Static: Shadows of Dakota #6 September 26th 2023

152. Icon Vs. Hardware #5 November 7th 2023

153. Static: Shadows of Dakota #7 November 28th 2023

[amphtaminedreams]

JULY 2019->OCTOBER 2022: Photo Dump No.20

DATE SAVED, L-R BY ROW:

1. 20th March 2022 [”Big Brother is Watching No.11112016″, Odilia Fu], 15th August 2021 [Elle Fanning BTS on the set of The Great, Season 1 Episode 10: “The Beaver’s Nose”, aired June 2020], 20th March 2022 [source: instagram account @oshthoughts], 31st July 2022, 30th August 2022, 28th August 2022, 25th September 2021 [Chanel Haute Couture F/W21], 30th August 2022 [Bournemouth Town Centre, Dorset], 25th August 2022

2. 24th August 2022, 8th August 2022, 11th August 2022, 24th April 2022 [Redchurch Street, Shoreditch], 23rd October 2021 [Emma Roberts BTS on the set of Wild Child, dir. Nick Moore, release date August 2008), 11th July 2022 [Kehlani for Quem magazine, Feb 2022 issue], 12th July 2019 [source unknown], 15th June 2022 [source unknown], 23rd August 2022

3. 24th August 2022, 14th August 2022 [Zimmerman RTW S/S15], 25th August 2022, 24th July 2022 [Kate Moss photographed by Ellen von Unwerth for US Vogue, October 1995 issue], 13th July 2022, 25th September 2021 [Fendi Haute Couture F/W21], 27th June 2022 [EPCOT, Walt Disney World Florida], 23rd August 2022 [Millbank, Westminster], , 22nd May 2022 [Buckingham Palace Road, Belgravia]

4. Wednesday 5th October 2022, 6th July 2021 [print by Gloria Gorni, source: instagram account @gloriecoeur], 29th September 2022, 15th October 2021 [source: instagram account @thepulpgirls], 11th August 2022, 20th December 2020 [background: St.Catherine's Hill, Christchurch, graphic: instagram account @sun_keep], 30th September 2022, 29th March 2021 [Lady Gaga wearing Valentino @ the 75th Venice Film Festival Premiere for A Star is Born, September 2018], 4th October 2022 [Bermondsey Gardens Cale, Southwark]

5. 24th October 2022, 20th October 2022, 16th October 2022, 21st September 2022 [The Attico RTW F/W22], 7th October 2022, 14th September 2021 [LaQuan Smith RTW F/W20], 3rd May 2021 [Candice Swanepoel BTS @ The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, November 2013], 24th September 2022 [Flat Iron Square, Southwark Street], 25th October 2022

6. 23rd January 2022 [Tate Britain, Millbank], 5th September 2022, 21st January 2022 [Dua Lipa in Versace RTW S/S22, October 2021], 20th August 2022 [the "Twirl' skirt, onrushw23fh S/S22, custom made for Rina Sawayama], 15th October 2021 [source: instagram account @thepulpgirls], 5th September 2022, 13th August 2021 [Bimini Bon Boulash wearing custom DykeSport, shot by Ali Pirzadeh, June 2021], 1st September 2022 [Overcliff Drive, Bournemouth], 7th September 2022 [Mr.Mulligan's Adventure Golf, Bournemouth]

7. 29th August 2022, 11th October 2022, 7th October 2022, 12th October 2022 [Frith Street, Soho], 10th October 2022, 10th October 2022 (Eost Street, Southwark], 27th September 2021 [Dsquared2 RTW F/W21], 5th December 2021 [Rihanna photographed out in NYC, December 2021], 3rd February 2022 [the Sophie Tea Art Gallery, Camaby Street]

8. 2nd October 2021 [Loewe RTW S/S22], 17th September 2022, 29th August 2021 [source: twitter account @wholesomememes], 1st September 2022, 18th April 2021 [Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Friends, Season 6 Episode 4, "The One Where Joey Loses his Insurance”, aired October 1999], 1st March 2021 [Nicola Coughlan wearing Molly Goddard S/S21 @ the 2021 Golden Globes, March 2021], 8th August 2021 [Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, still from Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, dir. Cathy Yan, released January 2020], 12th September 2022, 17th September 2022

9. 20th November 2021 [Marc Jacobs RTW F/W17], 14th October 2022, 10th October 2021 [Hayward Gallery, Southbank], 25th July 2022 [Cleo jacquard knit & leather bag, Prada RTW F/W22], 24th May 2021 [Duckie Thot via twitter account @duckiethot, May 2021], 16th October 2022, 17th October 2022, 24th September 2022, 29th August 2021 [source: instagram account @girlscangossip]

10. 24th September 2022 [Elephant & Castle, Southwark], 27th December 2020 [source unknown], 26th March 2022 ["Let's Start Again”, Laure Prouvost @ Testament, Goldsmiths CCA], 20th March 2022 [source: Twitter account @thekindset], 29th November 2021 [Elle Fanning BTS filming for Entertainment Weekly, November 2021), 26th September 2022, 31st July 2022, 22nd September 2022 [Bermondsey Street, Southwark], 14th December 2020 [Sugar Thrillz Divine Lush Opulence Corset Dress, FW20 drop]

[hopelikethemoon]

Maybe Today, Maybe Forever Timeline

Now that MTMF has reached almost 150 chapters (and over 400,000 words) I figured it might be helpful for not only myself, but also for my readers if I created this handy little timeline for the series! 

You can find the post for the Release Order here.

All supplemental information can be found here on the carrd. 

1977

September 1977 - Freedom

1987

March 1987 - Day One

1988

June 1988 - Butterflies  July 1988 - Take a Hike

1989

May 1989 - Weird Dreams May 1989 - Settling June 1989 - Old Parr June 1989 - Elena August 1989 - Undercover

1990

May 1990 - Telenovela June 1990 - Loses 

1991

November 1991 - Bleed November 1991 - Stircrazy November 1991 - Cruel Dreams December 1991 - New Year

1992

August 1992 - Promises August 1992 - Hangover  August 1992 - Josie is conceived September 1992 - Bridges September 1992 - Orbit October 1992 -  Maybe October 1992 - Adjusting October 1992 - Comforted November 1992 - Missing Out November 1992 - Between the Lines November 1992 - Conclusions  November 1992 - Goldilocks  November 1992 - Used to Be Lonely December 1992 - Breakfast in Bed December 1992 -  Merry Christmas, Baby

1993 

January 1993 - A Thing For You February 1993 - Sleepy Moments April 1993 - All Ours May 1st 1993 - His Family - Josie is born May 5th 1993 - First Week July 1993 - JoJo July 1993 - First Day Back August 1993 - Relax September 1993 - Today September 1993 - Moving In September 1993 - Maybe Forever October 1993 - Stand Up October 1993 - Stress Relief November 1993 - To Feel December 1993 - San Antonio  December 1993 - A Dance Owed December 1993 - First Words

1994

January 1994 - They officially move to Miami  January 1994 - Miami  January 1994 - Partners January 1994 - Nightmare February 1994 - First Steps June 1994 - A Night Out  July 1994 - Eyes for You November 1994 - The Picnic November 1994 - First Date

1995

January 1995 - Trust January 1995 - Care July 1995 - Summer Days  July 1995 - Thoughts of Two August 1995 - Inspiration August 1995 - Birthday Interruptions September 1995 - Power Trip September 1995 - Homecoming October 1995 - Morning Fun November 1995 - Let it Out

1996 

April 1996 - What Ifs May 1996 - Ballet Practice  July 1996 - The Exam August 1996 - Distraction  August 1996 - The Three of Us August 1996 - Jealous September 1996 - Lecture  October 1996 - Vacation  October 1996 - They think Sofía is conceived  November 1996 - Positive  December 1996 - Secret Keeper December 1996 - Christmas in Laredo

