#wwdits baron

[redjellybean233]

I drew the Baron :) I haven’t actually watched wwdits yet but I’ve seen edits of him

[yes-i-can-hear-you-clemfandango]

Okay but I want a Baron/Sire/hellhound spinoff too

My favorite cute old couple and their doggo

The Sire is so cute I love his little smile and his laugh and his popsicle stick house models and his sad existential crisis poetry and his and the Baron’s house that looks like something out of the 50s I need them please

[stargazingbitch]

I love this creepy weird all monsters family with my entire heart

I'm in love with the green and orange tones in this shot. The vibes the mood I'm obsessed with them.

[foundinthevoid]

The Baron!

[zozo-moss]

Started drawing wwdits fanart but don't have motivation to finish...

[hikarielizabethbloom]

It was such a journey 🤣

And the Guide is just enjoying the show 🤣

[doushitemacaron]

SO SO SO AGREE.

Like they didn't have to get cheesy with it and make the very last scene sappy; they could have put a good line anywhere in the last episode or last season even, but how did they completely fail to hit any emotional closure at all!!

I get that 'oh it's a comedy' 'oh nothing changes' BULLSHIT. You're still allowed to have characters reach new understandings for real, even if they continue doing the same things as before—their reasons are allowed to change!

And, honestly, after six years of being some of the strongest queer representation in media, and INTENTIONALLY attracting a queer audience, the story and the fans deserved a more direct portrayal of emotional resolution.

jsyk, there was an actual sincere closing line that condensed the thesis statement for the whole show and tied up the emotional arcs of the characters for the finale.

it was said in season 5's episode, The Roast:

edit @beaulesbian

[theydevildesigns]

is this him

[actordougjones]

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: TV Academy voting members, Emmy nomination voting is open now until Monday, June 23, and this old “wampire” would love to have you find him in the Outstanding Guest Star Comedy category 🙏🏻🧛‍♂️❤️.

#FYC #whatwedointheshadows #WWDITS #dougjones #baronafanas #thebaron 

[once-upon-a-time-and-space]

The Baron with his family

What We Do In The Shadows 6.09 | Come Out and Play

[doushitemacaron]

So agreed.

Despite having a main cast of five queer people, not a single one of them are in a textual queer romantic relationship at the end of the show. The only recurring character in a stable queer relationship is the Baron with the Sire.* There are NO textual queer romantic relationships at all at the end of the show. And this is despite the show having no problems portraying a very clear, very heterosexual relationship throughout the entire run.

(But I mean, score one for monster-fuckers, I guess?)

ETA

* So. I thought this was a textual confirmed relationship the first time I watched the show, but when I saw the confusion online, I went back and rewatched the scene in s5.08 The Roast where the Baron is talking about his life to clarify and got even more pissed off.

I thought the "we're more like roommates" quote was actually them canon confirming the relationship. Obviously being a joke about how domestic they are that they don't have sex anymore, like the joke for long term established couples, thus implying the expectation is that everyone already knows they are together.

HOWEVER, the full quote is "we are more like roommates than roommates who viciously murder humans together," instead of just leaving the comparison implied and thus not to ANOTHER FORM OF ROOMATES.

Trying to establish that everyone thinks they're just roommates? What is even the point of this performative heteronormativity with such textually queer characters?

They even could have kept the same joke if they'd just said anything other than establishing roommates as the expectation: "than vampires who viciously murder..." "than terrors" "monsters".

But no. They had to explicitly undercut their own already comedic set up. Two ancient vampires playing house together is arguably funnier if they take it all the way rather than insisting on maintaining some level of "roommates".

It was so blatant that they were together, I didn't even question that they might be still trying to hand wave it Not Gay (TM), which was, apparently, giving the show runners WAY too much credit.

They couldn't even fully commit to a background queer couple. That's garbage.

What the crap. What is the point.

What is the point of a queer-positive show that still ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to give real representation?

They give queer sex representation, sure, that's funny. Long term heterosexual relationships? Of course, main cast AND background (Sean and his wife). But an actual ongoing healthy romantic homosexual relationship? No that's too far.

It really drives home how amazing Our Flag Means Death actually was for queer representation. When that came out, the show runners were astounded that people didn't expect Stede and Blackbeard to actually kiss. (I was one of the pleasantly surprised watchers!)

We were EXPECTING to be baited because of shit like this.

Because of so much of even the "queer-positive" media out there still INSISTS on withholding FULLY COMMITTED representation.

The show runners for What We Do In The Shadows chose to write a show about queer people and then chose to give none of them queer romantic relationships. What are they really saying about our society and media landscape that they felt that was a better choice?

There is still work to be done my friends.

ok. I've sat with the final season a bit and need to rewatch it, and I have a lot of complaints *and* a lot of things I liked about it, and I think in the end the complaints are more structural and they drag down my enjoyment of the likes. RE: nandermo though, there just seems to be this overall sentiment from both the creators and people in the fandom that somehow their being shown as more directly romantically involved/headed that direction would "ruin" the show or something, or it would be just "not right". And I'm just like, eh really? Are we sure? I just can't wrap my head around how it would "ruin" the show. With the way this season went, it would have needed to span the course of an entire season to get there, but it absolutely wouldn't have ruined anything. It could have been easily executed in a way that 1. didn't disrupt the comedy and 2. wasn't OOC for anyone, right? There are even a lot of ways they could have made it funny without being mean spirited. The sentiment is weird, especially for this like "queer show" where it's such a Big Deal that it's a "queer show"- I think perhaps a visibly queer couple in the main cast wouldn't...hurt lol. (Yes laszlo and nadja are queer yes i'm bisexual no i'm not discounting them you know what I'm saying when I say visibly queer). Time and time again throughout television history, people watching a show (justifiably) give the show a queer reading among other readings, and a large response is always "no these two blorbo bros love each other very deeply in a way that transcends time and space and all... but a kiss would be cheap and gross". Or something along those lines, ykwim? And now they're doing that with objectively queer characters too lol...saying "it would ruin it/be unpure/etc" is not a believable excuse for two characters not being together in an explicit way. And because that seems to be the motivation for the treatment of nandermo from interviews I've seen, it feels uncomfortable and insincere that it all ended up this way. Oh, and a lot of that "their bond is deeper" shit does not come from a place of genuine reflection of the problematic nature of the depiction of romance on film and in fiction broadly. Seeing as this is a show about murderous perverted vampires who only protect their own, I don't think it would kill the show to have toxic romance in it either lmao like come on

Another response I see to people unsatisfied with nandermo's presentation/conclusion is "this isn't a romance show, relationships aren't the core of the show, it's a comedy, it's about bad vampires, etc etc" and I'm like yeah...you're right...so why would more-romantically-presented-nandermo ruin any of that? Like explain in detail how the presence of nandermo or the presence of romance contradicts comedy or vampirism etc? Well you can't lol

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey spreading a lovely holiday message from the Shadows family.

[nandorelentlessdelacruz]

So domestic <3

[tashdemetriou]

What We Do in the Shadows + Text Posts [1/?]

[unraveling-fast-its-true]

That's what I've been saying

[ambresin]

The Baron really said "I respect drama more than any vampire tradition" and left it at that