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drowninginredink · 2 months
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I was rereading The Penultimate Peril, and I got to the section where it explains how Bertrand taught the Baudelaires the prank of pushing every button in the elevator before you step out so the next person is stuck going to every floor. You know who he pulled that prank on?
"A tiresome woman named Eleanora"
Bertrand Baudelaire annoying Eleanora Poe is canon
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unfortunatetheorist · 5 months
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Quote Debunk 10 - A Series of Unfortunate Debunks:
The Complete Works of Contradictory Logic in ASOUE: Volume I
Part 1 - The Bad Beginning: S1 E1
For Debunk 10, I'm going big: I shall list each and every statement that can confuse or distract viewers the first time around, but on closer inspection, actually make no sense.
12:42 - BAUDELAIRE MANSION DESTROYED (headline)
"But I thought it would cheer them up, the Gloomy Guses!" ¬ Eleanora Poe.
14:17 - "Our home is your home" (Arthur Poe); "But don't touch anything" (Eleanora Poe)
15:39 - "I remember how I was when I was your age" (Mr Poe); "We're all different ages" (Baudelaires)
15:49 - "And he's employed as an actor, so you know his excitement is genuine." ¬ Arthur Poe
26:43 - "I told them to cry using their inside voices" ¬ Olaf
27:51 - "I open my home to them and all they do is complain; the bathroom is filthy, the rat is noisy, the bed is cramped!"
Why are you opening a disgusting, rat-infested home to 3 orphans, Olaf?!
From the same scene, this piece:
"The plural of 'bed' is 'bed'." ¬ Olaf
29:02 - *Puts finger in mouth*; "The lamb was too salty"
30:43 - "Your secret tower room?"; "WRONG! My secret tower room."
33:28 - Pasta Puttanesca; "I wonder what that means in Italian" ¬ K.B.
NO, YOU DO NOT KLAUS! NO, YOU DO NOT!
34:00 - Something I picked up when reviewing the episode for this post: the trolley reads "THIS TROLLEY DOES NOT TURN ON RED LIGHTS"... why? A bit nonsensical if you ask me, but maybe Handler had his reasons...
35:58 - "N! For the knowledge, 'cause I'm very, very smart!" ¬ O.
So smart, you can't spell knowledge. Amazing.
37:25 - "...Like 2 pieces of a bread in the middle of a sandwich." ¬O.
Followed by Sunny's obvious correction.
As of 40:10 - From Olaf's monologue: "...for the purpose of plotting theater..."
Yeah. He told us from the start and we missed it.
40:41 - "There is no 'I' in acting..."
Except for the one right in the middle, of course.
40:58 - "There is only what the French call a certain... 'escargot'. "
What have snails got to do with acting?!
A noteworthy point: Only the villains give this counter-acting logic; maybe my hypothesis will still stand by TE...
¬ Th3r3534ch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist
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magiquartz · 1 year
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a few weeks ago I read an IMMACULATE post with someone’s intricate plans for an office-esque Daily Punctilio sitcom episode-by-episode and I can’t find it anymore… does anyone have it handy because I’m truly obsessed
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curiouscreationss · 1 month
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ASOUE characters: How popular are they on Ao3?✨📚😎😮🫢
No.of fics with each character in them
Baudelaires:
Beatrice: 417
Bertrand: 257
🔧Violet: 977 🏆
📚Klaus: 822
🍳 Sunny: 662
👶 Beatrice II: 192
Quagmires:
Mrs Quagmire: 34
Mr Quagmire: 28
🖋️Isadora: 369 🏆
🗞️ Duncan: 367
🗺️ Quigley: 332 (Surprising tbh, I thought he’d win out of the triplets at least)
Widdershins:
⚓️Captain Widdershins: 40
🍄 Fiona: 114
🪝 Fernald: 166 🏆
Olaf+his troupe:
🎭 Count Olaf: 722 🏆
🍸 Esmé Squalor: 379
Woman with hair but no beard: 30
Man with beard but no hair: 25
👓 Georgina Orwell: 143
Henchperson of indeterminate gender: 84
Bald man: 57
White-faced women: 56 (just mildly less popular than the bald man yet there’s TWO of them- that’s gotta blow 😔-)
🎪[The Freaks] 🎪
Kevin: 14 🏅
Hugo: 13
Collette: 12
Denouements:
Frank: 76
Ernest: 92
🦄: 102 🏆
Snickets: (Take this with a grain of salt bc they have a whole other series -ATWQ- going for them)
Jaques: 347
Kit: 410
Lemony: 536 🏆
Guardians+the likes:
🏦 Mr Poe: 104
🗞️ Eleanora Poe: 14
📰 Polly Poe: 1
🐑 Edgar Poe: 10
💰 Albert Poe: 6 (Why is Edgar more popular??)
🐍Uncle Monty: 114
🐍 Ink/The Incredibly Deadly Viper: 8
🪟 Aunt Josephine: 72
Ike Anwhistle: 26
[🚬 Sir: 30
Charles: 54
👓 Georgina Orwell: 143 🏅
😃 Phil: 10 ]
[🎻Vice Principal Nero: 37 (That’s less than the bald man who has maybe 3 lines total, take that!)
Mrs Bass: 4 (Damn.)
Ms. Tench: 2 (Double damn)
Mr Remora: 3
📚 Olivia Caliban: 237 🏅]
🍸 Jerome Squalor: 104
(✨Esmé Squalor: 379 but I put her in the Olaf’s troupe section. This is just for quick comparison to Jerome. Poor guy. Ish. I don’t actually feel that bad for him tbh.)
