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I'll talk about some things regarding the allegorical interpretation of The Great Unknown (TGU) at the end of "The End" (TE). I don't particularly enjoy discussing allegorical interpretations because anyone can come up with their own, and to me, that makes me lose the boundaries I prefer to impose on myself when theorizing about ASOUE. But I'll make an exception with one rule (a rule I don't usually follow in other cases): What was the author's intention?

Generally, I prefer to stick to what was written rather than what the intention was (especially since Daniel Handler's intentions varied greatly throughout the writing of ASOUE, which is totally acceptable and good, but leaves traces. Thus, among my personal rules, what he wrote holds more weight than what he intended while writing). But in TE, since it's the last of the main ASOUE books, his intentions at the end of the story don't alter ASOUE's future much because that future only exists in our imagination. (Which makes me both sad and happy at the same time).

Many believe that the author's intention was for TGU to represent death itself, which I disagree with. What TGU represents is a question, and the very question mark shape is strong evidence of what I just said. The question is "What happens after the end?" This question has thematic similarities to the event of death, but it is not the same as death. "End" and "death" can be synonymous in some contexts, but not always. In the case of ASOUE, the last book is literally called "The End," and the question "What happens after the end?" becomes poetically interesting. (At this stage of life, Daniel Handler was fascinated by wordplay. Poetry that heavily plays with the semantics of words and expressions has always been very present in Daniel Handler's life).

Thus, physically representing the question "What happens after the end?" with a mysterious entity that takes away the characters we love is a very interesting way to end the 13 books. "What happens after the end?" is basically Daniel Handler asking his readers to write fanfics and headcanons. He handed us the pen and told us, "You can continue the story."

I've read many books, but the only ones that moved me to theorize and write fanfics were those in the ASOUE universe. So, I think that question mark truly entered my soul and never left.

[sammys-magical-au]

Parent stars/objects continued

So recently I made a post about my headcanons for the types of stars different planets in Star Wars orbit, and that kinda got me all hyped up about that kinda thing, so I decided to continue these thoughts by 1) thinking up additional headcanons + new headcanons for planets I didn’t mention in the last post, and 2) do the same thing for other space-related fandoms (Interstellar and Doctor Who/Torchwood) and my own original story au!

Also, instead of yapping incessantly (I know y’all don’t really mind bc this is the incessant yapping website, but still) I decided to make some cool little visuals for my headcanons instead, complete with a little guide 😊

M-type star: the smallest star type, typically red in color, smaller than the sun.

K-type star: typically orange in color, slightly smaller than the sun.

G-type star: typically yellow in color, the same type of star as the sun, so usually around the same size as the sun.

F-type star: typically yellow-white in color, slightly larger than the sun.

A-type star: typically white in color, larger than the sun.

B-type star: typically blue-white in color, larger than the sun.

O-type star: typically blue in color, much larger than the sun.

Wolf-Rayet star: rare, fast-lived stars that typically become violent supernovae.

White dwarf: the remnant dead core of a star.

Brown dwarf: somewhere between a planet and a star - with enough mass to produce some light but not enough to be classified as a true star.

Black hole: an area of space with gravity so strong that nothing can escape, not even light.

White hole: the theoretical opposite of a black hole - an area of space that gives off so much energy that nothing can enter it.

Double star: a system with two stars that orbit each other.

Triple star: a system with three stars that orbit each other.

Quadruple star: a system with four stars that orbit each other.

Far orbit: a multiple-star system where the stars orbit each other far enough apart that each star can have its own planets

Globular cluster: a large clump of tightly packed stars bound together by each other’s gravity

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Additional/updated Star Wars planets

Coruscant: G-type star that orbits near the supermassive black hole in the galactic core.

Alderaan: O-type star that orbits near the supermassive black hole in the galactic core.

Stewjon: K-type star located on the outskirts of a globular cluster.

Naboo: F-type star.

Tatooine: M-type and K-type double-star system.

Kamino: A-type star.

Shili: K-type star.

Ryloth: A-type star located close to a globular cluster.

Mirial: two G-types and one F-type triple-star system.

Unnamed planet: once an M-type, now a white dwarf.

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Interstellar planets

Miller: supermassive black hole (Gargantua).

Mann: supermassive black hole (Gargantua).

Edmunds: B-type star (Pantagruel) that orbits a supermassive black hole (Gargantua).

Oita: F-type star located on the outskirts of a globular cluster, the farthest of the 12 selected stars for the Lazarus Missions from Gargantua.

Hale: F-type and O-type double-star system that orbits a supermassive black hole (Gargantua).

Pila: white dwarf that orbits a supermassive black hole (Gargantua).

Lee: M-type star that orbits a supermassive black hole (Gargantua).

Morin: M-type star that orbits a supermassive black hole (Gargantua).

Wong: K-type star orbiting near a Wolf-Rayet star, the second farthest of the 12 stars selected for the Lazarus Missions from Gargantua.

Ostro: A-type and M-type double-star system with a wide orbit that orbits a supermassive black hole (Gargantua).

