Season 1 takes place in Fall-Winter 1983, making it the 83-84 school year.
Season 2 takes place in Fall 1984, making it the 84-85 school year.
Season 3 takes place during Summer Break of 1985, making it between the 84-85 and 85-86 school years.
Season 4 takes place in Spring of 1986, making it the 85-86 school year and also Spring Break 1986.
Steve is a grade higher than Nancy, Robin, Jonathan, Barb, Crissy, Jason, and Billy. He graduated in 1985, making his senior year the 84-85 school year. He was a Junior in in 83-84 school year and the rest were Sophomores. Tommy and Carol, along with her friends, are presumably in the same grade as him. Barb is presumably in the same grade as Nancy. Billy is implied to have been a grade below Steve. Given that Chrissy is presumably a senior in the 85-86 school year, she would have also been a Sophomore in Season 1. We can assume that Jason (at the very least) is in her grade as well.
Eddie has repeated Senior year twice, meaning he's in his third Senior year during the 85-86 school year. That means his second Senior year (and first repeat) was in the 84-85 school year, and his first Senior year was in 83-84. So, he was in his first senior year in Season 1. He's a grade higher than Steve and two higher than Chrissy.
Eddie participated in a middle school talent show, which Chrissy also participated in, obviously meaning they both were in middle school at the same time during this talent show. That would put this talent show in the 79-80 school year, when he was in 8th grade and Chrissy (as well as all the others in her grade) was in 6th. Steve would've been in 7th grade.
Assuming that Gareth is a Junior, that would make him a Freshman during the 83-84 school year. That also puts him in 5th grade when Eddie is in 8th. Unnamed and Jeff are likely somewhere between.
This is all also assuming the only one to ever get held back was Eddie, and only just the twice that he was held back as a Senior, nothing more and in no other grades.
The younger kids are all presumed to have been in 7th grade during the 83-84 school year, none of which were ever held back. Erica is likely to have been in 6th grade during the 85-86 school year, putting her in 4th grade in Season 1.
Anyways, it was food for thought. Also helps me remember. This is also the most likely timeline that I can think of. Let me know if i missed/forgot something.
Edits and notes to my original post. I'm adding them in a reblog so people who reblogged before the edits can also see them. Also so that I can keep adding more edits as I go. I'm also pinning it to my profile, for future reference. ✌
EDITS
@tjmystic and @avi17 have both brought it to my attention that Billy is more than likely in the same grade as Steve, not one below like I originally assumed. One pointed out how they share a P.E. class. I'm unsure as to when exactly they made P.E. a mixed grade class, but when I was in school, even Freshman could share a P.E. period with us and participate in our games, so I unintentionally overlooked this possibility. But another person informed me of his headstone having his birthdate say March 29th, 1967, which would naturally put him in the same graduating class as Steve, unless he was held back a grade.
@tjmystic also said that Jeff is actually a Senior, due to a quote from Eddie saying Jeff is an unlikely candidate for the Hellfire Throne due to him graduating that year. That puts him with the 83-84 Sophomore group.
Heather Holloway's wiki says she was born in 66-67, she was likely a Senior, whether just leaving or going into her Senior year. The former is the most likely option.
NOTES
Steve's birthday has not yet been set in canon. The only canon we have is that he was born between August 66 and June 67, which checks with what I said.
@zaphodkilledthespeedforce says that Indiana had a June 30th cut off date back then. I did look it up and Indiana didn't establish a September or earlier cut off date until 1990, so I don't know if there even was a cut off date in Indiana. But, Hawkins could've set their own date differently from the other provinces before a state-wide date was established. Sooooo 🤷
Not only was Erica likely in 6th grade, she's also 11. She would've started Kindergarten in 1979, meaning that the the birth year stated in her wiki (1975) is likely wrong, as she would've been (freshly) 4 years old starting that school year. It's more likely that she was born in 1974. I go a bit more into detail about this in this post.
In the same post, I decide to use September as the latest possible cut off date due to a mix up with Max's birthday. Someone also told me that its possible for kids to be taken in early due to parents needing to work. So I'd even go so far as to say that in the case of not having an established cut off date, it's likely fine as long as the kid turns 5 the same year they start Kindergarten, for simplicity's sake. An example would be The Party, they were all allegedly born in 1971. So following this rule, you could say that they could've been born as late as December 1971 and still could've gotten into Kindergarten in 1976 along with the rest because they would've been turning 5 that December.
