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Celebrating 10 Years of NMTD 🦩🥭
Join the Much Ado About Nothing crew as they navigate high school in New Zealand at the height of superwholock. It's 2014 and you've got nothing much to do...
#nmtd#NMTDaily#nothing much to do#much ado about nothing#pedro donaldson#vote for pedro#dracula daily#misha collins#substack#shakespeare#shakespeare adaptation#webseries#vlogseries#youtube#maan#muchado#superwholock#new zealand#aotearoa#i miss 2014#2014 nostalgia#2014 revival#2014 tumblr#poll#lolilo#lovely little losers#the candle wasters#all round great guy#all round great bi#poll didn't work on the og post so that's being rb'd tomorrow
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no celebrity who complains about cancel culture would be able to handle the unhinged mess that the candle wasters had to face in 2015
#lolilo#nmtd#the candle wasters#it was SUCH a mess and i think they were what 22??#fucking undergrads making a student webseries that is such good quality it is by far the best adaptation of MAAN??#and they were legit being treated like network execs with all the resources in the world#insane insane
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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!!!!
#beatrice duke#nmtd#nothing much to do#lolilo#the candle wasters#barbie movie poster meme#(the ben one is going to say 'he's just benedick' a la the michael cera allan poster)#(which is a reference bc michael cera is the star of ben and bea's favorite movie Scott Pilgrim Vs the World)
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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.]
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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.
#nmtd#donalduke#lolilo#the candle wasters#so proud of this fic and so excited to finally be able to post it#all of it is written#new chapters posted weekly <3
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this was my heartstopper
#lawd#throwback#is any of the candlewasters fandom still around???#pedro is even bi i’m —#pedro donaldson#balthazar jones#pedrazar#lovely little losers#lolilo#the candle wasters#heartstopper#god i was so enthralled with these two
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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.
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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]
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Beatrice moves to live with her cousins Hero and Leo for her final year of school, and decides to start vlogging her daily life. Her rival Benedick also starts a vlog when he finds out. A third channel is run by a group of freshman calling themselves “The Watch,” dedicated to exposing lies and discovering the truth. The plot follows the very eventful school year as Beatrice and Benedick’s rivalry comes to a crescendo, only to be put aside when something terrible happens to Hero.
It's very good. Actually too good for an amateur production. It hits all the beats of the original play while modernizing them and fitting them to the teen culture of the mid 2010s. The acting is phenomenal and the writing is top notch and the Candle Wasters (the people behind NMTD) are just very good at what they do. Plus the whole thing is available for free on YouTube and there's really good original songs.
so much attention to detail with slipping in references to even the smallest lines from the play. modernization is believable and feels natural. the acting is also fantastic and these are my favorite Beatrice and Benedick.
official trailer
A high-school boy, Cameron, cannot date Bianca until her anti-social older sister, Kat, has a boyfriend. So, Cameron pays the school bad boy, Patrick, to charm Kat.
The poem: beautiful.
Kat Stratford: hot
Patrick Verona: also hot
Kat and Bianca's father: hilarious
Joey: awful
The soundtrack: all bangers (especially the Letters to Cleos songs)
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tfw your biggest fans are the au versions of yourselves
#much ado about nothing#doctor who#nothing much to do#nmtd#THIS WEEK#STARTING THIS WEEK!!!#GET YOUR GLAD RAGS ON#let's pretend it's 2014 all over again#the candle wasters#substack#dracula daily#lovely little losers#lolilo#MG
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Things Gail has been abnormal about
Where I ask you if you've consumed something that I, Gail, have been abnormal about
#digging deep and far for this one#nmtd#lolilo#nothing much to do#lovely little losers#web series#shakespeare retellings#gail abnormal#gail speaks#polls
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NMTDaily: VOX POPS
- Hi all! I’m going to be rewatching along with TCWs NMTDaily and making posts about each episode, or as many as I can (I might miss some, but I hope not!)
- I want to start by saying thank you again to The Candle Wasters for making my favorite thing. Just, the amount of joy and creative fulfillment and friendship and delight I’ve gotten from this show and this fandom is still unmatched. Thank you so much for making it and sharing it. The love and care and skill with which NMTD was made still shines through and I’m still so awed by it. I think I was probably somewhat overdramatic about my reactions to Lolilo in places where you, TCW, could see, on my main blog, and you didn’t deserve that. I really hope I didn’t send you any aggressive asks about it, or make you uncomfortable in any way. I’m a little afraid I did, but I don’t know for sure. If I did, I apologize. I’m older and more mature now, I promise. I hope you’re all doing so very well now!
