you clever little things

thinking about josephine. I don’t think I ever fully appreciated just how unbelievably tragic she is before rereading tww. once-formidable josephine, who nevertheless lemony knew as someone who was quite “careful” — so perhaps brave, but never reckless, always somewhat calculating danger — rendered totally paralysed by fear after her husband’s tragic death, which showed her the fragility of life and the real fact of her own mortality. josephine who grew up exploring lake lachrymose, knew all its beaches and islands and caves, but cannot even bear to stand on the shore when she gets older because of what happened to ike. josephine who would once have been the kind of woman who would have protected the baudelaires at all costs, and is reduced to the kind of woman who would rather hide in a cave all her life and, if necessary, hand the children over to a terrible man despite knowing the danger it would put them in. losing ike really ruined the rest of her life and acted as the catalyst that made her so painfully afraid of things she had once loved. like ouch

dead wife montage but it's a henchman reminiscing about da boss after he got put six feet under. picking flowers before hiding the bodies, wiping cocaine from your nose after a big night, that long drive down the beach to find the bookie who squealed. where did the days go

fernald (aka hook-handed man aka hookie) is 100% doing this with count olaf

how am I gonna be an optometrist about this

I really wish fandom would distinguish more between found family and … y’know, having friends.

Venn diagram that’s overlapping circles of “found family”, “having friends” and “oh no this is a cult”.