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awhimproned · 8 months

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you don't understand guillermo and his arc

have i got your attention?

hello, my name is nia, and welcome to me opening a blog solely for the sake of yelling into the void my analysis/meta of the haha hehe silly vampire show.

Small introduction/index right before beginning:

Spoilers for s5 finale!

Re-framing of what wwdits is really about and setting the record straight as what to expect and what not to be angry about.

Discussing how Guillermo's arc of letting go of his vampirism isn't, in fact, a let down or a missed opportunity and quite the opposite, is in character for him, in line with his character arc, and wasn't "all for nothing".

Long ass post (not exaggerating), so click "read more" and buckle up. Here we go.

I have to start this by reiterating that first and foremost, this is a batshit insane comedy show with batshit insane, morally bankrupt (yet endearing) and complex characters. It's not interested in telling a story or a plot, it's not interested in being pretentiously deep, and I say that for the people who can't really come to terms with the format and that the show is going nowhere, because it's not supposed to be going anywhere, it's just the daily lives of vampires and their little adventures and sometimes struggles. In a weird way, it's slice of life.

This show isn't like Good Omens or Our Flag Means Death in which you're concerned with an overarching plot. Even season 4 and 5 seem to look like it has an overarching plot, the term you're looking for is contained theme of the season. It's like "villain of the week" format. Only for the seasons. S1 we had the baron, s2 we had vampire slayer guillermo, s3 we had the vampire council, s4 we had nadja's night club, s5 we had vampire guillermo -- and these are just very broad summaries.

There ISNT an overarching plot, it's the character arcs that are starting to pick up, which guillermo's is the strongest and most reoccurring.

It's episodic even when there's a theme and plot of a season, and it's meant to be bite-sized and contained and followable. Someone who doesn't know this show can watch one episode from season one and one from season three and it wouldn't be that jarring depending on the episodes, like, the cast were able to answer "what episodes would you recommend to someone who hasn't watched the show" on the tumblr live ask.

The writers and the producers of wwdits are concerned with making you laugh, exploring how insane and unexpected places they can take things with a cast of vampires of the past who haven't quite adapted to the modern times and are devoid of common sense and knowledge most of the time in a mockumentary style. Yes, you know this already, I know, it looks like I'm being patronizing or condescending.

But do you know, really? I'm talking to a certain demographic, so please don't take this personally.

What most of these people consider dropping the show over, like the reasons "nothing changes" or "things go back to the usual and it's getting old" or "they throw ideas away" or "serious stuff gets brushed over so quickly" don't consider that these are often done on purpose.

Half because of the format and that the documentary crew can't be there all the time to capture every little thing and character moments you are naturally given in a normal TV show/movie, and half because it's one of the core themes of the show, that nothing ever really changes and these are centuries old vampires who are so closed off to change. That's the thing. That's what it's all about and that's where all the jokes are stemming from.

In a normal comedy show, you might perhaps see the characters being unhinged together, but you would also get to see their most private and vulnerable moments, (like maybe brooklynn 99), and you take that as granted, it's sometimes spoon-fed through cinematography and what's purposefully caught in camera per director and writer choices.

wwdits follows a very clear show-don't-tell narrative of characters putting on a front for the cameras, and you have to read between the lines more often than not to figure out these unreliable narrators, otherwise you might miss some things and take it at face value.

one example of this in my opinion is the relation between laszlo, baby colin robinson, the bastard children he doesn't like to talk about and the baby he turned into a vampire. the latter is very much played as a joke, the bastards are throw away line by nadja, but when you take baby colin into the picture and how happy it made laszlo to be a father (no matter how questionable), how (questionably) amazing he was at it, and how losing baby colin robinson downright made him grieve and mourn (like. he abandoned nadja to look after this child), you get a clearer picture as to why laszlo might have made a baby into a vampire and why he doesn't like to talk about the children he's fathered. maybe it's because he wanted to be a parent at one point, maybe with a vampire baby he could have a child who wouldn't die. it seems deeper than it was at first glance, the complexity is hidden beneath the layers of vampires being funny assholes.

other times you have to not overthink it and learn to accept some things are purely for shits and giggles. no matter how many levels of fucked up they are on. it's literally no use discussing the morality or how wrong things are. and on a framework such as this, the running gag being characters being left somewhere when their plot-relevance is over (benjy, jim the vampire, derek, the hybrid creatures etc.) shouldn't come off as surprising or lazy writing. because that's it, that's the joke.

This isn't to say this is a get out of the jail free card for not having progression or development.

I'm just saying that the vampires getting into shenanigans and everything being okay in the end despite all the drama is the status quo, and if you're going to have a problem with "sunrise sunset" and are so impatient with the theme of change being explored at a slow pace, then this show is not for you.

You are perfectly welcome to be frustrated with everything resetting, but you also have to know this is what you signed up for. The show is both trying to tell you something using this storytelling device to navigate the inherent cycle of stagnated repetition of the vampires' lives AND showing you that things ARE changing at the end of every season, bit by bit.

It's entirely on you that you don't notice and/or care it wasn't in the way you wanted it to be.

Like what they did with Guillermo.

The consensus of the arguments I've seen on this site consist of:

they finally made him a vampire and took it away from him and it was for nothing

it wasn't explored enough and well-enough

it breaks canon for him to be so squeamish about killing when he's been committing atrocities the whole show and it's a lazy reason to turn him back

nothing came of it. it ruins his character

he should have stayed a vampire it's what he wanted and deserved all along

it doesn't make sense with the narrative, they are writing him so differently now like he suddenly doesnt want to be a vampire? his character arc peaked in s3

First question: have we been watching the same show?

I'm going to walk you through this step by step for analysis sake, bear with me.

Who is Guillermo de la Cruz at the beginning of the show?

He is a fucking loser.

He is a pushover, has no confidence, deep down he's become so twisted from all the resentment and spite built up from being so overlooked, underappreciated and being cast aside. He has no life, he pays to live there as a familiar, his entire life is dedicated to Nandor, he's so tiny, has no presence.

And we establish his main motivation and want: to become a vampire.

But why does he want to be a vampire? Antonio Banderas in Interview with a Vampire. This apparently "inspired Guillermo because he had never seen another Hispanic person onscreen as a vampire". Yes, he projected and self-inserted to Armand, yes we know.

When you look closer, you'll pretty soon understands he craves the power he'll receive once he becomes a vampire. He'll become cooler, "sexier" (like he says that he doesn't feel any sexier when he became a vampire), nobody can look down on him, he can finally be someone, leave the old, pitiful Guillermo behind, it's all he's betting on. He doesn't want to grapple with his problems, the sexuality he represses, the Catholic guilt; he wholeheartedly assumes he'll just be a new person once he becomes a vampire, and for that, he'll do anything. He doesn't want to be a vampire, he wants to be a new, burden-free, hot-girl-eternal summer Guillermo who will demand respect just by existing.

Vampirism is the get out of the jail free card for him. The easy way out of his flaws and insecurities.

There's something called character's want vs. need in writing. What a character wants may not always be what they need. This is perfectly portrayed with Guillermo. Becoming a vampire isn't necessarily what he needs.

What he needs is making peace with himself, growing, acceptance, love, establishing confidence, finding his power -- self-growth.

the problem is he thinks vampirism will automatically give these to him. it couldn't be farther from the truth. this is a typical case of thinking the grass is greener on the other side.

