#The Bad Beginning

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The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

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BIG ART PRINT SALE

I've updated my bigcartel shop with some special art print designs! These are some of the available prints you can find! I've also decided to release special editions of some of my designs, so you will find that "Succumb to the darkness", "Bella Baxter" and "The Marvelous Marriage" are decorated with an ornamental drawn frame and printed on a special white laid paper (honestly my favourite paper) that adds a little texture.

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[unfortunatetheorist]

An Effective Easter Egg: An (Aqueous) Martini in The Bad Beginning: Part One

I've been watching this show since COVID - and only now, today, do I notice that there's a martini, whether it's aqueous or not, on Justice Strauss' table, as she wistfully reads 'Adoption Law & You'. You learn something new every single day. Just thought I'd put this out there, for interested parties (like me).

Love this show.

~ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

[briabooknerd]

[melodysbookhaven]

“….you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”

Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)

[beatricebidelaire]

continue to enjoy how L calls famous people in history his associates

[sadb1tchoclock]

Does anyone remember the scene at the ending of the bad beginning part two where Olaf announces that the play was a fluke and was a cover up to marry violet and steal the Baudelaire fortune, and the camera pans to Jacquelyn Gustav who extend their spyglasses and beat them against the palms of their hands.

If so I have a headcanon.

What if, hear me out here, the vfd when they don't have and other "ways of persuasion" they pull out their spyglasses and beat the everliving shit out of people/Firestarters. If so that's funny as hell.

[paperpoetryandpetrichor]

Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

[baudelairevioletfan]

Violet Baudelaire | The Bad Beginning [Part 1]

[outragedtortilla]

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

By Lemony Snicket in The Bad Beginning

[zithergiltscorner]

"I'm sure you, in your life, have occationally wished to be raised by different people than the ones who are raising you, but knew in your heart that the chances were very slim."

Lemony Snicket, marry me.

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

The bad beginning: All different book covers (not including the ones with the same cover art but just the title being in another font)

Which one is your favorite?

[unfortunatereview]

Gradient

You may look at my banner and just think it's a gradient but actually it's the book I'm reading, "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket. I didn't look at the author's name before-hand but that's nice, the banner is the book "The Bad Beginning", and I got the image from Wikipedia. The image kept getting taken down, so I had to compress the image to the point of what ever is up there, so that explains my banner, a copywrited image.

I sure hope I don't get banned.

[unfortunatetheorist]

What were the earliest the Baudelaires could've died, once ASOUE began?

Part 3: Sunny Baudelaire

Last but not least, the baby Baudelaire - Sunny.

Honestly, I think the earliest Sunny could've died was...

...living in Count Olaf's house. The Bad Beginning.

The unsanitary conditions are in no way safe for infant inhalation:

"The bricks were stained with soot and grime. [...] Rising above the windows was a tall and dirty tower that tilted slightly to the left. The front door needed to be repainted..."

That says it all.

Plus, Olaf might've put 'repaint front door' on the list of chores for the orphans to do.

Death by toxicity,

~ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph

[readingcircletemple]

I think I finally understand why the phrase "in her own hand" doesn't bother me as much as my co-hosts. "Hand" can refer to many things, including penmanship, or a signature, and I think it is this definition to which the law applies. Therefore, if Violet signs with her non-dominant hand, she is not signing with the penmanship/signature that is "hers," as it were. I'm sure we can still dicker over the meaning, but the thought crossed my mind while editing the episode, and said thought did not make it into the episode because I couldn't articulate it the time. I hope my co-hosts exucse my putting it here. Do I sound like I'm out of a Snicket novel yet? ;) --Marjorie Ariel