#the elusive lonestar timeline

[rmd-writes]

Tag Game Tuesday Wednesday: 911 Lone Star Fandom Edition

Tagged by @liminalmemories21 and @freneticfloetry thanks, and good timing! You both caught me on my lunch break

When did you first start watching Lone Star? Who or what introduced you to the show?

I can't remember the exact timing, but I'm pretty sure I watched the first two seasons while s3 was airing and then caught up after - I wanted to start earlier but I had some issues finding a way to watch the show here!

My introduction to the show was via @three-drink-amy telling me to watch it (repeatedly), @clottedcreamfudge's judicious use of gifs from the show in the gc and a bunch of SC mutuals yelling about the gay howdy wee woo show on my dash every week.

Season 4 was the first season that I watched "live" which I did with @welcometololaland, both of us texting and screaming as we watched each episode together hours and hours after everyone else had.

Which season is your favorite?

Season 3, hands down. I don't know that they'll ever beat it?

Who is your favorite character? (Bonus: If you answered TK or Carlos, who is your favorite besides them?)

Other than Carlos and TK, I think it's Grace. I just adore the her energy and the way that she takes everything in her stride and even when things are hard, she's very practical about it. Also she doesn't take shit from anyone.

Top five episodes. Go!

I don't think I've ever tried to do this? I'm generally very bad at choosing, my SC fave ep list contains three episodes that I insist must be watched together so they only count as one ep hahahaha Anyway, in no particular order, and not necessarily by episode title or number because I can't be arsed looking them up:

Push, my beloved

3 x 13

the one with Lou

Bad Call

the Soulmates one

Bonus: the Marjan ep in s4 which was just so, so good

If you could pick any character to be given a "begins" episode, who would it be and what would that episode look like?

Either Nancy because we know nothing about her and I want to know, or Paul because I think he's had such an interesting journey.

What is a scenario or storyline that you would like to see in season 5?

I love @liminalmemories21's idea of a Halloween ep! It would be so fun!

We probably won't get it because of the shorter season, but I'd love more Lonestar-is-a-comedy-actually episodes like Red vs Blue and the (original) Lou arc.

More realistically, I'd love to see Carlos actually grappling with the consequences of his actions in s4 and also working through his grief and TK helping him do that. And I'd like to see an absence of Owen love interests.

What do you think is going on in this still?

I want it to be something silly like Lou 2 is lost in the loft and Carlos is Not Happy about it (the reason for TK's posture) and then he answers his phone in the middle of all of that, hence the facial expression. The phone call isn't that important, it's Owen asking Carlos for help on a side quest.

We all know about the elusive 5x05 spicy scene that has been teased, so what is your prediction for how it could possibly top 1x02?

I don't know about a prediction, but I'd love to see them getting distracted from getting ready in the morning. Carlos (in just his underwear) waking TK up with a kiss and TK pulling him back into bed for a good make out session and that turning into more. A very different vibe to 1x02 but hot nonetheless.

Where was the Tarlos honeymoon in your mind?

I think it was somewhere close to home - with the accelerated wedding timeline (lol) they didn't have time for a long trip for to somewhere far away, and by all accounts, travelling overseas wasn't on their radar anyway (see: TK's disbelief when Carlos says he wants to go to Tuscany). So a long weekend at a nice resort somewhere. Enzo paid for it as their wedding gift because he couldn't make it to the wedding when they moved the date up.

Shoutout one of your favorite fan creations.

Just one (1)? Impossible! This Rafa fan art by @ambiguouspenny made me actually say "oh fuck" the first time I saw it. I adore the way @whatsintheboxmh uses light in all of her fan art. I love @howtosingit's Carlos episode edits because they a) let me watch all of the Tarlos scenes on repeat (and before I actually get to the watch the episodes when they air because time zones), b) give me an easy way to check canon dialogue and c) make it easy to convince new people to watch the show when they sneak into my DMs and tell me that the number of Tarlos gifs I am putting on their dash is tempting them. @liminalmemories21's Knave-verse might be my favourite Tarlos AU, everything about it makes me swoon. Okay, cutting myself off now.

