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OMG YES 😍😍😍😍😍

WOAHIE MAMA

Belly dancer memo where Guillermo dances for nandor instead of Colin

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This is the best thing ever 😂😂😂💖💖💖

this may not be a wwdits blog, but my boyfriend and I dubbed the pilot episode yesterday and I thought I'd share it here! will probably share the whole thing soon, but this ended up being our favorite (and funniest, imo) scene we did

enjoy LOL

voice creds:

• nandor played by me / wonderbreadog (ig)

•guillermo played by hoodiesartandtea (ig)

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💯💯💯💯👍👍👍👍

(I even used all the op's tags, I agree with this so hard)

Alright look. As mad as I am about the constant shipbaiting and the way Nandermo as a whole is treated by the cast and writers/directors, I am willing to look past it. I will be okay with Nandermo as a super special bromance with no sex or kissing or whatever. IF

AND ONLY IF.

They actually have the goddamn BALLS to commit to it. Because Nandor's entire arc revolves around being unhappy and lonely as a vampire. He wants companionship, he wants to be loved, he wants someone he can spend his eternal life with. We can already tell Guillermo fills that role, but I want NANDOR to realize that. I want him to fucking. Tell Guillermo. That he is his person. And it can be as platonic and chaste as the showrunners goddamn please as long as it happens. Because anything less would mean none of the character development Nandor underwent in the past 5 seasons would matter.

I'm already not happy with the direction they're going with making Guillermo human, but I can understand it. Guillermo thought being a vampire would solve all his life problems and make him happy, just like Nandor thought traveling would, thought getting married would, thought ANYTHING he's done would make him truly happy. They are two sides of the same fucked up coin, and their arcs are so inherently tied together that they HAVE to stick together. Because anything less would fall flat.

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YES. THIS. 👆👆👆👏👏👏💜💜💜💜

We already know the ending of What We Do In The Shadows the show. The movie told us.

Spoilers from both the movie (2014) and the show (2024)

I think it’s obvious when Taika and Jemaine set out to make an American version of their vampire comedy, they weaved a lot of the same storylines into the show. We have vampire roommates, werewolves (not swearwolves) , familiars, an ancient vampire, vampire hypnosis, and a camera crew.

All the same ideas exist from movie to show, just presented differently.

Guillermo, the familiar turned vampire hunter turned bodyguard turned vampire turned back to human, is a combination of the movie’s familiar and vampire Hunter roles. I believe he’s also the love interest, Katherine.

I think the show, while becoming it’s own thing entirely, has a deep connection to the movie. I think they’ve been trying to follow viago’s love interest storyline since the show switched hands from Taika and Jemaine to Paul Simms.

While probably not known to most, Paul was instrumental in bringing the show over to the States, having helped to fund it.

He was already in the world of Shadows, and while I haven’t agreed on the way he’s said things and some direction the show had taken (season 4 had some growing pains), I do believe he’s understood the heart of the show.

Which is why I think they took such a dramatic shift in season 4 to tell and show the audience that Nandor doesn’t want to just date, but to really have a life or afterlife partner. That season had two “coming outs”. Guillermo obviously coming out as gay, and Nandor coming out as pansexual before he was turned.

I think this distinction was really important to build their romantic dynamic. They wanted to show Nandor’s interest in Guillermo wasn’t attributed to just horny vampireness, but actual true love and affection for him.

And having Guillermo formally come out as gay was more than just the Freddie gag (or the purpose of Guillermo having a boyfriend so that Nandor sleeps with him causing Guillermo to get upset about it which encourages Guillermo to take vampire turning into his own hands, leading to the events in season 5), but to show the audience that Guillermo’s not just a hero worshipper of his boss. He could very well have a crush that could become something more.

And while Simms’ execution of Nandermo so far has not been executed perfectly, (mostly because I think his version of Shadows uses jokes to cover or masque serious moments whereas Jemaine’s comedy often highlights and exposes the truth about life in funny situations), I think Paul’s vision is headed in the right direction.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Guillermo has a far larger familiar role than the one in the movie. Storytelling wise, it’s expected that Guillermo’s ending will solve the lingering vampire question that was halfway resolved in season 5. Because the show is telling the audience, “Wait. There’s more.” There’s more change to be had. I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that a part of Nandor’s arc is finding love. And part of his ending will have to be resolving this, as well.

