#[ shanice; reference ]

[velvet4510]

Frodo/Sam (romantic) playlist, in no particular order: [and yes I’m clearly old-school…still, check these songs out, they’re too good to be forgotten!]

“I Will Follow Him” (Little Peggy March; Sam’s POV)

“Bridge Over Troubled Water” (Simon & Garfunkel; Sam’s POV)

“May I” (Trading Yesterday; Sam’s POV)

“Hold On” (Michael Bublé)

“The Story” (Brandi Carlile)

“Younger Than Springtime” (South Pacific; Frodo’s POV)

“All I Ask of You” (Josh Groban as Sam; Kelly Clarkson as Frodo)

“Because You Loved Me” (Celine Dion; Frodo’s POV)

“So Close” (Jon McLaughlin)

“I Will Always Love You” (Whitney Houston; Frodo’s POV)

“If I Never Knew You” (Jon Secada & Shanice)

“A Time for Us” (Andy Williams)

“Forever” (Mariah Carey; Frodo’s POV)

“My Heart Will Go On” (Celine Dion; Sam’s POV)

“Somewhere” (Barbra Streisand)

“A Thousand Years” (Christina Perri)

“Somewhere in Time” (Tracy Huang & Kevin Ong)

“Where Do I Begin” (Andy Williams; Frodo’s POV)

“I Was Born In Love With You” (The Mike Curb Congregation)

“Up Where We Belong” (Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes; the reference to the eagles is just perfect for these two hobbits)

“Rewrite the Stars” (Zac Efron as Sam & Zendaya as Frodo)

“Somewhere My Love” (Andy Williams; Frodo’s POV, substituting ‘Samwise’ for ‘Lara’)

“There You’ll Be” (Faith Hill; Sam’s POV)

“You Needed Me” (Anne Murray; Frodo’s POV)

“You Raise Me Up” (Josh Groban)

“We Have All the Time in the World” (Louis Armstrong; theme for Valinor reunion)

Frodo/Sam + Rosie:

“Take Her to the Moon” (Moira Dela Torre; Frodo’s POV)

[thefirstknife]

The lore for the "No Survivors" dungeon SMG has a Warsat shoot down an escape vessel full of survivors from the Arcology during the Collapse. Why would Rasputin do that?

It's in Last Days on Kraken Mare!

A scientist called Shanice Pell was working on Titan. She made a deep-space probe which she launched from Titan. As it explored, it found an "anomaly" that sent back nonsensical data. This is highly implied to be the Black Fleet. Shanice discovered the Pyramids coming over and wanted to secure her research and share it with the world.

Braytech sent a contingent of Exos to Titan, just about as the Collapse was about to go down. They were in charge of securing Shanice Pell and her research in secrecy, but the administrator of the New Pacific Arcology smuggled Shanice onto the evacuation ship. To prevent Shanice from reaching Earth and sharing her research, Braytech ordered Rasputin to shoot the ship down.

Talked a bit about that towards the end of this post, as part of the recap about research being done on Titan and to promote one of the best lore books ever which is Last Days on Kraken Mare. We don't truly know what was Shanice's research about, we are only assuming that she found the Pyramid fleet en route to the solar system. Why Braytech wanted this research silenced basically at the start of the Collapse, when it wouldn't have been able to help is anyone's guess. But keep in mind that Braytech couldn't have known when the Collapse would start so they would've wanted to prevent Shanice's research creating a panic. Little did they know, it was already too late.

Really enjoyed a reference to that in Deep.

[melatoninburst]

👥

Headcanons: accepting

Shanice and Soldan both constantly reference Tom Cardy and sing his songs together, so much so that they often reply to questions about where something is with this after waiting for just the right time and their code for if a date is going wrong is 'human centipede'.

[nightsidewrestling]

D.U.D.E Bios: Donato Santos

Billie's Third 'Baby Daddy' Don Santos (2020)

The third man to have a child with Lust herself Donato, Detective Santos is a man with morals, and used to have a drinking problem, which may be why he slept with and then fathered a child with Billie 'Lust' Lucifarian.

"NYPD, hands where... oh fuck, it's you again."

Name

Full Legal Name: Detective Donato Telmo Santos

First Name: Donato

Meaning: From the Late Latin name 'Donatus' meaning 'given'

Pronunciation: do-NA-to

Origin: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Middle Name: Telmo

Meaning: Derived from a mis-division of Spanish 'Santelmo' meaning 'Saint Elmo'

Pronunciation: TEHL-mo

Origin: Portuguese, Spanish

Surname: Santos

Meaning: Means 'Saint' in Portuguese and Spanish, ultimately from Latin 'Sanctus'

Pronunciation: SAN-tos

Origin: Portuguese, Spanish

Alias: Sam Basurto, Don Ríos, Lex Escárcega

Reason: Names used when undercover.

