#timeline woes

[creativecuteness]

Okay you guys are not going to believe this or maybe you will believe this maybe I'm just slow and this is common knowledge in the fanbase. However, I was doing my yearly mbav marathon and last night I watched The Brewed; I've always been curious on the timeline of each episode and when they take place during the year I'm a stickler for it because of my fanfiction series I always thought the gang face off against supernatural forces pretty much every week I mean the show is a monster of the week format so in my eyes it makes sense.

However, I do like to think there are slow weeks or months where nothing happens but for the most part, I like to think the gang deal with supernatural problems pretty often. And I was under the impression that season one went from late September to early November or December and season two is pretty much the same timeline unless they went back to school early since it was still warm enough to have pool parties who knows I don't love in Canada.

What I'm trying to get at here is in the Brewed Hick's said he got Latta Latte to Celebrate 100 days until Summer Vacation I've always been intrigued with that line I tried to search for an estimate of the date before a few years ago but found nothing until today.

100 days until summer vacation puts the episode in around February which is kind of insane to me but makes sense, since in the same episode Rory takes his zombie mask from the teacher's lounge and said Hick's took it from him back in September notice how he says September not last month or two months ago. (Yeah, I know that's a stretch but it's still interesting to me, let me cook.) Still the point is from the way Rory spoke it seems like he got that taken away a good while ago which was always odd to me if the episode took place during the last half of the year. But wait there's more, I found out when the gang's midterms most likely took place for episode 13.

According to Goggle, again this could be for the US only but I'm rolling with it. Midterms normally take place mid-October to mid-March (Yes, I know this should be common knowledge to many, but I've been homeschooled my entire life don't @ me.) It couldn't have been in October since the gang just stopped Jesse about a month ago and the school year would've just begun for them for the most part. Plus, in Three Geeks and a Demon which takes place a good few days before the season finale. Benny says they owned an evil tree last month referring to episode 8 Die Pod. So that puts episodes 8, 9, and maybe 10 around January to February I already established episode 11 takes place in February as well; but episodes 12 and 13 takes place in March or around that time. In other words, their adventures are a lot more spread out then I originally thought and more importantly how much supernatural insanity took place behind the scenes.

I don't know if this is entirely accurate since it's a tv show and potholes pop up all over the place if there are any inconsistencies that you can debunk let me know I'll revolute everything.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

TLDR: While doing research for future mbav fanfic entries I discovered that episode 11 takes place somewhere in February and freaked out because I thought the first season's timeline was September to around November to December. I could be super wrong though.

[lilianade-comics]

Being driven crazy by that Kindred Spirits screenshot (the date is at least three years too early to be accurate). Also, I would have paid good money to actually SEE the "Vlad robs every bank in Wisconsin" flashback.....

[creativecuteness]

Man, now that you point this out, I realize I made some massive mistakes in the timeline when making my Dawn of the Bloodsuckers story. (And yes I know the timeline of events is up for interruption, but I really should have known from context clues that this happened on the first day of school.)

This is how I placed the events in the fic.

Erica was hired five days after the incident, Erica said in Blue Moon that Ethen's Parents go out on Fridays though considering the series wasn't even written yet I should have known that detail wouldn't even be relevant.

The context clues were there too. Ethen telling Benny their social lives will be determined depending on how they behave for the next few days. The way they acted when Rory greeted them; (Unless they were actively avoiding him throughout the week which I doubt, since that boy is persistent. And Ethen's not the type to abandon people anyway; even though it seems he lowkey wanted to ghost Rory and Benny who wasn't helping his status at all.) XD

But that also arises some issues for Dakota and Rory's relationship.

In the fic I had Dakota fall head over heels after he saved her from a chemistry class incident which happened on Monday; while I had the first act of the movie and the dusk screening happen on Friday. With this new information that would mean.

Dakota fell in love, confessed and lost Rory all in the span of 8 to 9 hours like dang love hit her hard only to lose him later. though I liked having Dakota and Mabel wait a few days to see Rory again it makes the reunion and relief that much stronger.

But this would also mean Erica and Rory became vampires on the first day of school. Did they skip a few days or something? because it seems Rory didn't show up till after school and Erica wasn't around for a while either. I guess they were busy getting the vampire makeover package which looked awesome on them by the way. Lol

But I do have an issue with the screening being implied on Monday. Wouldn't it make more sense to have it on Friday or Saturday, I mean the theater was packed with Highschooler's who would have to go to school the next morning. Plus, Principal Hick's had to answer to news reporters about the ordeal. So, either A the ending took place a few days later (Which I doubt.) Or B word traveled very fast. (The more I think about it the more I feel my fanon timeline makes the events of the movie feel more spread out and natural. Let me know what you think.)

