#wonka watch

[mcelquotes]

Without the chocolate factory, he's just a strange man.

Griffin McElroy

[praggmatic]

I drew some art for the Wonka Watch Podcast of the Wonka Watch Wonka. What a wacky show

[everlasting-glucksucker]

Info dump of my cringetastic Willy Wonka AU:

My head cannons for Wonka is while he's arrogant and overly confident at first, after the betrayal he becomes more cynical and self loathing to a point when he doesn't believe he should make candy anymore. He's at first too trusting, with the desire to tell anyone who wants to know about his candy but then he becomes overly secretive until he can learn to open up again.

In this head cannon/AU he's a grey ace pansexual trans man who initially is just friends with Wilkinson (first name unknown due to him naturally always being called his last name like how you never know the name of friends who go by a weird nickname) and eventually through the betrayal and Wilkinsons loyalty he learns to trust again and eventually loves him.

Wilkinson is a stern and quiet fellow who's been Wonka's friend since the beginning of his career and started off taste testing his new candies due to Wilkinson having a secret sweet tooth that he tried and failed to keep hidden when meeting Willy. He and Willy co-run the company with Wilkinson taking over the paperwork and such so Wonka can focus on making candy. He's also grey ace and is a cis gay man who is a service top.

In this AU though they canonically only have sex 4 times a year during peak business times to destress, Easter Valentine's Halloween and Christmas.

In my AU Wonka and Wilkinson are from a higher dimension with magic and better tech that was destroyed by the Vermisious Knids where Wonka was Wilkinsons knight and they fled using the Wonkazoid (a teleporter cannon in the web series game) and ended up in post WW1 England where an old man who lost his son finds them and confuses Wonka for his son Willy, eventually they learn English and a ton of other languages because Wonka is paranoid and a warrior but over time he becomes relaxed with our world with Wilkinson, but Willy is the only one to adopt a human name

So Wonka and Wilkinson are together in both a trauma bond, but also they were close before the war and eventually they form the chocolate business (Wonka falls for chocolate when the old man gives "Willy" his favorite chocolate as a gift) and then Wilkinson is in love with him but Wonka isn't in love yet. Then as they work together in the business with Wilkinson knowing how to do paperwork and Wonka the creative mind.

Ok so, Willy starts to open his heart more and trusts humanity and opens his factory where he starts to just openly talk about his candies and how're they're made because he loves to tell people and show off his inventions, meanwhile he's still working out and staying fit just in case the Vermisious Knids find their way into this world.

When the betrayal happens with the candy spies he still closes the factory, only now instead of traveling earth he fixes the Wonkazoid to travel into another world, Wilkinson stays behind to tend to what's left of the company and comfort his friend but he clearly understands he can't fix everything that's wrong. Willy travels the world's and ultimately finds himself at Loompaland where he becomes friends with the Oompa Loompas, in this AU he stays for a few years but ultimately the Vermisious Knids end up attacking this world and they need to flee. He offers them a home in his factory alongside the other beings he's met in his travels and they agreed.

He doesn't really care if they work or not, he mostly wanted them to be safe as they're his friends/family now in his heart

So he comes back after about 5 years of just Loompaland with a tan and wearing basically nothing (a parallel to what he wore in their original universe) and a small population who needs a home. Wilkinson immediately agrees as he sees his friend is feeling like his old self and they start to turn the factory into a home

As they're building the new Oompa Loompa village in the factory Wonka truly sees how dedicated Wilkinson is to him(a parallel to how in their original universe Wonka served Wilkinson as his personal guard as he was the prince) and it clicks something in Wonka that he hadn't realized he felt for Wilkinson but he truly loved the man. He had for a long time and only now in seeing just how much he would go with him to see Willy happy again touched him

The Oompa Loompas love chocolate as much as Willy does, as they had coco beans in their universe but they were spare and hard to get to due to the violent creatures that ate the Oompa Loompas.

[thedivinemagnet]

Not to get serious about the podcast where they talk about Timothee Chalamet getting his hair cut at a petco for a good 10 minutes, but I think wonka watch has genuinely changed the way I think about adaptations. I used to firmly believe that the only good adaptation is a faithful one, but actually. Sometimes it’s good to change things from the source material. People can have their own unique, interesting ideas that go in different directions that the original author never could have thought of, and that’s okay. Also going through the same story over and over again can get boring.

[cottonfluffswirl]

I love the Multi-versal Wonka Squad

[clovesandonion]

OMG OMG THEY RELEASED THE WONKA TRAILER

They released the new wonka movie trailer and it looks SO GOOD.

Timothèe chalamet is an amazing fit for this wonka

Also Hugh grant OOMPA LOOMPA looks so good

To get the latest wonka news and entertainment go listen to @wonkawatch

[mopeymousey]

Have the McElroy's seen this though

[baderpfulu]

Sooo... I made the Willy Wonka Experience guys in acnh

i imagine they'd give you two acnh apples instead of jellybeans :p

[catherine-sketches]

Just watched the Wonka movie.

I enjoyed it as a standalone film but especially enjoyed it as a prequel to the Gene Wilder Wonka. It retroactively made Wider’s Willy so much more tragic.

And that’s because Chalamet’s younger, earnest and kind Willy Wonka is CONSTANTLY having his kindness and compassion and belief in the good intentions of others thrown back at his face almost. Every. Single. Time.

What happens to him, in no particular order: People take advantage of him when he is at his lowest; they sabotage his chocolate; Hugh Grant steal his chocolate and beats him with a frying pan; he is nearly drowned by the chief of police; a boat he’s in is rigged to explode; they try to drown him AGAIN but now in melted chocolate under a church; he is tricked into debt and forced into indentured servitude; the chocolate mafia wants him dead; he has to crawl in the sewers just to sell his chocolate without the police beating the shit out of him at the chocolate mafia’s command, and a bunch of other moments either his earnest nature (or the fact he is illiterate, because by the way he is illiterate) is taken advantage of.

But he keeps believing in the good of others. He has friends, and a pseudo daughter that taught him how to read and his mother’s memory and so many dreams…

And then we arrive at Wilder Wonka. Who was betrayed one too many times. Who had his recipes stolen from him. Who shut himself from the world and trusts no one.

Who doesn’t care for these spoiled people walking around his factory, even if they were his last attempt at proving to himself that good people, good kids (Like Noodle) still exist.

Who is alone.

TL;DR: seeing a young Wonka who is so optimistic knowing how he is going to end up after being betrayed over and over and over again is a emotional experience that I was not quite ready for.

[moonlit-knightz]

our silly illiterate chocolate maker is coming back to us!

[mcelquotes]

I'm willing to raise the Wonka level to orange.

Travis McElroy

[shanicetjn]

Timothée Wonka

Thank you for making my birthday month one of the very best in many a moon. ♥

Completed - 6 January 2024

[todayisyourturntolose]

since wonka is on digital now that means i can FINALLY post the sweet tooth clip (would've earlier but there were only cam recordings and those are not too good)

(also i hope its not just me noticing this but mat's voice is exceptionally clearer here than it is on the official soundtrack. not complaining though ofc)

[everlasting-glucksucker]

Another commission from the incredible Lunarseawitch on TikTok

[thedivinemagnet]

What is she talking about

[cottonfluffswirl]

Gah the Wonka Watch girls were right, it does come up in the most unexpected places