And funny enough, Viago’s ending resolves both of these issues. He finds love with Katherine again and turns her into a vampire, but she got to have a full life first. There’s comedy there (he’s still older than her even though they don’t look it) but also there’s heart. She got to have a full life and agency of her own instead of being robbed of it.

I think Paul wants to set up this ending because it’s funny but also, to highlight his appreciation to the original. We expected from the jump that Nandor would turn Guillermo eventually and we can’t just have that without growth and change and conflict in between. It’s nice to get everything we want, but that’s not what sitcoms do. Sitcoms subvert expectations, and Paul is highly versed in sitcom structure. (Something that I think even Jemaine and Taika had to learn. )

Paul Simms’ isn’t just a writer in the room, he is a writer familiar (haha insert lame reference joke here) with the source material in a sitcom format. The movie wasn’t a sitcom. They could resolve Viago’s relationship because movies resolve arcs at the end of the movie.

Sitcoms don’t resolve anything at the end of an episode or even the end of a season. They resolve them at the end of the show. He knows Nandermo would end the show, because when characters get what they want (whatever their aspirations are) it completes the narrative. In sitcoms, the characters wants drive the purpose of the show.

And all good sitcoms don’t immediately give you (the audience) what you want until the end. And yes it can be frustrating, but when done right, the payoff is worth it. When the arcs are finished, the story ends. Even in sitcoms and comedy shows. So, Guillermo and Nandor being together and Nandor even eventually turning Guillermo, would have to be arc finishers. That would end the show. Which is why I think s6 is ending here, because the lead (Nandor) finished his arc.

Now whether that means Nandor will turn Guillermo on screen or not is yet to be seen. Maybe at some point down the road when Guillermo’s family is much older or have moved on from this earth and maybe when there is a new way to be a vampire without blood, Guillermo will be ready.

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BOOM THATS IT 👏👏👏

look I'm not saying nandermo has to be canon but what I am saying is that if Laszlo can spend an entire season raising Baby Colin Robinson, then later have sex with the Spirit of Doll Nadja whilst she's sharing a body with Adult Colin Robinson, and they don't find that weird, then Nandor and Guillermo could probably be okay to kiss a lil bit

just a tiny bit

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Maybe this year we'll get to touch his little beak 🦉🦉🦉🏈🏈🏈

Happy Superb Owl Day!! Enjoy your parties but don't get the brain scramblies 🦉🦉🦉🏈🏈🏈

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*flails wildly* ⬆️ THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE. EVERY WORD.

There are approximately 1.2 to 1.5 gallons (about 5 liters) of circulating blood in the average human adult body. That's a lot of blood. Like can you imagine sitting down with two one-gallon jugs of milk and drinking 1.5 of them nonstop? OK, maybe. But let's face it - vampires are gluttons. When it comes to hedonistic physicalities like food and sex, they're greedy and messy and overindulgent.

I believe Nandor addresses this during a house meeting. "If you're feeding from someone and decide to let them go, show them to the door!" They know they don't have to drain their victims dry. They just do it because they're pigs (no offense to actual pigs 🐷💖).

My wwdits-adjacent OC Verity the Serene (soon to be appearing in a fic with Guillermo) is like this. Turned by Nadja but with very little bloodlust, she gets the majority of her blood smuggled in from Red Cross volunteers (she makes a major monetary donation to the RC every year in recompense). When she has no other choice than to get her blood the old-fashioned way, she hypnotizes her donor, only takes what she needs (a pint is about right) and gives them juice and snacks afterwards (she always carries a supply in her messenger bag). It's just like a visit to the Red Cross! But different.

Anyway! That's certainly a possibility for Guillermo. Something to think about. 🤔

The thing is, I DON'T think Guillermo is silly or splitting hairs for having trouble with killing.

