#shadows of the elevator

[noorthestar]

she's missing someone again ...

[shadowsoftheelevatoraskandrp]

"" its so boring todayy .... ""

((PROTOTYPE IS OPEN FOR ASKS!))

[manicpixieyandere]

WWDITS Managed The Impossible:

Queerbait with QUEER characters!?

What a finale last night huh? While parts of it were enjoyable and funny, it's also hard to miss how incredibly shallow the whole thing feels. Let us explain!

First off, this show refuses to have a single emotional moments. People call it the "shit and fart" show for a reason. The earlier seasons left some room for emotional moments and development but the later seasons completely shit on any nice moment they have with a joke.

We get that the show's gimmick is that just like a sitcom, the vampires never change. And that really is an interesting concept! But in the finale they completely ignore a theme THEIR OWN SHOW SET UP! That the vampire did in fact change this time, just a little bit. And why did they change? Guillermo! Over six seasons we get to see how the vampires grow emotionally or explore new endeavors all because of Guillermo. But the finale completely writes that part away and decides that the vampires never changed, completely undoing six seasons of development.

Now let's get to the thing that ticked us off the most. A show shouldn't be judged purely on whether its popular ship got together or not, but for this show that is a major valid criticism. It's not like the internet was being the internet and made up a random ship that made no sense, this ship had been hinted for YEARS! Despite its characters (both Nador and Guillermo) being canonically queer, their relationship follows that of classic queerbait beats. Theres just enough hints and breadcrumbs to keep the queer audience interested without ever having to even deliver on the queer aspects of the characters. This goes beyond Nandor and Guillermo as well! Ever seen Nadja or Laszlo have SERIOUS relationships with characters of the same sex? No! Anything remotely gay is played for laughs and not real representation. Some moments in the show showed care to its queerness. Guillermo's episode about coming out is great! But the show refuses to deliver on any of the queer plot lines it set up (honestly refuses to even wrap up any plot lines).

Now let's talk about those alternate endings. Honestly IMO the Nadja hypnosis with three alternate scenes in the reruns was genius! Very creative, but dear god did this fumble the bag. If they spent the rest of the season tying up loose threads then this would have been a fine concept. But what ends up happening is it's a non canon time waster in a finale that has too much to wrap up. It is quite literally, a waste of time. They needed to spend this time wrapping up arcs instead.

Theres also the case of the Nandermo scene. During the final alternate scene of the night we get to see human Nandor and Guillermo in one of the audience's "perfect endings". This is such a god damn slap in the face to anyone who cared about these characters. It is quite literally making fun of the audience (very Sherlock of you WWDITS). It's once again for the final time playing Nandermo (and queerness in general) for laughs. They're baiting the ship right in your face and telling you they think your idea is dumb. That it's a ridiculous joke. Ignoring the fact THEY ARE THE ONES WHO SET IT UP!!!

Then we also have the weird homophobic rhetoric from the cast and crew. In many interviews there have been statements where people say something like "it's important in this day and age to show that men can still be friends and not everything has to be sexual". Now one question; who the fuck said otherwise? Don't know if you've noticed but queer people are a MINORITY. Most men who know each other, are friends! There's gay men sure, but they're a minority. And this extends to fiction as well. Sure the internet will ship everyone, but an internet ship does not dictate canon. Theres not a lot of queer representation out there compared to all the cishet characters out there.

Frankly we have no idea where this rhetoric of men needing to prove they can just be friends came from. The exact same rhetoric is being used for Jayce and Viktor in Arcane as well. It just screams toxic masculinity not being able to handle being in queer spaces (fandom spaces (especially WWDITS and Arcane) tend to be quite queer leaning). Queer people want representation. That's why queerbait hurts so bad. You think you're finally seen only to be lied to and used for a profit. It's so incredibly disrespectful to the fans.

WWDITS really fumbled its last season and frankly has been going down hill for years. A great lesson on predatory ship baiting so bad it made its canonically queer characters into queerbait. That's genuinely fucking impressive in the worst way possible. Not to mention that random ass MAGA Guide thing (like wtf???).

Not even including the queer stuff this show just failed to wrap up any of its plot lines or give any emotional satisfaction to the viewer.

Anyway this finale really pissed us off, bye.

