#JS asoue

[kusukeslab]

asou knew what he was doing.

[d00medyur1]

alright guys i am up reading

[beatricebidelaire]

I haven’t thought about this theory in years also, but I think the main argument for “for” was the masked ball scene where Lemony chased after a woman dressed as a dragonfly took place after the baudelaire mansion fire, and the argument for “against” argues that beatrice would not have just, not reached out to help the kids if she were still alive.

(i’m personally more inclined to think she died in the fire, and the masked ball lemony chased after her took place before the mansion burnt down, though not necessarily very long before. R’s masked balls always feel like something that could regularly in the snicketverse to me so it’s not been conclusive enough proof for me)

Friends, followers, foes, volunteers, people who owe me 20 bucks still: I have a friend who’s interested in the Beatrice survived theory. Does anyone have links to posts concerning it? For or against?

[chocos-universe]

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Fandoms I'm Into (And will write for) -

Eddsworld

Creepypasta

Helluva Boss

Hazbin Hotel

FNaF

CupHead (Show and Games)

TADC

Villainous

(Some) Disney Movies (if you want a specific list js ask and I'll make one:3)

Sly Cooper 1-4

The Simpsons

South Park

Rise of the Guardians

Squid Game

Cookie Run Kingdom

Win or Lose

Corpse Bride

ASOUE (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Descendants (1-3, no series)

Sonic Movie (1-3)

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I WON'T write for -

Eddsworld; Laurel, Kim, Katya (?) - Not very familiar with them still

Helluva Boss; Side Characters - I won't write for them because they aren't big characters. Meaning, as in Stolas's lil date at the party, Wally, people like that. (The sins, Martha + Mayberry, Vortex, Verosika's friends, ect, ARE allowed)

(Some) Disney Movies - There's some I dislike and won't write for. Again, I can write a list if anyone is interested.

Sly 4; Penelope - She genuinely makes me sick in Sly 4, and I can't bring myself to write her in that timeline. Probably only the third will be an exception. Possibly her IN the Black Knight will do, though. (Ik, I'm weird)

South Park - Any background characters, really. But any main main adults/kids are allowed

Rise of the Guardians - Jamie's friends. I'll write for Jamie and Jack but not... his friends suck. Adults included, no adults. Past Jack and everyone else is accepted, tho

Squid Game Season 1 -, Han Mi-nyeo & Player 111, the VIPS, nobody from season 2 (For now, besides Thanos and Nam-Gyu)

Cookie Run Kingdom - Dark Enchantress Cookie. She will be mentioned and have a role in things (maybe), but I won't write for her

ASOUE - Mostly only the Quagmires and the main three... + Olaf and Hooky... but other than them, I won't write for anybody else. MAYBE the ancestors

Descendants - Any background character who only appears so much. (Example: Mulan's Daughter).

Sonic 3 - Eggmans grandfather. I mean... I have my reasons.

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[hypotheticalobjectshow]

rating all of my hyperfixations/special interests that i can remember cause im bored :3 (from oldest to newest) (this is a very long one)

cats: 10/10 has been with me since i can remember and became a normal thing im very fond of now :3 i have a huge collection of cat themed stuff

frozen: 4/10 this lasted for WAAAAY too long. from 2013 till 2018 (a HUGE chunk of my childhood), i didnt care abt anything else besides some other hyperfixations

pocoyo: 8/10 lasted a while but i honestly do not remember anything about it. js know i was obsessed for a little while?? might have been before frozen idk

tangled: 7/10 nice movie and it didnt last too long!!

