#season six

[mvlderfox]

“I would've never seen you again. But you believed me.” // “In your dreams. Mulder, I want you to close your eyes and I want you to think to yourself ‘there's no place like home.’” // “Mmm. Hey, Scully. [Yes?] I love you.” // “Oh, brother…”

[lectern-fullcauldron]

proximity chat has done a lot for hermitcraft. it makes the server feel closer and chattier, that's for sure. but there's a special warmth in pre prox chat silent interactions on the server. something special in the little hello dances and block punch waves. the in game chat becomes a lifeline and it was a delight to watch during timelapses.

the vibe of pre prox chat quiet hermitcraft was very much we are apart from each other, but we are here together. the hermit you are watching is alone, but never lonely.

my favourite example of this kind of phenomenon is the interactions between Cleo and TFC during demise in season six. some context: Cleo was still working as a teacher, and TFC was living in a different timezone with shoddy internet. they could never hop into a discord call together, never be online together. and yet they played.

TFC started season six by vanishing underground to build a fallout vault (not a bunker, he was very adamant about that). He rarely surfaced, only occasionally sticking his head above ground to marvel in confusion and what the others had done (and break Sahara). When demise came around, he decided to play, donning iron armour and carrying on as usual, avoiding basic traps placed in his base.

this is where Cleo comes in. Cleo, being Cleo, has announced that demise is a game between hermit and hubris, and has promptly fled anywhere she's been known to frequent (bolt hole strategy). for a while they slip into TFC's walls, just as Joe hides in the statue of Hemitry.

Now TFC is working on a fall out bunker, and Cleo likes fall out, so she slips into the base and begins to add armour stands. With them are puzzles that match the game lore with an accuracy that delights TFC when he finds them. He solves her puzzles and they come back to continue the story in armour stand diorama.

They never speak to each other, just play when they are on, conversing in the hermitcraft love language of pranks. in this time, Cleo dies in demise (falling to the hubris of trusting Keralis and Bdubs). Dead human Cleo rises, ready to kill, and TFC is happily caught up in their game.

Cleo sets another trail in the story that the pair of them are telling with armour stands. It ends with a book on a lectern for TFC to read, writing the demise plotline into the fallout lore of his base.

The vaults were never meant to protect, after all. And TFC falls for it, plummeting into the lava below, inventory full of the things that could save him - fire resist, blocks, water bucket. And yet he sits in the lava and just laughs, tired of demise and happy to give Cleo the kill they've worked so hard for.

The interaction means so much to me. They are never on at the same time, and yet they are playing together. Not having prox chat means that the game is drawn out and it spans episodes, a compilation of hard work and friendship.

And all the while, TFC refers to Cleo as 'everyone's favourite zombie mistress of cthulu' and Cleo delights in building new offerings for her friend

[thesoftboiledegg]

I love Rick's pride in being autistic. No angst about it. If Morty's on the spectrum, Rick's probably proud of him, too.

[bocadelinfierno]

If you like slug, go with slug. She's not gonna sleep with you anyway.

[poeticamethyst]

Man tanner knows when I need to stop posting Kiaz and shares shit anyway (I joke as Mary has admitted being on ao3 lol) 🌚 MY BABIES ON A DATE

[draganwhorror]

Bruce Campbell as Wayne Weinsider - The X-Files (S6E7)

[theshadowsooc]

What We Do In The Shadows release date is finally (kind of) announced! via multiple sources for posters at SDCC ahead of con appearance in the next few days.

21st October 2024!

(US/Hulu - no word on worldwide release schedule as per)

[fathercharlesoffdensen]

My instinct regarding accusations of 'queerbaiting' is if a piece of media ultimately ends with the queer characters in question in an established relationship, it is not queerbaiting.

"The Finale" of What We Do in the Shadows, in its OG or 'sacred timeline' if you will, ends with Nandor not only assuring Guillermo that he has a place with the vampires (with him) regardless of his mortal status which is in line with Nandor's established love languages; and then, he invites Guillermo to sit in his coffin with him the way a couple might occupy a two-seater sweetheart sofa, and surprises him with the secret superhero lair that nobody thought he was serious about (one of the most delightful recurring tropes of the show imo). Even more obvious is the alternate universe ending supplied helpfully by Nadja's vampire hypnosis wherein a human Guillermo and Nandor are incontrovertibly gay married and in bed together. By all accounts, Nandermo is canon and married and a couple, et cetera, ad nauseum.

Still, for all of the quiet, soft moments between them across the past six seasons + all of their homoerotic fighting and such, it surprised me that the show sort of failed to "stick the landing," as Colin Robinson offers. I doubt anyone expected the flagrant homosexual dance between Blackbeard and Steed in Our Flag Means Death to be so romantically and exquisitely realized, and perhaps this set an impossible standard, but I can't help but wonder what ultimately accounted for the decision to soft shoe Nandermo into "The Finale" vs. allowing them to finally kiss and be married and co-plan the next Staten Island vampire orgy (because somehow they'd figure out how to make it work for Guillermo to be a vampire); essentially all of the 'boring' hallmarks that the final episode intentionally catalogued through meta fourth wall-breaking and that whose absence makes the cheeky nature of said cataloging kind of feel like whomever made the call to end the show as such is laughing at vs. with the fans.

