#Jacques x Jerome

[beatricebidelaire]

love how jacques signs his letter to jerome “with all due respect, jacques snicket” and jerome signs his letter to jacques “your pal, jerome”

#vera.txt #jacques snicket #jerome squalor #jacques x jerome #otp: please do not marry this woman

[the-nonsense-is-mine]

It's been rattling around in my head that both Jacques and Jerome describe their conversation about the penthouse as Jacques Snicket, who no one says no to (I mean look at him) begging Jerome Squalor, who has never said no in his life to anyone. And in what context did it fall that Jacques actually begged.

On the one hand, we know they communicate by letter. There's the possibility that Jacques sat down to write to Jerome and ask him to buy the penthouse and as it occurred to him that there wouldn't be time to try again if Jerome said no. So he ends up writing down everything he can think of to convince him, because he can't fail. Just pages and pages of pleas in case Jerome doesn't agree after the first hundred and one times asking.

There's also something to be said for buying a literal penthouse being a kind of big and weird ask. But again - Jerome doesn't really do questioning. It's kinda sticking in my thoughts that maybe this was the one thing that Jerome ever did push for, that he didn't want to move to this penthouse that is literally so far away from the world. That maybe he liked where he was living at the time enough that he would actually fight for it, that he would have to be begged to leave.

That maybe that conversation happened in person, in a home they shared, and when Jacques asked him to move into the penthouse they both knew it would mean being separated again.

Somewhere in here there's some real analysis, but for now I can only offer sad vibes and vague backstory.

#asoue #jacques snicket #jerome squalor #jerome x jacques #jsjs

[mscottphoto]

Studio visit with eyewear designer and founder of Jacques Marie Mage, Jerome Mage for a collaboration between JME x Monocle

Los Angeles, 2022

#jme #jacques marie mage #Jerome mage #Studio Visits #color film #Kodak 400 #los angeles

[anthonyofawesome]

Me (sitting on 3 unfinished Jacques/Jerome fics for 3+ years): WHEN is somebody going to post more Jacques/Jerome fic, hm?

#this is a callout post at me only #no disrespect to those steadfast individuals who have been absolutely serving #it's just the inventory is limited #and I need more cakes #*donkey from Shrek voice* This would be so much easier if I wasn't brain not functioning disorder #Jacques x Jerome #Jacques Snicket/Jerome Squalor #jacques snicket #jerome squalor

[deweysdenouement]

“Can I ask you a question?” Frank asks him one night.

Jacques looks over at him lying on the bed, half of his face illuminated by the weak light from a bedside lamp. He’s wearing a thin t-shirt, but not his suit. He still looks naked, even though Jacques has seen him naked, actually naked, a hundred times.

“That was a question,” he replies.

“You are insufferable.” Frank rolls his eyes. “Do you want to be here?”

“Is that your question or are you threatening me?” Jacques grins at him.

Frank doesn’t laugh back, but that’s not really unusual.

“How’s Jerome?” Frank asks.

“That’s your question?” Jacques asks, confused.

Frank nods mutely.

“Oh,” Jacques says, baffled. “He’s well, I suppose. Physically, at least. He’s in the penthouse with Esme. He says he loves her.”

Frank watches him, still quiet. He’s wearing the blank expression he uses for the guests, or around the rest of them sometimes when everything has been too much.

“I think he’s afraid,” Jacques continues, now that the dam is broken. “To leave her, even though he doesn’t love her. He wants something else. Or he needs it, maybe? But he needs someone to be kind to him and tell him there’s nothing to be afraid of, and Esme’s not doing that for him.”

Frank nods again.

“I just worry,” Jacques says. “I know we’ll always be friends, but I get scared I’m losing him. Sometimes I talk to him and it’s like he’s slipping through my fingers. And I can’t imagine not having him in my life.”

“Jacques,” Frank interrupts, just with the one word, spoken softly but with a tone that makes him listen.

