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lokiprincess · 1 year
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Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
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feyres-divorce-lawyer · 4 months
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asoue girlies when a series of events are indeed unfortunate
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classycookiexo · 3 months
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My nerves were bad for those kids and I was constantly frustrated, especially since every book started with a warning
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the-anxious-acrobat · 5 months
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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 😍
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My favorite trio:
Oldest Daughter Syndrome
Autistic Nerd in Denial
Feral
And their adventures trying out outrun a theater kid turned abuse allegory narrated by basically depressed Rod Serling in a fedora.
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sianitha-snicket · 4 months
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End
Thoughts on The End (Netflix), ‘This Be The Verse’ by Philip Larkin and unreliable parenting in ASOUE.
I’ve just finished watching the Netflix adaptation of ASOUE and have many thoughts! Mainly about Olaf, but also about the resolution to the series as a whole. My main realisation here is that Olaf really acts ‘in loco parentis’ to the children throughout the series, more than any other guardians, despite his failures.
In this final episode, the children and Olaf have lost everything. Fugitives and castaways, they have no choice but to tackle their questions head-on. Olaf finally talks to them on their level, not patronising them, but giving them some hard truths. There’s dialogue where Olaf chastises them for their naivety, e.g. ‘everyone dies, it’s only a matter of time. It’s all schemes and waiting for people to die.’ It’s as if they’ve finally realised how central Olaf’s cynical worldview is to his motivation in pursuing them.
There’s a piece of dialogue in Book 13 where Olaf promises (read: threatens) to tell the children things ‘they could never have imagined’. In the Netflix show, they give him this dialogue during the court scene in The Penultimate Peril instead, in a condensed form. But this is my favourite part in the books, because it gives depth to his character and the children suddenly realise that he’s the only one who will be truthful with them about their shared history. As he says in The Penultimate Peril, he’s always been honest about what he wanted — to destroy the Baudelaires and gain their fortune — and so that means he has more integrity than every single other so-called guardian they encountered.
Mainly, I wish they’d treated the final Kit/Olaf scene differently, with more physical acting and less CGI in the flooded coastal shelf, but the fact that he quotes poetry to her to comfort her before she gives birth (and perhaps even to comfort himself before he dies) is so tragic and bittersweet. He asks ‘what was it your brother said?’, before quoting the Philip Larkin poem, ‘This Be The Verse’. It’s a small but hugely significant moment that brings them together and is the one redemptive act he completes at the end of all things. [Side note, I always read this in the book as Larkin being one of their associates! (“You’re not the only one who can quote our associates,” Olaf says, but perhaps he was referring to one of the Snickets instead.)]
The poem itself has always been humorous but it takes on a new significance here [poem in italics, my notes following]:
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. [read: the Baudelaire parents who brought their children into a world of treachery by inciting the incident with Olaf’s side of the schism]
They may not mean to, but they do. [inadvertently]
They fill you with the faults they had [their compassion and empathy, their resourcefulness, but also their secretiveness - all virtues that can become faults when used in the wrong measure]
And add some extra, just for you. [the children discover their own faults and limitations throughout the series.]
But they were fucked up in their turn [either by their parents, or by the VFD schism]
By fools in old-style hats and coats, [there’s always been a generational gap]
Who half the time were soppy-stern [nobody really knows how to parent consistently]
And half at one another's throats.[ditto]
Man hands on misery to man, [generational trauma]
It deepens like a coastal shelf. [I think Daniel Handler’s whole idea for this book sprang from this single line. Misery only compounds with experience]
Get out as early as you can, [did you notice the innuendo?]
And don’t have any kids yourself. [NPH’s delivery of this line from Olaf, as his last words, was splendid. The way he looks at the children - as if regretting taking them on as his project, realising that ultimately the hunt was futile, and that they’re the only real children he could really call his own - it’s a deeply-layered moment.]
When Olaf says that he’s lost everything (‘my one true love, my theatre troupe, an enormous fortune I didn’t earn’), he really just shows how aimless he is. Pursuing the Baudelaires gave him purpose and now that purpose has outlived him. 
I didn’t quite realise how conflicted the children would be when Olaf died, until I saw the actors physically recreate the scene so well. It’s as if, in a perverse way, he’s been their real guardian all along, he’s been the one ‘watching over’ them (for better or worse) throughout the entire narrative. It’s always been the thing that’s tied them together, a common purpose to get away from Olaf, but I don’t think any of them were actually prepared for his death and it feels like a loss. Particularly when they realise he could tell them the secrets about their family and VFD. 
I feel as though everything that happens in this episode is condensed into too short a time-frame, but I understand why it only fit into one episode rather than two like the rest of the stories. It doesn’t quite have the same narrative arc as the other episodes because it rounds off the entire series and there’s a lot of pressure for it to have felt satisfying. I also know that so many of us will have had different notions of what The End should look like, having read the book as children, but this seems to cover all the main points, if only not in depth.
