#asoue spyglass

[ven10]

Close-ups of the spyglass from ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’!!!

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #soue #vfd #spyglass #asoue spyglass #vfd spyglass #series of unfortunate events #tsoue #the series of unfortunate events #asoue netflix #Netflix asoue #a series of unfortunate events Netflix

[probablyok1]

Man, arsonists and chef salad metaphor aside, VFD has a lovely aesthetic going on. Imagine being a dark academia spy who fights fires (or starts them, in some cases), like that is so cool.

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue #all the wrong questions #VFD #lemony snicket #I could write a whole novel disecting VFD and how flawed it is as an organization #but at the same time I'm like 'hehe books and spyglasses go brrrrrr'

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

SARA PLEASE WHAT THE FUCK IS THE CHOKING ON A SPYGLASS FIC YOU HAVE MENTIONED IT ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND I AM SCARED BUT CURIOUS

The year was 2019 and it was my prime time in the asoue fandom. I wrote like 4 different multichapter fics at once for the fandom. Let's just say, I have not learned and I still write too many fics at once.

I have written a lot of asoue fics, some of which I think is a lot better, but this one gets memed the most because of... reasons.

First off all: This is a pregnancy fic.

I may talk about next gens a lot now in the dcla fandom, but they are far from the first ones I've had. I have ever since I began interacting in fandoms had next gen ocs. I really had a fully fledged idea of adventures for these next gens to have in an upcoming fic that I then never did and I also don't even remember what I named the kids anymore... anyway, this fic was basically the characters preparing for them to be born (they are triplets).

But... second of all: This is a Viodora fic. Violet is the one who is pregnant, and Isadora and her fall in love.

"But if Violet is pregnant, who's children is she pregnant with?"

Great question! It's Quigley's!

Back when I was more into asoue ships, I multishipped Violet with both Quigley and Isadora. And here's when I made a choice.

Violet is pregnant with Quigley's children... but shortly after they find out she's pregnant, he tragically dies.

16 year old me could have decided to make him die of a disease, or maybe die in a fire (which is on-brand for asoue where everyone fucking burns to death). But NOPE. I decided to take it to the next level. I decided to make him die by choking on a spyglass.

It all happened in a cartoonish way. Someone tripped, causing someone else to drop something, causing this and that, and eventually someone's spyglass flew into Quigley's mouth and he choked.

I understood how utterly silly this all seemed, and I didn't even plan on posting it at first, but then I decided to post it after talking to some others in the fandom. Like "haha look what I wrote don't even know if I'm gonna update it", but then as I posted it, I got excited and decided to continue.

The rest of the fic is just Violet and Isadora getting closer, preparing for the babies, it's pretty fluffy and sweet. I have too many drawings in my sketchbook from 2019 drawing Isadora and Violet being mommies with the triplets, I actually loved writing on it and pitching it. But Quigley's cause of death is basically all anyone remembers from the fic.

#thanks for the ask! #asoue

[afterthegreatunknown]

unexpected unpopular opinion time.

i prefer the asoue movie take on the spyglass. as much as i love the design of the netflix's show and how it as so many functions (code-breaking, creating fires...)...

i personally feel vfd would want volunteers to use a solid brass spyglass. vfd, at least how i view them, would want volunteers to be on the less conspicuous side.

and in a sub-unpopular opinion, i think only certain volunteers would get spyglasses, depending on their field/occupation/stolen it/got it gifted from those with a spyglass and want to pass it on.

like monty and widdershins. i can see them having a spyglass due to their field/occupation. monty need one for his travels and expeditions. widdershins i headcanon he got his as a gift, but being a nautical volunteer, it would have been mandatory for him to get one.

lemony and kit and beatrice and olaf? i can see them with, but they stole it and won't explain how and they make sure to not show it around those who will take it away from them.

josephine and ike and r and hector? i can see them with, but only because someone gifted it to them. they don't use it unless they're out on open water, or they want to look out in the distance.

esme and jacques and betrand? i can't picture them with one, but i can picture them wishing they have one. and i can see lot more of the sbg falling underneath here.