Nicknames: Don

Titles: Detective, Mr, Officer

Characteristics

Age: 35

Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Mozambican, American Citizen

Ethnicity: African-American

Birth Date: July 20th 1985

Symbols: Guns, Police Badges

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Religion: Christian

Native Language: Portuguese

Spoken Language: Portuguese, Swahili, English, Spanish

Relationship Status: Single

Astrological Sign: Cancer

Theme Song (Ringtone on Billie's Phone): 'Case of the Ex' -Mýa

Voice Actor: Cuba Gooding Jr.

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Palma, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique, Africa

Current Location: Concord, Erie County, New York, USA

Hometown: Springville, Concord, Erie County, New York, USA

Appearance

Height: 5'4" / 162 cm

Weight: 128 lbs / 58 kg

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Black

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: Sparse

Facial Hair: Clean Shaven

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 1

Piercings: None

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Occasional Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: None

Enemies: None

Friends: Heath Ott, Urbano Marino, Zacarías Huerta, Ivor Rhydderch, Caden McDermott, Darach Rhydderch, Faust McConnell

Colleagues: The NYPD / Too many to list

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Nuno Santos

Mentor: Nuno Santos

Significant Other: None

Previous Partners: Bienvenida Marino (37, Ex-Girlfriend), Shanice Moulin (30, Ex-Girlfriend)

Parents: Nuno Santos (61, Father), Adelaide Santos (62, Mother, Née Araújo)

Parents-In-Law: None

Siblings: Paulino Santos (41, Brother), Tatiana Coelho (38, Sister, Née Santos), Aparecida Cabral (32, Sister, Née Santos), Zeferino Santos (29, Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: Carina Santos (42, Paulino's Wife, Née Soares), Ramiro Coelho (39, Tatiana's Husband), Sancho Cabral (33, Aparecida's Husband)

Nieces & Nephews: Amaro Santos (18, Nephew), Jovita Santos (15, Niece), Marco Santos (12, Nephew), Iria Santos (9, Niece), Benigno Coelho (15, Nephew), Rosa Coelho (12, Niece), Avelino Coelho (9, Nephew), Albina Coelho (6, Niece), Faustino Cabral (9, Nephew), Isidora Cabral (6, Niece), Ivo Cabral (3, Nephew)

Children: Triana Santos-Marino (11, Daughter), Zaire Santos-Moulin (10, Son)

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: N/A

Trainer: N/A

Managers: N/A

Wrestlers Managed: N/A

Debut: N/A

Debut Match: N/A

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: N/A

Stables: N/A

Teams: N/A

Regular Moves: N/A

Finishers: N/A

Refers To Fans As: N/A

Extras

Backstory: Born in Mozambique and moving to America at the age of 16, Donato has never lived a lavish life. He always aspired to protect those without the means to protect.

Trivia: Nothing of note

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[ineffably-human]

I can't get too mad about the Marwa thing. I can understand why it freaks people out, I understand the implications it could have and why instead of being something darkly absurdist, that hits some buttons for people they can't ignore. I can see where it failed, though frankly I haven't seen a single suggestion of an alternative that actually satisfies what this storyline is meant to do. And this storyline is very much meant to do something.

Maybe I was already ready to come out swinging about this because people have just flat out made things up about this character and this situation the whole season. I chew a little more drywall every time I hear a new statement that just never actually happened.

This has gotten very VERY long, please have a cut.

Let's look at pre-the Wedding Wish first:

Nandor did not 'slowly chip away' at Marwa's personality, he made one wish that altered it after she very barely had one to start with.

If this show is good at anything, it's giving us a very strong sense of who a character is over very little time. We can map out a history of Jan just from the photos on her wall. We get a sense of Shanice from her reading of a bottle of medicine and one small monologue about her Mosquito Collector motives. Gail, Meg, Charmaine, The Contessa, Coco, Nandor's wife answering questions by the gazebo with the name I forget, most of these female characters have fewer appearances than Marwa and varying degrees of plot importance but we have at least a half-decent sense of who they are.

But Marwa was the last wife standing after Nandor ruled out everything even slightly objectionable about the others because of how self-destructively insecure and selfish he is. She is never portrayed like a complete person with an inner life to begin with, all the better for him to project this obsession with a perfect past love that almost certainly didn't exist. (Or at least not how Nandor remembers them.) From a Doylist perspective, she could never have shown off more than a hint of who she was/used to be, by design.

