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ASoUE Calendar promo postcard
Photo © Meredith Heuer
Concept art by Peter Chan.
Olaf's backyard. I like this depiction of it as sprawling, with what looks like a dilapidated gazebo to the side, leading up to an overgrown outdoor stage.
tv sunny baudelaire is just so simply extremely adorable and i want to hug her and squeeze her and call her george she inspires in me real baby instincts but book sunny baudelaire my beloved!! she was something special. bret helquist put his all into designing book sunny and he walloped it out of the park. amorphous thing with these beady little eyes and a body made of a small nightgown with sometimes the vague shape of a foot to indicate she had limbs. sharp little hands. hair ribbon but for the most part no hair. didnt even have a gender just teeth
Orphans just don’t join morally ambiguous secret societies anymore :/
Orphans are killing the volunteer industry
Back in my day our parents died in a mysterious fire and we were recruited into a secret society (not necessarily in that order) and we liked it. Kids nowadays are so spoiled with their optional tattoos and reluctance to volunteer smh
The tragedy mingled with hope is what keeps me coming back to asoue and to the adults specifically
i KNOW how this story ends but I keep coming back hoping it’ll be different while knowing it can’t be. The adults have to die. The children have to struggle. There has to be hope anyway
It can’t change because the books are already published but I’m talking narratively speaking, it also cannot change. The adults have to die. The children have to struggle. There has to be hope anyway!
Using this on all my friends hope it works
Not so loud, vera. You’ll alert the authorities
“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place.”
Sunny, Violet and Klaus Baudelaire arriving at Lake Lachrymose.
the existing screen adaptations of a series of unfortunate events aren't bad by any means but i think the ideal medium for adapting it would be claymation.
hear me out. the mix of quirky, dreary, fantastical and miserable, that darkness bordered with absurdism, would be so perfect for the textured, gritty, almost grimy feel of claymation, and the cast of characters would adapt sooo well to the style of character design seen in movies like coraline and the corpse bride. the use of color like in corpse bride could go so far, and i can just picture aunt josephine's house or prufrock prep or the circus set design. especially count olaf as he's illustrated on the covers would translate so well to the medium you've GOTTA admit. violet's inventions and sunny's exploits wouldn't feel nearly as out of place as they do in the live-action attempts, either.
tl;dr i feel like when it comes to adapting lemony snicket books, henry selick would understand the assignment.
things i think about CONSTANTLY:
- daniel handler said that everyone in a series of unfortunate events and the surrounding universe is jewish “unless stated otherwise”
- the only time it could possibly have been considered “stated otherwise” is in the netflix tvv, when poe and his wife mention being the only kids in their class without b'nei mitzvahs
- literally the only non-jewish characters in this series are the bankers
- daniel handler is the funniest man alive
[ID. Yellow digital lineart on black background. Angel wings are sketched in darkness alongside fuzzy all-caps lines of text. Text reads, “Purity is a concept made to shame you
You need not be clean to be good
And damn the hands that tried to dirty you”. End ID.]
can white people stop boo-hooing about how they lost their favorite vacation spot because of the fires on maui? it’s vile. people lost their lives and their homes. no one gives a shit that your colonizing ass can’t go somewhere you were never welcome anyway
This AND if you’ve ever visited/vacationed in Hawái it’s time to pay up. If y’all love Hawái so much, show it by donating. Oh, and never go back. That native land has been EXPLOITED by vacationers and capitalism. The government is spending money and resources in order to house and feed tourists/visitors OVER sending help to the native people who NEED IT. Stop going to Hawái. It’s not your land.
Just wanted to add on to this a concrete example: a couple years ago the Hawaiian government implemented water rationing FOR LOCALS ONLY, while continuing to allow tourists to use as much water as they wanted for fancy hotels, spas, pools, and GOLF COURSES. This is obviously the exact opposite of how water shortages should be addressed. I don't even think many of the tourists had any idea that the water they used on vacation was literally being taken from the homes of indigenous people: many tourists think they are helping local economies. I would LOVE to visit Hawaii and see amazing Polynesian biomes and active volcanoes without a passport, but I have resigned myself to the fact that there is currently no ethical way for me to do so. Visiting Hawaii would take needed resources from the people who live there, and the tourism industrial complex would actively lie to me about it if I tried to travel there in an ethical or sustainable manner. The US has really plundered those amazing islands and done so much harm to them in so many ways. Native Hawaiians are begging tourists to stay away. So please take their demands seriously and enjoy Hawaii's amazing natural wonders through video instead of in person.
Why Hawaii needs a break from tourism — perspective from local resident palanichang on tiktok
[VD: Video answering a comment from Jamesy asking, “Help me understand how a break from tourism would help Hawaii?” Local resident talking in the car answers, “Sure thing, so many people know that the Hawaiian Islands are located in the very middle of the Pacific Ocean, what people don’t realize is because of our location and how small our islands are our natural resources are limited. Especially water. That is why we use these natural resources responsibly and respectfully. Now you take that and then you add tourism. When people come to visit our islands, they’re going to need resources as well, and as more people start visiting our islands, the more resources we use up. Take Maui for example: Back in 2016, I think Maui was going through a drought, so the city and county asked for the residents in Maui to preserve their water, use as much as possible. We’re talking about showers, talking about washing clothes, washing cars, feeding the animals. Now why would they ask that? That is because of the drought that’s going on, they had to divert majority of the stream water to hotels, resorts, attractions, heck, even golf courses. Which is why, when you add tourism to the mix, our resources are being used irresponsibly. That’s only going to go to those who are only visiting the islands. Also, people don’t realize is that tourism has never helped the native Hawaiian community. They only supported the corporations that brought tourism in. Another thing that people need to realize that tourism was brought over by the United States military, not native Hawaiians, and what they would do is take our culture, fantasize it, sexualize it, and make it attractive, so that people can come and visit. When, during the Kingdom of Hawaii days, we never needed tourism. It wasn’t a necessity. As a matter of fact, the economy during the Kingdom of Hawaii days was solid. It only got worse when American businessmen took over, known as the Republic of Hawaii back in 1898, and the strong economy that the Kingdom of Hawaii worked so hard to build crumbled. And that’s why tourism started. I know many people argue quote, ‘well you guys should have a bunch of goods. Ninety percent of your goods are always imported’ end quote. Why do you think that is? A lot of our farmlands and properties, they got closed down and sold to make room for more houses. But it’s also so that American businesses and corporations can thrive here. Especially shipping their goods. Which also leads to another problem: real estate. But I’ll cover that in another video. The harsh reality is, tourism has done a lot more harm than good here. Our people in Maui, they need our help. We need to focus our resources towards them not you. That’s why I said we need a break.” End VD]