#ramblings #the spyglass is a particular topic to me

[pipbellerophon]

i still can't believe they didn't make asoue netflix merch that was such a missed opportunity for them and us

#i consider the world is quiet here necklace i bought from flavias etsy to be official merch though #asoue #netflix #like we were ready to give them real money for some badly designed tshirt with an eye logo and the world is quiet here #those ugly black shirts with main characters faces blown up huge and their name in a weird font and nothig else #spyglasses!!!! they were fools not to sell spyglasses #pipbellerophon

[and-a-stolen-object]

Ok I just have 1 question:

Why would the VFD have a spyglass to start fires with if there main objective is to stop them.

Call me dumb but I don’t get it (on second thoughts please don’t call me dumb)

Is it cuz there are no good or bad people. Do you actually have to play with fire. Is it some big metaphor about how nobody is good or bad. Or is VFD like some sort of experiement and they give them these spy glasses to see how long it’ll take for them to start fires seen as they have the device (ooo I like that point, one day I might expand)

Anyway... I was just wondering

#asoue #vfd #spyglass #I don’t know #I was just wondering #seen as they are meant to be stopping these fires #🤷‍♀️ #idk #just a thought #no good or bad? #experiment? #who knows #a series of unfortunate events

[xaoh-f-goon]

Left page:

[lorem ipsum], CONSENT OF MEMBERS OF SECRET ORGANIZATIONS: [lorem ipsum continues]

Annotation in the top and left margin:

FIRE CAN BE STARTED EVEN IF THERE ARE CLOUDS USING A CERTAIN SYMBOL CAN ALLOW SUN TO PASS THRU.

USE THE DIFFERENT DIALS ON THE SPY-GLASS TO DETERIME [sic] THE LENGTH + SPREAD OF THE FIRE, YOU ARE LOOKING TO START.

EACH SYMBOL ON THE SPYGLASS CAN BE USED IN VARIOUS WAYS. BE CAREFUL ON WHAT YOU HAVE ROTATED.

FIRES CAN BE STARTED FROM A FAR AWAY LOCATION BY CHANGING TO A DIFFERENT LENSE. [sic] (arrow indicating first smallest dial)

STUDY EACH DIAL    EVERY DIAL + EVERY SYMBOL HAVE A PURPOSE!

ANY ? SYMBOL (ERROR?) MAY BE (OFTEN??) ???? !

Printed page:

STARTING FIRES: USING THE SUN

by Josephine Anwhistle

[emphasis has been added by the annotator and should not be read as emphasis in the printed text. highlighted sections in bold, underlined sections in italics]

Fire can be said to be mans greatest invention, but also their greatest weapon. It can destroy earths most beautiful forests, or mans most glorious achievements. It is a destruction that is dazzling and disastrous and can leave a gaping hole in ones life. Fire if created can cleanse or destroy

...a persons (freedom?). It is a device that should be used (carefully?) and as a last resort. Unfortunately not everyone (shares) this point of view and uses fire for the (vile? sole?) purpose of (?disintegrating?) what ever is in its path of carnage. The fire fighting side of V.F.D. know a little to [sic] well the destruction that fire can (cause/create) and the (loss?) in its wake. The fire-starting side know ??? (how?) ??? a fire can be and the evil it can be used for, and a series of unfortunate events it can ignite. Ignite (?in the hope that this particular conversation? is that logic not that peculiar conservation? convenience?), our wonderful spyglass (undeniably? understood? understandably?) can ignite fires through the use of light. One particular member who’s ?????[synonym for study subject?] was fire learned that the spyglass (c?????mner? compartment? component?) was capable of po????ing the spyglass ??? among the (dials?) to constrict or expand the width of the fire.

