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Esmé: *starts trying to get into Olaf's pants*
Me with my 6 year old cousin: *Puts hands over her eyes* Look away! Look away!
Finished the Baudelaires. Hopefully they look traumatized af.
So the background is hell on a leash. 💀💀 All I thought was "VFD VFD VFD VFD".
I think my art is getting more shit?
she lemony on my snicket until there is an unfortunate event
things i think about CONSTANTLY:
daniel handler said that everyone in a series of unfortunate events and the surrounding universe is jewish “unless stated otherwise”
the only time it could possibly have been considered “stated otherwise” is in the netflix tvv, when poe and his wife mention being the only kids in their class without b'nei mitzvahs
literally the only non-jewish characters in this series are the bankers
daniel handler is the funniest man alive
"Is this about the children? I apologize for the noise. I told them to cry using their inside voices."
—Filbrick Pines, probably
(Incorrect Quote sourced from the episode "The Bad Beginning" of the TV show "A Series of Unfortunate Events".)
Imagine Olaf screaming "PARKLIFE" every time Lemony finished a sentence
I’m sorry I did not mean to disrespect a member of the VFD (Various Fallen Defenders) I was just saying that he was a simp, never stated that Beatrice was mediocre. Anyways hope that you have a great day.
Y’all always talking about simps, and how they don’t do much, but like… Lemony made a whole series about some womens kids because he simped so hard for her
Y’all always talking about simps, and how they don’t do much, but like... Lemony made a whole series about some womens kids because he simped so hard for her
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AHHHHHH I love her so much
@lesbian-in-leather HERE’S OUR HOTTIE
JUST- *squeezes eyes shut*
"you're so pretty", okay so write something for me like lemony snicket.
So funny actually when people’s issue with sunny is that she doesn’t age and not. Um. Everything else
A Series of Unfortunate Events Meme
[½ dedications] – The Austere Academy
how did on earth dewey pronounce that
Maybe I'm just a sentimental fool but sometimes I think too hard about the Baudelaire's parents, and all their peers in VFD before the schism, even Olaf, going on missions together and gathering for dinners and defending each other in fights and bickering during a stakeout and my entire brain just goes :(
Olaf putting out fires and doing good work with Jacques and Kit and the others. The others listening to him play piano (because genuinely? He was good at it in the show.) Lemony being everyone's collective friend that constantly needs to be stopped from starting a soliloquy every time they're out anywhere. Esme being well-intentioned, if a bit egotistical, and using her penchant for blending in with high society to gather important information. Monty bringing his iguana to group meetings sometimes, and teaching certain other members how to take care of his reptiles temporarily when he needed to leave the house for longer periods of time- keeping guest rooms ready in the house. Beatrice inventing a way to patch up Lemony's typewriter when he drags it along on a mission and it gets damaged. Kit and Olaf using empty safe places to slack off a little and relax in-between missions, when they need a moment to take things less seriously. Group musical theatre nights. Beach visits. Theme park attendance. Vacations, even.
Thinking about them all together, bonded by good intentions, shared secrets and common interests kills me inside </3
was going through my asoue tag yesterday (of posts i’ve reblogged, not my own posts) and found the post about klaus thinking even years later that he should’ve done something to help uncle monty and prevent his death and how important and heavy and terrible that guilt is and i was reading my tags on it and wanted to make them into a bigger post bc like, this really is heartbreaking, and so is reptile room in general
reptile room is such an important book!! bad beginning sets up olaf and his desire for the baudelaire fortune (and general abuse), but reptile room is the one that creates the set up for the rest of the books – new guardian (or new circumstances), olaf eventually appears – and is the first time it happens!! the kids go from suddenly losing their parents, to getting olaf, who’s a terrible, abusive person, to then getting a new guardian, who’s, nice. monty is still, incredibly misguided and a well-meaning but ultimately useless adult, because he doesn’t recognize olaf and focuses more on the herpetological society than baudelaires telling him olaf is a threat, but he’s also still a good person, and he’s the first good, kind, decent person the baudelaires meet after losing their parents.