🦅 The Council of Elders: 4
🎈 Hector: 48
Hal: 8
Babs: 9
Phil: 10
[🍎 Ishmael: 17
🐟 Miranda Caliban: 8
🕶️ Friday Caliban: 26 🏅
🚢 Thursday: 5 ]
Miscellaneous VFD members:
😎 Jacquelyn Scieszka: 172 🏆
🎥 Gustav Sebald: 78
🐟 Larry Your-Waiter: 85
👑 Duchess R of Winnipeg: 61 or 64 (3 are under ‘Duchess R’
Uncategorised:
Ben: 4
🚲 The Paperboy: 3
💃 Carmelita Spats: 149
Top 3:
1~ Violet Baudelaire! 🔧💜 (977 fics on Ao3 are tagged ‘Violet Baudelaire’! 🎉)
2~Klaus Baudelaire!!📚💙(822 fics!)
3~ Count Olaf! 👁️ 😈 (722 fics!)
Loser:
Polly Poe (with a disappointing 1 fic!😱)
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Judging by this newspaper article that appears on screen for a fraction of a second, Eleanora Poe suspected the Baudelaires of murder as far back as the Miserable Mill
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asouefanworkevent · 2 years
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woevember is coming!
what is it?
woevember is an asoue fanwork event week, that will take place from november 13th through november 19th, 2022. each day of that week is dedicated to a different group of characters from a series of unfortunate events and all the wrong questions.
what do i do?
the character groups will be revealed now, so everyone has time to make something. between now and the week of november 13th, you’ll create fanworks about the characters, and then post it on the corresponding day during november 13th - 19th!
don’t forget to tag this tumblr (asouefanworkevent) in the post so i can find it and reblog it, and tag the post with #woevember !
what do you mean by fanwork?
everything! fanfic and fanart are of course allowed, but also edits, gifs, analysis posts, even just headcanons!! super short fics!! your sketchiest drawings!! i want people to be encouraged to and be able to create even something small that didn’t exist before for the snicketverse, and share it with other people!
are there any rules?
to keep the event open and comfortable for everyone, no explicit content. also, this should go without saying, but in case it doesn’t, sibling romance and age gaps are not allowed and will not be tolerated.
do i have to make something for every day?
only if you want to! feel free to just make something for one day if you want :) the point of having a different character group for each day is so everyone’s favorite character (or a character you like or find interesting) will hopefully come up at some point, so everyone’s covered, and you can at least make something for one of the days.
what are the prompts?
i tried to get a good mix of characters we already love a lot, and characters who you might not have thought about before!
november 13th – sugar bowl gen siblings
the best siblings. the worst siblings. they’re going through a lot, at all times. "the schism has turned many brothers into enemies."
character options include: snickets, denouements, anwhistles, calibans, sebalds
november 14th – firestarters
what makes a “firestarter”? (besides needing to find seven broad categories in which to fit many, many characters.)
character options include: olaf, esme, the bald man, fernald, the henchperson, the white-faced women, the man with a beard but no hair, the woman with hair but no beard (also related characters, like ernest, georgina, olivia)
november 15th – the city
there is so much in The City! and so much with a deep vfd history, that every aspect of the city must’ve crossed paths with vfd or the baudelaire’s story at some point, in some way.
character options include: jerome, eleanora, geraldine, esme squalor’s fanclub, honestly anyone you would like to stick in a specifically City location
location options include: the punctilio, the banking district, the herpetological society, the hemlock tearoom and stationery shop, the taxi, the opera, the fountain of victorious finance, 667 dark avenue, veblen hall, orion observatory
november 16th – unseen characters
there’s plenty of characters we hear about in the series, but never actually really see. give us your takes on them!
character options include: lemony's editor, the snicket parents, olaf's parents, haruki, the baudelaire's uncle elwyn, madame dilustro, gina sue, whoever beatrice and bertrand invited to their dinner parties besides mr. poe, moxie's mother, ellington's mother, violet's friend ben, lemony's friend playing the sonata on the pipe organ in the cathedral of the alleged virgin
november 17th – stain’d-by-the-sea
what becomes of stain’d-by-the-sea and all the people still living there, after lemony leaves? what happens to wade academy? what happens to ellington?
character options include: moxie, pip, squeak, jake, cleo, kellar, ornette, lizzie, ellington, prosper lost, stew, the mitchums, the talkie brothers, any character from 13SI (theodora can also be included here)
november 18th – the unfortunate generation
what are they up to, post-canon? or what were they up to, pre-canon?
character options include: violet, klaus, sunny, duncan, isadora, quigley, fiona, carmelita, friday, the second beatrice
november 19th – free space!
is there a character you want to make something for that didn’t necessarily fit in these categories? (and my deepest apologies for who didn’t. the duchess? miranda? ishmael? the islanders? widdershins? hector? the village of fowl devotees? jacquelyn? larry? phil? beatrice and bertrand, technically????) is there a character you wanted to do but you didn’t like the group they were in? (you’d rather talk about esme outside of her relation to the firestarters?) do you want to do something centered on a ship? (lemony/beatrice/bertrand? dewey/bertrand? kit/beatrice? violet/isadora? jacques/jerome? olivia/jacques? beatrice/bertrand? monty/gustav? sally/r?) put it here!
can i do ships for other days?
you absolutely can! i’m just giving options in the free space.
can i include other characters that aren’t a part of the group set for each day?
yes, as long as the major focus of the work is still on the designated group! for example, for sugar bowl gen siblings, you could definitely make something about, say, beatrice interacting with the snicket siblings, as long as the focus of the work is still on the snicket siblings. or, for stain’d-by-the-sea, you could definitely write about those characters interacting with vfd characters, or the unfortunate gen, or even mr. poe, as long as the focus of the work is still on the stain’d-by-the-sea characters.
if you have any questions about anything, feel free to drop me an ask or a message!
happy creating and i hope to see lots of you november 13th - 19th!!
