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I fucking KNEW they wouldnt show guillermo or freddie or nandor in the trailer for next week's episode lmao....this is just like the pine barrens episode. they cant show anything from the actual story relevant plot becuase it would give away too much. we are absolutely fucked you guys the freddie plot is gonna kill us i'm so serious there's no other reason why they wouldnt gvie us anything in the preview

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We need this

lmao it is kind of funny thinking about how marwa's "feelings" for guillermo might progress considering she's got all of Nandor's repressed desire without the need to repress, like im giggling at the concept of her gazing dreamily at him doing something routine, telling him he has the prettiest eyes and biggest muscles or something looool and then Nandor gets 'jealous' and demands the djinn explain why Marwa seems far more enamored with guillermo than him and the djinn does his usual look over the rim of his glasses and flatly reminds him "she likes what you like. remember?" and nandor initially rejects this because "she's practically humping his leg" and djinn stare intensifies until nandor either starts to cave or just runs out the room and off-camera, 50/50 chance of either there

#wwdits spoilers #nandermo

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Nandor: hi, is this Panera Bread?

Guillermo suddenly feeling like he just did 24 bong hits in a row and dunked himself in an ice bath:

#wwdits #nandermo #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #wwdits spoilers #pine barrens

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Nadja actually does care about Guillermo, even if she’s no where near ready to admit it. Because when she walked in on Guillermo’s and his family’s dinner, she had literally no motive or reason to play along and pretend SHE, a VAMPIRE, was the girlfriend and maid to some FAMILIAR, unless she cared about Guillermo and wanted to help him <3 and then there’s the scene where she spares his family’s lives (who are trying to kill her) because she “knows what’s it’s like to lose your family”. Really just because she cares about her friend. I mean, since when is Nadja merciful with others?

#wwdits spoilers #nadja of antipaxos #nadja and guillermo #guillermo de la cruz

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harvey confirming once and for all that marwa likes what nandor likes. okay. okay

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i like what he likes!

#wwdits #wwdits spoilers #wwdits fanart #nandermo #digital art

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LMAOOOO

The Djinn gifted Nandor three additional wishes as a wedding gift because he too is too invested in the Nandermo drama to leave

#the djinn #djinn wwdits #wwdits #wwdits spoilers #wwdits s4 #nandermo #what we do in the shadows #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #nandor x guillermo

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“Nandor has been on a journey, and he’s been looking for something that’s been under his nose, the whole time. The more he searches for that, the more he has an inkling that he’s already found it. That’s his relationship with Guillermo.” — KAYVAN NOVAK

#what we do in the shadows #wwditsedit #wwdits #nandermo #nandermoedit #nandor x guillermo #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz

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As sexy and delightful as the fight was, I'm honestly bracing myself for some heavy-ass Guillermo stuff in the back half of the season. He's going to start questioning everything about who he is and who he wants to be, in ways we probably can't even fully guess yet.

- Laszlo didn't just drag him to England, Nadja clearly dragged him back. And that's HUGE. Guillermo was convinced to stay but a major part of his life with the vampires is how he was never a prisoner. He left, but it was always his decision to come back. And in this case he was torn away from a different life by force, even if he found reasons to stick around.

- "I love you" like holy shit he's not just dating this guy, either it's SERIOUS or he's trying to make it serious. How easily could he get an 'I love you' from either the vampires or his bio family? And he was forced away from THAT in England too.

- everything coming to the surface as he coparents Colin, which addresses his own neglected childhood and probably a lot of the things that led to him wanting to be a vampire in the first place

- the way he still seems to identify with familiars and was so loath to hurt even people who were aggressive towards him during the familiar fights. Even after everything Guillermo doesn't want anything to do with the harsher aspects of this world if he can help it. And yet he does need to stand up for himself in ways that go beyond Nandor and 'his' vampires and Nandor has started to encourage that, but will he ever really be accepted? How's all that going to impact his vampire prospects?

