#justice strauss

[lokiprincess]

Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

#my edit #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #asoueedit #tvedit #movietvetc #the baudelaire orphans #the baudelaire children #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #count olaf #esme squalor #justice strauss #lemony snicket #kit snicket #jacques snicket #olivia caliban #the baudelaires #your queue is here!

[aseriesofunfortunatetexts]

asoue + reductress

#justice strauss #jacquelyn scieszka #henchperson of indeterminate gender #larry your waiter #esmé squalor #count olaf #beatrice baudelaire #monty montgomery #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #asoue edit #reductress

[fanonical]

justice strauss: i'm afraid my home isn't very exciting- violet: believe me. we'll take boring. we love boring. boring is GREAT

#A Series of Unfortunate Events #ASoUE #Justice Strauss #Violet Baudelaire

[thermodynamic-comedian]

i cannot stop over-analyzing asoue netflix but guys. do you think that scene in hotel denoument when the baudelaires are trying to get everyone to leave the hotel that all of the side characters' reactions represent their fatal character flaws.

like how olaf's mentors immediately started berating him and calling him a disappointment just because they believed he didn't set the hotel on fire. so their fatal character flaw was cruelty.

and mr. poe and vice principle nero refused to take their blindfolds off, despite the situation, making their fatal character flaw their incompetence, which made them the series' definition of useless adults.

babs and jerome first tried to find a way out, but ended up panicking and staying in one place, so their fatal flaw was cowardice, the original reason neither of them were able to help the baudelaires in the first place.

with esmé and carmelita, it's a little more complicated, since olaf was able to trick esmé because of both her vengefulness and greed (which manifested in her obsession with the sugar bowl), but to some degree it was also about carmelita's stubborness and entitlement (which manifested in her choosing to stay with esmé)

and, finally, justice strauss, who attempts to stop the baudelaires from running away on the roof. i've always interpreted her fatal character flaw as naivety; she believes that all problems can be solved without breaking any rules. she trusts the system too much, which is why she couldn't ever fully understand what the baudelaires were going through, and that they really did not have a choice.

overall, this scene is so important to the story, because it's the exit of all of these characters. it's the last time we see any of them. that's why these negative character traits of theirs were put in the spotlight for this scene; even though these characteristics are flaws so fatal they literally end up being the characters' dooms, they're still aspects of the characters we need to remember in order to understand why nothing went right in the lives of the baudelaires: all of these characters were too cruel or incompetent or cowardly or greedy or arrogent or naive...to be able to help them.

so, as tragic as it is, all these characters end up dying (literally or metaphorically) because of the same flaws that made them useless to the baudelaires in the first place.

#ohh boy everybody watch out frey is having asoue thoughts....again.....like always....[sigh] #in my universe none of them died and they all escaped dont ask how. if i close my eyes i can ignore the canon and all its implications <2 #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #asoue netflix #hotel denoument #snicketverse #lemony snicket #justice strauss #asoue babs #jerome squalor #arthur poe #mr poe #vice principle nero #esmé squalor #carmelita spats #count olaf #fritz rambles too much

[emmettverhoogen]

book esmé already knew that the hotel denouement would have to be burned down (they went there for that in the first place); netflix esmé didn't know anything about burning down the last safe place, nor did she hesitate to believe olaf's words

book esmé was blindfolded in the second floor; netflix esmé was in the sixth, not blindfolded

book esmé could either go down the stairs or jump out of the windows; netflix esmé could've found out about the fire midway and gone down to the ground floor instead of the laundry room

in short, she is alive (the beatrice letters is proof enough) and the fact that justice strauss managed to escape death (netflix!canon bc in the books she's definitely dead) by going down the roof to stay outside the hotel makes it possible for literally everyone who was inside the hotel to have survived

#esmé squalor #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #asoue netflix #justice strauss #the penultimate peril #the beatrice letters

[drowninginredink]

Any aro/aro-spec hcs for asoue? :)

Yes! Absolutely! Let's go in order from most to least canon!

Lemony Snicket is the most demiromantic and demisexual character to have ever existed and I don't need to say anything else about that.

Montgomery Montgomery literally said "I always meant to find a wife and start a family, but it just keep slipping my mind." That is the single most aro thing I have ever heard.

Similarly, I do not remember what the exact quote is for this one, but Justice Strauss has never married because her one true love is the law. I hate Justice Strauss but that is pretty solid proof that she's aro.

