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A Series of Unfortunate Events / All the Wrong Questions - Lemony Snicket

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The snarling mouth of the statue seemed to mock her. "So? Do you really want to look where you don't want to look?" it asked.

The Bombinating Beast statue had always been there, among all the fragmentary plots that had led Moxie to where she was now.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

"Because I promised you, remember?"

After entering headquarters at ten, Beatrice and Olaf were not too happy to study Theatrics alongside each other. But when their dedication began to get them in trouble, they discovered something quite unexpected.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

There were too many birds in the trees. Usually, the animals of the woods knew how not to be seen, even when they were close nearby. But now, there were so many of them that the branches could hardly carry them all. From below came the loud humming of insects. And there was a strange smell in the air, like salt mixed with something sickly sweet and bitter.

Ellington had the perfect life with her father. Until the day she first saw it falling apart.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A few drabbles revolving around the locations of the Snicketverse. Written for the Woevember 2023 fanwork event.

The Secret Series - Pseudonymous Bosch

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

“Fire is the cleansing element. It is pure force and light. The prima materia, the raw, impure matter, will rot in a few days. We need to burn it off completely to preserve its pure essence.”

The Midnight Sun had perfected the art of breaking their followers.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hear me, Thrice Great Hermes, who art in heaven, Antoinette thought. Itamar had told her that if she wanted to pray, she was to pray to Hermes Trismegistus, the god of wisdom and the father of alchemy. You are with the brave and the unfaltering. You wanted to keep us so we could serve you. He saith: I am Man-Shepherd, Mind of all-masterhood; I know what thou desirest, and I’m with thee everywhere. You're with me, aren't you? Please have mercy on us. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

At age ten, Antoinette Mauvais had to kill the only friend she ever had. And so much more.

#writing #fanfiction writing #masterpost #ao3 #archive of our own #fanfiction #lemony snicket #atwq #asoue #all the wrong questions #a series of unfortunate events #pseudonymous bosch #the secret series

soundprisms

finally got tomodachi life and very important things are happening

#awwwww #❤️#the secret series #cassandra tercesverse #max-ernest tercesverse

soundprisms

happy pride month everyone go read also known as by raphael simon right now

#the secret series #pseudonymous bosch

wrongitsablog

obsessed with the idea that olaf has sworn to himself that he will never hurt kit. he'll beat jacques to death, he'll poison monty, he'll burn down buildings and push people into the sea, but he won't lay a finger on her.

and by doing this, he has hurt her more than any physical action against her could have ever hurt.

library-child

He's so delusional

#a series of unfortunate events #count olaf #lemony snicket #kit snicket

3golb-terces

A man is watching for me.

He’s never not around, not even when I was a baby. But he swears he isn’t family.

My earliest memory; I was maybe only two, maybe three?

He was dressed in a black tuxedo, and his hat shadowed over his face.

I’d asked him,

“What’s your name?” “Are you family?” “Wanna play with me?” “Why don’t you talk?”

And he got angry with every question.

“Shh!” He said,

“Play by yourself.” He shooed at me,

“Don’t talk to me again.” He waved me away,

“You cannot see me.”

I keep quiet when my parents are around.

My teachers don’t know a thing.

But that man is real.

Sometimes he looks like a ghost, fading in and out of space.

Sometimes he’s uncannily handsome, but I never like when he is.

Sometimes his hands are stained red, or black, and sometimes he wears white gloves.

He changes so much, but I always know it’s him.

Others have people like him too.

People nobody can see or hear,

But I can.

They’re usually nice to me, but He doesn’t let me talk to them.

Nobody can know what I know.

“It would put you in danger,” He says, “if anyone were to discover how special you are.”

I’ve never known the feeling of being alone.

I have no friends, but he keeps me company.

Even when he isn’t where I can see, I know he can’t be far.

After all these years,

14 years,

He still

won’t

tell me

his

name.

#intriguing #the secret series

the-bar-sinister

That fic you wrote?

The one about the ship no one else cares about, or the deeply unpopular character, or the extremely unusual AU?

The fic that got no comments or kudos when you posted it?

Months or years from now, that fic might be exactly what someone is looking for in the sea of fics about all the popular characters, ships, and AUs.

Your fic might be the only fic out there that has what someone is looking for. The only fic that scratches the itch that it turns out you and that reader share.

