This is a first attempt at a chronology of canon Bikini Beach stories. There have been many requests to know what's the proper order; hopefully, this will answer some questions. There are few that are out of order; for example, Ellie Dauber's "Swim Date" and "Teaching Sally" overlap in time, even though Teaching Sally was published much later. My "Cousin Trouble" and "Dear Jenny" were published out of order, as well. Note that not all of these stories are on Big Closet; I'll get to them eventually.
Notes: First, the "original pub date" is when it was published on the other site.
Second, the column that says "Key Stories" are those stories which are key to certain events and form the canon framework around which many other stories revolve.
Third, the next column "stories with required sequence" ARE order-dependent, and they should be read in proper order, as there is some interplay among the stories. (I didn't put in the 'dependent' column, though."
Fourth, the "no sequence required" stories could happen at any time in the BB timeline.
Hope this is helpful.
Note - I will get this updated as I continue to add to the list of 'canon' stories and add more to the universe. Also please note that I am reviewing ALL existing Bikini Beach stories to check for being 'canon' or not. The starting assumption is that Ellie's and my works are canon, and as I check other stories, I will add them to the list.
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Original Pub Date | Key Stories | Critical Sequence | No Sequence Required | Author |
11/18/1999 | Bikini Beach | ElrodW | ||
11/18/1999 | Bikini Beach: Initiation Rites | ElrodW | ||
12/11/1999 | Bikini Beach: Understanding A Girlfriend | ElrodW | ||
4/13/2000 | Bikini Beach: Teaching Sally | Ellie Dauber | ||
4/23/2000 | Bikini Beach: Priorities | Bashful | ||
4/23/2000 | Bikini Beach: Just the Two of Us | Bashful | ||
5/15/2000 | Bikini Beach: The Bet | Julie | ||
5/16/2000 | Bikini Beach: A Private Matter | Bashful | ||
5/30/2000 | Bikini Beach: Swim Date | Ellie Dauber | ||
5/7/2000 | Bikini Beach: Gate Crashers | ElrodW | ||
5/11/2000 | Bikini Beach: Old Mister Nelson | ElrodW | ||
5/15/2000 | Bikini Beach: Peeping Tom | ElrodW | ||
5/16/2000 | Bikini Beach: The Doctor | JDG | ||
5/16/2000 | Bikini Beach: Wandering Eyes | ElrodW | ||
5/16/2000 | Bikini Beach: What Goes Around | Bashful | ||
5/17/2000 | The Novitiates: The Street Thugs | JRD | ||
5/17/2000 | Bikini Beach: Skinheads | ElrodW | ||
5/20/2000 | Bikini Beach: The Family Outing | ElrodW | ||
5/22/2000 | Bikini Beach: The Gift Certificate | ElrodW | ||
5/23/2000 | Bikini Beach: A Bad Wish at the Beach | ElrodW | ||
5/24/2000 | Bikini Beach: The Handyman | ElrodW | ||
5/24/2000 | Bikini Beach: Julie's Dilemma | ElrodW | ||
5/24/2000 | Bikini Beach: Sugar and Spice | ElrodW | ||
5/29/2000 | Bikini Beach: The New Neighbor | ElrodW | ||
5/29/2000 | Bikini Beach: The Purse Snatcher | Ellie Dauber | ||
2/21/2001 | Bikini Beach: A Punk's Story | Ellie Dauber | ||
5/30/2000 | Bikini Beach: Ring of Good Luck | ElrodW | ||
5/31/2000 | Bikini Beach: A Promise to My Mother | ElrodW | ||
6/1/2000 | Bikini Beach: A Lack of Trust | ElrodW | ||
6/2/2000 | Bikini Beach: Spring Break | ElrodW | ||
6/18/2000 | Bikini Beach: Surrogate Mother | ElrodW | ||
6/25/2000 | Bikini Beach: Midnight Swim | ElrodW | ||
6/29/2000 | Bikini Beach: Private Party | Ellie Dauber | ||
7/18/2000 | Bikini Beach: Anya and Me | ElrodW | ||
8/13/2000 | Bikini Beach: Addiction | ElrodW | ||
8/23/2000 | Bikini Beach: No Gift So Dear | JDG | ||