The first thing we learn about Marwa is not her scientific space discoveries. The first thing we learn is that while she is first saying her name, Nandor cuts her off and she lets him do it without even blinking. She recites the one fact about her life like she's saying a bio in a playbill. She says she's grateful she found such an intelligent man, for some reason, so she doesn't really understand who she's marrying even if they've been together before. I've heard people observe in later episodes she stands like a Sim - but to me she seemed very flat and robotic in her first appearance.

You guys, learning about this plot I was ready for a person with a personality, I was ready for either wacky poly shenanigans or a whole-ass emotional affair, believe me. Do you know how many songs from Aida I had queued up? And I remember wondering why Marwa didn't feel 'real' to me, not even over-the-top real the way the vampires do. The people saying she was there to be an obstacle to Nandor and Guillermo baffle me, because the moment we meet her, the one thing that's clear to us is Nandor didn't find his great past love. He found a random person. One who is just off the radar enough that she was the last one left. The Baron flat-out refers to her as "the beautiful and charming what's-her-name."

Until the girls' night (which is post-wish), Marwa never exists outside the room Nandor is in. After her brief introduction, she never says anything in that first half of the season that's not about Nandor. There is almost zero difference between that and Go Flip Yourself's litany of "I agree with my husband." Meanwhile Nandor is constantly snapping at her, ignoring her existence, leaving her behind. So she's either a terrible judge of character or will allow fucking anything from this man from the start.

Why yes that is horrible! Pack your bags and escape, etc! But it's not a full, vibrant character who Nandor later whittles down to nothing. Nandor whittled the wives down to Marwa. Because this plot is about his inability to think about other people or have the maturity to be in a true relationship.

The wedding wish, the only one that explicitly makes a long-term change to Marwa's mind, Nandor makes because she voices the first preferences/desires we've heard from her the whole time. At the very least this is new behavior. But Nandor's trying to micromanage flower arrangements on a week of no sleep, not tame a willful person into a submissive doll.

He's a self-obsessed moron so his takeaway when she finally voices her doubts at the wedding is something like "oh shit, she didn't even really want to be with me" - but he's a coward and hey now she does! She even said so! At this big huge wedding he invited everyone to, and that no one believes in! So he doubles down. He has been convincing himself he's in love this whole time, now he's convincing himself it's going awesome with this person he feels basically stuck with.

---

Now, as far as post-Wedding Wish is concerned:

"Like all the same things I like," going by the exact phrasing, doesn't have to get rid of what she likes that Nandor is neutral on. It doesn't have to change anything else about her personality or behavior. It doesn't even mean she has to want all the same things he wants, it certainly doesn't mean she has to do the things he does or to robotically repeat that she agrees with him. I was ready for Marwa to take up sword fighting and bossing Guillermo around and teach Nandor how completely fucking insufferable he can be sometimes, but that isn't what happened either. She feels half there because she was always half there.

Yeah, there's a consent issue, and I feel like the show goes out of its way to show there's nothing sexual going on. The one time they talk about having sex, the Dick Wish screws it up. Nandor walks away in disgust from some very half-hearted dancing about their wedding night. Marwa sleeps in a separate bunk bed in the attic. Between the choice of a bedroom for the two of them and a place where he can be away from her completely (and get fucked by guys and watch Guillermo use the bathroom), Nandor chooses the man cave.

We have two episodes with Marwa after the wish and before 'Freddie'. Ironically, they are the most personality and agency she has had the entire time, they are the events people most often cite about how we "got to know her". (What exactly did we get to know?) And she doesn't seem to hate Nandor even secretly, they just are extremely awkward and bored together. She seems genuinely hopeful that Nandor likes the man cave but since she likes privacy just as much now, and she's not liking a marriage he isn't liking, she tricks him and makes it into her own space.

And the specific Freddie wish is that he wants to turn her into "an exact copy" of Freddie in terms of "looks, personality, everything." Freddie then proceeds to introduce himself to Nandor as if he never met him, and treats Guillermo as if he's a stranger. We could speculate Marwa is in there screaming to get out, sure, but...why would we? We are in a Ship of Theseus situation, where every part of her was replaced. There is no reason that she'd still be there. And there wasn't much of her there to start with.

The 'real' Marwa lived hundreds of years ago, we have no idea what she wanted or how she felt about her life, we have no idea how long her life went on before she died. (Or if she's even dead! She could be one of those vampires in Nandor's village at this point!) But she had her life. It already happened. Anything that happened from the moment Nandor resurrected her (which is already kind of a horrifying act, it just wasn't played as one) was already, as AV Club brilliantly put it, an extension of his own selfish desires.

