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To get us in the mood... Meltdown Mood List 1.) "When You Were Young" by The Killers 2.) "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley 3.) "Buttons" by the Pussycat Dolls 4.) "London Bridge" by Fergie 5.) "Crazy Bitch" by Buckcherry 6.) "Hate Me" by Blue October 7.) "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" by Stars 8.) "Too Little, Too Late" by JoJo 9.) "Tim McGraw" by Taylor Swift 10.) "Far Away" by Nickelback 11.) "A Public Affair" by Jessica Simpson 12.) "Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood 13.) "Boston" by Augustana 14.) "Stolen" by Dashboard Confessional 15.)"Totally Fucked" from Spring Awakening

I think I have Courtney Clearault fancast. Child actress Julia Butters.

Courtney is in this extremely weird place where she's too young to really hang out with Will, Jeremy, John, Darius etc etc but she's also too old to be besties with Riley, Maddie, Bobbie, etc. God, middle school age is the worst. (She's close to turning 11, which should translate roughly to her going off to 6th grade this fall.) I think it's smart for Mark to bring Courtney in because he can pull in "bridge" characters through her. By that I mean he can bring in characters that are the same age as Courtney. It will be useful to have that whenever Mark decides that he's finally had enough of the Elder Millennial characters (so Matt, Wade, Will, Jeremy, Travis, etc) but isn't ready yet to have Riley and Maddie be 15 years old. Always nice to see the Boston crew. I wonder what day school Wade insisted on Maddie and Riley attending. (They're turning 6, so they should be getting ready for grade school.)

I saw this, and laughed, because Mark writing so many characters as having green eyes makes fancasting a challenge. I basically just learned to ignore because whenever I do happen to find an actor with green eyes (like Asher Angel or Matt Cornett), Mark doesn't seem all that enthused. LOL

You can take the boy out of the mid-West, but not the mid-West out of the boy...

The Last Days of Disco was much more accessible which is how I got into the Whit Stillman oeuvre. Also, how adorable was Matt Keeslar? Shame he didn't take off. The guy balanced goofy nerd with hunk perfectly.

Yeah, glad you signed off on this one. I've been eyeing a new Wade fancast for years because the OG Wade fancast got really weird and tatted up. Lol

I haven't seen the show, but there's a clip circulating on Gay Twitter because his character is apparently being set up with Scott McCall from Teen Twink. I mean Wolf. I totally thought he gave off a Wade vibe. https://x.com/TBarbiePrint/status/2112575726016676134

I thought this was giving Wade. Long narrow face, chestnut brown hair, blue eyes, pretty yet adorably geeky, and very, very white-looking. (Just ignore the burnt sienna styling which probably wasn't even his idea.) Thoughts? The actor's name is Taylor Bloom. He's a theater kid who just got his big break with the new NBC t.v. series Line of Fire.

Huh, okay. I totally had her figured for a character of a Whit Stillman film. It looks like she's actually Jewish and her roots are in Long Island.

It totally makes sense now why Sarah, while being cool with Will, doesn't seem at all interested in being part of their crowd. (I still think Mark planted Sarah to be Travis and Will's eventual surrogate.)

I kind of thought that it was heavily implied Sarah was part of that group and had that kind of pedigree. She kind of seems to welcome Will and Marie and enjoy talking to them, but she also seems to maintain her distance as well. I would have assumed that the Schluters would have made their money during the post-Civil War industrial boom era of the late 19th century. Since you said that Claremont is based on Zanesville, Ohio, which is close to Columbus, we can assume they either made their money in carriage manufacturing, railroad transportation, steel, or a brewery. So you know, good ol' solid Midwestern stock vs. people who made their money an extra 200 years earlier. LOL

Ooh, you just summoned this YouTube skit I thought was funny. It's a dry satirical spoof on old money people. You know though, it's making me think. You really don't have Will or Jeremy interacting much with the East Coast Old Money crowd, do you? It makes me wonder if they're dismissed as trashy new money despite their ties to the Danfields, which probably isn't going to matter much in Boston or New York. Is it kind of an intentional thing where you don't think Old Money people would realistically want to interact with either Will or Jeremy or do you just find Old Money people boring, Mark? LOL

I thought it would be funny if Kendo gets sent to New Zealand and becomes a star on the soap Shortland Street. I figured you would know. Would you say your upbringing was more like Knots Landing, or Falcon Crest?

As an aside, I was watching this old 80's soap opera called Knots Landing on Tubi. I thought to myself, "Private Tim would probably know how much that neighborhood would cost now if it was real." Like seriously it must be astronomical. The actual house exteriors were filmed in a San Fernando suburb called Granada Hills and they used television magic to make it look like a coastal enclave. I figured if those houses were located on the coast as depicted on the opening, you'd be looking at some major coinage.

It's pinned in the fan club discussion board. I don't think I updated the character cheat sheet that you wrote up, didn't you?

