#Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events icons

[snckt]

violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.

@asouefanworkevent day one of woevember : violet's inventions, alternatively titled,   what's that thing edison said?

[snicketstrange]

Who is the possible survivor of the fire to which the Snicket File refers?

Short theory:

The sentence on page 13 states: "Because of the evidence discussed on page nine, experts now suspect that there may in fact be one survivor of the fire, but the survivor's whereabouts are unknown".

It can't be Quigley Quagmire, as the file explicitly states "one survivor," not "another survivor." Given that Isadora and Duncan Quagmire's survival is public knowledge, we're not discussing the Quagmire mansion fire. The clues point to the Baudelaire mansion fire and the alleged arsonist, Lemony Snicket, who has also been declared dead. This leads us to believe that Lemony, initially presumed dead and guilty, had his death status questioned by experts. Kit and Jacques Snicket, as shown in LSTUA and TCC, are on a mission to clear Lemony's name and confirm his survival, despite their grave doubts.

The Snicket File, aptly named "Snicket Fires" by Hall, underlines their fight against their brother's fiery accusations.

[anidala-for-ever]

Ok, but number 8 is my favourite. It gives me Lemoni Snicket vibes . Anyone else? I can't be the only one who sees this

[fictional-library-tournament]

Prelims round 1, poll 20

Propaganda

Justice Strauss' library, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket:

Library that saved an orphan from an arranged marriage, owned by a kind and well-meaning judge.

Golden City of Tseila, Mysterious Cities of Gold:

The City of Gold (whose proper name is only revealed in season 4) holds a copy of "every text that has been written since the invention of writing". It's difficult to fact-check, but if it's true, then it ought to beat every other library in the world.

Also the City in general is pretty neat and iconic. It can fire sunbeams at flying ships. I say, if the Library of Alexandria could fire sunbeams, maybe it'd still be intact.

Tseila is the first City of Gold of the series. Its library holds a copy of every document since humans could write.

Men of Letters Bunker, Supernatural:

It may not be the most impressive library in this poll, it may not even be considered a library, I'm not really sure. But it is from Supernatural and this is the Supernatural website so it deserves the win anyway. Nepotism

Barnaby B. Busterfield III Memorial Public Library, Between the Lions:

The best library in all of children's media

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NpRmCXTdlE8

[cherlockgomes]

The voices of the Family Guy characters are so iconic and deeply embedded in my brain that I cannot unhear them whenever I watch something in which they're acting.

When I watched A Series of Unfortunate Events, I saw Lemony Snicket on the screen, but I heard Joe Swanson.

And when everyone was shipping Perry the Platapuss's boss's son with Vanessa Doofenshmirtz's, I had a difficult time because all I could hear was Chris Griffin.

[ribbonup]

୨୧╼ ribbonup. mutually exclusive & selective strictly book canon post - series violet baudelaire of lemony snicket's a series of unfortunate events. as haunted by phantom (she/her & 36). previously found @prettydead.

important links. tbd

blog roll. @citizenstarlight ( annie january of the boys ) ୨୧  @timerevolt ( original character ) ୨୧ @walkswastes ( fallout dual blog ) ୨୧ @prettydead ( multi )

credits. psd ୨୧ icon border

mains. @contritioned ୨୧ @t-errifier ୨୧ @sifonie

୨୧╼ rules. 

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[lastsurvivor-a]

get to the know the mun!

ALIAS / NAME: Ramone

BIRTHDAY: March 23 :)

ZODIAC: Pisces-Aries Cusp if that means anything? Idk I'm used to calling myself an Aries.

HEIGHT: 5'3" short gang

HOBBIES: Roleplaying, theatre, singing, watching YouTube, obsessing over characters and making Pinterest boards for them, listening to music.

FAV. COLOR: Purple, blue, pink.

FAV. BOOK: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien or the A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

LAST SONG: Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan. What a banger.

LAST MOVIE / SHOW: Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was the Datalore episode! It was very good, even if I was wanting to beat up half of the characters during it.

RECENT READ: Probably some reply I've done... I don't read enough books :(

INSPIRATION: The Alien series, Star Trek, real-life science, various sci-fi tropes and such.

STORY BEHIND URL: The ICONIC quote that Ripley says at the end of the first movie: "This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off." TBH when I made this blog, I was SO shocked to see the URL wasn't already taken. I'd like to think it's fate LOL. I was on the fence about making her a blog and told myself that if I couldn't find a URL I liked, I wouldn't do it. Well, luck be a lady, I did it, and I am so glad to be here.

