#The Wide Window

[libbys-braincell-loss]

My friends super awesome spotify playlist relating to A Series of Unfortunate Events

[unfortunatetheorist]

Is Jacquelyn at fault in the Netflix series? (NCT)

Jacquelyn Scieszka is one of the most notable differences between Book- and Netflix-Canon. Her character is often portrayed alongside Larry Your-Waiter, with the pair acting as 'noble', working against Olaf and his accomplices, throughout the series.

However, there is one point I have picked up on to argue that Jacquelyn caused the heinous events of The Wide Window to occur: Jacquelyn chased Olaf onto the SS Prospero, and this was, arguably, one of the greatest mistakes made in this show.

Of course, as viewers, we understand her intentions:

Bring Olaf to justice, as nothing can happen once he's in Peru (even he knows that!)

Bring back Klaus' half of the Baudelaire spyglass

But this act made Olaf jump into the water below, where he would've made it back to shore, to meet with his troupe, before taking a boat out onto Lake Lachrymose, where The Wide Window's events begin.

If Jacquelyn did NOT get onto the SS Prospero, this would've happened:

Olaf sails away to Peru on the SS Prospero, to (in his words) "wait for the manhunt to die down, eat some cuy"

The Baudelaires go to live with their Aunt Josephine

Poe gets his promotion (probably)

Manhunts take YEARS to die down; Osama Bin Laden's - for example - took 10-15 years, before the US Navy tracked him down to a compound in North-West Pakistan.

So, here's the real genius of this part: by the time Olaf returns because the manhunt has died down, the Baudelaires already have access to their fortune!

As the phrase goes,

"It [was] a wicked thing to do, for a noble reason."

Did she have a choice?

¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

[sockswritings]

books i've read in 2023

↳ the wide window, lemony snicket (★★★)

[faggypuppywhore]

[ID: A chunk of text that reads "Why didn't you take us with you? Why did you leave us all alone by ourselves? Why didn't you protect us from Captian Sham?" Klaus asked. The last sentence is highlighted blue. End ID]

I know that feeling all to well

[eraofevermore]

Got these for Christmas

[fakeoldmanfucker]

Me after reading ATWQ and hearing Violet remind Klaus that their mother told them to "Do the scary thing first and get scared afterwards":😲

[quotessentially]

From Lemony Snicket’s The Wide Window

[melancholymaryam]

I'm in love with Larry Your Waiter from A Series of Unfortunate Events. ❤️‍🩹

In 2018, I was 15 and I really loved Larry. Then the third season came and it became my nightmare... It still hurts my heart and he is the only character in the series whose death I cried for. (besides, my father bullied me for crying over his death and I couldn't even grieve with peace of mind 💔) I still love him very much and I can't change the fact that he still warms my heart. I had pure and sweet feelings for him and still. I realize that I'm looking for his presence in this world too, for a moment my brain almost sees Larry in some people.

I would be very happy if you would like to discuss such feelings with me. I need to see people who will understand me. English is not my first language by the way.

[badlydrawndrawnings]

hmm...

I have seen many amazing things in my long and troubled life history. I have seen a series of corridors built entirely out of human skulls. I have seen a volcano erupt and send a wall of lava crawling toward a small village. I have seen a woman I loved picked up by an enormous eagle and flown to its high mountain nest.

The Wide Window, Chapter Eight

“Ah!” Jerome said. “You’re adventurous! I like that in a person. Your mother was adventurous, too. You know, she and I were very good friends a ways back. We hiked up Mount Fraught with some friends–gosh, it must have been twenty years ago. Mount Fraught was known for having dangerous animals on it, but your mother wasn’t afraid. But then, swooping out of the sky–”

The Ersatz Elevator, Chapter Two

“Aye!” the captain said. “I haven’t forgotten you, Sunny! I’d never forget Sunny! Never in a million years! Not that I will live that long! Particularly because I don’t exercise very much! But I don’t like exercising, so it’s worth it! Why, I remember when they wouldn’t let me go mountain climbing because I hadn’t trained properly, and-”

The Grim Grotto, Chapter Two

That means the (possible) chain of events is:

Widdershins not really liking to exercise -> not properly train for a mountain expedition -> Widdershins isn’t allowed to go

VFD scrambles to find a replacement -> Beatrice argues for her non-VFD friend Jerome to join and probably is met with criticism mainly by Jacques -> Beatrice wins her argument successfully

Jerome finds himself with Beatrice, a few friends, and others -> Jerome does something unknowingly (assume) -> Beatrice gets kidnap by an eagle (-> Beatrice Rescue Mission, assuming she didn’t get out by herself)

[nomoreessays]

Writing an essay and was about to spell „its“ the wrong way, when aunt Josephine from A Series Of Unfortunate Events popped up in my head like a whack-a-mole: „its, as in belonging to it!“

[atwqwerty]

i don't know why but “who cares about grammatical errors when aunt josephine has jumped out the window?” is one of the funniest sentences i've ever read

[unfortunatetheorist]

The Complete Works of Contradictory Logic in ASOUE: Volume I (Quote Debunk 10)

Part 6 - The Wide Window S1 E6

N.B. Mr Poe's stupid remark at 05:40 doesn't count - it's stupid, not contradictory.

This one, however, does:

06:15 - "...and now you're jumping to the conclusion that a villainous man who swore he'd stop at nothing until he got ahold of your parents' enormous fortune is involved in some plot to get ahold of your parents' enormous fortune." ¬ Mr Poe

I wonder how many more times Arthur Poe shall grace us with his sheer wisdom...

07:00 - "...disguises and grammatical errors - these are dire accusations, but they're easily investigated."

As if a grammatical error is so fatal! And if disguises were so dire, every actor on Earth would be jailed!

N.B. 47:38 is just a joke, not contradictory.

But then Olaf says:

47:45 - "But then I also had third thoughts, which are how empty my wallet and my heart are. I truly think that the Baudelaires can be an enormous, enormous fortune in my life."

Gotta love Handler.

48:15 -

Poe: "Klaus, we've been through this. There's absolutely nothing at this point that will convince me that this man is actually Count Olaf."

Also Poe, 39 seconds later: "Oh, come now, that won't work. Even a child can see that peg leg was false."; "Oh, come now, that won't work either. You tried to hide the tattoo with the peg leg."; "Oh, oh, come now, that won't work either again. Business cards don't prove anything - anyone can go to a print shop and have cards made up that say anything they like."; "Oh, come now, that won't work for the final time. Josephine left the children to Captain Sham, not Count Olaf. You are Count Olaf and not Captain Sham."

There really are no words for this guy...

~ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

[litsnaps]

[faggypuppywhore]

[ID: The Baudelaires looked at one another in sadness and anger. They understood. They understood that Aunt Josephine was more concerned with grammatical mistakes than with saving the lives of the three children. They understood that she was so wrapped up in her own fears that she had not given a thought to what might have happened to them. They understood that Aunt Josephine had been a terrible guardian, in leaving the children all by themselves in great danger. They understood and they wished more than ever that their parents, who never would have run away and lefr them alone, had not been killed in that terrible fire which had begun all the misfortune in the Baudelaire lives. End ID]

[beatricebidelaire]

asoue & (snow white + the three bears)

But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of “The Three Bears,” for instance, is “Never break into someone else's house.” The moral of “Snow White” is “Never eat apples.” The moral of World War One is “Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”

-- the wide window

The denouement of “Snow White,” for instance, occurs at the moment when Ms. White wakes up from her enchanted sleep, and decides to leave the dwarves behind and marry the handsome prince, and the mysterious old woman who gave her an apple has been exposed as the treacherous queen, but the end of “Snow White” occurs many years later, when a horseback riding accident plunges Ms. White into a fever from which she never recovers. The denouement of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” occurs at the moment when the bears return home to find Goldilocks napping on their private property, and either chase her away from the premises, or eat her, depending on which version you have in your library, but the end of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” occurs when a troop of young scouts neglect to extinguish their campfire and even the efforts of a volunteer fire department cannot save most of the wildlife from certain death.

-- the penultimate peril

[asouearchitecture]

the outskirts of Lake lachrymose