1997 

January 1997 - First Time January 1997 - Baby Shower January 1997 - The Gift January 1997 - Professor  February 1997 - Sunflowers February 1997 - Wake Up March 1997 - Trouble March 1997 - The Guilty  March 1997 - The Truth March 1997 - Mr. Mom March 1997 - The Addition April 1997 - Dreams May 1997 - Stressful Times May 31st 1997 - Delivery June 1st 1997 - The Aftermath  - Sofia is born June 1997 - Going Home June 1997 - Muted Worries July 1997 - Falling Apart September 1997 - Numb September 1997 - Pretty Woman September 1997 - Cracks September 1997 - In the Dark October 1997 - Birthday  October 1997 - Together October 1997 - New Tricks October 1997 - Something New October 1997 - New Adventure November 1997 - Family You Choose  December 1997 - The Shop December 1997 - Double Fill

1998

January 1998 - Zoo Trip January 1998 - Massage January 1998 - Clandestine  January 1998 - Dinner With Friends February 1998 - Coffee February 1998 - Good Girl February 1998 - Inhale/Exhale March 2nd 1998 - Headlines March 29th 1998 - Past Connections May 4th 1998 - Proof May 1998 - California Vacation  May 22nd 1998 - I Do May 22nd 1998 - Room Service June 1998 - In the Night June 1998 - Dad I’d Like to Fu— June 1998 - Safe Word June 1998 - Summer Morning July 1998 - Beach Day July 1998 - Bed Invader July 1998 - Family Dinner August 1998 - Cherry Red August 1998 - Kindergarten  September 1998 - Girl’s Night September 1998 - Teeth September 1998 - Help October 26th 1998  - Birthday Plans October 31st 1998 - Ghosts November 1st 1998 - Haunted November 2nd 1998 - Weed November 24th 1998 - The Ranch November 1998 - Shower Quickie December 24th 1998 - Reunion  December 24th 1998 - Reunion 2 December 25th 1998 - Christmas Morning December 31st 1998 - Celebration 

1999

January 1999 - Movie Night January 1999 - Rockstar January 1999 - Therapy Session January 1999 - Steam May 1999 - Graduation May 1999 - Favorite  May 22nd 1999 - Anniversary May 22nd 1999 - Pool June 1999 - Painting  July 1999 - Adventurous  July 1999 - Lense July 1999 - Recording 

[intensionsuspension]

Death Stranding Timeline

I put together a rough timeline for the overarching narrative of Death Stranding. I was able to piece together some parts of the timeline almost approximately, but admittedly, much of it is based on headcanon and conjecture due to parts of the lore being rather scant. Regardless, I tried to make it fun and I utilized invented details to enrich the worldbuilding. I also put together a few paragraphs explaining my methods in obtaining the more approximate dates. I’ve seen people talking about character age headcanons and attempting to pinpoint the duration of the Death Stranding, and I think I got pretty close to the truth with a few of these. Anyway, enjoy, tell me what you think. The full timeline is below the cut.

Death Stranding Timeline

August 25th, 1975 - Bridget Strand is born

November 27th, 1979 - Clifford Unger is born

August 16th, 1984 - Lisa Bridges is born

May 18th, 1985 - John Blake McClane is born

February 7th, 1995 - Deadman is ‘born’

March 13th, 1995 - Amelia Strand is ‘born’

May, 1997 - Bridget Strand earns a Bachelor’s degree in political science

August, 1997 - Clifford Unger enlists in the United States Army

October, 1997 - Bridget Strand becomes a political consultant under the campaign staff of 

democratic senator Scott Faulkner 

June, 1999 - Clifford Unger is one of 7,000 ground troops deployed during the end of the Kosovo War

September, 2000 - Clifford Unger joins the United States Army Special Forces

September, 2001 - Clifford Unger participates in the invasion of Afghanistan following the September 11 terrorist attacks

March, 2003 - Clifford Unger participates in the invasion of Iraq

September, 2003 - John Blake McClane enlists in the United States Army

November, 2003 - Bridget Strand is promoted to campaign manager of democratic senator Scott Faulkner’s reelection campaign

May, 2005 - Clifford Unger earns a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice

 May, 2006 - Lisa Bridges earns a bachelor’s degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Law Enforcement 

September, 2006 - John Blake McClane joins the United States Special Forces

January, 2007 - Lisa Bridges begins her career as a Law Enforcement Ranger at Whitewater State Park near Rochester, MN

April, 2007 - Clifford Unger is promoted to the position of commanding officer (captain) within ODA 1116, Alpha Co, 1st Btn, 1st SFG

May, 2008 - John Blake McClane earns a bachelor’s degree in Strategic Intelligence

November, 2008 - Bridget Strand is elected into a democratic seat in the United States Senate

July, 2009 - John Blake McClane is transferred to ODA 1116 following the death of one of its Intelligence and Operations Sergeants

June 30th, 2010 - Heartman (Rudolph ‘Rudy’ Jacobsen) is born

July 16th, 2011 - Lucy Dimmonds is born

December 18th, 2011 - Iraq War ends

October, 2012 - Clifford Unger meets Lisa Bridges while on military leave, encountering her in Whitewater after he stumbles across her escaped German Shepherd,Victoria. A romance soon blossoms.

November, 2012 - Scott Faulkner and his running mate Bridget Strand win the presidency

October, 2014 - Clifford Unger and Lisa Bridges are married

February, 2015 - Lisa reveals to Cliff that she is pregnant, he retires from active duty to be with his family

March 15th, 2015 - Death Stranding occurs

May 29th, 2015 - Målingen and Lockne Leifsdottir are born

June, 2015 - President Faulkner creates the government organization ‘Bridges’, which is designed to create a network across the fractured America in order to administer aid to the civilian population. Its other, classified purpose is to research the cause of the Death Stranding and to synthesize potential solutions to the social, economic, and infrastructural issues it has caused.

July, 2015 - John Blake McClane leaves the United States Army Special Forces to pursue a career opportunity as head of Bridges security. Much of Bridges’ security personnel is comprised of military veterans. 

August, 2015 - President Faulkner is killed during a voidout that obliterates Manhattan Island. The voidout is caused by the death of a stillmother during the preliminary embryonic chiral experimentation trial runs conducted by Bridges, experiments which would go on to become the blueprints for the ‘Bridge Babies’, also known as ‘BB’ units. The existence of the embryonic experimentation being brought to the public eye causes widespread outrage, and the research is discontinued. Following Faulkner’s death, his vice president, Bridget Strand, succeeds the presidency. While the embryonic chiral experimentation is officially discontinued, President Strand continues it in secret, desperate to discover the secrets of the new element ‘chiralium’ and its vast potential to bolster technological development.

September, 2015 - Cliff and Lisa are hit by a drunk driver while driving home one night after attending a play. Both receive serious injuries, Cliff; a shattered collarbone, humerus, and ulna, and Lisa; severe whiplash and head trauma, which leaves her comatose. Miraculously, the 7 month old fetus is largely unharmed.

October, 2015 - Cliff enrolls his family in an experimental medical care program that promises to utilize state of the art technology to provide them the best chance at recovery, as recommended to him by an old military buddy. An emergency C-section is conducted, and the 28 week old Baby Bridges ‘BB’ is placed in a portable pod synchronized with his mother’s heartbeat. 

Bridget Strand acts as overseer of the experiments in secret, under the pseudonym Dr. Samsa. She hides her true identity behind a steel masquerade mask.

February, 2016 - Cliff grows increasingly irritated and untrusting of Dr. Samsa as she continues to avoid his questions and lie to him. BB is kept in his pod long past his due date and prevented from growing through the usage of hormone blockers.