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ghetsis · 3 days
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Share with dash something you're currently into, and tell us about it! It can be a movie, a song, a book, a project you're working on, anything that comes to your mind!
I held off on this because at the time I didn't have much going on aside from Airplane which everyone already knew about lol. Now I've fallen in to Lemony Snicket hell and I'm reading through the books to see how they differ from the Netflix show. I'm only on book three, but thus far, Olaf is less comical and more menacing in the books. There are also things in the Netflix series that just don't even seem mentioned like Eleanora Poe and The Daily Punctilio. It's not one of those "the books are better" situations, but they are definitely different. Either way, this series is really interesting commentary about how kids in abusive situations are often just dismissed when they try and speak up and how institutions meant to protect them so often fail.
In other news, I also got a rock tumbler so I could polish some of the cool rocks I find out here lol.
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The cluster at the top is banded agate, below it on the right is jasper, two pieces of petrified wood at the bottom and fusulinid fossils on the left. I don't know what the round rock is made of, but sometimes I find these spherical concretions so I threw one in just to see what happened lol. It pretty much just got smaller and smoother, but not very shiny lol.
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afterthegreatunknown · 3 months
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Widdershins Gets Inadvertently Insulted, and Semi-Reveals his Feelings
Welcome to the fourth ‘chapter’ of my Seven Six Widdershins Family Members AU. Inspired by the Six Baudelaire AU by unfortunate-stranger-losers, in this AU, the Book!Widdershins Family and Netflix!Widdershins Family are now combined together to make a family of six. This 'chapter'...it's a lot.
Off-screen: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny after telling Mr. Poe they’re not going with him, hitchhiked their way to Paltryville, due to the mystery of a now-gone group photo and newspaper headline. They soon get illegally adopted by Sir to work at Lucky Smells Lumbermill. Olaf as such spends two weeks trying to find the Baudelaires, for Mr. Poe lost tabs on them. During the second week, Mr. Poe hears rumors about the children being at a melon mill, and he and his sister Eleanora go investigate it.
Of course, the Melon Mill no longer stands. But Olaf has an idea where the Baudelaires could be at, and gets confirmation after asking Madame Lulu at Caligari Carnival. Fernald isn’t happy to drive Olaf to the middle of nowhere that is the Hinterlands. He’s even less happy to be at Caligari Carnival, for reasons...
Because I'm still unable to make 'align center’, as well as proper breaks in HTML in the new editor, when you see [] brackets with ramblings inside them, it’s indicating a section change.
Fernald: “God! To think this place is still such an utter dump! I heard stories from my stepfather—well, I heard it was the tourist destination to go to back in the day.”
Madame Lulu, gesturing to their surroundings: “Madame Lulu is trying to get help as she can, yes. Very hard though to get money to fix things up. The House of Freaks generate entertainment, but not enough that audience give enough money in my pocket.”
(Olivia Caliban, mentally thinking: “I think it would better to get the rides working again. And games booths. And better refreshment. And acts. I think maybe forcing people who are oddly considered freaks by society’s standards is losing their charm at last.”)
Hugo, Colette, and Kevin, all sticking their heads out from their caravan, for they’re a bunch of eavesdroppers: “We’re trying the best we can as freaks, Madame Lulu!
Kevin, noticing Fernald, and smiles: “Hey! Nice to see you again Hooky! I-we haven’t seen you in a while! Are you alright? You sound sort of tense.”
Fernald, waving hook: “I’m fine. Thank you. I hope you three have a semi-decent day.” *turning to Madame Lulu* “Seriously. Do you ever plan on fixing up this place?”
Madame Lulu: “Fixing not in carnival’s future, yes. At least not now.”
With Olaf getting confirmation from Madame Lulu the Baudelaires are in Paltryville, he takes Seller as the associate, for Seller is only one who can handle Dr. Orwell’s personality. Seller and Olaf disappear for a full month, with disguises packed by Verne for them to be Foreman Flacutono and Shirley the Secretary, which came from the V.F.D. kit. Except for the Flacutono wig; Verne hates the V.F.D. wig enough to buy his own. That leaves Harper, Penny, Lucy, Verne, and Fernald back in the City.
Nothing happens for a full month. At the start of the next month, Seller calls the house, and orders Verne to take a train and/or steal a car to get to Paltryville. Seller for once, thinks Olaf is in over his head, and concern that something bad may happened at Lucky Smells Lumbermill. Verne arrives just in time too.
Violet was able to save break Klaus free of his hypnotism after playing the researcher. Klaus was able invent something to save Charles from getting murdered. Sunny had her buck-wild sword fight with Dr. Orwell with her teeth (the wildest thing to ever happen).
And Dr. Orwell falls to her death. Well! Looks like Seller was right!
With Olaf soon getting expose from his secretary act, and Seller dropping his foreman act alongside the wig, the two high-tail the hell out of the mill before Mr. Poe, his sister, and the authorities arrived. Verne in his stole car is waiting outside the fence, and frowns upon seeing Seller and the lack of wig on his head.
