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the second year of Hanukkah without the snickets is, beatrice thinks, a little lonely. the second year, because the first year they were on an island, far away from any snicket.

this year, though.

they’re back in the city now, the city that’s suppose to be where they’re closer to their friends who are like a family to them. that was before.

before they left.

she hasn’t seen jacques or kit for too long, and lemony - beatrice firmly pushes her thoughts about lemony away.

they used to celebrate Hanukkah together, all of them. as she takes out the menorah, she remembers how kit and her used to be in charge of lighting it. she remembers the feeling of carefully handing the candle to kit. she remembers getting competitive at dreidel. she remembers lemony talking in detail about the how a friend he’d met in that faraway town who taught him a special latke recipe. she remembers that time jacques brought jerome.

the phone rings.

“kit and i - we accidentally bought too many potatoes,” jacques says. “can we come over?”

it sounds like an excuse, beatrice thinks. it’s probably an excuse. she doesn’t say so. she thinks, maybe jacques and kit miss them too, just like they miss their brother. in a way, they’d all been family.

in a way, she still considers them family.

beatrice glances at bertrand.

JS, she mouths at him.

he freezes for a moment, and then nods slowly.

“yeah,” beatrice says into the phone. “come over.”

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Hello 👋,

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suddenly laughing at the idea of canonical Daniel Handler joining the international manhunt for Lemony Snicket and when asked why he’s there, very mildly saying he ‘hasn’t seen him lately’

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Just the essentials!

Music credit: "Cinema Blockbuster Trailer 7" by Sascha Ende Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/329-cinema-blockbuster-trailer-7 License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license (CC BY 4.0)

[Video Description: A 26 second video. Orchestral, cinematic music plays. Text reads The library is on fire! Grab the most important things!

A librarian at her computer spins around in her chair in slow motion, a look of horror on her face. Video cuts between various librarians frantically rescuing items. Each scene is labeled with the item:

The South Shore Posters: A librarian completely obscured by a framed South Shore Line poster she is carrying backs out of a room.

The hand chair: A librarian hauls away a large red plastic chair shaped like a hand.

Patron holds: A librarian shovels patron holds off the holds shelf onto a cart.

Benny the library skeleton: A librarian princess-carrying a large skeleton dressed in an oversized t-shirt frantically looks around for an exit before dashing away

The cardigan pile: A librarian almost completely obscured by the pile of cardigans in her arms runs toward the camera.

3D printer: A librarian dashes up to a large 3D printer and attempts to lift it off the table

Cecily the giraffe: A librarian pats a life size baby giraffe statue and then grabs it by the leg and begins slowwwly scooting backward to slide it across the carpet

The library tree: A librarian grips an enormous planter out of which springs an entire tree and pulls with all her might. It doesn't move.

James Patterson books? : The librarian carrying Benny sprints into frame between shelves loaded with endless Patterson books. Record scratch. The sound of a clock ticking as he considers the books for maybe two seconds.

Text changes to "Not enough hands". The dramatic music resumes as he sprints off frame with Benny.

End card with the library logo. The words 'Not actually on fire. Everything is fine.' are typed across the screen. End description]

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let me not make mazes with words let me be perfectly clear

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( mythological ask meme ) @kamil-a said 👻ghost+beatrice

Ghosts? What’s so scary about someone getting wrapped up in a sheet?

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drawing ask game : ghost+beatrice?

Ghosts? What's so scary about someone getting wrapped up in a sheet?

( mythological ask meme )

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( mythological ask meme ) @littlestsnicket said 🦇 Lemony Snicket vampire

Moral: There was a Lemon Man

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Why is this book different from all other books?

Woevember 2024: Day 5 - Books @asouefanworkevent

~ In which Sunny finds something she can never share. ~

There was something Sunny hadn’t told her brother and sister as they resided at the Denouement. She’d been cautious, partially because with so much else happening in that fraught hotel, and partially because her sorrow was too great to voice.

That second night, as the siblings slept fitfully, Violet murmuring a name in her sleep, Sunny had slipped through the door, into the night. Throughout their brief stay, she’d picked up strands of conversation to understand that Dewey had a library, hidden, safe; and she made it her mission to investigate. Her best cover was to feign ignorance – toddlers were not known to play detective – and to absorb every piece of information from those around her she could.

Into the gardens and down, through an elevator shaft, and in the quiet of the deep, still waters, she’d memorised the route to Dewey’s library. And there found something he couldn’t identify as fact or fiction, something so out of place it only served to addle her mind.

Vertiginous fatal descents, the title of the book she’d been skimming, in the small hours. Since their fateful time on the mountain, she hardly felt that this served as a distraction, but flicked a page and something in her little heart broke as she looked on what they’d only failed to find at the abandoned VFD headquarters. 

Their parents. 

What was this photo doing here? The waterfall, that young, smiling couple next to them, the woman pregnant. Why go out like this?

