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Various Fashionable Designs inspired by the characters of Lemony Snicket's "All The Wrong Questions" book series: Lemony Snicket himself, S. Theodora Markson, Moxie Mallahan and Ellington Feint
#atwq#lemony snicket#all the wrong questions#vfd#illustration#character design#moxie mallahan#ellington feint#s theodora markson#fan art#victorian#vintage style#albert victoria
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that one madoka magica image
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ok it's been far too long since i've posted snicket art. this was a commission for s in the vfdiscord (i'm so sorry i cannot for the life of me find your tumblr @ right now... i'll edit this post later) and i'm really happy with how it turned out and happy they were kind enough to give me the honor! :]
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Lemony uses the phrase "word which here means" right after he heard Theodora use it, echoing her speech patterns, which people often do.
This is the first time he uses it. He continues to define words this way all throughout ATWQ and, of course, ASOUE.
Which means that Lemony and Theodora did not like each other and did not get along, but he inherited his trademark pattern of speech from her.
#atwq#all the wrong questions#lemony snicket#s theodora markson#maybe inherited is the wrong word but whatever
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Could the 'S' stand for Sugar?
To parody Olivia Caliban - "I've been doing some thinking"
The theories among the fandom surrounding S. Theodora Markson have been logical, but in this theory, I'm going to drop a new [what I'm quite sure is a] bombshell, in answer to 'What does the 'S' stand for?' - the S might stand for Sugar.
Of course, as mentioned, I respect and understand the reasoning behind the alternative theories, such as 'Sunny' and 'Sensible', but there is a link that I seem to have found, which MIGHT run across the Snicket-verse [one that, I feel, seems to have been a little bit overlooked]:
Sugar is an incredibly delicate subject to come up in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
This is CLEARLY seen in 2 main instances:
The Waitress is a woman who was employed in The Penultimate Peril, who had a customer that requested sugar in their coffee before she threw him onto the ground so she could see if he had a tattoo on his ankle. Much like last time (referring to her employment at Café Salmonella), she discovers that the customer had no such tattoo so she then apologized for her actions and offered a free slice of rhubarb pie for all his trouble. Her fate after the incident remains unknown, though even if she was the same waitress from Café Salmonella, her employment at both eateries were most likely terminated nevertheless.
(from the Snicket Fandom Wiki, under 'The Waitress' page)
“What is this?” Count Olaf said suspiciously, peering into his coffee cup. “It looks like coffee, but it’s freezing cold!”
“And what is this orange stuff?” Esmé asked suspiciously. “I want fashionable, in food, not a handful of ice!”
Colette picked up a piece of the bread and stared at it suspiciously. “This toast feels raw,” she said. “Is it safe to eat raw toast?”
“Of course not,” Hugo said. “I bet that baby is trying to poison us.”
“Actually, the coffee isn’t bad,” one of the white-faced women said, “even if it is a little bitter. Could someone pass the sugar, please?”
“Sugar?” shrieked Count Olaf, erupting in anger. He stood up, grabbed one end of the blanket, and pulled as hard as he could, scattering all of Sunny’s hard work. Food, beverages, and dishes fell everywhere, and Sunny had to duck to avoid getting hit on the head with a flying fork. “All the sugar in the world couldn’t save this terrible breakfast!” he roared, and then leaned down so that his shiny, shiny eyes stared right into Sunny’s. “I told you to make a nice, hot breakfast, and you gave me cold, disgusting nonsense!” he said, his smelly breath making a cloud in the chilly air. “Don’t you see how high up we are, you sabertoothed papoose? If I threw you off Mount Fraught, you’d never survive!”
(An extract from The Slippery Slope, Ch 6)
Given the sheer force with which people [volunteers (the waitress) and villains (Olaf) alike] in the series (ASOUE) respond to any mention of sugar, who's to say that the people of All The Wrong Questions take any reference to sugar in the same manner (i.e. flip out like ASOUE people)?
Of course, this is axiomatic (a word which here means: we're assuming this to be true) but if it is, it could be the reason why Theodora is so very secretive about her initial - maybe it stands for Sugar, and she doesn't want to run the risk of anyone knowing; the recipient of the information may be a villain... OR, seeing as she's 52nd out of 52 chaperones (or something like that, it has been a while since I've read ATWQ), if she tells V.F.D. her name is Sugar, she's BOUND to get kicked out of the organisation.
¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist
P.S. I did get it right: On the list of chaperones, she is ranked 52nd of 52, though she believed she was ranked tenth
(Snicket Wiki)
#a series of unfortunate events#asoue#asoue netflix#lemony snicket#snicketverse#theory#vfd#s theodora markson#what does the s stand for#sugar bowl#the penultimate peril#the slippery slope#cafe salmonella#mount fraught#all the wrong questions#atwq
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top 10 photos taken moments before asking what the s stands for
#lem is trying to act all nonchalant but really hes so annoyed#atwq#all the wrong questions#lemony snicket#s theodora markson#juliet draws
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In Which Some Other Members of VFD Are Shown
S. Theodora Markson, the Driver turn Detective
Dashiell Qwerty, the Sub-Librarian (and Observer)
Georgina Orwell, the Wild Card Optometrist
#atwq#all the wrong questions#s theodora markson#dashiell qwerty#asoue#a series of unfortunate events#georgina orwell#badlydrawndrawing aesthetics edits#this is an old edit#i legit forgot i had these#and i figure share them
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Lemony’s relationships with Theodora and Moxie are both subversions of the ‘Holmes and
Watson’ trope as it is traditionally found, in which a highly intelligent but arrogant and somewhat manipulative detective is accompanied by a close friend who admires them greatly and narrates the story.
First: Lemony and Theodora. Lemony is Theodora’s apprentice, and is therefore technically in a position of lower status to her. From Theodora’s perspective, this makes her the Holmes figure, and him the Watson, which is backed up by the fact that Lemony is the one to narrate the story. However, although Theodora has the almost narcissistic self-confidence and the tendency to keep Lemony in the dark, she lacks the academic intelligence and detective skills of a true Holmes figure, and Lemony does the vast majority of the work, mainly without her. It is quite possible that Theodora deliberately opts out of cases and lets Lemony take care of them due to the insecurity she hides behind her arrogant exterior, subverting the arrogant part of the Holmes archetype and adding a creative edge to the aspect of manipulation.
Secondly, Lemony and Moxie. They have a far more traditional Holmes and Watson relationship, with all the traditional aspects. They are good friends, Moxie admires Lemony greatly, he quite often uses her and keeps her in the dark about things but she stays loyal nonetheless, they have vague romantic subtext, and the scene where they meet at Handkerchief Heights in ?1 is even a homage to Sherlock Holmes story The Hound Of The Baskervilles, which interestingly enough also features a villainous naturalist and local legends regarding monsters being used by the villain to frighten people and conceal his scheme. One of the main things that sets them apart from traditional incarnations of the trope is that despite the fact that she constantly writes everything down, she does not in fact narrate the story. In other words, she fulfils the role of a classic Watson figure in every way except for the most important one.
#asoue#lemony snicket#a series of unfortunate events#atwq#all the wrong questions#moxie mallahan#s theodora markson#character analysis
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I have the headcanon that Theodora's first name is something normal and never hinted at in any snicketverse media. That instead we got Sunny and Solitude as the more likely answers because that is what Bertrand and Lemony respectivally belived based on their very different aprendiship experiences.
Because the VFD kids are raised to look for clues even when there aren't any and presentend to an unsolvable mistery they start to see their lived experience and empirical beliefs as proof. So Bertrand who saw support and friendlyness in an overall probably harsh situation saw her as Sunny, light and happy and supportive while Lemony who only felt connected to Theodora via their mutual loneliness saw her as Solutide. Neither was close. Because Theodora wasn't giving them hints, she just wanted to keep the mistery for personal reasons. But to them it was the true.
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Theodora's ego is only funny until you realize what's likely going on here. She knows she's incompetent, under constant surveillance from other volunteers, and probably lucky to be eligible as a chaperone at all. Thus she takes out her low self-esteem on the kid placed in her care.
Did I mention I love Lemony Snicket for mastering horror disguised as humor?
#lemony snicket#atwq#all the wrong questions#who could that be at this hour#s theodora markson#snicketverse
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For the doodle requests, maybe Ellington Feint and/or S. Theodora Markson?
i can't tell if i like or don't like either of them, but regardless they are fun to draw
also i apologize for how crusty this brush is, it makes it look like 100*100 px resolution haha
#all the wrong questions#atwq#ellington feint#s theodora markson#s. theodora markson#croque art#snicket
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This might be a weird take but S. Theodora Markson gives me English teacher vibes.
I’m saying this with regards to my sixth-grade English teacher, who I had for my last period of the day so she had already dealt with every other annoying 12 year old in previous periods. And she dealt with constant migraines and looked like she just wanted to curl up on the floor and take a nap at every moment.
