#the world is quiet here

[mvrphysart]

the world is quiet here

[nomattertheoceans]

Recently I became responsible for opening and closing my village's library on Saturdays so I got a key, and bought this really nice VFD keychain for it, and honestly I hink that was pretty clever ^^

[ditchweeds]

good day ♡

[certifiedfae]

“hello. i hope….. someone…is listening.”

- radio silence, universe city

[the-real-sneezus]

no because why does scarecrow seem like one of the caregivers they'd ship the baudelaire orphans to

[cheezitofthevalley]

some blinkies I made

[multicolored-malpractice]

When we grab you by the ankles,

Where our mark is to be made,

You'll soon be doing noble work,

Although you won't be paid,

When we drive away in secret,

You'll be a volunteer,

So don't scream when we take you,

The world is quiet here

[treefey]

I wonder how many kids in larger cities picked up on what VFD stood for way before it was revealed in the books

Meanwhile, me living in a smaller city incorporated in an urban sprawl metro area, never saw the FD abbreviation until I went to NYC on a school trip

[doybyke]

umm maybe a series of unfortunate events blinkie that says “the world is quiet here”??

pretty much any classic lit blinkies would be awesome too!!

i hope this works !! id luv 2 make other classic lit blinkies if u have ne specific ideas ^^

[silver-rings-and-rabbits]

As I get older I become less tolerant of people who cannot just keep quiet

[sampungmgadaliri]

Shoutout to the nerdiest fandom to ever exist!

Move over, Trekkies! You’re not the nerdiest community in town. This is an appreciation post for the A Series of Unfortunate Events fandom aka the community where all autistic people meet. That’s a compliment. I was lucky to be in this fandom for 2 decades now, starting from 2004 when I first read The Bad Beginning from our school library. It wasn’t until 2014 when I joined 667 Dark Avenue, the…

[unfortunatetheorist]

The Complete Works of Contradictory Logic in ASOUE: Volume I (Quote Debunk 10)

Part 7 - The Miserable Mill S1 E7

Quick Intro: Surprise! I'm back after what I know has been quite a long while - life's been keeping me busy! As Voltaire once said: "Life is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them."

Time to carry on where we left off...

And of course we're jumping straight in with Mr Poe-ntless:

01:49 - "We must act now! We must act without delay! We... (sniffs)... need... (sniffs again)... We need... (sniffs some chowder because why not?) Oh! Oh, my! Oh, my, this is excellent chowder. Mmm, mmm, good. Oh, God... [chugs the entire thing - again, why not?]"

How did we ever believe this guy cared about the Baudelaires?

05:06 - "Pink Floyd's "The Wall"... Although Mother wouldn't let me watch that one."

Not contradictory per se, but a beautifully subtle reference to the lyrics of the song 'Another Brick in The Wall, Pt 2.' particularly the chorus:

We don't need no education

We don't need no thought control

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

Teacher, leave them kids alone!

So I guess it's contradictory, in a way, to the underlying principles of V.F.D.

07:06 - "They have to do what I say, even my partner here." ~ Sir

Luckily Klaus responds quickly and correctly to this one.

10:06 - "...who joined you for years on a sequence of heists and schemes until the two of you were forced apart by circumstance, and also because you ran off in the middle of the night with a bunch of her valuables?" ~ Olaf. to Evander the Truck Driver

What a way to lose a lady. Something tells me only Olaf would do something like this!

The chocolate bar scene at 10:26 is funny, but not really the kind of contradiction we're looking for.

14:45 - "I'm just an old friend" *sniffs flowers and writhes in disgust* ~Olaf to Georgina

"Um, Dr Orwell's not here right now." ~ Dr Orwell (Georgina) to Olaf.

Sheer genius. Neatly covered with the hilarity of Olaf's facial expression after smelling the flowers.

15:06 - "So he isn't just knocking on Dr Orwell's door because he needs something - for himself?" ~ Georgina

Olaf: *chuckles*, *pulls angry face*, *chuckles*

It's brilliantly timed and brilliantly filmed. Also better/easier to understand when viewed.

15:27 - "...who shares one's brilliance, one's charm, one's dubious moral code in a world gone gloriously wrong." ~ Olaf

Olaf was just trying to find alphabetical words; 'brilliance' and 'charm' have quite different meaning and connotation to 'dubious'.

Also, a world gone 'gloriously wrong', eh, Olaf? I wonder how it got that way...

15:48 - This gem:

Georgina: "I took a solemn oath that my office would be closed to you forever even during regular business hours."

Also Georgina: "How big a fortune are we talking?"

22:22 - "I took a chance on treating you like grown-ups, don't make me regret it." ~ Sir to the Baudelaires

A classic phrase often said to children to enforce good behaviour now twisted to benefit Sir's bank balance. Respect, Handler! This kind of thing goes unnoticed very easily.

25:25 - "You, me, an evil scheme, a little death." ~ Olaf

"La petit mort" ~ Georgina

"You know I love it when you speak Spanish." ~ Olaf

Ok. First off, 'la petit mort' is, in fact, French not Spanish. Secondly, 'la petit mort' literally means 'the little death' but in French slang, it means something else entirely... [Hint: not child-friendly...]

26:10 - "It represents the eyes of God staring down and judging society as a moral wasteland." ~ Klaus

"Oh, that sounds like a fun book." ~ Phil

Not really sure how fun this is... but the same could be said about ASOUE to be fair. Each to his own, I suppose.

37:24 - "We've fought a host of unsavoury characters, including a most unfriendly refrigerator repair person. We've flown a plane into a hurricane. We've been to Peru and back to get home to our children. And today, finally, we'll all be together. What could be wrong?"

Gotta love the sarcasm when it's there.

There's also the piece related to the final scene about Sir mentioning the 'probable' (yeah right) conditions of the Baudelaires, which are actually his own... this isn't as contradictory as it perhaps could've been so not worth writing in full.

~ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

[currenthyperf1xat1ons]

rewatching a series of unfortunate events and i forgot how GOOD THIS SHOW IS?!?!

the eye imagery is KILLING ME /pos

so yeah next posts will probably be about asoue so hoping this reaches the target audience

anyway 👁️the world is quiet here👁️

[ditchweeds]

first time seeing snow :')

[sylvanfreckles]

Finally getting my home library finished, so I present to you: their shelf!

The Sanctuary family no longer has to live in front of my cookbooks. Now they can settle into their nice, spacious shelf in front of my vintage Star Wars novels (from before Disney rewrote everything).

This library also features:

Motion-activated "interstellar exploration" book nook, which looked enough like a wizard's tower to put near my Discworld books

This little library book nook that reminds me of Atrus, so of course it goes with the Myst books

I have to dig out the rest of my lacquered jewelry boxes, but they have a special place here, right below the China-inspired book nooks (Su Dongpo's Life, Legend of Mulan, and the Panda Bookstore...it's so cute, you don't even know)

And, in case you were worrying I still wasn't cool enough, Lord of the Rings. I have five different copies of the books (the first set I own is on display in the living room) plus the BK glasses.

The rest of the room is a little bit of a mess, but it'll be there soon! I'm so excited!

My ex took over every space I ever carved out for myself, so it's hard to remember how to live in my own house. I try to sit in my library a few minutes every day, just to imprint it into myself a little more.

Maybe I'll post full pics of all the shelves once everything is finished.