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angelicgarnet · 1 year

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i am sooo convinced nandor is autistic like i don't think the writers intended it at all but i have never been more convinced of an autism headcanon

#woof #wwdits tag

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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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emperorsnewsubversion · 9 months

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can i say something controversial

i never really cared much for nandermo

#wwdits tag

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sluggabedd · 2 years

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#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #guillermo #guillermo de la cruz #okay i'm done #wwdits tag

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swiftzeldas · 2 years

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wwdits finale ruled idk what anyone was complaining about

#text post #wwdits tag

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shalopaika · 2 years

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Since my dear Gulliermo has never had a happy ever after with a love interest, I think he has much in common with Black Widow

It's a fantastic character from my culture. Every love interest or husband is dying cruelly🤠

!SPOILER!

I think Guillermo won't become a vampire after dealing with Derek. Maybe some badussy and savage ghost could work?

#followme #art #my art #fanart #sketch #my sketches #my sketchy art #follow me #follow #wwdits #spoiler wwdits #wwdits s4 spoilers #wwdits tag #what we do in the shadows fx #guillermo fanart #guillermo buillermo #guillermo de la cruz

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drawingbynumbers · 2 years

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@cookinguptales Happy Birthday!

For your birthday I present you with WWDITS fanart! They are throwing those wooden craft letters in the air to celebrate. Nandor was the one who chose the pointy letters. Guillermo is very stressed over Nandor throwing pointy wooden objects over his head. This is unfortunately not any crazier than the things they get up to in the actual show.

Enjoy!

#happy birthday #wwdits tag #fanart #what we do in the shadows #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #unfinishedbyme

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ducktalk · 8 months

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gay-fae · 8 months

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a fun fact that people may not know about me is that i’m regular about media. i’m so normal about things i enjoy. i never ever get weird or obsessive about them and I consume and enjoy them completely normally. also im a fucking liar

#hannibal #ofmd #our flag means death #good omens #wwdits #jatp #atla #I could tag this w every fandom in in but that’s too many #fable’s stuff

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megaawkwardhuman · 8 months

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ah just another thursday I see

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angelicgarnet · 8 months

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collection of images that remind me of nandor

#woof #wwdits tag #nandor #this has been in my drafts for a year

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cookinguptales · 6 months

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me this morning: idk if I'm ready to write nandermo again... I'm still so sore about s5... I'm not sure I can write a fic that's s5-compliant that still feels right...

me after reading yet another interview where paul simms says that nandor and guillermo's relationship is too profound to sully with sex: oh no I'm going to write them having sex the second I get home. I may even do it on the plane if no one buys that seat next to me. fuck s5, I no longer feel bound by the parameters you've set for me. I have reached My Breaking Point. the canon was nice for about three and a half seasons, but I'm fine, I'll take it from here.

#last time they did this I wrote the 5+1 fics #is this all just a long con to make me write more nandermo porn?#perhaps #but I am absolutely a spitefic writer so #nandermo tag #wwdits tag

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jadefyre · 1 year

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okay tumblr olds. tell me in the tags what piece(s) of media you've never seen/read/played despite them dominating your dash for months or years

#in the tags #mine are les mis and hamilton #update: also ofmd and wwdits and breaking bad

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sluggabedd · 2 years

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