#Beard Kit

[waywardted]

Boy oh boy, if you knew Coach Beard, you’d know what a big deal that was.

[riahollywood]

jesus 😻

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[unfortunatetheorist]

If Esmé didn't trust Olivia during the events of The Vile Village, what would have happened?

***N.B. This is a Netflix-Canon Theory - in future, I'll just use NCT, but I don't think I'll do [m]any book-canon theories, all the masters (@snicketstrange, @snicketsleuth, @thesnicketfile, etc.) have picked a lot of it apart, in INSANE-ly brilliant detail.***

This is a question that I have pondered for a while and, frankly, it's about time I made a theory for it.

Ok, time to focus.

In TVV, we see a desperate Olivia make a deal with a sugar-bowl-hungry Esmé to get out of jail. In fact, this is something that is done by many characters throughout the timeline of the series - it's the reason Beatrice and Bertrand Baudelaire stayed alive for so long.

The sugar bowl is undoubtedly a symbol of power, and a crystal-clear reflection of Lord Acton's (rather) famous quote:

Power/The Sugar Bowl corrupted the entire organisation! In the flashbacks of TPP, we see the start of the schism that will literally, figuratively, and a bit ironically, "burn V.F.D. to the ground".

The series gives us a Very Frank Description of why Esmé craves her beloved sugar bowl - "it completes [her] tea set".

So it makes complete sense for her to scream like a madwoman (well, to me at least) when Beatrice and Lemony (more or less) run off with it.

But if Esmé didn't trust Olivia during TVV, what would've happened? I think:

Everyone, the Baudelaires included, would still have ended up at Heimlich Hospital.

Esmé would've focused on helping Olaf (again) in trying to capture the Baudelaires (again).

The Baudelaires would NOT have found out that one of their parents may have been alive; Olaf, Esmé, and the troupe would've searched high and low for them, and would've found them at about the same time as they did in the show, if not, earlier.

Kit would've taken the sugar bowl to the V.F.D. HQ, in the Mortmain Mountains, in a storyline where the events of The Slippery Slope get brought forward to the end of The Hostile Hospital / the start of The Carnivorous Carnival - The Sinister Duo threaten Kit to hand over the sugar bowl, or they burn the V.F.D. HQ; she uses Beatrice's wings to fly, but The Duo burn the HQ down in addition to sending the eagles after her.

So, in short, nothing much. Well, as far as I can work out...

¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

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Kit Harrington

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Kit Harington

[ani4detal]

Peter Molnar update. Doing my fave thing - the shirt strip. Still looking great. Still got those mad eyes!

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MEN AT PLAY - Kit Cohen & Leo Bacchus - Blackmail Part #2

[livyshmivvy]

Ok, i just found out this is a thing, and babes… I’ll see you in a whiiiiiillle

[heelhausen]

TWO OF THEM????

[josefavomjaaga]

Laure Junot about Jérôme

While looking for more information on Jérôme's duel I came across what I presume to be the original source of the "nécessaire" anecdote. Turns out it's from the Memoires of the Duchess d'Abrantès, Volume 3. Which does not reassure me about it. Especially as Laure claims that the story was told to them by Napoleon himself. That's two dubious sources in one.

That being said, here it is because it's such a nice story 😁.

That same evening, when the conversation turned to Jérôme for quite some time, the First Consul told us that he had incurred one of the funniest debts imaginable at the age of fifteen. The First Consul was at Marengo, and his brother was already serving; but still too young to go to the cannon, or for whatever reason, Jérôme had stayed in Paris. On the return of the First Consul, Bourrienne was presented with a large number of memorandums for which payment was urgently required, and for quite large sums; Biennais figured prominently among them, for a total of eight or ten thousand francs. Huge investigation, huge buzz; how could such a huge debt have been incurred? Finally, after much searching, it was found that Monsieur Jérôme Bonaparte had bought from Monsieur Biennais, in the Rue Saint-Honoré, at the Violet Monkey ["Le Singe violet"], a magnificent travel set, with everything that can be invented for luxury and elegance, in gold, mother-of-pearl, silver and ivory; the finest porcelain, the best painted enamels, in short, a real gem: but one very essential thing was missing, and that was a beard so that it could be used; for everything it contained had no other purpose. Razors, beard dishes of all sizes in gilt, silver and porcelain, a moustache comb - in short, it was a marvel; but the beard was lacking, and unfortunately the young man was only fifteen: there were still many years to wait. The First Consul told us this little story in a very pleasant way.

That implies that Jérôme had already joined the army before the Marengo campaign. And it makes his anger at not being allowed to follow the army at least understandable.

It also seems as if Napoleon in this case was not particularly angry at Jérôme, treating it as a boy's foolishness.

[libradoodle1]

Ok, why the hell did Kit NOT have a beard in Extrapolations??? Holy hell, look how hot he is with just a little bit of editing I did!!! 🔥🔥🔥

We can all thank @youwerenevermine for the share 🤭

[sethdomain]

I hate shaving so bad.