sing: 4/10 dont remember anything. liked the porcupine girl i think

vocaloid: 10/10 same thing as cats, very fond of it despite not listening to it as much as i used to :3 2017 till 2023, includes all of the WORST years of my life but i like it too much to deduct points

nyan cat: 9/10 based

mlp dark stories: 4/10 iconic but i was like. WAY too young to watch stuff like this. thankfully didnt ever see smile :33 didnt understand most of what i saw tbh, sometimes a vid appears on my fyp and im just like 😦

fnaf: 4/10 physically cringe remembering this,,,,,, brazilian reference but the glmm "a animatronic" (the animatronic translating) marked my life for some reason. its actually really bad LMFAO

undertale: 8/10 i only watched one playthrough for the neutral route, it was from a youtuber i liked :33 stronger than you and that one underverse sans christmas vid galore

gacha: 6/10 good times!! it was nice projecting into those protags that also got bullied but became happy and had friends later, i always hoped it ended the same for me back in rhe day (i guess it kinda did :3) this went from 2017 till 2021 (some of the worst years of my life) so i deducted points

danganrompa: 3/10 still love fangames (drdt and p:eg specifically) but the base game sucked ngl,,,, cool concept tho

harry potter: 0/10 fuck jk rowling

the promised neverland: 6/10 oh god this was INTENSE. i have a painting of tpn in my room to this day and looking at it brings back WAY too many memories, manga was way better im glad old me thought so too :3 emma was my lesbian awakening for some reason??? looking back it was probably anna from frozen but i was too young to understand anything

asoue: 8/10 forgot most of it but its a really good series!! books are quite different from the show i think

crk: 8/10 the golden ages,,,,, didnt last long, comes back periodically but its too tiring to play with the god awful meta so it always fades rly quickly

kny: 5/10 i dont like it anymore but it was nice??? i have a shinobu plushie rotting in my closet

saiki k: 8/10 still like it :3 watching it 4 times was kinda overkill tho

she-ha: 3/10 i dislike it now but still had alot of fun!! thats what matters

rhythm games (mainly pjsk): 7/10 i got some issues with my hands that cause alot of pain when i play it recently so i stopped playing them but im still kinda fond of it, the absolute joy of doing a fc will never be forgotten :3 also some of the worst years of my life tho. tbf 2018-2023 was AWFUL but its too many years i cant keep deducting points LMFAO

my own pjsk au: 4/10 cool concept but BADLY written. good lord its so badly executed i might rewrite it out of spite.. I WROTE IT DIRECTLY ON AO3.

b99: 8/10 that was a fun show!! one of the only series ive ever rewatched but it was just once unlike saiki k :3

heathers: 8/10 my introduction to musicals!! shout out to my girl luiza for telling me to stop procrastinating and watch it, spammed her with "heather heather heather and someone" vids at the time

rtc: 7/10 honestly the cast recording sucks so i grew out of it fast, constance my beloved

hatchetverse: 9/10 ily starkid!! met my dearest oomfie emy-needssleep when it started and made her get into it, making a friend who shares my interest in musicals is AMAZING tysm emy!!

ii: 8/10 my introduction to the osc!! really glad it happened even if im not big in the fandom anymore

c2bc: 4/10 oh god. colethegeek didnt build his female characters at all and its kind of a hard watch but the hyperfixation rose tinted glasses didnt let me see any flaws until cole got cancelled and it died,,,, lead the way boyfriend! (shoutout to incense for being atleast decent and to yearbook for having a cool design!!)

gravity falls: 10/10 still here :3 i miss august last year 💔💔 also saw some old fandom stuff in 2016 but i liked cartoon network more than disney channel so i never actually touched it despite being really curious about it until BoB released

epic: 8/10 thanks emy!!

hos: 10/10 still here!! do i even need to explain this? yall watched me descend into hyperfix into special interest live

theres more but i cant remember so yeah :3

I still find it so funny how the first ask you sent was like. hi I like this comic! I like snail shell :3 and then it just escalated from there

so many of these are so real. I love tangled…

[littlestsnicket]

i’ve recently been considering the idea that esme and geraldine’s correspondence is from immediately after lemony is fired as dramatic critic but something delays esme from acting on her plan to marry jerome until much later. on the one hand this feels too convenient. on the other hand HIJINKS OF JACQUES SUCCESSFULLY PREVENTING ESME FROM TALKING TO JEROME FOR LITERAL YEARS!

book canon. so i was thinking. if one subscribe to the theory of jerome's and jacques's letter to each other (not necessarily received) being around the tmm-tee timeline, then it's likely that jerome and esme and jacques, the three of them have never been in the same room together, ever? there is not a lot of time for jacques to pop by the city.