You're welcome. Pretty sure you never specified Wade's nephew being born, right? I think it was just somewhere around spring/summer 2003 if Mary Ellen was announcing her pregnancy and shotgun wedding at Thanksgiving 2002. I wonder if they already had the spare yet? I feel like Wade would have brought it up if Mary Ellen had a second kid, though. Hell, I could see Wade gleefully announcing that to Jeremy just to annoy him. Lol

Speaking of, I did edits to the timeline. I included Frederick Granger's unspecified 2003 birth, Jackson's December 2005 death, and now Jackson Fletcher's birth.

The update! CAP TIMELINE 1903: Tonto is born. April 1925: Jim Crampton is born. May 27, 1925: Steven Schluter is born. 1936: Billy Schluter is born. June 20, 1936: J.P. Crampton is born, the result of an affair between Marie Crampton and Bill Hendrickson. December 17,1944: Steven Schluter dies in World War II. July 14, 1945: Stefan Schluter, the son of Steven Schluter, is born. November 12, 1945: Jeff Hayes is born. 1962-1963 School Year: J.P. Crampton begins teaching at Northwestern University. October 4, 1962: Brad Schluter is born. He is the adoptive son of Billy Schluter, and the biological son of Kevin Carmicheal. December 1962: Andre, JP's partner, is killed in action in Vietnam. March 6, 1963: Ace is born to Isidore, having been fathered by J.P.'s lover Andre. March 1963: Robbie Hayes is born, the youngest of three children. He is the son of Frank and Brenda Hayes. April 10, 1963: Billy Schulter dies at sea on USS Thresher October 27, 1964: Clare and Billy Crampton are born. Clare is JP's biological daughter, and Billy is Jeff Hayes's biological son. 1968: J.P. Crampton begins teaching at Stanford. July 13, 1968: Jeff Hayes dies of an heroin overdose. March 8, 1969: Marcel is born. He is the biological son of Jeff Hayes, but is raised in France. April 24, 1980: Matt Carrswold is born. He is the biological son of Robbie Hayes, but is adopted by the Carrswolds and grows up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. May 15, 1980: Wade Danfield is born. He becomes Matt Carrswold's boyfriend after meeting him on the hockey team at Stanford during the 1998-1999 school year. October 19, 1980: Billy dies in a car accident on the night of a party at Escorial. January 19, 1982: Darius Schluter is born. He is the son of Bitty Schluter and a random Iranian man, but is raised by Brad, Robbie, and Jeanine. He has one biological half-brother, JJ, and one adopted brother, Will Schluter. July 25, 1982: Gathan Hayes is born. He was raised in Claremont, Ohio by his uncle and aunt, Wally and Clara Hayes. February 1983: Kristin Hendrickson is born. August 26, 1983: Ella Hayes, daughter of Richard Crampton, is born. May 30, 1985: Zach Hayes is born. 1985: J.P.'s lover Roger, and one-time lover Sam, both die of AIDS that year. December 7, 1985: Jeremy Schluter, aka J.J., is born. He is the biological son of Jim Crampton and Bitty Schluter, and has been raised in Malibu, CA with Brad, Robbie, and Jeanine. February 19, 1986: Marie Crampton, aka Maman, dies of natural causes. April 18, 1986: Marie Hobart, daughter of Jack and Clare Hobart, is born. April 20, 1986: Travis Buck is born. September 14, 1986: Will Schluter, son of Brad and Jeanine, is born. July 21, 1987: John Hobart, son of Jack and Clare Hobart, is born. Between 1991 to 1995: Tonto Schluter dies an old woman, warm in her bed surrounded by grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A death we should all hope to have. March 28, 1995: Greg, Stefan's long-time companion, dies of a heart attack. September 4, 1995: Ace's daughter, Courtney, is born. August 7, 1998: Robbie Hayes reunites with his long-lost son, Matt Carrswold. September 13, 2000: Madison Graves is born. September 14, 2000: Riley van den Boss Danfield is born. March 24, 2003: Bobby Carrswold is born. Sometime in 2003: Frederick Granger, son of Alex and Mary Ellen Granger, is born. December 2005: Jackson Hobart dies. June 17, 2006: Jackson Hobart Fletcher is born.

Double check and he's right. The order on the page is Jackson Fletcher Hobart.

Ah, okay. Nice touch. I like that he's not carrying the name. Kind of like Matt Carrswold not being bound by Hayes baggage because he didn't get the name.

Poor Jackson Fletcher. His 8th grade graduation will be on Zoom. Lol (My niece was also born in 2006.) Anyway, looks like I need to add to the CAP timeline.

Chapter 49 -When Travis powers through the worse of his withdrawal symptoms. "Knocking on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan -When Will gets into bed with Travis- this time to just comfort him after the worst of his withdrawal. "Wild Horses" by the Rolling Stones

It's wild to think that used to be mockable. Meanwhile I had my first frappe when I was 11 years old in 1997.

Hmm. That explains why you don't see the Millennial characters inhaling ice coffee beverages like they normally would be.