“What?” Jacques asks him. “Sorry, I get caught up on it sometimes. When it’s about him, I just…”

“Jacques,” Frank repeats. “I really hope you get him someday.”

“That’s not-” he breaks off, a little stunned. “Frank, I don’t want you to think-”

“It’s okay,” he says, voice slipping back into that stern hotel dialect, away from the softer tones Jacques has been growing used to. “I know. I knew getting into this.”

“It’s not that I don’t feel for you,” Jacques says eventually, feeling heavy. “It’s just that-”

“I already told you I know.”

“Right.” Jacques folds his hands over his chest so that he won’t reach for Frank’s. “Where does that leave us?”

“Nowhere good,” Frank says grimly, but then he smiles, a wry little thing. “You want some company? Whilst we wait for Esme to croak?”

“Always,” he says with a smile of his own, and reaches for him again.

#frank denouement #jacques snicket #jacques x jerome #my writing #this is simply a baby scene living in my brain rent free #and sooner or later i had to let it out #do what you will with this #i am not endorsing this as a good idea #i DO think it would happen though

[and-a-stolen-object]

I thought it’d be really fun to make a story over text but it was very difficult has numerous spelling and grammar mistakes and I can’t be asked to change them cuz I’ll have to restart the whole thing. Also I can’t post it on any fic website so it’s going here. I spent way to much time on this so it’s getting posted even if it’s not great.

Enjoy... maybe... (this is only half of it).

So the texting takes place after the opera night. Lemony and Beatrice have just parted ways.

I was going to do a lot more but I might just do one more part depending on my motivation.

(I do apologies for my terrible English skills.)

#asoue #lemony snicket #beatrice baudelaire #lemony x Beatrice #Jacques x Jerome #kit x olaf #J and J are now broken up #K and O are now broken up #L and B are about to break up #oh it’s all so very sad #😅🙁😢😭 #fic #a series of unfortunate events

[olivia-calidamn]

me: can you please have a thought i can work with

my brain mashing Jacques/Jerome with I’m Your Man by Wham!: no

#brain is like: sir george mlm. jerome jacques mlm. fit #and well yes but no #gray’s posts #gray’s music taste #jacques x jerome #jerome musings #jacques musings

[aseriesof-unfortunatequotes]

Bea: if you're happy and you know it clap your hands

Beatrice:

Violet:

Klaus:

Sunny:

Isadora:

Duncan:

Quigley:

Fiona:

Carmelita:

Jerome:

Babs:

Charles:

Sir:

Fernald:

Kit:

Dewey:

Bertrand:

Montgomery:

Gustav:

Frank:

Ernest:

Olaf:

Ike:

Josephine:

Georgina:

Esme:

Lemony:

Jacques:

Jacquelyn:

Olivia:

Bea: Miserable cunts

Dewey: BEA

#tw swearing #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #kit snicket #dewey denouement #denouement triplets #dewkit #dewey x kit #ernest denouement #jacques snicket #count olaf #esme squalor #violet Baudelaire #klaus Baudelaire #sunny Baudelaire #jerome squalor #olivia caliban #Jacquelyn scieska #Georgina Orwell #Frank Denouement #Fiona Widdershins #Isadora Quagmire #Ike Anwhistle #Josephine Anwhistle #Montgomery Montgomery #Gustav Sebald

[gellavonhamster]

an acronym which here means “outstandingly tragic pairings” (5/?) - Jacques Snicket/Jerome Squalor

Please, Jerome, do not marry this woman.

                   I would hate to lose touch with a friend such as you.

#asoueedit #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #jacques snicket #jerome squalor #the unauthorized autobiography #snicketedit #my stuff #snicketverse #slowly running out of my main otps/ot3s so i'll probably return to individual character aesthetics soon #js x js

[lola-o-sirecoci]

Chapters: 1/1Fandom: A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony SnicketRating: MatureWarnings: No Archive Warnings ApplyRelationships: Olivia Caliban/Jacques Snicket, Jacques Snicket/Jerome Squalor (mentioned)Characters: Jacques Snicket, Olivia CalibanAdditional Tags: Morning After, Mentioned Casual Sex, all books no NetflixSummary:

Jacques wakes up undressed in Olivia's caravan, on her bed.