A spyglass starts a fire through the use of heat from the sun or bright light. This is done by positioning the spyglass so that the sun’s or light’s rays pass through the lens, forming a small point of light on a pile of dry kindling or large house, secret headquarters, anything of value that could catch on fire. If the sun’s or lights light is hot enough, and the kindling is dry enough, and the focal strength of the lens is adequate, a fire will eventually spark. The science behind lighting a fire with the spyglass can be found in the form of photons. Photons are the particles that carry visible light from the sun to the earth. They also (c?carry?convey?connect?) energy in the form of heat. Through the use of a spyglass, the path of these photons are narrowed in a highly localized area the spyglass chamber which is the dot of light that passes through the lens. This results in a ??? ??? of heat that can reach incredibly high temperatures. If a high enough temperature is reached somewhere around 450 degrees F, the kindling will smoulder and begin to burn.

The use of the dials determine the width and spread of the fire. If you trying to start a small object on fire using dials 1 and 3 will create a more narrower opening allowing you to target an object or person more directly. Whereas if you are trying to start a large space on fire or large group of people you are going to want to use 2 and 4 to create a wider opening allowing more light and heat through. This is going to spread the light across the room starting a larger fire which will be more efficient than using dials 1 and 3 to start a more controlled fire. Dial 5 should rarely be used. [asterisk and arrow indicating Dial 5 (blank, apparently censored) on the diagram] 5 will cause the most devastating fire. Rotating dial 5 from left to right (s?) 2 and then right to left (s?) 1 will release condensation on the lens. One drop of water placed on the... can ?(magnify?) the sunlight’s heat, causing the fire to ignite... quickly. Dial 5 should be used as a last resort and it has..... the fire-starting side.

.....[paragraph mostly illegible]......

The most (astounding?) part of this ..... .. the spyglass is that fires can be started .... any (d.......ck/e) ...most interesting and most (startling/sparkling/sparking) f.... get V.F.D. member with a spyglass for the (powerful/password) to ....’s (whispering?showing?)  (that/than with?) down to the ground. This can be examined through certain events throughout V.F.D. history (show the schisms) (( A.S.??A.S.) ) ??? was a great (tragedy?) ??????? V.F.D. members. There is the fire-fighting side and the fire-starting side. Obviously the spyglass being able to create fires from its lens has been problematic for the fire-fighting side, and for the authorities. Fires started from the spyglass leave no trace of how the fire was started which is hard for good members to detect wh..... (m)embers started the fire, and the authorities believe... that... (st)arted by accident because.... are.... ..(whe)re the fire originated.... ...of great help or of gr(eat)..... ...the outcome.

A... (an)d in this case..... Verbal Fridge (or Verified Friday but it’s most likely Verbal Fridge Dialogue).... ????... destruction by.... (catalog) is a... decoding

[no more can be made out]

#Incomplete History Of Secret Organizations #asoue netflix #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #netflix scrutiny #vfd #vfd spyglass #spyglass

[beatricebidelaire]

the night at the opera

#asoue #the night at the opera #beatrice baudelaire #esme squalor #kit snicket #beasme #otp: satan was god’s best friend #kitme #otp: enemies with benefits #season 3 #asoue netflix #mine #the night at the opera IS a double date #though it's esme dating both beatrice and kit at the same time #btw. i am mad that i didn't get any beatrice/kit interactions #also i just rewatched and. while b&e were like #it can save lives it completes my teaset etc etc etc #o was playing with the spyglass and k was just staring vacantly #and i'm just like ...... wtf/??? #like. literally wtf. why are they so out of the loop #even jacques snicket is more helpful in the situation he was staying close #and drove here immediately ready to drive someone away in case things go wrong #meanwhile k&o were just like #completely unaware that anything's going to happen???????

[asoue-sideblog]

two aesthetic issues with the ASOUE movie

Movie Violet’s awful bang tendrils make me so mad. Violet is characterized as a girl who gets her hair out of the way when she’s trying to think - why does she have these weird little extra bangs that are long enough to get in her eyes and face, but too short to catch with a ribbon? I just wanna take a pair of scissors and just snip those hair things right off.