Tagged by: @dynamoprotocol <3 Tagging: YOUUUU

[rick-ipedia]

'25 (Re)Read #6: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

"Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky."

This one is small because I don't have much to say about this 25-year-old book that we probably all read in 4th grade. For the prompt "childhood favorite re-read" and as a palate cleanser after the last book, I decided to start a revisit of ASOUE. I can immediately see what was so appealing about this series when I first read it. The iconic narration is unique and assumes its young audience is intelligent, kind, and mature. Despite the unfortunate events, the ultimate focus seems to be the moments of hope. Looking forward to continuing to reread the series.

[ohnocreativity]

It is you or I, but it is not unusual for it to be a they.

How do different narrators change the story and help strengthen the story?

In this essay I will be explaining the different effects of perspective which help or strengthen the story itself.

Some authors change their usual perspective as they want to achieve a different effect. For example, Rick Riordan switched from his usual first person narrative(Percy Jackson & the Olympians) to limited third person narrative in Heroes of Olympus, switching every other chapter to a different character as the group enlarged from the iconic trio to a seven person group.

What are the different perspectives and how do they help the story?

First person perspective comes first, naturally. First person perspective is when a character narrates what happens within their own voice, usually something that they’ve experienced, are experiencing or simply narrating another’s story while also existing in their world (A bright example of this is A Series of Unfortunate Events, that is narrated by Lemony Snicket but the main characters are the Baudelaire children.)

Examples of first person perspective books are, as mentioned above, Percy Jackson and most of Rick Riordan’s books (Trails of Apollo, Magnus Chase,) and Jane Eyre.

Second person perspective is slightly more rare and complicated for new writers to use.

Second person is when the reader is a part of the story itself, incorporating themselves into the storyline. Fanfiction often uses this, as fans are supportive of the fans who do not write. 

Third person perspective is as common as hair and just as cheap. Although there are variations of how this is done. It uses an outer perspective, the narrator is aware of things the characters are not, and often explains to the reader.

However, there are books that use limited third person perspective that only show the knowledge of the character, nothing beyond and only what they know, believe and think. 

For example, Heroes of Olympus utilises the character’s emotions and thoughts by showing us only what the characters know, while Harry Potter uses a narrator to show us, the narrator describes things that the main character may not fully know or notice.

Fourth person perspective is multiple people narrating the same event as one. 

An example for this can be the Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan, the story is told by two characters who have both gone through the events and are both aware of how the story ends, they are retelling the past and can hear each other as they “record” it.

How do different POV(point of view) help with the message of the story?

Returning to the first person perspective, another book utilises and empowers the character by using first person narration, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Katniss Everdeen only knows what she wants or needs to know. She doesn’t know the baker’s name despite seeing him on an almost weekly basis to sell him squirrels and buy his bread. She doesn’t know much about the past Games, because it wouldn’t put food on the table. She knows how to hunt, how to find food, how to provide for her family, because that’s what she needs and wants to know.  It is not rare to find a dystopian book that is written in the first person perspective, it is easier to find the injustice through the lens of the offended.

The second person perspective helps to make the reader feel, whether that’s meant to empower them with the sense of adventure, or to feel the surroundings of a countryside.

Limited person perspective is helpful to get into the minds of the characters, similar to the first person perspective in that way, but it can also shift the focus to another character easily, as shown to us by Rick Riordan in Heroes of Olympus.

An outside narrator, like in Harry Potter, is good to show us the world, not just the story. This is why I believe an outside narrator wouldn’t have worked in the Hunger Games. It wouldn’t have made it as powerful as it was, if we didn’t see how Katniss thinks, what her true reactions are, how she’s affected by her surroundings and the events that take place during the story.

Fourth person perspective, I believe, in the Kane Chronicles, was mostly there for both humour purposes and to show that two people, no matter how closely bonded, can see the same person differently, one can sympathise with someone while the other remains wary of them.

In conclusion, the author’s choice of narrator is as important as choosing a character to show the world the author created, each character sees a different story. Whether the character went through the story, telling the story of a friend or only experienced half of it. The narrator helps the reader get a better understanding of whatever the author intended.

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LEMONY SNICKET DID IT AGAIN

OK SO FIRST THERES MR. POE AND HIS CHILDREN EDGAR AND ALBERT.