but then i thought, i guess it's possible that jerome and esme had been at the same place before - some social function, or party - but they didn't know each other / haven't officially met each other yet, back then, so it's possible that they have all three been in the same room together in this manner.

it's even possible that they've met / run into each other but did not remember it.

hmm. just because esme asked geraldine to look into jerome and then managed to "accidentally" run into him at the diner, it didn't mean they never met before, i guess. they could still have. and geraldine's letter to esme we only see geraldine's side of things, esme does not have to tell geraldine that she and jerome might have met before. and if they have met before, some years ago, that could explain how they "married after only one evening together" after getting reacquainted

the problem with all this is (as usual) that while the jsjs letter exchange seemed to be around tmm-tee, geraldine's letter mentioning the firing of a dramatic critic (lemony) always makes me feels like over ten years ago so it's the same old question haunting me when exactly did the JE wedding happened.

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The Hypothetical Identity of JS.

This is part 12 of the Strange Interpretation of Jean Lúcio from Brazil

To understand this text, it is necessary to read some of my previous texts.

The Snicket File Inquiry

The Beatrice Letters Theory

The Sugar Bowls Theory

Hypotheses are based on circumstantial evidence. Being an ASOUE theorist involves "testing" various hypotheses, performing mental experiments, and verifying whether the hypothesis is valid or not. Hypotheses that can be denied are not valid, and should be discarded. Hypotheses that can not be denied are taken advantage of. And the hypotheses that fit the personality of the author, and that solve mysteries in a coherent way, and that even allow to solve other mysteries, pass to the status of theory. When dealing with a text that contains an unreliable narrator like Lemony, testing hypotheses is a great challenge. But as I showed in my first and second text, Lemony is a partially unreliable narrator. He promised himself not to tell lies about the events surrounding the Baudelaire siblings. But at the same time he must avoid telling the Public that Beatrice survived the burning of her house. Thus, to protect Beatrice's life, Lemony resorts to lies and cheating within his own 13 books, as long as this does not violate the promise he made that he will record the history of the Baudelaire siblings accurately. So, given the theory I created, I can say that I also created a hypothesis that had been disregarded by most fans. I am almost to promote this hypothesis at the level of theory, but perhaps some adjustments are necessary. So, briefly, I can say that my hypothesis is that JS is Beatrice pretending to be Jacques Snicket after the death of Jacques Sincket. I think this is Beatrice's recurring way of acting: she likes to pretend to be the siblings of Lemony who die. Of course, I did not imagine it out of the blue. There's a reason for me to find this, and I'll explain now. I will first explain my whole hypothesis, and then I will show the evidence. First, Kit herself believed that J. S. was an impostor, that is, someone pretending to be her brother.

  TPP chapter 2:

“At last she held up a tiny piece of paper, no bigger than a caterpillar, which was rolled into a tiny scroll. "Here it is," she said. "A waiter slipped this to me last night by hiding it inside a cookie." She handed it to Klaus, who unrolled the paper and squinted at it behind his glasses. "'J. S. has checked in,'" he read out loud, "'and requested tea with sugar. My brother sends his regards. Sincerely, Frank.'" "Usually the messages inside the cookies are just superstitious nonsense," Kit said, "but recently the restaurant has changed management. You can understand why this message made me so distraught, Baudelaires. Someone is posing as my brother, and has checked into the hotel shortly before our entire organization is scheduled to arrive."

In the same passage we observe that J. S. asked for sugar when he arrived at the hotel. Of course this was a code. If you've read my theory about sugar bowls, you know that I believe a short woman got one of the sugar bowls in GG. Imagine the following hypothesis: this woman is the person who is going by J. S. This woman went to the HQ of VFD, received the message in the refrigerator. Captain Windershins sent a telegram to her informing her that the sugar bowl was in GG, after Klaus found out. She went to AA, went down the tunnels, picked up the sugar bowl at GG, went to Queequeg, persuaded Windershins and Bill to abandon the submarine, used the Great Unknown to chase away Olaf, and then used the Great Unknown to quickly get to the hotel, has registered as JS  She hid the sugar bowl somewhere with water. She then ordered tea with sugar, informing the allies that she already had one of the sugar bowls in her hands. These allies were members of the secret organization within the secret organization created by Lemony. When she asked for sugar, the waiters searched her ankles. They did not find any tattoos.