The movie spyglasses are the most generic things ever and it makes no sense that movie Klaus jumps to the conclusion that they’re significant, or that Monty and their parents must have had the same spyglass. It’s not that unusual to have a spyglass lying around in a drawer somewhere and Monty actually goes on expeditions and could get practical use from a spyglass, so it’s not an outrageous coincidence that both parties have one. There’s no way he could have verified they definitely had to be identical models, because they didn’t have any distinguishing features.

#i used to have a spyglass For The Aesthetic #it just sat in a drawer #asoue #asoue movie #negativity #(not about netflix this time!)

[wearing-castiels-wings]

At the request of a friend, I drew the VFD Spyglass as it appears in An Incomplete History Of Secret Organisations from Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. 

It’s now available on a whole bunch of different products, including various t-shirts, hoodies, pillows, clocks, mugs, scarves, and prints! 

For a Very Fashionable Deal, you can buy the light drawing on a dark background here, or you can get the dark drawing on a light background here! 👁

#vfd #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #unfortunate events #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #count olaf #esme squalor #spyglass #vfd spyglass #redbubble #netflix #the world is quiet here

[last-quiet-place]

Also speaking of words meaning things,,,,,

So on the spyglass

"2016125 combinations"

They also mention volunteers versed in mathematics, which is an oxymoron,,, no one can do any fucking math in this organization

"635 characters on 5 dials means 2016125 combinations"

First of all, no matter how you count it there are never exactly 5 dials on that spyglass, but,,, whatever, let's just use their numbers

So, as a possible future math major,

a*b*c*d*e=2016125 (because we're working with independent numbers each gets to be its own number. For example, in a simplified version, if each of the five settings were a simple switch, there would be a total of 2*2*2*2*2, or 2^5, or 32 combinations, and in this situation, none of the numbers are necessarily equal, so we can't do a simple fifth root (ex. The fifth root, or x^5, of 32, x^5 = 32, would be 2) therefore we have 5 independent variables)

Additionally, a+b+c+d+e=635

So, some base information on limitations: none of the numbers can exceed 631 individually (highest number assuming 1 each for the remaining numbers (631+1+1+1+1=635)), and all must be greater than 1. You could also say they must be less that 2016125, but that would be redundant. Each number must also be a factor of 2016125 (we can't exactly have fractions of symbols, now can we? And if, say, we plugged in a 2 for a, bcde would have to multiply to 1008062.5, and that would require a whole lot of fractions). Additionally, all the numbers must be whole numbers, but that is once again redundant as only whole numbers would be considered proper factors.

So, next step, we find said factors.

The prime factorization of 2016125 is 5^3 * 127^2, or 5*5*5*127*127. That is the only set of numbers that could multiply to equal 2016125. Pretty convenient that it's 5, that means we don't have to combine any. (If, for example, it were 5^4 and 127^2, we'd just have 25, 5, 5, 127, and 127) But alas, 5+5+5+127+127=269.

So really, volunteers versed in mathematics would know that no matter how you fit 635 characters on five dials, there would be no way to have a total of 2016125 combinations.

Words mean things, netflix.

#taz talks #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #asoue netflix #the incomplete history #the incomplete history of secret organizations #tihoso #im so fucking mad!!!!!!!!!! #words mean things!!!!!!! #netflix needs to shut the fuck up!!!!!!! #you cant just say random numbers!!!!!! #vfd #spyglass #vfd spyglass

[rebeccanordquistart]

but there’s no happy endings

not here and not now

this tale is all sorrows and woes

you dream that justice and peace win the day

but that’s not how the story goes

#asoue #netflix #streaming #a series of unfortunate events #lemony snicket #daniel handler #nph #eye #spyglass #baudelaire #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #zentangle #circle #sticker #black and white #scan #rebecca nordquist art #rebeccanordquistart #index card art #no happy ending #that's not how the story goes #my post #my art #art #teen artist

[superspy6]

“There’s nothing but horror and inconvenience on the way.”

