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I want whatever Lemony Snicket was on when he came up with the phrase “Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity” like I just know he was pissing himself laughing as he wrote a baby saying it
#me reading this word for the first time: Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity#a series of unfortunate events#asoue#lemony snicket#sunny baudelaire#daniel handler
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Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) in an interview with The Guardian:
#shostakovich#a series of unfortunate events#asoue#lemony snicket#daniel handler#classical music#dmitri shostakovich
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some Q&A from DH’s latest interview
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Mr. Handler (far left) has turned 54. Let's congratulate him for his devotion to noble and befuddling endeavors.
We don't know what is going on in this picture.
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Do you ever think about how Lemony and Bea II are essentially the sole survivors of the entirety of the series. Do you ever think about how Lemony is ultimately the one who haunts the narrative, not Beatrice. Beatrice was dead from the beginning…but so was everyone else. It’s Lemony who is stuck on the other side. It’s Lemony who is a ghost in this world…and other than Bea…completely alone.
#I mean no wonder he’s so wet cat sad little meow meow#lemony snicket#a series of unfortunate events#daniel handler#beatrice baudelaire#beatrice II#Bea Baudelaire#the beatrice letters#Spoilers#asoue#all the wrong questions#atwq#vfd
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"VFD Taxi Service"
-spotted on Daniel Handler's instagram
#vfd#lemony snicket#daniel handler#a series of unfortunate events#all the wrong questions#instagram#business card#a reader gave it to him at a signing#I love it
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Went to a meet-and-greet with Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket at Doylestown Bookshop last friday! This is the second time I have met him, the first time I didn't expect to see him.* I don't like my photo taken but I love the funny photos he takes with everyone, so as a kind of last minute idea I asked if he would pose "with" my Snicket Pup (which I had shown him last time we met, lol) and I was prepared for him to say absolutely not, but...not only did he do it, he nailed it. I just told him to do whatever he wanted and I love how it came out! He said he always wanted to know what it would be like to be Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit so I hope I got the right vibe. *It was at a play he was workshopping and everyone told me he'd probably be there but I was a fool and thought of course he wouldn't be, he'd be watching it remotely at MOST, why would be be in New Jersey?? Yeah so of course I was wrong about that. I'm an idiot.
He also signed some books for me and I gave him a gift (a hand typed/bound/illustrated book, my translations of a small collection of 100 year old works by Kenji Miyazawa). It was such an amazing experience, once again! If you ever get a chance to meet this wonderful man, do!
Also read his new memoir, And Then? And Then? What Else? It's really, really good! (I ended up with four copies by accident but I don't regret it because they each had something special attached, i.e. the first one came two weeks early for no reason, which allowed me to read it at my own pace before meeting with him, which made me very happy! Forgot to ask my questions specific to that book, though, damn it!)
#fanart#dog#book fanart#lemony snicket#atwq#all the wrong questions#daniel handler#a series of unfortunate events#the basic eight
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I've made a Venn diagram of how this overlaps with my interests:
IT'S A CIRCLE
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Learning lots of Lemony Snicket lore from the new book
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There should be a documentary style film about Lemony Snicket with all the sources from The Unauthorized Autobiography and the Leading Snicket Expert needs to be Daniel Handler
#lemony snicket#daniel handler#the unauthorized autobiography#a series of unfortunate events#asoue#with interviews but every name card says ‘allegedly’ before their name#and twenty minutes devoted to ‘the little Snicket lad’#I have so many ideas for this
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My Biggest What-Ifs of A Series of Unfortunate Events (Series Only)
The Night of the Opera:
1. What if Beatrice and Lemony had just taken the fucking sugar instead of the whole ass Sugar Bowl?
2. What if Olaf's father had never been shot by the poison dart?
The Bad Beginning:
1. What if Violet, Klaus and Sunny had never gone to the Briny Beach that day?
2. What if Violet and Klaus had never figured out Olaf's scheme to marry Violet irl?
The Reptile Room:
1. What if Monty's dumbass had just straight up recognised Olaf?
2. What if the Baudelaires had actually been fooled by Olaf's disguise, or had just pretended to be fooled?
The Wide Window:
