#technically i have three half siblings but i haven't seen them much

[pseudophan]

it bcs u a only child right or is it smthg else

definitely part of it yes

[animal-lover-forever]

Oh.

I'm pretty sure it was implied with my recent activity jump, but the power is back on.

My loving second-oldest brother helped us out once he heard we didn't have the money to keep the power running.

Thank you Alexandre for that.

He literally paid my mom $250 so that we could pay the electric company to bring our power back on.

I love Alex so much.

He's my favorite brother.

And yes, I can say that!

I don't know my youngest (of my brothers and sisters, but not me) brother.

I haven't seen him since I was like 6 because my dad put a restraining order between us until I'm 18. (Which there was literally no reason for it.)

My brother Tylre is a "pretty princess". He's a dick guys.

I can't stay within a 5-mile radius of him for more than an hour before shit starts to get tense.

And if I'm around him for longer than a day, then there's a good chance a fight will break out.

It's funny.

I have 9 siblings and I can sort them.

I don't really know Alexander (step-brother), Austin (half-brother), and Jessica (half-sister), I hate Tylre (half-brother), Breanna (half-sister), and Zackary (step-brother), and I love Alexandre (half-brother), Spencer (step-brother), and Shawna (adopted sister).

(Also, no. Alexandre and Tylre are spelled correctly. My mom just decided that's how she wanted their name to be spelled.)

When it comes to Bree and Tylre, we're fine if it's only a few hours.

So hate is technically a strong word here.

It's more like I dislike them most of the time.

(A vent ended up happening.)

But Zack?

He can go kill his pathetic excuse of a human being and drop to the bottom of the hottest fucking pits of Hell.

This is not something I normally say, but this is how I honestly feel.

But can you blame me?

He literally threatened to kill my dad multiple times and even told Amy, his mom, and my dad's wife, to grab a gun and just kill my dad herself, he called the cops on my dad twice (and got himself arrested both times), started to hate me from day one, I WAS LIKE 5 WHEN I MET HIM!

I DIDN'T EVEN GET A CHANCE TO INTRODUCE MYSELF BEFORE HE JUST DECIDED THAT HE HATED ME!

...

All just because he hated my dad, he automatically stamped a hate sticker on me.

I was talking to myself one day, and he decided to attack me.

I was talking to myself about a shadow I was watching.

And instead of trying to figure out if I was even talking to him, he blew up on me and started yelling and threatening me.

One time, my stepmom's dog had pooped in his room.

He blamed my dog.

It was not my dog, and I knew it for a few reasons.

One, my door had been shut.

WHICH HE LITERALLY HAD TO OPEN MY DOOR TO WAKE ME UP TO YELL AT ME AND BLAME MY DOG!

Two, the poop didn't look like Amicus's. I know my dogs poop.

And three, Amicus has never been in his fucking room!

So Zack literally busted my door open, woke me up, yelled at me that my dog pooped in his room, then forced me to clean it up.

But this story doesn't end here, oh no.

I ended up mumbling under my breath something along the lines of "Why don't you fucking do it your God damn self!"

Did I say mumble?

Oh, well I screamed it at him as he was walking out of my room.

What can I say? I was pissed.

After I said that, he threatened to throw my dog out of the second-story window!

Then Zack had the audacity to go running to his mommy, and not give all the details.

How convenient.

They ended up telling me to apologize, and after refusing to apologize for something that I wasn't even in the wrong for, I was threatened by being told I would be grounded if I didn't apologize.

So I begrudgingly apologize.

And when I did, Zack had the fucking audacity to say "And?" in a tone that you know was just filled with mockery and satisfaction.

The forced apology was a week after the incident, so I had to search for answers after each "And?" to satisfy the fucking demon from Hell.

And he denied the fact that I still pick up the poop!

He says that I didn't!

But I did!

I know for a fact that I did because that's how I discovered that it wasn't even Amicus who had done it in the first place!

SO I GUESS A FUCKING GHOST PICKED UP THE POOP!

It wasn't until after this fact that I finally broke down a told my dad my half of the story.

That Zack woke me up, yelled at me, threatened to throw my dog out the second-story window, the fact that it wasn't even my dog who pooped but my stepmom's dog who did it!

Where was my apology in all this..?

Oh yeah, I didn't get one because Zack will always come before me.

Because I'm not Amy's kid.

...

Amy doesn't care about me.

She may say she does from time to time, but she doesn't.

I can see in the way she treats me.

How if something comes up between me and one of her kids, her kid is automatically in the right and I'm in the wrong.

It doesn't matter if she hasn't even heard the full story yet.

It doesn't matter if the facts say otherwise.

I am and always will be in the wrong, downcasted, an outsider, a stranger... someone who she can't let into her heart because I'm different and not her child by blood.

So yeah, I hate Zack and Amy.

And I feel like with the shit I've gone through with them, that I have the right to hate them.

