#relentless positivity

[hazard-and-friends]

tiny good things thread, i'll start

k'seil was so excited when i woke up this morning that she gave herself hiccups

[doomspaniels]

Nice birthday present: Tristan's crate rest ended and he can rejoin us 😊

Guinevere's Royal Treasurer: Tristan has been out of his crate twenty minutes and he is already bringing me everything he can reach. [ed. note: scattered dog toys on the floor]

Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy: Oh, he has something else, can you take that from him?

GRT: Oh sure. Tristan, hand. Wait.

GRT: Wait. He didn't find THAT on the floor.

...

It's the only jewelry I have ever asked for, a pair of glass Klein Bottle earrings 🥰 *BWAHAHAHA* slipping the box to Tristan for delivery was FANTASTIC I love it 🥰🥰🥰

[Dramatic Recreation by Amazingly Lifelike Actor]

[doomspaniels]

thank you puppies, for your assistance with motivation

[bottombaron]

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

[ughsecondblogsdontwork]

I don't watch a whole lot of television, so maybe I'm missing some perspective, but I've never seen a TV show where the Main Character was a fat gay man (or person in general, I'm not crazy enough to think they'd ever try to pull this with a fat lesbian for instance) where neither his sexuality or fatness were 1. An overt problem in the narrative or 2. The butt of routine or mean-spirited jokes. What We Do In the Shadows was awesome in so many ways, but it was also awesome because I got to see a gay and fat person do all kinds of shit as a main character without being constantly questioned or degraded for being fat! I really, really love Guillermo. He's a vampire slayer! An action hero! He looks cool, cute and sexy all at once in his action scenes- I love watching him grow as a character and stand up for himself, I love his jokes, he's really such a great character! So this final season sucked, right. Like this final season was total shit ass, I'm sorry. I'm so disappointed. I feel so let down. There are a million reasons why it sucked, but right now I just feel sad because of how everything turns out for Guillermo and the queer and fat representation in the show. First of all, it really threw me for a loop when the show opened with crazy fat jokes about Colin Robinson. That obviously did not land for me at all and why would it land for wwdits viewers? We are following a show where we are emotionally invested in a fat MC and we don't have a *problem* with fatness- so why would I think it's funny that Colin Robinson "got fat"??? Make it make sense lmao.

And I don't know why the fuck Nandor and Guillermo's entire relationship was abandoned. Did every single writer jump ship and get replaced by someone who's never seen the show or??? Well, it feels like a punch in the gut for a few reasons:

This show is supposedly "queer". Every known vampire is queer and Guillermo is gay. But the only consistent relationship is Nadja and Lazslo, which isn't a problem obviously we love them, but would it kill the show for there to be...? More visibly queer relationships? It's a show that insists its gay over and over again in word but not action. I don't care if Nandor and Lazslo like to fuck each other silly offscreen, and Nadja is also supposedly queer in some way, off screen- everything is conveniently off screen. Nandor and Guillermo did not *need* to get together, but the lack of explicit acknowledgement is weird. It just is.

Also, it would just be nice! Like am I crazy? Is it too much to ask for? To see a fat MC be in love and in a relationship not in spite of their appearance but just bc the other person likes them? I feel like every show with gay couples as main characters is a romance based show that is mostly About them getting together. Wwdits is so much fun because it's about so many things! But why couldn't this be *one* of those things? Can you think of a single show in the world right now where a fat queer main character is in a relationship and their looks or their sexuality are not the key point of conversation about the relationship? I can't! This was the perfect opportunity! Nandor and Guillermo fell into a well established relationship trope that had nothing to do with appearance or sexuality, and people who like that trope were naturally drawn to it. Why did they just spit on the whole thing? It makes no fucking sense.

Any response like "well sometimes unrequited love is a good plot" "X needed to grow and Y relationship was bad" "It's better this way because of XYZ" "It would have been toxic" this is a silly tv show about murderous vampires. Guillermo is also a murderer. There is just no possible way that a relationship between Guillermo and Nandor would have ruined the show lmao. It would have been fun! Remember when TV comedies were about being fun! I sure do! Apparently asking for a fun gay relationship between the queer main characters of the "queer TV show" is just too much to ask- better luck next time! Honestly, I feel so bitter lol. Bitter and sad. A show this fun and a cast this good deserved a waaaaay better ending all around. This post isn't even touching all the other weird shit and quite a lot of objectively bad shit that was wrong with the season

Before anyone gets all weird about my use of the word fat if you're not familiar with that, I am fat and I think fat is a neutral word and am trying to normalize the usage of it instead of substituting it with shit like "plus size". Fat is not an insult in the context of my words lol

[meideixx]

Together in every universe. That's not luck. That's destiny.