8/23/2000 | Bikini Beach: A Quiet Spell | Radioactive Loner | ||
8/24/2000 | Bikini Beach: Choices | JDG | ||
8/24/2000 | Bikini Beach: Reluctant Voyeur | Radioactive Loner | ||
11/11/2000 | Bikini Beach: To Serve and to Protect | Tigger | ||
2/9/2001 | Bikini Beach: Reluctant Temptress | Radioactive Loner | ||
2/9/2001 | Bikini Beach: Saving a Life | Radioactive Loner | ||
3/3/2001 | Bikini Beach: The Activist | ElrodW | ||
3/4/2001 | Bikini Beach: The Nerds - Revenge | ElrodW | ||
3/5/2001 | Bikini Beach: the Nerds Frat House | ElrodW | ||
3/8/2001 | Bikini Beach: Nerds Fund Raiser | ElrodW | ||
3/17/2001 | Bikini Beach: The Nerds - Holiday Queen | ElrodW | ||
3/22/2001 | Bikini Beach : The Senator | ElrodW | ||
4/19/2001 | Bikini Beach: Nerds - Date Rape Avenger | ElrodW | ||
4/28/2001 | Bikini Beach: Mommy's Girl | Ellie Dauber | ||
5/4/2001 | Bikini Beach: Reward Drabble | Ellie Dauber | ||
9/2/2001 | Bikini Beach: Desperate Times | ElrodW | ||
9/23/2001 | Bikini Beach: Vicky's Tale | ElrodW | ||
12/14/2001 | Bikini Beach: A Visit from St. Nick | ElrodW | ||
3/2/2002 | Bikini Beach: Moonlighting | ElrodW | ||
5/12/2002 | Bikini Beach: The Regatta | ElrodW | ||
6/30/2002 | Bikini Beach: Customer Service | ElrodW | ||
12/24/2002 | Bikini Beach: Over the River | ElrodW | ||
12/25/2002 | Bikini Beach: Child Star | Ellie Dauber | ||
1/18/2003 | Bikini Beach: The Brother-in-Law | Ellie Dauber | ||
9/8/2003 | Bikini Beach: Invasion from Space | Ellie Dauber | ||
10/15/2012 | Bikini Beach: Black Widow | ElrodW | ||
1/10/2004 | Bikini Beach: In the Beginning | ElrodW | ||
3/2/2005 | Bikini Beach: The Divorce | Bashful | ||
9/25/2005 | Bikini Beach: One of the Girls | Mary Kay | ||
12/26/2007 | Bikini Beach: Organlegger | Ellie Dauber | ||
10/18/2012 | Bikini Beach: Gardens of the Mind | ElrodW | ||
10/25/2012 | Bikini Beach: The Sub | ElrodW | ||
11/11/2012 | Bikini Beach: Dear Jenny | ElrodW | ||
10/27/2012 | Bikini Beach: Cousin Trouble | ElrodW | ||
12/3/2012 | Bikini Beach: Cheer Squad | ElrodW | ||
12/27/2012 | Bikini Beach: The Coup | ElrodW | ||
3/1/2013 | Bikini Beach: Jenny's Family | ElrodW | ||
3/15/2013 | Bikini Beach: An Affair to Remember | ElrodW | ||
3/23/2013 | Bikini Beach: Hey, Hey, Paula | ElrodW | ||
3/28/2013 | Bikini Beach: The Orphan | ElrodW | ||
4/21/2013 | Bikini Beach: The Runaway | Ib12us | ||
4/6/2013 | Bikini Beach: Paternity | LightofFury | ||
4/18/2013 | Bikini Beach: Boy Toy | LightofFury | ||
4/19/2013 | Bikini Beach: Teen Angel | ElrodW | ||
5/3/2013 | Bikini Beach: Buyout | LightofFury | ||
5/5/2013 | Bikini Beach: News Hound | LightofFury | ||
5/9/2013 | Bikini Beach: Memento | LightofFury | ||
5/16/2013 | Bikini Beach: Graduation Gift | LightofFury | ||
5/17/2013 | Bikini Beach: Pardons and Decisions | ElrodW | ||
5/23/2013 | Bikini Beach: Way Out | LightofFury | ||
5/25/2013 | Bikini Beach: Visitation Rights | ElrodW | ||
5/26/2013 | Bikini Beach: The Shower | Ellie Dauber | ||
5/30/2013 | Bikini Beach: Redemption | LightofFury | ||
6/5/2013 | Bikini Beach: Heroes | ElrodW | ||
6/6/2013 | Bikini Beach: The Accused | LightofFury | ||
6/13/2013 | Bikini Beach: Liz | LightofFury | ||
6/20/2013 | Bikini Beach: The Malcontent | LightofFury | ||
6/27/2013 | Bikini Beach: Lost | LightofFury | ||
7/4/2013 | Bikini Beach: Mr. Mom | Ib12us | ||
7/17/2013 | Bikini Beach: Complications | LightofFury | ||
7/26/2013 | Bikini Beach: Boyfriends | ElrodW | ||
8/28/2013 | Bikini Beach: Above and Beyond | LightofFury | ||
8/14/2013 | Bikini Beach: The Band | ElrodW | ||
Comments
What constitutes a "canon" story?