December 23rd, 2016 - When John realizes that Cliff’s family is being harvested for chiral experimentation, he warns Cliff of what is going to be done to them. When Cliff tries to escape the facility with his baby, he and his entire family are killed. Baby Bridges is revived by Amelie on the beach, and he is christened ‘Sam’. Bridget Strand makes the decision to raise him as her own, as he was no longer a BB candidate after Cliff released him from his pod. After this unnatural resuscitation, the laws of nature are made gravely upset. Sam becomes the first repatriate and DOOMS sufferer, one who can travel between Earth and Hades and detect the spectral dead using his 5 senses. The dead, the Beached Things, return physically to the land of the living and claim more human souls, dragging the damned with them as they returned to the other side. Timefall, rain that rapidly ages anything it touches, begins to fall in showers across the American continent.

December 31st, 2016 - Sam Strand is ‘born’

March, 2017 - John Blake McClane fakes his death with the help of President Strand. He returns to the broken political scene under the pseudonym Die-Hardman and becomes a personal aide to the president.

October 1st, 2017 - Fragile (Giselle Depardieu) is born

November 8th, 2019 - Higgs Monaghan is born

April, 2020 - The United Cities of America (UCA) is established, as the state governments and boundaries have all but crumpled as a result of continuous voidouts, and only a few key cities remain.

June, 2020 - Deadman earns the position of Bridges head coroner as a result of his government-sponsored artificial personhood program.

May, 2033 - Lucy Dimmonds earns a Bachelor’s degree in psychology

March, 2034 - Lucy Dimmonds becomes a licensed therapist

February, 2038 - Sam has his first meeting with his therapist, Lucy Dimmonds. In the following months, the two begin to form a close and unprofessional relationship.

December, 2039 - Sam and Lucy are married, and Lucy retires from her practice. 

February, 2040 - Lucy contracts DOOMS after becoming pregnant with her and Sam’s child Louise. She begins to have horrible visions of the apocalypse, which Bridget assures her are real portents of the future.

September, 2040 - Lucy chooses to commit suicide in order to avoid bringing a child into the world where the apocalypse is imminent. Her death causes a voidout, and Sam, who was busy making deliveries at the time, returns home to a smoking crater; all that’s left of his hometown. The survivors eye him warily and he can tell that they blame him for the disaster. In shame and grief, Sam resigns from Bridges and begins work as an independent porter. He changes his name to Sam Porter Bridges.

January 11th, 2045 - President Bridget Strand dies of metastasized uterine cancer. The plot of Death Stranding begins. 

References and Reasoning Used in Creating Timeline

Deadman mentions that WW1 took place more than 100 years ago, meaning that the present day in Death Stranding is past 2014-2018

Deadman mentions that WW2 took place a century ago, which places the timeframe of Death Stranding’s narrative anywhere from 2039-2045. I opted for the late estimate as to make Sam a little older and give the timeline some room to breathe

Based on appearance, behavior, and age in relation to other characters (he was a baby when Cliff, Die-Hardman, and Bridget were all mature adults), I placed Sam at around 28-30 years old. If he were any older, characters such as Die-Hardman and Bridget would appear much too young in the present day. This would also make the period in which the Death Stranding occurred around 30 years.

Deadman explains that Clifford Unger took part in the Kosovo War, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War. This would place his years of service from 1999 to right before the Death Stranding and Sam’s birth, around 2015. We know his military career did not begin any earlier, as there is no mention of him serving during the Balkan Wars or Persian Gulf War. Assuming that he was around 18 for his first deployment during the Kosovo War, it can be pretty reasonably inferred that Cliff was born around 1979, and was therefore around 36-37 when he was killed. This lines up nicely with the age restrictions surrounding combat in the United States Army Special Forces (ages 20-36). Essentially, Cliff must have been 36-37 in 2016, for if he was any older he would not have been only recently retired from combat, and if he was any younger he would not have been old enough to have served  during the Kosovo War.

Bridget Strand’s age is determined similarly. As both vice president and president, she would have had to have been 35 years of age or older, if she was vice president in 2012, she would have had to have been at least 35. I placed her at 37, which is still very young, but not quite the youngest on record. But, since she assumes the presidency in 2016 following the death of the president, she would have become president at 41 years of age, which would make her the record-holder of the title of youngest American president. Assuming she is 41 in 2016, she would be 70 years of age at the time of her death in 2045, which seems reasonable.

Most other aspects of the timeline are built around these key definable pieces of the puzzle and are subject to change as more lore is revealed. 

Essentially, this is full of headcanons that I’ll be happy to alter if and when we get more information.

[youngbugandtonystank]

Hi. Do u have a list of when the CW, HC, IW, Endgame, and FFH happened? The MCU timeline is an utter mess. HC happened around Sep 2016. If it started 2 months after CW, it means CW took place in June (before Peter's birthday that's why Tony thought he was still 14 in HC). The school year would've already ended atm, but why did Peter say he had homework? Then IW happened in 2018, but which months? All I know it's; 1) before Aug, bcs Tony said his wedding decoy date was Aug 27, (cont.)

(cont.) 2) after Jan, bcs Betty said they already took their midterm test before The Snap. And then Endgame happened 5 years later (2023). Was that exactly 5 years or 5 years and few months? We know FFH happened during summer (June 2024). If it took place 8 months after The 2nd Snap, it means Endgame took place in Oct 2023? But how long it took for the Avengers to build the time travel machine? When did exactly Scott return? Sept? Ugh. Please help me clear my mind or I might implode. Thanks!

Hi!

I answered something similar to this here and here. In one of those, I posted the official timeline Marvel created after Homecoming.

1942 - 1945: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) 1995: Captain Marvel (2019) 2009: Iron Man (2008) 2010: Iron Man 2 (2010), The Incredible Hulk (2011), Thor (2011) 2012: The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013) 2013: Thor: The Dark World (2013) 2014: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) 2015: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Ant-Man (2015) 2016: Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Black Panther (2018) 2016 - 2017: Doctor Stranger (2016) 2017: Thor: Ragnarok (2017) 2018: Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Ant-Man & the Wasp (2018) 2019: Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

The years on the left are the MCU timeline and the years between parentheses is the release date of the movies.

Civil War and Homecoming happened in 2016. Peter says he has homework in CW because as established in the timeline site, in June 2019, which has the same days of the week as June 2024, New York high schools finished on June 26th. And Tony met Peter on May 23, 2016. 

 Infinity War took place two years after CW and HOCO. Endgame started on October 3rd 

Scott returns this day. Endgame begins in mid-2018 then the five years later jump happens, making it 2023. In the movie they confirm this, Ebony Maw from 2014 says that Nebula has come from ‘9 years in the future’. On October 9, they start working on the time travel theory Scott told them about, so between the 9th and the 16th, they’re working on the time machine/time heist.  

In Infinity War, they reveal the decoy date for Tony and Pepper’s wedding: August 27th. And Infinity War starts mid-to-late May 2018, late April-early May 2018.

Here’s the MCU timeline with detailed facts and events from 2016. If you want to see more years, just change the year in the ‘timeline’ tag. 

In FFH, Betty references the last day of their school before summer in June, and it’s mentioned that they were brought back 8 months ago. So you’re absolutely right, Endgame took place in October 2023. On October 27th, Peter comes back to school to reunite with Ned.

I don’t know why but it’s always the Spider-Man movies making the mistakes when it comes to dates. Here’s an example: they showed that the decathlon competition was on October 13-15, 2016 and then later they changed that to September 14, 2016.

In the first image, you can see the poster at the beginning of the movie and the second one was when Peter was about to ask if he could come back to the decathlon team before the competition. So you’re right when you say CW took place in June. Between May and June. The events of the airport happened in June 2016 and Tony visited Peter in May 2016 because that’s when he got Peter’s passport. 