1. What if Josephine hadn't been charmed away by Olaf, being still distraught about Ike and all?
2. What if the Quagmire parents had actually come down via their plane to help the Baudelaires + Josephine?
The Miserable Mill
1. What if Violet and Klaus never figured out Georgina's scheme?
2. What if Violet had never yelled 'Fire' and taken out all the workers from their trance?
The Austere Academy
1. What if Larry had never lost the book like a stupid dumbass?
2. What if the Quagmires had never been caught by Olaf?
The Ersatz Elevator
1. What if Olivia had never met Jacques?
2. What if the Baudelaires had identified Esme's true nature beforehand?
The Vile Village
1. What if the absolute fucking idiots of the village had just listened to the Baudelaires?
2. What if the Baudelaires had managed to escape with Hector and the Quagmires?
The Hostile Hospital
1. What if Esme had found the Sugar Bowl before Kit arrived?
2. What if the Snicket File had somehow gotten destroyed before either the Baudelaires or Olaf got to see it?
The Carnivorous Carnival
1. What if Olaf had identified the Baudelaires in their pretty terrible attempt of a freak outfit?
2. What if the Baudelaires had never been reunited with Olivia or watched any of the VFD Files?
The Slippery Slope
1. What if the Baudelaires had never met Quigley?
2. What if Quigley had never been separated from the Baudelaires?
The Grim Grotto
1. What if the Baudelaires had never been intercepted by Fiona?
2. What if Fernald hadn't helped the Baudelaires to escape?
The Penultimate Peril
1. What if the Baudelaires had never met Dewey?
2. What if the Sugar Bowl had been saved by someone at last?
The End
1. What if the Baudelaires had never figured out Ishmael's scheme, and had gotten successfully drugged enough to forget their past?
2. What if Olaf hadn't been a dumbass and released the Medusoid Mycelium on the island?
The Epilogue
1. What if Beatrice II had not managed to survive the returning trip?
2. What if Lemony had never received Beatrice II's letter?
(help im ✨mentally dying✨)
#asoue#a series of unfortunate events#asoue netflix#asoue fandom#count olaf#countolaf#the baudelaires#violet baudelaire#klaus baudelaire#sunny baudelaire#the baudelaire orphans#the quagmire triplets#isadora quagmire#duncan quagmire#quigley quagmire#beatrice baudelaire#lemony snicket#daniel handler#esme squalor#esme gigi genevieve squalor#montgomery montgomery#josephine anwhistle#georgina orwell#olivia caliban#jacques snicket#fiona widdershins#kit snicket#ishmael#carmelita spats#eslaf
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👀 !!!
#not me zooming in to try to read his draft zero 😭#it’s in first person though so 👀 👀 👀 AHHH#daniel handler#lemony snicket
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl: A very fortunate interview with Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)
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we dont talk enough about how dhandler randomly threw a lovecraftian monster into his snicket books. like that was insane actually come to think of it.
#route66.txt#lemony snicket#daniel handler#asoue#atwq#a series of unfortunate events#kidlit#it's one of my favorite parts and i think everyone should read asoue all the way through just for that
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I'll talk about some things regarding the allegorical interpretation of The Great Unknown (TGU) at the end of "The End" (TE). I don't particularly enjoy discussing allegorical interpretations because anyone can come up with their own, and to me, that makes me lose the boundaries I prefer to impose on myself when theorizing about ASOUE. But I'll make an exception with one rule (a rule I don't usually follow in other cases): What was the author's intention?
Generally, I prefer to stick to what was written rather than what the intention was (especially since Daniel Handler's intentions varied greatly throughout the writing of ASOUE, which is totally acceptable and good, but leaves traces. Thus, among my personal rules, what he wrote holds more weight than what he intended while writing). But in TE, since it's the last of the main ASOUE books, his intentions at the end of the story don't alter ASOUE's future much because that future only exists in our imagination. (Which makes me both sad and happy at the same time).
Many believe that the author's intention was for TGU to represent death itself, which I disagree with. What TGU represents is a question, and the very question mark shape is strong evidence of what I just said. The question is "What happens after the end?" This question has thematic similarities to the event of death, but it is not the same as death. "End" and "death" can be synonymous in some contexts, but not always. In the case of ASOUE, the last book is literally called "The End," and the question "What happens after the end?" becomes poetically interesting. (At this stage of life, Daniel Handler was fascinated by wordplay. Poetry that heavily plays with the semantics of words and expressions has always been very present in Daniel Handler's life).
Thus, physically representing the question "What happens after the end?" with a mysterious entity that takes away the characters we love is a very interesting way to end the 13 books. "What happens after the end?" is basically Daniel Handler asking his readers to write fanfics and headcanons. He handed us the pen and told us, "You can continue the story."
I've read many books, but the only ones that moved me to theorize and write fanfics were those in the ASOUE universe. So, I think that question mark truly entered my soul and never left.
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