A phrase which here means

Closed: It is a relief, in hectic and frightening times, to find true friends.

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:18:00 GMT

On a day that is definitely not 30th of Hesione, Sunny has decided it's time to have a conversation she has been putting off for far too long. She kept a big chunk of her schedule today free, making sure that only Luci's sticker got put down on her calendar. It would be terrible if she overbooked herself, and had to reschedule this for another time.

She has brought Luci into her office, a phrase which here means, "the bouncy house in the bouncy things room", and after several minutes of vigorous bouncing around (vitally important, of course), they are now both sitting on the red, inflatable floor. Red is, of course, the same color as the blood of angry men, but it's also the same color as most blood in general, not just angry people. Some lyricists get that confused frequently, but that's alright.

"Luci," Sunny says, very seriously. "I gotta have a important talk with you please."

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Closed: Various Finery Disguises

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:08:15 GMT

Luci came over today, probably because Sunny is his best friend, so she is spending some time with him. 'Spending some time with him' is a phrase which here means 'sitting in the chair, while Luci sits on the floor in front of her, while she does a hairstyle for him'.

She has aaaaalllll the supplies she needs, too. She has a brush, and a comb, and all of her little ponytail holders and ribbons, and some fun clips, and some fun colorful hair glitter goopy stuff she bought at the store last time she went to the basement of the mansion. 'Bought at the store' is a phrase which here means 'Found in one of the store-like rooms and decided to bring home'.

"Luci, I bet you're gonna be so sooo pretty after I get done with your hair!"

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Open: After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:19:05 GMT

The best part about birthdays, Sunny thinks, is not the presents. Presents are very nice, and Sunny is always happy when someone gives her something because it made them think of her and they care about her, but that isn't the best part. Being another year taller is also not the best part, mostly because Sunny doesn't think she is any taller than she was yesterday, or the day before that. She has to think back to a long time ago before she can remember being any shorter than she is now. Growing, she's pretty sure, is something that just sneaks up on you when you aren't paying attention, like a playful kitten or a spy from a secret organization.

The best part about birthdays is that it means all of her family, her friends, and even the people she has neutral feelings towards come over at the same time to have a party outside her house. Having people over is one of Sunny's favorite things, right up there with baking, biting, and bouncing in the bouncy things in the bouncy things room.

She is so happy today, getting to run around outside with everyone there, that she doesn't even think about how Violet and Klaus aren't here. There are many days like that now, actually. She does have the drawing of them that Aire painted for her, but it hangs in the room she shares with Phelia, and she doesn't go in there very often unless she's grabbing a toy to play with. She is still very sad that they aren't here, but it's now the kind of sadness that you don't always think about, instead of the kind that you can't stop thinking about.

Open for threads or drive by single tags if you have a specific thing your character wants to give her as a present, or whatever!

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Closed: as a secret compartment loves a secret

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:02:02 GMT

Sunny Baudelaire has a plan.

It's a very good plan, and so she thinks it's probably best if she only tells it to Magnu, that way nobody else steals her plan idea and does it first. The fact that she definitely for sure mentioned it to Far and Apu and Phelia earlier today doesn't count, she was excited about it, and when you are excited about something you pretty much have to tell someone about it, or else you might perish. Everybody knows this.

Magnu has picked her up for their regularly scheduled hang out time and they are walking in the direction of the mansion, but she suddenly stops walking and looks up at him. "Magnu, I haves a idea."

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Open: Vying For Diversions

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 03:49:10 GMT

Sunny Baudelaire has a very exciting life. She gets to wake up every day, and even though Dindin moved out, she gets to have breakfast with the rest of her family, and then gets to spend time with Magnu doing errands. Sometimes she gets to go to sword class, or sometimes play practice (she’s the doggie! It’s a lot of fun, she gets to pretend to be Szari! She’s better at it than everyone else though, which is why most other people in the play have to practice more often than she does). Sometimes she spends time being babysat by her aunts and uncles, sometimes she gets to hang out with her friends, sometimes she gets to work in the garden, a phrase which here means “play in the dirt in the garden”.

