#Quequeeg

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[gurako123]

old ishqueg comic that I never post lul (I miss them bro urghghghghgh)

[kodakcolorplus]

i think ill finish moby dick tomorrow anyways i hope they all die except maybe quequeeg i hope the pequod gets destroyed

[snicketstrange]

The Dark Day and The Sugar Bowl

My theory about having a radioactive stone or the powder of a radioactive stone inside the SB was criticized by very qualified judges. Their names are Dante and Hermes, and they volunteer for Dark Avenue 667.

  Dante      demonstrated that Esmé's sugar bowl could contain information. I will quote you here for clarity: Neither of these statements indicate that the contents of the sugar bowl pose a direct physical danger in themselves; merely that using them would have wide-ranging repercussions. If the villains can't get their hands on the sugar bowl, the risk is always that those repercussions will come to pass; consequently, if the villains can get their hands on the sugar bowl, they'll be able to act with impunity. This is a valid interpretation. Lemony's hint in TSS is as follows: I have at last learned the whereabouts of the evidence that will exonerate me, a phrase which here means "prove to the authorities that it is Count Olaf, and not me, who has started so many fires." Your suggestion, so many years ago at that picnic, that a tea set would be a handy place to hide anything important and small in the event of a dark day, has turned out to be correct. -Lemony Snicket, TSS p. 101 The evidence in question does not only prove Lemony innocent; it proves Olaf guilty - apparently unambiguously and elegantly. It is easy to see why Count Olaf would find this evidence desirable. (The exact nature of the evidence is unclear and seems narrow in scope, which is perhaps one reason why it ultimately could not be revealed.) A point: A container in which to secure something safely may indicate something dangerous, but it may also indicate something fragile. TGG p. 178 clarifies that the sugar bowl has a "tight-fitting lid"; a necessity if you want to keep anything in it while throwing it down rivers and so on, but this also implies that it's watertight, and that whatever is inside may be perishable or otherwise easy to damage. It was generally agreed back in the day that the "classic" use for sugar bowls was probably for something along the lines of privately passing information or small objects during dinner parties or other meetings; consider how easy it would be to place something small inside a sugar bowl whilst seeming to take sugar, and for the other party to then retrieve it. Listening devices have also been proposed, which would allow coded communication to be potentially overheard but would also allow suspicious conversations to be recorded; it's easy to see how such a recording might incriminate a person who had set a lot of fires, for example, or more pertinently, to exonerate somebody who had not. Something like this I think is probably what is indicated by Lemony's statement on the subject in TSS.

Hermes     , however, showed the apparent contradiction in this interpretation. Speaking about the secret letter in TSS, Hermes said:

"This letter is possibly the most paradoxical thing in the whole of ASOUE. It implies that the Sugar Bowl contains the evidence that will exonerate Lemony, although this does not seem to fit what we hear of its significance anywhere else." I believe Hermes was referring to passages like the ones that Dante and I cited in a recent theory that I will write here for clarity: "Our enemies capturing the sugar bowl would be as troubling as their capture of the Medusoid Mycelium." - Dewey, chapter 8 TPP. "The sugar bowl is on its way to the hotel even as we speak, and I'd hate to think what would happen if our enemies got ahold of it. I can't imagine anything worse, except perhaps if our enemies somehow got ahold of the Medusoid Mycelium. " - Kit Snicket , TPP p. 36 I was defending the idea that the SB contained some kind of radioactive material. But even a radioactive stone would not cause a disaster similar to what Medusoid Mycelium can do. Similarly, even information that could clear Lemony and accuse Olaf would actually do similar damage to Medusoid Mycelium. Medusoid Mycelium is a weapon of mass destruction that can cause an epidemic. Medusoid Mycelium can be grown easily and could be used to cause worldwide chaos in the event of coordination of villain efforts. In addition, we have some interesting statements from Captain W regarding the SB content: "My stepfather says that if the sugar bowl falls into his hands, then all of the efforts of all the volunteers will be for naught ... "He said it was better I didn't know ... He said people had been destroyed for knowing such enormous secrets, and that he didn't want me in that sort of danger. "- Fiona, TGG Chapter 3. That's why I haven't told you why the sugar bowl is so very crucial. There are secrets in this world too terrible for young people to know, even as those secrets get closer and closer. - W., TGG, Chapter 4. "It's not the sugar bowl," Captain Widdershins said, "it's what's inside it. - W. TGG, Chapter 6 What Captain W makes it clear is that there is a terrible secret within the SB. Let me fix this. Captain W makes it clear that there are huge secrets (in the plural) within the SB. And from there everything becomes more interesting.

