Fucked up how women are expected to preform femininity to such an unreasonable, expensive and time consuming degree right now. Obviously that’s been an aspect of patriarchy forever but theres a late capitalist spin on it in our current period that’s just so extreme and unrealistic.. I feel like this is something people don’t see as getting worse but in, say, the 70s it was totally normal for women to go outside without foundation on. The degree to which women are expected to compete with other women in the amount of money and unpaid time they spend on their appearance every day has accelerated along with the acceleration and of global capitalism in general
There’s a massive feminist movement erupting in South Korea right now where women are posting pictures of their destroyed makeup collections in protest of the massive amounts of sacrifice they’re expected to make towards conventional beauty just to be employed or viewed as normal. I know liberals like to talk about this stuff being a choice but when thousands of people are saying that it ISN’T a choice for them, and is in fact something they feel cornered into that’s actively harming them, that’s something worth listening to
Liberals are incapable of seeing a critique of the democrats from an anti-capitalist as arising from anything except secret conservatism, because they genuinely do not believe perpectives besides “liberal” and “conservative” can actually exist
As a fandom we don’t talk enough about this theory though. And i never do a lot of analyses in this blog, but i did a lot, over the years in a small blue notebook sitting in my library waiting to shine.
So it’s your time to shine little blue notebook, because i really want to share all of the theories i wrote there over the years.
I think that every asoue fan, thought about that at least once in their life. It’s a theory that makes sense. Beatrice met (and married) Bertrand in a short period after her break up with Lemony, so it’s not impossible. Maybe Lemony and Beatrice had an… ugh… tender night, she broke up with him after that (we dont know why, but still) and some weeks (?) ago she ended up with daddy Baudelaire. Boom.
This explains a lot of things.
Why Lemony feels so dedicated to the Baudelaire children and especially to Violet. Yes i always thought that Lemony discriminates Violet, in some ways. He gives to her a little more attention than Klaus and Sunny. He seems to be really ‘‘fascinated’‘ by her, but not in the disgusting, creepy and sexual way Olaf is. Of course she’s the daughter of his lost beauty, and also Violet is a beauty herself and she makes a strong reflection of Beatrice in a lot of ways, but what if Lemony just feels a fatherly love towards her?
Why Violet remembers Jacques. Maybe when she was still a baby, Beatrice went to the Snickets with her, so they could meet their baby niece.
Why Kit was so tender with Violet, when she tied up her hair. She couldn’t tell her anything (about Lemony being her father) of course, everything was already too messed up at this moment. But she had a sweet moment with her niece.
Why Beatrice wanted specifically to name her first born after Lemony. But her first born was a girl so they probably named Violet after someone else of the family, but why she didn’t gave the name to Klaus? She didn’t want to give the name ‘’Lemony’’ to one of her childrens, but in her first born children.
Also i think that this theory fits pretty well with the ‘’Count Olaf is Beatrice Jr’s real father’’. As @snicketsleuth pointed out in one of their theories, asoue is full of reflections (the whole ‘’reflection theme’’ in the 12th book is a pretty good metaphor for this).
Lemony being Violet’s father, and Olaf being Beatrice Jr’s father, is two similar events. Two ambiguous characters, being in a relationship with a woman. The woman gets pregnant and after that they break up. They end up with another man (Dewey, Bertrand). Their child is a girl. And both mothers die at the end.
It’s the exact same situation.
If Violet is Lemony’s daughter that explains Olaf’s creepy attraction to her too. She reminds him of Beatrice (i always thought that younger Olaf was in love with Beatrice. I think in the third book of ATWQ Lemony saw a graffiti‘’Olaf is in love with B.’’??? Or something like that??? I’m not sure about that it’s been so long since i read ATWQ for the last time, if i’m wrong correct me) but she also reminds him of Kit. It is possible that she maybe has some characteristics of Kit. So he reminds him both of Beatrice and Kit.
He couldn’t have Beatrice. He couldn’t have Kit. So he didn’t just tried to steal her fortune by marrying her, but also make a victory and finally be with one Baudelaire/Snicket girl. Yikes.
