#vfd

[victorsqualor]

sunny baudelaire i love you

[whipcreamsucks]

this sucks so bad i need to (remembers suicide jokes only make my mental health worse) join a secret society revolving around elaborate eye motifs, literature and also fire-fighting

[wakkass]

No matter how much time passes, I'll still periodically return to the universe of ASoUE and draw something.

And recently I had an epiphany. I remembered the final credits of the movie (2004), and I somehow wildly wanted to see such a cartoon. I think that ASoUE are ideal for adaptation in animation, especially in the style of these very credits.

This inspired me to draw their world literally out of paper. I imagine cutout animation where everything is intentionally made out of paper, cardboard, wallpaper and other materials that burn easily 😏

Thanks to Alice for the animation style examples

The Baudelaires are children's drawings on scraps of book pages. Olaf is a doll from a paper puppet theater. Aunt Josephine consists of calligraphic elements, and Esme is made of clippings from fashion magazines. And so on.

I also imagine how the logic of the world adapts to the material from which it is made. For example, paper gets wet and swells when in contact with real water, and cut things can be glued together with glue or tape, if you find them between the pages.

In general, I would like to develop and think about everything that is shown in the credits further. Imho, this is a very creative visual and a fresh basis for interpreting events

[mvrphys-art]

the world is quiet here

[veryferaldistributions]

I can’t say this enough, even as a full grown adult, a fully degreed librarian, who has read many things, many types of books.

A Series of Unfortunate Events is masterful.

It pulls from all worlds of knowledge, all variations of literature, religions, philosophies, cultures, even cuisine. It’s not just a fictional story of a secret organization and some orphans, it’s a metaphor for censorship, for the corruption of the justice system, the neglect of the foster system, the questionable nature of public education, but the equally complex nature of sheltering yourself from harsh truths, even if those truths could also help you.

The morality of the neutrality of librarians (a phrase which here means, “whether or not a librarian should give a patron whatever they ask for, even if what they want is misinformation”). The endless search for answers in a confusing world. The rather bleak understanding that every generation basically acts the same way as the previous ones, unaware of the neverending cycle. If there are really such things as “good” and “bad” people. And the eventuality and unavoidability of death.

And Snicket, as the reader’s guide, never tells you what to think, only what certain terms mean, and leaves the reader to come to their own conclusions. He trusts our own intelligence.

I cannot properly convey how much I appreciate Daniel Handler for putting this series into the world.

[wrongitsablog]

[mosseastar]

"...the world is too quiet without you nearby." –lemony snicket |

Beatrice Baudelaire | fan art♡

[thelorrax]

fandom so small we fit in a rickety trolley