So I have a relative that loves A Series Of Unfortunate events, but they don’t own the books. So I’ve collected all 13 books as a Christmas gift and made this VFD themed pack of home made goodies including a custom spyglass.

It’s been a labour of love these past few months and I can’t wait to see her face christmas day!

@unfortunateevents @netflix

#a series of unfortunate events #vfd #asoue #netflix #lemony snicket #david handler #count olaf #spyglass #custom #homemade #present #christmas #the world is quiet here #volunteer fire department

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

Mimicking your asoue fics:

”Violet was pregnant with triplets. Quigley was the father but he died by choking on a spyglass. So, Isadora married Violet and raised the triplets with her”

Out of all of the asoue fics I’ve written I feel like this one will haunt me the most for the rest of my life

#All my DCLA mutuals be like ’wtf did you write’ #Let’s just say I am sort of another person when writing asoue fics #At the same time it sounds like exactly something i’d write idk

[vfdianua]

woman holding spyglass (based off the image of jacquelyn from s1)

#vfd #spyglass #asoue #series of unfortunate events #jacquelyn #lemony snicket #secretary

[moldygreenblue]

things from the asoue movie

(i personally think did better than netflix asoue, with “honorary mentions” that i can tolerate in ways.)

1. the movie soundtrack. thomas newman composes a lot of good scores, and everything in the asoue movie soundtrack is no exception (drive away is a real head banger). the fact it’s all on youtube, means one can jam to it whenever they go on youtube (i’m guilty of this). i love the netflix soundtrack a lot as well because shoot that is jim dooley’s music (i love his music ever since pushing daisies came out!). but netflix...where’s the official soundtrack? the fact jim dooley’s youtube channel has him uploading songs via request means he’s the only one to listen to the fans who want the show’s soundtrack is why the movie did better because of netflix’s poor treatment by not releasing it. it has to be jim dooley himself having to do it (and i appreciate him doing so because omg i can finally hear the tpp version ‘that’s not how the story goes’ without lemony talking over *tears up*)

2. the vfd group photo. everyone in the photo feels all organic and real. you got members sitting on the floor and steps. some members are standing. some members smiling happy to be there, or with neutral expressions because they don’t want to be there. some are in gestures of sorts (ike is flexing his arm like a goofball; that’s a nice touch to flesh out a dead minor character). it almost feels like the movie team decided ‘since we have the budget, we should get billy connolly, meryl streep, and others to take a photo and we’re telling them they can do whatever they want’. netflix’s vfd feels artificial and very, fake in ways. i don’t want to say it’s a bad photoshop, because group photos can have everyone stand in neat little row all smiles, but some heads feel...off. like, something feels really off with larry, ike, and uh, the guy i think is lemony who is clearly got the worst of it. is that a bad photoshop?

3. the littlest elf. the movie made that elf have a (minor) presence from beginning to end. there’s the fake out opening. the theme song from the fake out opening is heard three more times (twice in-verse, and it’s the final song in the credits) and it’s annoyingly catchy. olaf having a bobble head doll so shoot that means it’s popular franchise in the movie world. the movie made the littlest elf a thing, and netflix only makes it a word-of-mouth reference. what’s weirder for netflix is gustav despite having more of a character and kept his director status (unlike movie!gustav), never bring up this horrific masterpiece and the connection between the two (that i can recall). like, this is not cool, netflix!

4. movie!monty being able to carry snakes and having a personal snake.  the movie probably had the budget to do so unlike netflix, but monty in any continuity would carry a snake with him if possible, even for a short amount of time. movie!monty goes up a level by being a giddy herpetologist with his own personal pet snake he loves and adore (sidenote: movie!monty, that’s why petunia thinks you’re a tree you always carry her around. you spoil her rotten). netflix!monty with the winged lizard is not the same vibe, because it’s cgi. i think netflix!monty should have hold a real snake for at least a minute, as a treat.