The whole theory of Violet being actually a Snicket creates so much dramatic irony through the series. And also there’s more dramatic irony on the Baudelaires raising their worst enemy’s daugter.
Sounds like a soap opera, but make so much sense.
Give me your ideas too people!
Also I mean, they had to go out there and give show Violet the exact same blue eyes Lemony has when Klaus and Sunny have brown ones. How convenient lol
The timing is ambiguous enough for it to work.
The real fuel for the theory in my book is Kit telling Violet in 12.2:
“You look just like your father.” Kit sighed. “He wore the same frown whenever he was
confused, although he almost never tied his hair up in a ribbon when he solved a problem…”
Kit would have spent a fair bit of time with Bertrand, but this sounds very much like something a sister who believes her brother to be dead would say to her niece.
ALSO there is a lot of Lemony being associated with breaking the gender norms in ATWQ. “Almost never” implies that Violet’s father would occasionally wear a hair ribbon. This is consistent with the Lemony we get to know in ATWQ. We do not see enough of Bertrand to know whether or not he would be comfortable breaking gender norms, especially on more than one occasion.
Regardless of whether or not Violet actually is Lemony’s child, Kit may believe that Violet is her niece.
I always say ‘get a hobby’ on here but I’m not joking get a hobby it’s literally so good for you! Like you learn something new, get to reclaim passion and interest that you thought you lost forever to mental illness, it feels nice being decent at something, and it gives you something to talk about if you’re like me and have a hard time conversing with others. And basically anything can be a hobby? You daydream a lot well now your hobby’s worldbuilding! You like going for walks now your hobby’s local sightseeing. This is a pro-hobby blog 100%
Oh there are TONS and I can’t list them all lol, but here are some I really loved!
At the end of Season One production, Barry Sonnenfeld and Rose Lam (Executive Producer) went to Netflix and were like “listen you gotta renew is for two more seasons at once if you renew us at all or else the kids are gonna be all grown up” and Netflix was like “sounds legit” and gave them two seasons. [pg. 11]
Daniel Handler decided Neil Patrick Harris would be a good Count Olaf after watching his 2011 Tony Awards performance number (”It’s Not Just for Gays Anymore.”) Barry Sonnenfeld happened to run into NPH and his family at a Thanksgiving dinner and said, “Hey, there’s a show coming up that I haven’t been hired for yet, and I can’t tell you anything about it, but if I do get hired, I’d love for you to be the star.” And he just said, “Okay.” [pg. 19]
In Season One, Malina Weissman was “a godsend, because she would soothe Presley, all while getting ready to do her own acting.” Louis Hynes, meanwhile, was scared of Presley cause he was afraid he would drop her. [pg. 23]
The inspiration for the Lemony Snicket narration scenes came from on-screen narrators in 50s-60s specials, specifically Alfred Hitchcok and Rod Serling. [pg. 32]
NPH says that initially one of his influences for his performance as Olaf was Alan Rickman as Snape in Harry Potter. [pg. 51]
The writing for the show took place in Daniel Handler’s living room and he’d make them dinner. [pg. 57]
Handler would write the song lyrics, while Nick Urata (composer) would write the melody and switch around lyrics that didn’t work. [pg. 64]
There’s a portrait of Sonnenfeld in every episode because they put one in TBB and it became a running joke. [pg. 89]
Cynthia Summers (costumer) was inspired by Drew Barrymore’s ball dress in Ever After for Beatrice’s dragonfly costume. [pg. 111]
There is an entire fucking section just for the Sets and I can’t transcribe all the cool things but here’s some highlights:
The only set that wasn’t made in the studio was The Miserable Mill. [pg. 123]
The Miserable Mill had to be shot on a location because The Wide Window took up all the stage space, and everyone thinks the scene where the kids walk through the woods is funny because their “fake forests feel more like the show than the real ones.” [pg/ 141]
Nathan Fillion was crying during the “What I wouldn’t give to spend another day with my brother” scene in TAA2. [pg. 149]
Sonnenfeld didn’t know that Ms. Bass’s chalkboard would have spoilers/hints on it until he got to set, because the art department came up with it on their own, and he thought it was amazing. [pg. 150]
Absolutely everyone in The Ersatz Elevator is in some kind of pinstripes. [pg. 155]
The Vile Village bird statue was on hidden wheels so it could be at a good angle in every shot, communicating to non-book readers that it was important. [pg. 160]
Basically everyone hated working with the Taxi. [pg. 176]
Handler says they “drew a lot of terrible maps to figure out the layout of the Queequeg”, and joked that “when we remake the show again in twenty years, we’ll get a cartographer.” (sucks that they just lost Quigley one episode ago lol) [pg. 182]
Sonnenfeld specifically wanted Hotel Denouement to be green because it makes people’s flesh tones look good. Bo Welch said that the main facade of the hotel was made to resemble a library card catalog. [pg. 191] They also were going to have book wallpaper but felt that was too obvious so the wallpaper has tropical island design as a foreshadowing for The End. [pg. 192]
The End was designed to be more of an Epilogue than a Climax, and it has significantly less comedy and more character and theme-driven storytelling. They designed it to look and feel kind of like a hallucination. [pg. 196]
Also yes I solved the code and no I’m not telling any of you, it was such a thrill to figure it out y’all need to experience that.