Alas, "The Finale" feels a tad mean compared to the way similar OTP ships are dealt with in Taika media, and maybe it's simply that he wasn't directly involved and Paul Simms was feeling hounded and peckish. Given how antagonistic much of fandom's one-sided parasocial relationship with media makers can be - and unfortunately, be it borne from immaturity or malice or desperation to see a much-loved concept be realized, this is a huge issue among some Shadows fen - I wouldn't blame the writer(s) for going into "The Finale" at least somewhat embittered. Even so, I can't help but read some compromise and disappointment between the lines of a recent interview with Harvey Guillen regarding how Nandermo ends up:

I think that, for the longest time, when I started playing Guillermo, that was the idea behind the character was like, "Are they, will they, does he?" And I think, because they have a little bit of Stockholm Syndrome, you start feeling a little bit of a way, because the only thing you see in front of you becomes like this person you idolize. He really does idolize Nandor, and he really does want to be a great vampire like him one day. And I think, sometimes, those lines can get blurry. So, the way that Guillermo is, I always say, I walk him on a tightrope, and it's like if he falls one way, he could be in love, and if he falls the other way, it was admiration, it was just admiration for this person. And that's a nice tight rope, because it's such a balance that people are always asking, "Will they, won't they?" I think sometimes we have to normalize two male friends being really close and not making it sexual. I think that we don't do that in society. If we saw two best friends who are female holding hands on the playground, we'd be like, "Oh, my God, they're best friends." But if we see two boys holding hands on the playground, all of a sudden, "What are you guys doing? What are you guys doing? Separate them." Because that's not normal in society, that's not "normal," but it is, and it should be normalized, that we can have close friends and not be sexual, it doesn't have to be. We could have close, same-sex friends and do everything like in a relationship, go to movies, talk about your personal beliefs, your struggles, your life, crying on each other's shoulders, and not have to make it sexual. Because I think once we cross that line, people are like, "Well, you might as well be married, why don't you marry them?" And it's like, you don't have to marry them, you could be in love and have love for someone and not have to make it sexual. I think with these characters, we've done a really great job of keeping the audience on their toes of that. Now, will something happen this season that questions that even more, or makes them one way or the other? I guess you'll have to find out.

TL;DR: Optimistically, my 'ideal' ending that I've had lodged in my head for at least three seasons was not, in fact, realized on the small screen, and thus, I shall see you all over at AO3 and/or lurking in the show's Tumblr tags!

[unprofessionalprofessionalbinger]

I CAN'T WITH THIS SHOW

Me watching season 6 after hoping for a lil happiness. (Everyone's getting on my nerves.)

DEAN TALK TO LISAAAAA.

CAS STOP BEING ALL DISTANT ON OUR HUSBANDDDDD.

CAMPBELLS STOP ACTING ALL WEIRD AND SUPERIORRRR.

SAM GO FUCK YOURSELFFFFF.

CROWLEYYYYY- No, actually, still like you.

I'm kidding, but something about this season is honestly pissing me off. And it's not that I don't like Sam on principle. He's just pissing me off so bad.

[shadypoliticianfromplanetvulcan]

s6 was so much fun like it had everything. X Files AU and aliens, Twilight parody, Western AU, oh, they're in the real world as Jared and Jensen, The-Episode-That-Launched-A-Thousand-Omegaverse-Fanfics, Hot-As-Fuck Soulless!Sam who is a bit of a psycho, an overarching plot that felt almost like a classic Detective Mystery with a clever plottwist, Dragons!, Dean as a housewife (sort of), and oh yeah a What-If-The-Titanic-Never-Sunk AU.

[mvlderfox]

“I suggest you get your Nazi paws off me before you get one in the kisser.”

[lectern-fullcauldron]

It's almost Halloween and we know what that means!!!!!! HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY DEMISE SEASON SIX!!!

Here's your annual reminder of my favourite ever hermitcraft story arc, and to celebrate, here's one of my favourite pieces of fan content about it:

If you want to watch the whole of demise, it can be found here!

[thesoftboiledegg]

I love how this scene dodged the "blood relatives are your REAL family no matter what" trope. When Morty learns about Prime, he doesn't chase after him or angst about which Rick is his "real" grandfather. He just disowns him on the spot.

Same with "Unmortricken." Morty doesn't give two shits about Prime Rick, and it stays that way. No "Oh boy, should I follow this guy and learn who my REAL grandfather is?" or anger toward C-137 for killing his last blood relative. Prime is no grandfather of his.

[bocadelinfierno]

[poeticamethyst]

Just two former “rivals” looking at each others lips.. I see you Sam and Robby! No biggie 🌚🌝

[wonnzda]

Im devastated