The Sub-Sub-Sub-Library

You can call me sub-librarian D, or Inky if you'd like. 20 // he/they // US Welcome to my fandom, meta, and rambling blog. You may find interest here if you're a verifiably fine didact.  I follow from @inkynewt Do you know, where the wild things go?

[sub-librarian]

Please elaborate on your Beatrice started the fire theory i need to know

I am so extremely sorry that I never answered this. I'll do my best to sum it up after a disclaimer:

I have covid and my partner has a broken leg from a hit and run but I will try to write out an explanation that does justice to it soon for you/anyone still following this blog.

I still think about this (and the way it will eventually go into a fanfiction that follows up on my TETMTM one) pretty frequently.

In short:

Beatrice's characterization is largely as an almost coldly efficient member of the Noble VFD. I think she sent the children out and faked her own death (to die later At A Social Engagement, unintended). I think they used the trap door. I think she WANTED Olaf to have the fortune and be a guardian and had managed to miss all the red flags + had enough ties to the firestarting side that she *thought he could stop the schism* . Like everyone did with the VFD itself because they were too invested in Solving Problems to realize they were creating them. There are heaps of justified reasons why, within the text, Beatrice could have legitimately thought the children were, and I know it's ridiculous "safer with Olaf" (or another VFD member, on either or neither side) than with her and her husband at that point and furthermore she *knew the symbolism of fire, of the power of children, of the power of near misses*. I think the entire first book more or less, was the result of one or two bad decisions made by a flammable woman trying to outrun the flame someone else started and starting another to try to fight back.

I'll try to find the energy and time to find my textual evidence + write more on this at some point soon but as mentioned I'm ill, being an unexpected in-home nurse (while taking care of 5 cats and 2 birds), working, preparing for NaNoWriMo, AND writing+drawing a horror comic while in talks to be the artist on a graphic novel. So I'm busy. And Exhausted. I think about this a lot though and want to talk more about it.

[beatricebidelaire]

bertrand baudelaire in jacques snicket’s trench coat send post

[beatricebidelaire]

[beatricebidelaire]

beatrice: can you imagine how much it would annoy olaf if we name our child lemony and he somehow ended up living with olaf after we accidentally died in a fire?

bertrand: ok first of all, why would our child end up living with olaf

[beatricebidelaire]

jacques snicket monday

(perpetually tired + please pass the brandy)

[beatricebidelaire]

i think there are probably more but off the top of my head the two math mentions by snicket in snicketverse books (not counting zeno’s paradox from pfb) are the reducing fraction mention in tbl and the long division mention in wdyshl

i will love you no matter how many mistakes i make when trying to reduce fractions, and no matter how difficult it is to memorize the periodic table. — tbl

i pushed the door open, slow as long division. — wdyshl

[olivia--caliban]

there should’ve been dogs in ASOUE

[whoslaurapalmer]

i wrote it to make myself laugh but i am laughing too hard and getting attached to it so in case i don’t keep it, i want to pleasantly remember the thought of lemony doing a shot of gazpacho 

[whoslaurapalmer]

sadly the line has been cut. but lemony doing a shot of gazpacho will live on in my heart, and the internet

[beatricebidelaire]

“remarkable woman. flammable.” he said.

what he didn’t say was that they’d know each other since five. they’d grown up together, taken classes together, gone on the same missions. 

what he didn’t say was they both had the dramatic antics that annoyed others. they both had an large amount of interest in acting. they’d even both dated lemony snicket and esme squalor at different periods of their lives.

there were a lot of things olaf would never tell the baudelaire orphans about beatrice.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

Kidnapped Children Being Told They’re Volunteers: so uh what happens to our inheritance after we join VFD

VFD:

[sub-librarian]

Honestly like I put a bunch of 30-ish actresses on my Kit face claims post because I couldn't find many older Jewish actresses without lots of plastic surgery (which isn't something I'm shaming for but Kit doesn't strike me as a cosmetic surgery type) but like, do you KNOW how easy it would have been for Netflix to put out a casting call for "40-50 yr old Jewish women"?????? Or at least to choose an actress who even remotely didn't fit the mold of conventionally pretty 20-something white girl???????? THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN EASIER FOR NETFLIX TO FIND THAN FOR ME TO FIND;

AND I STILL FOUND 8 APPROPRIATE JEWISH ACTRESSES.

[lesbianscieszka]

netflix: who's the PRETTIEST and YOUNGEST lady we can choose to play KIT SNICKET????

who’s IN so we can get people BUZZING about what’s going on on our show??

WHO CAN WE CAST THATS TWENTY THREE YEARS YOUNGER THAN THE MAN PLAYING HER YOUNGER BROTHER AND SEVENTEEN YEARS YOUNGER THAN HER T W I N 

[notsosunnylibrary]

Violet Baudelaire // After: The End

[santiagosnart]

I’m enjoying asoue but it’s so straight and WHITE

[inkynewt]

I’m love the bombinator.

[aseriesofunfortunatetexts]

[drearydrearydreary]

every time i go somewhere and realize i have not brought a book with me: oh no lemony don’t trust me

[veryfierceduchess-blog]

me @ daniel handler, all the time: Damn, Daniel.