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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.

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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

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hi asoue friends, associates, etc. if you pick a fundraiser from

Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser List by el-shab-hussein

or

mutual aid column from operation olive branch ,

and donate to it & send me an ask with screenshot as proof (if your name's on the receipt please remember to block it out) (if we're mutuals you can also DM), for every additional 70 dollars (USD) accumulated from everyone who sent in proof i will write the a fic for one of the ideas in the appended poll, starting from the highest voted one to the last. (i know some currencies on the gfms aren't in USD but i can do the exchange calculations on my end if you send me the amount)

(to be clearer: that's $70 for the highest voted fic. $140 for the first and second highest voted fics, ..... and so on)

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olaf would completely seriously call himself “the one that got away” in relation to everyone he ever dated. even though they all, without exception, dumped him

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@drearydrearydreary young sunny meeting lemony convo

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if there is one thing….i want to put into this fandom…..its that kit snicket is covered in OTHER vfd tattoos she did herself over her lifetime

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what makes the ‘i will love you’ letter so insane to me is that lemony is answering questions beatrice asked in the break up book, and the questions can be inferred, at least broadly, based on his answers (like when he says “three, myself, kit and jacques” it’s pretty easy to tell she was probably asking him how many kids his parents had, for some reason) and he starts out the answer that soon leads into the main “i will love you” stuff with enough words that you’re able to tell the question he was being asked was “do you/will you (still?) love me?”

so lemony writing this insane thing enumerating how much he loves and will continue to love beatrice in all these different ways is very very obviously done specifically to reassure her in an answer she herself asked while breaking up with him anyway