And yes, you’re right when you say Tony thought Peter was still 14 because Peter’s birthday is on August 10 and Tony met him on May 23, 2016. 

lmao

If you don’t mind, I’m going to answer another ask that is similar to yours, this is for the anon asking for more details about the timeline and facts they could use for their irondad fics regarding said timeline:

1. Peter quits the school band on his birthday because of Spider-Man and his extra-curricular activities. He quit band expecting a call from Happy or Tony. But Tony was probably too heartbroken to even remember Peter’s birthday or something else. 

2. Mysterio's crew learn Tony left an inheritance for Peter on June 27th, 2024 and Peter gets that inheritance on June 28th. 

3. Peter’s identity is revealed on July 10th. 

4. On July 17th, Coney Island reopens eight years after what happened between Peter and Toomes. That means Toomes has been in prison (maybe, we still don’t know because of the snap, he could’ve died and then after the blip escaped) for around eight years. 

5. Flash is now famous lmao given that the Daily Bugle gave everyone his real name and nickname thanks to the video he provided of the attack on the bridge tower. 

6. Ned is also famous too since he gave a statement to the news about Night Monkey lmao a very funny one: “He’s like some kind of European knock-off, I guess? Which is cool, I mean, Spider-Man is awesome and other countries probably need their own spider-power-based heroes just in case, but I’ve seen Spider-Man before and that definitely wasn’t him. He was all in black. Spider-Man doesn’t wear black. So, like, case closed.”

7. The raid on Area 51 is canon in the MCU lmao 

8. The Daily Bugle reached out to some of the teachers at Midtown High School for more background on Peter but they declined to comment.

9. On October 17th Tony sees Peter again after 5 years and dies the same day.

10. Tony's funeral was on October 29th. So that means Peter returned to school and then had to grieve his father-figure and then attend his funeral on October 29th. Talk about traumatic life events...

11. On May 30th, 2018 Tony was discussing his wedding plans with Pepper on Central Park, and Peter was on a field trip to the Museum of Modern Art.

12. Happy is the only one that could’ve informed Nick Fury that Tony made Peter an Avenger, this means Tony and Happy talked about the kid while Peter was dead. These are just crumbs lmao but we have a little confirmation that Tony talked about Peter during those five years with someone other than Pepper.  someone send your ‘happy and tony talk about peter and tony suffers a mental breakdown’ fics asap 

13. Peter Parker died on May 31st, 2018. 

:D only happy facts here 

[thenightling]

Halloween icons that.. aren’t Halloween at all

We (as a culture) relegate so much of that which is spooky and Gothic to Halloween and it’s season that many feel like it’s only appropriate to enjoy these things for about a twelfth of the year. it’s very depressing for those of us who truly love these things, to see that which we love, shoved under the carpet for the majority of the year.

“This is Halloween Thing.” And “Wait ‘til Halloween.” are phrases we hear all too often.  The interesting fact is a lot of the things that have been consigned to “strictly Halloween” originally weren’t...

Here’s a list of things heavily associated with Halloween that were not actually released on or near Halloween.

Thriller song by Michael Jackson - Music video aired for the fist time on MTV December 2nd 1983.  

Ghostbusters - June 8th 1984.

Ghostbusters 2 - June 16th 1989. 

Monster Mash (song) - Originally released August 1962 (Though it was late October when it hit the Billboards hot 100.)

Hocus Pocus (film) though set at Halloween was released July 16th 1993 

Dracula (1931 starring Bela Lugosi) - February 14th (Valentine’s Day) 1931.

Frankenstein (1931 starring Boris Karloff) - November 21, 1931 (Close to Thanksgiving.)

The Wolf-Man (1941) - December 12 1941.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992 film starring Gary Oldman) - November 13th, 1992.  (Two days after Veteran’s Day.)     

Interview with the vampire (film) -  November 11th 1994. (Veteran’s Day)     

Woman in Black (2012 film) was released in America on February 3rd 2012.

 Fright Night - August 2nd 1985.

Fright Night Part 2 - May 19th 1989.

Lost Boys - July 31st 1987.

Addams Family (film) - November 22nd 1991 (Another one close to Thanksgiving) 

Dracula (2006) BBC version with Marc Warren - December 28th 2006. (three days after Christmas and three days before New Years.)

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark comics issue 1 from Dynamite comics - July 11th 2018.

Penny Dreadful - First aired on Showtime April 28th 2014.

Castlevania Season 1 - Released July 7th 2017. (unfortunately season 2, despite being very good, seemed to lack confidence and the show was banished to “Halloween season.”)

American Werewolf in London - August 21st 1981.

The Wolfman (2010 version) - February 12th 2010

The Company of Wolves - July 1984 Nightmare on Elm Street - November 9th 1984

Friday the 13th - April 30th 1981 (Walpurgisnacht, exactly half a year from Halloween.)

Child’s Play - November 9th 1988 (Closer to Veteran’s Day) 

The Shining (film) - May 23rd 1980 (US release date)

Creepshow - November 12, 1982.  

Carrie - November 3rd 1976

Casper (film) - May 26th 1995.

 Horror of Dracula (Dracula) from Hammer - Released in the US on May 8th 1958.

So many of what I listed above are things people often associate with Halloween or even condemn if you enjoy them all year and yet none of these were specifically released for or on Halloween.

I do not understand the need to confine all things fun and spooky to a tiny corner of the year.  I love Halloween but I don’t want to be denied that which is Gothic or spooky all the rest of the year either.   I feel it shows a lack of confidence in a film or book, or TV show if a production company banishes the thing to “Halloween season” as a crutch, as if they do not think the thing can stand on it’s own.  It’s a crutch and often feels like a way to bury the thing as nothing more than a Halloween novelty rather than a potential classic.  If something is destined to become a Halloween staple, let it become that, but don’t treat others like they are wrong or weird for enjoying it all year.  And don’t suppress or delay things that are of a certain aesthetic just because you have been conditioned to see it as “Strictly Halloween.” 

Halloween isn’t a day, children, it’s a lifestyle.

[brn1029]

This date in music history. Sure, it was Halloween, but what else happened?

October 31st

2013 - Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye's family were taking legal action against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copyright infringement over their hit song Blurred Lines. Three of Gaye's children filed legal papers accusing them of copying elements of the song 'Got To Give It Up'. The Gaye family cited excerpts of magazine interviews given by Thicke to support their claim he had admitted to drawing on 'Got to Give it Up' when producing Blurred Lines.

2005 - John Lennon

The white suit worn by John Lennon on the cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road album sold for $118,000 (£66,385) at an auction in Las Vegas. And an Austin Princess hearse driven by the late star in the documentary Imagine sold for $150,000 (£84,388). A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the items went to Amnesty International.

1998 - Cher

Chart history was made when the UK Top 5 singles chart was made up entirely of new entries. Alanis Morissette went in at No.5, Culture Club at No.4, U2 at No.3, George Michael at No.2 and Cher with 'Believe' at No.1. It made Cher (who was 52) the first female artist to have a No.1 single over the age of 50. The song was a No.1 in 23 countries.

1996 - Slash

Slash announced he was no longer in Guns N' Roses. The guitarist said that Axl Rose and he had only been civil to each other on two occasions since 1994.

1995 - James Brown

James Brown was arrested in Aiken, South Carolina for assaulting his 47 year old wife, Adrienne, who said that her husband hit her with a mirror. Adrienne died in January, 1996 and the assault charges against James were dropped.

