#asoue books

[makethosenarratorsfight]

UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; FINALS.

Eugenides Propaganda:

the entire plot hinges on a detail he lets the reader (and every other character) assume is true. I don't want to spoil it because it's a really fun reveal but he is lying from the first second he appears on the page and you can't trust him to tell the full truth about ANYTHING related to himself and his goals. he mostly does it to keep his advantage and not have other characters be suspicious of him but it's just so fun when you realise he's been lying the whole time

Lemony Snicket Propaganda:

(I would like to preface this by saying that Lemony Snicket is the author's pen name, not a real person, and he exists as a character in-universe as well as being the one in-universe who writes the books!) I'd say he's unreliable because he spent time collecting information about the Baudelaire kids and then... wrote books about it. He has no idea what any of their dialogue actually was, what they were thinking, or even the whole plot, he's just doing research into the incidents and then filling in the gaps to make it a story. What ACTUALLY happened to the Baudelaires? Nobody really knows for sure

While the Baudelaire siblings are in potentially life threatening danger, he will randomly start talking about his own life and just leave the siblings hanging. For example, once Count Olaf was threatening to kill Violet, and then Lemony randomly began talking about how he met the love of his life at a costume party. This man CANNOT stay on topic. Usually when a new character is introduced, Lemony tells us right at the start that they’re either going to die or that the Baudelaire siblings will never see them again. Foreshadowing is not subtle in these books. CONSTANTLY emphasizes how miserable he feels while writing these books. At one point he admits that he had to put his pencil down and go cry for a while because of how sad it made him. Once he filled an entire page with nothing but the word “ever” to emphasize how dangerous it is to put forks in electrical outlets. He also repeated a paragraph about deja vu later on in the book to give the reader deja vu.

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[athena-theunicorn]

The Baudelaires: That's count Olaf! Every adult in a five mile radius: Don't be ridiculous.

#these poor kids #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #the baudelaire children #the baudelaire orphans #a series of unfortunate events quotes #a series of unfortunate events #a series of unfortunate quotes #incorrect quotes #asoue #asoue netflix #asoue books #asoue fandom #count olaf #lemony snicket

[amiserableseriesofevents]

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)

#asoue #asoue books #asoue netflix #asoue fandom #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #lemony snicket #snicket

[clover-klees]

Thinking about how a series of unfortunate events could be read as mostly paralleling to an abusive home life. Fuck.

Wanting so badly for someone to help, and almost getting that but no one can fully fix the true problem. Being failed by authority figures. Not being Believed. Being openly ignored. Being only understood by other people who are powerless in their own situations. Encountering people in the exact same spot as you are and having a bond because of that but being separated and forced to just hope that they're ok. Something always messing up no matter how far you get. None of it being your fault. Just your situation. Accidentally hurting others along the way. Seeing people who never had to even think about what you do, and will never understand. Grieving the only people who gave you a sense of comfort because you had to leave and they'll never even know how much their kindness truly meant.

#am i crying over it? yes. #asoue #asoue netflix #asoue books #asoue fandom #a series of unfortunate events

[incredibly-deadly-viper]

shoutout to @biooshocker for putting this into my head

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[rowancries]

hello!!! i was wondering if you could maybe write some head canons on what it would be like dating klaus baudelaire? preferably with a female reader but honestly anything works!! ^_^

n/a ; i really forgot how much i loved asoue 😭😭

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okay so i feel like at first when u guys first start dating he wouldn’t be like super affectionate but it’d grow on him

like as time progresses handholding and cuddling nd stuff would be more common

klaus baudelaire would 100% read to you

during a lazy day, at night if you can’t sleep, or even when you don’t want him too

he wants to share all the knowledge he knows and all the things he wants to learn w you

its a must that you and his sisters get along

which you are already friends w violet so 😼

at first violet was sort of skeptical about the relationship between u guys because so many ppl have left or died and what not

but then she realizes how much happier klaus is and like all is forgotten

sunny would want to cook w you tbh

it rlly make klaus happy seeing his fav ppl get along :DD

klaus would be so interested in all the things u like

i can see him reading all your favorite books or biographies on your favorite authors

researching your favorite songs and meanings behind it all just so he understands when you ramble on about it

i feel like he’d want to spend all his days w you

so basically he’s just like awesome 😻😻

#klaus baudelaire #klaus baudelaire x reader #asoue x reader #asoue #asoue books #x reader #fanfic #headcanon #rowancries 🎀