- I didn’t realize until today that Project I: VOX POPS was posted first, before any other video in the series. I didn’t start watching NMTD until right around the time Benedick’s first Q&A video was posted, so I binged the first chunk of episodes around that time. It will be interesting to watch them at a slower pace this time!
- I am immediately overwhelmed with warm fuzzies at seeing these characters again. They’re such babies! I love them!
- I never made a post about this, but Ben’s first line being about how he shares a (differently spelled) name with a Pope is both a great first line for him on a character level since he starts as kind of a cocky overconfident asshole (a cover for his soft sensitive insides) AND it’s evidence for my theory that he’s probably Catholic, but lapsed/non-practicing/maybe agnostic or atheist solely because I WILL keep projecting parts of me onto this character, it’s just what I do at this point. Other evidence: he has a confirmation name. We don’t get his full name til Lolilo, but still. And he’s partly Scottish, which can account for the fact that English people usually are not Catholic.
- “you need to imitate an eagle, that’ll scare them away!” That’s Ben’s second line and first bird reference! Already! Wow.
- The favorite band question! Mumford and Sons! Fife and the Drums! Sheep Dog and Wolf! The LORE! The REFERENCES! We’re already off to the races.
- “I don’t need chat-up lines” Beatrice I love you , and you have no idea what’s coming.
- I forgot about Beatrice’s Favorite T-Shirts Ranking System lol
- Extremely funny that Ben says bananas are his favorite food and then he goes on to become synonymous with mangoes instead. Sorry, buddy, you will always be Mango Skin Boy to us. xD
- I forgot how delightful Dogberry and Verges are in this episode
- “that you would leave me” oh Meg. Oh honey. Oh no.
- I’ve seen nine seasons of Doctor Who and only five episodes of Game of Thrones since 2014. Sorry Bea, I side with Ben on this one. And I’ve seen one season of Community. I’m slowly hacking away at the list of media referenced in nmtd that I need to watch!
- love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free! ❤️
- Balthazar plays every instrument, of course.
- Bea must not have an ear for music if she hated that question enough to force Ursula on-camera so she doesn’t have to answer it… Unless Ursula asked her something else she didn’t want to answer! Lol
- Ben makes me cringe so hard a couple times this episode. And yet I still love him. To be fair, that’s just every Benedick at the start of Much Ado, though. The cringy lines are completely in character.
- I decided to save the full story of how I discovered NMTD for whenever the NMTDaily email for Ben’s first Q&A episode goes out, because then it will actually be ten years almost to the day since I started watching. But I’m so impatient and excited to tell the story!
- It’s amazing how back then, these kids were my contemporaries and the Lizzie Bennet Diaries cast felt impossibly old compared to me. Now the NMTD kids are babies and I’m older than Lizzie Bennet! Trippy. It sure has been a nice ten years.
Until the next one! Happy NMTD Day, fellow flamangoes!
💖🥭🦩
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did you see that the candle wasters have dracula daily-ified NMTD to celebrate the 10 year anniversary?! can't believe it's been a decade since these losers
Yes I did! I’m live-blogging as I rewatch on my sideblog @violivs ! Truly, where did the time go?! I’m so excited to experience the story in real-time again!
(I may or may not also have some fics in the pipeline for this rewatch including the lost continuation of Some Things Change! Which I’m going to post during the NMTDaily Radio Silence- and oh my god do you all realize we’re going to have to re-live the Radio Silence?
If anyone else was here for that, do you remember the Radio Silence? Learning the NZ time zone difference with your own time zone so you’d know when videos were likely to drop? Having only the tiniest scraps of information on what happened at Hero’s party because they’d stopped uploading and posting and even TCW and the actors went silent? The original NMTD fanfiction writers coming in clutch to give us speculation fics about how they’d adapt the rest of the story? I definitely wrote a few of those myself. It was electric. So many memories!) 😊💖
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I know it's too late to submit anything to the classic lit adaptation bracket so I just want to say for any followers interested in shakespeare, check out the candle wasters youtube channel! they have a loose modern adaptation of hamlet (tragicomic) and a midsummer night's dream (bright summer nights), and an absolutely delightful scene by scene adaptation of much ado about nothing (nothing much do to/nmtd) that wormed its way into my brain when I was 15 and never left. it's a delightful group of new zealanders who really care about the og source material and do the feeling of a scene or a play justice without sticking to it word for word. also their beatrice and benedick are hilarious and I love watching them rant at the camera about how much they hate each other. nobody knows about this for some reason and it's so good so I'm spreading the word here
thanks for spreading the word, your efforts are very much appreciated :)
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not to post abt the candle wasters for the first time in years but I literally think abt Nicky saying the thing abt their mom saying it's better for her kids to be kind rather than smart every single day
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