She’s learning how to bake food, she’s learning how to play music, she’s learning letters, and she’s pretty sure she already knows almost all of the animals.

She doesn’t get to be alone though, because if she’s alone she might get kidnapped again. This is a rule Sunny has no issue following, because she doesn’t want to get kidnapped. It does make it difficult for typists to create easy prompts for an open post, however. Perhaps Sunny has been placed in the care of your character for a time being, or perhaps she is in the yard while her parents keep an eye on her from a nearby window when your character walks by. After all, the world is your oyster, a phrase which has little to do with shellfish but is instead a phrase which here means, “you have to pick what Sunny’s doing for these threads, I’m sorry”.

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Closed: Variable Frequency Device

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 03:34:13 GMT

Sunny Baudelaire, though once one of the unluckiest, saddest children likely to ever be written about in a series of 13 or so novels, each more terrible than the last, has a pretty good life now, all things considered. Every morning she wakes up, surrounded by her two loving daddies and one loving sisterpet dog, in her house that her daddies built, that they get to share with her Aunt Phelia and very very good friend Dindin. Her oldest sibling Magnu comes over and they have breakfast, and then get to go on adventures together, then she gets to have lunch at home with her daddies and whoever else feels like stopping by. After lunch she has Activities, somewhere in there she does usually have to take a nap, but that's a small price to pay for everything else being so good. They have dinner with a rotating list of friends and uncles and other family members, then it's bathtime, then time for poems and cuddles, before she gets tucked into bed, ready to wake up early the next morning to start it all over again.

Today, at this moment, her after-lunch and after-nap Activities involve sitting around inside playing with her toys, but she's getting a little bored with that. Fortunately, her pretty good life now also involves owning a little orange and teal dinosaur-shaped talkie talkie, thanks to an adventure with Magnu that can soon be read about elsewhere, for all who are interested.

"Beantown, this Rainbow, over," she says while pressing the button so that Magnu will be able to hear her. When using a talkie talkie you have to use super special talkie talkie codes, which involves having nicknames for each other, and saying 'over' when your sentences are over. As this message is being conveyed via text and not over a talkie talkie, I do not have to end this sentence with the word 'over' in order to let you know that the sentence is over. However, if I were reading this post to you via a talkie talkie, it would be helpful if I let you know that the post was over by ending with the word 'over'.

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Closed: The World is Quiet Here.

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 02:17:54 GMT

Nightmares are nothing new for Sunny Baudelaire. There was a time when she had them somewhat infrequently, before her birth parents tragically perished in a sudden house fire that may or may not have been started by an individual who may or may not have recently died any number of painful deaths, though research into the exact specifics of those events is still ongoing. After previously mentioned arson, Sunny Baudelaire experienced a period of very frequent nightmares, followed by a few months where her nightmares were lessening, a word which here means "became less frequent, though did still happen from time to time".

Unfortunately, she has been having very intense nightmares every time she has fallen asleep in recent days, and in general her waking hours have been less than ideal as well. Recently it seems like everyone but her got to be reunited with their loved ones from home, but all Sunny got was --

She wakes up, multiple times during the night, screaming at the viciously frightening dreams her subconscious has decided to inflict on her. Count Olaf, dead, getting up though and continuing to menace her. Count Olaf kidnapping her and taking her back home, away from her daddies and her brother and everyone else, and keeping her in another birdcage. Count Olaf killing Violet and Klaus in all of the many several ways many several people killed him. Magnu's mommy, who by all accounts was a very lovely person in real life, but in Sunny's dreams she's mean and horrible and laughs at her because her mommy didn't get to come here, even though they're both equally dead and therefore equally as likely to show up.

Sunny is very glad that every time she wakes up crying her daddies are there to hug her and calm her down enough to go back to sleep. She is also very glad that she is still wearing her bedtime pull ups every night. Most of all though, she is glad that Count Olaf is definitely incredibly dead, and even though she can't be with Violet and Klaus, she knows they won't be harmed by him any more. She just wishes the nightmares about the whole situation would stop.