#Olivia Caliban x Jacques Snicket #Jacques Snicket x Jerome Squalor (mentioned) #Jacques Snicket #Olivia Caliban

[calamitous-collection]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Esmé Squalor/Jerome Squalor, Jacques Snicket/Jerome Squalor Characters: Beatrice Baudelaire, Jerome Squalor Additional Tags: Unhealthy Relationships, Vague Mentions of Abuse, y'all have to trust me when i say the slamming door is jacques, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks Summary:

Some people choose their soulmates, some people don't have a choice.

#Esmé Squalor x Jerome Squalor #Jacques Snicket x Jerome Squalor #Beatrice Baudelaire #Jerome Squalor #bookmarked

[beatricebidelaire]

(Cont’d)

“Mr. Squalor. Is this your first masked ball with us?”

“Yes - I’m so glad to be here,” he beams at her, and she can see the excitement mixed with nervousness radiating off him. He holds onto Jacques’s hand a little tighter. “You and Jacques and Beatrice have the most interesting friends.”

“Ah, Beatrice is probably the most interesting of us all,” Kit replies.

“Thank goodness,” Jerome says. “I don’t think I can handle anything more than that. I mean - I think Beatrice is great, obviously! Very charming! A good friend!”

“It’s okay, Jerome,” Jacques cuts across Jerome’s rambling, in his usual calm, steady, reassuring manner. “We understand. We all share the sentiment.”

Jerome is not part of VFD, but he’s an acquaintance to many of them, and friends with Beatrice and Jacques. Well, more than friends, in Jacques’s case. Kit likes Jerome just fine - he’s nice enough, but she can easily tell that he’s no volunteer material. He lacks the decisiveness and backbone to be one, and in general is just not made for the life the volunteers lead.

That said, one extremely important quality of jerome is that he’s rich - or rather, his family is rich, to be specific. She had once thought that’s what made Jacques approached him at first, only to learn that it was not the case. Jacques and Jerome first met when Jacques chivalrously offered Jerome a car ride during a heavy rainstorm, and Jerome’s family driver who was supposed to pick him up got stuck at the other side of The City. Jacques didn’t know, back then, the “Jerome” he’s talking to is the much lesser known second son of the Squalor family. He simply quite enjoyed the conversations they had on the taxi, the two of them finding common interests in music of the 17th century. By the end of the ride, Jerome generously invited Jacques to a classical concert, saying he’s got an extra ticket, and the friendship developed quickly from there.

Jerome’s family fortune and his own generosity quickly catches the eyes of VFD, leading to many people complimenting Jacques for befriending a potential donor, telling him he’s such a loyal and great volunteer. Jacques has always been quite displeased at those comments, as he genuinely actually likes Jerome for who he is, not his money. To which Beatrice replied that “don’t you want him part of our noble goal, don’t you want to give him a chance to contribute, if you like him so much? How romantic it is, to share the same goals and dream as someone!”

Beatrice is, and has always been, magical. When she says those words, her big brown eyes sincere and hopeful and dreamy, her tone half-in-awe, she can make almost everyone believe in the vision she paints. It’s one of her strengths, and she has inspired so many of the younger apprentices with her talks. That’s partly why, even though sometimes people complain about her lack of disregard for rules, they all value her greatly as a volunteer.

That said, Jacques has always belonged to the minority in VFD - the ever shrinking group of people that Beatrice’s magic has no effect on. Jacques, the model volunteer of VFD who does every mission perfectly, has always been against trying to persuade Jerome to do something he doesn’t want to. The higher ups, always with utmost trust for Jacques’s skills, simply believes Jacques is just playing the long game with Jerome, which has so far worked in Jacques’s favor. Jacques keeps Jerome pretty sheltered away from VFD, and mostly only brings Jerome to events like today’s where there will also be people outside of VFD attending (such as R’s family’s friends).