So, naturally, discovering he's a vampire slayer is ruining everything for Guillermo, setting him up against the vampires whom he's trying to be a part of, to be accepted and loved by. It's threatening his found family.

Even though it's the most competent, confident, sexiest, and in element he's ever been in his life. It's what he's best at, when he's doubting himself the least, when he shines the most, the abilities come to him from within.

And he can't allow himself to embrace it. He still thinks vampirism will give him what being a Van Helsing is already giving him. He's gaining his footing, sticking it to the vamps who don't appreciate him where they deserve it, standing up for himself, being sassy and cunty, opening up, GROWING.

Yet he doesn't see it.

He believes he'll be whole once he becomes a vampire. You see him benefit so much from the van helsing genes but not once does he embrace it or actually celebrate his identity, embrace himself and who he is when it's what made him bloom in the first place. HE DOESN'T SEE IT.

He wants to renounce being a vampire slayer. He says it in season 5 to the baron. He full on wants to give up what makes him, him.

Hell, the symbolism of being a vampire slayer getting in the way of his transformation by fighting off the vampirism is so ironic and symbolic at the same time:

He can't find his true self and what his heart truly wants and needs if he doesn't give up the idea of being a fucking vampire. His true self has been within all along.

Guillermo's arc didn't peak in s3, it wasn't even close to being completed, because he hasn't found himself yet, he hasn't accepted himself yet. He hates being a vampire slayer deep down for setting him against the vampires and what he wants to become. Yes, he went through tremendous growth. He was powerful, he gained agency. But it was because THE POWERS VAN HELSING DNA GAVE HIM ON A SILVER PLATE. It wasn't that he accepted it. It wasn't that he found a sense of self in it.

He just got a preview of what he could become, is all. It made him think he was ready to become a vampire. He would never choose to stay a human/vampire slayer before the events of s5, it's always been about the endgame for him.

And it's so sad because Nandor is like. So stoked about vampire slayer Guillermo. He's so proud and giddy about him "being a warrior" because he knows Guillermo better than anyone and just when and how he's at his best. It's just that Guillermo doesn't see it and Nandor does. Just like how he knows Guillermo wasn't ready to become a vampire and how hard he would really take to actually killing people.

In retrospective, season 5 was about things we want not really being the things we thing we want.

They show that guillermo has gained the things he's wanted -- the love and friendship of the vampires and them deeply caring for him, thinking of him as family just in the way he thinks of them as, their respect, and he didn't need to be a vampire to get that. He already has the power he craves deep down.

He doesn't see it. He's not aware of any of it, he's so laser-focused to what he wants that he hasn't figured out how to handle the ugly side of vampirism, he hasn't even thought of it -- because he doesn't see any bad in being a vampire. He's so enticed by the power, the promise of sexiness and transformation and so blissfully ignorant by what he has to do to survive from being on clockwork in doing the dirty work for the vamps.

And precisely because of that hey show that guillermo wasn't ready to be a vampire -- yet. Because how can he be ready when he hasn't even figured himself out yet? When it's painfully obvious what he really wants isnt being a vampire but something he desires on a more emotional needs level?

And the most glaring point of this is how brutal and bloody his transformation was. It wasn't how he imagined or wanted it to be. He just wanted to be a vampire, and right off the bat everything went wrong.

He wanted it to be Nandor. He wanted it to be earned. He wanted it to be poetic, sexy and climactic.

Instead it was miserable and horrifying, the biggest shame to a vampire, and he had to keep it a secret to save his own life and nandor's -- hell, he wasn't even a full vampire, nothing had changed. Nothing had changed. When everything was supposed to change. (Catch the theme?)

And the thing he's happy about? The itty bitty powers he slowly starts to gain. Nothing else about vampirism is doing it for him. The raw meat craving, for one. He even cringes when he's drinking the blood Nandor gives him.

He only really wants the powers. He even goes on a little power trip when he fully turns. He's on a brief high until it comes to feeding.

And then the reality fully sinks in.

Guillermo has to come to terms with having to harm people if he wants to be a vampire. It's not the same as leading people to their deaths, he can't take the moral high ground by making the excuse he's not the one doing the killing or anything, vampires have their victims and he just handles the aftermath. Hypocritical? You bet your ass it is. Guillermo is considerate and horrible at the same time. That's what being complex is about.

Sure, there are ways such as not fully draining and just drinking his fill, but he isn't ready for tackling those topics yet. Vampirism was about becoming a new person for him up until that point, not having to drink blood to survive.

And figuring out that no, if he's given the choice, he wants to stay human has to be more devastating and earth-shattering for him.

Because everything he's worked for in the past 14 years, now, is up in the air for Guillermo. What does this mean for him, when will he go from there, is he still going to be a familiar, can he still stay with the vamps?

What does being a vampire mean to him now that his entire sense of self and future he'd built upon it is gone?

Here's what Yana Groskaya has to say about it:

This is one of the core themes of season 6.

In a sense, they've taken Guillermo's one and only hyperfixation away that was limiting his character. They've opened him up to new explorations.

He has to consider what being a van helsing could mean to him now that he can fully face his real self and there isn't a time limit to brush it under the rug so he can fully focus on becoming a vampire.

He has to face himself, learn about himself, go out more, discover himself better.

This also in a way is a direct parallel to Nandor in Season 3, and it's an interesting thing that it was Nandor who helped Guillermo to realize what he really wanted.

This wasn't "all for nothing" - it was a major beat in Guillermo's arc. To face what he naively and childishly wanted to "fix" himself had to be considered more seriously:

Nandor going "This is what I was waiting for" when Guillermo beat him in their fight in season 3 means SO MUCH MORE in this context.

Guillermo, in his BEST, having all the power, going all in on Nandor, seemed ready, as a slayer, he didn't hesitate to fight, harm, or throw hands, he could handle vampires and vampirism, and Nandor saw him fit. THIS was what he was waiting for. "You are alive because I let you live" and full on proving that statement. That he wasn't afraid to kill. For Guillermo to be ready in his soul, and it was his vampire slayer identity readied him. He had it in him all this time.

But in season 5, he has renounced it. He SAYS he has renounced it to be a vampire.

He has to embrace that part of himself to be truly ready.

Him becoming a vampire at this point in his life was so wrong on so many levels, they showed that Nandor would know when it was the right moment and he would do so right by Guillermo, and showed that really, what you think you want isn't actually what you want/need.

So no, this was bound to happen eventually, and an entire season dedicated to it was amazing in my opinion. Amazing things are coming for Guillermo, please don't be discouraged.

Thank you for reading this far.

I also want to write a Nandermo analysis at one point because I'm more passionate than ever and so excited (i loved what this season did with them), but we shall see!

#guillermo de la cruz #wwdits meta #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #wwdits season 5 #wwdits spoilers #nandermo #wwdits s5

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cookinguptales · 4 months

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some feelings about wwdits under a cut, for negativity

WWDITS... I don't know. I don't think I've found the writing entirely fulfilling for a while now. s4 had its problems, but s5 was... let's just say not nearly as funny or cohesive as I would've liked, and the characterization has been... wandering, to put it kindly. Seeing it end now feels a little less like losing my favorite show and a little more like stopping it before things really start to spiral.

I remember someone asked me once post-s3 what (if anything) would make me stop watching the show, and I said Guillermo leaving for good or the characters becoming less supernatural. (i.e. Nandor becoming human for good or something.) I really hate shows where the characters become "normal" as a happy ending, so that's really my nightmare scenario. I'm not exaggerating when I say I think I'd literally rather the characters die than lose the spark that makes them interesting.