This morning she wakes up screaming from a nightmare at almost the same time she gets up normally, and so she decides to just stay awake. She has big plans to go get groceries with Magnu anyway, and after a bit of a touch and go start to her day, she's finally dressed and out the door with Magnu.

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Interlude: Impenetrable.

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:17:43 GMT

( A word which here means 'impossible to break into and rescue kidnapped orphans' )

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Open: The difference between arson and a birthday party is the number of candles.

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:47:45 GMT

On the day of her birthday, Sagramore takes Sunny out for an early ride on Fenyes. The foal is due any week now, but Sunny is so little that it’s fine for her to sit on top of Fenyes’ back, in the groove that seems perfectly made for a rider, while Sagramore leads her around by the bridle – and it keeps them out of the house long enough for Laertes and Magnus to put the plan of her party into action.

Laertes uses the brief window of time well--he has his cake pans selected, his parchment paper already cut to shape, and his chocolate frosting mixed ahead of time, and all that remains is to mix the chocolate cake batter and to bake it. To delight his daughter's many teeth, he's selected a mix of sprinkles with several different textures of crunch.

For her part, Sunny knows several things. She knows her birthday is likely very soon, and that Magnus thinks she should have a party. They talked about it some, back at the wedding. She also knows that they are going to have company over today, though she didn’t give that much thought, as they often have company over, and nobody specified how many people would be arriving. However, she has yet to put these facts together, and as a result is unaware that her birthday and subsequent party are today.

Magnus has been secreting things away in the shed where he and Galahad found Drosera for weeks — they're not precisely close, but they're close enough that he can move things over in fairly short order. The crucial supplies include several card tables, a KIERKLAAND-brand dinosaur-themed bounce house and slide with an attached battery-powered blower, with enough stakes that it should be fine for an adult to go in with her whenever she wants, and so many balloons, streamers, and ribbons. A more recent addition to the lot includes loads of additional party-appropriate snacks: crudités trays with dips, apples for slicing with caramel dippers on the side, and a couple of kinds of chips. Also, most importantly, Magnus's gifts.

Once the bouncy house is anchored to the ground and inflating, Magnus starts setting up the tables, tying balloons to ribbons and arraying them around the tables and yard and, frankly, tossing the streamers all over the place. Finally, and based in part on some magazine articles he's read on throwing parties and showers (a birthday party for a two year old is basically a baby shower, right?) he puts out some signs: GIFTS GO HERE on one card table, and BOOKS GO HERE on another. (They asked each attendee to bring a book to contribute to Sunny's personal library in lieu of cards in the party invitations, preferably a children's book with personal meaning and significance but with no true limitations.) The final card table gets the polaroid camera and some silly costume components — funny hats, disguise glasses, feather boas — so people can document the occasion. He has secret plans to take the resulting photos and make a little album of them for the family.

So it is that when Sagramore finally brings Sunny home again, riding on his shoulders, everything is ready for her – including Sagramore’s own gift, as abysmally wrapped as one might imagine, and sitting on the outside eating table, which has been reserved for that purpose.

Sunny has never seen a party so large before, that clearly took so much planning. Her first birthday party, though lovely and a lot of fun, was nothing like this. Her eyes dart all around, at all of her friends who have come, all of the gifts they were kind enough to bring for her, and at all of the activities her family have planned, all with her in mind. There's an overwhelming mix of emotions running through her small body, but she quickly settles on happy and excited. She wipes a couple of rogue tears from her cheeks before turning to her Apu, pointing at the bounce house, and asking, "Can I go jump?"

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Closed: An Ersatz Guardian

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 01:57:06 GMT

Like most people Sunny's age, she tends to wake up bright and early. Unlike most people Sunny's age, Magnu Chase is normally at her house when she wakes up these days. She honestly just expects it at this point. Today Sunny wakes up and her first stop is, of course, the potty. She's very proud of herself for making it all the way through the night without peeing in her diaper! Potty lessons have been going well. She even found some fancy diapers that she can pull up and get on all by herself, so she barely needs any help at all these days. She's a very independent woman, after all.