(I believe that Beatrice does not have a tattoo because her children had never seen anything like it before contacting Count Olaf.) Chapter 7 of TPP shows what treatment was given to anyone who asked for sugar:

" in  the  coffee  shop,  located  in  Room  178,  a  villain  requested sugar in  his  coffee, was immediately thrown  to  the  floor  so  a  waitress could  see if  he  had  a tattoo  on  his  ankle,  and  then  received  an  apology  and  a  free  slice  of  rhubarb  pie  for  all  his trouble."

The waiters believed that all the supporters of the incendiary side of Schism had entered VFD before Schism itself, so everyone should have ankle tattoos. Of course they were wrong. Esmé did not have a tattoo because she participated in Olaf's Schism, years after the Great VFD Schism, but she had no tattoo. Esmé entered VFD after the Great Schism. Similarly, the woman who was going through J.S. also did not have a tattoo because she entered VFD after the Great Schism.

(chapter 12 The UA: 3. Do I Have to get a Tatto? - No anymore. Since the schism, we have realized that it is not wise to permanently mark oneself with a symbol when the meaning of the symbol change at any moment.)

The woman then received a telegram from Quigley. The telegram informed through a complex code that Baudelaire siblings would meet someone in a taxi on Briny Beach to accomplish a mission, and then she deduced that there was someone who would bring the Baudelaire siblings to the hotel. What "J.S." did? She sent a telegram to Mr. Poe. She did not want the Baudelaire siblings to go to the hotel. She asked Mr. Poe to fetch the Baudelaire Siblings. Why she did it?

  For me, the answer is: Because J. S. was Beatrice pretending to be Jacques Snicket. She did not want her children to face the Deadly Dangers that would exist in the hotel. Finally, Beatrice was taken from the hotel in the trunk of a taxi. She handed the sugar bowl to the mysterious taxi driver. Anyway, as I explained in the Sugar Bowls theory, Beatrice was taken to the beach, where she invoked the Great Unknown using the whistle (which was the contents of the sugar bowl), and went to save the Quagmires and the others. She probably wanted to save her own children too, but she should not have known where their children were. When Beatrice went to save the Quagmires one of them shouted for the name “Violet” because he saw Beatrice inside the beast's mouth and thought she was Violet. Now see some evidence about JS being Beatrice in disguise:

TGG chapter 12:

"A Volunteer Factual Dispatch," Klaus finished. Violet nodded, and scanned the paper quickly. Sure enough, the words "Volunteer Factual Dispatch " were printed on the top, and as more and more of the paper appeared, the eldest Baudelaire saw that it was addressed "To the Queequeg," with the date printed below, as well as the name of the person who was sending the telegram, miles and miles away on dry land…

"It's from Quigley Quagmire," she said quietly. Klaus's eyes widened in astonishment. "What does he say?" he asked.

" 'It is my understanding that you have three additional volunteers on board… 'We are in desperate need of their services for a most urgent matter… Please deliver them Tuesday to the location indicated in the rhymes below.”

She scanned the paper and frowned thoughtfully. "Then there are two poems," she said. "One by Lewis Carroll and the other by T. S. Eliot."

"Verse Fluctuation Declaration," he said….

"There's nothing else in the telegram?" "Only a few letters at the very bottom," she said. " 'CC: J.S.' What does that mean?" " 'CC' means that Quigley sent a copy of this message to someone else," Klaus said, "and 'J.S.' are the initials of the person." "Those mysterious initials again," Violet said. "It can't be Jacques Snicket, because he's dead. But who else could it be?"… Klaus closed the book and looked up at his sisters. "Quigley wants us to meet him tomorrow," he said, "at Briny Beach."