...

I never did anything wrong... not truly.

Any "wrong" I had done was while I was overstimulated and in the middle of a fucking meltdown.

...

They never even gave me a chance.

All I wanted was to be accepted.

But they never gave me a chance...

I'm so sorry guys.

I never meant for this to turn into a vent.

But I guess my hands slipped... oops.

You know what's sad about this?

Is I actually started to cry while typing this out... I still am crying.

God.

I'm so fucking pathetic.

Anyway.

To all of you who actually read all of this bullshit, thanks for hearing me.

I know I mess up sometimes, and I know that sometimes those mess-ups are really big.

But I want to let you guys know that I love you (/p).

Thanks for staying with me despite my fuck ups, no matter how big or small.

Thank you guys for being my friend.

Thank you for sharing your own experiences to show me that I'm not alone in the world. (Which I already knew. But it's nice to have reminders.)

Thank you.

...

God I sound so pathetic.

Just listen to the shit I'm saying.

Ok guys.

When I woke up at around 10 am this morning, the power was turned off by the electric company.

I was hoping that it would be back by now, but it's now 5 pm and it's still off.

Hopefully, it will be back on sometime tomorrow, but I have no way of charging my phone, so that sucks... like a lot.

So if I disappear completely, it's because my phone died and I can't charge it.

Anyway.

I hope you guys are doing well. :>

[fencesandfrogs]

Hello I recently found out you have been watching a series of unfortunate events and I just. I have so much to say omg!! For now I will settle with, how are you liking the show and who/what are your favorite things about it rn?

eeeee yessss okay

i'd already seen s1 and part of s2 w my family, but i decided to rewatch from the beginning, bc, well.

yeah.

a series of unfortunate events were books i read as a child, like. y'know the way i read the bad begnning and then i'd just grab whichever were free and settle in for an hour or so of reading. like. just. picturing their covers reminds me of being in fifth grade and sitting in a chair to read. reading was so escapism for me that i hold all childhood book series close to my chest. (fun fact!: i broke up w someone over them once.) (/j it was complicated but they did technically play a part.)

(aside: i loved anything like that, and just...god i read the bad beginning so many times. i was obsessed w tragedy and so a book series where i didn't have to sit thru to find the bad bits? the punch of knowing that there was always another hit? no happy ending would stick? good shit.)

i'm on s3 rn? i watched the first half of the grim grotto, but the second episode ended up being too much, so a friend found a summary for me, but i haven't been in the Mood for it since then. i might pick it up tonight or tomorrow, we'll See.

i'm really liking the show! i think they managed to capture the tone of the books really, really well. like. damn. that's the way to do it.

y'know how the princess bride movie is completely different from the book? because the book is sarcastic and snippy and they couldn't make it fit a movie so they just cut it?

(aside ii: no shade on the princess bride movie. i love the book and the movie. but you have to understand they're two entirely disparate stories.)

but a tv show has time to do freezes and author speaking to you like that and the narration so a series of unfortunate events gets to breathe and it gets to be told the only way it could be told.

urgh it makes me want to scream into a pillow i'm so happy about how it got told. it just. it feels as much like reading the books did as it could, and that makes me so happy.

so yeah those r overall thoughts.

characterwise...

uhm this isn't characterwise i just want to pause and say i think they're doing a good job w the deaths. that's really hard to pull off in a children's show, but they're doing it. it's very impressive and netflix is really doing well w this series.

okay back to character thoughts.

i've liked most characters tbh. i think everyone is done really well.

count olaf doesn't fit with him in my head from the books, but not in a bad way. like the him-in-my-head was not going to work on tv i'm okay w that change. it's not even a change? it's just a subtle distinction.

i find the baudelaires are...hm.

i don't think of them in the same way i used to, and i know why. part of it is growing up, part of it is, well...

i'm not in the mood to bare my soul in a way you probably didn't expect from a short little ask, so i won't. i'll just say reflection on that part is a little bittersweet.

now you'll have to forgive me because i have a memory problem so names are not my strongsuit, nor is spelling, but i really like the snicket siblings! they're fans. and the um. the woman who made the new madame lulu. i liked her quite a lot.

the quagmire triplets r also favourites. i have a feeling that something i'm having thoughts about atm (wrt violet and what's-his-name's conversation about fires) is going to be resolved later, so i won't say what i think now, lest i invite people to comment/spoil things. but i'm a fan of the three of them. i dunno.

sibling relationships hit me in all sorts of ways.

something that hit me unexpectedly hard was violet's moment when klaus was hypnotized. her "i'm supposed to protect him" just.

violet my beloved.

aaaand i am of course having thoughts about sunny but wrt ep 2 of the grim grotto they went from normal thoughts i'd tell anyone to suddenly and intensely personal so i can't share them BUT know they are there and they are many.

ty for asking!! i love getting asks on main <3333

<3

[pricechecktranslations]

It's been confirmed Adam and Eve are siblings, and I was wondering what you meant by their relationship having thematic and symbolic reasons if it was incestual. On another note, how many more chapters are there in the new OSS novel? Does it include the Levianta Catastrophe event? I've also never heard of Catherine before and I haven't seen any info about her in the wiki, or I might've missed it. I'm also curious about how Meta acts in the "Eve" part. I've been assuming that she speaks formally.

