#count olaf

i lied put your clothes back on. i’m going to explain to you how the entirety of a series of unfortunate events was meant to explain the foster care system to young children and how mr. poe symbolizes every adult who doesn’t believe abused children and instead falls for the facades that the abuser puts on in order to maintain a sense of innocence

my feelings on count olaf are very complex. I think about him and kit snicket and la forza del destino and i'm like 'wow, he's such a complicated and tragic character! vfd turned him into a tortured, torturing shell of a man fixated on revenge, but even in his depravity, there is still a faint glimmer of humanity. things could have been different for him, in a better world, but that's not how the story goes'. and then I think about him and violet baudelaire and i'm like 'he needs to be repeatedly hit with tiny hammers until he is dead'

Just saw someone point out that Sunny Baudelaire probably knew more about Olaf than her own parents

fandom so small we fit in a rickety trolley

thinking about how at the end of penultimate peril pt. one when the baudelaire children are trying to stop count olaf from shooting the harpoon gun and they say "you dont have to do this" and he looks at them with defeat in his eyes and tells them "its all i know how to do" because this story is written before they can even live it out and and of course violet, klaus, and sunny are doomed by the narrative but for a second you realize that so is count olaf.