There IS a material difference between killing someone to defend yourself or someone else and killing in cold blood. There IS a material difference between killing when necessary to protect your life and killing constantly, for eternity, to survive at all. There IS a material (if not necessarily a moral) difference in leading someone to their death by someone else's hand vs. being the hand that does the killing.

I don't think it's silly or all that surprising that Guillermo discovered in the moment that he wasn't capable of taking an innocent human life with his own hands in cold blood. I'd actually have been VERY surprised if he did that with no hesitation or qualms whatsoever.

That being said, I DO think it was a bit silly that no one, Guillermo included, ever thought of the option of just...not draining a person totally dry. He could take roughly a pint of blood from a person without killing them or even causing them any long-term health issues. It would be more work, perhaps, than just sucking one person dry. But he COULD do it. He might need to hone his hypnosis skills so he could hypnotize them after. But it's a perfectly feasible solution.

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WOW 💖💖💖💖💖

«you told me it'll last forever»

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OMG this is FANTASTIC 💖💖💖💖

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HARVEY MY GOD SIR YOU ARE KILLING US 😱😢😫😍😍😍😍😍

My favorite of Harvey's red carpet looks

(and yes, that last one is 90% for the shoes and the HAIR)

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HE IS BABYGIRL 🥰💘💋💞

Cute Nandor <3

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Intense flashback to my MySpace era 😱

more wwdits blinkies made with blinkies.cafe 🪄

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+25,000,000,000 😢😫🥺

On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you miss slayer Guillermo?

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Oh ye of little faith. I'm disappointed in y'all. I really am. 😢

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I'm rewatching the 3x10 fight scene and I can't tell if my third eye is WIDE open or of I'm just loopy from pain and lack of sleep but.

Nandor is SO calculating in this scene. Like I know it's somewhat left open to interpretation whether the invitation was a spur of the moment thing or not, but I actually think I'm now firmly on the side of it WAS a real test and it WAS premeditated.

Because like. Nandor is thoughtless, yeah. But the stuff he says to Memo when he walks in isn't just thoughtless. It is TARGETED. Every single thing he says from the moment he walks into that room AND the way he says it is tailored to press on Guillermo's sore spots and piss him right the fuck off. And there has to be a purpose to that, because Nandor is thoughtless but he's not cruel, not that kind of cruel anyway.

And then there's his face when he's facing away from Guillermo, when Guillermo is giving him the "I let you live" speech. When Nandor is looking at Guillermo before and after that, his face is lightly amused. Condescending, a little indulgent maybe. Pitying, at the end. But when he's facing away from Guillermo? That entire performance falls away and THIS is what we see:

Nandor isn't amused. He isn't humoring Guillermo or ignoring him, either, though that's clearly what the turned back is meant to convey to Guillermo.

No. That face is CALCULATING. He's listening. He's waiting. He's seeing how far he has to push Guillermo to get what he wants out of him.

I wish I could get good shots that weren't just goofy-looking of all the shifts in his expression here--I simply do not have HQ enough video for that. But the shift in his expression just before he turns back to Guillermo and puts the condescending mask back on is SO telling. It's an aha moment.

And when Guillermo has him on his knees in that headlock? I know we've all looked at that moment a thousand times but

Nandor is delighted with this turn of events (and yes I used the moment when Guillermo is saying the W in "weak" because it looks like he's giving Nandor's cheek a lil smooch lmao).

Ahem. The point is, I no longer believe Nandor was just saving his own ass or coming up with spur of the moment plans--though I DO think he was (pleasantly) surprised by how evenly matched he and Guillermo actually were (even if he'd never, ever admit it). He went into that room with the strategic wheels turning and got everything he wanted out of that interaction.

Fucking guy.

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🎅🤶🧑‍🎄🦌❄️☃️🎄🎁

✨Happy holidays and celebration to you all✨

❤️May you have a joyful and peaceful time❤️

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You are NOT insane. That is ABSOLUTELY Kayvan <3 <3 <3

HELP

Am I crazy or is Griolle in That Moment (a One Direction short film) Kayvan Novak??

When he talks, I hear Nandor. Is it just the accent? He also looks like him, but there is zero info I can find on the internet about who plays Griolle.

I feel insane.