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

a thought that just bonked me on the head with sudden clarity: there's no WAY the cameras could follow nandor and guillermo down to that secret lair! like, once nandor and guillermo are off in the two-person coffin elevator, that's it! they cannot be followed and filmed!

which makes me feel so delightfully 👀 re: why, exactly, nandor was so psyched to make that underground lair happen

[shkotoko]

buh bye 2024..

ANYWAYS ALL MY BIGGEST HYPERFIXATIONS FROM THIS YEARR!!!

[his-heartguard]

Her ass is finally getting fired fr, huh

also Nandie's cranky and throwing things about something again

The girls are fightinnnnnnggggggggg

Trailer

[blackladynerd]

The Guillermo Issue…

In some ways I’m disappointed with the finale and in others I’m not.

I appreciated the attempt to do something unique with the Choose Your Own Adventure-style hypnosis endings. I also appreciated the meta moments in the episode and the cute way they were able to do callbacks (ex. Jackie Daytona). I thought it was interesting they revealed this wasn’t their first documentary (shout out the Maysles brothers) but…that’s where it started to irk me a bit.

I knew the writers weren’t going to have the vampires change and grow too much; I was in the camp that keeping them dumb wasn’t a bad thing, but then they showed that early documentary footage.

To see that they were literally just repeating their days and events practically word for word with little difference surprised me because it neglected a very important aspect - Guillermo. They didn’t have Guillermo before. The addition of his presence in the house should’ve changed something about them even slightly.

Again, I didn’t expect them to change a great deal. I knew these dumb vampires were going to stay dumb, and that was good with me, but for them to not have changed AT ALL despite the influence of Guillermo’s clearly important presence in their lives?? That didn’t line up for me.

Also, even though we’ve established Guillermo’s not a familiar anymore, or even their official bodyguard, but rather a third option *cough* friend *cough* he was oddly relegated to his original role. The vampires acknowledged his feelings but still just wanted him to entertain them with a little dance. He helped prep Nandor for coffin. He called him Master…I guess it could show that like the vampires, Guillermo doesn’t change much either, but that feels…off.

He has changed. We’ve seen him change the MOST out of anyone! Yes, he knows now that he’ll never really fit in with the human world, and I knew he wouldn’t really leave the vampires, but seeing him descend with Nandor in that coffin elevator to a possible life of fighting crime still felt like a regression. Was it silly and ridiculous? Yes. But still a regression.

So, all this to say I’m still juggling how I feel about the finale. I didn’t love it, but I didn’t hate it. Like Nandor and Guillermo’s elevator coffin, I have yet to land on anything certain.

[bottombaron]

ok im just going to say it and yeah its a little negative and no im not saying its "over" but

the handshake thing is a little insulting

like. purposefully so.

when you know there's a card with: "Nandor + Guillermo Kiss?" pinned in the writer's room and you know they expect some people would be anticipating something more emotionally substantial than one of the most commical of masculine handshakes...

and instead of even a hug

you kno, that thing they've been setting us up for a cathartic resolution after 6 seasons of rejection since the very begining...

...we got a handshake (yes, i get the parallel from Nandor’s firing, when they werent able to have even a basic handshake and now they're showing how strong they are together and honestly it only makes me feel a tiny bit better)

like, im not saying its never going to happen since we still have an episode left

but im not going to act as if the damn thing is nearly as emotionally fullfilling as the hug we desperate need

[fettiowi]

Loving these drawing memes of putting your comfort characters together it is SO funny

[manikas-whims]

While I completely agree that any form of physical intimacy between show kanej will seem wrong and ooc and highly disrespectful to both their traumas. And that any of it being a dream sequence will be the best way to portray it.

But I also want this fandom to remember that Kaz Brekker and Inej Ghafa are two characters which are all about hope and facing their fears head on and trying to best their adversities against all odds. That both of them have always explicitly expressed in their pov chapters about how much they want each other, how much they desire to attain that physical as well as sexual intimacy.

And who knows!? Someday, they might be able to best their fears and share those beautiful moments ♡

So i hope we stop policing anyone wanting such things. And hopefully also stop seeing those fans who cry and scream at the prospect of any physical intimacy between Kanej.

Because not only does that feel like perverse infantilization of the characters but is also extremely disrespectful to what they've always clearly expressed.