  Chapter 13

"The missing words," Violet said to her siblings, as if the coughing banker had not spoken, "are 'violet,' 'taxi,' and 'waiting.'

  These excerpts above show that Quigley sent the message to Queequeg and sent a copy of the same message to J.S.

  Chapter 13

“"Gack!" Sunny said, which meant "Look at that mysterious figure emerging from the fog!" and the Baudclaires watched as a familiar shape stopped in front of them, took off a tall top hat, and coughed into a white handkerchief… "Baudelaires!" Mr. Poe said, when he was done coughing. "Egad! I can't believe it! I can't believe you're here!" "You?" Klaus asked, gazing at the banker in astonishment. "You're the one we're supposed to meet?" "I guess so," Mr. Poe said, frowning and taking a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket. "I received a message saying that you'd be here at Briny Beach today.”

"Who sent the message?" Klaus asked…

"The message is signed J.S.," Mr. Poe said… “You'd better come with me – my car's parked nearby. You have a great deal of explaining to do."

No," Violet said. "No?" Mr. Poe said in amazement, and coughed violently into his handkerchief. "Of course you do! You've been missing for a very long time, children! It was very inconsiderate of you to run away without telling me where you were, particularly when you've been accused of murder, arson, kidnapping, and some assorted misdemeanors! We're going to get right in my car, and I'll drive you to the police station, and –" "No,…"

This passage above shows that JS sent Mr. Poe a message asking him to go and meet the Baudelaire siblings at Briny Beach. It is unlikely that this message was intercepted by an enemy, decoded, and then that enemy would have passed through J.S. and then sent a message to Mr. Poe. Enemies on the noble side do not like books, and that's why creating a code involving books is so safe. Also, it is unlikely that the enemies had exactly the books they needed to decode the message. That means that the person who was going through J.S. was not a villain. He was a member of the "noble" side of VFD. And this member of the noble side did not want the Baudelaire siblings to be taken to the hotel. The only members of the noble side who did not want the Baudelaire siblings to become involved with VFD were the Baudelaire siblings' own parents. This is evidence that J. S. was actually Beatrice, who did not want her children to be taken to the hotel. Beatrice knew the dangers in the hotel would be deadly. Worst mother she's proving to be because of my theories, she did not want her children to die.

  TPP chapter 8:

 "I'm so happy to find you," said the judge, taking off her Vision Furthering Device so she could dab at her eyes and embrace the children one by one. "I was afraid I'd never see you again. I'll never forgive myself for letting that idiotic banker take you away from me."

  This passage above shows that Justice Strauss would never ask Mr. Poe to fetch the Baudelaire siblings at Briny Beach. So it is not the true J. S.

  TPP chapter 8:

"I'm sorry, too," Jerome said. "As soon as I heard about all the troubles that befell you in the Village of Fowl Devotees, I began my own Baudelaire search. Volunteers were leaving me messages everywhere-at least, I thought the messages were addressed to me." "And I thought they were addressed to me ," Justice Strauss said. "There are certainly plenty of people with the initials J. S." "I began to feel like an impostor," Jerome said.

  This excerpt shows that Justice Strauss and Jerome found it very strange to have messages for JS. Jerome even felt like an impostor. They evidently do not know many secrets of VFD, and were not the recipients of the message in the refrigerator, nor of Quigley 's message.

    Other evidence: In TPP there is a picture and a passage showing that female VFD members can disguise themselves as VFD members of the male gender. The engraving is in ALSO NOT CHAPTER. The picture shows a woman who was disguised as a man. About this, Lemony wrote in TPP chapter 7:

"In  the  basement,  a  strange  sight  housekeepers  removed  a  disguise,  and  drilled  a  hole  behind an  ornamental  vase  in  order  to  examine  the  cables  that  held  one  of  the  elevators  in  place, while  listening  to  the  faint  sound  of  a  very  annoying  song  coming  from  a  room  just  above her."

The engraving shows that the woman's disguise involves a false mustache, a type of barrel decorated with eyes, a top hat and a suit. This is evidence that Beatrice could disguise herself as a man easily. This is evidence that Beatrice could also disguise herself as a man easily.