Verne: “Do you know how difficult to find such a decent looking wig without a shine?! Do you also know how time consuming it is to get a shine out of a wig!? God! I should have given you the shitty V.F.D. wig had I know you would carelessly throw a wig away!” Seller: “You can buy a decent looking wig without a shine or the materials to get a shine out a wig at a reasonable price, Nemo! Why not bitch about your nephew’s wooden hands!? They’re the one that take up a lot of money!” Olaf, patience wears thin: “As much as I enjoy watching a good conflict, WE STILL NEED TO GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE. Nemo, start driving to the train station!”
Meanwhile, while this is going on —near the end of events—Tegan officially joins the Queequeg as the second member of the Crew of Two. It would have been a great occasion, if it wasn’t for the fact that day is also Fiona’s fifteenth birthday. Fiona isn’t that upset her birthday was a bit overshadowed by Tegan’s arrival, and doesn’t cry at her party. Fiona finds some positive from Tegan’s joining the Queequeg.
Fiona: “She may not be a mycologist, but Tegan does know fungi. It’ll be nice to have someone around with a similar interest. I just hope we’ll have the chance to discuss it though. With the way everything is, well as Tegan’s new-found professionalism, the chances of that seem very slim.”
As Ephraim departs from the Queequeg to go out on his mission, Ephraim gives Fiona and Widdershins parting gifts. For Fiona, it’s her birthday present: a copy of The Mysterious Island. For Widdershins, it’s a reminder of “the greatest chance you would never get normally.” It’s a painting of Ephraim himself. Tegan covered her face in embarrassment over the gift (rightfully so because WHAT IS THIS GIFT).
Widdershins: “…This is a fine gift, sir.” (Mentally though, Widdershins is all, “FUCK THIS PAINTING AGAIN?”) Fiona: “I agree with my stepfather. It’s a very fine painting.” (Mentally though, Fiona is all, “And once again, Step-Grandfather has no idea what actually constitutes as a good gift.”)
Returning back to Olaf and the Acting Troupe, they lay low for a week. The Baudelaires find themselves having a happy time at Prufrock Prep. It’s not because the academy is a wonderful place itself, but because they finally have friends in the form of Duncan and Isadora Quagmire. However, such happiness doesn’t last long.
Olaf, after getting around round of help from Madame Lulu (for ‘Orphans off to a boarding school’ is too vague of hint, as well as it surprisingly refers to other orphans), takes Penny and Lucy as his associates for his newest scheme. However, this time around, he asked the ladies to go on ahead first as cafeteria workers. Olaf is unsure how he can get around the advance computer Vice-Principal Nero programmed roaming outside the school, and wants them to figure out the computer’s flaw.
Two weeks pass. Penny and Lucy call the house and tell Olaf about the flaw. They believe that if he’s in a disguise that hides some particular features—namely his eyebrow— he’ll go undetected. And so, Olaf goes to back to the hell that is Prufrock Prep under the disguise as Coach Genghis, with a new plan in action.
With Coach Genghis around, he makes the Baudelaires run laps at night for the S.O.R.E. program to get them time and get them to fail their class. As such, to help their friends in the realm of research, the Quagmires decide to dig up information about Olaf, as well as something else the Baudelaires requested.
Klaus, unfolding the drawing from Ike’s room that he kept: “I found this in our Aunt Josephine’s husband’s private room.” Duncan, narrowing his eyes, leaning close to the drawing: “That’s an interesting illustration. What it is of?” Violet: “We don’t know. Our Aunt Josephine only told us was that her husband Ike was studying it with a few others within their…friend group, but that’s all.” Isadora: “It must be something dangerous, private, or both if she kept quiet on it.” Sunny: “Senildeah!” (“What about the headlines!?”) Klaus, turning to Sunny: “That’s right! I nearly forgotten about those! Thank you, Sunny!” *turning back to the Quagmires * “In Ike’s private room, there was a newspaper headline about The Thistle of the Valley accident. Our time in Paltryville didn’t tell us anything about it. We only learned more about parents and their…friend group.” Duncan, pulling out his commonplace book and pencil, writing things down: “Paltryville, The Thistle of the Valley…” *looking up, smiling* “It’s still not a lot to go on, but it should be enough to find basic information, even if it’s unfortunately wrong.” Violet, smiling: “Thank you. I know it might be a mystery that won’t get solve completely, we’re grateful that you’re helping us.” Isadora, smiling: “We’re friends, and that is what friends are for.” Sunny, grinning, clasping hands together: “Daw…” (“Daw…”)
Meanwhile, back in the City and in Olaf’s house, Seller and Fernald are at each other throats, and Verne and Harper are playing card games that isn’t Roland’s Folly. The closest things to interesting is Harper getting updates regarding Gustav’s corpse and Monty’s house. Gustav’s body was found floating down from Swarthy Swamp to a river that leads to Lake Lachrymose, and that Monty’s place got mysteriously burned down, with rumors of two arsonists in odd get-up having set the place on fire.
Actually, Monty’s place getting burn happens right after Olaf enacted his plan to kidnap the Baudelaires after they get expelled from Prufrock Prep. Olaf orders the remaining troupe to pick them up. Verne and Fernald have one car to drive Penny and Lucy and the kidnapped children, while Seller and Harper have the other car to drive Olaf himself, because he at the moment, doesn’t want to share the vehicle as them.
But there’s a small change of plan regarding the kidnapping.
Duncan and Isadora, having disguised themselves as the Baudelaires (with Sunny being played by a sack of flour), get themselves kidnapped. Near sunrise, the Quagmires make their escape, but fail to see ‘Sunny’ was left behind. Lucy, having watching in the shadows alongside her sister, panicked, and ran onto the field.