I could say the djinn's version of Marwa was sort of a doll reduced to her most basic traits. I could say as someone resurrected to be nothing more than the object of 'someone's wife', she was freaking delighted to have Nandor's preferences filling up an empty space for her to use as she liked. I could say she's a fake wife the djinn invented as a decoy. Or that she stops existing whenever she leaves the room. Or that the wish just basically re-deaded her and she'd have been fine with that.

Any of those things would have just as much evidence as what people are speculating instead.

--- I get why you can fill in the worst possible thing in the blanks. There's so much to fill in about exactly who Marwa was, exactly what got changed about her, and whether any aspect of her is left. I think they may have left so much ambiguous to make it less uncomfortable, and instead left everyone thinking about the worst possible version of events.

There also aren't a lot of female characters on this show, and no regular female characters of color, and that is absolutely a deficit the show needs to make up for. Because I truly believe they write great female characters when they're actually trying to write them. Having those other examples would have made a plot like this so much less uncomfortable to watch. But Marwa could have never been that representation, because of what this plot is meant to be about. This plot isn't about Nandermo, or even about Nandor's search for romance at all. This is about all of Nandor's worst tendencies, how he's his own worst enemy.

Because this is probably what Nandor has done his entire life. As a human being Nandor was more of a monster than he is as a literal monster. Like I keep saying, he pillaged, he violently took what he wanted and left the rest to burn. We're told in this last episode that he disemboweled tons of civilians for a tapestry. (A tapestry that, in a cut line from the leaked audition script, he didn't even really like much. If that isn't a metaphor for his shiny object syndrome...)

Even if every single marriage he had was someone in love with him who wanted to be with him, he probably did some version of this: was drawn in very suddenly by the parts he liked (or invented in his head), had a very selfish, empty version of a love affair, got annoyed when things were inconvenient or difficult, and then moved on to the next shiny object.

Freddie is Wife 38 with extra steps, compounded by the djinn lamp being a magic pleasure machine - the exact worst thing to give to a warlord used to taking what he wants (and then being praised for it by everyone around him). His feelings about both Marwa and Freddie are very shallow, and also very real to Nandor in the moment and take up a lot of emotional energy. The 'love' for Freddie would have faded and left him feeling just as hollow.

We just saw the vicious cycle of his life in fast motion, in a way that ends in disaster for everyone involved. (Do you think we'd have gotten Guillermo's horrified 'what the hell is wrong with you' if we weren't supposed to be thinking that right there with him?) The difference here is that we see Nandor made a change. He understands something about love, he thinks outside himself. He does what he believes would make Marwa, 'his' Freddie, and Guillermo happiest. This season is about change.

(I want to point out, also: there's no reason Nandor getting physically beaten up would teach him anything. As a warrior, if anything he'd double down. Guillermo's genuine pain and heartbreak in the midst of what he's done is the only thing that would have gotten through to him. And it did. The hard zoom in on "what I did was...wrong" is because we almost never see him admit those things or apologize in the first place, it's meant to both say 'no shit' and emphasize that this is pretty huge for him.)

Again, I'm not saying this is okay. None of this is okay. It's not supposed to be. It's played for absurdity but it isn't played as meaningless, when the show has been playing much more horrible things for laughs for years.

I'm just saying that a lot of what people are bothered by doesn't really support the facts. It takes everything to its worst conclusion and then acts like that's both supposed to be our takeaway, and we're supposed to find it just great. Of course we aren't. If we were, Nandor would have packed Marwa's bags and made a Freddie clone. He and Guillermo would have gotten into a competition about who could date Freddie the best that would be about their own sexual tension or something. There are many many ways to turn this into something feel-good, and they chose not to.

(Not least because any of those ideas would have left out a lot of what this episode says about narcissism, codependency, Guillermo's own concealing of his identity, the way love means seeing a complete person who exists outside yourself...)

And many, many different staff writers wrote this storyline across the entire season. A number of which were women, several of which were women of color. One of those women of color is Middle Eastern and another is the co-showrunner. Of course women can write misogyny and people of color can write racism, but that also means there's no monolith of identity where the right people with the right identity will feel the right way about something at any given time, and there's only one response to have. The fuckup here, however large or small you believe it to be, did not happen because of two white guys writing this one script secretively in the dead of night.