Honestly, I feel like that's probably a lot of what's made it hard for me to move forward with writing fic for wwdits after the s5 finale. It felt not only OOC for Guillermo but just... such a boring direction to take it. I feel like there were so many ways they could have made non-vampire Guillermo interesting and IC and they just. did not do that. Instead they ignored a lot of previous canon in order to cancel out an entire season while also trying to make us believe that Guillermo choosing humanity is a happy and fulfilling ending for anyone.

And when you look at characters like Laszlo... like they keep giving him plot lines that go absolutely nowhere. The poignancy of his adventures in fatherhood and his depression over losing his child were basically nowhere to be seen in s5. (I kept expecting them to tie it back to his loss over Baby Colin, like he was making Guillermo his new project because he wasn't coping well with losing his son, but they never really went there.) And then they have him doing all of these experiments in s5 that don't really amount to anything other than making it canon that he can't even remember what happened in s1.

(Or... the writers can't, at least...)

I don't know. When none of the plot lines they write are given weight, it's hard for me to give them weight. If none of the characters' choices matter because they'll just be reset anyway, why do I care about their choices? If entire plot lines are just going to go absolutely nowhere (when they're given endings at all) why should I get invested in them?

They set up a lot of interesting themes about found family, the supernatural world as a haven for those who are queer or otherwise socially othered, etc. and then had Guillermo outright choose the human world and his human family over the found family they'd been setting up for five seasons. Having Guillermo be okay with killing vampires but not humans (which... again, makes no sense with his behavior towards humans in the past, but I digress) basically explicitly tells us that he sees vampire life as lesser than human life and like ????? then how are we supposed to interpret the relationships and themes you've spent all this time building???

When you have Guillermo coming out as being gay and also wanting to be a vampire in the same breath and then have him reject that world, when you give these interviews talking about how making Guillermo and Nandor have [gay] sex would lessen their relationship... I don't know! It almost feels like they can't even keep track of their own themes and really do not care if they shit on the audience that's loyally followed them even through some really questionable writing decisions!

I guess at this point, I only worry that they really do see becoming human and leaving the supernatural world as being a happy ending for all these characters. Are they going to make the other vampires human, too? Are they going to have Guillermo leave for good and choose the human world?

Like it's literally my nightmare scenario. lmao.

I guess I just feel like I've been cutting wwdits a lot of slack because I assumed that the writers were going somewhere really interesting with these seemingly incomprehensible choices, but now that I've realized that they're really just... not great writing choices...

It'll be easier to let go, I guess. I don't have nearly the same emotional connection to this show that I did even six months ago, much less a year and a half ago. If you told me even a year ago that my reaction to my favorite show's cancellation would be "...oh..." I wouldn't have believed you. But. I guess here we are.

I keep trying to make myself feel the same love for this show that I did during the first three, three and a half seasons, and I'm just not sure I can do it. I've been going around in circles over this for months now, but I just feel kind of hollow when I reach for the joy that this show used to inspire in me. And now that I know it's ending soon, I guess my mind is just kind of going "well, I guess it'll all be over with soon, one way or another, and I'll finally be able to choose a way to feel about it all."

I think... honestly, I think the only way I can be happy writing fic going forward is if I write fic that actively ignores a lot of the canon developments. It's literally too fucking difficult to eke out coherent characterization from what they've been putting out lately, and maybe it would feel more fun and less like homework if I just stopped trying.

I really, really hope that the last season of this show is beautiful and gorgeous and funny and makes me remember exactly what I love about it just in time to mourn it forever. I hope that I will happily be able to write fics incorporating every ounce of canon and feel fulfilled by that. But... honestly speaking, at this point I'm just hoping that the last season doesn't actively piss me off. lmao

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#wwdits tag #to prevent it from going into the main tag lmao

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eldritch-thrumming · 1 year

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is it casual now?, pt. one part two: fwb!steddie, inspired by chappell roan's "casual" [AO3]

One-shots

i swear that i’m not thinkin’ ‘bout you all the time (just today, yesterday, every day, and tomorrow night) T, COMPLETE

Robin and Eddie are sitting on the couch facing each other, talking about dumb shit before Eddie finally asks her what Steve’s deal is. Robin snorts. “I’ve known him almost a year now and your guess is as good as mine.”

OR: Eddie's out of the hospital and Steve won't leave him alone. Steve's trying to seduce Eddie through chores.

i'm such a fool for you (you’ve got me wrapped around your finger) T, COMPLETE

"Nance and I have been in this together since the beginning. But it was never gonna be romantic between us again. I love her and always will, but we’re definitely not meant for each other.” Steve lets out a huff of a laugh. “Besides, I’m striking out with someone else pretty frequently.” He doesn’t know why he says it; the weed and the beers are combining to sabotage him probably. He hears Eddie shift next to him.

“King Steve’s lost his touch?” Steve can hear the smirk in Eddie’s voice as he says it.

“Oh, I lost it a long time ago,” Steve laughs into the night sky, rubbing a hand across his face.

OR: Steve and Eddie are both very dumb and very into each other.

it’s christmas (this is gonna be a nightmare) T, COMPLETE

“Okay, what’s wrong?” Robin asks him.

Steve takes a deep breath. “Nothings wrong.” He turns from the cutting board on the counter to look over at the two of them standing next to each other. They look skeptical. Steve takes another breath. “Okay, before I say anything, just remember that you guys are my friends and roommates and I always take out the trash at night when you guys are too scared and I take all the spiders you find in your rooms outside for you and you care about me deeply for a multitude of reasons, okay?”

Robin rolls her eyes and Eddie’s eyebrows crinkle in confusion. “Steve?” Eddie says, his voice calm. Steve turns back to the counter, facing away from them. Maybe if he doesn’t look directly at Eddie, it’ll be easier to say.

“I may or may not have implied to my mother that Eddie and I are dating and that’s why I’m bringing him home for Christmas,” Steve says in a rush, hoping that he won’t have to repeat himself.

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i hate your big dumb combat boots: a steddie x 10 things i hate about you AU part one part two part three part four part five part six part six 1/2

what if Nancy Wheeler and Eddie Munson worked at Scoops Ahoy in the summer of ‘85?

Steve has a first date tonight, but he’s self-conscious about his scars

you’re a cowboy like me: steddie x cowboy like me au

sorry for not making you my centerfold part two steddie x coney island au

all the girls dreamed that they’d be your partner: steddie x how to lose a guy in 10 days au (part one part two)

wwdits steddie au

kiki’s delivery service au [AO3]

you should think about the consequence of your magnetic field being a little too strong steddie x gorgeous au (landscaper!eddie/bored rich kid in Beverly Hills!steve)