Lucy: “Is the baby sick! IS THE BABY SICK? WHY DIDN’T YOU GO WITH YOUR SIBLINGS, BABY?” *The bag of flour flops over, and Lucy screams* Penny, joining her sister: “…That’s flour. That’s a bag of flour! Why would Violet and Klaus not have their sister running tonight alongside them?” Olaf, joining them as well, connecting the dots on why Violet and Klaus were oddly the same height, unlike all the other nights: “…Those annoying orphans brats. Ladies, go after the two Quagmires!” Penny and Lucy, confused: “The Quagmires?” Olaf: “Yes, the Quagmires! They were pretending to be the Baudelaire Brats the whole time! Like I said before! Go after them! I have a feeling they’ll be useful to us!”
Verne and Fernald as such, get a surprise when driving away from Prufrock Prep.
[A Kidnapping in the Happening!]
“You got to be kidding me! You two got the Quagmires Triplets?!” Fernald continued to look back behind the front passenger seat, not giving a damn that he’s unbuckled, because fuck car safety at the moment.
“Triplets?” asked Lucy, trying her best to keep Duncan from moving around. “There’s two of them though! The newspaper said they’re twins!
“Just because there’s two of us doesn’t mean we’re twins, lady!” shouted Isadora Quagmire, struggling against Penny’s tight grasp on her. “Our brother’s death in the fire doesn’t change a thing about our birth!”
“You lost your brother in a—OW! I got bit! How rude!” Lucy’s winced, and loosened her grip on Duncan Quagmire. Duncan as such, started to kick against the back side-passenger door in a rhythmic pattern.
“FUCK YOU ALL!” yelled Duncan at the top of his voice. “FUCK! YOU! ALL! YOU HEAR ME? YOU HEAR ME!?”
“Don’t you go breaking the door, brat!” growled Uncle Verne. “God, talk about having a hell of a drive back! Why do you have the Quagmires!?”
“A ruse is what happened!” Penny struggled to keep Isadora still, while trying to grab the burlap sacks from the backseat pocket to throw onto the Quagmires faces. “These two tricked us by pretending to be the Baudelaires! The boy was Klaus, the girl was Violet, and a bag of flour was the baby! How stupid that last one is!”
“Oh, fuck off with your stupid-ass complaints and insults about us!” Duncan continued to kick the door, and then glared at Uncle Verne. The glare had Fernald wondering what the Quagmires discovered about V.F.D. exactly. “You’re a bunch of miserable, selfish, assholes ruining other people’s lives without a damn over something stupid!”
“I agree with my older brother!” exclaimed Isadora. “You’re doing this all willing too! How do you live with yourselves! Don’t you care what others might think! Like your family?!”
“Shush, annoying little girl!” sneered Penny, managing to cover Isadora’s face with the burlap sack. “Now stay quiet, or else I’ll do something you’ll wish never happened to you. Unless you want me to do it your older brother! He bit my little sister, after all!”
Isadora did that, but it doesn’t stop her from moving around in the backseat anyway. Duncan meanwhile, continued to curse like a sailor at the top of his lungs. Well, at least until Lucy stuffed the burlap sack into his mouth. Fernald had to give up his jacket to Penny to cover the brat’s eyes.
[Must Be HELL of a Ride Back...]
Meanwhile, back at on the submarine Queequeg, V.F.D. finally got to Widdershins’ request for another crewmember, for Phil joins as the cook. Because Tegan is the unofficially part of the Crew of Two, Phil is delegated as an additional member; the chef.
With Tegan around, Fiona either helps Phil in the kitchen, or assists her stepfather and Tegan on reading charts and maps and submarine repairs. Fiona only has enough idle time to read The Mysterious Island. Fiona has yet read her stepfather’s birthday present, for it’s still in its wrapping.
(It’s a surprise tool that will help later.)
Tegan is doing a great job of being part of the Crew of Two. She keeps the Queequeg in almost near perfect condition, and almost always shadows Widdershins. Widdershins doesn’t mind her tailing, at first. He slowly grows irritated as Tegan unknowingly insults him. Widdershins wouldn’t mind the insults (for he’s quite use to insults) if Tegan didn’t compare him Ephraim while doing so. Tegan is harsh on Widdershins for not going back to land to restock on supplies so quickly, unlike Ephraim’s supplies runs. Tegan complaints to Widdershins on switching back and forth between subject matters, for Ephraim focuses on one thing at a time.
One day, Widdershins and Teagan were walking to a trolley stop with bulk of groceries in boxes, for they went on a supply run. There at the stop, is a thirteen-year-old boy with dark hair and dark wearing a backpack, holding a folded map in his hands. The boy has a mask covering the lower half of his face, like he has a cold and doesn’t want to spread germs. The boy eventually starts a conversation with them.
Thirteen-year-old Boy, muffled voice: “You got a lot of groceries for just two people.” Widdershins: “We’re actually carrying groceries for four people! Aye!” Tegan: “Eight people really, given we’re stocking up for supplies.” Thirteen-year-old Boy: “Stocking up?” Tegan: “Aye. It’ll be a while before we can go get groceries again, so we’re preparing.” Thirteen-year-old Boy: “Ah.” *nodding head, tilts head to side* “Thank explains why you have everything in bulk. Odd to see you don’t have small snacks in bulk.” Widdershins: “None at all! But we do have crackers!” *Widdershins sets the boxes he’s carrying down, and takes the top box off, setting it onto the ground. He then pulls out a rather large box of circular, salted crackers* “We got it for free, and while I like snacking on crackers, I don’t like this particular brand! Aye! Would you like to have them?” Tegan: “Are you—” *rolling eyes* “I can’t believe you’re doing this right now!” Thirteen-year-old Boy, tying his best to not laugh: “I was always told by my parents that I’m not supposed to take food from people I don’t know…” *stomach growls* “…but given my personal circumstances, I think I’ll make this the sole exception.”
