The Revived 667er - Edition FIFTEEN NOT SIXTEEN YOU IDIOT
Apr 25, 2016 14:20:54 GMT -5
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Apr 25, 2016 14:20:54 GMT -5
Original idea by Akbar Le Grey
Editor - Mister M
Co-Editor - Anka Anwhistle M
Designer - Lemona Snicket
Historian - Linda Rhaldeen
Gawky Guy - Charlie Snicket
Editor - Mister M
Co-Editor - Anka Anwhistle M
Designer - Lemona Snicket
Historian - Linda Rhaldeen
Gawky Guy - Charlie Snicket
Thanks This Issue to : Anka Anwhistle M, Bee, Comet,
Akbar Le Grey, Linda Rhaldeen, Charlie Snicket, Lemona Snicket, Sophie
Akbar Le Grey, Linda Rhaldeen, Charlie Snicket, Lemona Snicket, Sophie
Well this is odd. This has never happened before. Its a few hours away from publication, i;m about to start work editing the issue and - everything is here. Well, nearly evyerhting anyway, there are a few exceptions. Tryina was going to do some art, but i forgot about it and didnt tell her the deadline or whatever.
But this issue is fun. And I can say this with 100% accuracy now, because i've read it all There is a really awesome history of 667, a fun thign by sophie, power rankings (but this time by bee), and also a big catch up on netflix news. Oh, thats next!
It is often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but staying in the spirit of our beloved series, beauty is not exactly what we're looking for, and so we turn to looking into a quite different eye indeed. This month in Netflix News, 667'ers have been keeping tabs on the people involved with production, and with great results. The igniting spark was a photo posted by show director Barry Sonnenfeld displaying two director's chairs – one with his own name on it, and one simply saying 'sweetie', reserved for his wife. The chairs are decorated in a simple, but stylish vignette fashion, but the main event of the picture is indeed in the eye – not that of the beholder, but in the eye insignia found on the chairs above the names. A simple little symbol, this still tells the fans a lot we've been wanting to know: First of all, we now know that this particular version of the VFD eye, namely one with the hidden letters included and the rightmost line of the V forming the back of the F (as opposed to having the letters completely separate), will be used at least somewhere in the series. As the amount of visual information is still sparse, we don't know whether other versions will be used alongside this one, but as this version has appeared in several places since then, it seems only reasonable to assume that this will be the most prominent design, also being used as the series logo. A few members have thoroughly returned the eye's piercing stare, and found that while a picture of some description is definitely contained inside the eye, we still don't have a good enough picture of the insignia to tell what it is.
A few other photos have since then surfaced of Barry Sonnenfeld and his workplace, and presumably the director suspected little how thoroughly scrutinised the backgrounds would be. The subjects of discussion so far have ranged from the calendar covered in coloured post-it production notes, through what might be a picture of Malina Weismann in-costume lying on the desk*, to the director's worrying tendency to own a kiwi fruit-patterned box of tissues; all of which are undoubtedly hints at things we'll later learn about the show.
At about the same time as the beginning of the Sonnenfeld Instagram Spree, Neil Patrick Harris posted a photograph of his hand, lamenting that he was unable to cut his nail because personal grooming is not something his character holds with. While this is a small thing, it does affirm my belief in the series creators' attention to detail, and the fact that the nails aren't extremely long or completely dirt-black or nicotine-yellow shows that they're not going overboard on costumes as one might be tempted to when adapting something where the story itself is as extreme as in ASOUE.
In the same spirit of second-hand reveals through the actors' social media accounts, Louis Hynes has been spotted frequenting the beaches of Vancouver, while actor twins Jaqueline and Joyce Robbins are said to have been cast as the two white-faced women in Count Olaf's troupe.