5. two-thirds of the wide window section. it’s not that i think the netflix version is bad, for i do enjoy it. but there’s so many details in the movie version i enjoy: josephine and her poofy black mourning dress. klaus dissociating in the kitchen and josephine losing it. josephine casually telling the children ‘oh no he [ike] got eaten by leeches’ and the baudelaires are all (O_o) and sunny speaks for them all. the fact josephine is strong enough to pull the chain to show off the wide window all by herself and violet and klaus are still (O_o).  josephine screaming at the jane lynch cameo + “we got to get her out of the house.”. sunny accidentally dropping the apple basket. klaus tackling captain sham shamelessly. the baudelaires getting accuse of shoplifting. everything about hurricane herman, especially with josephine’s fears coming true. klaus assuming violet may kill them all with her plan to get off the platform.

the fact that the deleted/extended version of josephine’s death is so messed up (josephine realizing she can’t jump, josephine allowing herself to sit back on the boat, crying as she apologizes, the fog covering her and the boat), i truly think the wide window was the book the movie team attempted to do the series right in their own way, but meddling got involve.

and now, honorary mentions.

honorary mention 1: movie!powder face women ages. i don’t know what is up with their personalities (i’m including deleted scenes), but you know what? the movie team did cast two actresses who fit the age range of the sbg. had the movie continued in hypothetical sequels, i would have 100% believe their recruitment into vfd is connected to the loss of their sibling in a fire. netflix!powder face women are older than their movie counterparts (and maybe book counterparts, taking brett helquist’s illustrations of them as them being on the younger side), so when netflix decided to make ishmael the creator of vfd, they pretty much made a giant hole of a contradiction over their statement of losing a sibling to a fire (unless they aged very badly). netflix due to their major changes of vfd, made the movie look good in a weird way. honorary mention because movie series is dead in the water, and their characterization.

honorary mention 2: the baudelaire’s mansion. the exterior only shows up for one second in its glory before fernald stabs his hook into the photo, but given how the ruins are shown a lot, it’s easy to tell the mansion isn’t super huge, but still huge and noticeable. its location being in middle of the street holding a corner spot of sorts means looking from high above does give the illusion it’s in the ‘heart of a dirty and busy city’. the netflix mansion...it’s something. the netflix mansion looks like it’s borderline on a suburb neighborhood, and the mansion takes up six lots like this not what i thought in mind. it’s honorary mention because the exterior shows up for one second (and i’m not sure how to feel about the interior).

honorary mention 3: movie!lemony hiding his face 24/7. netflix!lemony showing his face is because he’s narrating the series from the future. whenever (past) netflix!lemony shows up, there’s is a sense (future) netflix!lemony is trying to avoid narrating himself because it screams, “oh hey that’s me! oh wait that’s me. i’m just...going to go.” and he leaves and only comes back after he’s certain past!lemony is gone. as much i as actually enjoy what netflix did, i do like the ‘i’m not going to show my face, suckers’ angle lemony has in the books. 

the movie carries this over. lemony’s face is always not in the shot because the movie is showing his body head down, obscure by shadows, or do show his face but partly. the whole ‘my ribbon just jam’ bit still has lemony still refusing to not show his face. in fact, it’s hard to find a shot where his face is ‘visible’ without editing the lighting and shadows and what not until the ending, when lemony gets his transcript out of the typewriter due to the lighting of the lamp:

it’s a honorary mention because excluding lemony having no shame on interrupting the fake out opening, no shame on telling the audience to jump out the airplane if they’re watching the movie there, the ‘ribbon just jammed’ moment (if only because movie!lemony blank out afterwards), and technically lemony being melancholic after looking out the spyglass (lemony would totally do that, but in a different context), movie!lemony doesn’t do a lot of things that make him be, well, lemony. that, and movie!lemony’s aesthetics still confuses me to this day.

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #asoue movie #moldy watching movies #this is actually old tbh #like a few months old #but it's still relevant #i don't think netflix still released an official soundtrack