Bertrand Baudelaire. I love aro Bertrand so much. I've got a post about a particular way aroace Bertrand could play out, but like, even if we aren't going with that version of events, I still love aro Bertrand. Aroallo, aroace, just aro, whatever. I love the idea that he was Beatrice's aro best friend that she ended up marrying when romance proved to be too risky in their field.

I really love the idea of Kit as aro (allo) and Dewey was the one relationship she was really able to feel comfortable in. I mean she's probably more aro-spec than aro, but I don't feel like she's a microlabel person. Her and Dewey's relationship is officially romantic, but there's something of a QPR-esque understanding between them. Also they are the most bi4bi couple I have ever seen. Kit is polyamorous and Dewey is monogamous but is totally fine with her having relationships outside of theirs. Look, I know no one ever likes the canon ships in anything, but I really love Kit and Dewey and have spent a lot of time thinking about them and have written almost 4k words of a Kit/Dewey fic I'll probably never finish but do really like.

I have no actual reason that Fernald is aroallo except that I say so and one day I want to write a fic about him and Kit in a situationship. But. He is. He is alloaro and that's the truth.

As for the Baudelaires, I don't have any solid orientation headcanons for them. The answer is usually "I don't care" unless I'm writing a fic where being queer makes them more interesting (shout-out to that lesbian Violet fic I wrote that's on FFN and one day I'll completely overhaul and put on AO3). That said, I do absolutely see Violet and Klaus as not getting into romantic relationships at the very least until after Beatrice and Sunny are adults, because they'd rather stay together as their own family unit, if they ever get into them at all. I see Violet and Klaus staying together even after Sunny and Bea move out and have their own lives. I think they would just rather have each other around than anyone else. Does that make them aro? Not necessarily. Plenty of alloromantic people never get married/have long-term partners, and plenty of aromantics do. But I still think it bears mentioning here. (Sorry to everyone who thinks they'll join back up and get together with the Quagmire they prefer to ship them with, but uh... yeah no, I don't think they see the Quagmires ever again)

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue #snicketverse #montegomery montegomery #justice strauss #bertrand baudelaire #kit snicket #fernald asoue #the baudelaire children #the baudelaires #aro headcanon #aro headcanons

[greengrasscolor]

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue #polls #girlboss #justice strauss #sunny baudelaire #isadora quagmire #violet baudelaire #kit snicket #esmé squalor #carmelita spats

[arrogance-entwined]

Court Room ASOUE AU:

Justice Strauss: Count Olaf, how do you plead?

Count Olaf: Your Honor, Esmé and I will be performing our rendition of the Cell Block Tango.

#asoue #eslaf #count olaf #esme squalor #text #a series of unfortunate events #aseriesofunfortunateevents #esmesqualor #countolaf #incorrect quotes #esmé squalor #netflix series #Chicago #cell block tango #lucy punch #neilpatrickharris #neil patrick harris #lucypunch #nph #justice strauss

[a-series-of-fluff-events]

Side-blog for Lemony Snicket's ASOUE (will add the other books when I read them, which is hopefully soon), centring on giving our characters a well-deserved happy ending.

Maybe angst, maybe not, but I'm going to make the Baudelaire children happy, along with a few AUs, memes and Headcanons!

Btw, Free Palestine.

#a series of unfortunate events #a series of unfortunate quotes #count olaf #klaus baudelaire #violet baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #beatrice baudelaire #bertrand baudelaire #josephine anwhistle #captain widdershins #justice strauss #esme squalor #jerome squalor #hooky #carmelita spats #kit snicket #jacques snicket #lemony snicket #uncle monty #sir #mr poe #free palastine #quagmire triplets #isadora quagmire #duncan quagmire #quigley quagmire

[library-child]

An ASOUE AU where Justice Strauss is the real villain

Oh, this is brilliant. Imagine her kindness and naivety being only a facade to hide her evil mastermind...

She has fooled the Sinister Duo into thinking she trusts them completely, but in reality, she tricks them into providing her with valuable information, not vice versa.

She knows Count Olaf's plan to steal the Baudelaire fortune and helps him via the Sinister Duo. If he succeeds, she plans to murder him and seize the fortune for herself. Olaf, arrogant, attention-seeking and intoxicated by his victory, will be much easier to take down than the clever, resourceful Baudelaires.