So, I don't know. That's me. Please consider what was actually being written here, and what we actually saw, and not your headcanons or your subverted expectations. Or the things that built up in your head during the months of leaked material. And if it still makes you too uncomfortable to keep watching, then don't! But I don't think it was thoughtless or pointless, at all. Plus, literally any character can come back in this show, and they often do. So who knows what we'll see as a result of this.

[danepopfrippery]

What We Do in the Shadows: A Rewatch Part 2

Now for the lgbtqi fans: I wanted to go down the Nandor Guillermo route. One fan asked if straights really didnt read Guillermo as gay originally. I can only speak for my boring straight ass but no I didnt. I just take TV as it comes to me, so I dont read into any of it. But unlike what I hear are some shitty reddit fans, I would strongly disagree that the vampires are straight. They have all basically openly admitted to fucking any and every gender and have bi yearly orgies (which Nadja says is ‘ok’ only lol). In fact you could even argue the only really monogamous leaning one is Nadja, as she tries to resist Jesk and never does more than kiss him. But she doesnt seem to care what Laszlo gets up to (literally any and everything) tho she did seem shocked he was dumb enough to fuck ‘anything with long brown hair’ incl Nandor (2X9). I don’t think u can really roll with this show if you aren’t open to all of that.

As for Guillermo he was the general sexless blob in season 1. Season 2 they seemed to be steering him towards women, having him reference if hed stayed at Panera he might have a gf by now. In The Curse (2X4) hes like the action hero saving Shanice. Which can we stop and discuss how ungodly awful she is as a character? I’ve enjoyed every character on this show except her. She doesnt have a real stutter, shes just really bad at speaking. And shes fucking annoying. God I hate her. He should have let her die. But hes too sweet. Thankfully thats the last we’ve seen of her since.

I remember reading an interview towards the end of Season 2 when the interviewer asked Harvey if Guillermo may get his panera bread girlfriend, or what did he want to see. He said nah, and then stated he was gay. I was a little surprised because I just never thought about it. But after that the writers seemed to go full Nandermo which hey why not?

I think Guillermo as a whole character read as just nothing especially to me was the orgy ep hes just dying of embarrassment (grew up VERY catholic) and then stated he wouldnt be partaking cuz he doesnt do anything with anyone. But then when he ran away to the fake vampire (Collaboration 2X8) he seemed...down with the orgy idea but left his dicky on at the least. BTW contrasting Shanice, the best random character is Sam the Cat and I’d like to see more of him. Of course Nandor has eaten cats so hes prbly wise to stay away. As for them as anything well, unlike the nandermo fans Im not holding much hope as an actual plot point. I’m convinced Nandor literally sees him as basically one step below Ja-han (his beloved horse). In the first ep of Season 3 Nandor is the only one to really take pity on Guillermo. He had in the past (checking in on him and trying to win him back in 2X8). He warms some raw chicken for him, keeps them all from immediately killing him for a month lol. When they decide not to kill him and four way hypnotize him, Guillermo thanks them and says he sees them as family. Nandor cuts him off and is like ‘yeah no one cares about ur life story.’ When he says his ‘promotion’ isnt much of dick, Nadja states its better than being dead and ‘bloody better’ than being a familiar. So basically to them familiars are all but dead...they think very little of them. This has been stated several times before, which also shows why before Benji we had not met a familiar turned vampire (but Nandor ONLY did it for Guillermo, which was sweet).

When Guillermo does run away again (2X10) Nadja muses this is why you don’t get close to humans, they either leave or die and muses the cameraman looks like he’ll die soon (I think he said he was 27 lol). Living for 700 years really skews your viewpoint. Nadja is prbly about 500 years old (Nandor is 700 and destroyed her village ‘200 years before she was born’) and assuming they had a familiar for at least 50 years thats 10. But they went thru 10 like in 2019 lololol so shes prbly even more jaded than the avg vampire.

Ja-han (John but basically ‘my universe’ according to people who speak Persian) was Nandor’s horse he loved so much it kept his spirit from moving on. I get it...I tried picturing being in a survival setting and having to kill one of my cats for food. I’d rather die. So hes braver than I am. (Yes Im sure my cats would eat me if it came down to it but their welcome to it).

So we basically open Season 3 on 11 years of Guillermo being there, and Nandor mostly missing him for his slave duties at first, then kinda actually caring about him. I just really vibe it as like your pet, you’re special little guy who is not on your level. I do think when S3 opens and Guillermo references codependency, I do think thats for ALL of them. Some of those assassins were nowhere near Nandor (clean more quietly Im trying to sleep!) but he still saved Laszlo and Nadja.