No two women have the same experience. All feminism is founded not on actual essential unity, but on political coalition and affirmation of shared political needs and goals.
Race, culture, class, birth assignment, religion, and countless other factors mean all women experience womanhood differently. Excluding trans women because we have a different life experience misses the point that all women have different life experiences. This idea isn’t even new, its not even specific to trans women, its literally the point Crenshaw and Collins and Mohanty and countless other woc and third world feminists have been making for decades now.
Brazil did it. Brazil elected a neo-facist, racist, homophobic asshole to govern our country and the consequences about it it’s already happening.
In less than 24h since he’s been elected it’s been hell of fucking earth in Brazil. Countless people have been reported dead all over the country, mainly LGBTQ+. Countless. People parading around cities with their fucking guns (it’s pretty much illegal in Brazil but this asshole is trying to change our law to allow guns, he’s even encouraging parents to give their kids a gun ????), shooting it into the sky in sign of victory. Did you know that one of those bullets killed a child? Yeah. One killed an old lady too. There’s been report of them invading a indigenous village and attacked them. They’ve been saying they are going to kill every single “slut”, “fag”, “dyke”, poor people, Nordestino (people that lives in Nordeste, a region in Brazil, that is mainly against this government), black and homeless people. Aka in the last 24h Brazil felt what is like to live in the fucking Purge.
There’s already people recruiting “good citizens” to erradicate Brazil of “fags and dykes, because now that their master’s been elected, there’s nothing protecting them, they’re not even people.” I kid you not. They’ve created group chats in popular apps to talk about mass shooting the LGBTQ+ community in Brazil. Yesterday there were people waiting outside a queer club to beat anyone that went outside.
Our police enforcement already started to invade college campuses and schools to destroy history books because they think our teachers are indoctrinating us in favor of communism. These history books tells about our 1964 military dictatorship (something we’re very afraid of happening again and we’re pretty sure is gonna happen with this demon in charge). They are trying to say that we choose to elect a military government back then, when in fact was a fucking coup. They’re also trying to get rid of philosophy classes and social studies because they think it only teach us to become communists as well. Basically, they’re all very ignorant and violents and they’re trying to fuck with the only fucking hope we have to our future: education.
You won’t probably hear many of the things I’m saying because I’ve been reading it on social media, and everything we (the opposition) say on social media is basically reported as “fake news” by his voters. But yeah, I can’t count how many videos I’ve saw today of women getting beaten and threatened. Of how many stories I’ve read of people walking the streets and cars pullover poiting guns at them and threaten them. Of people posting pictures of their “victory bbq” with guns spread in their tables close to their fucking meat. Of how many times I’ve cried since his pronouncement, thinking about how I’ve never felt so unsafe in my entire life. Of how I’ll have to be cautious about everything from now on, if I don’t want to become another casualty.
If you don’t believe what I’m saying, read about what foreign news are talking about us:
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