Curently fixated on Lego Ninjago

[cosmictealeaves]

thinking about how at the end of penultimate peril pt. one when the baudelaire children are trying to stop count olaf from shooting the harpoon gun and they say "you dont have to do this" and he looks at them with defeat in his eyes and tells them "its all i know how to do" because this story is written before they can even live it out and and of course violet, klaus, and sunny are doomed by the narrative but for a second you realize that so is count olaf.

[notaplaceofhonour]

something I respect about A Series of Unfortunate Events is that it both never talked down to children—either in terms of sugarcoating dark & tragic subject matter or avoiding long words & complex concepts (like, the first book revolves around a child marriage in which the villain forces his adopted daughter to marry him so he can steal her fortune, & relies on explaining multiple legal concepts in family & marriage law)—AND still found a way to mature with its readers, with each book building on the complexity & maturity of the previous one

[whocouldthatbeatthishour]

can you imagine just being a regular patient in heimlich hospital during the events of the hostile hospital. like. okay so you're at this shitty run-down hospital in the middle of fucking nowhere but it's all you've got and whatever you've got appendicitis or something. and half the hospital is actually under construction but again it's the only hospital for hours so you gotta make do. also there's this group of hippies that visit you every day and sing about how you're going to get better, but whatever, maybe prairie people are just like that. and then one day post-surgery there's an announcement that the hospital administrator with an anxiety disorder has unexpectedly retired and now there's this new guy running the place whose accent is all over the place and there's these new doctors who look like they don't know their ass from their esophagus. meanwhile this new head doctor mentions these murderers that are loose in the hospital which like??? mom pick me up I'm scared. but it's okay because the new gang is on it, they'll be caught before ya know it. then one night you hear all this banging and crashing from the hospital's library which like ok. sus. but they said they had it under control. so. go back to sleep ig. the next day you hear an announcement that they're going to perform the world's first cranioectomy, meaning they'll cut off some girl's head. and you're like Okay, this is Fucked, but also you're still bedridden, so what are you gonna do? definitely gotta report this once you get out of here, that's for sure. maybe these painkillers are stronger than you thought, but I guess it is the sixties. and the next thing you know your nurse is waking you up in the middle of the night because the hospital is fucking burning down, and some guys are doing a The Shining reenactment in the hallway but let's not think about that because we need to Get The Hell Out Of Here, and now you're sweating in your hospital gown watching the hospital burn down from the front yard with your nurse and nobody knows what's going on, and you see some kids bungee jump from a second story window and hey they kinda look familiar but not now and oh isn't that the guy whose obituary was in the paper? isn't he meant to be dead? why is he getting into that shitty car with his interns? jesus christ this is fifteen levels of messed up I am never going to another hospital again and certainly not in the hinterlands. these hillbillies really are fucking nuts huh. hope that girl got out ok tho

[stargazinglesbian]

a cute detail i noticed at the start of the asoue show is that throughout the series adults around the baudelaires are constantly saying large or uncommon words and immediately ending their sentence with "_____ means _______", to which the baudelaires always respond with "we know what ____ means" it's memorable, a good representation of the condescending nature of the adults in their lives. when they first meet justice strauss, however, she doesn't talk over them. she uses the word mitzvah and then turns to them and asks "do you know what that word means?" its a subtle detail but it's sweet because it showed that yes for all of her faults justice strauss still respects the children, and treats them as intelligent people while also being mindful of the fact that they might not know everything.

[charlotte-fleming]

Oh to be a random student at Prufrock Prepatory School. Imagine you go to the world's most boring, depressing school, where the only interesting thing is this one thirteen year old girl that wants to kill anyone that doesn't smile at her, and then within the span of a few weeks, you get five new students, all of which are orphans, two of them get kidnapped by your new gym teacher who is actually a murderer in disguise, the other three immediately get expelled, and then even the annoying girl is gone. And then your maths teacher gets arrested for robbing a bank and your vice principal burns to death a few weeks later.

[mirefireflies]

a series of unfortunate events is really the blueprint for characters doomed by the narrative like i think that series changed my brain chemistry forever… the title tells you how the story will end and the author repeatedly tries to warn you away but still you pick up the book. the first sentence is that it’s a tragedy and you keep reading anyway.. you read through the whole story and it’s terrible and tragic and unfortunate and then after you’ve stayed up late reading it under your covers with a flashlight, you go to your school library as soon as class is over and check out the next book in the series because you need to know what happens even though really, you already know. the end is right there in the title, it’s there in every page .. before the story even begins you know it’s a tragedy and you read it anyway and—

[sharksfrommars]

Art I did in October of the Baudelaire children. I was rewatching asoue back then. It’s meant to emulate the kind of risograph print style, cus I’m lowkey obsessed with it.

[plasticnaturedraws]

Family photo 📸

[greengalaxies]

Something beyond brilliant about the way the first books in a series of unfortunate events, have Olaf dress up in all kinds of disguises and then as the books get closer to the end, he stops. He appears as himself.

The Baudelaires however who have been forced into making some very morally gray decisions as the series progresses, start disguising themselves.

[writerxwren]

You know what, growing up as a massive ASOUE fan has made it impossible for me to judge what is "too dark" for a middle grade novel. Like how am I supposed to know if I'm doing too much when at the tender age of 9 I was reading about the Baudelaires losing their parents to first-degree arson and getting adopted by a literal serial killer

[mirthfulmoonshine]

Snicket Siblings - L, J, & K

[bigmilkymantatas]

Just saw someone point out that Sunny Baudelaire probably knew more about Olaf than her own parents

[biscylbenzene]

day 29 - draw fanart (bonus points if it's super obscure or unknown)

a series of unfortunate events isn't exactly "obscure" per se but idk any other adults who are into it and i need that to change immediately so here's your sign to go read it

[anticlockfoolish]

I have nothing but respect for Violet Baudelaire, I think she's a genius inventor, able to do extraordinary things with limited tools and equipment, in terrible circumstances. But it's so funny to me whenever she ties up her hair, and Lemony Snicket starts going on about 'the gears and levers of her inventing mind starting to turn', and then she's just like, "I'm gonna stick a fork to a piece of cheese with this wad of gum."

[whipcreamsucks]

this sucks so bad i need to (remembers suicide jokes only make my mental health worse) join a secret society revolving around elaborate eye motifs, literature and also fire-fighting

[plasticnaturedraws]

Violet!!

[ven10]

Underrated Klaus moment

(From page 56 of ‘The Wide Window’)