I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this steddie x paper rings au (pining fwb!steddie) [AO3]

i'm so in love that i might stop breathing steddie x taylor swift's "paris" au [AO3]

there’s just one who could make me stay steddie x you’re on your own kid au [AO3]

you smile that beautiful smile and all the girls in the front row scream your name steddie x superstar au (songwriter!eddie/musician!steve) [AO3]

taylor swift inspired aus on AO3 here: my heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue

bring it on!steddie au

soak up the sun early 2000s steddie head canon

i would never pretend to not know you steddie x normal people au

what, like it's hard? pt. 1 steddie x legally blonde au

steve's parents hire someone to "date" him steddie x no hard feelings rom com au

if we lived on the moon (steve deals with some complicated feelings at the grocery store) [AO3]

the newsroom au steddie x the newsroom au (prime time news anchor!steve x executive producer!eddie, past relationship, past cheating, exes to lovers)

steddie x failed threesome au (steddie meet in a threesome and they can't perform)

steddie x love rosie au (accidental teen pregnancy, childhood best friends)

freddy krueger stripper au

steddie x cafe au

and i wouldn't marry me either, pt. one steddie x plus one rom com au (wedding dates for convenience, fake dating adjacent)

the ultimatum reality show au (reality show contestants to lovers)

i don't need wings to help me fly, pt. 1 steddie x the princess diaries 2 au (prince!steve, scheming aristocrat!eddie)

may the odds be ever in your favor, pt. one steddie x the hunger games au

rockstar!eddie/personal trainer!steve

Multi-chapter ‘fics

sorry about the blood in your mouth (i wish it was mine) M, COMPLETE, 10/10

Max had read every one of Eddie’s novels and every one of his screenplays. In every single one of them, in every universe that Eddie could think up, she watched as Eddie fell in love with Steve, over and over and over again. They had different names, different professions, there were different, wild, fantastical circumstances, but it was always them. In every version of reality, they found each other. It was time they found each other again in this version and Max was going to help them do it, even if it killed her.

OR: It's 1997, ten years after Eddie and Steve leave Hawkins. Eddie, a novelist/screenwriter, Max, Hollywood's shiniest scream queen, and Dustin, the hottest indie horror director in the business, reunite to make a movie and they're bringing the Party along with them to the middle of nowhere to do it.

when i don’t touch you it’s a mistake in any life, in each place and forever. M, COMPLETE, 12/12

If Eddie didn’t know any better, he would think that he’d slipped into an alternate dimension. A dimension where he was happy and not dead. A dimension where Steve Harrington sleeps in his bed—or maybe where he sleeps in Steve Harrington’s bed.

OR: Eddie dies. But then he wakes up next to a sleeping Steve Harrington.

it had to be you. M, WIP, 3/7

“You guys are gonna have a great time,” Dustin beams at them.

Steve lets his eyes take in all that is Eddie Munson, from his messy long hair to his Black Sabbath band tee to his painted black fingernails. He looks loud and obnoxious. Steve seriously doubts they’re going to have a great time. From the look on Eddie’s face, Steve imagines he’s thinking the same thing.

OR: It's the When Harry Met Sally AU that literally no one asked for.

oh my, love is a lie (shit my friends say to get me by) M, WIP, 1/4

“Is that—?” Robin starts, before she's interrupted by Dustin calling them over.

Because Eddie is Eddie. After Nancy had demolished Steve’s heart, he’d gone out for the weekend, Robin in tow. He’d drank enough to forget his own name and had ended up making some questionable decisions. One of those decisions had, apparently, been Eddie Munson. They’d spent two nights together, back in June, drenched in cheap beer and barely leaving Steve’s bed. On the afternoon of the second day, Eddie had left, saying he was going for a McDonald’s run, and Steve hadn’t seen him again. He hadn’t even left his number.

OR: Six months ago, Steve Harrington had his heart crushed by Nancy Wheeler. To cope, he'd rebounded in the worst way, spending two life-changing nights with the guy of his dreams. The only problem was that the guy had ghosted him, no number, no Insta handle; Steve didn't even get his last name. Now, he's resurfaced at Steve's Friendsgiving party, apparently Dustin Henderson's new best friend.

i can’t let go when something’s broken (it’s all i know and it’s all i want now) T, COMPLETE, 5/5 (also on tumblr here: part one part two part three part four part five)

Steve Harrington wakes up like he does every day, alone in his big bed with fluffy white sheets, weak sunlight streaming through the blinds on his windows. He rubs the sleep from his eyes, drinks the glass of water he put on his bedside table last night and swallows the aspirin next to it, and then climbs out from underneath the covers. He wanders into his bathroom to brush his teeth and shower, to fix his hair the way he likes it (a much less intensive process than it was when he was seventeen), and pulls on the same jeans he wears every day. He fixes himself breakfast—scrambled eggs and burnt bacon—and then he leaves for his shift at the coffeeshop.

The day passes slowly, like it always does. Steve makes small talk with the regulars, he laughs half-heartedly at Frank’s jokes, he pours espresso all over his hands. He cleans the tables and stacks the newspapers. He tries his hardest to ignore the new stack of Rolling Stones Frank has placed by the door.

monsters are always hungry M, WIP, 2/9 (Horror, ST4 rewrite)

Robin finally slides the tape all the way in to the VCR and Steve rolls his cart back over to the counter and leans over it, ready to watch some kid’s fourth birthday party or a Little League baseball game.

There’s nothing but static for the first thirty seconds.

“Maybe it’s blank?” Robin suggests, and just as she says it, the mess of snowy static shifts to a blood red screen before the images begin to flicker. The footage is grainy, like a real home video. The images are almost indistinguishable, but Robin and Steve can make out a big house, a front porch, a stained-glass window with a rose at the center. The cuts are choppy and jarring as the screen shifts quickly from one image to another in the blink of an eye. Cobwebs in the corner of a ceiling, spider eggs, limbs bent at inhuman angles, a child’s face.

The images stop, almost as quickly as they’d begun, and the television returns to static. Steve and Robin stand in silence for a minute before Steve rounds the counter and reaches up for the power button, turning the TV off.

OR: Steve and Robin watch a mysterious, unmarked tape they find in the returns bin at Family Video.

all of me changed like midnight. M, 4/11

In the fall of 1986, Eddie invites Steve and Robin to one of his shows at the Hideout. Steve is mesmerized by Eddie's performance, captivated by the way Eddie's hands move up and down his guitar, by the way Eddie's measured breaths deliver a strong and confident lyrical performance. When Steve compliments Eddie after the show, Eddie offers to teach Steve to play the guitar. Steve is completely taken by the whole project and a romance blooms, tender and soft, as they begin to speak through the music they play for each other.

Shortly after Steve confesses his love for Eddie, Eddie flees Hawkins, determined to live out his dreams as a rockstar and convinced that's not what Steve wants for himself. Steve and Robin move to Indy, where they begin playing open mics at the coffeeshop Steve works at. Steve finds that songwriting is the perfect way to give voice to his feelings of grief, love, and abandonment.

The fic spans ten years as Steve and Eddie weave their way in and out of each other's lives, writing songs that can only be meant for each other.

project 146 of the steddie bigbang

Series

tell the devil i’m waiting. M, COMPLETE

Includes: sorry about the blood in your mouth (i wish it was mine) & i make up things that i would never say (i say them very quietly)

my heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue T, ONGOING

unrelated taylor swift-inspired steddie

#steddie #steddie fics #stranger things #stranger things fics #stranger things fanfiction #steddie fanfiction #steddie fanfic #masterpost #my fanfic #steddie fic recs #steddie fanfic recs #stranger things fanfic #Steve Harrington #Eddie Munson

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22degreehalo · 2 months

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So I finally caught up with WWDITS!!!! And then made the very very bad decision of thinking about it while trying to get to sleep so now I've gotta write it all out in the hopes of getting it out of my system :')

Spoilers below~!

* I thought this at the end of season 4 but I like that Guillermo was able to turn into a vampire before the final season! It implies that despite it being his conscious, stated objective, it's not *actually* what the show is about. And as for what iis...?