1990 - Roger Scott

UK DJ Roger Scott died of cancer aged 46. Scott was one of the most respected broadcasters in the UK, working on Capital Radio for 15 years and then BBC Radio 1. Working as a presenter at the Montreal station 1470 CFOX, Scott sang on ‘Give Peace a Chance’, recorded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their "Bed-in" for peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada.

1990 - Billy Idol

During a gig in Seattle, Washington, Billy Idol dumped 600 dead fish in Faith No More's dressing room. They responded by walking on stage, naked during Idol's set.

1974 - Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin held the UK launch for their new record label Swan Song at Chislehurst Caves, Kent, England on Halloween night. Drinks were served by nuns in suspenders, a naked woman lay in a coffin covered in jelly and naked male wrestlers cavorted in recesses of the caves. Label mates Bad Company, The Pretty Things and Maggie Bell also attended. The launch also tied in with the releases of The Pretty Things new album Silk Torpedo. The label was named after an unreleased Zeppelin instrumental track.

1969 - David Bowie

David Bowie appeared at a Halloween night at the General Gordon, Gravesend, England. The gig lasted about 15 minutes, after Bowie sang 'Space Oddity' to everyone’s delight and then dragged a stool on stage, along with a huge book. He then sat and read poems and was booed off stage.

1967 - Brian Jones

Rolling Stone Brian Jones was released from Wormwood Scrubs prison on £750 bail pending appeal. Jones had been found guilty of possession of cannabis. Seven Stones fans were arrested and charged with obstructing the police after demonstrating outside the prison gates.

1964 - Ray Charles

Ray Charles was arrested by Logan Airport customs officials in Boston and charged with possession of heroin. This was his third drug charge, following incidents in 1958 and 1961. Charles avoided prison after kicking the habit in a clinic in Los Angeles, but spent a year on parole in 1966.

1964 - The Supremes

The Supremes started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Baby Love', the group's second of five consecutive US No.1's. The group were formerly known as the five piece group The Primettes.

1963 - Gerry And The Pacemakers

Gerry And The Pacemakers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You'll Never Walk Alone.' The group's third and final No.1.

1963 - The Beatles

The Beatles returned to London from Sweden and were greeted by hundreds of screaming fans and a mob of photographers and journalists. American television host Ed Sullivan was at Heathrow as The Beatles arrived, and was struck by the sight of Beatlemania in full swing; he decided to look into getting this group to appear on his US television program.

1959 - The Quarry Men

The Quarry Men decided to change their name to Johnny and the Moondogs. The band were in Liverpool auditioning for the Carrol Levis show. The Quarry Men featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison.

1954 - Vera Lynn

Vera Lynn was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'My Son, My Son.' The singers only No.1 hit. Lynn who had three songs in the first ever Top 12 in 1952 was known as the "Forces Sweetheart" during World War II.

1952 - Chuck Berry

Pianist Johnnie Johnson hired 26 year old Chuck Berry as a guitarist in his band. While playing evening gigs in the St. Louis area, Berry kept his day job as a hairdresser for the next three years.

[classic-rock-roller]

The Van Halen Timeline

Mostly Taken from Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga by Ian Christe, everything after March 2007 is from my own research  

October 13th, 1947: Sammy Hagar born in Monterey, California 

May 8th, 1953: Alexander Arthur van Halen born in Holland

October 10th, 1953: David Lee Roth born in Bloomington, Indiana 

June 20th, 1954: Michael Anthony Sobolewski born in Chicago, Illinois

January 26th, 1955: Edward Lodwijk van Halen born in Holland 

July 26th, 1961: Gary Cherone born in Malden, Massachusetts 

Winter 1962: Jan van Halen emigrates with his family to California 

1967: Edward gets $100 Teisco Del Ray guitar from Sears 

1971: Alex and Eddie Van Halen form the Trojan Rubber Company 

Autumn 1973: David Lee Roth joins the Van Halen brothers in Mammoth

1973: Sammy Hagar joins Montrose, records two albums, and tours heavily 

Spring 1974: Mike Sobolewski joins Van Halen, becomes Michael Anthony 

May 1976: Gene Simmons “discovers” Van Halen at the Starwood, finances unsuccessful demo tape 

1976: Sammy Hagar leaves Montrose, launches solo career 

May 1977: Ted Templeton rediscovers Van Halen, signs band to Warner Bros.

February 10th, 1978: Release of Van Halen; leading to tours with Journey, then Black Sabbath 

October 10th, 1978: Van Halen goes platinum

March 23rd, 1979: Release of Van Halen II; first headlining tour runs through October 

March 26th, 1980: Release of Women and Children First 

August 29th, 1980: Eddie Van Halen meets Valerie Bertinelli

April 11th, 1981: Eddie marries Valerie 

April 29th, 1981: Release of Fair Warning 

April 14th, 1982: Release of Diver Down

May 29th, 1983: Van Halen paid $1.5 million to play for four hundred thousand people at US Festival ‘83

January 4th, 1984: Release of 1984, featuring band’s first number 1 singe, “Jump”

September 2nd, 1984: Final show by classic lineup in Nuremberg, Germany 

December 31st, 1984: David Lee Roth releases Crazy from the Heat

1985: Cherone’s band the Dream wins MTV’s Basement Tapes

April 1985: David Lee Roth exits Van Halen 

September 1985: Eddie Van Halen announces at Farm Aid that Sammy Hagar is Van Halen’s new lead singer 

November 19th, 1985: Sammy Hagar’s ninth studio album, VOA, becomes his first platinum-selling disc

March 24th, 1986: Release date of 5150; first “Van Hagar” album sells triple platinum by October 

July 4th, 1986: Release of David Lee Roth’s platinum solo debut, Eat ‘Em and Smile 

December 1986: Jan Van Halen dies  

May 24th, 1988: Release of OU812, followed shortly by Roth’s Skyscraper 

Summer 1988: Eddie attempts sobriety while Van Halen tours with Metallica, Scorpions, and Dokken 

February 1989: Tone Lōc;s “Wild Thing” reaches number 2, a rap single that samples Van Halen’s “Jamie’s Cryin”

April 22nd, 1990: Van Halen performs at opening of Cabo Wabo Cantina in Mexico

June 8th, 1990: Extreme’s “More than Words” single hits number 1

February 2nd, 1991: Release of David Lee Roth’s A Little Ain’t Enough, his last gold record as a solo artist

March 16th, 1991: Eddie’s son Wolfgang Van Halen born

June 17th, 1991: Release of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Van Halen’s third-straight number 1 album 

January 1991: Eddie debuts the EVH Music Man guitar and the Peavey 5150 amplifier line 

April 20th, 1992: Gary Cherone joins surviving members of Queen at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in London

February 23rd, 1993: Release of first official live album, Right Here, Right Now

October 16th, 1993: Van Halen’s manager since 1985, Ed Leffler, dies 

March 14th, 1994: Sammy Hagar releases solo collection, Unboxed 

October 2nd, 1994: Fresh from rehab, Eddie Van Halen announces he will never drink again

January 24th, 1995: Release of Balance, the fourth consecutive number 1 studio album 

April 7th, 1995: Eddie arrested at Burbank Airport carrying a loaded gun 

April 26th, 1995: Van Halen returns to Europe after eleven years, as an opening act for Bon Jovi

Fall 1995: David Lee Roth appears in Reno and Las Vegas with a fourteen-piece band 

November 29th, 1995: Sammy Hagar marries second wife, Kari 

June 1996: Eddie and Sammy fight during a phone call; Sammy Hagar leaves Van Halen 

August 7th, 1996: Van Halen certified diamond for ten million sold

September 4th, 1996: Original members of Van Halen appear together at MTV Video Music Awards, leading to renewed quarrels 

October 4th, 1996: Alex and Eddie announce that Van Halen’s new singer will be Gary Cherone 