Her real motive for coming to the Hotel Denouement is to pursue Mrs. Bass, who has stolen the Baudelaire fortune.

The poisonous plant involved in her current case in TBB grows in her own garden.

She hides notes on her evil plans in her law books because she knows they're so boring no visitor will ever read them.

#justice strauss #a series of unfortunate events #au #au game

[toolazytodecide]

#justice strauss #ASOUE #a series of unfortunate events #jacques snicket #jerome squalor #see idk who will win this #there seems to be a small fandom really into the prequel characters especislly jacques #but so far the characters from the first books have had an advantage #probably because of people who never finished the TV show or books or only saw the movie

[aseriesofunfortunatetexts]

asoue + tumblr text posts

#count olaf #lemony snicket #esmé squalor #justice strauss #jacques snicket #sunny baudelaire #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #asoue edit #text post meme

[unfortunatetheorist]

DOUBLE Quote Debunk (5 & 6): The Debunk-ly Hallows

"Because you'll be in prison!" ¬ J.S.

...but who, you ask, is 'J.S.' ?

In fact, to fully debunk this quote, we must first refer to the context it has, on both occasions:

J.S. refers to:

Jacquelyn Scieszka

Justice Strauss

And what comes before is very important - Olaf's words, ON BOTH OCCASIONS:

The Wide Window:

O: "Why would I be eating in a prison cafeteria?"

J.S: "Because you'll be in prison!"

The Penultimate Peril:

O: "Why would I change my mailing address to 'Prison'?"

J.S: "Because you'll be in prison!"

Here's my take on it, though it may be considered obvious:

THEORY: The dialogue from TWW was supposed to foreshadow Olaf's temporary jailing in TVV, and the dialogue in TPP was supposed to call back to this, and also hint at the rigged trial.

Every time, Olaf asks them. To quote Klaus,

"We [both] know he's not THAT good of an actor; something's wrong."

So he asks them out of genuine curiosity - he knows he's going to get off scot-free, confirmed from TSS-TPP as The Duo are going to help him out of it, as they see the potential powerhouse of Olaf and Esmé being a couple, despite their Very Frank Dissatisfaction with Olaf. They see Olaf associating himself with the rich and famous, rather than Esmé associating herself with the fire-starting side of the schism once again.

Also, the volunteer to reply is always J.S. - indicating that Olaf knows something they don't, particularly in the case of Justice Strauss.

(A little more on The Sinister Duo coming soon...)

¬Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

#asoue #vfd #a series of unfortunate events #asoue netflix #lemony snicket #snicketverse #theory #esme squalor #count olaf #the baudelaires #j.s. #sugar bowl #the penultimate peril #jacquelyn scieszka #justice strauss

[californiaispurple]

WOEVEMBER DAY 3: THE CITY

[Image description: Two panels are present on the left side of the image on top of one big panel. The first upper left panel depicts Jerome Squalor and Justice Strauss smiling, if a little tired. The bottom left panel depicts the Baudelaire siblings smiling back in hotel uniforms as both people reach out their hands. The big image depicts the Baudelaire orphans in a boat, far into sea, as they watch Hotel Denouement burn in the distance, smoke billowing out into the sky. End description.]

the safe place is no more

for @asouefanworkevent !

funnily enough, this was the first book of the series i read

what i remember most is that brief flicker of hope everything's going to be okay when jerome squalor and justice strauss appeared

maybe, just maybe, they'd all be able to live together

and then, in typical asoue, it all came tumbling down

#ahaha this is totally late #i was looking forward to the unseen characters one too! #but regardless tis fun #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #woevember #jerome squalor #justice strauss #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #the penultimate peril #olaf is there too he's just laying down

[noelletism]

broke J.S: Jacques Snicket

woke J.S: Justice Strauss

bespoke J.S: Jesus Shrist

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #jacques snicket #justice strauss

[pokekumo]

"That can't be!" said a voice from the audi ence, and Klaus recognized it as the voice of Mr. Poe. He ran up the stairs to the stage and took the document from Justice Strauss. "This is dreadful nonsense."  "I'm afraid this dreadful nonsense is the law," Justice Strauss said. 

Source: The Bad Beginning by Daniel Handler

#booklog #booklover #book quotes #bookworm #a series of unfortunate events #a series of unfortunate quotes #the bad beginning #daniel handler #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #lemony snicket #justice strauss