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So, I really didn't want my Tumblr to have any relation to Harry Potter but I find that I cant really remove it from my fandoms despite how problematic JKR and some of her writing is. Call it my problematic fave, I guess.
TW: Mentions incest. I also explicitly define incest.
Disclaimer: JKR is an EXTREMELY unreliable world builder. Obviously, I'm not her. If I miss anything, such as a tag or my info is inaccurate, please let me know.
I apologize for starting off so strongly but I figured it would be best to define what incest is first and foremost.
Incest is defined as two people having romantic and/or sexual relations when they are closely OR distantly related through blood, marriage, or adoption. Incest between blood relatives is immoral because of how it historically causes health complications in descendants and because of the taboo of crossing a familial line into a romantic one. Incest between relatives related through marriage or adoption is primarily viewed as immoral because it is typically coinciding with abuse or cheating. Not to say there's no situations of abuse/cheating when it comes to incest between blood relatives, just that the reasons people consider different incestuous relationships immoral depends on the familial tie. An incestuous relationship between two cousins is considered to be less immoral if you do not have a close familial relationship, are not directly related, and do not share any blood. It is still incest, but it's less frowned upon. Please keep this in mind as you read this post.
Over the years and for some reason it's also been more frequent recently, I've been seeing people saying that Harry and Draco are related and that Drarry is incest. I wanted to clear up this misconception and finally get this out of my system so that I can stop making long posts about it on other sites (Pinterest... your character limit is FOUL). Figured Tumblr is the best place for that.
This is a little embarrassing to admit but for a couple years, I've been passively acquiring information on the family trees in Wizarding Britain and compiling them into a Family Echo. I will likely be remaking the tree so I can fact check myself on some of these ties (and some of them are purely headcanon). But, I can start by saying that Draco's roots tie back through the Malfoy and Black Houses through his respective parents Lucius and Narcissa. Harry, however, comes from the Potters and Evanses. The Evanses are a muggle family, and Lily is a muggleborn wizard, her family has no ties to any wizards in Wizarding Britain. But people argue that the Potters have ties to the Black family when there is no such thing in canon outside of the debatable case of Sirius Black's friendship with James Potter.
The 2 primary arguments people make are A) Dorea Potter (nee Black), who married a Charlus Potter and B) Sirius Black because he's Harry's godfather. These are common points used to say that Draco and Harry are relatives BUT I have counterarguments.
Charlus and Dorea Potter
Dorea Black, who is on the Black family tree and (note this for later) NOT disowned, is proven to have married one Charlus Potter, whom people believe is related to the Potters on only one basis. Charlus bears the last name Potter. Charlus Potter even appears in the Potter family tree on the fandom wiki.
But I don't believe Charlus is of House Potter for two reasons.
Firstly and most importantly, Dorea Black was not disowned from House Black for marrying Charlus Potter and secondly, Potter is canonically regarded as a common surname.
The House of Potter, despite their wealth and the respect they are regarded with, are not part of the Sacred Twenty-Eight due to being considered blood traitors for their established open-mindedness on blood purity since basically the founding of their House. All other people who have married to or become blood traitors were burned off of the tree and disowned. As such, whenever it is that the Potters were declared blood traitors and exempt from the Sacred Twenty-Eight, Dorea Black would have been burned from the tree for her marriage to Charlus Potter, no matter how well respected the House of Potter is and all her descendants would have been removed from the tree, like a branch that got cut off. Unless under the flimsy assumption that her marriage to Charlus Potter was accepted or arranged. Which isn't necessarily unlikely, but it DOES seem like a stretch.
Disclaimer: I have no clue if this is fact. But, the tapestry is seemingly enchanted to track the Black bloodline by itself, I would assume the tapestry would continue keeping track of the Black lineage even in distant cousins who have no contact and aren't from disowned lines. It likely updates in real time when a new Black is born.
Factually speaking, there is someone within the family appointed to the task of burning disowned members off of the tree. Meaning even if Dorea Black had married Charlus Potter prior to the Potters being considered blood traitors, she still would have been burned off the tree at a later date after the Potters were declared blood traitors. So I simply don't think she married a Potter from House Potter, I think she married a wizard who's last name happens to be Potter.
Notably: Dorea and Charlus' unnamed child, presumably a son, doesn't appear on the Black Family Tapestry for some reason, despite it being said they had a child. So, I have no clue if they actually DID have a child or not. No one knows the name of this mystery child. I also have found 0 sources for them having a kid outside of the fandom wiki, so if anyone has more information, I will gladly hear it.