Let's go back to the TSS secret letter. There is a strong indication that the use of a sugar bowl to protect and hide information was Kit Snicket's idea. Kit Snikcet is more than the sister of Lemony Snicket and mother of Beatrice Jr. Kit Snicket is known as the creator of the submarine Quequeeg. This seems to indicate that in his youth, Kit was able to create highly technological mechanical devices, like a submarine in which only a captain and two crewmen are needed. (Compared to submarine C, in which a large number of humans are required using arm force to move the submarine). I just want to highlight Kit Snicket's genius. Lemony's letter to Kit reveals for what purpose Kit had the idea of ​​using an SB. Lemony wrote: "Your suggestion, so many years ago at that picnic, that a tea set would be a handy place to hide anything important and small in the event of a dark day, has turned out to be correct." - Lemony Snicket on the secret letter in TSS. The original objective of SB was to protect something small and important in the event of a Dark Day. What is a Dark Day? In North America, something called Dark Day happened on May 19, 1780. An unusual darkening of the day sky was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada. (You can search for it on Wikipedia). But what caused this Dark Day? Wikipedia says: "The primary cause of the event is believed to have been a combination of smoke from forest fires, a thick fog, and cloud cover. The darkness was so complete that candles were required from noon on. It did not disperse until the middle of the next night. " In other words, that Dark Day was caused by a big fire. So the SB's goal is likely to be to protect something small and important from a Big Fire. Although Kit was responsible for giving the idea, the implementation of the idea to protect it came from Esmé. The sugar bowl serves as a protection against fire (and apparently also against water and other weather). But why could a Dark Day be so dreaded as to need a fireproof container? And what could this container contain? One of the biggest reasons that fires are so destructive is that fires destroy libraries. Large libraries throughout the real history and throughout the fictional history of ASOUE have already been lost to major fires. What if it was possible that all crucial information in a library could be compressed to the point of being fit into a portable device? Well ... It exists in our universe! In fact, digital information is just like that. Think about how many books will fit on your SD card on your phone. When ASOUE's books were written, we were in the age of data compression. Daniel Handler spoke about various types of libraries. Did he not leave out digital libraries? After all, there were computers in Prufrock Prep. Of course, we don't necessarily have to imagine a pen drive within the SB. But we can imagine an entire library within the SB. A library that can contain the most different types of secrets, some of which are really dangerous. If Count Olaf (or other enemies)  had access to these secrets, in addition to being able to eliminate important evidence against him, who knows what he would be able to do with all that information! In this case, the damage could be similar to that of the deadly fungus MM. In other words, inside Esme's SB was a big backup with the main secrets kept by VFD. It is likely that there were shameful secrets for VFD, which made Captain W hesitate just thinking about them. In the case of a Dark Day in which all physical libraries were destroyed, the information from those libraries would be saved inside the sugar bowl. And that is why Esme, despite having the SB did not make much use of it. Esme hates to read. She only discovered the value of what she had in hand when she lost it. I mean ... She already valued the SB itself. Let me be canonical so you don't think I took this theory out of thin air. TE chapter 9: The most common use of the word "library," of course, refers to a collection of books or documents, such as the libraries the Baudelaires had encountered during their travels and troubles, from the legal library of Justice Strauss to the Hotel Denouement, which was itself an enormous library–with, it turned out, another library hidden nearby. But the word "library" can also refer to a mass of knowledge or a source of learning, just as Klaus Baudelaire is something of a library with the mass of knowledge stored in his brain, or Kit Snicket, who was a source of learning for the Baudelaires as she told them about V.F.D. and its noble errands." At first glance this sentence seems to indicate that the hotel where people slept was a library and that the sub-aquatic library was the hidden library. However, that doesn't make much sense in that sentence. Lemony is defining the library as a collection of information in some kind of media that can be accessed and read. The hotel where people slept was not that kind of library, although the rooms were organized as if it were a library, the function of the hotel itself was not to store information. Thus, the Hotel Denouement that Lemony is referring to here as a library was the underwater library, which Dewey referred to as the real Hotel Denouement.

