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Passage of time in QC...
Penquin47:
It's 31, the month started on a Monday so the Sunday box is blank.
AprilArcus:
Now things get tricky.
1130-1225 are four consecutive days in late spring. It's been a little while since Sven and Faye have seen each other (1136: Sven: "So, uh, how've you been?") The weather is warmer: it's still hoodie weather for Marten in 1139, but Dora is in shirtsleeves. In 1171, Marten wears a tee-shirt and Dora wears spaghetti straps. In 1176, Faye wears a tee-shirt and Hanners wears a pencil skirt and tank top. In 1203, Hanners wears short shorts. However, Tai hasn't graduated yet by 1131.
* 1130-1149 (1142: Wil meets Penelope; 1146: Marten gets food poisoning)
* 1150-1166 (1150: Faye: "Hey Dora, is Marty doin' any better today?"; 1155: Faye gets concussed by a raccoon)
* 1168-1200 (1179: Sven drops by to check on Faye; 1191: Sven and Fay hook up again)
* 1201-1225 (1201: The next morning. 1205: Wil accidentally shows Pennelope his poetry. 1217: Dora worries about the shop's expenses. 1222: Pintsize sells Hanners a curated collection of sexy fireman pictures)
Short gap?
* 1226: Pintsize asks Hanners how she's enjoying the pornographs she recently acquired from him.At this point, we must contrive to insert a very long gap, because the next chunk will take us into early autumn (scarf weather for Hanners in 1272). We can (kind of) get away with this because there is no direct evidence that 1227-1254 directly follows 1201-1225, but we must acknowledge that we're cheating the narrative by doing so: Dora is still as stressed out about expenses in 1227 as she was in 1217, and Wil is still freshly embarrassed in 1239 about having shown Penelope his erotic poems in 1205.
* 1226-1254 (1239: Wil asks Penelope out for dinner on Friday. 1248: Tai gets her hood pierced)
a few days, then
* 1255-1257 (1255: Penny: "It's Friday and I have a date")
* 1258-1264 (1258: Faye debriefs Penny about Wil's broken arm. The espresso machine explodes. 1262: Marten drops by with tickets to the horror film festival)
maybe a short gap, then
* 1268-1286 (1268: Marten tells Tai about the film festival; 1270: Faye: "Wow, we got a new Espresso machine already?"; 1273: Steve is binge drinking; 1275: Penny shows up for the afternoon shift; 1281: Faye's vee-neck morphs into a same-color crew neck, but I think this is an art error and it's all supposed to be one day; 1284: Wil asks Penny out for lunch; 1285: A bear eats their sandwiches.)
* 1287-1300 (1288: Dora: "So other than the bear encounter, how'd the lunch date go?" 1294: Raven gives two weeks notice; 1298: First appearance: Momo)
a gap, but less than two weeks, since Raven rescinds her notice. This brings us to the beginning of the time-skip (August or September):
* 1301-1302 (1301: Raven: "I'm not quitting after all"; 1302: Dora: "I think I'm gonna grow my hair out"; Marten teaches Tai how to tie a turtle harness)
* 1305-1309 (1305: Marten: "yesterday I had to show one of my friends how to do that Japanese rope-binding stuff you taught me"; 1307: Faye demands monogamy from Sven)
Finally, 1310, where Penny apologizes for giving Wil a hard time "the other day". Is this referring to 1285? Or is this happening later in autumn? Their relationship seems sufficiently well-established that she doesn't just write him off during his long walkabout.
Omega Entity:
Is it possible that it's really mid-spring for this last stretch? After all, spring weather is really unpredictable. A few years back we nearly hit 80 in the middle of February here in Michigan, followed by a cold snap that brought snow. Last spring wasn't quite as bizarre, but we did have some warmups followed by cold snaps all the way into May. So, realistically it could be mid-spring, and with all the volatile weather that goes with it. It would certainly make more sense, timeline event-wise.
As to Martin's hoodie- hasn't it been established that he doesn't retain heat well, being as scrawny as he is? I can certainly commiserate, as I'm perpetually cold outside the heat of summer.
AprilArcus:
I guess so! Dora starts growing her hair out in 1302 and has roots down to her eyebrows / ears by 1311, which is something like 3-4 inches of hair, so 6-8 months of growth. If 1311 picks back up in late January, then 1302 could be as far back as May. It's really hard for me to imagine Sven managing to maintain a monogamous relationship with Faye for nine mostly off-panel months, but I guess this was retroactively justified by his subsequent complete inability to move on from her. Penny putting her love life on hold for nine months is even more of a stretch, since we know she was into Steve and that he was single while Wil was on walkabout.
AprilArcus:
So: should I chart this out on a 2005 calendar or a 2004 calendar? Or a blank one with the vague suggestion of weekdays and months but no dates?
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