Personally, Kit thinks that since Jerome’s parents still control most of the Squalor family money, it isn’t such a high priority to get Jerome to donate more to VFD’s causes. So she doesn’t push Jacques to do what the others want, for the time being. Jacques has always been highly loyal, and spends most of his time on volunteer work, he should get to have some happiness, she thinks. No matter how long this current state will actually last.

“Well, I’m glad you’re having fun here,” she tells Jerome now, “oh, and you have to try the mini-cheesecake. It’s excellent - they have it over there. Better go get one now or else those disappear fast.”

He blinks, slightly bewildered, and nods. As he walks towards the mini-cheesecake, Kit turns to Jacques. “L’s here,” she says quietly.

“I know,” he replies, equally quiet. “It’s good to see him.” He pauses. “He gave me a triptych. Not directly, but through Larry without him knowing. Well, two triptychs - one is for you.”

Kit raises an eyebrow. Jacques discreetly slides something into a pocket on her dress - different one from the one Beatrice put the book into earlier.

Jacques’s lips twitch slightly. “By the way, don’t look at it here.”

Just then, Jerome is walking back, and with a quiet, “talk to you soon” at Kit, Jacques walks towards Jerome and guides him towards the bar.

Curiously, Kit wonders what’s inside the triptych. Just as she is wondering if it’s something so secretive that she really should not risk looking at it here, or if it just contains an embarrassing photo of Jacques, she hears someone say, “Snicket.”

#kit snicket #jacques snicket #jerome squalor #jacques x jerome #otp: please do not marry this woman #vera.txt

[hellodarjeeling]

They should’ve given Jacques one eyebrow

#asoue #asoue netflix #a series of unfortunate events #jacques snicket #also im not really into the olivia x jacques thing #psst jacques was in love with jerome #but jerome didnt realize it

[when-we-drive-away-in-secret]

What did the sugar bowl gen do with their commonplace books?

I realised that all of VFD must have had them, and then got to wondering what the individuals would have used them for and... I’m going to be honest, once again I had way too much fun with this and once again it got super long so I put everything under the cut

Beatrice

People watching. Each page is dedicated to a different person (sometimes people she knows, sometimes people she doesn't). The title is the date, location and either the subject's name or a brief description of them if they're a stranger ("woman. Big hat, dark glasses" etc). She'll write down little details and mannerisms that she notices, if they seemed stressed or happy or like they were hiding something. Later, she uses this to become a better actress, both on the stage and off of it

Olaf

Ruined it. Every time. He filled it with random thoughts, reminders to himself, shopping lists, anything - all in an awful chicken scratch that he could barely decipher later (if he ever even tried). He would spill things on it, use it as a coaster, and the pages would always be torn and crumpled. The others were horrified whenever they saw it and kept getting him new ones, but they all ended up looking just as bad within two weeks. He once went swimming in a filthy cannel while it was in his pocket, and Kit swears you couldn't even tell the difference afterwards

Bertrand

Inventions! Every time someone mentioned something that bothered them ("I wish we could just do X", "why is it so hard to do Y?") He would write it down on a clean double page. Later, he would try to invent a solution, and even go so far as to sketch out designs and list what he'd need to create it. Sometimes they resulted in incredible feats of engineering, but sometimes it's just a mostly blank page with a small coffee stain and a lot of half-erased pencil markings

Esmé

Records. If someone insulted her, it would be written verbatim in perfect handwriting, alongside their name and the date. If she revealed something about herself, she made sure she knew precisely who she told, and sometimes she'd make things up just to see who spoke about her behind her back. If someone told her a secret, it would be written in a code only she knew, based around what was In on certain days in the past (each correlating to a particular letter, and changing depending on the day it was written)