- AND we've got his bio family and his sexuality and more about his human boyfriend coming down the pipeline. And Harvey's hinted that all that shit is gonna be intense.

I think for Guillermo to really, properly work as a character he has to love this world, and love these people, and want to be part of it all. And then fight his way upward and earn every bit of that.

So being forced away from it for a bit, to confront the possibility of a human life and whether that would be better for him, is a necessary question but one that's going to be painful no matter how it's answered. And that's probably gonna hit him just as it's hitting Nandor that he loves this person more than anyone else in the world. And it's going to strike them both with the force of a semi truck.

I'm ready for the pain but fuck am I scared, fam. In the best/worst way. Get your covers of Fleetwood Mac's Landslide at the ready.

#fandom: wwdits #otp: nandermo #what we do in the shadows #guillermo de la cruz

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Oh, Nandor. Time to try and rattle your head around again so I can figure out that weird little brain of yours.

There are so many things to say about 4.04, and I feel like over the next week I will end up saying them, but what I keep coming back to is the very weird way that Nandor thinks of Guillermo here. Or rather… doesn’t think of Guillermo.

1. He does not think of Guillermo as a normal familiar. He just takes it for granted that Guillermo could kill any familiar there (and probably all of the vampires, too), and doesn’t seem worried at all that Guillermo might possibly lose or get hurt. He listens to Guillermo’s plans and worries (particularly when he has to fight the vampire champion) and he acquiesces to Guillermo’s initial refusal in front of other vampires until he gets all het up over the perceived insult towards him and Guillermo. Like he straight-up allowed his familiar to tell him no in front of other vampires! That’s crazy!

(Side note: He used almost identical phrasing here as he did when Guillermo killed Carol, saying that he wasn’t worried about Guillermo! He just didn’t want Guillermo’s murder to reflect badly on him! Here he’s not upset that they’re insulting Guillermo! He just thinks it’ll reflect badly on him! Yeah, okay, you can tell me you’re not being protective and reactionary all you want. I didn’t believe you then and I don’t believe you now.)

2. He does not think of Guillermo as a normal and mortal human. Now, this one has come up a few times in the past, most blatantly in the super slumber ep. It’s like his brain slides away from acknowledging Guillermo’s mortality. He knows Guillermo is a human. He knows humans die. But he will not think about Guillermo’s ability to die. He never once even considered that Guillermo might lose a fight and that Nandor might lose him. It’s just a non-starter in his mind… until he pushes Guillermo off that balcony and he doesn’t immediately get up. You can see it, that creeping knowledge, that slow realization, the mounting anxiety as he realizes – holy shit. I may have killed my friend. Guillermo can die.

3. He does not think of Guillermo as a normal vampire slayer. He even says it himself – he forgets that about him sometimes. He’s weirdly proud of Guillermo’s fighting abilities and he’s more than aware that Guillermo uses them to kill vampires. But it’s hard for him to conceptualize Guillermo as a vampire killer. Because, you know, Guillermo is… Guillermo. His familiar. His comrade. His soldier. His best friend. Guillermo would never hurt him, and vampire slayers would. Up until this episode, I’m not sure Nandor had ever fully accepted that Guillermo could hurt him. But he knows it now.

And that’s what I’m leading up to here. Nandor has all of these things that he refuses to think about with Guillermo, but those illusions have just been jarred severely, if not broken entirely. He’s assigned Guillermo this very nebulous role in his mind that he still calls familiar, but he obviously doesn’t actually think of him as a familiar anymore. Like… we almost never see Guillermo even doing familiar shit anymore. Nandor never even considered telling Guillermo to identify himself as his human familiar, despite human familiars obviously being welcome in the Night Market. He made up some weird lie about an orc instead. Weird move, Nandor!

So then Nandor gets into this familiar fight club and tries to push Guillermo into the most familiar-y role of all, though I’m not sure he’s consciously thinking of it like that. I keep joking about it, but it’s true. This man is trying to order him around like a goddamn pokemon! He’s trying to assert a vampire’s right to rule over his own familiar’s body, life, and death. And Guillermo takes that from him in a brutal and very public way. Nandor can no longer ignore that Guillermo is absolutely not subservient to him anymore. Guillermo is no longer a true familiar.

He also was forced to confront his weird illusions about Guillermo’s mortality. He went into this as weird as he always is about Guillermo’s perceived immortality (which he has neglected to give him, might I add, whole other essay there) and just… refused to even think about the possibility that Guillermo could die or even get seriously injured here. He really does seem to think of Guillermo as invulnerable… because he has to. His brain will not let him think about the possibility of Guillermo dying. 

Until Guillermo didn’t get up. Like wow, you could really start to see dark and potent reality starting to leak into that silly little brain of his. And like… for a second, there was real fear there. Nandor was no longer able to ignore Guillermo’s potential mortality, either. Guillermo can die.

Finally, Nandor had to confront the fact that Guillermo is a literal vampire killer, and he could kill Nandor if he so chose. Nandor seemed to be laboring under the delusion that he let Guillermo win last time, and Guillermo put that one the fuck to bed, didn’t he? Guillermo just proved spectacularly and without doubt that his tiny body is made for killing vampires – Nandor included. Nandor can no longer ignore that Guillermo can – but, and this is key, won’t – kill him. Guillermo is a slayer.

Up until this point, Nandor has been clinging to the last vestiges of normalcy that they had between them. He was holding onto their old roles, refusing to acknowledge that it was a bit like grabbing onto the shed skin of a snake. That shit is brittle as hell, Nandor, and hell if it didn’t just break! I think it was sort of those broken illusions that had him so beaten down at the end of the fight. Yes, he felt embarrassed to be beaten by a “familiar”. But I think he was also upset to lose the illusions he’d been clinging to. The very foundation of his life has been rocked.

And sure, they managed to push past it for the sake of getting out of there. But Guillermo’s got to be mad at him, and Nandor’s got to be trying to figure out how to build those illusions back up. (He’s so fucking good at rebuilding mental walls.) I suspect he’ll just try not to think about it like he’s been trying not to think about it for years. But things are coming to a head, I think, and I don’t know how much longer he’ll be able to ignore it.

And, for that matter, I think he won’t be able to ignore what a bad fucking idea this wedding clearly is, either. All of Nandor’s carefully-built illusions are starting to crumble before him, and we all know how Nandor gets when he doesn’t know what to do with himself…

This is long as hell so I’ll cut myself off here but like! It’s so fascinating to see the world that Nandor has carefully constructed in his mind! The world he intends to live in! It’s so crazy to see him forcibly pulled into reality! Because Nandor is one of the worst characters at acknowledging reality that I’ve seen in a long, long time! And I don’t think he’s gonna have a good time with it!

*puts Nandor’s head down* okay I’m done

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i know that i ended it, but... why won't you chase after me ?

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oh they're going to hell for this

#wwdits spoilers #wwdits #guillermo de la cruz #nandor the relentless #nandermo #what we do in the shadows

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That’s his fucking guy!!!

#what we do in the shadows #wwdits #wwditsedit #nandermo #guillermo de la cruz #nandor the relentless

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WWDITS S4 Ep 4 Promo Picture

NOT NANDERMO NEXT TO THE “LOVE AT FIRST BITE” SUBWAY AD I’M,

#OHHHH!!! #I can’t wait for the next episode tomorrow #ugh I love this slow burn #nandermo #wwdits fx #wwdits season 4

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS | 4.03 “The Grand Opening”

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You play "Guillermo let the Dick Curse™ happen", I one-up you with "Nandor intentionally got himself cursed so he'd have an excuse as to why he isn't sexually attracted to Marwa and also can't stop thinking about Guillermo"

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Aaaaaaa I SEE WHAT THEYRE DOING

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