#iwtv s3 book club

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@iamrebeccasblog HE DOES. or rather, he mentioned his reading list to the press lol, i got excited: Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe's The Dirt The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx Black Metal Rainbows The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties ETA correction: Set the Night on Fire by by Robbie Krieger -- hat tip to @la-femme-au-collier-vert Bonus, to watch or rewatch: Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Rocky Horror Picture Show

SUMMER READING LIST!

(in the past the writers used to be on twitter and mentioned books they were reading/references they were influenced by) ETA: @la-femme-au-collier-vert assembled this kickass list of s1 references last year

[thelioncourts]

thank you for focusing more on lestat from now on, doing tvl book club, at the end of the day lestat is the main character and the center of the whole vc, it’s time people accept it and i think you centering him in your content it’s gonna be really helpful ❤️

I wasn't going to glorify this with a response because I think this is an insane takeaway (it's a lot like the 'I like waffles,' I say on the Internet. 'Oh, so you HATE pancakes?' says random other person on the Internet), but I do want to iterate a couple of things, the first of which being that the show has very clearly aligned this as Louis' show as much as Lestat's so the idea that all you've taken away from the first two seasons is that this is Lestat's show only, that says a lot more about you than anything tbh. Secondly, I never said I will be centering Lestat in my content. my content has always been sam and jacob/lestat and louis, with a leaning toward louis on the latter. while I am SO excited for season 3 and for TVL, I won't just magically throw other characters to the side. the only reason I didn't start with an IwtV "Reid Along" is because I think it would be a disservice to the writing team and to jacob to read louis like that when the louis we have is so rich and beautifully fleshed out.

so. no. I will be including louis in all TVL discussion given that 1) louis is the love of lestat's life 2) lestat wrote tvl for louis 3) speculative conversation is about all of s3 which includes louis and 4) as of right now, every character on the show is actually revolving around louis, even lestat's entire storyline atm.

[nobigsecrets]

2024 Review

It's probably a bit late now for year-in-review posts but I cleared out my drafts yesterday and found all these reviews I made and never posted. These are not exactly extensive lists and they're definitely incomplete but they do include the media I liked and/or found noteworthy.

TV Shows

Young Royals S3 (Netflix)

The Gentlemen (Netflix)

Reacher S2 (Amazon)

Charité S4 (ARD)

9-1-1 S7, S8 / 9-1-1 rewatch (Amazon)

IWTV S1, S2 (Amazon)

Kleo S2 (Netflix)

Achtsam Morden (Netflix, mit Tom Schilling)

Heartstopper S3 (Netflix)

How to get away with murder (Netflix)

Movies

Tatort Saarbrücken: Der Fluch des Geldes

Der Vorname (mit Florian David Fitz)

Das perfekte Geheimnis (mit Florian David Fitz)

Große Freiheit (über §175)

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Swan Song (with Udo Kier)

Me Him Her

Books

Garrett Leigh: Christmas Mountain

Marc-Uwe Kling: QualityLand

Marc-Uwe Kling: Views

Sebastian Fitzek: Elternabend

Years 2021-2023 under the cut.

2023

TV Shows

Die Neue Zeit (Das Bauhaus in Weimar; Arte)

Bonn: Alte Freunde, neue Feinde (ARD, mit Max Riemelt)

Luden (Amazon)

Ted Lasso S3 (Apple TV)

Schlafende Hunde (Netflix, mit Max Riemelt)

Almania (Die Ferien sind vorbei) (ARD)

SEAL Team (started)

Heartstopper S2 (Netflix)

Sex Education S4 (Netflix)

Lupin S3 (Netflix)

Capital B (Berlin Doku; Arte)

Movies

Glass Onion

Tatort Saarbrücken: Das Herz der Schlange

Polizeiruf 110: Der Gott des Bankrotts

Vorwärts Immer (Der doppelte Honecker)

Die Mitte der Welt

Extraction 2

Eldorado (Doku; Netflix)

Fanfic (Polish Coming-of-age drama about a young trans guy; best moment when he's called Tosiek instead of Tosia for the first time; Netflix)

Tom of Finland (ARD One)

Red White and Royal Blue

Polizeiruf 110: Cottbus Kopflos

The Birdcage

Lotte am Bauhaus

Fight Club

Books

Garrett Leigh: Between Ghosts (m|m military romance)

Casey McQuiston: Red White and Royal Blue (re-read)

John Brownlow: Agent Seventeen

James Kestrel: Fünf Winter (og title: Five Decembers)

Ralf Langroth: Die Akte Adenauer

2022

TV Shows

Reacher (Amazon)

Oktoberfest 1900 (Netflix)

All You Need S2 (ARD)

Heartstopper (Netflix)

9-1-1 S5 (Amazon)

The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (YT)

A League Of Their Own (Amazon)

Kleo (Netflix)

Young Royals S2 (Netflix)

Smiley (Netflix)

Ted Lasso (Apple TV)

Movies

Tatort Saarbrücken: Der Herr des Waldes

Tatort Saarbrücken: Das fleißige Lieschen

Polizeiruf 110: Hildes Erbe

She’s the Man

Top Gun: Maverick

Bullet Train

The Gray Man

Pride

Polizeiruf 110: Abgrund

My Beautiful Launderette

Books

Garrett Leight: Only Love (mlm romance, lots of hurt/comfort)

Tomasz Jedrowski: Im Wasser sind wir schwerelos

Pene Henson: North Shore

Hansjörg Nessensohn: Mut. Machen. Liebe.

2021

TV Shows

Charité S1-S3 (ARD)

Das Boot (2018) (ZDF)

Sex Education (Netflix)

Young Royals (Netflix)

Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Amazon)

All you need is love (ARD)

Love, Simon

Hollywood (Netflix)

Eldorado KaDeWe (ARD)

Der Palast (ZDF)

Books

Linus Giese: Ich bin Linus

Marnie Schäfers: A New Season

Becky Albertalli: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda