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Post by 453 on Jun 13, 2023 21:39:17 GMT -5
I went to the libary and sweated like a schwein in the German lit section. (Hot walk.) a few weeks ago I noticed like half of the 18th-19th chermans were disappeared, so I asked the front desk about it and they said they were weeding things out. but there was soooo much gone that I started listing things to get out of storage for me and I got the wee libarians all frazzled. but now it looks like everything is back, including some shizz i never seen before??? I feel so powerful I'm really impressed, is there any way you can come to my library and get them to stop getting rid of all their books??
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Post by 453 on May 31, 2023 13:22:15 GMT -5
I am so bummed to see that Semblance is gone. Going to the trouble of deleting every one of his posts speaks to a significant level of self-hatred, in my opinion. I wish he could have understood how valuable his contributions were to us. This is just really sad.
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Post by 453 on Jan 6, 2023 12:44:45 GMT -5
Beyond that, none of these characters (Beatrice, Bertrand, Lemony, or Jerome) would contemplate a plan like this. I don't think they'd even want to kill Olaf, more like capture him. I cannot see why the Baudelaire parents would want their children to think they were dead, creating the entire series in the first place. Well, Beatrice and Bertrand are heavily implied in the canon to be murderers, so I don't know why you'd feel that they wouldn't contemplate killing Count Olaf. And if it had gone to plan, the children would never think they were dead - the parents would escape through Jerome's apartment and proceed to reunite with their kids. ^_~
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Post by 453 on Jan 6, 2023 7:19:51 GMT -5
Do we really have any reason to believe Snicket is innocent of the arson of the Baudelaire home?
Say Snicket and the Baudelaire parents decided to murder Olaf. (We have evidence that Mr & Mrs Baudelaire murdered his parents, so why not Olaf as well?) Mr and Mrs Baudelaire agreed to sacrifice their home and all of their possessions (even their library?) under the assumption that Olaf would perish in the fire. They only had to make sure their children were away from home at the time. They planned to escape via the secret passage, and arranged this with Jerome Squalor. Unfortunately, Jerome's girlfriend/wife was evil and ruined the whole thing. She warned Olaf to have an escape plan, while also barring the Baudelaires' exit. Perhaps Snicket escaped with Olaf, or maybe he wasn't even involved.
Maybe?
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Post by 453 on Apr 22, 2022 7:38:15 GMT -5
When you smile, how many different meanings could that have? If your answer is a finite number, there's your problem. Or, if working on your smile seems like too much work, you could try shaping your eyebrows into question marks.
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Post by 453 on Apr 14, 2022 2:23:53 GMT -5
My major priority is having someone know my passwords and such, that way you all won't worry that I ghosted you. You could always throw yourself an elaborate funeral, like Dante.
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Post by 453 on Jan 7, 2022 2:09:44 GMT -5
I am a lurker, and I think I am older than all the members (RIP Hermes ;_;). I am 32. Unfortunately, being the self-proclaimed Thread Elder doesn't actually qualify me to give advice on being 23, since I fumbled through that year (as well as the years leading up to it... And the following years). If I could re-do it, I think I'd prioritize trying to figure out who I am. I think you may be bumping up on this issue too. I wish I had gone to therapy, invested more effort into making friends, and been willing to look at my past through different lenses.
I haven't been to grad school, but I hear it's no joke. I wouldn't think it would be a good idea unless you have a clear path that includes it. Marriage is also kinda a big deal. I remember someone telling me that you are ready for marriage when you cannot imagine progressing in your life without your partner. I don't know if that is good advice, but it seems to have panned out in my case.
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Post by 453 on Nov 15, 2021 1:50:32 GMT -5
I think you're pretty convincing. The narrator of Poison for Breakfast does not seem like he could be Daniel Handler or Lemony Snicket, because his current situation (mainly living alone) is different from Daniel Handler's, and his past is inconsistent with what we knew of Lemony Snicket's. There's also the fact that he referred to writing fiction and writing ATWQ in the same breath. Your explanation addresses all of this, and any alternative explanations I can think of are even less satisfying.
I am more inclined to think that Daniel Handler simply doesn't care about hurting ASoUE's canon.
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Post by 453 on Sept 24, 2019 23:38:42 GMT -5
Klaus inventing a time machine in order to go back in time and murder Julius Caesar? Doesn't that sound a bit far-fetched? After all, Klaus is not an inventor. But, if someone close to him were an inventor, doesn't it seem exceedingly likely that they would have invented a time machine (using whatever materials that happened to be in the room), killed Julius Caesar, and confided this fact to Klaus?
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Post by 453 on Sept 12, 2019 22:58:47 GMT -5
I must say I'm glad Lemony opted, in the end, to publish these events as books rather than engraving them into wheels of cheese, which are liable to be eaten or covered with mould.
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Post by 453 on Apr 30, 2019 21:21:52 GMT -5
Thank you for sharing your thoughts about the Snicket file! I found it very interesting, and must agree that the Snicket file could not have specifically named Quigley as the survivor of the fire. I think Hermes' explanation sounds likely, but still, I always did wonder if there were another survivor. The Baudelaires had guests over when they were killed, didn't they? I remember when I first read the series, so many years ago, I was convinced Jacques must be the survivor because I thought page 13 of the Snicket file somehow confirmed that the survivor was one of the volunteers in the photograph, and therefore Jacques must have been present at the Baudelaire fire. Kind of embarrassing now.