Either way I am rambling and looking way too deep into this. When I remaster my fic, I don't think I'll change the order of events maybe change dialog a bit to showcase the change, but I actually like my fic's timeline and it works for what it is. But man, this movie has some plot holes.

just thinking about how ethan's parents were out on a school night and made a highschool girl stay at their house to babysit their 14 year old son til like 1 am

[gordonsicedcoffee]

saw x (2023) dir. kevin greutert

[crimeronan]

"It seems like he's good for you," Camila says.

The Luz sitting at the kitchen table is certainly different from the one Camila has gotten to know over the past few months. The hope in her expression is guarded, still, like she's scared to feel anything good - but it's a thousand times better than her usual listless stare.

"He's my best friend," Luz says. Then, more cautiously, "I need him to stay here. With me."

The boy is the reason that Camila's search history has just gotten very peculiar and probably put her on a watch list. Things like Stahl's ear and oculocutaneous albinism next to unsolved missing children 2000s connecticut. That last one pulls up way too many current-day news pieces about Luz for comfort.

"Baby, I know you don't like to talk about it," Camila starts, and Luz tenses. "You don't have to answer me if you don't want to. But have you been missing him this whole time? I would have found him, mija. I know you don't like the police, I don't either. But if I needed to find a way, I'd find a way."

Luz blinks rapidly, pressing her palms to her cheeks.

"Is there anyone else you're looking for?" Camila asks, very gently, very non-judgmentally. "Maybe someone you don't want to get in trouble?"

Luz shakes her head and clears her throat. Then she smiles in the peculiar, diplomatic way that never reaches her eyes.

"I just thought he was dead," she says lightly. "Silly me. I should have remembered humans don't kill people. I got some bad intel."

"Okay," Camila says. "Do you understand why that was a concerning thing to say?"

Luz shrugs.

"He has a lot of scars," Camila adds.

Another shrug.

"Baby," she says, "I need to know at least a little bit. I can't keep guessing forever."

Luz's mouth crumples. "I'm not what you think I am," she whispers.

"That's okay." Camila takes a seat across from her, exhaling softly. "I'm all ears."

[gravedigg]

Angel Eliou Argyros, 1989 - 1998

[joelletwo]

[IDs from alt, 1: natsuyuu fanart of nanase and yorishima passing on a street, yorishima looking back at her but not turning around, while nanase fully stops to say something to him with a smirk. 2: taki and matoba as young kids dangling their feet off a balcony overlooking a room full of exorcist artifacts, matoba clan motifs, and two obscured adults. taki, wide-eyed, says "hey, what are they looking at?" and matoba, bored, replies "you don't know?" 3: textless closeup of the kids]

BIRTHDAY GIFT FOR ME EXORCIST EXTRAVAGANZA <3 embarrassingly many months ago cal @coquelicoq asked me to draw nanase and yorishima hanging out or the kids hanging out. and both those ideas lit my brain so much on fire that i had to marinate and marinate and marinate on them and i still have ten thousand ideas im not sure what to do with but for NOW!!! fun compositional practice :3

nanase and yorishima are hard bc u cant put yorishima in a room. he refuses. their relationship is passing cryptic remarks every eight months when they cross paths in town and theyve kept it up for 40 years

and i have. preexisting thoughts about the matoba family being nosy about the taki family lol. i think maybe after taki granddad passes they express Polite Interest in some of their records which means meetings for baby taki to run around exorcist houses poking into everything she can find and pestering weird older kids there who are happy to give her Just enough info for her brain to go wild

[panthera-tigristigris]

Brain is itchy

[amplifyme]

The X-Files Timeline has the wrong date on the vials of ova.

Seriously, I've given up on making sense of the actual timeline of anything that happens on TXF, especially in the later seasons. The four weeks mentioned in Emily makes zero sense. Why would Maggie give up on Scully and consider her dead after only four weeks? Maybe if CC had paid better attention to his show, or hired someone to do it for him, we wouldn't still be trying to figure this out almost 30 years later.

My head canon will always be that she was missing for 3 months, give or take.

I have a question: when I first watched One Breath, I thought Maggie was picking out her daughter's headstone when Scully was returned in a coma, not before-- a scene that took place after Mulder's rage but before her family pulled her off life support. Am I way off base with that? Was there a date or timeline specified in the episode?

