‘your brain isn’t fully developed until it’s 25’ this, ‘i’m in my twenties but I still basically feel like a bigger child’ that
everyone shut the fuck up
the only TRUE way to know for sure if you’re an adult is the chilling moment where you realise that yeah, if the Baudelaire orphans came to you for help, you’d probably fail them too in spite of your best intentions
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When Fiona terrified me
This remains one of the most intense sections of ASOUE:
Captain Widdershins has been introduced as a comic relief character who is both funny and unnerving. He is ridiculously over the top, but never helpful. To the Baudelaires, Fiona appears as the voice of reason and empathy that Widdershins is lacking. Without her, coexistence on the Queequeg most likely would not work.
Widdershins is so caught up in his world that he fails to see the needs of the children under his care. As eccentric, entertaining, and well-meaning as he may be, in the end, he lets them down when they would have needed him.
And once he’s gone, Fiona copes by taking his role. Suddenly, she is commanding and won’t listen to anyone else. At this point, the Baudelaires have no idea if she actually knows what she’s doing. She is nothing like the reasonable, prudent, compassionate friend from just minutes ago. While this feels out of character, it makes perfect sense for Fiona to react this way: When she is left to fend for herself, she takes charge by imitating the most influential role model in her life.
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Untie My Silence Knot Chapter 6 - L, you're so clueless
I should have asked L those 13 questions directly when we met. I tried to convince myself several times that I had forgotten to ask. Then I tried to convince myself several times that this was no longer important. Then I tried to convince myself that it was better not to know the answers. After all, if he didn't answer me there must be a reason. Maybe he just ripped my letter up in an impulse of anger … But I can't imagine L doing such a thing. But I also can't imagine him not answering that letter. And after that, still having the courage to show up here … How could he have had the courage to do that without answering those questions?
I went back to the library and got my copy of Ivan Lachrymose - Lake Explorer. I opened it between pages 302 and 303 and took out a card that L had given me. I never really understood what L had done while in Stain'd-By-The-Sea. But whatever it was, now it was time to collect some favors in his name.
I didn't find B at the mansion for the rest of the afternoon. The children were busy with their affairs, and it was soon dark. B must have left, as I didn't even see him in his room. I checked if he was in the secret tunnel, and not. The car was still in the garage. If he had left, it must have been on foot, by rental carriage, or by taxi. That was awful. I couldn't go out and leave the children alone.
I decided to call Violetta.
I talked to her about the plant I had found.
Do you have the antidote at the hospital? - I asked.
Yes, we do. Are you sure you want to continue with this?
Yes, I am. It is now or never.
Then, I decided to call the Royal Gardens, since I couldn't go there at the moment. The woman I needed to speak with would be finishing work soon. I asked the operator to call Miss K., chief scientist at the Royal Gardens.
Miss K?
Yes. It's her. But K is my maiden name. I got married recently.
I'm calling to ask a very important favor.
Who is talking?
Unfortunately I can't identify myself. But we have a mutual friend named L.
And what might his last name be?
Snicket.
I'm sorry. I don't trust phone calls.
C, I have a card that L gave me. L told me that if I gave you the card, you could do me a favor.
What kind of favor would you want me to do?
I need you to find a certain plant there for me.
Which plant?
Conium Maculatum.
This plant is in the Poisonous Pavilion .. No sample of the plant can leave here.
If this plant could be legally removed I would not need to be charging you a favor in the name of L.
Bring the card here. If it's really true, I'll help you. But I want you to know that L is helping you to commit a crime, whoever you are.
I heard the noise of B coming.
I have to turn off. Please wait for me at the entrance around 10:30 pm. Tonight.
B came into the house. I went to greet him.
Where have you been, dear? I was worried about you…
Are the kids in their rooms?
Yes, they are. Way?
I don't want them to see their mother making up a lot of lies to justify that.
He brought a file of letters. It was the file of letters L had sent me.
So you went to E.'s house. I don't understand … He promised that he would never show this file to anyone but me.
It seems that your brother also breaks the trust that others have in him. It must be a family problem.
I am not going to lie B. I couldn't get rid of these letters. You know L and I had a history together. As much as you want to undo this story, you can't go back in time and erase what I lived with him.
I'm not talking about the past, B. If you love me, burn those letters in the fireplace now, in front of me.
I will not do it. But that doesn't mean that I don't love you!
Some things in an actress's life are difficult to understand unless you're an actress, an actor, or you live in constant disguise. My secret was to write about it. I hate to write that it didn't work for me. I no longer knew what was pretend and what was real. But I knew that the tears that started to fall in an amazing volume of my eyes were real. I wanted to shout something but I didn't know what words to shout! From the bottom of my heart a feeling gradually materialized in the form of words. The words were "Forgive Me, please". I started to sob. Who was I trying to apologize to? To B? To L? To my children? To O's Father? To my parents? To myself?
I never wanted a hug as much as I did in that moment. But nobody came to hug me. L was not there, as I did not marry him. My parents were not there because they had died. My kids were sleeping, because I couldn't be honest with them about how I really felt or what my life was like. My friends were scattered around the world on dangerous missions. And my husband … My husband didn't come to hug me even though he was in front of me.
I wish my parents were alive so I could call them to ask for help in my marriage. I didn't want them to have been murdered for being involved in VFD. I wish I had spent time with them and not gone far, and not even being able to say goodbye to them. I wanted to go to a normal school, fall in love with normal schoolmates, and be disappointed like any normal girl. I wanted to choose who to marry, and I wanted to have a normal marriage. I wanted to have normal fights with my husband. I came to the library, got my commonplace book from the secret drawer. I came to the tunnel and recorded these latest events. I'll call a taxi and meet Miss K. I'll leave it behind this brick, which is a secret compartment in the tunnel. I don't know if anyone will ever find what I wrote here, but I hope so. My life has become a tangled knot. Now I'm going to control something for myself.
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Confidential.
Note to the Archive: Please add this writing to the Snicket File.
Preferably on page 9.
J.
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