Maybe I'm just a sentimental fool but sometimes I think too hard about the Baudelaire's parents, and all their peers in VFD before the schism, even Olaf, going on missions together and gathering for dinners and defending each other in fights and bickering during a stakeout and my entire brain just goes :(
Olaf putting out fires and doing good work with Jacques and Kit and the others. The others listening to him play piano (because genuinely? He was good at it in the show.) Lemony being everyone's collective friend that constantly needs to be stopped from starting a soliloquy every time they're out anywhere. Esme being well-intentioned, if a bit egotistical, and using her penchant for blending in with high society to gather important information. Monty bringing his iguana to group meetings sometimes, and teaching certain other members how to take care of his reptiles temporarily when he needed to leave the house for longer periods of time- keeping guest rooms ready in the house. Beatrice inventing a way to patch up Lemony's typewriter when he drags it along on a mission and it gets damaged. Kit and Olaf using empty safe places to slack off a little and relax in-between missions, when they need a moment to take things less seriously. Group musical theatre nights. Beach visits. Theme park attendance. Vacations, even.
Thinking about them all together, bonded by good intentions, shared secrets and common interests kills me inside </3
BRO???
how do i make a milf i have literally no idea-
welp folks that's gonna be it for today, i tried (also i forgot it should be partially based on me and now the result has nothing to do with my appearance lmao)
no idea who to tag, whoever sees this is free to join- btw, lita, i'd love to be in a movie w you too :)
Let's all be in a TV show!!!
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was going through my asoue tag yesterday (of posts iâve reblogged, not my own posts) and found the post about klaus thinking even years later that he shouldâve done something to help uncle monty and prevent his death and how important and heavy and terrible that guilt is and i was reading my tags on it and wanted to make them into a bigger post bc like, this really is heartbreaking, and so is reptile room in general
reptile room is such an important book!! bad beginning sets up olaf and his desire for the baudelaire fortune (and general abuse), but reptile room is the one that creates the set up for the rest of the books â new guardian (or new circumstances), olaf eventually appears â and is the first time it happens!! the kids go from suddenly losing their parents, to getting olaf, whoâs a terrible, abusive person, to then getting a new guardian, whoâs, nice. monty is still, incredibly misguided and a well-meaning but ultimately useless adult, because he doesnât recognize olaf and focuses more on the herpetological society than baudelaires telling him olaf is a threat, but heâs also still a good person, and heâs the first good, kind, decent person the baudelaires meet after losing their parents.
he gives them their own rooms, with things he knows theyâll like, and he lets them be involved in his life and work and help prepare for the trip to peru. (this is also assuming that peru was not vfd-related, which i donât think it was.) he makes them feel important and needed for themselves, not for the money theyâll one day have. he gives them a home, a safe place, somewhere theyâre cared for, by someone who genuinely cares about them. itâs not like being at home with their parents, because nothing is going to compare to that, but itâs close. especially after living with someone like olaf, who hit klaus, locked sunny in a cage, tried to marry violet. and in no other book do they have the opportunity to be as comfortable and safe and cared for as they are with monty in the reptile room. (josephineâs fear prevents her from really being a parent and connecting with them, sir makes them do child labor, nero doesnât care about his students and puts the kids in the orphan shack, esme and jerome are, esme and jerome, the vfd village also treats them as child labor, after that theyâre on their own and the adults they meet still canât do anything to really help. even deweyâs offer of the kids staying at the hotel falls flat in the face of, it is a vfd hotel, and even as neutral territory and âthe last safe placeâ itâs never going to be completely safe. the only place they have ever been remotely as safe as they were in their parentâs house is with monty.)
(and especially in the way that monty isnât just montgomery montgomery, heâs introduced as uncle monty. itâs unlikely that he really was related to beatrice and bertrand, but heâs considered family.)
and then olaf comes back. and he corrupts that safety, and murders monty.
and itâs like the baudelaires lose their parents all over again. but this time, it was supposed to be different!! because before, when the fire killed their parents, they werenât home, they were at briny beach. but now!! this time they were home!! this time they were there!! they were with a guardian who was family and like a parent and supposed to protect them, and the baudelaires could protect him, too!! and they were there when monty was murdered and just didnât know!!! this kind of loss wasnât supposed to happen again but it did! of course klaus would still think even years and years later that he shouldâve done something, because he feels directly responsible for this loss that wasnât, by any stretch of the imagination, supposed to happen a second time!!
and thereâs no way he couldâve possibly changed anything about how it played out. olaf wouldâve murdered monty eventually no matter what, because monty was in his way, and olaf was always going to do it in a way no one could interfere with. even if klaus had called out to the taxi driver to take olaf away when he arrived as stephano, likely nothing wouldâve happened. but klausâ survivors guilt exists and stays with him because itâs a horrifying loss that he blames himself for, because he was there, and monty was alive and then he wasnât, and thereâs proof this time, thereâs a body this time, thereâs a house that remains that didnât burn down that klaus was in, montyâs possessions are left behind, his peaches are still there, such tangible things that only reinforce what was lost and wasnât supposed to be lost this time. klaus is twelve years old and just lost his parents and then lost the only other adult who couldâve come close to them. (and itâs not going to stop there, but how this loss functions first in bb/rr specifically is pivotal)
and that trauma never stops! ideally he should know better as an adult, that it was never his responsibility to save monty, or his parents, and there was nothing he could do, but he still thinks it was because they were so close and so similar. itâs heartbreaking that even some time later klaus canât stop re-imagining what he couldâve done differently
Some time ago I found a Kit x Ellington fanfic on accident and the idea has also stuck with me...
someone help me i hust had a bright vivid idea of kit and ellington being a couple and i cant i wont get it out⌠but i kinda like it⌠uunnnghhhh
âYou donât lug a typewriter around for years without growing a few muscles, Snicket.â
- Moxie Mallahan, Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights? One of my favorite characters from Lemony Snicketâs All the Wrong Questions series, which I just finished reading. The ending was really sad and dark and excellent. Snicketâs work doesnât have nearly enough fanart, so I thought Iâd amend that.
Moxie Mallahan is the last journalist in Stainâd-By-The-Sea, a town that used to be on the sea until the sea dried up to save the Ink industry, but now thatâs dried up too and if Lemony Snicket and his associates donât do something, so will the town. Moxie is Snicketâs first associate and pretty much was alwasy my favorite. I have a soft spot for newsies.
I play to do three more of these; one for Ellington, one for Snicket, and one for Hangfire.
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[½ dedications] â The Austere Academy
ma meilleure ennemie is so lemony and ellington coded
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