Its in ep 2 with the cloak Im convinced Guillermo actually realized he cares about Nandor in a more than boss/friend way. He seems shocked when Meg suggests that. What he made of those thoughts afterwards we don’t really know. But when Gail enters the picture again I think he realizes he might need to do with it sooner than later, especially when the ring is brought out. By the Casino ep Guillermo is about to state hes gay before he gets cut off.

I dont think Nandor even realized he fully was in crisis until they ascended the council. Nadja asks wtf is wrong with him, given his love of ceremony (all mail opened in the fancy room) and now hes just mush. He, like Guillermo, seemed confused. Also like Guillermo, he seemed to not look in the house, but outward.

I dont put much stock in that dick fondling scene (omfg that was a ride...and I think mostly fully had us distracted from the actual main plot point). Guillermo finds semen everywhere (2X9 Witches) and MAKES A BUSINESS OFF OF IT. He was also tasked with the orgy prep and I cant imagine Nandor put all those dildos on his own (boy theres a scene we could have used seeing lololol). Someone on here noted he had the dupe body and broke the door down as Nandor was plowing Gail. So I think dick size isnt news to Guillermo...never mind the pantsless dancing in the Gail ep. Someone also said they thought the esteemed vampires heard Guillermo and Nandor arguing (heightened senses) so the fondling scene was just to fuck with him. I like that theory...it vibes with canon. Also very David Cross thing to do.

If all the footage from the preview ad is new, I think the sexy fight scene between Guillermo and Nandor is about him proposing to Gail yet again. Because theres a shot of that and according to Nadja he does that shit all the time. Maybe Gail accepts. Guillermo would not be thrilled (guardian of his heart after all). Also frankly traveling alone is enough of a reason...this man literally didnt know how to pay at a grocery store cash wrap (first ep). How he’d make it is beyond me. I dont think he could see Delaware on his own and be okay lololol.

If there is to be any Nandermo I think it would be next season. Guillermo is his bodyguard but the vampires all constantly forget it and only rarely treat him as above a familiar (basically a slave that shouldnt be seen or heard). Guillermo would have to do something to really put him on equal footing before I think Nandor would even acknowledge that possibility. The fight could do it...someone here noted they would be pretty equally matched (Nandor has super vampire strength and Guillermo is crazy vampire killing talented). Probably one of the only times Nandor looked genuinely proud of him is when he was full vampire rampage in the finale of season 2 (look out behind you!) It was short lived tho (who cares you didnt pick up the fucking laundry lololol).

Whelp 4 more days. I’ll prbly do one more rewatch. God I love this show. Next year wont be soon enough!

[purpledaisiesthings]

How did I spend my weekend? I went and got myself into yet another ship🤦🏾‍♀️. Logan/Shanice.

Lol one episode I like Logan then the next he gets me frustrated😩. He turned it around for me in episode 8 though. Just hope it stays that way. I think it's a general consensus that we don't wanna hear him refer to that "letter" ever again😆

Lol I found it funny how Shanice was ready to drop Andre the moment she thought Logan wanted a second chance. I know it seemed like they ended things or moved on in that scene but na, those two still love each other and will always do. Both were jealous when they saw the other with someone else (even though Logan didnt have a right to be smh). I think she kinda insinuated that she was with Andre because she thought he (Logan) didn't want to be with her. Then of course Logan remarried when he accepted he would no longer be with his first love. I mean c'mon 😥

He needed to heal, to get closure from all the yrs of pain. She was able to finally take off her ring and also "move on". I'm actually glad that scene happened. I would definitely have hated it if it ended in them getting back together while he was still married. I do hate a love triangle or in this case a love square?🤔 Anyways, I still think it might eventually end up being that. Bridget and Andre would be casualties.😥

Ooooh I also like Jharrel and Claudette. They are really cute😊 and I want to see more of them.

[thefirstknife]

I saw your answer to someone else's question about an Arcology evacuation ship being shot down in the lore for the new dungeon SMG, and I'd like to add that in the grenade launcher lore it is explained that *all* the evacuation ships were being shot down. Perhaps Rasputin was also trying to cover up everything happening on Titan in general?

You're right, had to re-read it. I thought that one also referred only to the one shot down ship, but on another read, it says there's multiple:

So we know why one of them was shot down, but no clue about the rest. A possible explanation is that this evacuation wave consisted of multiple ships in that specific moment and they didn't know which one Shanice on exactly.