With a sadness she couldn’t comprehend, Sunny pulled out the fading photo and turned it over.

A date: twelve years ago. Violet would have been two years old, Klaus just a baby, Sunny barely a thought. Next to it, an inscription:  

Dearest,

We’re enjoying our break. Thank you ever so much for taking care of things for us. We’ll be another week at most, but you’re a guardian angel and your help has been so fortuitous when we’ve needed it most.

Take care and we’ll speak again very soon.

Q

A feeling like she’d fallen for miles. Her parents had known of this place all along; they’d corresponded, made plans, concealed information, trusted their friends. Laid the groundwork for a life their children should have had. But what had it all been for? 

Grief, painful and deep, surged within her chest. She closed her eyes a moment, stilling the rising tide. Yet it was not for this moment to feel like this: she’d hold on to the mental picture of her parents – happy, purposeful, free. This was how she wanted to remember them. Not through snatches of stories told by strangers, not through burned-down headquarters and plumes of smoke that plagued her dreams.

So moved was she that she hesitated – then, quietly, replaced the sheaf of paper, sliding the volume back onto its shelf. This wasn’t something to share with her siblings. She’d known so little of a life with her parents before the day at Briny Beach. This alone belonged to her.

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books

violet’s the one that finds them first—a battered copy of the bad beginning at a library discard sale. it’s been annotated in a dozen hands, a priceless artifact. they track down the remaining twelve books in similarly distressed states. klaus and then sunny pour over them until they have to rebind the fragile volumes.

violet doesn’t think she needs to know, not more than what klaus tells her at least, late at night when none of them can sleep, trying desperately to find beatrice. but there is something klaus is not telling her, something—she thinks—that might be best learned herself.

@asouefanworkevent

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(Lack of) Impulse Control

(Day five prompt for Woevember, created by @asouefanworkevent.)

(AO3 link is here.)

Klaus keeps quiet as he heads towards the in-bookstore café, bag in hand. While he was prone to do impulse purchases, most of the time they were limited to clothes shopping, having unexpectedly finding the perfect accessory for his usually plan outfits (mainly bowties; his fondness for them hasn’t waver over the years).

This impulse purchase though, was due to unexpectedly seeing proof of what Violet and Sunny told him weeks prior. Violet mentioned hearing the familiar name of–

SNICKET

–on her day to pick up Sunny and Beatrice from school. Sunny saw–

SNICKET

–on a list of potentially banned books at the school library. In both cases, the context of–

SNICKET

–relates to a book series. A book series that revolved around them, in the time period the three siblings agreed to be the most unfortunate phase of their lives. And it was damn fitting that the series itself was call ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ written by Lemony Snicket.

Lemony Snicket, the brother of Jacques and Kit Snicket. The man who Violet would have been name after had she been a boy. The man who was thought to be dead by Kit Snicket on her deathbed, and to the Baudelaires themselves for years since their return to the mainland.

Research told Klaus that the man had been mistaken for dead several times before—especially by The Daily Punctilio. Butthe last report of death didn’t come from that dreadful newspaper. It came from a different source, The Ace Times. However, The Ace Times mentioned how the official report couldn’t make it a proper identification; Snicket’s dental records for some unknown reason couldn’t be found for comparison. As such, there’s a fifty-fifty chance Mr. Snicket may have in fact, written the first book of the series inside Klaus’ bag: The Bad Beginning.

As Klaus approached the counter, he looked up at the menu hanging above the barista’s head. The barista gave him a nod, and spoke in a clear voice.

“Hello, sir. What can I get for you today?”

“May I get an ice coffee with whipped cream and caramel sauce, please?”

Considering his book purchase, Klaus plans to go all out with his drink today.

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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.

it has been seventeen years since the conclusion of the baudelaire investigation. what an unfortunate anniversary ✨🍎 🐍

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Reading and then ? And then? What else

Having a grand time. Vv interesting to hear about his life and the books he read as a kid.

I hope you're well. . Also damn. This man is Bisexual <- unsure if he would use that label for himself but noting all the queer stuff he talks about. Is a nice.

My lil sis is reading the series while she is waiting for stuff to do as an aide in the assistant principals office. What a world we live in

ikr what an incredible book!!!!!! I almost felt intrusive reading it but he did intentionally choose to write all that. after years going hungrily searching for danhan life slivers (magnifying glass up to him HELO R U BI?!?!?) hes like Heres whats going on. and im like ohhhhhhhh .....um, :T im sorry for how i acted in 2016 . Please use whatever label you like i shant apply one. getting what you wanted but its not quite a Victory lol

ooooo hope ur sister enjoys!!

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HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY TO THE BOOK SERIES OF ALL TIME. i can't do anything except put little things on shirts anymore so. here's a little shirt concept in honor of asoue and my number one little wet cat

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lemony snicket "i will love you until...." quote spotted in the kickstarter quote reading requests of my favoritest specialest evil computer from podcast