[doomspaniels]

Sometimes you may need help to figure out the right thing. That's a good place for those "what would I have done in WWII Nazi Germany" comparisons. That is still trying to do the right thing, because the right thing helps people, but it may be hard to see if you are inside the struggle.

And yeah, sometimes people need motivation to do the right thing. I need my dog's help to get out of bed in the morning, life can be difficult at every level. If you need "I want my grandkids to be proud of me" to do the difficult things, that's still trying to help people, just using a morale buff to get you started.

Let's assume people are already trying, and all just need help, whether it's to help people directly, or to help people do their best to help people. And do our best, to help all of them.

[lesbos-crossings]

i feel like every time we have a genuine guillermo/nandor scene i cannot take it seriously bc guillermo is always looking up at him like this

[incorrectquoteswwdits]

Do I still have to write that essay I promised I would if Nandermo went canon!!?

[constantly-in-a-state-of-change]

How i feel WWDITS characters would tell you happy pride month!!

[auntie-doom]

We get so used to ignoring that we ARE uncomfortable when we can't do something or other, because we're told so often that we were "just lazy", until we think "lazy" actually *includes* discomfort. But it doesn't!

If we were really lazy we would PREFER the feeling when we can't do the thing. It would be pleasant. It's not "just need to try a little harder, stop goofing off" when you would rather just fucking DO the activity, actually.

So take that self-accusation off the table. Stop beating yourself up, stop using someone else's language, ideas you acquired back when you didn't understand that it wasn't a choice you were making. That language was imposed on you from the outside, and it's wrong.

Take the break. Try to enjoy it. You're still not lazy.

NOT PRODUCTIVE TODAY?! GOOD!!! DON'T GIVE A FUCK!!!

LOOK, IF YOU DON'T NEED TO WORK, OR PRODUCE OR CREATE ANYTHING TODAY - IF IT'S NOT ESSENTIAL FOR YOUR LIVELIHOOD OR WHATEVER...

TAKE THE FUCKING BREAK!!! OR EVEN JUST TAKE AN HOUR TO DO ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL!!! IT IS OK NOT TO BE PRODUCTIVE ALL THE FUCKING TIME!!!

[doomspaniels]

A woman was crying in this waiting room, with leash and collar next to her on a table, unoccupied, bereft of its proper place.

She's leaving now, smiling, with same leash and collar on a huge weimaraner looking beastie boy. What joy. I don't know a thing about their visit but she's smiling and leaving with her dog.

There's good in this world.

[nameless-sovereign]

when Nandor says, "You are different, I am not." When talking about how when you make friends you have to change yourself-- That is insane, he means yo say that without Guillermo he can completely be himself and he doesn't feel like he needs to change to be Guillermo's friend !!

[july-19th-club]

favorite type of villanous characters are the ones whose motivations boil down to

like they dont even have to have any stakes in the broader situation. they just have take pleasure in destruction

[doomspaniels]

Sending best hopes and dreams for all of us 💌

Happy New Year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ 🎉!

And so another year comes to an end.

And you made it.

Trough bad and good days, trough all the pain and thoughts - you made it.

You made it to fight another full 365 days.

You fought even it was and is not easy.

You made it even it costs you so much.

I do not know if someone allready told you this but I am super proud of you.

I know the near year can be scary because it is another full 365 days and nobody knows how it will be.

A new chapter with empty paper so you can write your story on it - the pencils are all yours.

It costs so much strength, maybe you are hurt and tired and the thoughts are streaming.

But you fought them, for so many days and this is so strong.

It is okay to be not okay.

You are and you will always be important, you will always matter, you will always deserve the best.

Even there are times you need to rest to refill your energy, you deserve all the time.

You are not a burden, not a loser, you do not matter less.

You are a living being with limited strength, feelings and thoughts, taking breaks is okay and important.

You deserve all the time you need, all the time you need to heal.

You will always be enough.

I wish you the very best for the new year, all the good, all what you need to heal.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, happy you are here ❤️.

[owlbelly]

showing up to anti-zionist community rosh hashanah services tonight like "hello i am ready to weep & maybe do some arson. does anybody want to burn anything down"