The exotic from this season, Centrifuse, mentions more of Pell's research:

Since Dr. Pell's breakthrough on methods of magnetic containment last year, we've successfully stabilized multiple ionic reactors. They have allowed us to expand our division's plasma technology work beyond research into development…

This was proposed to be used for power suits that could better sustain diving, but the scientist that logged this report feared it would be used to develop weapons. As of now, it's unclear if this also played a part in Braytech wanting to be absolutely sure they remove Shanice out of the equation, which would possibly explain why they fired upon multiple evacuation ships, if they weren't sure which one she's on exactly.

But if there's any other motive, we currently don't know about it. Thanks for sending, I completely skipped over that "craft" in this instance is being used as plural.

[melatoninburst]

👫 - yeets Luis & Leon uwu

Headcanons: accepting

Shanice, sarcastically refers to them both as pretty boy when they snark her because she thinks it's funny, it's only when she called out the name and they both turned around that she realized she needed to get them better nicknames if she's going to be sarcastic. She's circling through some to see what lands now.

Given that Leon lets them both climb him, Shanice does a quick check after to make sure he can handle both of their weight but once she knows he's fine, she offers him a snack from her bag as thanks.

Luis gets to borrow Shanice's lighter, she doesn't use it for anything but candles, but if he finds cigarettes, she'll offer it up to him- she can't stand the smell of the smoke, though, so she leaves him to it after giving it to him. If he gives her it back or not doesn't matter, unless...they find a scented candle somehow, then she'll get super excited and ask for it back.

Shanice: Why don't we just get to a safe place and blow everything up? Luis and Leon: Leon: Okay, that solidifies that we're never letting you make the plans for us.

[annas-2021-advanced-painting]

https://walkerart.org/magazine/5-artists-expanding-the-painting-field-from-the-midwest

Could be interesting for all of you, but specifically for @spicycurrycrab. Your research field could be looking at ‘expanded painting’, or artists whose work refers to painting, but may break apart the traditional materials, or substitute them with others (eg sculptural or textile materials)

The ‘Pattern and decoration’ movement may also be a good research reference point for you Shanice

[zukosgay]

hi, I'd actually love to hear your wwdits hot takes, if you'd like to talk about them

ohhh booy, alright alright, here we go then.

let’s start with a little less controversial (unpopular?) opinion: i know in the show it’s all big talk about nandor and his fighting/army skills but i actually think the guy doesn’t know shit about one to one hand combat because 1. every time he tries to be badass he fails and 2. i think he was one of those army leaders that would send their guys out to do the carnage and he would reap the awards just by standing somewhere off to the side. he’s not good at it - he’s never been good at it. it’s why he was so reluctant to battle that werewolf in s1. all show and no tell. i’ve seen a few posts describing him as a retired badass and i would just like to say that to me he’s just retired. it’s like, badass? The guy who couldn’t rip a piece of plastic from a wall? That guy?? Nadja could probably beat him in a fight cuz he’d get performance anxiety cuz his entire shtick revolves around being this relentless soldier people write poems about

yeah, that’s p much all i got for non-controversial opinions. now onto the others

first off, i think this show should introduce a black character, and not just as an extra but as a kinda regular like simon the devious etc. it’s seriously lacking in that regard. also, i recently just found out that kayvan novak used to do blackface as “comedy” and iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. am not a fan of that.

i think they didn’t really resolve guillermo’s slayer sl as neatly as they thought they did? i know it was a 2 episode deal but that whole slayer team had so much potential for it to never be talked about. i was really hoping that maybe the dude they left at the disco vamps would come back to bite them in the ass, or sth. i really liked claude (and shanice as well, honestly, tho i was kinda scared they would pair her with guillermo), i liked claude obviously admiring guillermo (gay mayhaps?) and i’m sad it just. ended. like that.

i didn’t like nadja’s development this season either, last season she had a bigger role with the whole gregor sl and her turning another vampire, but this season she was just... there, kinda. all her storylines were about her WITH laszlo, while laszlo got his own little runaway sl. and let’s be honest nadja’s character is a whole lot more interesting than her husband’s (no offense)

this ties into the fact that i didn’t really like laszlo all that much this season either? maybe the whole “u haven’t gone down on me in 200 years” comment soured the mood LMAO, but i think calling nadja and laszlo’s relationship a poly marriage would do it a disservice since nadja was obviously hurt about laszlo “cheating” on her in the witches’ episode, and laszlo saying “haha nandor let’s jerk each other off and tell no one about it” - the latter part being important here. also nadja banning him from their room. like, it would’ve been fine if nadja had gotten any good scenes this season, but she didn’t. it wasn’t eve brought up again.

the witch episode was also a little all over the place, altho it had some funny themes going for it. it felt a little like a “lookie how much sexual/outrageous humor we can put in our show! isn’t this original??” without resolving the sl in any concrete way.

