Intro and a Question

[0iamthe-goddess.livejournal.com]

Name: Anestazcia
Age: 19
Location: U.S. of A.
Favorite TV Show: Criminal Minds
Other Shows Watched: Ghost Whisper, Bones, Frindge, House, Gossip Girl, Castle, Say Yes to the Dress, and more.
Favorite Quote: "One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place," ~ Emily Dickinson.
Favorite Color: Silver
If I was a criminal, I'd be...: Matthew Gray Gubler's stalker. Just kidding of course. ;)

'ello!

I would like to say this community is amazing and the people here are really cool. I've been watching [stalking--I have an issue with stalking ;) lol] this community for a long while now and it always makes me happy when I read the discussion posts and see the talents presented here...(i.e. icons...) I always smile when there is a new post. And after finally getting the nerve (I'm horrible self-conscious) I thought I would introduce myself and bring up a question I had about the timeline of the show.

I'm sorry if this question has been asked; I went through the tags and didn't spot it. If I missed it could someone direct me to it please?

I'm writing a fanfiction story and would like to stay as faithful to the show as possible. Is there an established timeline for the show? I've been doing some math and I have come up with vast years, dates, etc...Does anyone have any theories about when the show takes place? Like what years each season takes place? I've spent so much time trying to figure this out and decided I should come here to the experts. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!

And, I'm not a natural English speaker so I apologize in advance.

Comments

[pink-siamese.livejournal.com]

Hi! ::waves::

Because the canon timeline is a black hole disaster of the first order, I usually kind of fudge my way through it. I try to use cases from the show to anchor whatever I'm writing (which usually takes place in the off-time, that is to say all the time we don't see happening on TV), and correlate the cases to seasons.

I guess what I'm saying is that there's a certain plasticity to the canon's timeline, and that this can be a wonderful thing.

[0iamthe-goddess.livejournal.com]

::waves back:: hi!

Thank you for being so positive! I hadn't looked at absence of a timeline in a good way. Using the cases from the show is a smart idea; I don't know why I didn't come up with that myself lol.

Thank you very much! :D

[pink-siamese.livejournal.com]

No problem. :-)