#the candle wasters

[thecandlewasters]

A cheeky lil celebration of 10 Years of NMTD

Nostalgic for early tumblr? Craving that Dracula Daily mineral? Perhaps obsessed with a certain enemies-to-lovers Shakespeare play?

Look no further, NMTD(Taylor's Version) is here!

Set in a New Zealand High School, told by teenage vloggers at the height of superwholock. It’s Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing for the nostalgic and curious.

Thee 2014 transmedia experience; with videos, tweets, insta and tumblr posts direct from the characters to your email inbox.

Emails arriving from 24 March - 5 November 2024.

https://thecandlewasters.substack.com/

[cardboardsean]

Hey Nonny Nonny - a ten year anniversary Nothing Much To Do Zine (can be read as pdf here)

Put together by myself and @thebirdscomeback with contributions from @areadingturtle @the-lincyclopedia @louisianna @galwithalibrarycard @monwillica @xxemo-hubrisxx and @minniegraced

[galwithalibrarycard]

Okay. So. We do know as of now that there will be no Lolilo Daily, at least not run by the Candle Wasters. (Thank you Minnie for all the work you put into NMTDaily, by the way!)

The question is this: is there interest in a Lolilo Daily run by fans? @areadingturtle and I were thinking about trying to do something. We can discuss each episode here on tumblr and also on the NMTD Fandom Revival Discord, like we did for NMTDaily.

We could try to email out the episodes using a service like TCW did, or we could each watch them on our own.

We could watch them on their original upload dates, or divide the series into chunks so it won’t take as long.

And for those who don’t want to commit to a full rewatch but do want to keep loving these characters (and I am one of you), maybe we could do some content creation days, to keep the fandom alive for another year. People could make gifsets, moodboards, write fanfic. I think we all need something to look forward to.

[captainswan618]

It's officially the ten year anniversary of an incredible video that makes me want to commit murder every time I watch it!! 🎉🎉

@thecandlewasters

[overthemoonwithme]

no celebrity who complains about cancel culture would be able to handle the unhinged mess that the candle wasters had to face in 2015

[barnabusthebarmyballetschool]

Bright Summer Night appreciation post

I've been rereading A Midsummer Night's Dream lately and the entire time I'm picturing BSN in my head...

Set in a fairy-themed house party, there were so many amazing stylistic choices

From changing magic to drugs

And giving Bottom a onesie

This whole bathroom scene

Plus Bottom and Titania's adorable friendship

Oh, and a surprise Thomasin McKenzie before she was famous

TL;DR This show is brilliant and my favourite adaption.

Available for free on Youtube

[violivs]

Guess who learned some Photoshop!!!! This one took me all evening, so I’m not going to be able to make more right away, but I’m so excited that I made even one, I have to share it!!!!

[wbywebseriesreviews]

Happy Playland fans wake up

[ID: a screenshot from Instagram that says "8:28am" at the top. The first message reads "'i'm pretty sure this video is from back when Vine was a thing" and the response is "When we left Vine Rest In Peace", reference a line from the webseries Happy Playland. END ID.]

[cormorantgospel]

Fandom: Nothing Much to Do (Web Series) Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John Donaldson/Hero Duke Additional Tags: background beadick, background pedrazar, fluff and angst, getting together, idiots in love, friends to lovers, suicidal ideation, suicidal thoughts, post-canon, post-nmtd, not lolilo-compliant, underage drinking, alcohol, angst with a happy ending, slow burn, mutual pining Summary:

John is not looking forward to coming back to Messina. Most of the people involved in the disaster of last school year graduated along with Peter, but the ones that are still around are also the ones he would most like to avoid. He and Claudio wordlessly established a mutual avoidance strategy back in november, when all the picnics and reconciliation dinners and apology parties forced them into proximity with each other, so that makes Hero the bigger concern. Her niceness makes her a wildcard, but he tries to convince himself that she’ll probably want to ignore him. He definitely wants to avoid her. Really, it’s the only reasonable thing to do. It’ll be fine.

John and Hero return to Messina for their final year and find themselves pulled back into each other's orbit.

[whotellsourstories]

“come, let us march against the powers of heaven, and set black streamers in the firmament to signify the slaughter of the gods” is such a raw line you’d think it’s from Shakespeare, but it’s actually from the slightly earlier Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

Putting out a request...

Hey, guys. Any Candle Wasters fans out there? If so, will you please help me? I have been working hard over the past few months to archive as much YouTube content as possible before the Big December Purge, but every time I've tried to archive literary webseries, I've been overwhelmed by the sheer amount there is. I've managed to confirm that Pemberley Digital is archived on the Wayback Machine, but The Candle Wasters do not seem to be. Does anyone know any archive of them that already exists, or any archivist with a strong stomach for all the work there is to do who can create one, or help me create one? I do not want these incredible series to disappear, but realistically, I do not think I am physically capable of saving them on my own.

[thecandlewasters]

Set in a New Zealand High School, told by teenage vloggers at the height of superwholock.

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[galwithalibrarycard]

Speaking of NMTD/Lolilo anniversary events, January 2025 is going to be the ten-year anniversary of Lovely Little Ficlets, the 31-day fanfic challenge the NMTD fandom held in January 2015 to celebrate NMTD and hold us all over until Lolilo later that year. Is there anyone else left in the NMTD fic fandom who would do a Lovely Little Ficlets anniversary event this January? Maybe just one week instead of the whole month?

[airenyah]

it's a year (minus two days) later and i finally sat down and downloaded all of lovely little losers too. now i won't have to worry about nmtd or lolilo disappearing from youtube without a warning. i will sleep well tonight

did i spend all day downloading every single video of nothing much to do (including bloopers) off of youtube? yes. yes i did.

[pronouncingitwang]

CLAUDIO NMTD IN OFMD FINALE ALERT

[ID: A screenshot from OFMD 2.08 of Matthew J. Smith (Claudio NMTD's actor) as a British soldier followed by the episode credits, which list Matthew J. Smith as Chumsley. /end ID]

[mortaljortlebortles]