* Normally I dislike 'immortal forsakes their eternal life to be with human' stories because they're always so much more about suicide than the story wants to admit. But the final episode of s5 makes it very clear that being a vampire necessitates murdering innocent people. There's no other feasible way. Not being a vampire is still sorta suicide, but it's also saving lives. With that, I think the final season will end with Nandor becoming a human, somehow.

* If nothing else, we've seen them both as vampires, now. Doesn't it make sense to see them both as humans too?

* I like that Guillermo's kindness and compassion are valued. And I like the idea that that could also be a part of it: that rubbing off onto Nandor, at least a little. The fearsome soldier prince falling for the pacifist human familiar (...who also has Van Helsing blood but Yknow). That's nice. :)

* The surface conflict for s6 though is... what is Guillermo going to do now? He *really* doesn't have any reason to stay anymore. So I can see one of two possibilities: Nandor trying to push him away first, or Nandor trying in increasingly ridiculous ways to earn Guillermo's affection and loyalty again as a friend.

* Despite his revelation about friends dying in the last episode (he thought of Guillermo as a friend!!! And even said it!!!!!!) I could see the pushing away part being just the plot of episode one, and the rest of the season being him struggling to convince Guillermo he really does see him as a friend and not a servant.

* Meanwhile, Guillermo stays for... entirely reasonable and sensible reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with his little crush on Nandor being even greater than he thought. And realising that all the times he admired Nandor's vampirely ways, maybe that wasn't so much a 'wanting to be' situation as a 'wanting to have' situation. (Same with Antonio Banderas.)

* C'mon. They've gotta kiss. They've GOT to.

* I actually do predict this having a mostly positive (if inherently kinda bittersweet) ending? But I wouldn't be totally opposed to a tragedy, so long as we get at least some confirmation of their shared feelings.

* Just... don't pull a fucking Destiel on me. If this show ends without Nandor ever once making clear he has big-time romantic feelings for Guillermo, I'm gonna be PISSED AS.

* But I don't think they will! And I am Very excited to see what happens...!!

#wwdits #nandermo #i was SO CLOSE to finishing and I just. waited months instead lmaooo #soooooo happy to finally just dive into the fandom without worrying about spoilers :')#wwdits spoilers

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gothicafish · 8 months

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WWDITS S5 SPOILERS

I feel like a lot of post I've seen about guillermo choosing to be human have never been in a situation where theyve wanted something so bad that they not only lose sight of why they wanted it but become so absorbed in not having it that they do something stupid about getting it. And that sounds like a very specific thing to feel but it happens in real life with in the most ordinary circumstances. And then when you finally have The Thing you realize it's not what you want or that you wanted it for the wrong reasons or weren't ready for it or all of the above. And I can't explain how normal it is to make such a sharp turn towards giving it up because it doesn't work for you/feel like you.

Just to put that feeling in a real life, non vampire sense, when I was in high school I really wanted a job. It seemed like all my friends had jobs and the idea of having my own money sounded fantastic, especially coming from a low income home where I hesitated to ask for things because I didn't feel they were immediately necessary or necessary at all in the light of our finances. So I applied several places (literally any place that was hiring) and every time I got a rejection email I felt so deflated and so brushed off and more importantly I felt like I wasn't worth anyone's time. So you can imagine how ecstatic I was when I got a call back from this hot dog place. I never really at there much but a job is a job. That's how viewed it and I wanted it so bad because I felt like I had so many things to prove, as a student, as a worker and as a functional person. So I go to the interview and I get the job. It was in the summer so I didn't have school and I worked in the mornings and evenings part time. And immediately it was not what I thought it was going to be. But I figured that was part of it yaknow getting to know a new place can be rough. But on the second or third day the owner dude of the restaraunt (who literally does nothing but come in and tell the workers shit) he comes in while I was doing dishes and keep in mind this is one of the first times I've done dishes in a restaurant environment (and if you've ever worked in food service you know there's a very specific way to wash dishes) so the dude comes in sees I'm doing it wrong and yells at my manager for not properly teaching me how to do something. The manager then tells me to ask if I don't know how to do something (I thought I was doing it right) and there were several incidences where he would come in and yell at somebody (and I'm talking have a full out burst) for something mediocre.

I remember this one time he came in and yelled at us because we left the back door open a Crack because the air conditioner wasn't working (it didn't work the whole Two months I was there). He said it was a hazard as someone random could come in and cause problems. And I would agree if it was sumer, over 100 degrees EVERYDAY EVEN AFTER THE SUN GOES DOWN AND IF WE DIDNT HAVE TWO STOVES TWO FRIERS AND A BOILING WATER STATION TO KEEP THINGS HOT. I literally went home every day dehydrated from sweating so much and that not an exaggeration AND WE WERENT ALLOWED TO HAVE DRINKS ALL WE HAD WAS A LIL CUP TO GET SOFT DRINKS FROM. So yeah I didn't work there very long. So not only was the boss a total freak wad (the managers were cool tho), I just felt so horrible at everything I was doing there. I would get told how not to do things on the daily and I would beat myself up about it. There were times were I would try not to cry because how badly I felt about myself and the job I was doing because of how many times I had to be told how to do things. I felt stupid, and the fact that my friends and people my age could do this everyday with out problems ONTOP of school made me feel worse. I would literally come home and cry because of how horrible being there made me feel. It bothered me so much that I've hesitated getting another job after that and now that I'm looking for a job to pay for college I feel so much anxiety about it being like that again. And I've sworn off food service cause fuck that. Everyone who works a food service/customer service jobs everyday of their lives deserves a metal of Valor bc goddam idk how you do it. So when it got to much for me I made an impulsive decision to quit and I did and I never went back. But I felt like shit afterwords about being so vocal about getting a job and then not being able to handle it, but it was a lot better than being there.

That was a very long winded way if saying I sympathize with guillermo and I understand him completely and how humiliating it can feel to be in that position. And I'm glad nandor and the crew was nice about it cause I felt it in my soul.

#what we do in the shadows #guillermo de la cruz #lazlo cravensworth #wwdits #nadja of antipaxos #nandor the relentless #the guide #before you come at me #i have adhd and that contributed to a lot of my doing things shittily at work #and the reason why i felt so bad about it #wwdits s5 #if you read this far youre a real one

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nymph1e · 9 months

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So I just found out that people are Genuinely Pissed at this ending because if the show is cancelled, it gives Aziraphale and Crowley a bad ending. Of course, giving queer characters a bad ending is almost as bad as queercoding the fuck out of characters only to call people who see the coding (queer people) delusional.

I... can see where these people are coming from. HOWEVER I think ignoring how FANTASTIC good omens season 2 was as a queer show is a mistake, and starting a witch hunt because the creators decided not to compromise their storytelling out of fear is not the right direction to go in.

All my life, I've wanted queer stories that were normal. I've wanted queer stories that weren't about being queer. Stories where main characters doing main character things just so happened to be queer. Queer stories that weren't about AIDS or hate crimes or coming out of the closet, or gay politics. And all my life I've been crushed with the sheer weight of the disdain the rest of the world has for us.

We aren't the main characters in non-queer-focused stories. We are side characters and, as the people who are mad are pointing out, we don't get happy endings.

But. Things are changing. Steven Universe, She-Ra, Good Omens, wwdits, ofmd, Sandman, more that I can't think of off the top of my head. It's small, but 10 years ago it was unimaginable.

