Botanic Tournament : Violets Bracket !
Final
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miss baudelaire
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“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.”
— Lemony Snickett, A Series of Unfortunate Events #10: The Slippery Slope
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for the next comic con i attend, i so want to go as movie violet. the aesthetic of it all is just… AH
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greetings to all 10 people in the snicketverse fandom... may i offer u my oc fritz,, because monty deserves a bf
this is him at an early stage of the little timeline I have for him, when he’d just started becoming addicted to MM, later on he begins rotting more + his face gets all fucky, basically turning into a zombie. hope u guys like him :)
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Shout out to past me having the urge to dig ASOUE Fandom spaces had me bookmarking a few things on the 667 Dark Avenue Forums, and rereading them has me deciding to share some of things, for it’s all about the ASOUE Movie and the behind-the-scene mess.
https://asoue.proboards.com/thread/36351/667-rewatch-2004-movie?page=4
Page 4 is when the ball of all the cut content of the film gets going, so I linked from that page there. My favorite part is what got cut in the opening scene at Briny Beach and the Baudelaires’ introductions.
https://asoue.proboards.com/thread/36605/lemony-snicket-deleted-alternate-scenes
All the deleted stuff! It has me thinking the ASOUE Movie could have been it’s own unique thing if it wasn’t for the executive meddling.
https://asoue.proboards.com/thread/37162/brad-silberling-interview-answers
It’s posted on Tumblr (I even reblogged it onto my blog), but the source came from the forum itself, so I figure, “eh let’s keep up the pattern.”
This one is very interesting to read, because it goes more (like, a lot more) into the details of the movie production and filming. My personal favorites that Brad Silberling answered are Question Two, Four, Five, Ten, Eleven (it answers the old-age question on why Movie!Klaus doesn’t wear glasses), Fourteen, Sixteen (makes me so angry about the meddling), and Twenty-Six (it makes me so, so angrier about the cut Aunt Josephine’s demise scene even more!)
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Trusting an adaptation
There's a specific problem creators run into when adapting a long-running series (comics, multiple books, etc.). Adaptation naturally necessitates some changes. Then when the time comes to adapt the next part (second book, sequel, etc.) you have to choose whether to continue the changes made in the first part (making the adaptation continuous, but increasingly divergent from its source) or to ignore them (making a more accurate adaption of the material, but making the adaptation self-contradictory).
And I've found that seeing evidence that creators have planned ahead and made efforts to minimize this disruption is one of the strongest ways to make me lower my hackles and trust that an ongoing adaptation knows what it's doing. I can think of two examples prominent to me:
I've been a fan of a Series of Unfortunate Events since childhood, and was very excited when the 2004 movie came out. In hindsight, any movie that was adapting three books at once clearly has little interest in being faithful. But the thing that stood out to little-kid me was Olaf's eye tattoo, which looked like a regular eye. In the books, one would have to read as far as book 9 to learn the eye tattoo's design specifically resembled the initialism VFD. It has no real effect on the movie. But I remember it made me think "How will they ever explain/fix that in later movies, when they get to book 9?". The answer, of course, being that they never intended to get that far.
So when the Netflix series came out in 2017, I was hesitantly hopeful. The author was involved, which is a huge plus. But the moment I breathed a huge sigh of relief was when I saw the tattoo on Olaf's ankle, and it fit. Now, Netflix got to finish adapting the series. There was a possibility they wouldn't. That the accuracy of the design would be wasted. But the fact they started from episode one, setting up the payoff they'd need 16-17 episodes later, was a sign the writers and designers and crew were committed to doing it right if they could.
Netflix's Sandman adaptation is the other example for me. Yes, the trailer looked amazing and Neil Gaiman's involvement was a huge green flag, given how careful he'd been with adaptations before. But realizing that things I thought were small show adaptations (Lucienne's presentiment, Dream's confrontation with the Corinthian) were actually word-for-word accurate for Overture, really hammered home the amount of planning they were doing. The series has currently adapted the first 2.5 volumes out of ten, and Overture comes after all 10 (and also before. It's like that). The first season was massively popular, so I really hope Netflix gets their act together and doesn't let this go to waste. But the fact that the writers are planting properly, leaving room for themselves to make sure they haven't painted themselves into a corner down the line, is really promising as a fan.
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I just remembered that this exists so happy Ides to all who celebrate
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hm vi doodles.. tryna come up w a design for her combining movie + book designs ..
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Botanic Tournament : Violets Bracket !
Semi-finals
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2004!movie!Klaus Baudelaire radiates Robin!Jason Todd energy, no I do not accept criticism
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