#carol wwdits

[wraparoundyourdreams]

“Put your hair away Carol, this is a foolproof plan! What could we have possibly overlooked?”

Happy holidays! My Secret Santa gift for @mrfelixfischoeder, a lil tribute to Simon and Carol.

[beansprean]

A beautiful Carol commission from @fanfic-fugue!!

(ID in alt and under cut)

ID: Full body of Carol in a filthy alleyway at night, wearing a dark green string bikini top, ratty high-waisted burgundy jean shorts, thigh high black socks littered with tears and holes, and very dirty cream roller skates. There is part of a torn-up fishing net around her chest and shoulders like a loose crop top and a strip of caution tape is tied to her belt loops like suspenders, flying loose behind her as she skates toward the viewer with a big fangy smile, flashing a peace sign. Her eyes are large and blank white, staring at the viewer, with wavy locks of dark hair falling haphazardly over her face. Her exposed skin is wet and slightly scaly, porcupine-like quills sticking out from her shoulders and head. She is leaving a trail of bright green slime behind her, leading back to an uncovered manhole at the end of the alley that is glowing from within. Behind that is a chain link fence covered in a dirty blue tarp. Stretching out beside her is a sidewalk against a brick wall with a rusty green dumpster, all covered with graffiti. On the wall behind the dumpster, there is a large artistic tag in purple with a crown on top that reads "Simon the Devious". Nearby, someone has written "Nandor was here" much less artistically in drippy red capital letters. Someone started to write "Guillermo" in green underneath it, but someone else crossed it out in the same red paint and then written "not you." The dumpster itself hosts an artist tag on the side in bright green with some bubble borders that says "beansprean." A gutter climbs the wall to the right of the dumpster and a purple and green can of LaCroix has been painted on the wall on the other side. Next to the dumpster is some very dirty garbage: A broken down cardboard box half-shoved behind it, a crumpled pizza box that says "Baron's Pizza," a few empty bottles, an abandoned flannel shirt, and an empty milk carton that says "Memo's Man Milk," with a small photo of Guillermo on the side. The entire scene looks radioactive, lit with neon green like an arcade or a 90s Batman film. / end ID

[claudiatherelentless]

Pushing my Carol was a Chupacabra agenda

The center image is from one of the earliest recorded Chupacabra Sightings.

[nothumanman]

im rewatching wwdits and im on the first scene where Guillermo's holding a stake against Nandor and omg yall

[springinaugustx]

I made this piece of Carol from WWDITS a little while ago, and while she’s a nightmare to look at, she was a treat to draw!

[thesimonthedevious]

Title: Trick or Trick Blurb: It's Halloween - and Simon the Devious' birthday - but Simon feels rather down. Carol brings him the one gift that will help.

Halloween is a fun night for them to judge people’s dress up games, grab easy prey and boogie the night away. Guillermo tends to take the chance to sleep, or catch up on literally anything else. He follows Nandor through the house, listening to his usual tirade, “Halloween is not a human holiday, Guillermo. It is to celebrate us . I think you should do something a bit more productive…” Nandor recites the same monologue every year. Guillermo wonders if he is aware of this, “I shan’t say how much I have noticed you slacking in some duties.” Guillermo looks at the camera behind Nandor’s shoulder. ‘Really?’ his expression screams, but instead he smiles and nods. “Sure. Hey, I was thinking of leaving out some candy this time.” “No, Guillermo, we have been over this.” Nandor sighs as Nadja walks into the foyer, fixing her coat buttons. “Yes Guillermo, we do not want any stinky little children getting their fingers all over our doors. You will do your chores in the dark like you do every year, to avoid children coming near the house.”

[timoothy]

do you guys think they’re married

[fyeahsmokinhot]

Any gifsets y'all want?

Send txt 💜

[xaeyrnofnbe]

so me and my dad have a bit of a hard time bonding sometimes, but there’s one silly little thing we had a LOT of fun discussing, and that’s this… i’m not sure what to call it. it’s not exactly a theory, what with how absurd and obviously incorrect it is, but it’s fun.

and it basically hinges off the fact that kristen schaal tends to play very similar characters. (no hate towards her, love her, love her stuff). and how some of them kinda perfectly line up? the characters, i mean.

so behold

yeah it’s. a lot, yeah. i’m aware.

but the general story we’ve concocted goes as follows:

Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

sometimes after the events of gravity falls, mabel gets into either interdimensional or time travel, i do not remember which. i

this would be sometimes around her teen years. and she does this for a while,

but oh no, something went wrong! she’s forgotten her name and her past, retaining nothing but her interests, passions, and overall silliness.

cCarol Pilbasian (Last Man On Earth)

uhhhhh yeah this show is what happens next. she gets a new name, a new family, and grows up and the story of last man on earth happens.

pretty sure the show got cancelled? :/

at some ambiguous time after the events of the show, she like. gets turned into a vampire. i guess. oh and does her unclear method of sci-fi travel, sending her into the past

The Guide (What We Do In The Shadows)

turns out, her overall strangeness and romantic/sexual interests remain, . this causes issues

if you’ve seen the wwdits tv series, and are caught up, you’ll know what i’m talking about

my girl got in trouble and got assigned position as the guide, and she slowly forgets who she was previously. for a second time.

and yeah that’s the general idea. again, just a silly concept dreamed up by me and my dad. i also haven’t seen kristen schaal in a TON of things, and of course i couldn’t fit all the roles i’ve seen her in into the timeline, i have my limits. so for example, her character who i genuinely do not recall the name of from our flag means death? i’d love to but she just doesn’t fit. and uhhh i think she was the orangutan in cloudy with a chance of meatballs two? yeah that. that speaks for itself. unfortunately.

so uh. yeah ^—^

(oh and tumblr posting is still very much glitched and i cannot see the text i have written. so. if anything is especially incomprehensible or misspelled, blame it on that.)

[cookinguptales]

so there's this disney bejeweled knock-off that I play on my phone (what can I say, I'm a sucker for repetitive movement games that also allow me to propel gonzo or sora at the board) and they keep introducing new characters for the game but like. they have hundreds now and they are clearly starting to scrape at the bottom of the barrel.

they've been delving into properties that disney technically owns but that you would never expect to see in a disney game, like, I shit you not, the golden girls, and at this point I am just counting down the days until they finally introduce my beloved and very stupid vampires.

please, disney. it would be so funny. I know you'll never put colin robinson in a kingdom hearts game, but you can at least let me attack vampire mickey mouse (a character that currently exists within the game) with guillermo de la cruz or something. you own both properties. you have the power. let me do it. let me force donald duck and nadja of antipaxos to fight to the death. let me do it. it would be so funny.

[indigayghost]

There are these two relationshipe in wwdits that gets me so confused and curious and they were Colin Robinson/Sheila and Simon/Carol

Like

I do really believe Simon cares for Carol because Simon really cares for his crew, he is a devious bastard but he remembers everybody's names and he introduces them every time (even the guy he -supposedly- still don't know) like he wants people to know his family so obviously he likes Carol and I do believe she rescued him and he is grateful to have her and he really thinks she is amazing and I wanted him to acknowledge the fact that Guillermo brutally murdered her

Colin Robinson and Sheila are like aaaaaa she said she hates when people sings with her but they song together 😭 and she says people don't like her when she talks and Colin Robinson understands her because people don't like when he talks too and it's so beautiful that they found someone that wants them to talk and Colin says "when she is singing I can't resist her but when he's not singing I don't want to" and that's fucking raw man that's deep that's real yeah he loves her she is half chicken she eats fish and arms get over with this

I do also understand Laszlo, even if he believed their love were real he would still take Colin Robinson back because he is his best friend and he is mourning because he knows Colin Robinson will die and he wants to spend time with him

[spookymultimedia]

Cara Mia <3

[chronic-pain-cravensworth]

I NOTICED THIS!!!!! They are letting Matty keep the tiniest grey streaks at his temples and I am FASCINATED by that choice.

Weird take maybe but am I the only one who’s curious as to why exactly Laszlo’s hair is so long this season? It would make sense if Matt just wanted his hair that long or was growing it out for a different role but it looks like he chopped it pretty soon after filming. They’ve even alluded to it a handful of times with Nadja commenting on his hair once or twice in the first episode and Nandor trying to shave it off in the recent one. I’m not one of those weirdo’s who thinks it looks bad, I actually think it looks very pretty and elegant on him, but I’m curious as to whether there’s a specific, possibly symbolic reason for it.