[jeppyposting]

i feel like you can always tell what someone’s childhood book series was because of how they act. like it always makes sense when i find out someone’s a former percy jackson kid cuz they’re super passionate and knowledgeable. i feel like for me, as a former a series of unfortunate events kid, i can always tell when i meet another of my kind because we all speak like lemony snicket. and have depression Probably.

#i LOVE it tho #i still stand by asoue #klaus baudelaire is kinda literally me #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #asoue books #asoue fandom #lemony snicket #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #i really think in mla format

[garfrigerator]

will never get over how the most heart breaking, gut wrenching, toe curling, romantic love letter is in the kids section

#examples in rbs #also mad the show kinda butchered it #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #lemony snicket #asoue books #asoue fandom #beatrice baudelaire #the beatrice letters

[apollosopera]

yet another uquiz from me, the uquiz guy

this one is more niche than my other two, its based off the Series of Unfortunate Events book series (gifted burnout and depressed kids rise up)

#uquiz #uquizzes #quiz #polls #I got polls #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #asoue books #asoue fandom #books

[disco-tea]

Okay, one of the things I LOVE about this book is it’s so wholly on the side of the children. It does not make any excuses for Count Olaf’s behavior, and narrator will straight up call him out. And like…this is gaslighting. He’s (incorrectly) using a softer word than what he’s actually doing. He’s minimizing his actions to make it seem like the children are overreacting AND THE NARRATOR DOESN’T LET HIM DO IT. This book is so amazing I could cry

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue books

[makethosenarratorsfight]

UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; THE FINAL FINAL

Shen Qingqiu Propaganda:

The entire series is told from his POV and the story seems like a comedy. The side stories from other characters POVs make the story sound like a tragedy. He thought that Luo Binghe hated him and wanted him dead while everyone else knew that Binghe was in love with him.

the whole book he’s using his OWN interpretation of the world to explain literally everything, not knowing that his introduction into the world changed it so fundamentally that his prior knowledge of it is less than useless. he’s like “binghe is being sweet to me because binghe is sweet to people that wronged him before repaying their slight a thousandfold, and he only adds their acceptance of his sweetness to his tally of their sins!! i have to run away forever or he’ll tear my arms and legs off!!!!!!” and binghe in reality is like “wow the love of my life my beloved shizun is scared of me still :( i should act sweet and nonthreatening so he’s not scared of me :(“ and he literally doesn’t have this corrected until the end of the book. but even when that one thing is corrected he still is like “haha okay but these other six things-“ bro……. cucumber bro………….. you homosexualized the world just accept it

He examines the entire reality he's isekai-ed into as if it's still fictional and his inner monologue ignores any "character trait" of the people around him that doesn't fit into his perception of "canon" despite everything he's done to change reality from the canon of the novel he first read. He routinely mislabels his own emotions as well as making heteronormative assumptions about himself and the people around him before he finally realises he's in reciprocated gay love with a man. It's a book that benefits being read twice, so the second time around you can focus on the implications Shen Qingqiu blatantly misses.

Transmigrates into a novel he “hates,” assumes he’s doing a good job pretending to be the character whose body he got stuck in, assumes other characters will stick to their original paths. Lotta assumptions, lots of rationalizing, lots of incredible feats of misunderstanding/misinterpreting things. His internal narration is also hysterical.

