the world is quiet here

have you been good to your mother?

[tarmairons]

This is horrific! We never found the sugar bowl after that librarian told us it was here, and the Baudelaire brats escaped our clutches again.

[reinerist]

— Lemony Snicket 

[reinerist]

[cas-swift]

season 1 + vonlunteers

[constancecontraire]

october 13, 2019 – happy 13th anniversary to the end!

in many ways, the lives of the baudelaire orphans that year is not unlike my own, now that i have concluded my investigation. like violet, like klaus, and like sunny, i visit certain graves, and often spend my mornings standing on a brae, staring out at the same sea. it is not the whole story, of course, but it is enough. under the circumstances, it is the best for which you can hope.

[reinerist]

[constancecontraire]

september 30, 2019 – happy 20th anniversary to the bad beginning!

if you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. in this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

[tarmairons]

Was that a poison dart? It’s the season’s innest weapon. One of my admirers smuggled it to me at intermission. So did one of mine. You’ll never throw it.

[reinerist]

[jadecoded]

ASOUE S3

You may have noticed in your life that it is easier to get used to happiness than despair. The thirteenth time you drink a root beer float, you may enjoy it less than the first time because you have become used to the taste of vanilla ice cream and root beer mixed together. However, the thirteenth time you discover someone is following you, your despair is much greater than the first time because you’ve been on the run for many years and you’re exhausted. 

[dailyvioletbaudelaire]

[fiona-widdershins]

Violet Baudelaire + when you were young

[violetsbaudelaire-archive]

baudelaire aesthetics.

↳ violet baudelaire

“Among Violet’s many useful skills was a vast knowledge of different types of knots. The particular knot she was using was called the Devil’s Tongue. A group of female Finnish pirates invented it back in the fifteenth century, and named it the Devil’s Tongue because it twisted this way and that, in the most complicated and eerie way.”

[reinerist]

― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

[sofiaherzen]

#oof

[unfortunate-stranger-losers]

“I don’t really understand, either,” Fiona admitted. “My stepfather said that the amount of treachery in this world is enormous, and that the best we could do was one small noble thing.”

[fiona-widdershins]