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Passage of time in QC...
BenRG:
I've worked with Wikia before although I'm hardly an expert (you might have seen a few edits from me on the 'latest edits' page). I know that the Wikia system lets you create tables; that would probably be your best bet to create the spreadsheet in an editable fashion.
AprilArcus:
Okay, it's wiki'ed! I split it up into groups of ~100 strips. It's a somewhat different effect than the big spreadsheet. What do you all think?
davedig:
Whoa that little time? I'd like to think Marten and Claire knew each other a bit longer. I figured the summer interns popped in the middle of Spring or nearing the end of that term with a few weeks to go.
McFace:
--- Quote from: davedig on 13 Oct 2014, 01:02 ---Whoa that little time? I'd like to think Marten and Claire knew each other a bit longer. I figured the summer interns popped in the middle of Spring or nearing the end of that term with a few weeks to go.
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That's what I was thinking.
I can't argue with April's timeline because it seems correct, but it just feels like a LOT to happen in a short amount of time.
AprilArcus:
Note: I am using a completely arbitrary 52 week calendar where January, April, July and October have five weeks, and every other month has four.
More thoughts: I placed Tai's party around Smith college's commencement (the second week of May), but it might make more sense to shift it a week earlier to align with finals week.
--- Quote from: HiFranc on 10 Oct 2014, 14:42 ---From the seasons I calculated that Dora and Marten were together for about 15-18 months. From memory:
First kiss happened at the end of winter/start spring (it was still cold)
Happies happned throughout summer
They went drunk sledging that winter (Will was on his quest then)
We see them through sping and the break up happened at the height of summer
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The break-up happened in 1799 and 1844 is explicitly said to be in late winter / early spring. Other than that, I agree with your read. Marten's hoodie disappears from 623-750. Do you think that this is the summer prior to the 2000-2800s?
I'm working on putting some firmer dates on the Spring semester run, from roughly 1300 to 1900, but there are fewer explicit references to weekends and it's harder to bin strips up into days when everyone is wearing the same outer layers for strip after strip. Here's what I have so far:
* 12001223 + 1225 It is still warm enough for Hanners to wear tiny shorts. Dora has been running Coffee of Doom for "a couple of years".
* Jump?
* 12271254 Lydia meets Sven off-panel the previous day. Wil asks Penelope out. They make a date for Friday. Tai gets a piercing.
* Dora goes from thinking about growing her hair out in 1302 to having two-inch roots in 1311, suggesting a very lengthy time skip
* Snowy weather from 1311-1395, probably corresponding to the second or third week of January, the coldest time of year in Northhampton
* In 1322, Cosette checks out two very long books and asks Marten out. This might mark the start of the Spring semester, the fifth week of January, or she might be getting a head start on her reading over the winter break. Against this, in 1550 Luna says Cosette obsessed over whether to ask Marten out for "weeks" before this.
* 1423 is the last time snow is visible in background scenes
* 14301436 Marten gives Cosette a photo of Steve. Wil returns from his walkabout. Marten retires his hoodie.
* working...
* 15061514 takes place on a Wednesday, since Marten's dad has made plans to visit "on Friday" and Dora complains that his family never schedules anything "more than a couple days in advance". In 1509, Faye hasn't seen Raven "in forever". Presumably she started her physics training in the Five Colleges area at the beginning of the current (spring) semester.
* 15151521 Friday. Henry and Maurice's visit. Dora has died her hair black again.
* 15211536 Saturday, the Smif Nerd con.
* jump?
* 15371554 Cosette has just gotten out of the hospital after falling down a flight of stairs, which happened while oggling the photo of Steve she received in 1430. She runs into Steve, they get dinner and hook up, and she ends up back in the hospital.
* 15581578 Dora and Marten talk about moving in together
* 15791586 The next day. Dora decides to move in with Marten and Faye.
* jump?
* 15871591 Moving day
* 15921596 The next day. Tai describes her lifestyle as "recreational drug use, casual sex, and occasional studying", but by 2787 she graduated "a year ago". What is she studying at this point?
* 1597-1600 Angus and Marigold dance
* 16021610 Tai passes out at Marten and Faye's. Hanners takes her home.
* 16111632 The next day. Faye returns Marigold's wallet. Marigold makes a pass at Angus.
* 16331649 The next day. Hanners consoles Marigold. First appearances: Dale, Espressosaurus I. A gallery owner commissions Espressosaurus II and follows up in 1978. Continuity notes: Dora guesses it will take six weeks to make, and it is more or less done by 1948. The gallery owner comes back to check on Faye's progress in 1978 (saturday of May, week 1), making the latest possible date and current best guess for this day Saturday of March, week 4.
* one-day jump (1651: Marigold hasn't eaten anything but Pocky for the last two days, and nothing at all on that day)
* 16501662 Marigold steals Sven's book my accident. Milestone: Hanners can handle being poked by Marten and Dora. Continuity note: Will has had time to grow a handlebar mustache since his last appearance in 1529.