That last piece of news did in fact come from a somewhat unexpected source – a Brazilian fanpage on Facebook, of all things, which has begun posting new information on the series. Lending the site a bit of credibility, the information on the casting of the Robbins twins can be traced back to a tweet by Australian acrobat Willy Wagtail** – once again, new information surfacing from an unexpected source. This same site has also provided us with a photograph of a young baby and her stand-in doll, allegedly playing the role of Sunny Baudelaire and a video in which we get to hear the lovely singing voice of Daniel Handler himself.
Other, more recent items of information include the involvement of actor Usman Ally, who has a chair similar to the Sonnenbergs', and is having a cast made of his face, composer Nick Urata, and actor Matty Cardarople as the large henchperson of indeterminate gender. It has been speculated on the forum that Ally might be playing the role of the long-nosed bald henchman, and together with the announcement of Cardarople and the Robbins twins, it pretty much appears that playing a henchman is all the rage right now.
Finally, something else has happened which I personally deem very interesting: Patrick Warburton, who is set to play Lemony Snicket, has given an interview, and although it doesn't focus on his role as the elusive chronicler, the interview does spend a few questions discussing it. We learn that his character "...narrates the show, and the audience will actually see him on screen. Snicket is anywhere and everywhere, though he doesn’t interact with the other characters. He’s simply the storyteller.” Warburton also offhandedly reveals that Bo Welch is designing the sets for the show. Personally, I dare to hope that this interview is the opening of the floodgates for all of the people involved to share their experiences working on the project.
All in all, I'd like to observe that we're at an interesting stage in production – one where the stream of information is not so much controlled by the production company or Netflix's marketing team, but where we find our own news in the hints given to us on social media by the people behind the show. In next month's issue, I suspect we'll have a few more concrete releases, but also a large number of sources like these, as the show production really gets going. For those who want to keep track of the show between the releases of the 667er, but don't have the time to check for news in the threads every day, 667 member ryantrimble457 is currently compiling a very thorough timeline of the news in his new master thread for the TV show. A big thanks to all of the 667 members who have helped gather all of this information!
*The picture is lying on the desk, that is, not Miss Weismann.
**And if that's not phonetically appropriate in relation to a Snicket production, I don't know what is.
Inept education admin
No naming of names, just venting. I've had some rotten experiences over the last few years and could probably make an anthology, the contents list of which I will regale you with *is self-centred in my choice of format for this rant*. Note that most of these are about different institutions.
The One Where I Got Told Two Utterly Contradictory And Very Important Things By The Same Person In The Space Of A Couple Weeks: being my first loss of faith.
The One Where The Course Timetable Changed and Admin Didn't Tell The Students: a tale of annoyed people turning up to non-existent classes. It does have a heartwarming end where the students find solace in standing around outside the locked classroom complaining and commiserating together.
The One Where The Coordinator Guy Was Under The Impression I'd Already Been Interviewed For The Course When I Hadn't And Fobbed Me Off When Corrected: an adventure in indignation.
The One Where Admin Wouldn't Accept That Their Online Information Was Super Unclear And Kept Referring Me Back to it Every Time I Contacted Them Asking For Clarification: in which it becomes clear that off-fobbing is becoming a common thread in these stories.
Afterword
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So I forget some of the things which were/were not written about last month, since somebody else wrote my usual bit. You’re probably reading this about 10 minutes since it was written, I’ve been procrastinating so much. Without further ado though;
• Filming begun this month for the netflix tv series, see the netflix article for more information and keep up-to-date with ongoing news here.
• This gem of a thread was created. Dante not amused. I would also really like to understand Teleram’s fixation with Mr Poe someday.
• Handler gave an interview with the guardian.
• Hermes has now transitioned to making birthday threads for non-667ers
• The nominations for the darkies started: place your bets here
• Matthewmemories has returned for another cycle of strange, repetitive posting. He reminds me a lot of The Anonymous Narrator from back in the day.
• Tryina won member of the month for March- congratulations!
• Lemona transcribed a really interesting interview: read it here. I am definitely backing her for best volunteer now.
• Snicket is taking questions from 667; there is still plenty of time to submit a question here.