he gives them their own rooms, with things he knows they’ll like, and he lets them be involved in his life and work and help prepare for the trip to peru. (this is also assuming that peru was not vfd-related, which i don’t think it was.) he makes them feel important and needed for themselves, not for the money they’ll one day have. he gives them a home, a safe place, somewhere they’re cared for, by someone who genuinely cares about them. it’s not like being at home with their parents, because nothing is going to compare to that, but it’s close. especially after living with someone like olaf, who hit klaus, locked sunny in a cage, tried to marry violet. and in no other book do they have the opportunity to be as comfortable and safe and cared for as they are with monty in the reptile room. (josephine’s fear prevents her from really being a parent and connecting with them, sir makes them do child labor, nero doesn’t care about his students and puts the kids in the orphan shack, esme and jerome are, esme and jerome, the vfd village also treats them as child labor, after that they’re on their own and the adults they meet still can’t do anything to really help. even dewey’s offer of the kids staying at the hotel falls flat in the face of, it is a vfd hotel, and even as neutral territory and ‘the last safe place’ it’s never going to be completely safe. the only place they have ever been remotely as safe as they were in their parent’s house is with monty.)
(and especially in the way that monty isn’t just montgomery montgomery, he’s introduced as uncle monty. it’s unlikely that he really was related to beatrice and bertrand, but he’s considered family.)
and then olaf comes back. and he corrupts that safety, and murders monty.
and it’s like the baudelaires lose their parents all over again. but this time, it was supposed to be different!! because before, when the fire killed their parents, they weren’t home, they were at briny beach. but now!! this time they were home!! this time they were there!! they were with a guardian who was family and like a parent and supposed to protect them, and the baudelaires could protect him, too!! and they were there when monty was murdered and just didn’t know!!! this kind of loss wasn’t supposed to happen again but it did! of course klaus would still think even years and years later that he should’ve done something, because he feels directly responsible for this loss that wasn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, supposed to happen a second time!!
and there’s no way he could’ve possibly changed anything about how it played out. olaf would’ve murdered monty eventually no matter what, because monty was in his way, and olaf was always going to do it in a way no one could interfere with. even if klaus had called out to the taxi driver to take olaf away when he arrived as stephano, likely nothing would’ve happened. but klaus’ survivors guilt exists and stays with him because it’s a horrifying loss that he blames himself for, because he was there, and monty was alive and then he wasn’t, and there’s proof this time, there’s a body this time, there’s a house that remains that didn’t burn down that klaus was in, monty’s possessions are left behind, his peaches are still there, such tangible things that only reinforce what was lost and wasn’t supposed to be lost this time. klaus is twelve years old and just lost his parents and then lost the only other adult who could’ve come close to them. (and it’s not going to stop there, but how this loss functions first in bb/rr specifically is pivotal)
and that trauma never stops! ideally he should know better as an adult, that it was never his responsibility to save monty, or his parents, and there was nothing he could do, but he still thinks it was because they were so close and so similar. it’s heartbreaking that even some time later klaus can’t stop re-imagining what he could’ve done differently
Huh...
I create a Tumblr blog and the first thing I see in the #asoue tag is incestous ships content.
not my usual content or anything but here's an asoue headcanon:
Lemony's middle is Dante. Let me explain.
So everyone knows that scene in Vile Village where they talk about Dante, right? Like the guy who wrote Dante's Inferno? My headcanon is that Dante is Lemony's middle name.
Along with this I raise these full names for the snickets:
Katherine "Kit" Sappho Snicket
Jacques Whitman Snicket
Lemony Dante Snicket
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My headcanon is that all three snickets' middle names are named after poets.
Kit's middle name is after Sappho, a well known poet from Archaic Greece, and probably the first well known female poet.
Jacques's middle name is after Walt Whitman. Walt is well known for his poems "Song of Myself" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed".
Lemony's middle name– you already know after Dante and Dante's Inferno.
I just feel like their middle names are after famous poets.
But you guys know the drill by now: that's just my two cents!
Woah Mr Mentally Ill posting twice in one day??
...who cares lol
Anyway– I'm here today to talk to you about the use of color in ASOUE. So let's get into it!
Okay let's start off with basics: yellow represents innocence and purple represents evil. In the early days of the first season, Sunny wears yellow colored clothes. As she gets older however, she wears more colors like pink and grey.