* 16631669 Angus asks Faye out. Dale delivers a pizza to Marigold.
* 16701691 Dora dyes her hair. Party at Marten and Faye's. Does the title of 1670 imply about a three month passage since she dyed it black in 1515?
* 16921706 The next day. Tai, Marten, Steve and Cosette go shopping. Continuity note: Cosette is still in crutches, as she was in 1543-1554, but is out of her neck brace and her black eye has fully healed. Her cast is coming off "tomorrow" (1698). Dora is working 60 hour weeks with a staff of 3 (Faye, Raven, and Penelope). She expands her staff to 5 with Cosette and Hannelore in these strips, but by 2523 she is up to 80 hour weeks.
* 17061718 The next day. Dora hires Hannelore and Cosette. Milestone: Hanners hugs Marten. Cosette gets out of her cast, dies her hair brown.
* 17191739 The next day (1709: "I go in for training tomorrow!"). Dora trains Hanners and Cosette. Angus kisses Faye. Marten and Angus have a slap-battle. Faye and Angus go on a date. AFRICA. Dora hates Toto. Continuity note: Angus quotes Beyoncι's "Single Ladies" (1732), a 2008 song.
* 17401770 The next day. Early morning: (1744: 1:06 AM) Marten comforts Faye after a panic attack. Dora goes nuclear. Faye escalates. Sven doesn't want to hook up anymore. Marten and Dora make up. Morning: Hanners and Cosettes first day on the job. Evening: Hanners and Sven have a mock-date. Continuity note: Reference to "Helvetica" (1760), a 2007 film.
* 17711772 Probably the next day. Dale flirts at Marigold. Hanners and Marigold dish about the mock date.
* 17731793 Probably the next day. Angus stops by CoD. Faye hasn't seen him in "a few days" (1773) and Hanners mock date was "the other night" (1782). The singularity happened yesterday. Tai and Marten talk about Dora. Sven stops by. Marigold and Tai hang out.
* Possible jump, but probably not. It makes narrative sense for the break-up to happen very shortly after the last fight, and extra padding here slows the development of Faye and Angus's intimate relationship too much.
* 17941800 The break-up.
* 18011818 The next day. Faye finds a therapist for Dora. Veronica books a ticket to Northampton. Marten makes a drunken pass at Faye.
* 18191837 The next day. Veronica visits with Marten, Tai, Hanners, Faye, Sven, and Dora.
* 18381855 Veronica leaves. Hanners and Marten look for a new coffee shop and find the Secret Bakery. Steve and Cosette visit Marten. Faye visits Angus and spends the night with him. Marigold visits Hanners. Dora dyes her hair black. Continuity note: 1844 is in late winter/early spring.
* Minimum ten-day jump. By 1861 Marten has been single for "weeks", and in 1865 Padma recognizes him as "mister coffee-and-a-danish"
* 18561873 Marten, Steve, Elliot and Padma and Renee hang out at the Revelation.
* 1874-1891 The next day (Cosette is upset at Padma for flirting with Steve). Dora's first therapy appointment. Tai drops by the say hello to Dora, the first they've spoken since the breakup. Espressosaurus II has some bugs. Angus and Faye have sex for the first time (1887). Continuity note: with no jump between 1793 and 1794, and the minimum ten-day jump between 1855 and 1856, it has been 19 days since AFRICA. It makes sense for Faye to take it slow (and Angus' dialogue suggests she has been), but any slower than this strains credibility.
* 1892 Dora (gray camisole) reads a listing for an apartment in Amherst
* 1893 Dora (gray crew-neck) checks out the Amherst apartment
* 1894-1895 (same day?)
* 1896 (same day?) Dora (gray crew-neck) takes the Amherst apartment. It will be ready "by the end of next week"
* 1897 Marten gets a call from UMass
* 1898-1904 Next day. First appearance: Clinton
* 1905 (same day?) Hanners calls her dad
* 1906-1920 Marten visits Coffee of Doom for the first time since the break up. "It's been weeks" (1907). Dora moves in. Faye and Sven are not openly hostile. Tai tries to start a topless party. Cosette planning to move in with Steve for the summer.
* 1921 AnthroPC hangouts
* 1922-1931 The Coffee of Doom / Secret Bakery beans-for-pastries deal. First appearance: Jim. 1928: "Elliot will have your stuff for you on Monday
* 1932 Pizza Girl / Penelope. Faye: Pink blouse
* 1933 (Jump? Same day?) (Saturday or Sunday) Tai invites Marten (TEH) to her end-of-semester party on Friday
* 1934-1942 Monday. Elliott and Jim make a muffin delivery. Padma remembers Marten's name. Faye: Bear. Marten: castor.
* one-day jump?
* 1951-1943 Angus and Faye are official. Jim asks Dora out. Tai invites Dora to the party on Friday (1945), so it's either Tuesday or Wednesday.
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