It means something that this season was so unapologetically queer. It means something that Neil Gaiman took queercoded characters in a work he and his friend made in 1990, and said, "you know what? Yeah, they're in love. It is real, whether we intended it initially or not".

I can understand if you're mad. I get that you're afraid that this will be it, this will be yet another story where queer people don't get a happy ending. I'm scared too. And if you want to stay mad I don't blame you. But I think intentions are important. I think having queerness treated with respect is worth the risk of having our hearts broken.

#good omens #im drunk so sorry if this is rambly #i guess i wanted to explain why i wasnt mad #like im mad because UGH CLIFFHANGER #but im not heatt shattered because damn i trusted when i shouldnt have yet AGAIN mad #good omens spoilers

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stephen9260 · 2 years

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Honestly right now I don't give a shit about Guillermo.

Don't get me wrong, I love him, but if I see another person fuss over what happened to him like it was the worse thing that happened in the episode I'm gonna murder someone and then their dog.

Because I was ready to begrudgingly accept seeing Marwa lose herself because of Nandor's selfishness, I had faith that it was all going to be a catalyst that with Nandor's characters growth would have led him to bring her back to normal in a show of how he'd changed. I was ready to accept her being a plot device, because I lived in a fandom that gave me hope that once free of this curse, Marwa would have stabbed Nandor in the face, gone live her best life maybe studying astronomy, and would have been her own person, and even if we didn't get to see her much after, she would have escaped. She would have been the one that, even after Nandor's amends, knew better and walked away.

She was to be the face of the wrongs that could never be righted.

But of course not. I should have seen it coming when the plot seemed to forget she even existed. Had she been a character like the Guide that exists almost confined to the context of the club, I would have understood, but even before the wedding she was always brought up only to give the explanation of why she wasn't there.

I'm not saying that wwdits can't be deep, have its moments of what could be social commentary or else, but this is too much for a comedy show. Were it a serious show I could have taken it as commentary on the nonexistent consideration of women of color, how easily media forgets them, how no one looks or looks out for them, but this seems to deep for wwdits, and it seems to definitive to be something that is fixed next episode.

This is not something we will come back from.

Marwa is gone.

And this sounds a bit too much like ensuring that we know that she was just a tool for this show.

I don't honestly think I could bring myself to hold out hope, because there is no reason to.

Nandor took everything away from Marwa, then took Marwa away from Marwa, and then managed to somehow do worse and send her far away so that he would never be reminded of his mistakes, and so that probably no one else ever will.

#i am PISSED #no pissed doesnt begin to cover it #i want to scream #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #wwdits s4 #justice for marwa #marwa what we do in the shadows #nandor the relentless

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natjennie · 2 years

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bc I'm insane I'm thinking about the fact that simon the devious said that the staten island episode of go flip yourself would come out in about 2 years. because we reunite in episode 1 one year after the season 3 finale, and nandor mentions getting stuck with the ever given in the suez canal, which happened in march of 2021. if that was partway through his year long journey, then the vampires we're watching episodes of have to be living in early 2022. and the episodes have to be coming out linerally because of the development of the nightclub and nandor and marwa's relationship and wishes, and in following the format of the rest of the show.

so is the footage for episode 8 footage the wwdits in-universe documentary crew recorded simultaneously with the go flip yourself crew and edited to mimic a gfy episode, which allowed it to air sooner than the actually gfy episode? or did gfy work with the wwdits crew to co-release the episode earlier than intended so it would fit in the wwdits timeline? if so, why would they include the parts that would normally be cut out of an episode ie "we still need the pre-credits button" prompt from the camera person?

in fiction how do we, the audience that nadja directly hypnotized, know that they're vampires and that she killed toby? are we to believe that being witness to so much hypnosis of other people has made the audience immune? or does her hypnosis not work through screens? have we seen a through TV hypnosis before? I don't think so. what do any of the logistics of this episode mean for the meta? what does it all mean?!

#WHAT DOES IT MEAN #DOES IT MEAN ANYTHING #wwdits #wwdits spoilers #wwdits s4

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arielmagicesi · 2 years

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I’m so sorry for the person I’m about to become again, after all my followers had such a short reprieve. sorry for real

#my sister is going to be the real sufferer. she hates wwdits. she hasn't seen it she just hates hearing about it #i say 'what we do i-' and she immediately starts scowling #i swear to god i don't even talk about it that much. i don't force other conversations to be about it #i actually try to avoid talking about my shows in real life #but apparently i recommended it one too many times #she feels similarly about crazy ex girlfriend #actually cxg is probably worse because i keep insisting that she 'has' to watch it for feminism reasons #also starkid. she really does not like starkid #anyway christ. i'm going to try really hard to apply the lessons i learned and not be annoying #i'm going to remind myself it's ok to be cringe. so that i don't apologize incessantly for being cringe #i'm going to stop lurking on blogs that post about how cringe people are bad and stupid because that's not good for me #i'm going to NOT check ao3 every day...#and i'm going to remember to sleep and eat normally and have a balance of different hobbies #you might think jesus christ ariel what's wrong with you. what's wrong with this show #well with me a lot. i do this about everything it's unbearable #the show's just like a show. like a tv show. i'm the one who is insane #anyway!!!! to my beloved followers i do apologize!!!!!#written by me

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bullywugprincess · 1 year

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WWDITS headcanons

The Guide uses they/she/it pronouns, Laszlo is genderfluid and uses all pronouns, Colin Robinson uses he/it pronouns.

Nandor uses he/him and Nadja uses she/her, but that is not to say they are cis. No vampire is truly cis because of now societal norms change over time, fitting the associations and ideology around a gender during their human lives does not mean they do in the modern day and with the amount of gender norm changes they've seen it's easy to feel disconnected from gender as a whole. Also gender is mostly based on human society, and of course vampire society is very different.

For similar reasons all vampires are neurodivergent. Societal norms have changed so much over time that it is hard for them to seem 'normal', super vampire senses give them sensory overload, and they all follow strange certain rules and routines (of course ones that they have to do as a vampire e.g. not going in sun or not entering rooms unless they're invited, but also completely independent personal rules like Nandor only reading letters in the sitting room, in order to keep their sanity in an everlasting life in our ever changing world)

Nadja and Laszlo have ADHD obviously, Nandor has autism and ADHD, and the Guide has autism and OCD (but her OCD is basically canon so), Colin is autistic

I know this is canon but I just want to say it. Nadja, Nandor, Lazlo, and the Guide are pansexual. I personally see Colin as a sex-enthusiast aro-ace, and obviously Guillermo is gay

A lot of the main group are actually just a big polyamorous relationship. Laszlo, The Guide and Nadja are getting it on, The Guide and Nadja are getting it on, Laszlo and Nadja, Guide and Marwa, Guide and Marwa and Nadja, Guide and Marwa and the Djinn, Guillermo and the Djinn, Guillermo and Nandor, Nandor and Laszlo, Laszlo and Nadja with Sean and Charmaine. I could literally go on all night

Nadja and Guillermo kicked ass together in London. I wish they had given us a full season of that year because I want to know more. They did face masks and cried about being separated from their boyfriend and bitched about their boyfriends and got absolutely shitfaced together. Guillermo had to save Nadja from getting into several fights whilst she was drunk, both with humans and vampires alike. They were just besties

NADJA CAME HOME FOR A REASON AND YOU CAN'T CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE! Also whatever the reason was I think Guillermo doesn't know, she found a way to hypnotize him and make him forget, hence why she goes back to being bitchy to him in season 4. I don't know what I think the reason is yet but I'm taking suggestions.