[noorthestar]

His name is party time and 👍

Since he's a regretevator oc (mainly for The AU)

INFO FOR THE AU:

+ not cursed, not apart of The lab

+ appears on The gumball machine floor and happy home

+ friends with : prototype and partynoob

+ has The ability to teleport anywhere he desires

GENERAL INFO :

+ demisexual transmasc! (he/him/xe/party)

+ friends with : poob, prototype, infected, and spud

+ pretty much against The cult of mr (i forgor what its called)

+ Dislikes : chaos, pest, spiders, bad moods

+ likes: parties, dancing, and clocks

+ people he wants to know more about : folly and mark

[shadowsoftheelevatoraskandrp]

"" hiya !! are you hurt ? ""

"" im prototype !! im here to help !! ""

OOC UNDER CUT :

hiya !! its me , @noorthestar again !! this time , its a roleplay blog for my AU , SOTE !! (shadows of the elevator) ^_^ if you want to roleplay here with your own oc , then thats completely fine !! just gotta know if they work in the lab or not , how cursed are they , and whats their role if they DO work in the lab !! a copy paste from my main acc lmao :

~SHADOWS OF THE ELEVATOR AU~

a while back , when all of this chaos started , MR created a curse that will turn anyone into a deadly and unrecognizable "shadow" , as the survivors call it. it had gotten to many people already ! meaning only a few of the NPCs are unaffected . for now. ABOUT THE CURSE :

it has 3 stages ! STAGE 1 : kinda blurry vision , some spots of black will appear on the skin , behavior unaffected. can be healed easily

STAGE 2 : a little more hostile , yet can control themself , more black parts will appear on the skin as there will be a slightly clear black "shadow" around them . can be healed but it might take more time

STAGE 3 : pretty much will attack anyone they see , manipulative , literally a "shadow like creature" . can be healed but it will take alot of time

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now for the NPCs !!

💙: cannot be cursed / 💚: completely safe / 💛: stage 1 cursed / 🧡: stage 2 cursed / ❤️: stage 3 cursed

BIVE: 💚 SPLIT: ❤️ MARK:🧡 WALLTER:❤️ GNARPY:💛 MACH:💙 PILBY:💛 FOLLY:💙 ENPHOSO:💙 FLESHCOUSIN:🧡 DR RETRO: 💚 INFECTED: 🧡 JERMBO:💛 LAMPERT: 💚 MR MANUEVERER: 💙 MR: 💙 POOB: 💙 PEST: 💛 PROTOTYPE:💚 REDDY: 💚 SCAG: 💚 SPUD: ❤️ UNPLEZ: 💛 EMERSON: 💛 YUM ZLURPLIE: 💚 CREM: 💚 CLOVER: ❤️ JEREMY: 💛 SLIMYIM: 💙 GREGORIAH: 💚 SWIBBLEDIB: 💚 SARAH: 💛

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theres a lab far away from the ones who are cursed to find a cure for the curse. MR works in that lab and no one thinks he's harmful ; except for bive and dr retro. they both know if they try something against him then everyone will be in danger..

NPCS IN THE LAB : 💉: scientists / 💊: helpers / 🔎: researchers/data finders (?) /🩺: ones getting "healed"

MR: 💉 DR RETRO: 💉 PROTOTYPE: 💊 SCAG: 🔎 BIVE:🔎+💊 PEST: 🩺+🔎 INFECTED: 🩺

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☆although bive talks about split almost all of the time due to worry , dr retro manages to calm her down somehow ☆even though dr retro and MR fucking HATE eachother , they tolerate eachother in the lab ☆pest and bive work together to find info/data about the curse ☆prototype brings in random useful material whenever he finds it ☆anytime someone needs extra info , scag is there for them ! ---------- now onto the npcs opened/closed for asks !!! PROTOTYPE - OPEN SCAG - CLOSED DR RETRO - CLOSED PEST - CLOSED BIVE - OPEN MR - CLOSED INFECTED - CLOSED ---------- tags : #SOTE asks - asks that the silly guys answer #SOTE anon asks - anon asks that the silly guys answer #SOTE ooc - ooc stuff --------- yeah thats all , have fun and dont send weird shit please !!!