THEN THERES A BUNCH OF OTHER REFERENCES WHICH IM NOT GOING TO GET INTO.

THEN THERES HIS REFERENCE TO MOBY DICK. ISHMAEL???? QUEEQUEG????? AN ISLAND???

AAGAHHHDIS YOU SLY BASTARD

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[snicketstrange]

Did I solve the mystery of Dr. Sebald?

One of the first ideas I tried to discuss on Dark Avenue was how to solve Chapter 4 of LSTUA. This was an unresolved question left open by Hermes and Dante, Two of the three A Series of Unfortunate Events theorists I respect the most in the world, (the third being @Snicketsleuth [despite our temporary schism due to chronological issues of asoue on which we didn't reach a consensus]).

The big problem involving chapter 4 involves the chronology of events. Comparing TRR with LSTUA, we come to Lemony's conclusion, while researching the main events described in TRR (everything indicates that the research of Lemony happened a few years after the events actually took place) he received from Dr. Sebald the script for the movie Zombies in the Snow. However, Count Olaf claimed that he killed Gustav by drowning during the main events of TRR.

Furthermore, the Zombies in the Snow script contains a secret message that seems to apply in some way to the Baudelaires' case. However, the secret message indicates that there is a fire survivor inside the snowman and asks the recipient of the message to take the three children to the location where the movie takes place. Also, the secret message alerts the recipient of the message that his new assistant is not one of us.

This generates a lot of confusion in the reader's mind, as Gustav was certainly taken by surprise when he suffered the attempt on his life.

"One day when he was out collecting wildflowers I drowned him in the Swarthy Swamp. Then I forged a note saying he quit." - Count Olaf, TRR, Chpater 13.

The entire process of shooting the movie to send an urgent message to Uncle Monty seems completely impossible to do, especially when you consider that the movie Zombies in the Snow looks like it was filmed when Gustav was a kid (according to a photo in LSTUA) when Lemony was a teenager (according to an observation made in File Under 13) and appears to involve 3 similar-looking children who are unrelated to the Baudelaires. (LSTUA chapter 4).

I can proudly say that I resolved this last issue some time ago in what I think is the best possible and canonical way: Despite what Lemony may think on the matter, Zombies in the Snow's secret message refers some old case unrelated to the Baudelaires. That is, when Uncle Monty and the three Baudelaires watched that movie, this was a rerun. The secret message they might have received did not apply to them. [Some might want to believe that someone decided to play the same film as the subject was relevant again... But this is something that in practice doesn't matter for my main goals, which is to understand the chronology of events in this chapter of LSTUA in relation to the TRR].

Even though I have satisfactorily resolved this last question, the first problem I raised in this text still remained. In Lemony's letter to the cheesemakers, Lemony states that he received the script from a man named Dr. Sebald. He was getting ready to return the script to Dr. Sebald, but he just didn't show up. Lemony begins to realize that the possibility that Dr. Sebald has been captured is high. So he decided to send at least the part of the script containing the Sebald code to the cheesemakers. The letter makes it clear that all this happened after Lemony had already unsuccessfully tried to publish at least one book by ASOUE. The Baudelaires hadn't been at Uncle Monty's house for quite some time, and the cheesemakers were Lemony's penultimate chance to publish ASOUE. That is, Gustav Sebald had already been presumed dead.

Dante suggested two solutions to this apparent contradiction: the first is that Uncle Monty's assistant named Gustav and the film director named Gustav Sebald are different people. Another suggestion from Dante is that although Count Olaf assumed that the attempt to cause Gustav's death was successful, Gustav actually survived. So years later Gustav was still alive so he could give Lemony the script, but he died (for real this time) before he got the script back.

I'm here to say that Dante was wrong on both assumptions, and that the best way to solve this mystery is to remove from our eyes some of the preconceptions we have as readers. Furthermore, we must accept that the simplest explanation is usually the best explanation. Consider again Sally Sebald's letter to Lemony. I must say that everything indicates that this letter (actually the set of letters) was written by Daniel Handler on purpose to reinforce our prejudices, in order to prevent the understanding of a simple truth. First of all, the order of the letters is wrong in the way it is presented in the chapter. (In the introduction to LSTUA there is already confirmation that you can read the work in any order, indicating that the documents are not necessarily in the chronological order in which they were originally produced in that universe.)