October 22nd, 1996: Release of Best of Volume I, with two new songs featuring Roth; despite the recent split with the band, it is his first number 1 album 

March 17th, 1998: Release of Van Halen III, the first VH . studio album not to go platinum 

November 5th, 1999: Gary Cherone leaves Van Halen

May 2000: Texas hospital confirms Eddie in outpatient cancer prevention  

Summer 2001: Van Halen completes at least three new songs with David Lee Roth

January 2002: Van Halen’s partnership with Warner Bros. ends after twenty-three years 

April 15th, 2002: David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar announce joint forty-date summer concert tour 

May 2002: Doctors declare Eddie Van Halen cancer free 

July 2002: Eddie and Valerie Van Halen announce separation 

April 2004: Sammy’s Cabo Wabo Cantina opens a branch in basement of a Lake Tahoe casino; Cabo Wabo tequila ships over 110,000 cases for the year

June 11th, 2004: Van Halen launches reunion tour with Sammy Hagar; relations sour by the end of the summer 

November 19th, 2004: Eddie smashes two Peavey Wolfgang guitars, ending his thirteen-year partnership 

December 6th, 2005: Eddie and Valerie officially file for divorce 

January 2006: David Lee Roth replaces Howard Stern as morning radio DJ; lasts through April 

September 2006: Eddie Van Halen announces that Van Halen will tour in 2007 with his son, Wolfgang, playing bass

December 2006: Roth rehearses with a new all-Van Halen lineup

March 2007: Van Halen inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

September 27th, 2007: Van Halen started their new tour in Charlotte, North Carolina 

March 5th, 2008: World Weekly Entertainment to CBS News reported that the reason the tour had been interrupted was Eddie Van Halen’s needing to reenter rehab

June 2nd, 2008: The tour ended at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan       

July 3rd, 2008: Van Halen headlined the Quebec City Summer Festival 

August 2010: Warner/Chappell Music extends its administration agreements with Van Halen 

January 17th, 2011: Van Halen enters the Hensen Studio C with Producer Jon Shanks 

December 26th, 2011: Their official website is updated, announcing that tickets for their 2012 tour will be available beginning January 10th, 2012 

January 5th, 2012: Van Halen plays an intimate gig at Café Wha? in New York City

January 10th, 2012: Van Halen’s single “Tattoo” makes it’s premier on radio stations 

February 7th, 2012: A Different Kind of Truth is released 

August 30th, 2012: Eddie Van Halen is diagnosed with diverticulitis and undergoes surgery, which postpones the shows in Japan 

April 20th, 2013: Van Halen performs it’s first show outside North American with Roth since 1984

February 2015: Van Halen fansite, VHND.com, announces that Van Halen is releasing their first every live album with David Lee Roth, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert 

March 24th, 2015: Van Halen announces a 39 date tour with Roth that will take place between July and October across North America   

March 31st, 2015: Tokyo Dome Live in Concert is released 

April 2015: Eddie Van Halen tells Rolling Stone that the band “will probably hunker down and do a studio album” after their tour 

January 16th, 2016: Michael Anthony clears up the rumor that he might be rejoining Van Halen 

February 26th, 2016: David Lee Roth clears up some rumors about his recently released song “Ain’t No Christmas”, saying that it has nothing to do with Van Halen 

May 25th, 2016: David Lee Roth says he believes he’ll be back with Van Halen 

August 17th, 2016: Sammy Hagar apologizes to Van Halen  

December 23rd, 2016: Rumors start to fly about Van Halen reuniting for album and 2018 tour 

March 12th, 2017: Michael Anthony says that it’s time for Roth/Hagar Van Halen tour 

June 22nd, 2017: Michael Anthony says that now is a perfect time for a reunion of the classic lineup of Van Halen 

November 2nd, 2017: Sammy Hagar says that there is no chance of a Van Halen reunion 

January 5th, 2018: Michael Anthony is interviewed for upcoming Van Halen documentary 

January 20th, 2018: Van Halen is rumored to have new music and 2018 tour 

January 29th, 2018: Eddie Van Halen sues to stop release of “5150 Vault” documentary  

[millennialmoderator]

10 Great Seasonal Marketing Ideas from Real Brands

Whether we like it or not, our life is organized around seasonal events to a great extent..

Originally published on millennialmoderator.com

Seasonal marketing is a professional response to those culturally long-established occasions and is an excellent example of the skillful taking of every opportunity to keep the business successfully running.

Marketing is the art of attending to the needs of many, while good marketing is the talent to professionally use every significant public event to spice up promotions. The seasonal events are the perfect opportunity for marketers to bring something new on the table by merely implementing all the ready symbols and topics of the particular holiday.

Holidays - an inexhaustible source of marketers' inspiration

The first holiday to sprang up in everyone's mind when talking about holiday marketing is, with high probability, Christmas. So let's cite an example without further ado. In order to prepare content for the Christmas campaign, marketers do not have to face a tremendous obstacle of reinventing the wheel; the set of ready-made, time-tested ideas, marks, and symbols is right here at their disposal. We are talking here about traditional red and green colors, brightly wrapped presents, good old Santa, Rudolph, Christmas miracles, cookies, family reunions - you name it.

The list goes on, giving the perfect, fertile ground for marketers to generate fascinating ideas. Easter, Halloween, Valentine's Day, St. Patricks Day - seize these opportunities of driving more interest to your business, thus boosting the revenue! Customers will not only lose track of their wallets, but also get inspired by festive spirit and, quite often, really enjoy the mastery of marketer's merry-making campaigns.

We have put together a list of great seasonal marketing ideas from real marketing craft professionals - get inspired for new campaigns and do not waste your seasonal opportunities!

Let's Hear it From the Real Brands

1. Grammarly's guide to the faultless Valentine's Day.

Nowadays, it is more than ever difficult to imagine the actual communication percentage that has moved to the online world. And as we all know, written communication leaves a lot of room for error. This unfortunate truth is particularly embarrassing when it comes to a romantic relationship that strives online. Grammarly, a software company that runs an English language digital writing tool, has got you covered. The company's specialists have a campaign each year to come up with the top tips on making a beautiful romantic gesture and not to embarrass yourself with their app's help. What a great idea! If you set out on a quest to write the perfect love note - Grammarly can help.

2. Nintendo's launch of Luigi's Mansion 3 on Halloween day, what a treat!

Halloween presents yet another excellent opportunity to stand out among the competitors. Some brands really know how not to miss this train. We are talking about universally recognized masters of all things scary — video game companies.

On the 31st of October, 2019, Nintendo presented their fans with a spooktacular Halloween gift - the new game's launch, loudly promoted using all the famous Halloween-related codes. The company celebrated the launch with special offers, thematic rewards for users, and impressive social media campaigns. The launch later turned out to be a sweeping success, chartered as the best ghostbuster game ever released. Well played, Nintendo!

Seasonal marketing does not exclusively include holidays; Johanna Bohm, the Head of Marketing at Adsy, shared. There is one big annual marketing event that all the professionals anticipate. And it is, absolute beyond comparison, Black Friday. Both small and big businesses introduce time-sensitive sales to boost their revenue. Make sure your content marketing campaigns are working a few weeks before the biggest sale of the year; for example, by submitting a guest post to Adsy.com and reap the results.

3. Opt outside with REI on Black Friday.

While we are on the topic, there is one intriguing campaign we cannot omit to mention. REI, an American retail and outdoor recreation services corporation, launched a campaign to protest the annual rise of consumerism associated with Black Friday, inspiring people to spend this day outdoors. All the current and potential customers and users of their services were encouraged to share their outdoor adventures on Instagram with the hashtag #OptOutside.

This bold marketing move, which rang true to the brand's values, formed the outdoor enthusiast's; community, loyal to the brand all year round.

