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Post by Seymour Glass on Apr 26, 2010 17:40:59 GMT -5
Here's my timeline. I'd like to see some of your timelines too.
1927: Count Olaf is born.
1936: Jacques Snicket and Jerome Squalor are born.
1937: Kit Snicket and the Denouement triplets are born.
1938: Lemony Snicket and Bertrand Baudelaire are born.
1939: Beatrice Baudelaire is born. Esme Squalor is also born that year.
1941: VFD's schism began.
1949: Lemony and Beatrice meet for the first time.
1950: Fernald Widdershins is born.
1956: Lemony started working for the Daily Punctilio.
1957: Lemony proposed to Beatrice. He gets fired from the Daily Punctilio.
1958: Lemony is thought to be dead. Beatrice marries Bertrand.
1960: Violet Baudelaire is born. Fiona Widdershins is also born that year.
1961: The Quagmire triplets are born.
1962: Klaus Baudelaire is born that year. Carmelita Spats is also born that year.
1965: Violet invents automated rolling pin.
1969: Klaus receives a biography of Ogden Nash on his seventh birthday.
1970: The Baudelaire family goes to a county fair, as their Uncle Elwyn has entered his pig in a contest. They also observe the Biggest Lasagna Contest. At another time, on a rainy afternoon, Klaus measures the width of all the Baudelaire mansion doors. Also, for Klaus' eighth birthday, Violet buys him a book of Finnish poetry.
1973: Sunny Baudelaire is born.
1974: The series of unfortunate events begin.
1975: The series of unfortunate events end. Kit's daughter Beatrice is born.
1976: The Baudelaires get off the island.
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Post by Invisible on Apr 27, 2010 5:18:30 GMT -5
It's a very interesting timeline. Good work! Though in my ficverse Olaf was born in 1891...or was it 1898? Oh, well. It was one of them.
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Post by Emma “Emmz” Squalor on Apr 27, 2010 9:29:03 GMT -5
Agreed! You did an excellent job on this! It's always interesting to see how others' interpret the dates and ages of the characters. Like you, I always saw Klaus and Carmelita being the same age. Though I recently changed it so that they're two years apart, Carmelita being the younger of the two.
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Post by Invisible on Apr 27, 2010 9:51:34 GMT -5
Hey I've just realised that Klaus is the same age as my mum. Awesome.
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Post by Seymour Glass on Apr 27, 2010 11:57:10 GMT -5
Hey I've just realised that Klaus is the same age as my mum. Awesome. He's also the same age as my dad.
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Post by Emma “Emmz” Squalor on Apr 27, 2010 12:29:13 GMT -5
And Fernald is the same age as my mom. I wonder what other characters share the same birth year as people's parents?
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Post by Seymour Glass on Apr 27, 2010 15:49:49 GMT -5
I also made the Quagmire triplets born the same year as Michael J. Fox and Lea Thompson.
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Post by Emma “Emmz” Squalor on Apr 27, 2010 16:13:57 GMT -5
Oh, that's cool! Hopefully Very Funky Disco will be back and read your timeline (she's a big fan of Michael J. Fox and Lea Thompson).
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Post by Seymour Glass on Apr 27, 2010 20:01:25 GMT -5
She already read it in another forum.
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Post by Seymour Glass on Apr 29, 2010 17:20:00 GMT -5
By the way, I don't count The Beatrice Letters as canon.
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Post by Emma “Emmz” Squalor on Apr 29, 2010 17:48:01 GMT -5
I think there are a lot of people who would agree with you on that. I have heard that some fans are questionable about the information provided in LStUA being canon as well, since Daniel Handler wrote it before completing ASoUE.
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Post by Hermes on Apr 29, 2010 18:00:19 GMT -5
Nice timeline!
TUA contains a lot of clues that some of the information it contains is deceptive - it's a collection of documents from different sources, not all of them reliable, and the title is a bit of a giveaway. But why would you think TBL is not canon?
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Post by Emma “Emmz” Squalor on Apr 29, 2010 22:07:40 GMT -5
TUA contains a lot of clues that some of the information it contains is deceptive - it's a collection of documents from different sources, not all of them reliable, and the title is a bit of a giveaway. Thank you for providing us with that helpful tidbit of information, Hermes. Now that you've mentioned it, I do recall reading on one of the threads in The Burdensome Books section that you can't always trust some of what is written in LStUA.
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Post by Seymour Glass on Apr 30, 2010 8:21:11 GMT -5
Nice timeline! TUA contains a lot of clues that some of the information it contains is deceptive - it's a collection of documents from different sources, not all of them reliable, and the title is a bit of a giveaway. But why would you think TBL is not canon? I just don't want Beatrice separated from the orphans. The orphans had enough hell for a lifetime.
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Apr 30, 2010 8:40:35 GMT -5
I don't really see ASoUE happening in the 20th century, but nice work.
I prefer to use a heavily anachronistic version of the 1800's for my ficverse and the way I imagine the canon too, but that's just me. Think Victorian age mixed with the 1940's, 50's, 60's.
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