Yashin: F-type star that orbits a supermassive black hole (Gargantua).

Earth: G-type star (the sun).

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Doctor Who/Torchwood planets

Gallifrey: K-type star orbiting a supermassive white hole.

Jack’s home planet: M-type star (TRAPPIST-1).

Raxacoricofallapatorius: F-type star.

{I don’t have a whole lot for DW/TW… 😅 probably coming up with more in the future}

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Original story planets

Earth: G-type star (the sun).

Capricornica: G-type and K-type with far orbiting M-type triple-star system (Alpha Centauri).

Phere: M-type star inside a globular cluster (Beehive Cluster).

Qhorphris: M-type star orbiting near a supermassive black hole (Sagittarius A*).

Iktoparas: stellar-mass white hole.

Dœn: B-type star (EO Leonis).

Felgion: F-type star (Altair).

Melusia: K-type and B-type double-star system (Albireo)

Nauticalia: F-type star (Procyon).

Elixir: K-type and M-type quadruple-star system with wide orbiting B-type and white dwarf double-star system, also includes a brown dwarf (Regulus).

Oasis: M-type star (K2-18).

Romeo & Juliet: G-type star (Tau Ceti).

Chance: M-type star (Barnard’s star).

Silence: A-type star that orbits a supermassive black hole (Quasar APM 08279+5255).

Demeter system: M-type star (TRAPPIST-1).

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A little bit of worldbuilding for TGU - sunfruit jelly

Sunfruit jelly is a Dœnian snack food commonly imported to the rest of the galaxy made from the sunfruit plant. This plant somewhat resembles a mix between a palm tree and a very large pineapple, but in a lot of ways is more similar to a cactus. Due to the intense heat of Dœn’s parent star (known to Eviors as Aa, known to humans as 90 Leonis), a large, blue, B-type main sequence star, Dœn itself is a hot, dry desert planet. To absorb the most light from Dœn’s sun, the sunfruit plant grows a tall stalk and large leaves with phycocyanin (blue) pigment, and stores all its sugars and water at its base. When this massive, spiny bulb is cut open, small seeds and thick, gooey, orange flesh can be found. The flesh of the fruit is extracted, mashed, and chilled to make sunfruit jelly.

The Mazoa’s Oasis company is just one of many distributors of this delicacy, given its name because the Evior name “Mazoa” means “beautiful oasis” or “beautiful water”. I specifically wanted this to be the company’s name since Azadri’s mother was also named Mazoa, and I’d kind of like to think that she eats this snack to remember her and her brother.

Most of the time, sunfruit jelly is packaged with small spoons made from the blue wood of the tree part of a sunfruit plant, carved so that it’s easy to hold between an Evior’s two middle fingers.

[unfortunatetheorist]

What happened to the statue of The Bombinating Beast? - Part 1: ATWQ to ASOUE

This theory is dedicated to @ven10, whose post depicting the statue in the episode of The End (https://www.tumblr.com/unfortunatetheorist/758594891663212544/it-certainly-is-ven10-it-certainly-is?source=share), inspired my thoughts. There are also inferences made by @snicketsleuth (and @snicketstrange) which are used.

So, by the end of WITNDFAON (which I admit I haven't read yet but will get round to), we know that The Bombinating Beast statue is of great importance, as well as:

"Snicket fed Armstrong to the creature, and then wandered into the Clusterous Forest with the statue. It is unknown what he did with the statue and what happened to that beast, or its siblings, after this" ~ Snicket Wiki.

The only hint we have of The Bombinating Beast is that Lemony wanders into the Clusterous Forest with it's statue. Therefore it is important to take into consideration an extra detail about the Clusterous Forest, which links the ATWQ universe to ASOUE:

Lucky Smells Lumbermill gets its green timber from The Clusterous Forest.

This is my line of reasoning as to what happened:

1. Despite being an agent of VFD, Lemony is still a child, so there is a chance he feels some remorse for killing Armstrong Feint/Hangfire.

2. It is out of said remorse that Lemony decides to have nothing to do with the Beast again, burying the statue of the Beast deep in the forest... or so he thinks.

3. During ASOUE (just before TMM) a worker (e.g. Evander) chopping trees for Lucky Smells Lumbermill comes across the statue.

4. Not knowing what to do with it, and being under hypnotic influence, the worker promptly hands it to the foreman, who gives it to Sir.

5. It is extremely likely that Sir (The Miserable Mill) and Wiley Smogface (FU:13SI, ATWQ) are in fact the same person; however, there is no reference of any connection whatsoever between Sir/Smogface and The Bombinating Beast's statue. This implies that he knows nothing about the Beast, which makes little sense given that he is from Stain'd-by-the-Sea.

This logical gap can be filled: if Sir/Smogface had a "very terrible childhood" as Charles has clearly stated during TMM, this could refer to his parents bouncing around from town to town as they seek different jobs with more and more money. Hence, Wiley is left by himself in his parents' latest job-stop - Stain'd-by-the-Sea - unaware of the legend of The Bombinating Beast.