• Finally, the VFD door competition is still ongoing- there should be another puzzle up soon, and many people have been coming very close to the solutions, so keep trying and hopefully we’ll have some more newcomers setting puzzles and solving them soon.
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# 4 - Hitler Pre-Birthday Thread
Um, here is the Hitler thread.
asoue.proboards.com/thread/13093/
(Except not Pandora but Bee instead)
So, we're going to have something a little different this month in the sense that:
a) I am not Pandora (though i hope everything is okay, and you come back soon)
and
b) I am basically just going to rank my favourite 667ers of all time (ie. Since like October 2011)
So in no particular order and with no explanation:
1. Sherry Ann
2. Nicole
3. Willis
4. Tragedy
5. Charlie
6. Sophie
7. Pen
8. Dante
9. Hermes
10.Peppermince
Honourable mentions (and mainly because it didn't fit into a neat 10-person list): MisterM, Anka Sixteen, Kensicle, Emma, Zortegus, Tryina, BSam, Linda, Koblos (lol) okay thats it.
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This is maybe boring, because it is about something that is going on right now, but in other times of the year most people wouldn't even notice that it exists.
Darkies: The Darkies are some awards which are normally given in April-May every year in this forum. They have been invented and first organised by Willis, later organised by Emma Squalor, and since 2013 by me, Anka. There are 13 categories including Best Volunteer (an award for the person most devoted to the works of Lemony Snicket), Funniest Member, Best Writing and Best New Member. Since 2014 there are 12 fixed categories which are the same every year, and one special category for each year. All members of this forum can nominate and vote for the Darkies, and also be nominated, at least in the categories which don't have any specific rules. In the end, normally on a weekend, the results are presented in an award show thread, and the winners get banners.
History of 667
A column by Linda Rhaldeen
Welcome back to History of 667. Today's topic of interest: All Due Respect.
Reading Zortegus' article last month made me realize that although there are some older members who remember it, many of the newer members have never heard of the most tumultuous time in 667's history: the reign of All Due Respect.
It all started in late September and early October 2006. This was shortly before the much-anticipated conclusion of the ASOUE series, The End, was to be released and we were all very excited. Tragedy, our admin who has gone through periods of both hands-on and hands-off admining, had returned from hiatus and had cryptically created a new board named 60023101 , with password protection and a quote from literature displayed in the signature. Every day or two the quote would change. Now hindsight is 20/20 and especially today, with the latest incarnation of VFDoor currently active, it is obvious what was going on, but at the time no one knew why this mysterious board had appeared or what its purpose was. Someone did eventually figure out that the numbers referred to a date, the date of the release of The End. The day drew nearer and nearer and people waited impatiently to see what would happen on this date, watching the quotes change and trying to figure out how they all related to each other (turns out, they didn't; like today's VFDoor they were clues to a password that changed every time). Finally, two days before, the quote was just a string of letters. Several of the more musically inclined people, including me, recognized it as the tune to row, row, row your boat, and simultaneously the tune of the song The Little Snicket Lad posted in the Unauthorized Autobiography. Someone finally realized that this was a password to the board, and sure enough, the password worked! That someone was a member who had joined years before, left again, and then returned right before the book release date, someone who only had a few posts to her name. Her name was Bella, and her username was All Due Respect.
When she gained access to the 60023101 board, there was a message telling her she had won. The prize: becoming the new admin. Tragedy was getting old (he was almost 18 at the time ) and felt the time had come to retire. And what better way to pick his successor than through a mysterious game that no one knew the rules to? He agreed to answer a few more questions, and then took his farewells, leaving the 13-year-old ADR in charge of his forum.
The older members of the forum were not impressed. A few people, BSam among them, were willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, but others began to complain loudly. ADR responded, well, like any 13-year-old given too much power would; by giving strikes vindictively, overusing the eye-rolling emoticon (which sadly no longer exists on proboards), and using I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I logic. She began firing moderators nilly-willy, some of which admittedly had lapsed into inactivity, and making changes to the layout of the board (The Harry Potter, LOTR, and Disturbing Discussion boards being demoted to sub-boards was one change she made that was never undone, they were originally on the main page of the forum).