She also had a giant pack of gummy bears that were specifically for her because that’s the only non-alcoholic way she could’ve gotten through the school day. She would occasionally give a student one if they answered a question or volunteered for something.
Everyone in my class was terrified of her, even though she was generally tolerable. My best friend, who we’ll call Bertrand for the sake of comparison, was obviously her favorite student but they were just as or even more scared of her class as the rest of us were.
#atwq#s theodora markson#lemony snicket#heck half the characters in the snicketverse can be placed under the english teacher category#and if they aren't english they're science. end of discussion.#or drama. end of discussion#there are more reasons but then this post would be the tumblr equivalent of an essay
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Don't repeat yourself. It's not only repetitive, it's redundant, and people have heard it before.
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"Not proper, Snicket. Not proper at all."
"I saved you one."
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I have caught this gallery up as far as the beginning of my Lemony Snicket Dog Nonsense*. Buckle in for these because even leaving a lot of them out it's going to be quite a pileup. 👍
*This will also include Snicket-adjacent nonsense. Like Basic Eight dogs. yes I drew basic eight dogs. a lot of them.
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Is T Theodora, and Q Dashiell Qwerty?
And I don't think it's a coincidence that the next solution is this one:
#atwq#all the wrong questions#lemony snicket#dashiell qwerty#s theodora markson#file under: 13 suspicious incidents
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How & Why does Lemony have Bertrand's Form of Will? (NCT, referencing ATWQ)
In the opening credits of each Netflix episode, viewers see Lemony's notes and papers, which he is [supposedly] using to chronicle the story of the Baudelaire orphans.
But one of those papers is THIS thing, Bertrand Baudelaire's Will:
...Ok, I can't get a picture, but it's at 00:50 seconds in every single episode.
But:
How
Why
does Lemony have this?
I think it'd be easier to answer the 2nd question first of all - Lemony has his will to prove his worth [to Bertrand, Beatrice, himself and even Theodora, to some degree]. He needs to show that he can do it, that he is able, he is JUST as good as Bertrand.
Side Note: This may also be one of the [many] reasons he tries to hunt down the Baudelaires, find out exactly what happened to them and 'rescue' them - to prove himself to be a better uncle / 'father' than their biological father.
Also, he might've used it to trace exactly where the Baudelaires should've gone in the first place, in case of fire. [Who knows, with this unreliable narrator?]
But now for a question of great importance - HOW did Lemony gain access to Bertrand's will?
As this is a Netflix-Canon Theory (NCT), we can refer to the events of TPP - during the Denouement fire, viewers see Lemony taking a picture of the Baudelaires from Justice Strauss...
...what if that's not the only thing he took?
There could be a few possibilities:
Justice Strauss gives it to Lemony, from Odious Lusting After Fortunes
Kit gives it to Lemony, during their time together [where they see the Self-Sustaining Hot-Air Mobile Home being attacked by the eagles] after stealing it from her time at Mulctuary Money Management
Lemony finds it [for some unknown reason] in Dewey's secret sub-basement and steals the will - along with the Sugar Bowl - himself.
Let's go through these:
We know that the picture of the Baduelaires is the only thing left of O.L.A.F, as Justice Strauss clearly states to Lemony in TPP.
We also know of everything that happened between Kit and Lemony on Briny Beach (I hope I'm right with my location...@snicketstrange?)
Therefore, we get:
Justice Strauss gives it to Lemony, from Odious Lusting After Fortunes
Kit gives it to Lemony, during their time together [where they see the Self-Sustaining Hot-Air Mobile Home being attacked by the eagles] after stealing it from her time at Mulctuary Money Management
Lemony finds it [for some unknown reason] in Dewey's secret sub-basement and steals the will - along with the Sugar Bowl - himself.
But why would he do this? Beatrice is dead, Bertrand is dead, Theodora is probably dead - what's the point?
Well, now that [almost] everything and everyone related to V.F.D. has been destroyed, Lemony is, basically, the only one left. The sugar bowl will give him power to make his voice heard - so he can clear his name - and Bertrand's will, for some unknown reason, may be counted as a piece of evidence towards Lemony's innocence.
Side Note: If we were to go off on a tangent, into the book canon; [The Sinister Duo] dress in fireproof suits in order to better cause arson, which are made of a shiny blue fabric with two large shoulder pads. This means they likely survived the Denouement fire, so they could still fight with Lemony over the sugar bowl...
¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist
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