The thirteen-year-old boy takes the box of crackers just as the trolley arrives. The boy goes onto the trolley, while two people get off the trolley. The boy takes a seat near the window, and waves goodbye at them, with Widdershins and Tegan waving also.
(Widdershins and Tegan will not know that they interacted with Quigley Quagmire until a dispatch got sent to them a week later when on the Queequeg:
Fiona, looking up from her charts: “Stepfather! Tegan! We got a telegram!” Widdershins, running down the spiral stairs: “Here I thought it wasn’t working!” Tegan, sliding down the pole: “Who send it to us, Niece Fiona?” Fiona, looking at telegram: “It’s from Quigley Quagmire.” Widdershins and Tegan: “What?” *Everyone looks at the dispatch* Dispatch: Captain Widdershins, I know this isn’t how one must use the Volunteer Factual Dispatch, but I must thank you STOP. The crackers you gave me lasted me a good while STOP. I am unsure when I’ll communicate with you again, but just know I heading towards the Mortmain Mountains for personal reasons, as well as related to the organization. Hopefully we will communicate with one another in the future STOP.”)
The two people that got off the trolley are real estate agents. One of them opened up their umbrella due to the sun, and they begin talking. There, Widdershins and Tegan hear that Monty’s home is gone, due to a fire of unknown origins. The land is now up for sale as potential retail development.
Widdershins was ready to stand up and ask them question as a random, curious citizen, but for the first time in years, he hesitates, and keeps quiet. This has Tegan going on yet another comparison, after they return to the Queequeg (Fiona is in the makeshift library, while Phil is out in the main control room looking out the port window).
[~If you say it like that, it must mean that you hate me~]
“Why did you stay silent, V? Remember our old man’s philosophy!” Tegan’s voice was close behind him, yet seemed so far away. “He —or she— who hesitates is lost!”
“I know that, Tegan.” Widdershins gripped the bottom box tightly as he tried to set the boxes onto the table. “I can’t forget such a philosophy, even if I wanted too. Aye, I had it drill into me longer than you.”
“Why did you hesitate then? Aye! You could have asked them more about it as a random, curious citizen. I think they wouldn’t have mind that!”
“I could, but I didn’t, aye.” Widdershins inhaled, and then exhaled. It’s all just a matter of keeping it under control. He can do this. He can do this. Widdershins took the first box off, and then the second box.
“That still doesn’t answer my question. Why didn’t you ask, V? Aye! If Stepfather was here, he would have asked them for sure!” Tegan’s voice goes slightly higher, as well as defensive. “Stepfather would have asked nonchalantly without a second thought! Aye! Stepfather would have successfully gotten more information! Having so many years of experience, our old man’s actions unlike yours—”
“Are correct! Aye! Are ideal! Aye! Are what the organization wants in a true volunteer! Captain Ephraim B. Widdershins does everything right, and everything I do is wrong!” Widdershins spun around on his heels, and gave a cold, stern glare at her.
Tegan, still carrying one the boxes, stared at him with her brown eyes. Her eyes blinking fast behind her triangle glasses, and her lower lips quivers. “V…”
“Is everything okay? I heard loud voices!” Phil’s voice called out from the outside.
Widdershins stared at Tegan, and then closed his eyes. He knew he fucked up big time. He had to apology, not just to appease his old man, wherever he is right now.
“I’m sorry.” Tegan’s voice was small.
Widdershins reopened his eyes, and stared at Tegan, and shook his head. He then took a step towards her.
Tegan took a step back, still with the box in her hand. The way Tegan was acting now, Widdershins was reminded of that day so long ago. Tegan was six, thinking him as a ghost from her past haunting them. He can’t blame Tegan for acting like this now.
The two of them didn’t speak for a bit. But Tegan eventually, took a step closer to him. Widdershins carefully took the box from Tegan’s hands.
“Don’t apologize, Tegan,” said Widdershins. “You didn’t know how I felt, because I didn’t tell you. Aye, so don’t go feeling guilty over something you didn’t know of.”
Tegan remained quiet, but she did nod her head.
“To tell you the truth about all of this,” continued Widdershins, “I’m doing this in the perspective of an outsider. As an outsider, Captain Ephraim B. Widdershins is a great submarine captain. He’s a well-respected volunteer in the organization. His stepdaughter as such deserves the best chaperone. Instead, you got stuck with—”
Widdershins couldn’t help but pause mid-way. Insulting himself would make Tegan feel worse, no doubt. Widdershins just sighed, as he placed the box onto the table.
“Tegan, I’m fine with you disrespecting me as your brother. Stepbrother,” said Widdershins. “As your chaperone though, I insist you accept and respect what I do, and do exactly as I say. And I said it was best we didn’t engage in conversation.”
Tegan once again, nodded head. In a quiet voice, she replied, “Okay.”
[~No! I don't hate you at all~]
Despite all the bickering and unknowing comparisons, there is one good thing going between Widdershins and Tegan. And that, is calling Phil “Cookie” for no apparent reason. Widdershins started it first, and Tegan jumped onto it. It drives Fiona off the walls to where she told them over dinner one night, with the meal being some sort of fish, vegetable, and cheese casserole (it’s not as bad as it could be, too).