It's interesting what Esmé said about J.S. when she talked to Geraldine Julienne. TPP chapter 4:

  "I reveal  my special  hors  d'oeuvres  for  Thursday's cocktail  party,  I  want  you to  tell  me something  about  a  certain  guest at  this  hotel.  He's  been  lurking around  the  basement,  plotting to spoil our party. His initials are J. S."

  This is evidence that Esmé did not know who JS was. This shows that JS was on the noble side of Schism.

  Also interesting is what Charles said about JS in TPP chapter 5:

  (Sir): "You're  the  one  who  said  enemies might be lurking in this hotel!"

"That's what  I was  told  in  the letter  I  received," Charles  said.  "According to  J.  S.,  we must be very cautious if we want to find the Baudelaires."

"... Perhaps  I  can  ask  one  of  the  concierges  for  a  pair  of binoculars.  J.  S.  said  they  might  be  arriving  by  submarine,  so  I  could  watch  for  a  periscope rising from the sea."

  This is evidence that J. S. was someone on the "noble" side of VFD because he warned Charles about the dangers. In addition, J.S. warned Charles that the Baudelaire siblings would be arriving by submarine. This shows that JS knew about Queequeg.

  TPP chapter 5:

I  care  about  you, Sir. And I care about the Baudelaires. If what J. S. wrote is true, then their parents-" 

  That is other evidence. J.S. wrote to Charles in a letter some secret about the parents of the Baudelaires siblings. This time, the person who must have written to Charles was Jacques Snicket himself. This letter in which Jacques wrote to Charles about the Baudelaires' parents must have been sent to him before the death of Jacques Snicket. In TVV, when Jacques Snicket tried to talk to the Baudelaire siblings, he almost told a secret about their parents.

  TVV chapter 6:

(Jacques Snicket:) Please listen to me, I beg of you! I'm not Count Olaf! My name is Jacques!" He turned to the three siblings, who could see he had tears in his eyes. "Oh, Baudelaires," he said, "I am so relieved to see that you are alive. Your parents — "

      "That's  enough  out  of  you,"  Officer  Luciana  said,  clasping  her  white-gloved  hand  over Jacques's mouth.

  I believe Jacques would tell the Baudelaire siblings that one of their parents was alive.

  TPP Chpater 6:

Chapter 6:

 "I  have  news  from  J.  S." - either  Frank  or  Ernest  was  whispering  to  Hal.

“J. S.?" Hal said. "She's here?" "She's  here  to  help,"  the  manager  corrected.  "She's  been  using  her  Vision  Furthering Device to watch the skies, and I'm afraid she reports that we will all be eating crow."

"I'm  sorry to  hear  that,"  Hal  said.  "Crow  is  a  tough  bird  to  cook,  because  the  meat  is  very muscular from all the carrying that crows do."

“It  is  a  shame,"  agreed  either  Frank  or  Ernest.  "If  only  there  was  something  that  could make the dish a little sweeter. I've heard that certain mushrooms are available." "Sugar would be better than mushrooms," Hal said unfathomably.

"According  to  our  calculations,  the  sugar  will  be  laundered  sometime  after  nightfall," replied the manager, equally unfathomably.

"I'm  glad,"  Hal  said.  "My  job's  been  difficult  enough.  Do  you  know  how  many  leaves  of lettuce I've had to send up to the roof?"

  For some reason, Hal was apparently working with Esmé. He was sending lettuce leaves to her clothes. Lemony had said in THH that he had to search for several months if Hal, at the time he worked at the hospital, was or was not a spy. The question is, why did Lemony have this doubt? Because evidently, at the time of events recorded in TPP, Hal was already a spy on the incendiary side. Dewey knew this, so he passed on false information to Hal. It was in this way that Olaf received insider information about what was apparently to happen at the hotel. That's why the information Dewey passed to Hal about JS was not true. JS was not there to help the incendiary side. But the interesting thing is that Hal believed she was there to help the incendiary side. Hal acted as if he already knew JS. This is evidence that JS was acting as a double agent. Beatrice was pretending to support the incendiary side by disguising herself as a woman named JS. But evidently she had only communicated with people who did not know her personally. So Olaf and Esmé were not contacted by her.