Lemony Snicket Propaganda:

(I would like to preface this by saying that Lemony Snicket is the author's pen name, not a real person, and he exists as a character in-universe as well as being the one in-universe who writes the books!) I'd say he's unreliable because he spent time collecting information about the Baudelaire kids and then... wrote books about it. He has no idea what any of their dialogue actually was, what they were thinking, or even the whole plot, he's just doing research into the incidents and then filling in the gaps to make it a story. What ACTUALLY happened to the Baudelaires? Nobody really knows for sure

While the Baudelaire siblings are in potentially life threatening danger, he will randomly start talking about his own life and just leave the siblings hanging. For example, once Count Olaf was threatening to kill Violet, and then Lemony randomly began talking about how he met the love of his life at a costume party. This man CANNOT stay on topic. Usually when a new character is introduced, Lemony tells us right at the start that they’re either going to die or that the Baudelaire siblings will never see them again. Foreshadowing is not subtle in these books. CONSTANTLY emphasizes how miserable he feels while writing these books. At one point he admits that he had to put his pencil down and go cry for a while because of how sad it made him. Once he filled an entire page with nothing but the word “ever” to emphasize how dangerous it is to put forks in electrical outlets. He also repeated a paragraph about deja vu later on in the book to give the reader deja vu.

#unreliable narrators #final final #polls #unreliable narrator battle #shen qingqiu #sqq #svsss #scum villain #scum villain self saving system #lemony snicket #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #asoue books #asoue netflix

[the-anxious-acrobat]

a series of unfortunate events coloured official art by brett helquist

damn I love this world so much it makes me cry and laugh and literally I’m so obsessed 😍

#a series of unfortunate events #ana posts #aesthetic #books #a series of unfortunate events books #asoue #asoue books #brett helquist #lemony snicket #the baudelaires #asoue world #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #asoue official art

[ulltra-violet]

Finally finished this after like a month of procrastination

The Baudelaire’s all deserved so much better </3

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[iosagol]

Snicket wasn't lying when he said I'd be crying enough to drown in my tears by the time I finished his Series of Unfortunate Events

I'm rattled, I'm wounded, I'm breaking down at the slightest movement

Spoilers for The End

But but can we just talk about the end

I mean the way that Olaf shows such a ridiculously gentle side towards Kit because he's picked one single human being in the whole world to love, he's chosen to see Kit and Kit alone as deserving of any help he can provide, and this act of complete selfishness is also an act of incredible good?

The fact that Lemony and Olaf both fell in love with a woman who wasn't destined for them? And Olaf died trading bitter poetry with Kit but Lemony lived on in grief writing bitter poetry to someone who would never answer?

The fact that we'll never ever know what went on with Olaf and those poison darts and the Baudelaire parents but we know that just because you had a Bad Beginning that doesn't in any way make it okay to take it out on someone else's offspring, and even if the people you admire weren't as squeaky clean as you thought, that doesn't make it wrong to remember the good they did.

The fact that The Great Unknown could easily be a symbol for death but also a symbol for life, because life can be so much more vicious and mysterious and ready to swallow us at a moment's notice than even death?

The fact that the sugar bowl was never opened? And we don't know why Esme ever wanted it?

I like to think that the sugar bowl eventually drifted to the Baudelaires' island, like all lost things do, and as the Baudelaires and Miss Snicket-Denoument rowed away months later, the sugar bowl stayed buried in the shallows of the island where it all began, and may or may not still be there to this day

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #asoue books #count olaf #kit snicket #beatrice baudelaire #lemony snicket

[mikrom00dness]

I was just casually rereading Coraline and I noticed THIS 🤩

now they ARE connected, you can't convince me otherwise 😌

He even read it out loud *^*

#neil gaiman #lemony snicket #coraline #neil gaiman coraline #asoue books #asoue memes #asoue #coraline book #a series of unfortunate events #Youtube

[book-of-leaves-and-love]

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