Fiona, passing the black pepper to her stepfather: “It’s just impolite! It’s more polite to call someone by their proper name!” Widdershins, dumping black pepper over the casserole Phil made for diner: “Maybe so! Aye! But I have yet heard Cookie complain about it!” Tegan, drinking some lemonade, for they can’t have the lemon-lime soda: “He clearly likes the nickname. *turns to Phil* “Isn’t that right, Cookie?” Phil, *serving himself casserole, smiling*: “I do like it! I don’t mind the nickname at all. I always wanted a nickname when I was a kid! Cookie is a very nice nickname to have!” Fiona, doing an expression that is similar to the well-known scrunch-up Kermit face: “Well, alright then. I’m just surprise that you two when in a blue moon, are scarily so much alike. And this is considering how you are the opposite of one another.” Tegan, nearly choking on her lemonade, having feeling insulted: “Scarily alike? Niece Fiona, understand that comment is just uncalled for! He may not look it, but know at times he’s an empty head with no thoughts.” Widdershins, setting the black pepper down: “That means you too, can be an empty head with no thoughts.” Tegan: “…” *Pushes Widdershins off his chair* Widdershins, from the floor: “Hey!” Tegan, smirking as she swaps their plates: “It’s mine now, V.” Phil, still smiling: “Ah, siblings bonding. How wonderful!”
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), 'Eleanora,' 1842    #bibliobibuli #leitura #livros #leitores #frases #citações #pensamentos https://www.instagram.com/p/CdS4EhyuxpU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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ASOUE (and Bomby) + Seventh Sanctum’s Character Scrambler
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The R - Part 1:
What is the connection between Mr Remora and Duchess R [of Winnipeg]?
One of the many mysteries that Lemony Snicket has left behind for readers (and viewers, to a certain extent) is 'What does the R stand for, in "Duchess R" ?' I am going to attempt to answer this question using any resources available, under the title 'The R'. This will be over a series of unfortunate posts, in this format.
Firstly, we must look for any and all clues that can give us even the slightest hint as to what R might stand for.
For this, I have gone through every character in ASOUE and this is produced: (after the cut, but feel free to skip ahead)
Lemony Snicket
Violet Baudelaire 
Klaus Baudelaire 
Sunny Baudelaire 
Count Olaf
Bald Man with the Long Nose 
Mrs. Bass 
Beatrice Baudelaire 
Beatrice Baudelaire II 
Bertrand Baudelaire 
Bruce 
Colette  
Fernald 
Hal 
Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender 
Hugo 
Incredibly Deadly Viper 
Geraldine Julienne 
Kevin 
Kind Editor 
Man with a Beard but No Hair
Vice Principal Nero
Phil 
Arthur Poe  
Duncan Quagmire 
Isadora Quagmire  
Quigley Quagmire  
Mr. Remora 
Carmelita Spats 
Kit Snicket 
Esmé Squalor 
Jerome Squalor 
Justice Strauss 
White-Faced Women 
Woman with Hair but No Beard
Albert Poe 
Edgar Poe 
Polly Poe 
Wart-Faced Man
Alaskan Cow Lizard 
Androgynous Cobra  
Madame diLustro  
Dissonant Toad  
Green Gimlet Toad 
Inky Newt 
Irascible Python 
O. Lucafont 
Mamba du Mal 
Monty Montgomery 
Monty Montgomery's Sister
Gustav Sebald 
Stephano 
Virginian Wolfsnake
Ike Anwhistle
Josephine Anwhistle
Bertrand Baudelaire's Cousin
Gina-Sue
 Larry Your-Waiter 
Captain Sham
Charles
 Foreman Firstein
 Flacutono
Georgina Orwell
 Shirley 
Sir
Elwyn 
Coach Genghis 
Ms. Tench
Ben 
Gunther
Chief of Police
Council of Elders 
Detective Dupin 
Hector
 Mr. Lesko 
Officer Luciana 
Mrs. Morrow 
Verhoogen Family 
V.F.D. Crows
Babs
Bearded Man 
Laura V. Bleediotie 
Lou 
Mattathias
 Milt
 Mr. Sirin
 Volunteers Fighting Disease
Beverly and Elliot
 Olivia Caliban 
Chabo the Wolf Baby 
Man With Pimples On His Chin 
Ringmaster 
Volunteer Feline Detectives
Infant Servant
C.M. Kornbluth 
Snow Gnats 
Snow Scouts 
V.F.D. Eagles 
White-Faced Women's Sibling 
Winnipeg Scout
Gregor Anwhistle 
Fiona 
The Great Unknown 
Captain Widdershins 
Mrs. Widdershins
Count Olaf's father 
Count Olaf's mother 
Dewey Denouement 
Ernest Denouement 
Frank Denouement
Alonso 
Ariel 
Jonah Bellamy 
Sadie Bellamy 
Rabbi Bligh 
Brewster 
Byam 
Friday Caliban 
Miranda Caliban 
Calypso 
Erewhon
Ferdinand 
Finn 
Professor Fletcher 
Gonzalo 
Ishmael 
Dr. Kurtz 
Larsen 
Ms. Marlow 
Monday
Madame Nordoff 
Omeros 
Mr. Pitcairn 
Robinson 
Sherman 
Thursday 
Weyden 
Willa
Beekeeper
Building Committee 
Emily Dickinson 
Dolores  
Esmé Squalor Fan Club 
Gerta 
Daniel Handler
Haruki
 Ivan Lachrymose 
Eleanora Poe 
Lena Pukalie 
Duchess R 
R's Mother 
R's Father 
Young Rölf 
Sally Sebald
Shoemaker 
A. Snicket 
B. Snicket 
Chas. Snicket 
D. Snicket 
E. Snicket 
F. Snicket 
I  
Jacob Snicket  
Mr. Spats
Mrs. Spats 
Town Fathers 
Valorous Farms Dairy 
Baron van de Wetering
Yeah. Every single one.
