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Music for writers

Aka plugging my playlists since I feel they work well for writers block.

Want a sweet ole romance? After a vintage setting, maybe have an old school character from the 1950’s-1980’s, heres some smooth vintage music to get you into writing. Grandmas underpants

Creating a badass character, dramatic fight scene, battle to the death?! Say no more For when shit’s about to go down has you covered.

Want a cheesy character, fun loving and bouncy. Heres a bunch of songs that are impossible to be sad to, bop along to Pretending your life isn’t falling appart

Does your story include an edgy mf? Or are you ready to fall into the void of your teenage past… That phase

Trashy character no.1 or simply you have broken down now and given up, cheer up with this !1!1!!! Memeingful

And now, you have your characters, plot and setting, get ready to write. Heres some chill music for the background so you can stay focused. Boppy background music ps: it makes you feel like an artsy productive youtuber.

Ethan’s awesome flip just like always!! (Yes I recorded this) @crankgameplays

someone: *mentions star wars*

me: 

this is the best and most chaotic scene of the entire series and nobody can convince me otherwise

imagine fumbling a tv show with these two

RDR2 Timeline

To help with writing my fics, especially the pre-game ones, I made this timeline for myself using dialogue/notes from the game, the official game guide by Piggyback, and the wiki (which is generally very good at linking back to its sources). And I figure other people might find it useful as well! For simplicity’s sake, when birth dates are ~approximate~, I just assume that it’s the correct year for latter age calculations. So:

~1844 – Hosea born

~1846 – Strauss born

<1849 – Uncle born

1855 – Dutch born

~1860 – Micah born

1863 – Arthur born. It’s implied that Dutch’s father died in the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3). Strauss arrives in America.

1866 – Bill born.

1870 – Dutch leaves home.

1873 – John born

~1875 – Dutch (20) and Hosea (31) meet (Dutch’s alliance with Colm possibly pre-dates this)

1877 – Dutch and Hosea run the Kettering con. Arthur (14) meets Dutch (22) and Hosea (33). Susan presumably joins them not long after. Abigail is born. Micah (17) is on the run with his father for a brutal double homicide. 

~1878 Hosea and Bessie try to leave the outlaw life (possibly the year before as Arthur was ‘too young to remember’?)

~1880 – Lenny born

1881 – John’s father dies, John is sent to an orphanage. Dutch’s mother, Greta Van der Linde, dies (but Dutch doesn’t know this until years later.)

1884 – John kills someone for the first time.

1885 – John (12) is rescued by Dutch (30), Hosea (41) and Arthur (22).

1886 – Sadie and Jake get married.

1887 – First bank robbery. John is 14, Arthur is 24, Hosea is 43, Dutch is 32.

1892 – Bill is dishonourably discharged from the army.

1893 – Bill tries to rob Dutch, joins the gang

1894 – Abigail (17) joins the gang, gets pregnant.

1895 – Jack is born. Javier joins the gang. Lenny’s father is killed ~this year. Karen helps Arthur and Javier rob a bank between this year and 1897.

1896 – Jack is 1, John leaves.

1897 – John returns.

1898 – The gang are in Montana, Copper eats all the salmon. Copper passes away. Jenny joins the gang. Micah saves Dutch’s life in a bar, joins the gang. Charles joins the gang. Lenny joins the gang late in the year.

1899 – Main game. Opening cutscene takes place in May. Arthur (36), John (26), Dutch (44), Hosea (55), Abigail (22), Jack (4), Lenny (19), Karen (mid-twenties) (can’t think of any other mentioned character ages??)

1907 – Epilogue. John (34), Abigail (30), Jack (12). Arthur would have been 44.

If anyone’s got any other stated events, let me know and I’ll add em in!