And that's awesome.

#never forget #writing #fanfic writing

3golb-terces

AMBER DESIGN, HOW WE FEELING?

#the secret series #pseudonymous bosch #fanart #😥

eyesteeth

netflix asoue adaptation mini salt copy/pasted from discord

one of the core elements of asoue that developed over time was a "you can't judge people by appearances" narrative where in the first five or so books all the ugly people are evil and the pretty people are good but then carmelita looks cute but is a bully, and esme looks pretty but is evil, and then jacques looks like olaf but is good, and then there are the house of freaks who look ugly but have the potential to be good and are only evil because they've been lead down that path, and then the hook-handed man (who's had his evilness tied to his appearance) is shown to be good (or have the capability for good), and then kit looks tired and unkempt but has a good heart, and then we have the denouments who have different ideologies but are identical (so you really can't tell based off their looks, now can you?) and so all of this primes you to wonder, as you face down the final book, is the man you've thought was the most evil thing in the world from the very beginning, with his crooked teeth and bony face and uncombed hair and unibrow, is he really so evil, or is that just another deceiving appearance?

so to make jacques look nothing like olaf. to not have a unibrow. to be given a fake one, even, an obviously fake one, because a good and noble person would never have an ugly trait like a unibrow is just. frustrating beyond words.

i will always be mad about that damn unibrow.

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue #netflix #omg i never noticed this #but you're tight

3golb-terces

These kids are so fucking dumb I love them so much 🥺

Audio from Hachette’s This Book Is Not Good For You Audiobook

quietwingsinthesky

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

quietwingsinthesky

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

#ellington feint #if you know you know

natdenouement

Hell yeah I am on a roll here. This one was a bit more difficult than the others but once I got into a rhythm it turned out good. Or at least I think it did. Anyway here is the miserable mill.

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue #the miserable mill

wrongitsablog

"i know that you were never young, and i know you probably won't get old" but it's all the VFD members who were brought in as children and died before even reaching 40

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue #lemony snicket #vfd #😥

wrongitsablog

heel turn 2 - the mountain goats

#a series of unfortunate events #count olaf #lemony snicket #vfd #moodboard

anticlockfoolish

In my opinion, the firefighting side of VFD's biggest flaw, at least by the time the Baudelaire orphans encountered them, isn't that they're too morally grey in their actions, but that they don't act enough. Sure, in the Sugar Bowl Gen's youth, they were committing all sorts of shady acts, either of their own volition or on the orders of their higher-ups— stealing tea sets, assassinating minor royalty with poison darts, etc. etc. But a few decades later, the old generation had mostly disappeared, and the remaining members of the firefighters were probably so traumatised by the things they did and the things that were done to them, that they decided the best course of action was not to do anything at all.

Instead, like the open eye of their insignia, they watch. They observe, and they collect information, which is fed back into Dewey's sub-library, in the hope of one day, eventually, bringing their enemies to justice. In that way, their organisation became more straightforwardly noble than it was in the past—but also significantly less effective. This weak, toothless version of the firefighters, unwilling to commit the morally dubious actions of their past, staunchly sticking to the moral high ground, is now no match for the firestarters, and is rapidly being destroyed.

They're no help to the Baudelaires, either. It's heavily implied that VFD were closely watching them since the very beginning of their series of unfortunate events, taking photos, writing reports. Surely, at some point, someone could have grabbed them by the ankles and rescued them.

And then, finally, the big day arrives, the day where all their enemies will be brought to justice. Despite being a secret organisation, operating outside the government, the Firefighters put all their hope into the justice system to solve their problems. And when the Baudelaires reveal the truth to them, that the evil of the world is at the very heart of justice itself, they refuse to take their blindfolds off. For once, the organisation with an eye as their insignia, that has done basically nothing but sit back and watch as everything goes wrong, refuses to see. They're just as useless as everyone else.

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #vfd #exactly this!

plasticnaturedraws

Ur wonderfull. I have waited my hole life for someone to draw such an amaizing art of the unfortunare events and the other lemony snicket series. Ur my new favorite artist haha. Just wanted to say how good you're.

aHHH THANKS! :D That really means a lot. I hope you enjoy following my art blog!!

Have an uncharacteristically happy Snicket for being so radical <3