Neither of the two BB stories I wrote are listed here, but as far as I can tell both fit the guidelines Ellie posted.
BE a lady!
Blog
Wouldn't this constitute a blog and not a story?
BLog or Story
Not sure. I'll get an opinion from Erin and/or Sephie.
Imagination is more important than knowledge
A. Einstein
Timeline
Thank you for this
i think A Punk's Story should be in the middle since it follows the purse snatcher one
missing storys
Some of these in the list aren't on this site
Is there a list of Bikini
Is there a list of Bikini Beach characters and their occupation to go with this story list?
May Your Light Forever Shine
How about adding one of my favorites?
It's a short one but a goodie, written b by Mary Kay and posted on Fictionmania
http://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/readtextstory.html?storyI...
Bashful's "Just the Two of Us"?
I was disturbed to see Bashful's "Just the Two of Us" listed here. Grandmother and Penny (Jack's wife becoming Heather's mother) were unmitigated villains in the story. Penny wasn't above telling a blatant lie: she said that Heather's pass was still for only two days. And the very notion of a single mother raising her daughter being financially better off was a wall-banger -- as was the notion of changing Jack in part for financial reasons.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
The behavior change is
The behavior change is actually addressed later on in that she grew as a person and was genuinely remorseful over the actions that she took against some of the characters. Once Elrod and Ellie added new characters to the cast and evolved the story beyond what it was originally she had to evolve as well so her initial manhating trickster softened to a genuinely caring person who wanted to do what was right even if at times it was wrong.
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
Customer Service is also
Customer Service is also where she shows beyond a reasonable doubt that she has changed and acknowledging that her indictiveness was wrong. Then if you factor in IB12US's stories she's gone further to try to make things right and protect everyone from her past catching up to her as Anya's and Mel's stories showed her doing whatever it took to protect people even if it meant having to kill a loved one.
And that's not counting her remorse that she has continued to express over Vicky's transformation issues which were tied-in with SRU's Wizard and his cruel sense of humor...
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
'Canon' has to be flexible ...
but it is all too common for early stories in a big series to have inconsistencies with the accumulated package.
As suggested by JadeGirl - one option is to begin rewriting so that the early ones fit;
But the whole package grew from the early tales - so ….. is it right to add changes.
I'm not sure of the best method. I think I would rewrite if I could keep the changes to a minimum. But for me, a rewrite often expands in unforeseen directions into an almost-new story (which might or might not be canon) eeeek.
I like Bikini Beach. I prefer a bit of bite as long as it does not get to nasty or abuse. And some elements do go down that path (and are still viable as canon).
Thanks everybody
AP
I can see your point of view.
Even with retcons, I think tweaking a story slightly (in other words, a few minor changes) is best. However, I can definitely see problems potentially arising with rewrites changing a story too much.
"Understanding a Girlfriend" does get dangerously close to crossing a line. (The girlfriend gets her newly feminine boyfriend drunk on wine so he'll have sex with her...which he decides "didn't count" as rape, because he "probably" wanted it, and they'd had sex before. Ugh.) I do appreciate, however, that other writers have made the effort to address the inconsistencies in Grandmother's earlier behavior, and have taken measures to correct, or at least lessen the effects of, Grandmother's previously callous (and even cruel) behavior towards men.