Purple is the color that Esmé wears at the opera. It's also the color that the man with the beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard wear. In the scene wear the baudelaires help burn down the hotel and help Olaf get away, Violet wears purple.
Again, going back to yellow, look at the island. Now this might be a bit of a stretch, so take it with a grain of salt. So yellow and red make orange right? So someone with not much knowledge on the subject might think that orange and white makes yellow aswell.
This is where the stretch comes in, Ishmael wants to recreate that innocence like we see in Sunny at the start. That's what VFD was supposed to do, keep childlike innocence.
While you would think red would be a color associated with evil in ASOUE, but it doesn't. It mainly represents good. The uniform on the Quequeg is red. In the show, Kit wears it at the opera. In the books, the baudelaires wear it while working at the Hotel Denoument. Klaus also wears it in some early episodes.
Blue would usually be associated with childlike innocence, but in ASOUE it's usually the loss of childlike innocence. Beatrice wears it when she throws the dart that kills Olaf's father. Klaus wears it when they steal a boat, get arrested, in the movie, and all illustrations. Sunny also wears it in later seasons, showing how she is no longer innocent. It is also the color of the sugar bowl.
Green is a neutral color. The hypnotized mill workers wear it. In the show, the baudelaires wear it when they spy on bad people. Olaf wears it in the song "Not how the story goes".
Black and white funnily enough, aren't black and white. They're blurred, both bad and good characters wearing it.
But hey– that's just my two cents!!
(If you guys wanna send me theories to talk about, send me them!)
Jacques: Who the fuck added me to a fucking group chat?
Beatrice: >:O language
Kit: Yeah watch your fucking language
Esmé: OKAY WHO TAUGHT KIT THE FUCK WORD?
Olaf: 'The fuck word'.
Lemony: Are you stupid? You guys use the f word all the time
Kit: Oh my god they censored it
Olaf: Say fuck, Lemony.
Kit: Do it, Lemony. Say fuck.
Wassup! Mr mentally ill is back with another ASOUE opinion!~
I really didn't know that this was an unpopular opinion, but who cares?
Neither side of VFD was completely correct. Neither side of VFD was completely wrong. Both sides of VFD have good and bad.
That, in my opinion, is the point of the series. Everyone is capable of corruption. The 'noble' volunteers aren't opposed to murder. The 'evil' arsonists aren't opposed to saving someone.
VFD is not a cult. Volunteer Fire Department. You might say "but mr mentally ill! tons of cults use the term volunteer to indoctrinate!"
And to that I bring you the last scene in S3 E4. Kit Snicket says "I can take you to the Last Safe Place if that's still what you want to go."
Notice what specific words she uses: *if*. She doesn't say "I will take you to the Last Safe Place since that's were you want to go."
If VFD was a cult, they would use words to make you feel like you want it.
Now going back to the 'evil' side of VFD. Esmé is on the 'evil' side, but if you've seen my sugar bowl theory, you know I don't believe she's evil.
I'll bring up a point I made in that post: Esmé only wants the sugar bowl. She could care less about hurting people. If they gave her the sugar bowl, she would've probably stayed in VFD.
Olaf just wants revenge. Fernald no longer believes in VFD. The only two characters who are evil with no explanation are the man with the beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard.
Back to Fernald: he actively states "there is no wrong side of the schism". This is literally word for word! No theory needed!
For me, it reminds me of SHEILD from the MCU, especially with the 'evil' growing inside of it.
But hey! That's just my two cents!
okay this theory might be a little controversial..
First things first, we are ignoring the show's "genetically altered sugar" sugar bowl excuse, because that feels like it was pulled out of someone's ass.
Hear me out: there is nothing in the sugar bowl + esmé is still good.
So we know that the schism didn't start with sugar bowl gen, but thats when it really exploded. Esmé Squalor is personally mad, not because Beatrice Baudelaire is a volunteer, but because her trust was betrayed.
Esmé while talking to Dewey Denoument gets told, "The container is yours. Not what it contains."
This means VFD believes the sugar bowl itself is still Esmé's. We know sometimes Lemony will use metaphors for the plot, like the great unknown.
I believe the sugar bowl is a physical stand-in for the betrayal Esmé felt with Beatrice.
When VFD split, friends became enemies. We know this, right? And we know that Esmé and Beatrice were friends that became enemies.
