#ask14

[starmuselove]

I wanna participate in the mini game

My initial are PS 💞

Thanks for the game ☺️

(I got the message that you might have to listen to this with your friends/loved ones)

[starmuselove]

hi!!! im so happy i finally arrived on time for a game 🥺!

my initials are PRCZ! and the idol is nct mark lee hehe

and the vibes you give me are from exo ?? idk who exactly but also mostly the vibe to match u with is anya taylorjoy heheh

thank you so much! 💗 have a good day 🌷

Anya acts so well!! Thankyou for the different choice!

He thinks of you as someone- even though your environment is tough, you always find a way and don't play the victim. And you don't let anyone stop you from doing what's best for you. You know to remove yourself from bad situations. But at times you might come off a controlling/forceful or unforgiving to him.

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[starmuselove]

Hii, hope ur doing well! i would love to participate in ur fs game <3

1. Polly

2. sagittarius

3. FS

4. that they are bright

Thanks!

Okay I'm seeing book adventure genre. So they might take you to the book recreation places eg. Harrypotter world, LOTR museums or their shooting spots to explore. They will pamper you by making sure your inner child is happy.

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[grilledcheesesnightmares]

Much love for strawbee

[snicketsleuth]

alright, the million dollar question: what do you think the great unknown is? Do you think it's the bombinating beast? Also, what do you think happened to the statue after Lemony took it away that night? wonderful blog btw, I'm a big fan c:

I’m pleased this blog suits you, volunteer!

The Great Unknown is supposed to remain, well… unknown. It’s one of the mysteries Daniel Handler intends to leave unanswered to satisfy a symbolic purpose. That being said, that which the Great Unknown symbolizes doesn’t leave much room for ambiguity. Chapter Fourteen concludes on this quote:

Ô Mort, vieux capitaine, il est temps ! levons l'ancre !Ce pays nous ennuie, ô Mort ! Appareillons !Si le ciel et la mer sont noirs comme de l'encre,Nos coeurs que tu connais sont remplis de rayons ![Charles Baudelaire - Le Voyage]

O Death, old captain, the time has come! Let us lift the anchor!This land bores us, o Death! Let us set sail!Although the sky and the sea are black as ink,Our hearts, which you know well, are filled with sunrays!

This is the penultimate quatrain of the poem, and, interestingly, the last quatrain contains this gem:

Verse-nous ton poison pour qu'il nous réconforte !Nous voulons, tant ce feu nous brûle le cerveau,Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe ?Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du nouveau ![Charles Baudelaire - Le Voyage]

Pour us your poison so it may confort us!We wish, so burning is this fire in our brain,To dive into the abyss; Heaven or Hell, who cares?Into the Unknown, to find something new!

So yes, the Unknown, the Great Unknown, represents Death and mortality in general. The ultimate mystery. Further answers after the cut:

That being said, Daniel Handler definitely wants us to make a connection with the Great Unknown and the Bombinating Beast… There are a couple issues with that, however.

“What was that thirdshape?” Violet asked. The captain shook his head again. “Somethingvery bad,” he said. “Even worse than Olaf,probably. I told you Baudelaires that there is evilyou cannot even imagine.”“We don’t have toimagine it,” Klaus said. “We saw it there on the screen.”“That screen isnothing,” the captain said. “It’s just a piece of equipment, aye?There was a philosopher who said that all of life is just shadows. He said thatpeople were just sitting in a cave,watching shadows on the cave wall. Aye –shadows of something much bigger and grander than themselves. Well, that sonar detectoris like our cave wall, showing us theshape of things much more powerful and terrifying.”“I don’tunderstand,” Fiona said.“I don’t want you to understand,” thecaptain said, putting his arm around her. “That’s why I haven’t told youwhy the sugar bowl is so very crucial.There are secrets in this world tooterrible for young people to know, even as those secrets get closer and closer.[Violet Baudelaire, Klaus Baudelaire, Fiona Widdershins & Captain Widdershins - The Grim Grotto, Chapter Four]

If the Great Unknown truly is the Bombinating Beast, I don’t see why the Captain would be so secretive… He could have just said “It’s a carnivorous giant sea monster” and leave it at that. The Baudelaire orphans have seen much weirder things, and they survived them.

Another point of contention is the fact that the Bombinating Beast seems to return to the Clusterous Forest at the end of “All the Wrong Questions”. The Forest. Not the Ocean. For the Beast to return to the sea without being seen, the body of water near Stain’d-by-the-Sea would have to be filled up once again. We have no evidence it ever happened and it would be very difficult to achieve.

A good compromise would be that the Great Unknown is the ORIGINAL Bombinating Beast, the one that the myths and legends of Stain’d-by-the-Sea kept mentioning as a metaphor for Death; myths and legends are full of symbols. Not the monstrosity Hangfire managed to breed through genetic experiments, in a clear attempt to reproduce the legend.

A naturalist was distressed over what had been done to the sea and its creatures, and took inspiration from the wild and lawless ways of the untamed world, and from the old myths and superstitions that were around before Stain’d-by-the-Sea even existed. […] So the villain spread a frightening rumor, that a mythological creature was returning to Stain’d-by-the-Sea, a wild, lawless thing that could destroy the town once and for all.[Lemony Snicket - Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?, Chapter Thirteen]

Which might segue into the Yamgraz, Stain’d-be-the-Sea’s original inhabitants who were driven out by the industrialization. This folklore most likely came from them and we know VFD had an interest in their history. It seems some knowledge has been lost and the Yamgraz probably knew something about the creature Lemony would later refer to as the Great Unknown.

As for the statue itself, I think Lemony most likely hid it in the Clusterous Forest or destroyed it. The Beast is just an animal, in the end; it deserved its freedom. Besides, control of the Bombinating Beast is just too much power in the hands of one person. It seems less dangerous to leave the creature hanging about than to have it controlled by an egomaniac. Lemony purposefully didn’t mention the fate of the statue at the end of “All the Wrong Questions” so ill-intentioned people wouldn’t know where to find it. I believe in this theory because it’s the same thing that Lemony does with the Sugar Bowl in “The Penultimate peril”.

[hintzs]

I didn't mean to offend!! I was just curious :o. Like I see James in your picture and I get the wrong impression :p

lol it’s ok!!!!! I’m not a 51 year old man, if that’s what you’re asking :)

[hintzs]

How old are you? :o

I’m 20, almost 21!!!

[hintzs]

4, 13, 16, 23 :)

4. would you ever smile at a stranger?

i do it everyday lol (i mean, it;s my job to be nice to people, but i do try to be genuinely nice to everyone????)

13. are you good at hiding your feelings?

sometimes i guess?????? mostly ya i think

16. are you going out of town soon?

nope :( i wanna go on a bday trip but idk $$$

23. are you nice to everyone?

i try to be. i mean, tbh i can be like…….. the nicest bitch. idk it depends, i can either be really nice or i can be p nasty????