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the bad beginning:

the reptile room:

the wide window:

the miserable mill:

the austere academy:

the ersatz elevator:

the vile village:

The Vile Village! Do you like crows? How about elders, burning at the stake, skittish guardians, and the departure of Duncan and Isadora? You know the deal; tell me all your thoughts.

- @snicketsundays

Hello @snicketsundays / @drowninginredink,

The Vile Village. Uh... Village. It's vile.

I think the idea of (what is effectively) a dictatorship run by crows, enforced by three humans, is remarkably funny.

Especially the Netflix flag, and it's resemblance to another similar-looking flag used under the rule of a real, human dictator...

Plus the crow portrait. Love her or loathe her, reminds me of the Iron Lady.

I'm suddenly wondering if there's a secret tunnel between the Fountain of Victorious Finance and Fowl Fountain...

...wait — there can't be (well, not in Netflix canon, anyway) because Fowl Fountain is on the island in The End.

D.Q. + V.B. = ...0, apparently?

Duncan and Isadora's kidnapping, whilst immoral, is tactical on Olaf's part; even Jacques Snicket doesn't find them...

...but, alas, he dies trying.

Thanks to a crowbar in a crow bar and some old people being right about books being dangerous.

Officer Luciana and her outfit (and how it served a "different purpose" before ASOUE!)

Detective Dupin and his scatting,

"Shoo-bop, ba-doo-wop, ba-doo-bi-doo-bowww! Yeahhh..."

And:

"and... also... a rhyme is a hard thing to do, doo-ba-doo-ba-dah-ba-doo-bi-doo-bang!"

And:

"Orphans! Love scatting about orphans! Nothing rhymes with orphans... Except for maybe portions, or... Arson, that's more of like a half-rhyme..."

BURN 'EM IN A FIRE! BURN 'EM IN A FIRE!

The children's power play with the fire truck is an interesting insight into their changing psyche.

It comes with a noose,

The Vile Village! Do you like crows? How about elders, burning at the stake, skittish guardians, and the departure of Duncan and Isadora? You know the deal; tell me all your thoughts.

- @snicketsundays

the vile village. vfd!

honestly the western/american gothic/midwest emo tone of this one just hits different. it's so different from the rest and gahhhhh I love how netflix did it truly. the set design to the costumes (violet's dress in the beginning save me violet's dress in the beginning) is immaculate.

jacques oh god my man 💔 his characterization in the books haunts me, this man that the baudelaires no nothing about but that he is sacred and fighting and is connected to something, who they only got to know in death and as another victim. this combined with lemony's grief just augh dear god (fucking NAILED in netflix (tee? taa?) when they're sitting in the taxi together and whistling the same tune, except they're not because lemony is just narrating and jacques is whistling by himself and this all happened years ago and now jacques is long dead. fuck i can't handle this chained by the narrative shit i'm getting out of here guys). why do i always end up talking about the same things it's crazy

Anyway. here, have a poem i wrote (a long time ago, not my best work)

movie lookbooks — the vvitch

I was recently discussing about the city of VFD on TVV. I now believe that the village is formed mainly by descendants of some former splinter group of the secret organization VFD. In other words, the formation of the village is the result of an ancient schism, one of the many schisms that have existed in VFD throughout history. Consider the following: 1 - In TPP Dewey makes a quote about boys throwing rocks at frogs (chapter 8) which is credited to one of the first volunteers. In the real world, Bion of Borysthenes (c. 325 – c. 250 BC) made this quote originally, showing that VFD is actually very old, probably starting in ancient Greece, at the time of Alexander the Great (which is also quoted by Lemony) or a little later. 2 - Both Olaf (in TE) and Lemony in ATWQ claim that there were several schisms. Lemony implies that he is talking about events that took place over hundreds of years. 3 - VFD village crows are trained crows. In TSS the Woman with the Beard but No Hair shows that the volunteers got the crows in a way similar to the way arsonists got the eagles. This implies that in that city there are some VFD members (or several members) besides Hector, who are responsible for using the crows in missions if necessary. (As happened in the TPP, with Hector himself no longer available in the village to command the crows). 4 - What happened in the city of CSC is very similar to what happened on the Island. But in the city, the proportions were apparently greater and the social structures were much better established. Note: Apparently the townspeople of VFD created strict laws aimed at keeping the peace, as at some point in authority people (ancestors of the council of elders) determined that technology and knowledge are things that can end peace. Ish demonstrated the same attitude on the Island. The difference is that while Ish was trying to manipulate people by giving them a false sense of freedom of choice, in VFD village it was quite clear that the law restricted his freedom. While on Ish Island he tried to create an undercover religious cult centered on a charismatic leader who was himself, in the VFD village religion was not something in disguise: there was an official religion that worshiped crows in that village, and this was evidently used to promote stability social and brotherhood in an attempt to keep the peace. As on the island, the inhabitants of VFD tried to find peace by withdrawing from the rest of society, a philosophy much like hermitism. Ishmael tried to impose a punishment on those he deemed dangerous to the peace, just as the VFD village laws already did in a far more shocking way: burning people. The act of the law encouraging an execution through collective participation in the act of execution, both inculcated fear of disobedience and allowed that the violent side of each citizen could be spilled over into an eventual and legally permitted public event. All of these similarities point to a similar origin: just as Ish formed the community on the Island after witnessing a lot of violence caused by the Splits and treacheries of the world, something like this must have motivated the founders of the VFD village. Just as Ish had been guided by the phrase "the world is quite here" and tried to make his island a quiet place at all costs, the founders of VFD village must also have tried to create their own version of the quiet town (something similar to that movie " The village".) If there is anything true about the village story told by Hector, it must be the fact that 200 years before the main story of asoue happened, a group that controlled VFD crows decided to break up and form their own village, trying to prove that they were the only ones. The way to achieve a quiet world is through social isolation and disincentives to inventiveness, technology and the search for knowledge. It is noteworthy that about 200 years before the time when it is generally assumed to have taken place, the invention of the revolver took place in our world.

*Jacques looks at Olivia ‘gosh she’s perfect’ he thinks ‘maybe I should let her know’ he also thinks*

Jacques: That mans villianry knows no bounds