4. Virtual Easter egg hunt with Freefly VR

There is no Easter without an egg hunt, and, in this day and age, comes the time to finally test intriguing, ultra-modern approaches to this festive activity from childhood. Freefly VR, a company dedicated to offering robust, highly engaging virtual reality products, knows how to use the time of year to its advantage and set a festive mood for its customers.

The company came up with unique promotions around Easter, announcing a virtual Easter Egg Hunt where customers can find eggs around the website for the chance to win prizes and special offers.

5. HotelTonight: Visit. Don’t Stay.

This is a unique example on our list since it does not relate to any of the seasonal events in particular. At the same time, it applies to all the holidays that involve family gatherings. HotelTonight took a different approach to the joy of family reunions, stressing sheer uneasiness of staying with the family under one roof. We find this plot absolutely brilliant since almost everyone can relate.

The campaign presents the message across many formats, including various visual ads, social media posts, and offers to take part in a competition to win a stay at one of their hotels during the holiday season. Such a brilliant and concise storytelling! They definitely managed to engage human emotions, quickly making people want to share their experience, and, in a joking manner, reevaluate their housing decisions.

6. Hinge - find someone special to share holiday joy with (or maybe even your life journey).

Around Thanksgiving, this dating app sent out an email inviting people to reconsider their everyday dating habits and concentrate on finding someone special to build long-lasting relationships with. Family and loved ones' importance is usually highly stressed in the media and other cultural narratives around Christmas, so Hinge marketing professionals decided not to let this beautiful opportunity of sentimentally reminding their current and potential users of what is truly important leak away.

Within the letter, they recommended to stop swiping the perfectly retouched portraits and instead concentrate on starting a new meaningful relationship, of course, with the help of their service.

7. The Body Shop is sending Kisses!

This deserves a spot on this list because it is an excellent example of how a simple campaign, presented at the right time, still may get the desirable brand exposure and increase revenue around holidays.

Marketers at the Body Shop decided to act by employing an effective method of user engagement. They promoted Valentine's Day launch of a new lip balm by encouraging the audience to share a photo of them blowing a kiss to someone special with a hashtag #SendingAKiss. The campaign went international and included prizes for the most ingenious photo ideas. Needless to say, thanks to perfect timing, the company’s marketing goals were achieved.

8. Macaulay Culkin stays Home Alone again for Google Assistant.

Opening our Christmas-related great seasonal marketing campaigns is the most famous child (well, not anymore) to have spent Christmas alone at his home. Google marketing team members are well aware that seasonal events are fantastic opportunities to provoke positive emotions connected with the particular holiday, and skillfully extrapolate them onto your product. And they couldn't be more right about picking the hit Home Alone as a set for the sentimental setting of Christmas atmosphere to remind what Google's voice-activated gadgets can do.

Being at home alone around Christmas time, the actor uses a Google Home Hub, his phone to check the calendar, set reminders, order pizza, and adjust the house temperature. We think it is a perfect case of skillful appropriation of festive emotions brought around by this iconic classic.

9. Starbucks’ holiday marks.

The company is well-known for its highly professional and diverse seasonal brand amplification. Starbucks lavishly spreads festive cheer, whether it's Halloween o'clock, aka pumpkin spice latte season, or hot cocoa in annual reddish holiday cups around Christmas. Moreover, the company takes many other paths to make the most significant winter holiday their perfect marketing actor.

As mentioned above, one of the time-proven and most popular with the customers marketing ideas is encouraging user-generated content, such as photo competitions. In one of the annual winter holiday campaigns, the company encouraged its customers to design their red cups and share them on Instagram with a specific hashtag. The winners got valuable prizes; the company acquired the desired promotion.

10. Coca-Cola's Holidays Are Coming.

Last but not least, the long-running ad that, with the years, grew into one of the most recognizable marketing Christmas campaigns - Coca-Cola's Holidays Are Coming. The famous trucks have become unquestionable Christmassy icons since they were launched on TV in 1995. Since then, spotting this ad somewhere around the beginning of November marks the sweet starting point of anticipation of the marvelous winter holiday.

Each year, Coca-Cola adds something new, like social networks integration, new outdoor activities, decorations, prizes, and ads that viewers already perceive as mere Christmas family and friends reunion stories. All the ideas mentioned above work perfectly, boosting positive engagement with the brand.

Final Thoughts

As you can see, there are numerous options to choose from. Your main goal is to opt for those most applicable to your niche. Do not worry if you currently find yourself out of brilliant ideas; look for inspiration within ready-made ones that have proven to be effective in the past. Our list above is a great starter pack to get inspired by real brands and unravel your own creative potential.

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[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Hot wings of hell Burns in my wake Death is what you pray Behold captor of sin

Slayer -  Captor of Sin (Live Intrusion, 1995)

[legaleservicesindia-blog]

A Comprehensive Guide To Provident Fund & Employee State Insurance

The fact is obvious; every worker in any company desires to be acquainted with the several policies put in place for his/her assistance. The situations can be anything, for example, accidents or injuries while employees are on duty; for the reason only, there are some policies take into consideration by the company to deal with the outcome of these occurrences. Among all, one of such policies is known as Employee State Insurance and Provident Fund.

We again start with our new post which is very important for employees and ever working person to know more about it and that is "Provident Fund" and "Employee State Insurance".

What is Provident Fund or PF?

Well, Provident Fund, which is known as PF is the retirement saving scheme offered to all the salaried employees, backed by the government on which fixed interest is paid. In general, EPF is a savings scheme started under Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Act, 1952. It is handled by the Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), which is a legal body obtained by the Indian government under the "Ministry of Labor and Employment". However, the basic motto of the scheme is to deal with the compulsory contribution in the direction of the PF scheme by both the employees & employers. In one sentence, we can say that it is a type of saving tool for the employees.

Important Facts about PF:

Fact #1: P.F. Deducted on Basic + D.A (Dearness Allowance) + Cash value of Food Allowance @ 12%. (NOTE: It is called as a statutory deduction). Though D.A is only offered in government departments, private companies in actually don't provide Daily Allowance to its employees.

Fact #2: Company pays P.F on either definite basic or Limited (Capped) Basic. However, the decided limited basic depend on Company rules, which is not restricted. On the other hand, it is relevant for an employee whose basic goes beyond Rs. 15,000/- only.

Fact #3: Employee & Employers Contribution is equal in P.F which is 12%. The company contribution is divided into two basic parts, which means that 12% Contribution from Employer and 12% Contribution from Employee. 8.33 % on Family Pension Fund and 3.67 % on Employee Provident Fund.

Fact #4: Consequently, the employer also requests to pay extra charges every month over & above PF Company Contribution.

And the division is mentioned below:  

·         1.1% P.F Administration Charges,

·         0.5 % on Employee Deposit Linked Insurance (E.D. L.I) and

·         0.01% E.D.L.I Administration Charges

Fact #5: The company wishes to file Monthly Annual Returns & Returns and has to present every month the duly paid P.F Challan, Form 5 (additions) & Form 10 (deletions), Form 12A and Nomination form 2 ( that contains the details of the newly joined employee). Moreover, an annual return, we desire to file Form 3A & 6A together with the aspects of Annual P.F Challan payment details.  

Fact #6: The employer requirements to certify, collect & submit the Declaration & Nomination Form in Form-2 of every new joiner to the scheme by the side of the monthly report.      

Fact #7: The monthly P.F. payment due date is 15th (with refinement up to 21st) and Annual Return due date is 30th April of every Year according to the P.F authorities and treated one year from 1st March to 28th February. Nonetheless, the employee can also withdraw their PF balance before retirement matter to particular conditions.