Evidence that Sally Sebald's letter was written before Lemony's letter to the cheesemakers is in the fact that Sally comments that Lemony first requested the photographs related to Zombies in the Snow, which were kept in files referring to the film. Sally Sebald stated in the letter that if Lemony had any more requests, he should do so. When Sally received Lemony's first letter requesting the photographs, Sally thought Lemony was dead, indicating that Lemony had not yet published any ASOUE books. In the letter, Saly found it necessary to describe the scene where the Sebald code had been used. Evidently, it was Sally who sent Lemony the script for the film, after Lemony requested it at some later point. So Lemony was about to return the scrip to Sally Sebald. Please note that in Lemony's letter to the cheesemakers, at no point does Lemony refer to Dr Sebald as "Gustav". Lemony calls the film director just Dr Sebald. Sally Sebald states in the letter to Lemony that now the one who takes care of the business left by Gustav Sebald is Sally Sebald. Evidence that Sally Sebald also became a film director is in the fact that Sally Sebald uses the symbol of a cinematographic camera in the letter.

So the person who didn't show up for Lemony's appointment was in fact Dr. Sally Sebald and not Gustav Sebald.

This idea is not completely new to me. However, Dante made a powerful counter-argument that he convinced me for over 2 years. I'll paraphrase Dante: "You're an idiot! Don't you realize that the person called "Dr. Sebald" in Lemony's letter to the cheesemakers is a male? Lemony uses masculine pronouns to refer to "Dr. Sebald" all along the letter!" But the correct answer I should have given Dante at that moment shouldn't have been exactly an "answer" but a "question." I should have asked the right question. But I was prejudiced.

I should have asked Dante, "How do you know Sally Sebald is a woman?"

Yes dear reader, "Sally" is a name that can apply to both boys and girls.

Nothing indicates that Sally Sebald is a woman. However, Daniel Handler knew of our prejudices as readers. Intentionally Daniel Handler provided a handwritten signature in a typical female handwriting. And the prejudice is precisely in the word "typical" of the previous sentence. In fact, you cannot tell a person's gender from their signature, especially if the person's name is commonly applied to both male and female genders. In my case, there is an aggravating factor in my prejudice: The ending of the letter "yours" seemed to me (mistakenly) more appropriate for a female friend to write to a male friend. But that has nothing to do with it! Similarly, Sally Sebald when talking about Gustav uses the word "siblings" instead of "brothers". In my prejudiced mind, "siblings" was more common to refer to children of different genders, however it is obvious that two brothers can refer to each other as "siblings" especially in the context of the letter, since the relationship between the three Snickets (one female and two males) is compared to the relationship between the two Sebalds (two males). However, Daniel Handler's choice of words makes a prejudiced reader like me fall into his trap.

So, putting together in a summarized and simple way the puzzle involving Zombies in the Snow, I propose the following chronology:

1 - When Gustav Sebald was a child, he recorded Zombies in the Snow and entered a secret code involving some relevant case at the time. (A teenage Count Olaf/"Omar" may have participated in the filming.)

2 - Years later, when Gustav Sebald was an adult and became Uncle Monty's assistant.

3 - Just before the children arrived at Uncle Monty's house, Gustav Sebald was surprised and drowned.

4 - Years later, Lemony sends a letter to the man and doctor Sally Sebald, requesting photographs from the movie Zombies in the Snow, as he had become a film director and took care of his late brother's business.

5 - The man and doctor Sally Sebald sent the photographs, and then lent Lemony Snicket the script for the movie Zombies in the Snow.

6 - After reviewing the script and photographs, Lemony deduced that Uncle Monty had never learned the Sebald code. (The word "never" here probably indicates that not even when Uncle Monty was younger had he been able to understand a Sebald code that had been sent to him, back at the time of the shooting of Zombies in the Snow.)

7 - After reaching the conclusion mentioned above, Lemony went to meet the male and doctor Sally Sebald. However, the new film director did not show up at the meeting point. Lemony then sent the script to the cheesemakers.

In other words, by understanding this chronology, we don't need to create yet another character with the same first name as Gustav involved also with Uncle Monty. By understanding this chronology, we need not believe that Gustav Sebald survived the drowning. There are already canonically more than one Sebald. And it was this man, who was misgendered by me and most fans who read LSTUA, is the person who holds the key to solving this mystery.

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It's Complicated, Still Of The Night, Plenty, Defending Your Life, Poscards From The Edge, Death Becomes Her, The Hours and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

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