#if they didn't want me to pick at the timeline they shouldn't put signifiers of specific time intervals in

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3-5 months.

Ned Low's record was 88 consecutive raids, meaning if Ed beat it, he had to have at least 89. In the hatchmark close-up from the trailer, there's at least 85 marked:

And the raid montage with timestamps of "Tuesday", "The Day before that...", and "And the day before that..." strongly suggests a campaign of a raid-a-day to count as "consecutive."

However.

The date on The Fanny Tickler Tribunal from Anne and Mary's place is March 3rd.

Stede and Ed parted ways at the beginning of October. So either this paper is from a previous March and therefore at least 10 months old (in which case it's a little weird that it's at the top of the pile), or we're meant to understand that it's March at the time of this episode and we need to account for an additional 2 months.

Episode 1 & 2 PROBABLY are meant to take place on subsequent days. Stede's reaction to the wake-up bell on the Red Flag suggests this is the crew's first night spent on the ship. That doesn't necessarily mean that the events on the Red Flag are unfolding at the same time as the events on the Revenge, however, the fact that Izzy's still kicking (if you'll forgive the pun) suggests a relatively short window between episodes 1 & 2 because gangrene kills within 48 hours of onset of infection. There's prolly SOME amount of time gap between episodes 2 & 3 in order for the Revenge crew to be desperate enough for food to eat a raw seagull (and for Stede to have gotten people acclimated to his scenting the towels routine, which will later prove instrumental to his escape plan. And for there to have been "a lot of kissing" between Jim and Archie, considering they shared their first kiss just after the amputation, and how preoccupied they would have been afterwards with Ed babygirling the ship into the storm), but even if he's just comatose, Ed would be dead without fluids within 3 days. The grey cast of his cheeks when Stede removes the cloth on his face suggests pallor mortis (with 30 minutes of death), but the fact that he jiggles so much when Stede shakes him suggests rigor has not yet taken hold (starting 2 hours after death). So it was only a little death (yes, I know expecting this show of all shows to adhere to the scientific realities of death and injury is beyond the pale, but they started it by bothering at all with smearing Taika's cheeks with grey pancake makeup).

Episode 4 picks up immediately after episode 3, so there's no room for a time gap there.

So possibly Ed took a little time between the Krakening and the start of his run for Ned's record. Presumably that's when he was doing all the stuff to fill out his rap sheet, like "impersonating a vicar" and "flashmobbing" and "cart rental under a fraudulent name".

hi! I've come back to posting on tumblr just cause of OFMD and your blog is amazing thank you!! I have a question I might have missed- do we know how much time has gone by from the ending events in s1 to the beginning of s2?

nope. that's the sort of thing the show just kinda shrugs about lol