One of the reasons for the Potters being exempt from the Sacred Twenty-Eight, other than their stance on blood purity, is because of how common the last name Potter is among muggles. Linfred of Stinchcombe, who founded the House of Potter, labored as a potterer to amass wealth which he then passed down to his children, who added their own hard earned money to the pot and passed it down to THEIR children, and so on so forth until House Potter was yet another prominent and wealthy Wizarding family.
BUT! If Linfred of Stinchcombe was a wizard potterer, he likely wasn't the only wizard potterer. As such, it's not completely unfounded to believe that there are at least a handful of different, far less wealthy, wizard families bearing the last name Potter within the Wizarding World as well, all because of an ancestor who used to be a potterer.
It doesn't go without mentioning the reason why "Potter" is so common among muggles is not only because of people gaining last names based on their occupations, but also because Potters descendant of Linfred would sometimes marry muggles, which contributed to the spread of the last name and solidified House Potter's stance on blood purity.
With all of this in mind, if she had married a muggle or muggleborn, Dorea would definitely have been disowned. So, while it's not unlikely that Charlus Potter is related to Harry, there's just more evidence to suggest he isn't. It's just simply more likely that she married a halfblood or pureblood wizard who happens to have the last name Potter than her actually marrying into House Potter.
Even if she DID marry into House Potter, we don't know where Charlus would hypothetically sit on the Potter family tree, his placement is speculation at best and headcanon at worst. They also only had one son, don't know where this information came from, but if we go with it the child has no name and no named descendants so it's unlikely that Harry is directly descendant of Charlus, it's more likely that Harry and Charlus share a common ancestor further up the tree, which further removes Dorea's relation to Harry and solidifies that they aren't related by blood, which is the common primary concern when it comes to incest.
I do not defend incest, that is the entire reason I'm making this post. Besides the fact that I firmly believe Drarry is not incest, IF they WERE related, they would not be blood related, they would be relatives through marriage way further up the tree, separated by several generations. It's to the point where IF such a tie exists, it is NEVER mentioned because THAT'S how distant they would be.
As a matter of fact, there's no way Draco wouldn't have mentioned being cousins with Harry when they were 11 years old, IF they were actually cousins. In case we forget, before Draco was rejected by Harry, he initially wanted to befriend Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived presumably for his fame and fortune. Part of me believes Draco genuinely wanted to be friends with Harry because he sounded cool and came up with the "wealth and status" reason to not only make a connection but because that was something his parents taught him to do. But since this is just speculation, I will operate under the assumption it was purely for fame and fortune. As such, I sincerely doubt Narcissa kept their lineage a secret, so Draco would have likely noticed Dorea's relation to Charlus Potter. Even if he hadn't heard of the relation, he probably knows House Black is related to pretty much every prominent pureblood family in Wizarding Britain. He definitely would have asked if he's related to Harry Potter at some point before his first day at Hogwarts, if only to see if he could use it to break the ice. Narcissa would've explained how they're related, IF they were, there's simply no reason for her not to. So honestly, if they were cousins, it WOULD have been brought up.
Sirius Black
As for Sirius Black's relation to Harry Potter, he's only Harry's godfather. There is no blood relation here, no formal adoption. Sirius wasn't adopted by James' parents and made James' brother, Sirius didn't adopt Harry. Ignoring the rocky, up in the air-ness of Dorea Black's relation to Harry, Sirius is Harry's only canonical tie to House Black and thusly, Draco Malfoy.
But, Sirius was formally disowned from House Black. His portrait has been burned off the tapestry. His found family are the Mauraders and thusly, Harry Potter. Harry calling Sirius "Uncle" does not mean Harry's gonna waltz up to Narcissa and call her "Auntie".
You do not have to claim someone's family just because you claimed that someone as your own family, especially if that someone's family has disowned them. If my best friend got disowned for whatever reason, my best friend's my family and the family who disowned them is dead to me. For all intents and purposes, Sirius is JUST Sirius to Harry, not Sirius Black III. Sirius is Harry's family, but ONLY Sirius, no one else in the entirety of House Black is related to Harry with maybe the sole exception of Regulus Black, but he'd still be another "uncle" (ignoring Jegulus here, btw).