Tagging: @welcometololaland @howtosingit @three-drink-amy just so they know my earlier tags in this post were tags to do this and also @lightningboltreader @orchidscript

@danieljradcliffe @guardian-angle22 @reasonandfaithinharmony @alrightbuckaroo

@cold-blooded-jelly-doughnut @nancys-braids @heartstringsduet and anyone else who wants to play 💖 PS. if ao3 user olympia2007 is here on tumblr, I'm tagging you too (and please come say hi)

[marjansmarwani]

ok so instead of studying, i tried my best to figure out the timeline for how long tarlos has been dating n ls. first, its messy in general and kinda doesnt make sense especially w the much space in between, also i could be very wrong but i used 2 confirmed dates to figure that shit out (march 2020, pandemic and 25 jan 2021, tim's death, not sure if there were any other confirmed dates in the show). im gonna assume that tk n owen got to austin around late nov/early dec 2020 n thats bc tk told paul that 116 days ago he got rejected (1x5), id assume they would've gotten out of ny asap, and also bc im gonna assume tarlos started dating around feb or late feb 2020 bc they started dating before the pandemic in march 2020 since gwen mentioned in 2x1 how tk got shot before the pandemic. then tim died a whole yr later on 25 jan 2021, n tk's 1st sobriety was afterwards so that could mean its around late jan or early feb 2021 but there r some flaws bc that means tk didnt get pro help until 3/4 months since his od/relapse but it kinda makes sense to y tk was hesitant to be w carlos in s1 idk anymore but tk also mentioned to owen in s1x1 (i think) how his AA meeting was good so that means he did go to meetings n got help before jan/feb 2020 so that means tk's 1st sobriety should've been in late 2020 before tim's death! anyways, long story short, tarlos 1st annavirsary would be very close according to this mess. i just dk y they just couldnt make a clear tl. kinda wish i was studying instead of this mess.

so the dates i came up w so far would be smth like this: nov/dec 2020 - strands in austin feb 2020 - tarlos dating march 2020 - pandemic 25 jan 2021 - tim's death jan/feb 2021 - tk's 1st sobriety

would love to hear ur thoughts abt this mess, or if u have any theories abt the tl ❤

I admire the amount of work you put into this Anon, I am truly impressed. I have also tried to make sense of the timeline at various times (I tried once to nail down specific months and years for a fic and felt like I was losing my mind the entire time) with no luck. I have simply moved on to the opinion that time is not real in the Lone Star universe or at least not real in the same way we all experience it.

But, as attempts at a timeline go, I think yours is pretty solid! The closest I've come to actually assigning times to anything was for this fic and what you have listed pretty much lines up with the ones I committed to! I think the only difference I had was that I had TK and Carlos start dating in March, but that's only because I lined it up when the episode aired. I do feel like there should be more time between the one-year sobriety celebration and Tim's death (because the new paramedic team has definitely been together longer than few weeks by the time of the kidnapping in my opinion), but once again I am going to say that time isn't real as far as this show is concerned and go with that.

[marjansmarwani]

hey tl anon here! i agree w u on tk's one year soberity being much later after tim's death, i'd say like around late feb or even march, that is if we only talking abt the time from tim's death. but i tried to make it around early feb only bc then , if its in march, that would mean tk didnt get professional help or go to AA meetings until the pandemic happened n 1x1 did show that was not the case, n i dont think owen nor tk would've taken that long time to keep tk's soberity and tarlos would've already been dating n tk is shot so i excluded that idea even tho it does fit to one tl. in conclusion, i do believe that the show runners wanted to have a good tl that makes sense but w the pandemic n wanting to align the show w it, as well as making it fit w 911, it kinda messed it up n created a whole mess. in my opinion, it would've been better if they made tim's death around nov/dec of 2020 n tk's one yr soberity then in jan/feb 2021, at least it would've given the tl some sense.

anyways, loved to hear ur thoughts ❤

You’re valid, (former) Anon. I definitely see what you’re saying in terms of pandemic and I agree with you, but I also don’t think the season 1 timeline made much sense and they didn’t have a pandemic to blame then. I do think that them trying to get it to line up with OG 911 may have led to some confusion though, that is a very good point!

Overall I admire your determination to make sense of this mess of a timeline and wish you luck! Personally I’m going to stick with my “time isn’t real in their universe” theory, because I’m about one step away from breaking out the conspiracy bulletin board and red string if I try to think about it any harder 🙃