I've always assumed that everything we saw in One Breath was presented in chronological order. There's no date of death on the gravestone. And there's nothing within the structure of the episode itself that would lead me to believe the cold open took place after Scully was returned. Plotwise I've always thought that scene was to portray right off the bat that Mulder wasn't ever going to give up on her. That's mirrored nicely in several subsequent scenes where it's made obvious that he refuses to let her die without a fight.

The dates and timelines are (as usual) all over the place in the abduction arc. Duane Barry has a date of August 7, 1994 as the day Duane takes his doctor hostage and holes up at the travel agency. Taking into accounts the timing of the events of that ep, it's safe to assume Scully was kidnapped within a few days after that, likely between the 8th - 10th. Skipping ahead to Memento Mori, the drawer where the vials of Scully's ova were being stored has a date of 10/29/94. I think we can assume that's the date her ova were harvested and that she was returned shortly after. So she was gone for close to 3 months, give or take a week or two.

But here's where it gets wiggy. The date on the tox screen Frohike slips down his pants in One Breath is 1/03/94. Wha??

I just choose to write that off as a fuck-up in continuity. Not the first, definitely wasn't the last.

[rose-of-pollux]

Is there a reason why all these great story ideas come to me when I’m at work and not when I’m on my laptop at home??

[landfilloftrash]

“Even bad men love their mommas.”

[thegreenhordes]

Blood-stained Diary - Mother's Woes

TW: Blood, mentions of self-harm, violence, untreated injury

The First Entry: My husband brought me a Diary. He said I need something to occupy my fading thoughts. Orient my fragmented mind. I think I will write, yes. To pass the time... To ignore the hunger and pain. I feel numb. The green flows through my veins and lights me up like a beacon in the night. My legs hurt, my head hurts, and I almost bit my husband in a fit of blind hunger. What is happening? I don't understand. I'm so scared, so confused. My children comfort me from beyond the bedroom door but my focus fades and all I understand is the sound of their voices, not their words. I beat at the door in the dead of night until exhaustion locks my limbs and I can rage no more. I know he keeps me here for everyone's safety. So why do I feel so angry? Why does the night awaken such beastly wrath? I'm scared. Everything hurts and I am so very, very scared. The Fifth Entry: My love feeds me all the things I used to love, all things that now make my stomach turn. Sometimes I hurt myself just to smell the blood. Sometimes he leaves a goblet of thick red on the bedside table as I sleep. I don't know where he gets it... I don't care. I'm so hungry. So hungry. My little boy spoke to me this morning. I begged him to come in, to see Mother, to hold me and to let me see him once more. I miss him, so very much. I want to tear out his throat and watch the green destroy him like it destroys me. No. No I can't think like this. I'm so tired, so hungry, so thirsty. I want to tear at the bars that keep the window sealed shut. I broke the glass, the shards still stuck in my legs. My love tried to remove them, but I couldn't control myself and I kept lunging and snapping my jaw like a rabid beast. I plucked some out myself, but I am already in so much pain that I couldn't bear it. I'm going to sleep. I'm so exhausted. The Twentieth Entry: I smell them I smell them I smell them I smell them- They're so silent, why? Why do they cower from my calls? Why do my sons not answer, why does my husband no longer visit me while I wake? The gift, the gift- I have to share the gift. They just don't understand! They would if they let me OUT. LetmeoutletmeoutletmeoutlETMEOUT. I just want to see my boys again. I'm so hungry. The Twenty-Sixth Entry: My youngest came. I stayed quiet this time. I gave him the gift, he screamed so much. He'll understand soon.. then we can spread the gift together. The Last Entry: I'm so scared of what I have become. What have I done?]

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I'm just getting into batjokes, do you have any recs for comics, shows ect

Hey! That's great, hope you'll have lots of fun going down the rabbit hole. There's already some great Batjokes starter pack posts floating around, which you can delve into here, and here! I also have an ask answer regarding my preferred comics for their take on the Batman/Joker dynamic here, but with the warning that I also review them a bit, so there'll be spoilers. And you can also browse my Batjokes comics tag.

[kneel-to-seto-kaiba]

Me when I get surprised

[galacticrain]

Teal mask doodles

[wishingforatypewriter]

Me: I have to finish my existing WIPs in my current fandom.

Also me: Okay, but we have time for a fluffy gelphie oneshot, right?