[cheddar-inq]

hii time for a bearded dragon / rolly ramble :3

i do not believe that bearded dragons can only experience basic emotions (fear, pleasure, aggression is what i typically see listed or varying synonyms and similar emotions)

i genuinely cannot believe that at all.

yesterday i was crying and shaking after just a lot of stress and emotions built up and i kinda just broke, it happens every now and then and im all good now (its a bad habit that comes with me bottling up emotions and not knowing how to express them properly, so all it takes sometimes is something small to happen and i just snap)

and while i was sitting in my room crying i heard rolly readjust on her basking rock so i went over to sit by her tank, i like watching her and it gave me something positive to focus on

after a minute of me sitting there sobbing, she jumped off her rock and ran up to the wall of her tank closest to me and started kind of moving back and forth like she does when she sees me getting worms, only towards me instead of the wall of her tank thats closest to the worms. i figured she was hungry but she kept doing it even when i showed i had nothing and when i put my hand in the tank, she ran up and put her front feet on my hand which is what she does when she wants to be picked up.

she just cuddled with me. i sat on the floor against the wall and she couldve moved if she wanted but she didnt. she didnt move an inch until i calmed down, and even then she only readjusted. she didnt want to explore. she didnt want to run around. she didnt want food. she just wanted to snuggle.

she has never done that before. the only time shes ever ran into my hand like that is either one time when she pooped and wanted out and then sometimes in the bath when shes done and wants out. i checked, her tank was completely clean.

she wanted to comfort me i think. i dont even think thats me giving her too many human traits or qualities or anthropomorphizing her (i think thats the term for that? when you treat an animal like what its doing are human traits and qualities, like being motherly and needing to be comforted after things, ect) but i think that was genuinely her wanting to comfort me. after she laid her eggs and she got a soak she refused to go back in her tank and just wanted to cuddle. i think she needed that comfort too.

despite everything with science and research into beardies saying they have a very underdeveloped emotions part of the brain and thats why they cant experience complex emotions, i just. cant believe thats true at all.

COUNTLESS stories and videos of bearded dragons doing what rolly did when i was crying. of beardies having full black beards and stress marks until their owner calmed down. of becoming depressed when their owner is on a trip or gone for a while and refuses to eat or barely will at all until they come back, and they perk up immediately.

running to greet their owners, refusing to explore unless that specific person is there, trusting them more than others. comforting them and going to them for comfort.

when we went to the vet because we only had a small cardboard box with no lid i had to just carry rolly in, and despite a big dog barking and growling at her, she wasnt bothered at all and just stayed on my shirt. during the vet appointment when the vet was done checking her heart rate and such, she practically jumped out of his hands and ran right onto my shirt and just stayed there.

today i learned that rolly knows how to wipe food off of her face- she got some mango and before she went to lay on her logs (which she does after every single meal, its right below her uv light which does spread to her whole tank but the logs are right below it) she stuck her face into the gap between them and kept moving her head around until the mango stuck to her chin was wiped off and then she immediately went all the way up and laid down.

i dont see how they possibly cant be smart, at least for a reptile, or how they cant experience complex emotions or feel empathy.

as i said, i dont even think this is me giving human traits to her actions, i think that is genuinely what she is doing. i dont think im seeing this the wrong way becaue there really isnt any other reason for her to do what she did when i was crying- it was very close to the time her lights turn off and she knows that and never wants out that whole like hour before theyre turned off but she wanted to just lay on me so bad. and i saw those stress marks but they faded as i calmed down and collected myself.

i have never calmed down so quickly when that happens. when my emotions explode like that and i just cant comprehend anything i have never calmed down so quickly but it only took a few minutes. she was warm from basking, she didnt want to move at all, and she just laid there while i pet her. having that warmth on me and the texture from her scales let me focus on the positives, same with having her with me in general because oh my fucking stars i love this lizard.

im glad shes still pretty young. shes five, six this year i assume, and the youngest you ever really see a beardie die of age is eight so i likely have no less than three years with her. she has a good diet and is taken care of well so im honestly expecting her to make it much longer, shes very healthy, very active, she eats well and has good uvb, good temperatures, her tank is deep cleaned weekly and the accessories in it are cleaned whenever they need to be as well as with the rest of her tank.

bearded dragons are incredible. i want to get another one when she eventually passes, although i hope i have a very, very long time until that happens. rolly is teaching me so, so much about reptile care and how to handle them probably, both in terms of. actually handling them like picking them up and also just how to understand them.

id love to get a juvenile or baby beardie someday, they sound like a really good learning experience- difficult to adjust to im sure but also a very good learning experience.

anyways yeah. i absolutely cannot understand how bearded dragons could possibly NOT have complex emotions or feel affection and empathy and love. rolly is absolutely incredible and i love her to the moon and back and also please lmk if youd be willing to draw her in an art trade pleaseee <333

beardies are so so very smart, way smarter than we give them credit for (my favorite kind of creature- so, so smart but also literally so stupid i love animals like that), i want to study them when im older, and i do NOT believe they dont experience some kind of complex emotions and some kind of empathy

ramble over <3

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