There are so many more parts of the episode to unpack, from Kit’s arrival to the Medusoid Mycelium, the Herman Melville allusion in ‘Call me Ish’ (from one unreliable narrator to another); the Incredibly Deadly Viper, or Ink; and the Baudelaire’s parents’ brief foray on the island with the life-saving hybrid apples. But suffice to say that I’m so glad they used material from The Beatrice Letters to end the series and show Beatrice Baudelaire II (though she could so easily be Beatrice Baudelaire-Snicket-Denoument II) meeting her uncle for the first time. This redeems Lemony from his years of penance (perhaps his survivors’ guilt) and finally shows him that he’s not alone in the world any more, after losing so many people dear to him. For a resolution, that’s not bad at all, and to see it all in chronological order feels like the most satisfying way Netflix could have devised to tell the story while keeping faithful to the novels.
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cult-of-the-eye · 4 months
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Lemony Snicket is an avatar of the eye oh my god his series of unfortunate events could absolutely pass as a series of statements by the Baudelaire siblings like actually
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eat-men-like-air · 27 days
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I will love you as a thief loves a gallery, and as a crow loves murder, I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. I will love you if I never see you again and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love until every fire is extinguished and every home is rebuilt.
RIP Lemony snicket, you would've loved writer in the dark by Lorde
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loveinthemindpalace · 4 months
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Polls only let me put 12 options, ssoo if The End if your favourite put it in the tags!
Reblog for a bigger sample size!
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localfanbaselurker · 21 days
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Bad drinking game ideas: literally just watch asoue and every time something could be solved by the adults just listening to the baudelaires you drink a shot
(Caution: may eventually develop into a blacking out game)
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goldrushenthusiast · 2 months
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I could talk forever about how, despite Lemony Snicket telling us every single episode and every single chance he got that things would not go well for the Baudelaires, that this was a series of UNFORTUNATE events, we still kind of all thought that they wouldn’t be?
Each new guardian or place they stayed at, you got the feeling that, maybe, this is the one (except for the obviously terrible ones). There was something inside (it was actually usually the other people, the small good things that gave us this hope) telling us this one would be it, and they’d live happily ever after. Even though they never really did.
It is literally human nature to hope.
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unfortunatetheorist · 2 months
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Is Jacquelyn at fault in the Netflix series? (NCT)
Jacquelyn Scieszka is one of the most notable differences between Book- and Netflix-Canon. Her character is often portrayed alongside Larry Your-Waiter, with the pair acting as 'noble', working against Olaf and his accomplices, throughout the series.
However, there is one point I have picked up on to argue that Jacquelyn caused the heinous events of The Wide Window to occur: Jacquelyn chased Olaf onto the SS Prospero, and this was, arguably, one of the greatest mistakes made in this show.
Of course, as viewers, we understand her intentions:
Bring Olaf to justice, as nothing can happen once he's in Peru (even he knows that!)
Bring back Klaus' half of the Baudelaire spyglass
But this act made Olaf jump into the water below, where he would've made it back to shore, to meet with his troupe, before taking a boat out onto Lake Lachrymose, where The Wide Window's events begin.
If Jacquelyn did NOT get onto the SS Prospero, this would've happened:
Olaf sails away to Peru on the SS Prospero, to (in his words) "wait for the manhunt to die down, eat some cuy"
The Baudelaires go to live with their Aunt Josephine
Poe gets his promotion (probably)
Manhunts take YEARS to die down; Osama Bin Laden's - for example - took 10-15 years, before the US Navy tracked him down to a compound in North-West Pakistan.
So, here's the real genius of this part: by the time Olaf returns because the manhunt has died down, the Baudelaires already have access to their fortune!
As the phrase goes,
"It [was] a wicked thing to do, for a noble reason."
Did she have a choice?
¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist
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design-bug · 5 months
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woevember day 2 - the baudelaire mansion - i had no ideas for this so i thought it might be cool to draw the book designs in that scene from the movie! @asouefanworkevent
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emmelinedraws · 1 year
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A book cover I made for A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning! Just for fun/hoping for more work like this. I absolutely loved this series when I was young & reread all of the books a couple of years ago! Forever rooting for the Baudelaires.
I had a Lemony Snicket poem as a reading at my wedding!
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ick-aruss · 5 days
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Look away.. Look awaaayy
I wanted to try out a very stylized style! It was fun to not have to worry about proper portions and stuff
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thegalacticidiot · 6 months
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"Hey violet" "yeah" "you ever see The Man Of Shadows in the corner staring at you with his 7 eyes" "no but i think i can feel him caressing my shoulder 90% of the time" sunny busts in through the wall "GORGA?????? [WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO EVEN TALKING ABOUT??????]
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