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ah yes the two genders, tap-dancing ballerina fairy-princess veterinarian and ball-playing cowboy superhero soldier pirate

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anyone else love a character so much you end up in their job (i started at a library a couple weeks ago)

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Sunny kind of like a labubu

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Professor says “The Schism” my head jerks up like a sleeper agent

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Vivi Hollow

Fiona Widdershins

Dewey Denouement

Amélie Poulain

Rocket Raccoon

Lola Leung

Iris Hollow

Natasha Romanoff

Gigi Ghorbani

Scout Finch

@vaguely-functional-directions @lesbianscieszka @lesbian-in-leather

New tag game! Pick a character for each letter of your username, and tag five people.

Roy Mustang

Anakin Skywalker

Isildur

Nancy Blackett

Isgrimnur (Duke)

Nina Tucker

Timothy Kavanaugh

Harry Potter

Edward Elric

Edmund Pevensie

Violet Alden

Éomer

Nakia

Isadora Brown

Nori

Greg Lestrade

Tagging @novelmonger @kraytwriter @wispsofwhimsy @thetreasurechest @secretwriter-studentjaune

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please list ALL your jacques / olivia. specifically the ones we’ve never heard of. idc if it goes passes the word limit just KEEP GOING THROUGH SHEER DETERMINATION FOR JACQUES X OLIVIA I LOVE THEM

OKAY OKAY I have an ask from an anon in my inbox from a whiiile ago asking for spicy j/o headcanons but ive been in frustratingly bad headspace lately and I havent been able to get around to it — but I’m gonna answer those in tandem and tag you when I can!!

(also I gotta say it might be super ooc because they’re Mine Now. And also i ranted waaayy much with @artements a while ago and now whatever version we’ve managed to create of J/O lives in my head rent-free)

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YOU ASKED ME TO DRAW JACQUES / OLIVIA CUDDLING LIKE A MILLION YEARS AGO AND I FINISHED IT (with extra treats) ‼️‼️ i drew the top left one recently and the others a while ago and WOW you can see the difference in style but i’m happy yEAHhh

SPARROW …… DO YOU WANT MY FIRSTBORN ……….

LOOK!!! AT MY BABIES!!! look at themmm cuddling with their boooooks and Livy’s so tiiinyyy next to J and HE CARRIES HER??!?! this is So cute that im incoherent. Shdsmkskddl little cheek kiss <333

also top left he is NOT looking with that adoration at the book thats for sure … eyes trained on his wife at all times

THANK YOU I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

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save me jacques snicket’s brandy

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knew what it was before i even zoomed in, pinterests knows me too well

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a cute detail i noticed at the start of the asoue show is that throughout the series adults around the baudelaires are constantly saying large or uncommon words and immediately ending their sentence with "_____ means _______", to which the baudelaires always respond with "we know what ____ means" it's memorable, a good representation of the condescending nature of the adults in their lives. when they first meet justice strauss, however, she doesn't talk over them. she uses the word mitzvah and then turns to them and asks "do you know what that word means?" its a subtle detail but it's sweet because it showed that yes for all of her faults justice strauss still respects the children, and treats them as intelligent people while also being mindful of the fact that they might not know everything.

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Callout post for Lemony Snicket, who claims to like librarians but keeps killing them off in his books

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happy pride month to sunny baudelaire meeting isadora quagmire and immediately clocking her as gay

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"I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong."

Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

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Associates...

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God A Series of Unfortunate Events makes me sick. It’s the perfect Rube Goldberg machine of tragedy, particularly in the show. So many near misses, so many ships passing in the night. If people had just listened to the children, if Justice Strous had recognized the bruise for what it was, if Monty had taken them to Peru a little sooner or Jaqueline had gotten involved, if Josephine hadn’t eaten that banana, if Charles had stood up for them at the Miserable Mill, if they had yanked off Olaf’s Turban or the Quagmires didn’t hide in the library, if Jerome had protected them from Esme, if Jacque and Olivia checked the secret tunnel for the Quagmires, if the children waited to confirm the man above the tunnel was Olaf, if they bid on the right listing in the catalogue, if Olivia didn’t leave in the taxi or Jacques didn’t walk into a trap or Jacqueline and Larry got there sooner, if the villagers realized Esme had a mechanical device before she started shooting, if Klaus and Sunny lingered in the break room of the hospital, if Olivia went to them the first night and they got the cart fixed sooner, if she never allowed the lion out in the first place, if she blinded Olaf before he could the rope, if the carnival folks didn’t turn on them, if they had only gotten into that taxi with Lemony Snicket, if they’d pushed Olaf off the boat, IF ONE FUCKING PERSON HAD ARRIVED PROPERLY PREPARED IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT ANY POINT THEY WOULD HAVE SAVED THOSE KIDS SO MUCH TRAGEDY!!!

But that’s the point. It tells you over and over again that this is a miserable story that ends miserably. There won’t be a happy ending. You want so badly for there to be a happy ending for these remarkable characters who deserve so much better.

There isn’t. Not once. There is no happy ending, not here and not now.