Found Family is simply just not a bonding familial tie like adoption, blood, or marriage. Not to say it can't become a bonding tie, but it's along the lines of adoption and ONLY in descendants. Simply, if James and Lily had lived and if Sirius had any kids, Harry and Sirius' kids would've likely been raised as cousins. But the point still stands that Sirius' parents and every relative extended from that mean absolutely nothing to Harry.
I literally feel like I can't express enough just how much Harry is NOT related to House Black because of Sirius.
All of this being said, Sirius did intend to adopt Harry as he was Harry's godfather. But "godfather" isn't a legally acknowledged relationship, at least in the muggle world. Had Sirius not been framed for Peter's death and the one who gave up the Potters which got him locked in Azkaban for over a decade, he would have had to have gone through an extensive custody battle to adopt Harry, assuming Petunia and Vernon didn't sign him away immediately. After Sirius escapes Azkaban, Harry is pretty much already adopted by the Weasleys. Not to erase Sirius as a parental figure for Harry, just to say he remains only as found family with no formal adoption.
Honestly, Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy are more related than Harry and Draco are. Molly Weasley's mother was born a Black before she married a Prewitt and was burned from the family tapestry. Molly is canonically 1st cousins with Sirius, who is 1st cousins with Narcissa. So, if anything, Harry being more or less adopted by the Wealseys is the REAL familial tie to Draco Malfoy and ironically has the strongest argument towards Drarry being incestuous. Additionally, with this same argument, Hinny becomes 10x more incestuous than Drarry because if Ron is Harry's brother, then Ginny is his sister, too.
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You’re an ancient Greek man coming home from 4 months of war to find your wife 3 months pregnant. Now you’ve embarked on a solemn quest: to punch Zeus in the face.
Soon after you begin your quest, you encounter another man in a similar situation. You decide to join forces, as two mortal men stand a better chance at punching Zeus than one.
Two villages over, you encounter a woman who had relations with Zeus and was left with a highly aggressive half-boar half-man offspring. She too feels your anger and offers to join your quest.
By the time you reach Mount Olympus, you’ve amassed a large and formidable army of cuckolded/ravished mortals, demigods with daddy issues, mythical creatures with scores to settle, and a seamstress who you’re pretty sure is Hera in disguise.
Zeus never stood a chance.
What I find best about this scenario is that the original wife probably expected to be murdered for her infidelity at worst or have her relationship with her husband ruined as he grew to resent her baby, at best.
Instead this man looked at his beloved and said, “who did it?”
And she replied “Zeus,” accepting he probably wouldn’t believe her.
And then he sighed, strapped his sandals back on and said, “I’ll be back before the baby is born.”
“Where are you-?”
“The lord of the sky came into my house, molested my wife in my bed and ate my food. I am going to settle the score.”
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NOTHING of what you said so far, nor in your posts, has EVER read as "I support him being bi" it LITERALLY reads as you saying Eddie HAS to like women
I dont see you talking about his possible interest in men ANYWHERE, only him liking women and then you use "just say you hate bisexuals" as a coverup
news fucking flash, eddie liking women isn't canon either, it was never stated in the show that eddie liked chrissy
and if you want to bring up that joseph said that eddie possibly had a crush on her, then I'm bringing up how he said the same thing about steve
or if you want to argue his behavior towards chrissy, I'll bring up the same about steve
you come onto MY post, you say that my headcanons won't be canon when I said IN THAT POST that he at least has to be bi, then you say I have to get over the fact that he likes women when I've never said anywhere that I even care if he likes women or not, I literally said several times that my headcanon doesn't fucking matter because they CAN'T use Icarus, a gay icon, for something straight, then you called me biphobic when I called you homophobic because you ARE BEING HOMOPHOBIC
the topic was NEVER about him liking women as much as YOU tried to make it that way
then you go and make a post basically tagging that I'm pressed, literally just fucking tag me you coward ass bitch, when I literally tagged my post as a RANT and the entire time I was upset about ICARUS BEING USED FOR SOMETHING SUPPOSEDLY STRAIGHT, which you fucking ignored
I have said multiple times that I don't care about Eddie's sexual orientation besides him being straight because if he's straight, then that erases Icarus being gay for being associated with the likeness of a straight guy
if your issue is that you don't understand how icarus is a gay icon, fucking research it
do you not understand how hurtful it is for straight people to touch gay culture and make it straight? that's literally the definition of oppression, you dumb ass bitch
it doesn't matter if it's referencing a song because that song is from the 80s and icarus means something differently now than it did then, and EVEN THEN, that song can still be applied to gay themes just because it is about icarus and the sun and being betrayed by his father, which idk if you know this or not, but queer people get disowned all the time for coming out as queer to their parents, it especially happened more back then
so you obviously know WHY I'm pressed and it has nothing to do with Eddie liking women alongside men but rather Icarus being used in association with straight shit
either that or you can't fucking read and I'm starting to opt for the latter
and I'm sorry if English isn't your first language or if you have a reading disability, but you really shouldn't go and start shit like this if you can't read properly, especially if you plan to publicly talk shit about the people you're starting shit with
im tired, im done, im not arguing this anymore because you REALLY don't understand a SINGLE thing im saying and im blocking you
I fucking hate blocking people but you're annoying and talking to you is like talking to a brick wall, so fuck off, do some research, work on your reading skills
do NOT tell me that they named this Eddie Munson Prequel Book "Flight of Icarus" and then proceeded to make Eddie Munson NOT GAY
they HAVE to know
like, they HAVE to
cause Icarus is a literal gay icon in the pride community and Eddie is literally heavily headcanoned to be gay
I want nothing to do with this book if he's not at least bi or pan because that is GAY ERASURE
spoilers below
WHO THE FUCK IS PAIGE AND WHY IS THIS EXCERPT I READ READING AS IF HE'S ROMANTICALLY INTERESTED IN HER???
