Post by 453 on Aug 22, 2017 19:55:41 GMT -5
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 ^_^
when in fact it's actually a reflection of a deeper truth in both ASoUE and ATWQ: Bad luck is canon.
I love that! ^_^ Brilliant.
I also was searching for something that could traumatise Snicket enough for him to become so much weaker a man by the time of ASoUE.
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.
It was some time afterwards that I realised I would probably have to provide an original conclusion, and I did my best to wrap up everything I could.
I admire greatly that you persisted with this series and brought it to a satisfying completion, despite it becoming a monstrously huge project!
I believe I indicated this, perhaps a little too subtly, but Hangfire was more or less on his last legs throughout this series. He was deeply ill and couldn't manage without laudanum most of the time; the rest, he would have been in considerable pain. (Though it was also part of a specific red herring in ?b, in the hope of making readers wonder if the individual on the submarine was really Hangfire at all.)
Ah, understood! My problem is I never considered the positive effects of laudanum, I thought of it as nothing but a soporific.
For various reasons, I've seen quite a bit of my own blood as well, and I don't remember it having too overwhelming a scent.
This line is rather alarming. What horrors have you endured? Is that the wrong question?