Venn Duckagram

December 18, 2024 7:35 AM

The universe of Beatrix Potter - I spent a lot of the summer of 2016 reading Beatrix Potter to my 2-year-old, and I became obsessed with trying to work out if the recurring characters all exist in the same universe. So I started drawing myself a diagram of how they overlapped...
posted by Wolfdog (6 comments total)

Love the diagram
posted by Phanx at 8:08 AM on December 18

I can't parse the diagram. Usually in Venn diagrams, each overlapping segment is its own color, but here that's not true and I can't tell what some of it means. The duck is very cute but I can't pull the information out of it.

Nonetheless, I am sending it on to a friend who, before her retirement, was responsible for the Beatrice Potter archives at a major library.
posted by Well I never at 8:25 AM on December 18

I can't parse the diagram.

It took me a while too -- each blue 'circle' corresponds to a title that's outside the diagram -- the characters inside where the blue circles overlap are common to both stories.
posted by AzraelBrown at 8:36 AM on December 18 [1 favorite]

The color fills are purely decorative.
posted by BungaDunga at 8:43 AM on December 18 [1 favorite]

Huh. If asked, I would have guessed that Jeremy Fisher, Ptolemy Tortoise et al were more directly connected to the BPEU but guess not. That Miss Tiggy-winkle is the hinge upon which the whole thing hangs is just perfect.
posted by jquinby at 8:46 AM on December 18 [1 favorite]

This could be the Greatest Infographic.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 10:18 AM on December 18 [1 favorite]