#vile series

[palarien]

sketched this out at jury duty actually

[phantomunderneath]

found lord vile in the wild

[ven10]

Something about the Baudelaires+the tragedies they face being associated with fire (the fire that destroyed their home, the fire at the Caligari Carnival, the fire at the hotel Denouement…) vs the Quagmires+their tragedies being associated with water (Duncan+Isadora being kidnapped+stashed inside a statue of a fish then later inside of a fountain, the Baudelaires finding Quigley in the Hinterlands surrounded by ice, Quigley+Violet having a key moment on a frozen waterfall, Quigley+the Baudelaires escaping via said waterfall, Quigley being seperated from the Baudelaires by the Stricken Stream, Quigley sending a telegram to Violet whilst she is in a submarine fully submerged in water, the Baudelaires almost reuniting with Quigley after travelling in the depths of the sea in ‘The Grim Grotto’, in ‘The Penultimate Peril’ when it’s revealed that Duncan+Isadora are in danger of drowning as eagles attack their self-sustaining hot air mobile home which is flying over the sea and,of course, all three Quagmire triplets becoming lost (in the sea) to the great unknown.

This is especially evident in ‘The Vile Village’ when the Baudelaires have just rescued the Quagmires who at that point were “two dripping figures” bc of the “rushing water” of the fountain they were trapped in which is then contrasted, merely one paragraph later, by the man who causes the majority of the Baudelaires troubles brandishing fire, “Detective Dupin, holding a torch and heading straight toward the Baudelaire orphans.” [evidence taken from pages 210+211 of ‘The Vile Village’.]

This could represent a number of things:

1: The Quagmires trying to help the Baudelaires like how water extinguishes fire.

2: The cold way in which Olaf uses the Quagmires solely for their fortune and his own sadistic purpose as opposed to his hunting down of the Baudelaires being fuelled by burning revenge.

It’s also interesting how Duncan+Isadora are associated with water whereas Quigley is initially associated with ice in TSS until he+the Baudelaires begin to rely on each other and then he is associated with water (the ice of the stricken stream cracking and Quigley being carried away with it). Due to this, there is solid reasoning to view water in asoue as a metaphor for friendship (at least in the case of the Quagmires).

[larrylimericks]

12Jun24

A soul made of plastic and hollowed, In missed exploitation, Si wallowed: If he owned 1D’s name He’d cash in on their fame ... It’s a no from our Lou, who unfollowed.

[tealin]

@afterthegreatunknown, it's your lucky day ...

[anywhere-anywhere]

// wild life session 1 spoilers!!

😦

[cosmicmoonwhisperer]

How Kim has held onto his composure around those couples for so long is beyond me. 2 months in I would’ve crashed out and sucker punched North.

[briabooknerd]

[trash-gremlin]

could you imagine how good spirit animals would be if it wasn't written as a children's series

[blinxbat]

I hate you 343 Guilty Spark, fucker of all time, goddamn ball thing, ultimate disgusting sphere. Bad no good dastardly object.

[yourfavaschips]

have you done arthur morgan

Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2 would be Lay's Wavy Hickory BBQ Potato Chips!

[astheworldgoesonitswickedway]

Oh my goodness. Look at Olaf’s face. The agony. The longing. The sadness. The desperation to believe what Jacques says is true. The memory of days gone by, the (probably subconscious) wish that it really could be that way again. The desire to believe in something again, believe in anything other than anarchy. And the basic human need he has shoved down for so long, to feel a real connection with other people. People who aren’t there as just brainwashed slaves. Maybe people who really know him, grew up the way he did and can therefore understand his probably traumatic childhood. Count Olaf is a psychopath and to be honest, sometimes I even wonder if he is bi-polar. But beneath it all, on the occasion one can reach him, Olaf feels really really deeply. It seems to me, when he does feel, is actually when he is the scariest and most violent. Sure killing Jacques was no doubt the plan, but there was no reason to keep the conversation going. Olaf could have just done it if he wanted to, and deep conversation was never his thing. I don’t think Olaf would ever have switched sides, he was way too far gone for a redemption arc. Still, it was almost like Jacques was able to make this brief connection with him, until the moment he mentioned that night at the opera. THAT is when Olaf chose to get violent. Because everything comes down to that, even his emotions. I think the grief he feels because of his parents is the entire reason he sentences himself to this psychotic numbness and lashing out with violence is the only way he knows how to stuff all the grief and other emotions down again. He makes them go away, and he makes it ALL go away. It makes me really sad to hear Jacques talk about a time when they put “noble deeds on the books together” I forget there was really a time they were close friends. In the opera scene before things go down, Olaf even said he missed Jacques. And this is how things ended. Murdering his own childhood friends. For something most of them had nothing to do with. 😭

[johnbottoms]

trc really is a cycle bc once u read it once u never stop rereading it

[pamrak]

living for the moment he pats nene's head like this

[videogamerzero1]

Nobody:

Me when I decide to trash on Project X Zone for the millionth time:

[hysterotic]

i’m thinking about writing a the ‘girl next door (gone bad)’ which is like a part 2 of that fic.. hmmm…