The passage also points to how Dewey passed the false information to Olaf's supporters as to where the sugar bowl would fall. Olaf's supporters believed that the sugar bowl containing the whistle to control the Great Unknown would come by the crows. Hal was saying that he thought it would be better to have a giant beast attack than exposure to a deadly fungus.

  That's what I have as evidence. But that raises an interesting question.

Did the first time Mr. Poe fetched the Baudelaire Siblings at Briny Beach, he also received a message from Beatrice about where they were?

After all, how did Mr. Poe know exactly where the Baudelaire siblings were on the day of the fire? Who warned him? How did he get there so fast?

According to the UA, chapter 11, Lemony also knew about the possibility of one or more survivors in the Baudelaire mansion fire. How could he know that?

Also, exists in the bad beginning the rare edition, there is a very interesting note:

  p.2 The three Baudelaire children lived with their parents in an enormous mansion at the heart of a dirty and busy city, and occasionally their parents gave them permission to take a rickety trolley-the word “rickety”, you probably know, here means “unsteady” or “likely to collapse”-alone to the seashore…

 On that particular occasion, the Baudelaire parents not only gave their children permission but encouraged them to leave the house, as the adults had some pressing business to atten to. This business was delayed indefinitely due to death. 

  Why had Beatrice and Bertrand insisted so much that their children left home exactly that day? What did not their parents want them to see happen? Why did Bertrand die and Beatrice survived? Why did Beatrice have so much fun killing Count Olaf's father or parents? And why did R. claim that Beatrice was not a person to look for lost goods?

And why is not Lemony who you think he is? What dark secrets are hidden in TBL? What is "the End"? Why is Lemony finished? The next text will answer these questions through my other hypothesis.

[littlestsnicket]

“Enough,” Dewey interrupted gently, putting a hand on Klaus's shoulder. “You're noble enough, Baudelaires. That's all we can ask for in this world.”

if I think about this too much, it’s going to make me cry. for multiple reasons.

[littlestsnicket]

yes, this is heartbreaking!!

i’m not sure about the last bit with justice strauss though. i think there’s a larger element of justice strauss not trusting the baudelaires. they are willing to forgive her for her failures but she cannot forgive the baudelaires for how the world has changed them. she shows the baudelaires that she is another authority figure that refuses to listen and, for all her involvement in trying to make things right, hasn’t actually learned anything from the last time she failed to help them.

It's so sad in asoue seeing at the beginning how the baudelaires are so adamant about calling the authorities and trusting that the adults around them will help, when you know that by the end they have lost all hope and trust in anyone but themselves. Especially how at the end of TBB episode they were begging Mr. Poe to let them stay with Justice Strauss to the end of TPP when she offers them exactly what they wanted initially but it's no longer something they have enough trust to accept

[snckt]

in a constant state of questioning when it comes to jacques and the cow assignment. why? lemony mentions at least once the importance in having a partner when you’re in a horse costume — does this not apply when you’re a cow? alternatively , if you do need an accomplice as a cow … who was the co-cow-conspirator? what are the benefits of a cow as opposed to literally any other barnyard animal? why not just a farmer? and like … was driving away … still in the cow disguise … stealing a tractor … was the intention to go inconspicuously or ???

[lyeekha]

juice juice (netflix edition)

[burningphantomsoul]

For Secretary’s Day!

Today is Secretary’s Day, and this post is to pay tribute to the greatest fictional secretary I know: Jacquelyn Sciezka of the ASOUE fandom.

She is now the Duchess of Winnipeg, apparently. 

She was one of the most rational, honorable, and brave members of VFD.

Happy Secretary’s Day!

The world is quiet here.

[lookalivefive]

Idk if anyone has mentioned this before but I like to think that Justice Strauss, back in her horse thief days, was somehow involved in the incident that led to Jacques disguising himself as a cow.

[beatricebidelaire]

JS is to asoue what andrea is to adverbs

[olivia-texts]

I was searching for AirPods and I found ... something