Lemony

Unfamiliar words. Ever since he was a child, every time he heard a word he didn't recognise (which, being raised in VFD, happened frequently) he would write it down along with the pronunciation. He'd try and guess at the meaning from context and write that down too, and every week he'd take a dictionary and copy out the correct definitions. This eventually evolved into his habit of defining the complex words he used so other people didn't have to do the same thing, because he found it rather tiresome

Jacques

When he was younger it was dedicated to his budding investigative talents, and he’d solves all sorts of mysteries that other people hadn’t even noticed were mysteries (including, most notably, that of Dewey Denouement - with the help of his sister, of course). When they graduated Prufrock, though, his books became focused on some very particular mysteries; the whereabouts and wellbeing of his fellow Volunteers. Lemony had the most pages dedicated to him, and Jacques was always determined to ensure the safety of the people he cared about (resulting in him sending letters to warn Jerome and investigating various accidents where someone claimed to have seen Lemony Snicket, or even anyone matching his description)

Kit

She writes down any quote that she likes, and precisely where she heard it. From books, plays, the radio, her own friends, or even overheard snippets of conversation from a stranger, she notes them down and will often spend hours at a time analysing them later. She refuses to admit that’s what she’s doing, though, and her frequent scribbling in her book has often been the topic of curious conversation among her friends

The Denouements

Anything about the other members of VFD. Stories, anecdotes, even a fleeting conversation - it would all get recorded to build up a picture of their fellow Volunteers, and so they all knew how the others saw them. To this end, they would make sure to distinguish between what people said and how they acted towards "Frank", compared to "Ernest". The triplets spent many nights comparing notes and ensuring that they could all imitate each other perfectly, if required. They kept up this practise well into adulthood, though Frank and Ernest stopped after the fire (or, more accurately, after they lost Dewey). Pretending to be twins suddenly felt so much worse when there wasn’t a third triplet in on the joke

Josephine

A bucket list. Every time she heard of something exciting that she wanted to try, she would add it on, and a surprisingly (and, some might say, worryingly) high amount of them were crossed off within the week. Her book was frequently damaged by her lifestyle, as she always kept it on her in case she got a new idea. For example, it sustained significant water damage from the time she went over a rather large waterfall in a barrel. The only reason the others didn’t mind too much about the state of her book was because it was practically pristine when compared to Olaf’s. After Ike’s death, she couldn’t bring herself to write in it anymore, and locked it away in her safe, refusing to even read about all of the dangerous things she once dreamed of doing, for fear of her old spirit overtaking her once again

Monty

Reptiles (obviously). He would plan expeditions in the back, and sketch new species he discovered with detailed descriptions and diagrams in the front. When the two sides inevitably met in the middle (which always ended up happening far faster than he’d anticipated) he would start a new one, but he had an entire shelf in his room exclusively for his old books, just in case he ever needed to refer back to any of them. The last entry in his final book was dedicated to adding extra supplies for his expedition to Peru - enough for three children to accompany him

Olivia

What other people liked. Every time one of her friends mentioned something they liked, or got excited when they saw something, she'd note it down in their page of her book. Every time she made a new friend, they'd get their own page. Favourite foods, songs, jewellery, clothes, places and just about anything else would be contained within those pages - including how they liked to be comforted when they were sad, or congratulated when they were happy (even going so far as to write if they preferred to talk about their problems or be distracted from them). She was, unsurprisingly, the best at gift-giving, and the others would always go to her for advice or companionship

Georgina

A coded book of everyone’s hypnotic trigger and release words, and their purposes. When she was younger, it used to be for any interesting piece of information she learned, but when she discovered hypnotism that became a far more productive use of her book. Because of it’s sensitive nature and comparatively small spatial requirement, she’s only ever had one book since she adopted this new practise, and she keeps it on her at all times. The most recent entry, if anyone had found the book and managed to decode it, would have involved Klaus Baudelaire and the word ‘inordinate’

