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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 24, 2016 1:17:27 GMT -5
Letter from Connor Anthony Stark to Audrina Beatrice Clearwater Dear Audrey, This letter is essential to you and the other remaining noble people, and might be being chased by our enemies, especially a certain pair of villains that recently burned down the Parker house near the Orion Observatory. I have placed an important object inside a Vessel For Disaccharades and left it in a safe hidden beneath the remains of Dr. Montgomery's house. To get to the safe, you must open a Vernacularly Fastened Door containing the following passwords: the proper name of the Great Unknown, the Spanish word for a number, and the weapon that killed Dewey Denouement.
The meeting in the Hotel Preludio is in 3 days, and we must be able to exchange information by then, that is, if you are not trying to get Harold to fall in love with you during the party. For my part of the research, I will be looking through Olaf Manor alone in search of any important clues to our enemies' current activities. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you let my apprentice Wendelina come along with me to the abandoned house. You know how reckless she is, she could ruin the investigation by just blinking, a word which here means "mucking around with the things that were left in Olaf's house before his disappearance."
I hope that this letter does not fall on the wrong hands, or all our deeds will be in vain.
With all due respect, Connor Stark
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 24, 2016 0:16:56 GMT -5
This is the book where Stephano carries a long, rusty knife and rubs it up and down Violet's leg all during dinner the night before Monty is killed. Definitely up there in terms of "creepy things Olaf has done" And that's saying something. (looks at the list of creepy things Olaf has done) That is apparently number #4
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 23, 2016 1:39:42 GMT -5
Dear Reader,
This story isn't in anyway related to the Baudelaire Orphans, but it is still a depressing tale, especially in regards to the state of V.F.D. at the time. The only thing that can make this even more unbearable is the fact that there are 3 different sides in this terrible series of unfortunate events not related to the Baudelaires.
There are no words to describe how sad this story is without mentioning such terribleness as a meeting disguised as a hotel party, a mysterious figurine, an unpleasant incident involving a train, a girl using disguises to spy on her enemies, and a mechanical monster from beneath the ocean.
If hearing three sides of a story regarding V.F.D. is something you would rather not do, then I recommend you read something else.
With all due respect,
ThatHoboRavioli
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 22, 2016 16:11:12 GMT -5
I want a Pokemon!
I know nothing about Pokemon.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 18, 2016 21:20:16 GMT -5
And on the subject of the Baudelaires' guardian, I hope the Netflix series does a better job of explaining why Bertrand and Beatrice wrote a will that ended up giving the children to Olaf. As members of V.F.D., they should have taken the possibility of someone murdering them more seriously, and even if Olaf "travels around the world with various theater companies" (, surely they could have made a better plan than "give the kids to the closest relative you can find". There are ways to solve this problem - their will could have been forged, for instance. Netflix gets a second chance to put this right - well, a third chance if you consider the movie just glossed over the issue. I did hear that in the original script of the movie, the will left by Beatrice and Bertrand said "DON'T leave Violet, Klaus, and Sunny to Count Olaf. Leave them with either Montgomery Montgomery or Josephine Anwhistle." Or somewhere along those lines.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 18, 2016 20:39:03 GMT -5
Happy birthday, Zortegus
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 17, 2016 22:46:20 GMT -5
It doesn't sound you like have too much to worry about. In addition, I'm not certain that Monty ever does describe the Incredibly Deadly Viper as the only one of its kind, though since it appears to live in a remote forest that's possibly in another country (and may have an even more complicated backstory than that, possibly having been on the island during the Baudelaire parents' time there), then clearly it's not an easy snake to find and that's something you should bear in mind if you want to have several of them show up. Oh. How did I miss that? Apparently it is very rare, not a one of a kind. Surprised everyone has different thoughts on my ideas. Linda and lorelai think it's my thing and I can just do whatever, Darius thinks it could be a bit too much and that nudity is kind of unfitting in the world of V.F.D., and so on.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 15, 2016 1:51:26 GMT -5
I don't think it's a bit too much at all, as long as you keep some elements more minor than the others instead of making all of them huge important parts of the story- that's going to make the story a bit jumbled, I think. EDIT: the only way this would be a "bit much" is if this was one of those absurdly self-serious shipfics instead of something related to VFD. Though, I have to note, I'm not really sure if nudity is particularly suited to the Snicketverse. Swearing and violence, maybe, but nudity... idk, do I sound hypocritical? As far as I know, the Olaf Manor thing is kinda important, the stuff with the leeches is just there to re-introduce some of the locations, the party is kind of a crucial scene, the stuff with the train is one of 5 references to the movie in the story (the others being the spyglasses, the Ocular Device, a variation of the Letter That Never Came in the form of a V.F.D. message put in the Baudelaire mansion, and some small elements from the original script for the movie), Fiona and Fernald kinda play a big part as being new villains up until a certain thing happens, the Great Unknown and the BB are kinda important...and everything else is just minor. As for the nudity, it's mostly either done in a stylized (or even symbolic) manor or just a running gag in which three V.F.D. agents are accused of skinny dipping, two of which actually did. But again, the running gag is a minor one, but the other times it's either a sad moment or a scene showing this one agent's eccentric and weird side are kinda major, but yes, I think maybe nudity is one detail that isn't really fitting in the Snicketverse.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 15, 2016 0:54:32 GMT -5
I myself am thinking of making a Snicket fanfic, but I don't know how it would work in regards to the Baudelaires and the ending of The End (and the hinted fate of Violet, Klaus, Sunny, and Beatrice in The Beatrice Letters).