Far and Apu are still sleeping, so Sunny is very quiet as she picks out an outfit to wear, and she's very quiet as she gets Magnu to help her put on the outfit, and she's very quiet as she spills Lucky Charms all over the place while pouring them into a little baggy to carry with her on the adventures she and Magnu are going to have today.

Eventually Sunny is all ready to go, she even has a sippy cup of watered down apple juice (Magnu took care of that one, after the Lucky Charms mishap), and they are out the door ready to go.

"Plans?" Sunny asks, by which she means, "What are we going to do today?"

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Closed: The question is, has she been good to me?

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:48:13 GMT

"Art Nouveau" is a phrase which literally can mean, "New Art", but it can also refer to an art style that gained popularity between 1890 and 1910, and features rounded shapes and a lot of highly intricate lamps and very fancy dresses. Today, Sunny is hanging out with her bestie Magnu, and while what she is drawing can be accurately described as "New Art", in that it is art which is new, it might be inaccurate to assign it the label of "Art Nouveau". A more accurate description would be "scribbling on the walls of the mansion with Mrs. Sketch Scented Markers".

"Flower," she says confidently after drawing a roughly rectangular blue blob.

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Open: Well young lady, have you been good to your mother?

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:10:03 GMT

Sunny Baudelaire has been having quite an exciting time lately. For once, "exciting" means "filled with fun" and not "filled with terror, pain, panic, and an inordinate amount of running and hiding". Without the threat of Count Olaf and his associates finding her in an attempt to steal the Baudelaire fortune, Sunny has had more time for her studies. "Her studies" is a phrase which here means, "catching up on learning how to do things most people take for granted".

She has finally learned how to walk. She thinks the amount of words she is now able to say has increased. Magnu has even taught her a few things in sign language, which she finds is a little easier than speaking. The biggest news is that she now has five very sharp teeth, as opposed to the four she started with when she arrived.

Shortly before she arrived, Mr Poe had told the Baudelaires about an aphorism: It takes a village to raise a child. She wonders if that is why she has had so much time to grow. Her days are spent rotating around between several different guardians, babysitters, and friends, and it has been lovely. She hopes her siblings are having just as good of a time in the village of V.F.D.

Unfortunately I must report that her siblings are not having just as good of a time in the village of V.F.D., nor are they even still in the village of V.F.D. Sunny does not know this. It would probably be for the best if nobody tells her.

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Closed: Vitally Forming Defense

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 02:46:46 GMT

You may have, at times, heard the phrase, "Practice makes perfect". This phrase is often said by misinformed teachers, dance instructors, community recreational league baseball coaches, and overly-talkative Uber drivers. In actuality, practice rarely makes perfect, for several reasons. To start with, perfection is a highly subjective concept. One person may find the addition of a Cheez-It® 16 Times The Size Of The Original Cheez-It® to the Taco Bell menu perfect, whereas their friend may find the addition of a Cheez-It® 16 Times The Size Of The Original Cheez-It® to the Taco Bell menu unnecessary, overly-salty, and a bit of a silly gimmick, to be quite honest.

Another reason practice rarely makes perfect is that practicing something will only make you as good as the methods you are repeatedly doing. If you are practicing something incorrectly, you will never become perfect, you will only get more specific in your incorrectness. If you have an instructor who is teaching you incorrect form, you may get very good at said incorrect form, but it will never be perfect.

Fortunately for Magnus, Lancelot is actually quite proficient at swords. "Proficient" is a word which here means, "perfect".

Today, Sunny is also going to Learn Swords. "Learn Swords" is a phrase which here means, "Sit on the ground and gnaw on a wooden toy sword while the grown ups practice". Magnus said she could come along, and so she has.

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DF Application

Mon, 27 May 2024 16:21:11 GMT

( The world is quiet here )

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