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Sort of, it’s much more complicated than that. In essence, when you study any one particular portion of the tapestry of the past, those time-breaks tend to expand back to their original size, at least while you’re looking at them. But when you look away, they “re-compress” back down to teh timeline that’s being adhered to.

This is how, for example, during the Clone Saga, the original Spider-Man Gwen Stacy clone stories were repeatedly said to have taken place 5 years earlier, even though they’d actually been published more than 20 years ago, and Pete and MJ had in that time lived through more than 5 winters and 5 X-Mas celebrations and so forth. Because you’re never dealing with the entirety of the tapestry at any given time, you can be modularly selective in how you approach this stuff–because it’s all ultimately fiction, and those older stories thereafter only exist to inform the history of the character.