and another thing: I felt a little cheapened at the “homosexual vampiric activity” this season. to me it felt like short moments of representation without any real consequences to the story - and i also didn’t like that they included laszlo jerking off his own damn ghost in that. yes, all their vampires are pansexual, as they’ve said, but how come laszlo seems to be the only one who gets to express that? where’s my gfs for nadja??? (i also missed jenna, rip)

it also doesn’t sit well with me that the main source of representation we got was “hypersexual husband in a relationship with a woman who occasionally has sex with dudes”. like, that isn’t a bad thing, per se, i’d just like a little bit more ~flavor than that to my representation, you know? where’s our shy, romantic homosexual vampiric activity?? (which basically is just me saying: CONFIRM GUILLERMO AS GAY AND GIVE HIM A BOYFRIEND. OR A DATE. A FLING. FOR ONE EPISODE. just.... anything, please.) i get why they’re reluctant to make nandermo canon, but i lit rally don’t care if they keep them just subtext if they give us just one (1) guy that fawns over guillermo, cuz he deserves it ((((i really liked him and claude in those two episodes)))). 

i deserve little a wlw and romantic gay rep next season. as a treat.

also, i don’t mind them dragging guillermo’s secret out till the last minute, but i would’ve preferred for them to kick-start the plot a little more. and with that i mean guillermo being turned into a vampire is inevitable and idk if the writers are just scared of their comedy formula forming? but just THINK of the comedic potential vamp guillermo could have. the blade references. guillermo’s lineage making it so he keeps accidentally almost staking himself. guillermo injuring himself mildly and the vamps freak out cuz they possess -10 brain cells between them and think he’s dying RIGHT NOW, IMMEDIATELY, DO SOMETHING NANDOR. and nandor tries to turn guillermo but it just... doesn’t work during the first few tries cuz guillermo’s van helsing blood is just like “you know what? Nope. Not happening. Not on MY watch, young man” (please, please, let nandor be self-conscious if he’s infertile. let them go to the equivalent of a vampire pregnancy clinic. i’m still in love with that idea.) again, guillermo being turned into a vampire after he’s spent a decade pining over it and has just now come to the realization that he’d much rather be a vampire slayer or some kinda businessman? tasty.

((i also didn’t really like nadja’s wig this season D: or like, i’m assuming it was a wig looking at season 1 with her natural brown hair. i just miss that :’())

oh gosh these points really make it seem like i HATED the season, i didn’t, i thought it was hilarious (the humor was more character-based and less general ‘vamp humor’ like in s1, which i liked), it got me thru quarantine and for that i’m both grateful and scared how i’ll handle the hiatus. i just had some #thots and since like 5 separate people told me they’d be interested to hear about my hot takes...  🤷🏻‍♀️💅🏻

[mrsbillycranston]

A few people who need to guest star next season on What We Do in the Shadows (at least in my opinion);

1. Sarah Michelle Gellar. She doesn’t even need to play a slayer, in fact it might be funnier if she didn’t. Just her presence would be enough of a reference. Maybe she’s an old high school teacher of Guillermo’s, a sort of play on the Watcher character? Or like that’s what Guillermo thinks is happening, that he’s getting a mentor, but it turns out she knows nothing about vampires. She carries garlic because she really likes it on her food and cooks a lot in her spare time, has a cross because she’s just really religious, etc.

2. Brett McKenzie: Brett is the quietest of the quartet of Most Famous New Zealand Men (which is completed by Taika, Jemaine, and Rhys). And he doesn’t act much, mostly just coming out of the woodwork every now and then to win an Oscar for writing music for the Muppets. But if he could be persuaded in front of the camera, he wouldn’t have to do much but be “Brett, a musician from New Zealand who lives in New York” for a few minutes and we would all go crazy. At least I would. Would be cool if he interacted with Jemaine as Vlad, but not required. 

3. Jonah Hill: Honestly, this just plays into my burning desire to see Jenna back as a character. Jonah (Beanie’s actual brother) plays Jenna’s older brother, who Shanice is still trying to convince that his sister has been turned into a vampire. 

[theroleofimagination]

Do you have the gifs of the netherlands match where Viv picks up Shanice with one arm?

Guessing you're referring to this gifset from @dutch-nt:

[kickassviv]

I’m still wheezing over the fact that the leeuwinnen insta crossed out annika and put merel to reference the video with shackie and shanice where vds didn’t know the sister’s name, I just 😭😭😭

onsoranje being iconic yet again