It basically centers on some characters I made up for original works, but now in the Snicketverse, a word which here means "now agents of V.F.D., noble and treacherous." I don't really know how the story should go, the only details I have are the story begins with two of the characters in Olaf's house, there's an incident involving the Lachrymose Leeches (and swimming), an unpleasant incident involving a train (A recurring gag in this involves being set in the continuity of the books yet having little nods to non-canon material i.e. the movie, the video game, etc.), a party at the Hotel Preludio, a double agent character, more fires, more Incredibly Deadly Vipers (thinking about scrapping that idea because Monty described it as a one of a kind), Puttanesca again, the Great Unknown, the statuette from ATWQ (the Bombinating Beast), Fernald and Fiona re-appearing, an act I can only describe as "a heroic sacrifice", a gag about a common Spanish spelling error via Vernacularly Fastened Door, a character ends up in the Great Unknown, and that's the most I came up with besides the Baudelaires arriving at the end.
I imagine it as being a bit darker than A Series of Unfortunate Events, but I also imagine it being somewhere around 15+ on my rating system for swearing, scary situations, violence, and some suggestive content (mostly LGBT stuff and nudity, but in my opinion they don't really count because Doug Walker's video on the rating system explains it more than I can).
I know some of this stuff sounds a bit too far for a V.F.D. fanfic of all things, but if some of the ideas seem too much, I can tone them down.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 12, 2016 20:45:25 GMT -5
I sacrifice my copy of the Unfortunate Events movie!
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 12, 2016 20:29:42 GMT -5
I have made quite a ton of OCs for original works, but for some reason I keep thinking about what they would be like if they were in the world of Lemony Snicket.
That and the names were chosen randomly, so I guess maybe I could think hard about what their association if they were in the Snicket world would be like.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 9, 2016 19:48:20 GMT -5
I'm probably going to rewatch the movie and then watch the series, and probably compare the three versions. I mean, I'm almost done re-reading The End, and I don't even own The Beatrice Letters or the Unauthorized Autobiography.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 9, 2016 19:39:15 GMT -5
All of those elements at once is a bit much, but if the Great Unknown were a submarine, then it's hard to imagine it could be inspired by anything but the Bombinating Beast. Makes sense. If the BB is such a monstrosity, why would anyone build a submarine inspired by it? But then again, Daniel Handler loves red herrings, so maybe the hints at the GU being a submarine (mentions of a sonar detector, but whales have sonar-like senses) and the constant mentions of the Female Finnish Pirates were possibly bigger red herrings than Red Herring from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. That and for some reason this very fine ditty (a word which here means "song") from a movie I hate sounds like a fitting theme for the Great Unknown: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAYV8X-RX64
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 9, 2016 0:24:42 GMT -5
Here's my extremely ludicrous (and unoriginal) theory:
The submarine theory and the Bombinating Beast theory...mixed into one and have something to do with the Female Finnish Pirates.
I don't remember where exactly in this forum, but someone said they think the Great Unknown is controlled by the Female Finnish Pirates. My guess is that the FFP somehow came across Ellington Feint, who was either taken prisoner or joined them, and she suggested creating a submarine modeled after the Bombinating Beast. That submarine became known to the V.F.D. as the Great Unknown.
Or maybe the GU IS the BB and the pirates were just a throwaway comment in the series.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 5, 2016 21:34:00 GMT -5
well young rav, have you been good to your mother The question should be "has she been good to me"?
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