There are three chapters, an epilogue, and the afterword/glossary to still go over (the last two chapters are pretty short though). The last Project Ma and the catastrophe are going to be covered in the second novel, Punishment.

This is coming from the glossary, but Catherine DOES technically show up previous to this, sort of. But it was as an unnamed backstory character. One could also speculate that she might be behind some of the ocean related nonsense in Evillious (like the whole wish in a bottle legend), given that she is part of the ocean after losing her whale body.

Meta doesn't have any particularly noteworthy speaking patterns that I could pick out (not formal, no--I would say more "women's casual"). She does use rude words, though (like calling the scientists eggheads).

As for Adam and Eve, that I'm going to put under a cut (I wrote a lot--I don't mean it to sound like I'm writing a massive defense for the development, more just that it requires a bit of explanation. I have also been rolling it around in my head since Clockwork Lullaby pretty much hinted things were going to be the case here).

Primarily, given that they are twins (I'm not sure why they aren't irregulars but we also don't know how Maria got pregnant so I'll just brush that aside as them not actually being irregulars), they sort of pervert the twin relationships that are prominent in the series. In particular I compare them to Allen and Riliane (mothy himself compares Adam to Allen by quoting his "I'll even become evil" line). Allen and Riliane were also separated at a young age, and at least one of them has no memory of the other being their sibling. Allen is willing to go to extreme lengths, even to the point of causing people he loves suffering--but he does this for Riliane rather than himself. Each decisive action he takes is a selfless one, even if they are not good deeds. And their relationship while alive culminates in him giving his life so that Riliane can become a better person. Riliane then proceeds to become the kind of person who will reciprocate Allen's actions, going out on her own to find him rather than just waiting as she had been. Ultimately, it is their relationship with each other (and I feel I have to emphasize that it is purely familial in nature) that redeems the world, showing them that both of them are able to do good while still maintaining their bond.

Adam and Eve as twins have a similar degree of separation, but their relationship is poisoned at the root. Not only is it twisted by the perversion of what should be familial love into romantic, but Adam is entirely selfish in his behavior--he seeks not to help his sister, but to help himself. Every action he takes is to fill the void he feels, and as a result Eve becomes a WORSE person, not a better one. Even after that, their life together is phrased as atonement rather than a happy ending. This extends into their relationship after death too--they are constantly separated from each other, but also desperately seeking each other out. And their desire to be reunited, unlike Allen and Riliane's, is to the detriment of everyone else around them. I mean--we see how each of them are after death, albeit less so with Adam. Not good people.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel--their story arc ends with them being reborn as proper twins after all, rather than strangers who find each other. But it is in this form that they enact the Court Ending, a world that does not move forward, does not pass go, and does not collect $200.

There's also the fact that the relationship is meant to be seen as toxic and destructive to both of them. Adam's machinations destroyed Eve (even if Venom wasn't involved he still took her when she was at her most vulnerable and manipulated her into loving him, being dependent on him, and then filling her head with dreams of being queen and having a happy family, despite the massive risk to herself that being Ma entailed). Eve's destruction destroyed Adam. I think there are a lot of people who wanted to see their love as redemptive--but they are the "purgatory" ending twins for a reason. I think their relationship is best as a trainwreck that you want not to happen but can't stop. It's a story of mistakes that you regret but keep making over and over again (Adam even says in Eve's vision that they can't fix the world, they can only repeat it).

And then, of course, there's plenty of mythological cases of incest. Adam and Eve in Genesis, for example, where Eve is literally made from Adam's rib. Plenty of Egyptian myths also feature incest (though none specific spring to mind at the moment). And of course, their half of the book is framed like a tragedy, a genre to which incest is no stranger. Being unable to fight fate, making poor decisions out of hubris, dramatic irony all over the place (even outside of them falling in love despite being siblings, there's also Adam guilt-stricken over using Venom when it had no effect on Eve at all). Their story is, at least symbolically, the origin of all evil in EC. It is the very relationship itself that's the problem, not just what Adam did (well--technically the "original sin" is, specifically, Eve stealing Hansel and Gretel, but still).

Ah, perhaps my thoughts on the matter will change as I read the rest of the novel, but this whole rambling wall of text is basically just my way of dealing with it. I was really hoping mothy was going to go in a different direction but the way that I tend to process Evillious requires me to come up with some way for it to be meaningful, even if I can't know his exact motives for the reveal. Maybe he just wants people to stop shipping KaiMiku.