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Post by 453 on Jun 30, 2018 4:50:41 GMT -5
We didn't see it happen, but the way Beatrice's death affected Lemony was pretty sad.
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Post by 453 on Jun 30, 2018 4:39:06 GMT -5
Since this topic has already been revived- Mr Handler seemed to change his mind about several things during the course of writing the series, so when two volumes contradict each other, I think we need to take the most recent volume as canon. It may be that he decided Madame Lulu hadn't been helping Olaf all along - indeed, the netflix series seems to support that.
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Post by 453 on Aug 22, 2017 19:55:41 GMT -5
I'm glad that the diagrams were of use; I'm always fonder myself of a mystery with a map. As far as solving the mysteries goes, don't be too hard on yourself; this is kind of the intention. When I was just getting into impossible crime, I never saw the solutions coming, either, and often I still don't. The best ones are just out-of-the-box enough that they seem obvious in retrospect but are almost impossible to anticipate. Even though I was lousy at solving the mysteries (& yes, they seem much more obvious in retrospect!), the diagrams were extremely helpful. I think for me personally, the visualizations enabled me to understand what was going on and speculate on solutions, instead of just feeling lost and waiting for the characters to figure it out. I appreciate that you went to the extra effort of drawing those diagrams and uploading them to the story ^_ ^ I love that! ^_ ^ Brilliant. Now that you say it, that makes a lot of sense. Tragic as his story is, I love the defeated Snicket who tells us the story of the Baudelaires. I admire greatly that you persisted with this series and brought it to a satisfying completion, despite it becoming a monstrously huge project! Ah, understood! My problem is I never considered the positive effects of laudanum, I thought of it as nothing but a soporific. This line is rather alarming. What horrors have you endured? Is that the wrong question?
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Post by 453 on Aug 17, 2017 6:48:20 GMT -5
I have been reading these three fanfic novels for the past few weeks and I have enjoyed them very much! ^_^ Thank you for writing these and sharing them publicly.
I don’t notice the difference in writing style between these fanfics and the All The Wrong Questions books, which is one thing that was so pleasant about reading this series. It’s really like getting three new ATWQ books for free! In some ways I like these even better, because they give the satisfaction of fully explaining the mysteries by the end ^_^
I like the development of Hangfire’s character in this series, as well as the Inhumane Society and the Canute Company. It gets to be kind of a lot of organizations to keep track of, but I like stories about how villains develop from good intentions. Ellington continuing to be Ellington was also satisfying to read. In ?a I thought maybe you were further developing her relationship with Snicket, but by the end of the series it was clear that she was never interested in that.
I really really liked the diagrams you provided. Those were so helpful in visualizing what was going on in the mysteries! Even with this aid though, I was abysmal at solving the impossibilities :x I either came up with nothing, or came up with partial explanations that turned out to be false. Snicket is really quite good at detective work!
I think the scene in this story that induced the most emotion in me was Moxie’s death. Maybe it’s just because I liked Moxie. I appreciated how unfair her death was, and how that didn’t matter. I was reading that scene in a public area and trying not to cry >_>
I definitely wasn’t expecting more deaths after Moxie. In the end of ?b, Snicket said something like maybe he would have left town if he had realized what would happen to one of the people with him. So when Moxie died, I thought at least the other Associates would be safe. Not so! :o They all dropped like flies and I assumed (like Snicket at the time) that a villain was picking them off one-by-one like in a horror movie. I wasn’t sure how I felt about this story switching from the genre of "mystery" to "horror." But I was wrong, each of those deaths turned out to be unique mysteries that needed to be solved.
Actually because of the line in ?b that I took to imply that only one Associate would die, I wondered whether Pip, Squeak, and Jake were actually dead. I wasn’t sure if Snicket had seen Pip & Squeak’s bodies or if they were covered by the coat, and I knew he hadn’t seen Jake’s, so I started theorizing that they were somehow alive. However when Cleo was definitely confirmed dead, I had to accept that they all probably were. It’s a shame, but it does explain why none of them had any role in the Series of Unfortunate Events!
Hangfire’s ultimate plan to destroy Stain’d-By-The-Sea was extreme and devastating, but his crimes make more sense in the context of his radical plan. He doesn’t just randomly murder people for fun.
I liked the explanations provided for the black wood, the Clusterous Forest, clustergrease, and the purpose of the Bombinating Beast statue. The mining robot and the connection to invisible ink were cool too. All the explanations come together perfectly and I love that :D
I also like how you brought the Associates’ parents into the story, and made them somewhat relatable. It’s sad that none of them had parents who were there for them, but at least now we know why.
I wonder about the blood from Lansbury Van Dyke’s murder in ?a. I don’t have any experience with bloody murders myself, but I wonder whether the smell of blood would be apparent to Snicket when he saw Hangfire impersonating Van Dyke after beheading him. I also wonder about Theodora’s neck strength in being able to climb a cliff with a body tied in her hair! @_@ Also, why did Hangfire have Flammarion administer laudanum to him? I don’t understand the positive effect that had on him.
Thank you again for all the hard work you put into making this story perfect!
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