What if the sugar bowl is just a figurative(?) show of that? Esmé doesn't really care about VFD or arson, she just wants her sugar bowl.
And while we get the 'olaf knows' scene, Esmé probably already knew. It doesn't say 'olaf and esmé know'.
Now hear me out again– Esmé holds out the information, not telling Olaf. In hopes that Beatrice will see that she is trustworthy and give back the sugar bowl.
Esmé was obviously there when the dart was thrown. She was standing directly across from Beatrice. She definitely saw Beatrice throw the dart.
So why do we still get the 'olaf knows' scene? If Esmé was truly evil, wouldn't she immediately tell Olaf so they could incriminate them?
Esmé wants to be trustworthy, she wants to be Beatrice's friend again, she wants to hold the sugar bowl again.
Esmé only hurts the baudelaire children at Olaf's command.
"I helped you chase those orphans through the least in places in the hinterlands" That's what she says. She could care less about revenge.
In Penultimate Peril, Esmé has the opportunity to poison everyone. She doesn't. She genuinely does not want revenge.
(This is definitely less believable than my Poe is an ex-volunteer theory.)
But.. thats just my two cents lol
Is Mr Poe an ex vfd volunteer?
We know that the baudelaire parents threw parties with very specific friend(s), Poe being one of them. All other friend(s) of the baudelaire parents are implied/stated to be ex/current vfd volunteers. Why would they be friend with just a random banker?
Adding on to this, Poe is always there when misfortune falls onto the baudelaire children. As if his presence there causes it. What if it actually did?
Think about it, what startles the baudelaires that leads to Dewey Denoument's death? Poe. Who gets Jacques Snicket arrested and killed? Poe. He is always there.
Who gets the news first? Poe. Who tells the baudelaires about the fire? Poe.
Adding on to @femmefatalegoth Poe is a villain theory, if he wasn't an ex-volunteer, why else would he insist on never listening to the baudelaires? He only listens when indisputable evidence is shown.
Mr Poe gets treated horribly by Olaf when they 'meet', yet he speaks of the count kindly while talking to the children.
If he was an ex-volunteer– he must've left vfd. Why, you may ask, would he have a reason to leave vfd as a volunteer? Easy.
His children. To protect them from vfd recruitment.
Also, what reason would he have to be at the Vile Village? He says he's "running with this crowd!" A vague answer. Likewise, he's familiar with the rules of the VFD village— an old vfd station.
This all makes sense if Poe is an ex-volunteer. Why he knows so much about the baudelaires personal lives? He knew their parents very personally.
A cause for his cough? One theory from popsugar.com suggests it could be from fires he might've helped set. Another personal theory of mine is that it could be to do with the medusiod mycelium. We know it makes you cough a lot as by what happens to Sunny when she ingests it.
Could a younger vfd volunteer Poe be on a mission when he was exposed to the medusiod?
In both the book and the show, one of the lines in "The End" is "at this time Mr. Poe was better known as his stage name" suggesting that he was an actor at some point. Acting is a profession that a lot of vfd volunteer take on.
It is also stated that the baudelaire(s) smell smoke around figuratively (and sometimes literally).
We know that sometimes ex-volunteers that join the 'evil' side of the schism will put on a dumb act as to not be caught. Could this be why Poe is always so stupid?
Anyways.. thats just my two cents!
whhhhhhhaaaaatttttt!!
I have no idea how this is going to turn out, but I am sUPER EXCITED FOR IT
Neil Patrick Harris To Star In Netflix’s A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
the musical equivalent of too many cooks
Reading ASOUE as a child, I didn't end up with a Violet Baudelaire complex (tying my hair up every time I have to think), or a Klaus Baudelaire complex (reading a shit ton of books about everything), but a rarer third thing I like to call a Lemony Snicket complex (I am very very sad, I write, I love desperately, and I still hope for the best)
Lemony Snicket was canonically a cheerleader and I haven't seen a single person talk about it. The possibilities are delightful- Lemony saying cheesy rhymes in a deadpan voice?? Lemony in a cheerleader outfit in general?? Lemony getting tossed around by others more qualified to be a cheerleader?? Lemony who joined cheerleading simply because Beatrice was in soccer?