The Guide and Van Helsing wiped out the majority of the vampiric council when they got arrested over the affair. They weren't going down without a fight and they fucked shit up. The Guide was the OG "you killed all the other most powerful vampires so we're putting you in charge because A) that's fucking impressive and B) you're literally the only option right now. The only reason she wasn't put in charge in charge was because she was fighting with a vampire killer to protect said vampire killer and vampire killers are a big no no. Also said vampire killer died and she was captured in a very violent manner and the trauma is what made her forget, not simply the shame

Nadja originally either did or intended to join Lilith's coven, she definitely practiced witchcraft even before she was turned

Nadja didn't learn to read or write until a fair bit into her vampire life, perhaps after she met Lazlo, and still struggles with it

Nadja and Lilith were in love

Marwa, the Djinn and Guillermo have a "I hate Nandor" support group, occasionally the Guide will show up too

The Wraiths are all actually physical manifestations of the Guides mind. No I will not elaborate

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safyresky · 1 year

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(arrives to the review-course 1 day late with starbucks timmies, starbs has the WORST hot chocolate i have EVER had the misfortune of ingesting)

So. Episode 5! Wow! That was! Wow!

I know we've seen soo many opinions at this point but I have done the big sleep (gone to bed, as they call it, so that I can wake up the next morning refreshed and ready for battle or w/e) and am still very much in my thoughts here.

tl;dr: Bernard shone, of course! K-man loves B-Man as much as we do and he made sure to DELIVER. MANS CAN ACT! Shame that he did end up finishing off by being a punchline to a crappy joke that wwdits does WAY BETTER, and a shame that the writers didn't leave it perfectly ambiguous. That would've been such a lovely thank you to fans! But no, as with most of the Cool Things in the series, everything is the punchline to a joke that would've been funny 30 years ago 🙃🙃🙃

So the problem is NOT that now our fanfics don't line up with canon. NONE of us give a SHIT about that. In fact, I think that the majority of the writers I talk to are RELIEVED about that 😅😅 The problem is that our boy B-Man was done a DISSERVICE and that's just rude, after such a stellar performance and WHOLE 20 MINS OF FRESH B-MAN CONTENT 🤩🤩🤩, and then the lore in the episode just fucking dive bombed every time a joke was wedged in there. Holly fuckeros.

So yeah, Bernard wasn't the problem. He was a saving grace! The PROBLEM, that at least, I HAD, was the lore! I'm about to get mean on main so UNDER THE CUT WE GO. Also, since this is the end of the tl;dr, to the tl part we go!

One thing The Santa Clauses has consecutively done is give us really cool concepts, but when it comes to executing and explaining them, they leave more holes than they started with! See:

Sandra rushing to see Befana to talk about her magic, and then it doesn't get expanded on at all period. We don't even get to SEE them chat about it! Sandra gets freaked out by it one or two more times then suddenly BAM she's chill with it. WHERE'S THE TIME FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Mrs. Claus's identity crisis! It fell flat for me. Carol was reduced to very one dimensional and being like, OBSESSED with why Mrs. Claus is Like That and why she has to conform to a roll--which is a newer thing given that in tsc 3 she did NOT have to bun up or wear velvet or whatever. Also, her look as Mrs. Claus in the series? Amazing! But that's besides the point. the point is, it's a thing that exists, and we want to see more, but instead it's written off as a weird mix between "token feminism" and "look! she's a principal again! yay!" and it's like, once more, WHERE'S THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Mad Santa. Remember that? Yeah. They mention it once and it seems like a build up to a Cool Concept and then BAM. IT IS NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN

And those are just off the top of my head!

Now episode 5, episode 5 was lore HEAVY. And it fell flat. It was half assed. You mean to tell me that:

NONE of the 17 Santas before Scott were human?!?!?!?!?

But then NOT tell me what they were? Aside from Ethereal?

WHEN THEY ALL LOOKED HUMAN?

ASIDE FROM KRAMPUS WHO ACTUALLY SLAYED, LIKE, THAT MAKEUP? GO OFF KRAMPUS! PRACTICAL EFFECTS MY BELOVED!

AND THAT SCOTT IS THE FIRST HUMAN

AND THAT THE NORTH POLE WAS GIVEN TO HIM AND HIS NUCLEAR FAMILY

AND THAT AFTER ESTABLISHING A PLOT WHERE THEY NEED A NORMAL LIFE, YOU'RE GOING TO THROW THEM BACK IN THE POLE?

BECAUSE THEY ARE THE FIRST FAMILY UP NORTH?

AND IT'S LIKE, THEIR BIRTHRIGHT?!?!?!?!?!

W H A T?

AND ON TOP OF THAT, SCOTT IS STILL DESTINED TO BE SANTA? AND SIMON, A POC, IS A VILLAIN?!?!?!?!?!?! AND CANNOT BE SANTA????????

WHITE KIND OF WHITE FANTASY BULLSHIT DID I WATCH?

The fact that Simon, who was given like, decent character development in the first two or three episodes, has become the villain? When all the signs of his character pointed to a reverse Scott (man cannot balance work with home life, prioritizes home life but can't support it as a result instead of vice versa), and an interesting plot line where he had to get past a fuckton of anxiety and also, GRIEF?!?! WITH THE MOM?!?! THAT THEY FRIDGED?!?!?!?!

And now, we have 1 flashback but we're not even seeing a change of heart from him? He's BARELY interacting with his daughter who was like, the LIGHT of his LIFE, and Grace is okay with this? She's just chillin in her tower? And spitting facts and being lonely and Simon's just like, not even noticing?

come ON. FUCK.

I am VERY mad about what they did with Simon.

So yeah, the lore is a lot but not enough at the same time, and it falls really flat because it, imo, is so self-serving to Scott who sucks, like this whole series just has me like

Like, this series, I was thinking, could've benefited from being 45 minute episodes. And I still stand by that. But ALSO, it could've benefited from uh, BETTER WRITERS APPARENTLY? WHICH IS WILD BC I REMEMBER READING THE CREDITS THE WRITERS HAD AND THINKING OH, QUALITY SHOWS--THIS COULD WORK OUT!

AND NOW LOOK! the concepts are introduced but never expanded on, hurting all of our heads and falling flat; it turns the movies on their heads (Bernard writing the clauses for Scott, meanwhile in tsc2 he;s like SHOOKETH that they missed the Mrs. Clause???????????? Hello??????? Like I get it, stepping away from movies for different source material, but like. CONTINUITY?!?!?! HELLO?!?!?!)

There's just SOO MUCH bouncing around my brain box right now, and this is just the tip of the iceberg? I can't even get past half of this! Heck!

And like, I knew from the start that the series was just a Disney nostalgia cash grab/diversity update like most of their new shit has been this year, but god DAMN. THEY DIDN'T EVEN DO GOOD ON THE DIVERSITY GIVEN THAT THEY VILLANIZED THE LEAD POC ACTOR! AND LIKE, WHY EVEN ANNOUNCE THEM SIDE BY SIDE IN THE LINEUP IF SIMON ISN'T EVEN GOING TO BE THE NEXT SANTA? LIKE WHAT EVEN WAS THE POINT?!?!?!