6. Sir has no idea of the power he holds... but apparently, neither does Georgina! There's also no reference to Georgina knowing anything about the statue - she's just a VFD optometrist with a bad reputation who lives in Paltryville, even during the events of ATWQ.

This implies that the statue... well... just stood there, as an ornament, in Sir's office.

7. Someone took the statue from Sir's office at Lucky Smells Lumbermill. But who? Well, whoever it was must have known two things:

a) The importance of the statue

b) It's location

There are only 3 people who seem to fit the bill perfectly - Lemony, Ellington and Moxie.

We know that each of them have their reasons:

Lemony: To use its power to somehow help the Baudelaires.

Ellington: To end it all after falling into a depression from the loss of her father OR to claim revenge on Lemony after having gone through the grief mentioned above.

Moxie: For a great story and the Mallahan legacy; after all, Lady Mallahan allegedly slew the Original Bombinating Beast.

@snicketsleuth's post, 'What is The Great Unknown?' (Full post here: The Snicket Sleuth — What is “The Great Unknown”? (tumblr.com)), says the following:

"Following the events of “All The Wrong Questions”, Ellington eventually escaped from the prison cell with Kit Snicket thanks to the skeleton key in Ellington’s bag. Kit and Ellington, before going their own ways, exchanged a good deal of information. Kit Snicket could not help noticing Ellington acted extremely angry towards Lemony and VFD in general.

In the following years, Ellington worked tirelessly to recover her father’s remaining assets as well as uncovering the secrets of Inhumane Society. Though the book Caviar: Salty Jewel of the Tasty Sea was destroyed, she had had the opportunity to read some chapters Lemony hadn’t. No one knew about the CBB more than her. With some effort, she managed to find the animal hiding in the Clusterous Forest, as well as the Bombinating Beast statue that Lemony had buried there. With the statue, she was now in control of the CBB. Eventually she managed to track down an octopus-shaped submarine which used to belong to Hangfire, only to lose it to Count Olaf.

As Olaf escaped with the submarine (now rebaptized the Carmelita), Ellington pursued him. She used the statue to control the CBB, ordering it to seize the Carmelita. The CBB first encountered the Queequeg in close vicinity to the Queequeg. Unsure whether these two crafts were allied with each other, Ellington ordered the CBB to stand down. Captain Widdershins mistook the question-mark shape on their radar for an enemy submarine.  Later, Ellington witnessed the Queequeg being attacked by the Carmelita, and decided to approach the CBB to scare Count Olaf and help the crew of the Queequeg. Count Olaf also assumed the mysterious entity was an enemy submarine."

I agree with Ellington being the one who takes the statue...

...but I don't think she found it in the Clusterous Forest. Sorry, @snicketsleuth.

8. If Georgina's reputation was really as bad as Moxie made it out to be, there is a chance that Ellington would have visited the Lumbermill in disbelief - I think it is here that she stumbles upon the statue.

9. This happens:

"With the statue, she was now in control of the CBB. Eventually she managed to track down an octopus-shaped submarine which used to belong to Hangfire, only to lose it to Count Olaf.

As Olaf escaped with the submarine (now rebaptized the Carmelita), Ellington pursued him. She used the statue to control the CBB, ordering it to seize the Carmelita. The CBB first encountered the Queequeg in close vicinity to the Queequeg. Unsure whether these two crafts were allied with each other, Ellington ordered the CBB to stand down. Captain Widdershins mistook the question-mark shape on their radar for an enemy submarine.  Later, Ellington witnessed the Queequeg being attacked by the Carmelita, and decided to approach the CBB to scare Count Olaf and help the crew of the Queequeg. Count Olaf also assumed the mysterious entity was an enemy submarine.

The Queequeg eventually escaped from the clutches of the Carmelita. While making their way to the Hotel Denouement, Olaf, Esme and Carmelita Spats realized the Baudelaire orphans’ absence and were betrayed by Fernald and Fiona who let the imprisoned youngsters start a mutiny. Ellington followed the entire mutiny from afar. The youngsters were released. Esme, Olaf and Carmelita fled. The octopus-shaped submarine was eventually given back to Ellington Feint who promised to help Fernald and Fiona if they were ever in trouble."

10. Ellington had no further use for the CBB (as she already gained her father's submarine, which was the intention) so she [presumably, most likely] discarded the statue in the sea, before it washed up on the island, as @ven10 describes.

Part 2 (Post-ASOUE) coming soon,

~ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

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idk he sad

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On his way to the TG University Hospital

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Hi Sarah! Do you have videos of Kalafina's interviews? If yes, do you have the one where Kalafina got interviewed in Tokyo Girls Update program in HD quality? I was only able to find the video in 360p quality which is poor... Anyway sorry if I asked too much. Thank you 😭🙏

Nooo! I am sorry! I don't have it in HD! My version is also just 360p

And no worries, you are not asking too much at all! I am just sorry that I cannot help you with your request😔

Does anyone happen to have Kalafina's Tokyo Girls' Update interview in HD?