[thewebiweaveforyou]

the guide & the vamps

wwdits \\ being unwanted is a love language, fatima aamar bilal \\ unknown \\ tell the wolves i'm home, carol rifka brunt \\ wwdits \\ the surrender theory, caitlin conlon \\ wwdits \\ unknown \\ wikipedia \\ wwdits

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

the worst thing about wwdits ending in mid-december is that i can't shake the daydream that tonight, a surprise christmas krampus episode will drop. laszlo in a jaunty santa hat that he calls a satan hat! everyone singing really macabre versions of carols 'round the piano, nadja's soprano stylings busting eardrums! the vampires trying to attend sean and charmaine's christmas party next door without blood tears pouring out of their eyes and their bodies starting to catch on fire! nadja doll having a fling with an elf on a shelf! colin robinson feasting on starbucks holiday cup discourse! nandor and guillermo getting caught under the mistletoe! everyone being really thirsty for krampus! i can see it all so clearly .........

[darkshrimpemotions]

Light & Framing in WWDITS: Nandermo Edition

I really have to give props to whoever does the lighting and cinematography for What We Do In The Shadows. They took what could easily have been an excuse to cheap out on those things--the show's format as a half-hour comedy mockumentary--and said a resounding fuck that.

Every frame of this show is gorgeously and thoughtfully lit and shot and colored, and not just the big pivotal moments. Truly every shot. The sets and the costumes also do a lot of heavy lifting here, but still everything is framed so carefully and intentionally. And considering this show is at least 55% fucking improv? That is seriously impressive. I've seen big budget network cornerstone series take less care with their most pivotal moments than this show takes with like...any random moment (I know, I know, it's okay, I can say Game of Thrones).

Take this shot for example (thanks to @indashadows!):

Now bear in mind, this is ONE shot in ONE scene in an episode. An important scene, but not a long one. And yet in this scene, every single detail--from the actors' body language to the framing to the lighting to their fucking outfits--reinforces the underpinning context and subtext of the scene.

Look at Nandor. His posture is so open and vulnerable. He's facing directly toward Guillermo, looking slightly up at him actually instead of down at him like he usually would be. They're almost eye level but not quite. His face is fully lit, and his body is more in light than shadow, with the parts facing Guillermo lit and the parts facing away from him in deep shadow.

Nandor is being very open, honest, and vulnerable with Guillermo in this scene, probably more so than he's ever been before! All the pretense, the aloofness he usually hides behind is now shoved to the back. They're also on nearly equal footing compared to their usual situation, with Guillermo possibly having a slight upper hand due to how thrown everyone, including Nandor, is by the revelation that he's a vampire slayer.

(I know Nandor knew he killed Carol and the Baron, but given those were both accidents I think it's reasonable to say Nandor was still surprised about the slayer from a long line of notorious slayers aspect of the revelation.)

Another way to read this is that Nandor is at a disadvantage because of what he doesn't know in this scene, i.e. that Guillermo can leave any time he wants, that Guillermo has been listening to their conversations, and that Guillermo is using that information now to manipulate him. It's left somewhat up to interpretation whether Nandor actually knows any of this or not, so YMMV there. But the point stands that in either interpretation, Nandor is on his back foot here a bit and the framing and lighting of the scene reflects that.

Now contrast that with Guillermo. His posture is closed off, he's hunched in on himself. He's leaning toward Nandor, but he's not facing him or looking at him directly. His eyes are downcast. He's positioned a little above Nandor, but he's not acknowledging or reveling in that change of position in any way; in fact, he seems to be minimizing it with the way he's standing. Almost his entire body including his face is in shadow, with only the parts facing away from Nandor receiving any light.

Guillermo is not being vulnerable, open, or honest with Nandor in this moment. Whether Nandor knows everything or not, Guillermo thinks he's playing Nandor here. He thinks he has information Nandor isn't privy to (the hole in the cage and the hidden cameras) and knows things Nandor doesn't know he knows (the conversations he's overheard). Guillermo is normally much more open and vulnerable with Nandor, which often results in him getting his feelings (at the very least) hurt. But this is one time when he's consciously choosing to push his care for Nandor to the backburner in order to take care of himself for once.

(I also have FEELINGS about light representing emotional honesty and vulnerability between these two characters in the show about vampires and what they do in the shadows. Maybe I'll scream about them later.)

And here's the real kicker: they are so in odds with their approach here, their usual roles in the relationship are being reversed in ways neither is fully comfortable with...and yet they're still on the same damn page.

They both have the same ultimate goal in this scene: to get Guillermo out of the cage and have the other vampires in the house accept him and stop insisting on killing him. They are both trying to take care of Guillermo in their own ways. And as the show often does, it underscores this in part via the similarities in their outfits (but that is a WHOLE other fucking massive meta-post currently sitting in my drafts).