Now, let's rule out everyone who does not have a name beginning with R, or is unclear: (again, feel free to skip ahead)
Bald Man with the Long Nose 
Mrs. Bass 
Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender 
Incredibly Deadly Viper 
Kind Editor 
Man with a Beard but No Hair
Mr. Remora 
White-Faced Women 
Woman with Hair but No Beard
Wart-Faced Man
Madame diLustro  
Monty Montgomery's Sister
Bertrand Baudelaire's Cousin
 Foreman Firstein
Coach Genghis 
Ms. Tench
Verhoogen Family 
 Mr. Sirin
Man With Pimples On His Chin 
Infant Servant
White-Faced Women's Sibling 
Winnipeg Scout
The Great Unknown 
Captain Widdershins 
Mrs. Widdershins
Count Olaf's father 
Count Olaf's mother 
Rabbi Bligh 
Dr. Kurtz 
Ms. Marlow 
Madame Nordoff 
Mr. Pitcairn 
Robinson 
Beekeeper
Duchess R 
R's Mother 
R's Father 
Young Rölf 
Mr. Spats
Mrs. Spats 
Town Fathers 
As the title states, we'll keep some focus on Remora, but we'll eliminate all other minor characters:
Bald Man with the Long Nose 
Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender 
Incredibly Deadly Viper 
Kind Editor 
Man with a Beard but No Hair
Mr. Remora 
White-Faced Women 
Woman with Hair but No Beard
Wart-Faced Man
Madame diLustro  
Monty Montgomery's Sister
Bertrand Baudelaire's Cousin
Robinson 
Duchess R 
R's Mother 
R's Father 
Young Rölf 
According to Various Fan Deductions:
TMWABBNH & TWWHBNB are Gifford & Ghede
The White-Faced Women are Zada and Zora
Lemony's Kind Editor is Moxie Mallahan
Madame diLustro is Sunny Baudelaire
This rules out the 4 of them.
Bald Man with the Long Nose 
Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender 
Incredibly Deadly Viper 
Mr. Remora 
Wart-Faced Man
Monty Montgomery's Sister
Bertrand Baudelaire's Cousin
Robinson 
Duchess R 
R's Mother 
R's Father 
Young Rölf 
Logically speaking, why would there be a connection between Ink and Duchess R? Let's eliminate unlikely possibilities:
Mr. Remora  
Monty Montgomery's Sister
Bertrand Baudelaire's Cousin
Robinson 
Duchess R 
R's Mother 
R's Father 
Young Rölf 
Monty Montgomery's sister would be (_insert name here_) Montgomery. This, to me, rules her out too... and the same logic applies to Bertrand's cousin.
Mr. Remora  
Robinson 
(Duchess R) 
(R's Mother) 
(R's Father)
Young Rölf 
Obviously her family are related:
Mr. Remora  
Robinson - Islander
Young Rölf 
So, the above names are generated. I will, henceforth, analyse a link between each character and R, starting with Remora.
POINTS:
a. It's known that a few characters in the Snicket-verse have alliterating names, such as Quigley Quagmire, Beatrice Baudelaire.
b. It's also known that some characters have WEIRD connections to others, such as Quigley's 'relation' to Mr Poe.
THEORY: Given a. and b. to be true, Mr R _______ Remora, has some abstract connection to the Duchess.
This connection can only really be established if one goes by Netflix canon and assumes Nero's surname to be Feint, and combines this with ATWQ:
Duchess R is Remora's boss' ancestor's murderer's friend.
R's friend is Lemony, who murdered Hangfire, who is the ancestor of Nero, Remora's boss.
Part 2 Still to Come...
¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist
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wait🙄until😳the🤨readers😶at😆the😨Daily🤪Punctilio😐hear🥰about🙂this🤩
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Headcanon: the Editor is Eleanora Poe.
Per TUA, at the time that the Baudelaire's are running from the Village of Fowl Devotees, Eleanora Poe sends her brother the following telegram:
PLEASE HELP, MY DEAR BROTHER STOP. DUE TO INSTRUCTIONS FROM A FAMOUS ACTRESS, MY STAR REPORTER HAS LOCKED ME IN THE BASEMENT OF THE NEWSPAPER BUILDING STOP. I AM BEGINNING TO THINK THAT SOME OF THE STORIES I HAVE PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY PUNCTILLIO ARE NOT TRUE AFTER ALL STOP. PLEASE HELP STOP. THIS BASEMENT IS FILTHY AND DAMP STOP.
If we accept the evidence (which is fairly limited) that at least some version of ASOUE was published fairly contemporaneously with the events of the series, this would be evidence that Eleanora is not the editor, but discounting that, this does provide quite compelling evidence as to why Eleanora might have motivation to edit A Series of Unfortunate Events, so she could make up for some of the lies her newspaper spread about the Baudelaires.
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Some terrible character sketches. In order: Lemony Snicket, Geraldine Julienne, Jerome Squalor, Eleanora Poe, Kit Snicket
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