[kosmogrl]

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[ellewantsrevenge]

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[free-my-mindd]

[goodluckdetective]

Shit must be wild for Adrian though.

Your partner since you were young goes on a mission to save your dying planet and doesn’t return as expected. He is assumed lost in space, and everyday things get more dire on the surface. You miss him terribly. And then one day, an ALIEN SPACECRAFT shows up with not only the solution to your dying planet but also your partner.

And you’re probably thrilled but also thrown for a loop because what do you mean 1. Aliens are real 2. They breathe highly flammable gas and 3. Your partner made friends with it. And said alien looks like nothing you’ve ever heard, and has a sense you don’t have at all and is also apparently dying of nutritional loss? And your partner is like codependent as hell with it, and suddenly your entire life changes overnight. Also your partner is himself but also completely different in ways you don’t understand, in ways that are sometimes scary because all that time in space changes a person.

I don’t know how anyone would react to that, cus damn that’s overwhelming, but I think that’s an interesting dynamic to have with an alien. Your partner’s closet companion besides you is an alien. It feels like the alien knows your partner better than you do some days. The alien also helped save your entire planet.

Anyway the dynamic between Grace and Adrian has to be BUCKWILD.

[saturnisfallingdown]

17776 day of immortality + project hail mary + artemis ii is a crazy cocktail. drunk af off of the wonders of space and humanity’s unending will

[louisegluckpdf]

holy quaternity

[valkyrieland]

[valkyrieland]

[karlmarxverstappen]

I cried at least on four occasions today for different reasons like listening to music I enjoy, reading a sally rooney plotless novel and liking the characters' interactions immensely and thinking about my goddaughter. I feel like there are so many good and bad and beautiful and ugly feelings inside me and I have nowhere to put them so I just purge them through tears. or I just really like art and love my goddaughter.

[kazperthegh0st]

I kinda feel bad for Count Olaf (within reason) as VFD is so deeply ingrained in his psyche that he signs the lists of chores with “an eye” (later established to be the letters VFD). He doesn’t sign his name. He signs VFD. That’s all his identity is. His father is dead because of VFD. He is the way he is because of VFD.

*his actions cannot be excused

[overthestars-and-offtoneverland]

Lemony Snicket on the back of every book: Hey, these books are like really sad. Maybe don't read them.

Me, a depressed, neurodivergent, definitely not-straight even if I don't realize it yet child: And yet, I have never felt more comforted in my life. I would like to visit my good friends The Baudelaires, please.

[the-one-and-only-aroace]

Shout out to fire as a reoccurring thematic motif in middle grade/ya series. Buildings and lives burning down repeatedly. The grappling between destruction and creation. The parallels it creates. Moral dilemmas and philosophies built off of it. The way it simultaneously serves to destroy, create, free, and trap all at once. I love narratively significant fires.

[fly-me-home]

a series of unfortunate events is one of those shows that you have to rewatch once or twice to get the full experience because of course thats hector's flying home you see in the background of lemony snicket's window in the reptile room part one

[ven10]

Something about the Baudelaires+the tragedies they face being associated with fire (the fire that destroyed their home, the fire at the Caligari Carnival, the fire at the hotel Denouement…) vs the Quagmires+their tragedies being associated with water (Duncan+Isadora being kidnapped+stashed inside a statue of a fish then later inside of a fountain, the Baudelaires finding Quigley in the Hinterlands surrounded by ice, Quigley+Violet having a key moment on a frozen waterfall, Quigley+the Baudelaires escaping via said waterfall, Quigley being seperated from the Baudelaires by the Stricken Stream, Quigley sending a telegram to Violet whilst she is in a submarine fully submerged in water, the Baudelaires almost reuniting with Quigley after travelling in the depths of the sea in ‘The Grim Grotto’, in ‘The Penultimate Peril’ when it’s revealed that Duncan+Isadora are in danger of drowning as eagles attack their self-sustaining hot air mobile home which is flying over the sea and,of course, all three Quagmire triplets becoming lost (in the sea) to the great unknown.

This is especially evident in ‘The Vile Village’ when the Baudelaires have just rescued the Quagmires who at that point were “two dripping figures” bc of the “rushing water” of the fountain they were trapped in which is then contrasted, merely one paragraph later, by the man who causes the majority of the Baudelaires troubles brandishing fire, “Detective Dupin, holding a torch and heading straight toward the Baudelaire orphans.” [evidence taken from pages 210+211 of ‘The Vile Village’.]

This could represent a number of things:

1: The Quagmires trying to help the Baudelaires like how water extinguishes fire.

2: The cold way in which Olaf uses the Quagmires solely for their fortune and his own sadistic purpose as opposed to his hunting down of the Baudelaires being fuelled by burning revenge.

It’s also interesting how Duncan+Isadora are associated with water whereas Quigley is initially associated with ice in TSS until he+the Baudelaires begin to rely on each other and then he is associated with water (the ice of the stricken stream cracking and Quigley being carried away with it). Due to this, there is solid reasoning to view water in asoue as a metaphor for friendship (at least in the case of the Quagmires).

[mamsellechosette24601]

sometimes life is about making it as lemony snickety as you can

[veryferaldistributions]

I can’t say this enough, even as a full grown adult, a fully degreed librarian, who has read many things, many types of books.

A Series of Unfortunate Events is masterful.

It pulls from all worlds of knowledge, all variations of literature, religions, philosophies, cultures, even cuisine. It’s not just a fictional story of a secret organization and some orphans, it’s a metaphor for censorship, for the corruption of the justice system, the neglect of the foster system, the questionable nature of public education, but the equally complex nature of sheltering yourself from harsh truths, even if those truths could also help you.

The morality of the neutrality of librarians (a phrase which here means, “whether or not a librarian should give a patron whatever they ask for, even if what they want is misinformation”). The endless search for answers in a confusing world. The rather bleak understanding that every generation basically acts the same way as the previous ones, unaware of the neverending cycle. If there are really such things as “good” and “bad” people. And the eventuality and unavoidability of death.

And Snicket, as the reader’s guide, never tells you what to think, only what certain terms mean, and leaves the reader to come to their own conclusions. He trusts our own intelligence.

I cannot properly convey how much I appreciate Daniel Handler for putting this series into the world.

[fanonical]

one thing i really admire about a series of unfortunate events is its restraint. this is a narrative that is not going to tell you everything, but will hint at the wider world. what's the story of the white-faced women? what's up with the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard? what were the baudelaire parents actually like? there's stories there and you can understand parts of it from the clues you're given, but ultimately so much is left a mystery, and the narrative is stronger for it