I will quote a passage for clarity:

TPP Chapter 8: "Exactly," Dewey said. "The truth has been right under everyone's noses, if anyone cared to look past the surface. Volunteers and villains alike know that the last safe place is the Hotel Denouement, but no one has ever questioned why the sign is written backward. They're staying in the TNEMEUONED LETOH, while the real last safe place-the catalog-is hidden safely at the bottom of the pond, in underwater rooms organized in a mirror image of the hotel itself. Our enemies could burn the entire building to the ground, but the most important secrets would be safe. In other words, what was destroyed was TNEMEUONED LETOH and not the Hotel Denouement. "Hotel Denouement" was the name that was written on the entrance to the underwater library.

So the library that was hidden nearby that Lemony refers in TE chpater 9 to here was something else. And I deduce that this other thing is the content of the SB.

[wheres-mulder]

Daggoo or Quequeeg?

Idk who daggoo is ! So queequag. Assuming he is from season 10, but I haven’t watched it yet

[storybycorey]

If you would have named her quequeeg or anything moby dick related, you and your husband would be even more x files goals. Also that pic is so cute!

Ahhh, that would’ve been good, wouldn’t it???  Unfortunately, we had to contend with votes from 3 other parties below age of 12, and they have extremely loud, whiny voices when they don’t get their way...!

[flourishingflor]

Moby Dick

Part II #1

Character Report

Ishmael: the narrator of the story, Ishmael is the adventurer who happen to be one of the crew of Captain Ahab’s ship Pequod. He can be anyman or he can be called everyman. Doctor, Nurse, journalist, adventurer, a father, and etc. he has this tiny bit of info about whaling. This man here is the only one who survived the fall of Pequod because of the death of Captain Ahab, which is our protagonist or hero in the story has his mates and crew, first is Starbuck, the Chiefmate of the Pequod. He is a decent and honorable man. We can see that a God-fearing man. He is a father also and he’s wife is waiting for him to come home. He has only one fear and that is he will never see his family again because of Captain Ahab selfish desires. Together with starbuck is Stubb is far different from Starbuck, this guy here is the easy going and he is a person who laughs at all things including death. He is not afraid of death but he loves the danger that he face. This two mates here are under the leadership of Captain Ahab, he is a fine man on his fifties and tall man. He has a scar on his face because its either birthmark or because of an adventures. Captain ahab was about to have an early mourning because of Quequeeg’s request to put him in a coffin. Quequeeg is Ishmael’s friend while still on the Nantucket. Quequeeg is one of the finest harpooners in the Pequod. The trip was for sperm whale hunting only to find out that along the way its just the search for Moby Dick, the greatest white sperm whale on sea. The enormous beast as what Captain Ahab said as he was describing the whale. The reason also why Captain Ahab loses his leg.

[nudityandnerdery]

So, I figured I'd ask a pro. I'm a single dad with a 6 year-old daughter. Suggestions on how to raise her into the ranks of proper nerd-dom?

Oh, man, I may be a pro at being a nerd, but I've got no clue when it comes to dealing with kids.

Just let her know what is out there. Introduce her to nerdy things, and let her find what interests her. Pushing her into things isn't necessarily going to be productive, so... Let her decide what she likes. That's probably what I'd recommend.