The 667er has never made a claim of impartiality, but we have at least tried to be balanced, at least most of the time. During this time though, it became openly critical of the forum's leadership, and our editor Akbar even made a "resistance" forum and invited most of the staff to it, where plots were hatched to try to get ADR to leave, or at least stop being so capricious. Not much came of that except for a lot of graphics with revolutionary-sounding quotes that ended up getting posted by new accounts like Patrick Henry.
At the time the Global Moderators, or G-mods, were swans and several of Tragedy's cousins, none of which had logged on in months, and so they were purged of their ranks and two new G-mods appointed. I was one of them, Jemima the other. We were both involved in the "resistance" effort, something I don't think ADR realized or she probably would not have appointed us. The two of us, together with our friend PJ, hatched a plan. ADR's account had administrative powers, but because Tragedy had failed to make her the primary admin the G-mod accounts were able to change her account password. We discovered this in mid-November, and created a new proboards forum to test it out and confirm it worked. The only problem was she would receive an email with a new password once this happened, so the plan was to do it late at night, log into her account, gain access to the main admin account (which she claimed she had access to the password for), remove her as admin, and quickly log out again. It was not technically a hack, though that's what it came to be known as. We decided that I would be the one to do it, and would take sole blame for it if we were caught. And so, one Saturday night, I did it. As it turns out, she did not actually have the admin password that she claimed to have, so I was logged in to her account and unable to complete the plan. I ended up sending Tragedy a PM pretending to be her and asking for the password, thinking it was a long shot but not sure what else to do. ADR panicked when she discovered what had happened the next morning, and had Tragedy access the security log, and that was that, I was caught.
I was banned, but public sentiment was on my side and there were petitions to bring me back. I still had access to the moderator board, though did not post there for fear of losing access, and watched with amusement as they nearly voted me member of the month despite my being banned. I think I only ended up getting banned for about a week, though I lost my G-mod position and haven't had any power since.
Finally, on December 30, 2006, Gigi made a bold move. She compiled a list of things ADR had done that had technically broken the rules, giving her strikes and a warning, basically staging a coup. ADR was upset and threatened to ban Gigi, and that seemed to be what finally brought Tragedy to his senses. returned, taking his rightful place as admin. Gigi had only given ADR two strikes, but Tragedy gave her a third and banned her. ADR never returned, that we know of, though who knows if she later registered under a different alias?
Interested in seeing a specific topic covered? Send me a PM and I will do my best to cover it in a future issue.
this poem is born
on a day of much sunlight
when i sat on a couch
not wanting to do homework
seriously
it has been MONTHS since i read great expectations
how can i remember a diddly darn piece of nothin about pip's life
but hey
it's almost summer
or at least that's what i tell myself
so here's to all the lazy students out there
like me
who have to deal with stuff like this
why don't we all just go throw potato salad in protest
i'm sure allen ginsberg would approve
BYE
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~ Don't forget to come to the next penthouse, which is May 15th ~
~ If you want to be interviewed by Linda then PM her and let her know. There will still be group interview, with the next taking place in Edition 17 ~
~ The Next Edition of the 667er will be released on May 23rd. See you then! ~
And there is one more thing this month, actually, something im sure you've been dying to hear about.
Over the next month, I will be running two seperate polls - One to vote for the best regular 667er article (Best 667er Article), and another to vote for the best semi-regular or one off article (Best Special 667er Article). These polls will be open to voting by everyone when the voting also takes place for the darkies, and the results will also become available at the same time.
But there will also be another thing. I'd like people, both 667er contributors and readers, to PM me saying what they think about the 667er, what they have liked about the last years issues, and also what they have disliked. I'd like to know what people want to see more or less of, and then I will try to make it happen. So go on, send me your views.
See you in a month!