Applicability & Registration:

On one hand, a company with less than 20 employees can willingly choose PF registration to defend employee’s benefits. On the other hand, companies with more than 20 employees mandatorily have to register under EPFS. Once an organization is enclosed under the EPF Act, even if its employee number drops below 20, it will still be covered.

Following are the Three Essential Components of EPF Act:

1. Employee Provident Fund, 1952 (EPF): This scheme intends to promote retirement savings.

2. Employee Pension Scheme, 1995 (EPS): This scheme plans to deliver post-retirement pension.

3. Employee Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme, 1976 (EDLI): In case of sudden death, this scheme provides life insurance to family members.

The breakup of EPF Contribution

Moreover, 12% of the employee’s salary goes for EPF.

While the employer’s payment is divided as below:

·         5% goes towards contribution for EDLI

·         67% goes towards contribution for EPF

·         1% goes towards contribution for EPF administration charges

·         33% goes towards contribution for EPS

·         01% goes towards contribution for EDLI administration charges

As a result, the employer contribution is 12%. The management & premium charges are borne by the employer with the set maximum limit at 0.5% of Rs.15, 000.

What is Employee State Insurance?

The Employees' State Insurance Scheme is an incorporated amount of Social Insurance, which is designed to achieve the mission of protecting "Employees" as mentioned in the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 against the collision of occurrences of sickness, disablement, maternity, and death owing to the employment injury. Besides this, the Employee State Insurance gives proper medical care to assured persons & their families.

E.S.I.C (EMPLOYEES STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION):

1) E.S.I.C or the Employees State Insurance Corporation is considered as the Statutory Deduction from an employee whose GROSS salary is less than or equal to Rs. 21,000 per month. Moreover, if a company has below 20 employees in E.S.I.C Purview Company is not legally responsible to pay E.S.I.C.

2) E.S.I.C is computed on Gross Salary of Employee @ 1.75% as Employee contribution and 4.75% of Employer Contribution, therefore, totalling to 6.5% of Gross Salary.

The Company desires to file Half Yearly Returns for the time frame:

·         1st April to 30 September and

·         1st October to 31st March

On one hand, there are no monthly Returns for ESIC. An employer ought to pay the ESIC totals every month on 15th (with grace by 25th). On the other hand, in case any employees exceed the limit of Rs. 7500/- of his or her Gross Salary, they should continue to pay till the end of half year.

Employees State Insurance Corporation half Yearly Returns submission or due dates are; November 15th and May 15.  

Here is a list of some fundamental Tax Benefits:

Employee contribution is tax-deductible under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act.

The money invested by an employee in EPF, the interest earned and the money eventually take out, by an employee after the compulsory specified period i.e. 5 years are release from Income Tax.

The employer payment to employee EPF is tax-free.

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About Wyoming Winter:

Title: Wyoming Winter

Author: Diana Palmer

Publisher: Harlequin

Release Date: October 31, 2017

Series: Wyoming Men #7

Genre: Contemporary Romance

ISBN: 9780373804214

 There's something about those Wyoming men... New York Timesbestselling author Diana Palmer returns to the Cowboy State with a brand-new tale of desire and deception

Cultivating his vast Wyoming ranch is all security expert J. C. Calhoun wants. His land is the only thing the betrayed rancher can trust in after discovering his fiancee was pregnant by another man. But all J.C. holds dear becomes compromised when a lost little girl leads him to Colie Jackson, the woman who destroyed his life.

Colie stops at nothing to protect the people she loves. Years ago she left J.C. for his own good. Now, for the sake of her daughter, she must depend on a hard-hearted man who won't forgive her. As a band of ruthless criminals tracks their every move through the frozen Wyoming winter, Colie and J.C. will be forced to confront the lies that separated them--and the startling truth that will bind them forever... 

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Excerpt:

 J.C. looked incredibly handsome in a shepherd’s coat, jeans and boots, with snow dusting his thick, black, un­covered hair.

“You never wear a hat,” Colie mused, trying not to let her hands tremble as she took the coat to hang up for him. He was so tall that she had to stand on her tiptoes to pull it back off his shoulders.

“I hate hats,” he remarked. He glanced at her as she put the coat on the rack in the hall, his pale gray eyes narrow and appraising on her slender, sexy body. She dressed like a lady, but he knew all about women who put on their best behavior around company. She was just out of school; college, he was certain, because she had to be at least twenty-two or twenty-three. Catelow had several thousand people, and J.C. didn’t mix with them. He only knew what Rodney told him about his sister. And that wasn’t much.

“I noticed,” Colie said as she turned, smiling.

His eyes flickered down to her pert breasts and he fought down a raging hunger that he hadn’t felt in a long time. He had women, but this one stirred him in a dif­ferent way. He couldn’t explain how, exactly. It irritated him and he scowled.

“It wasn’t a complaint,” Colie added quickly, not understanding the scowl.

He shrugged. “No problem. What are we eating?”

“Leftover turkey with cranberry sauce, mashed po­tatoes, salad and apple pie.” She hesitated, insecure. “Is that okay?”

He smiled, his perfect white teeth visible under chis­eled, sensuous lips. “It’s great. I love turkey.” He chuck­led. “I like chicken, too, although I usually get mine in a bucket.”

Her eyes widened. “You put it in a pail, like you milk cows with?” she asked, shocked.

He glowered at her. “There’s this chicken place. They sell you chicken and biscuits and sides…”

She went red as fire. “Oh, gosh, sorry, wasn’t think­ing,” she stammered. “Let’s go in! Daddy’s already at the table.”

Rodney went ahead, but J.C. slid a long finger inside the back of Colie’s sweater and gently stopped her. He moved forward, so that she could feel the heat and power of him at her back in a way that made her heart run wild, her knees shiver. “I was teasing,” he whispered right next to her ear. His lips brushed it.

Her intake of breath was visible. Her whole body felt shaky.

His big hands caught her shoulders and held her there while his lips traveled down the side of her throat in a lazy, whispery caress that caused her to melt inside.

“Do you like movies?” he whispered.

“Well, yes…”

“There’s a new comedy at the theater Saturday. Go with me. We’ll have supper at the fish place on the way.”

She turned, shocked. “You…you want to go out with me?” she asked, her green eyes wide and full of delight.

He smiled slowly. “Yes. I want to go out with you.”

“Saturday?”

He nodded.

“What time?”

“We’ll leave about five.”

“That would be lovely,” she said, drowning in his eyes, on fire with the joy he’d just kindled in her with the un­expected invitation.

“Lovely,” he murmured, but he was looking at her mouth.

Copyright © 2017 Wyoming Winter by Diana Palmer

About Diana Palmer:

Diana Palmer, AKA Susan Spaeth Kyle, was born in 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, the eldest daughter of William and Eloise Spaeth. She and her younger sister, Dannis, were raised in Chamblee, where Susan graduated from Chamblee High School in 1964. The family moved to Cornelia, Georgia, in 1965. Susan married James Kyle in 1972. They have a son, Blayne, who is married to the former Christina Clayton. They are both graduates of Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. They live in Tennessee and have a daughter, Selena Marie Kyle, born in February, 2009.

 In 1991, Susan returned to college and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia, in 1995. She continues to work on her master’s degree in history as time permits. Her first novel as Diana Palmer was published in 1979. She has over 115 novels in print. She has written historical novels as well as contemporary romance, and has produced science fiction, with her novel THE MORCAI BATTALION appearing in hardcover in 2007. Two sequels to this book have been released as eBooks. THE MORCAI BATTALION: The Recruit and THE MORCAI BATTALION: Invictus are both available from all eBook retailers now. Her latest hardcover novel is INVINCIBLE by HQN, released in August 2014 and mass market paperback novel is WYOMING STRONG by HQN, released November 2014.

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