also, this is reading very heavily as if he's LIVED somehow, cause even though this is a prequel, this doesn't feel like a prequel??? he's at a recording studio, for one. for two, no mentions of corroded coffin. or school.
in fact, it seems like it vaguely references the upside down as the muse behind his music, because ain't no way that's not what that line about facing down demons and his music being a portal to another world ISN'T about? unless it's about dnd, which is highly probable. but he also could've just SAID that???
anyways, besides that, corroded coffin did not seem like they were recording studio ready at all in s4, they don't even mention having a cd or something at all, im having a really hard time believing that this recording studio excerpt is BEFORE s4
also I'm actually not reading this book because it's in first person POV and that's downright disgusting, I didn't even know I was reading about Eddie until his name was said
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If you have an eating disorder and want help overcoming it, don't go to edtwt, go to r/EatingDisorders.
Edtwt is 99% people encouraging the behavior and ignoring any and all healthy alternatives and solutions, none of them are dietitians or professionals and will reply to any dietary facts you may offer with "the best way to lose weight is to starve". If you point out how unhealthy something is, they will reply with "you're on edtwt" as some form of excuse to their behaviors. There are very few people in that entire community that actually want to help you.
I couldn't block notifications from edtwt. I couldn't stop them. One interaction and it was all over my TL and constantly popping up in my push notifications, even after disabling push notifications. That, of course, applied to all Twitter notifications, but edtwt was consuming my TL, it was like a plague. Edtwt is actually the reason I deleted Twitter because every single notification was fatshaming or otherwise discouraging when bulimia and anorexia aren't the only eating disorders.
The final straw for me was when they fatshamed and blasted a poor girl over a single picture of her watch being too tight on her wrist (I am sorry if this is you and you're seeing this post). All bodies are different and it could happen to anybody if they tighten their watch too tightly.
If you want positive encouragement for overcoming an eating disorder and healthy solutions or alternatives, I recommend r/EatingDisorders because just a glance at it and I could tell it was 10x better than edtwt. People were asking for help and receiving it, sharing their experiences and not being fatshamed. I, of course, recommend getting a therapist and/or a dietitian('s advice) above all else, but if you can't afford that, you can definitely ask for help in the r/EatingDisorders subreddit. I expected this more from Twitter than from Reddit, due to the body positivity, lgbtq+, and mental health avocation sides of Twitter.
I also don't particularly recommend any ed Tumblr tags on here, even though they're seemingly nicer than edtwt. Because they don't seem to encourage getting over eating disorders. But Tumblr is definitely more of a place where you get out how you feel than ask for any help overcoming it and if that's what you're looking for, I think Tumblr is safer than Twitter for that.
Backtracking to body positivity, I am not thinshaming edtwt or anybody with eating disorders. I'm not saying people can't be as thin as they want to. There is just absolutely no body positivity on edtwt and that is what bothers me. There isn't even any positive encouragement to get skinny, it's all negative reinforcement. Eating disorders, to me, should fall under both "body positivity" and "mental health avocation" but in places like edtwt and on here, it doesn't seem to. Which is why I say go to r/EatingDisorders if that's what you're looking for.