Also, everything Ana said in her rant? Yeah, preach it sister, FULL AGREEMENT. Why IS St Nick white? FUCK.

In conclusion, as stated previously on this post:

#dani speaks #dani YELLS #dani watches tscs #tscs #tscs spoilers #im so. like. SIGH. it's just really shitty that shitty writing is a thing that exists with something that a lot of people love #heckeros

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tinylilvalery · 2 years

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Okay I finally watched the S4 finale of WWDITS.

- I WAS FUCKING RIGHT ABOUT THE DAMN WALL IN COLIN'S ROOM.

- COLIN IS BACK THANK FUCK. I was actually beginning to lose hope and literally thought the writers were too dumb to do this but thankfully not. I'm so happy about this now. Rip to all the mfs that are making posts about how sad they are about baby Colin Robinson being gone now, couldn't be me lmfao roflmao. Colin Robinson is literally IT for me and I'm so happy he's finally back. Welcome back fav character welcome, how I've missed you.

-I've always said Colin Robinson is objectively the most powerful vampire in the house and this just furthers that and extends energy vampire lore so much. I'm actually so intrigued by it and by Colin. His library had SO MUCH inside it so I wonder if that's only detailed journalling from the last 100 years or longer?

-I actually love that Colin doesn't remember being raised and I hope he never does. Mwah! Sorry for the baby Colin lovers but he was perfect how he was and I loved how his dynamic w everyone in the house evolved from s1-3 and hated it tossed away for what baby Colin had. I'm glad I get to continue where he left off. I'm not here for Colin and Laszlo having a father son relationship, I'm here for them being roomies, best friends, and well,,,, Laszlin over whatever happened in this season ANY day.

-Speaking of where he left off,,, "Young Dumb and Full of Cum" I better get to see this in S5.

-Moreso, I really can't wait to see Colin and Laszlo's dynamic in S5. In S3 they got SO close. Whether or not you shipped them (I remember a lot of people joined the boat as s3 went on), they pretty much became best friends from the amount of time they spent together and how much Laszlo cared for Colin. That's where the relationship left off for Colin,,, but for Laszlo,, well, it's so much more complicated now. He's gotten close in different ways to two different Colin's and it'll be interesting seeing how he comes to terms with that.

-Colin instantly going into basically a feeding frenzy as soon as he came out of the basement with the other vampires and then the contractors. I hope people don't mistake this for him being heartless or detached from the rest. Remember he's barely fed in like a year so he was prolly starving.

-Laszlo hovering around while Colin trained the contractors 😭😭😭 Laszlo smiling to himself and fiddling with the piano as he listened in, obviously not being drained 😭😭😭😭 what does it mean? He's obviously sad to have lost Baby Colin, but was he relieved to have his friend back to normal? Was it a bittersweet moment to hear Colin up to his old tricks?? Had he actually missed it in a strange way??

-Colin stopping to ask if Laszlo was okay 😭😭😭😭 and Laszlo not being okay 😭😭😭😭😭😭

-Colin instantly taking the most dominant role in the house and arranging to have the house fixed up 🥴🥴 okih okih

-Fuck it is SO nice to see Colin Robinson return, but specifically Mark Proksch. Like. Fuck. It's like drinking a glass of refreshing cold water after this entire season. The dynamic felt off all season without him, ESPECIALLY without his dynamic with Matt Berry (in reference to how Mark wasn't on set with everyone for majority of the season). They have incredible chemistry honestly and it blew me away this episode and made me feel how much I've been missing it all of this season... Also yeah it's good to see Colin with that height difference over Laszlo, no I won't elaborate.

-I won't say a lot about Nandor, Nadja, or The Guide. Honestly I found Nadja's plot this season so bland and pointless, like I'm sorry but it didn't even compare to her plot in season 3 and there was like no character growth here for her, and I feel the same way about Nandor. Nandor was just more of the same mopey shit, looking for love in everyone but Guillermo... A plot that had its place in the first 3 seasons but not a 4th. It's just getting tedious and boring now, as Guillermo himself said. The sad thing is s3 had me frothing for Nandermo but now I just don't give a shit about them really, they bore me now. There's still potential but if nothing happened with them next season I don't think I'd care and I won't be holding my breath. And The Guide? Instead of getting to be more of her own character she really just became a supporting character for Nadja in a literal sense, supporting Nadja in her Vampire Nightclub endeavours but not being a supporting character by being written to support the writing of Nadja and her character journey (of which she didn't have). It's a shame, I feel like The Guide had more of a characterisation in S3 and I was actually looking forward to that being expanded on, but she really got fuck all here. I got bored by all three of them.

-Guillermo Guillermo Guillermo... Had an incredible character journey over the first 3 seasons and then this was just... Nothing. I feel like they pulled out the fact that he was a vampire slayer once this season (undeniably one of the most exciting moments in this season too) and then put it back away. It was something that was so iconic and important in season 3. Not to mention the whole insane way his love for Nandor became more and more apparent in the past seasons,, and then season 4 really gave nothing at all. They made him act so sane. Where was the unhinged Guillermo we all grew to love? Where was the vampire slayer itching to assert himself and enjoying his newfound power? Where the fuck did his sense of being owed vampirehood and to be Nandor's partner? It just didn't exist in s4. What's worse is he felt like the central character for the past 3 seasons, but in the 4th he just felt reduced to an empty side character. No amount of meta self awareness about the fact that he'd been reduced to a boring side character in a sitcom will excuse this failure of writing considering how strong the first 3 seasons were.

-I said since s3 that Derek should be the one Guillermo goes off with and who actually turns Guillermo. I actually remembered said thought the night before finale aired,, so really that's the second thing I predicted that came true.

-Nandor was so set on leaving and going home at the end of season 3 and took the massive step of appointing Guillermo as his partner to accompany him there, to where he would turn Guillermo. Guillermo had everything in his hands... And then Laszlo shipped him off to protect Nadja... AND THIS WAS LITERALLY NEVER FUCKING TALKED ABOUT IN SEASON 4. THERE WAS NO CONVERSATION BETWEEN NANDOR AND GUILLERMO. NOTHING. WHAT?????

-I'm seeing a lot of strange people say they don't want Guillermo to be a vampire.... And just,,, you're wrong? Like I'm sorry but you're wrong. He's been here for 13 years on that grind. I love him. Give him what he wants. Let him be the sexiest and most cunning evil vampire he can. And when all the other vampires see him let them drool and be shook. And then... Y'know.... If Nandor gets jealous of the fact that another vampire turned Guillermo instead him, let him come to terms with that and either accept Guillermo as his equal finally,, or have him wish for him back to being human. Both are great options. What isn't a great option and what is actually quite fucking boring is if Guillermo isn't made a vampire. We're trying to escape this monotonous sitcom style of writing, not cement ourselves in it.

-I just wanna thank Laszlo for being the best character this season. Matt Berry consistently delivers. He's able to be fucking funny and aloof, and yet when the time calls for it he can be grounded, serious, and actually heart wrenchingly sad.

-Matt Berry and Mark Proksch are the only reasons I'm looking forward to season 5. Their chemistry is unmatched and their character journeys have consistently been the best. I'm intrigued to see where they go from here.

Ps yes I'm still a Laszlin shipper but I've got no idea how things will work out from here on. As far as I'm concerned, Baby-Colin was an isolated entity. And I'm sorry y'all but I'm glad he's gone and Colin Robinson is back. The king fucking returned,,, if only he'd returned sooner.

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