Any nerd parents out there want to add in their advice?

[gurako123]

(Ishmael’s voice from nowhere) I miss my wife dante i miss her

Also this was refer to my old and first color animatic !!

[flourishingflor]

MOBY DICK

Part II #23

What I most wanted to happen was: Captain Ahab and Moby Dick will have an encounter but it will not be for bad. They will both understand each other and became friends. Moby Dick will realize that man is never the enemy of the nature and same goes with Captain Ahab that nature or particularly animal is man’s companion and they can be best buddy.

What I really liked was: the unity of the crew in the Pequod ship. I like the closeness of each character though they have differences but that doesn’t matter they work as a team despite the rudeness of their captain for the sake of their family.

What surprised me was: the closeness of Quequeeg and Ishmael, Quequeeg is an indian prince who has a lot of tattoos all over his body and Ishmael is a writer looking for adventure. One day they met on an inn at Nantucket City. It was an epic first meeting because they were together in a room with just one bed and Ishmael was afraid with Quequeeg because of his appearance and so one night Ishmael that he will have a very good night rest because Quequeeg was not in the room and so it happen that after so many time Quequeeg open the room and undress himself without even checking if someone is in the room and so he jump into the bed and sleep. When it was morning Ishmael found himself embracing Quequeeg and also Quequeeg embracing him.

What I most admired about the main character was: I think it would be his: Perseverance for the things that he want most. He want to get Moby Dick and so he can’t be tame. A lot of people, give up on something because they think that maybe its not for them but the truth is they’ll just tired of trying. Leadership, he’s not the best captain that I can mention but the heart that he shared with his team especially how he motivates his team. Dedication, It’s just the same with perseverance. It’s being devoted on his goal. He never quit. I think one is that his character as a captain. He’s firm and strong even if a lot of people advised him to stop him but he’s still firm on his goal. A man of great depths but speaks less. A person who loves to reflect on things and speak words out of choice.

[nudityandnerdery]

thirdchoiceurl replied to your post: So, I figured I’d ask a pro. I’m a single dad with a 6 year-old daughter. Suggestions on how to raise her into the ranks of proper nerd-dom?

Don’t EVER condescend enthusiasm. Caring about something, perhaps caring more than you think is appropriate, is the core of nerdism. Rather than quash that spark, foster it.

Another big key.

Thanks for everyone with their advice!

[nudityandnerdery]

I'm not a parent, but I am a firm believer of reading. My mom taught me to read at preschool age or before, biodad made sure books were around, biodad's gf has 4 kids, ages 5-9, and when they were living down here, even the ones who did not much enjoy reading, loved having me read aloud to them. Don't just read to them though, let them read to you, whatever they choose, even if they can't read they can make up stories for what they see in the book, that's what Heaven, the five year old did.

Continued....

I honestly think Heaven is going to love reading most of them all because she is immersing herself in stories even before she can read. I hope she keeps it up in GA

That is awesome! Excellent work, Tumblr Daughter! Books and stories are a huge part of what made me a nerd, and that is fantastic of you to help pass it on.

Some more advice...

feigenbaumsworld replied to your post: So, I figured I'd ask a pro. I'm a single dad with...

As a nerd teacher I agree with you completely on this approach. The best way to ensure a child takes an interest in something is to let the child explore. The child making the choice makes it meaningful. Get excited with them. It’s bonding time! :)

jediplinth replied to your post: So, I figured I'd ask a pro. I'm a single dad with...

Nerd dad here - read to your children. Read a LOT. Let your children see you read. Look at what they like and help guide choices of entertainment. I got The Star Wars Craft Book and did a bunch of projects in it with my son - let him pick.

ivegotthemagictoothpick replied to your post: So, I figured I'd ask a pro. I'm a single dad with...

Tell her bedtime stories, but use the final fantasy stories as your guide. Tell FFVII over the course of a few nights

Morgan and I have discussed using RPG sessions as bedtime stories.