#Various Fastidious Dissections #the sugar bowl gen #asoue #beatrice baudelaire #count olaf #bertrand baudelaire #esmé squalor #lemony snicket #jacques snicket #kit snicket #the denouement triplets #josephine anwhistle #aunt josephine #monty montgomery #uncle monty #olivia caliban #georgina orwell #a queue of unfortunate events

[manderleyfire]

“I don’t owe you anything!” she cries, all of a sudden, like the sudden explosion of a bomb. “I didn’t promise you this! How d a r e you – I didn’t ask you for this, I didn’t want this.”

He can see it now. It’s often difficult to read her, when she won’t ever be real, won’t ever be honest, but this time it’s written on her face. Little girl scared of the monster behind the curtain, little girl frightened that she’s going to be on her own again. [x]

#snicketedit #asoueedit #asouesource #jacques snicket #esme squalor #jacques x esme #a series of unfortunate events #more like a series of unfortunate edits #it took me forever to make sorry anon #at least i hope you'll like it #all the quotes are from virginian wolfsnake's beautiful prose as always #this dream ship is more like a nightmare #sitting there all by myself fangirling over a couple no one gives a damn about #shitty things i do for love #btw i do not know why i ship them #jacques' letter for jerome was my first bell and then #BOOM AVALANCHE OF HEADCANONS has covered me completely #do not get me wrong of course his first instinct was to protect jerome #remember how jacques and b&b were protecting jerome by lying to his face for years? yep #but well being me and chronically overanalyzing things i felt #something very personal in that note #not meaning jealousy here nope it was more like his rock solid confidence of what esme is capable of #like he has seen her flirt... up close or something like that #like he wears marks of his personal flame which was esme #also big yes to lauren hah AGAIN idk how she's doing it keep reading my mind #but i'm pretty sure it was esme who killed jacques #we all know olaf is driven by revenge anger and let's be real greed #but when it comes to esme it’s all about her personal vendetta #beatrice stole sugar bowl from esme? die beatrice die #so yes killing someone for her is also very personal almost intimate and should be about HER

[the-golden-ghost]

A series of unfortunate events >:3

1. The first character I first fell in love with

Probably Charles since I read the series in the wrong order and so I read The Miserable Mill first. Charles was great and I love him. SO glad the Netflix series righted the wrongs done to him in the books by having him break up with Sir and start dating Jerome

2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now

Dewey Denouement is my forever boy even though he's dead and only appeared in two chapters

3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t

Never did like Esme Squalor, not even in a "love to hate on her" way. She mostly just pissed me off. A lot of people do enjoy her in that sense and I get the kind of "girlboss" joke going on with her but she never did anything for me.

I also hated Book!Carmelita but Netflix!Carmelita owns. I don't think many people liked Book!Carmelita though

4. The character I love that everyone else hates

Dunno if I have one of these, there aren't many beloathed characters.

I guess I love the Denouement triplets and most everyone kind of ignores them, but they aren't hated.

OH a lot of people hate Fiona for some reason and I enjoy her a lot. Widdershins, too. The Grim Grotto my beloved (seriously I love that book)

5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer

Uh... hell I dunno. How about Jerome? I don't DISlike him but I don't like him as much as I did as a kid cause now he seems like more of an ineffectual loser

6. The character I would totally smooch

Kit but lbr who wouldn't

7. The character I’d want to be like

I don't want to be like ANY of these clowns

Okay maybe Jacques. In reality I'm more like Lemony though

8. The character I’d slap

ISHMAEL CAN CATCH THESE HANDS

FUCK that guy

9. A pairing that I love

Lemony x Beatrice, the only ship

...Though I also like Beatrice x Bertrand. It's complicated

10. A pairing that I despise

Sir x Charles is a bad ship and Charles deserved better

I also hate Kit x Olaf but mostly for personal reasons (the personal reason being that it just gets on my nerves)

#ASOUE