[wammypilled]

Mello and Misa on a one mofu open sleigh, the bimbo sleigh if you will

[shawshankshadow]

sometimes i think about knuckles and shadow and their respective relationships to their past, their ancestors, their (lack of) family, the concept of home, the concept of guardianship, the idea that their life is beholden to something else. knuckles alone on an island, tasked with protecting an immensely powerful gem that literally shaped the history of his people, and he has nobody to turn to because they’re all gone and he’s all that’s left, carrying an entire culture on his back and trying to decipher his own past because it’s so precious and lost to him. shadow trying to extricate himself from the trauma train of his origins, because everybody he loved from his own past is dead and the rest never considered him a person, so all that’s left is throwing it all away and figuring out how to live for himself, and fuck the rest of the world. knuckles finding meaning and identity through his role as guardian, and likewise being tethered and isolated from community because of it. shadow losing his sense of identity as the cure and protector of maria following her death (following his failure to save her, to die for her) and now scrambling to create an identity wholly independent from anybody else.

listen.

[cottoncambi]

GIRL THIS IS YOUR WAR

[something-about-sunflowers]

I kinda feel like too many people aren't looking at the whole picture with Guillermo and Nandor/his family this season?

Guillermo knows, to a certain extent, that it's hurting Nandor that he's avoiding him. He just can't not avoid him because of the whole 'secretly turned by another vampire and Nandor will have to kill him then himself for the sake of his bruised honor/ego' thing.

Guillermo is also hurting though. His attempt to take some agency for himself by actively pursuing something he's wanted since before he even met Nandor has massively backfired on him in every possible way he couldn't even begin to expect. He didn't know he'd have a Weird Transformation. He didn't know there was some taboo for having another vampire turn him as Nandor's familiar (and he's not actually Nandor's familiar anymore anyway, technically, they're all just dumb and forgot that fact). He, comparatively, only recently found out about the whole Van Helsing thing and that his family can't control themselves around vampires (though I feel like it probably will be different with their Memo, if we're being honest), so he very likely thought for most of his time waiting for Nandor to turn him that he'd still be able to see them occasionally and get/give closure over a longer period of time before he had to stop seeing them when it became obvious he wasn't aging like they were.

He does care about his mom, yall, did you miss him breaking down in the elevator or were you just distracted by him breaking the hand-rail? He's just been very preoccupied with a whole lot of drama (Which he complained about! He told Nandor how upset he was that the wedding and Baby Colin were keeping him too busy to see his family! The end of season 4 was days before the start of season 5.) and an extreme life change. He's an adult. That kind of shit happens when you're an adult (granted, his situation is significantly more fantastical given the whole vampires thing but still). Sometimes you get caught up in your adult life and you miss your mom's birthday. Sometimes you make a big life change that you think is what's best for you and it means you won't be able to be as close to your family. Yes. It's selfish of him - to an extent - but for fuck's sake you can't live your life for other people, even - especially, in some cases - if those people are your family. I'm kind of appalled at people saying that he's deserving to feel bad and rejected because he made a choice for himself. Do you think his mom is blaming him as harshly as some of you are? No! The first thing she asked him was 'are you happy with this change?' She cares about her son's happiness. He's not entirely in the right but fuck do yall know how to do anything but swing hard in the other direction? There's grey areas! All in the middle! Right there, look!!

And then on top of him already being extremely emotionally compromised from reckoning with having to leave his family behind, on top of the already 'emotionally difficult' avoiding Nandor for both of their sakes, he gets another big rejection in his own home from the people he cares most about. I don't know if Nandor noticed that his rejection hurt Guillermo. He's dumb but I really don't know if he's that dumb. He's been able to recognize in the past when he's hurt Guillermo so I don't see why he couldn't now. Are yall gonna blame Memo for feeling bad if Nandor decides to do something to try and win him back or cheer him up? Or if Nandor is upset/worried about having hurt Guillermo?

I don't really know where I'm going with this anymore lmao. My point is: Yes, Guillermo's choice is hurting people but it's also hurting him and he's been hurt for a while now and hurt people hurt people (which is why Nandor lashed out too!) so cut him a little bit of slack maybe? He didn't do anything to intentionally hurt anyone he just wanted to take some agency back for himself that he's been missing for like. Ten. Thirteen years or so now.