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A List of Works Influencing and Referenced by IWTV Season 1

Works Directly Referenced

Marriage in a Free Society by Edward Carpenter

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Cheri by Collete

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

La Nausee by Jean-Paul Sartre (credit to @demonicdomarmand )

Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson*

The Book of Abramelin the Mage

Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky

Pelleas et Melisande by Claude Debussy

Epigraphes Antiques by Claude Debussy

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Nosferatu (1922)

Kansas City Stomp by Jelly Roll Morton

Wolverine Blues by Jelly Roll Morton

Works Cited by the Writer’s Room as Influences

Bourbon Street: A History by Richard Campanella (as it hardly mentions Storyville I think interested parties would be better served by additional titles if they want a complete history of New Orleans)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (This was also adapted into an award winning opera)

poetry by Charles Simic (possibly A Wedding in Hell?)

poetry by Mark Strand (possibly Dark Harbour?)

Works IWTV may be in conversation with (This is the most open to criticism and additions)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, uncensored (There are two very different versions of this which exist today, as Harvard Press republished the unedited original with permission from the Wilde family.)

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Warsan Shire for Beyoncé’s Lemonade

Faust: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

La Morte Amoreuse by Theophile Gautier

Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Sailing to Byzantium by Yeats

The Circus Animal's Desertion by Yeats

The Second Coming by Yeats

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (credit to @johnlockdynamic )

1984 by George Orwell (credit to @savage-garden-nights for picking this up)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Gone With the Wind film (1939)

Hannibal (2013)

Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle Suzanne de Villenueve

*if collected or in translation most of the best editions today would not have been available to the characters pre-1940. It’s possible Louis is meant to have read them in their original French in some cases, but it would provide for a different experience. Lydia Davis’ Madame Bovary, for example, attempts to replicate this.

** I've tagged and linked relevant excerpts under quote series as I've been working my way through the list.

Season 2 here

[ask-churro-cookie]

"I understand that you're upset-"

"No- No you don't understand!! You never did, Wind Archer!! I've been doing YOUR JOB SENSE YOU WERE GIVEN THAT SCARLET POISON!!"

"I HAVE DONE MY JOB FOR CENTURIES, WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW!?"

"MORE THAN YOU, APPARENTLY!! YOU WILLINGLY TOOK THE POISON AND IT STARTED THAT WHOLE MESS! IT WAS BECAUSE OF YOU AND POMEGRANATE COOKIE THAT OUR HOME FELL TO RUIN!! THAT MY TRIBE WAS PUT TO SLUMBER! THAT MILLENNIAL TREE WAS DISGRACED AND POISONED HIMSELF!!"

"WHAT ELSE WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO!? I HAD TO GET STRONGER!-"

"Stronger- STRONGER!? YOU WERE ALREADY STRONG!! YOU HAD CENTURIES TO GROW AND LEARN!! I HAD TO RUSH TO LEARN ADVANCED FIGHTING TECHNIQUES JUST TO DEFEND MYSELF!! TO DEFEND WHAT YOU LEFT VULNERABLE!!"

"IT WASN'T THAT BAD, EVERYONE WAS SAFE WHILE ASLEEP! YOU WERE SAFE!"

" I WASN'T ASLEEP, WIND ARCHER!! I PROTECTED THIS PLACE. . . I SPENT YEARS ALONE TO PROTECT THIS SACRED PLACE AND NEVER ONCE HAVE I SEEN YOU AROUND!! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU'RE WORTHY OF THE TITLE IF YOU LET THAT HAPPEN!?"

"..."

"What makes you think you're worthy being called a guardian if you let scarlet poison almost kill us all..."

(@teabrain , @asks-cookies-and-chaos , here we got Churro snapping at Wind archer after the story events of "The hidden truth of the city"- things did get better but Churro does have tension with Wind Archer(which is shown in his relationship chart) so this is based off that- as for the "years" part, I thought it was weird he was so calm about everyone he knew being incased in roots. So, I had the headcanon that he was already awake for a long time before the story events.)

[thedarkwoodfae]

"No amount of fear will keep you safe."

The Crane Wives, 'Keep You Safe' (Coyote Stories Album)

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[fics-and-quotes-andthelike]

Percy Jackson (texting Annabeth): sends a voice message Annabeth Chase (texting back): I’m a little busy, is it urgent? Percy Jackson: No, don’t worry, just listen later. later Annabeth Chase: presses play Percy Jackson (voice message): THERE’S A FIRE-

Extra: (Grover screaming in the background)

[percabethownsmybutt]

annabeth: why are you following me?

percy: because we’re dating now

annabeth: okay… what about grover?

percy: we’re a package deal

grover: buy one idiot, get one free

[murasaki-cha]

Luke: You can't force the gods to do anything

Percy "pay your freaking child support" Jackson: Bet

[thatstheproblemwithnapkinman]

percy: you're not getting the bolt hades: bitch i just want my hat back

[o0kawaii0o]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KING 🗣🗣🗣

[hangon-silvergirl]

fallout tv series + onion headlines, okey dokey?

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Absalom, Absalom! & IWTV

Reading Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, considered to be one of the granddaddies of the Southern Gothic genre, I’m increasingly cognizant of the influence this book must have had on Interview With the Vampire (it’s style and structure), to the extent I do not think it would have existed without it. The book begins with an interview of an old woman’s recollections of the Old South by a young man for starters. But I also think this had great influence on the writer’s room for the TV series- one of the prevailing motifs are unwed brides and “troths which failed to plight,” much like Louis’ never official, failed marriage.

[lovelyinspiration1463]

This is my pièce de résistance. I've peaked.

[folie-a-deux]

Mads: "It is a giant journey obviously for both of them. In reality that is a giant journey he's gone through (Will) but in Hannibal's world as well, even though the step is much smaller for him, it's a gigantic leap. Right?"

Hugh: "Because he's potentially envisioning– caring on a few..."

Mads: "A future."

Hugh: "Yeah."

Mads: "But it's interesting because Hannibal had never ever thought about the future. He's a man who lives in the present. And for once he saw a future."

– Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, talking about 'The Wrath of the Lamb' finale scene

[caitlynskitten]

Lucy: *accidentally kills someone* Oh geez.

Lucy: *Kills a cockroach* Holy moly!

Lucy: *escapes a near death experience* Okie Dokie that was intense.

The Ghoul: Just say “fuck” for the love of god.

Lucy:

Lucy: Fudge.

[fics-and-quotes-andthelike]

Annabeth Chase: I dare you- Sally Jackson: Percy is not allowed to accept dares anymore. Annabeth Chase: Why not? Percy Jackson: "I have no regard for my own or others personal safety", as some would say. Grover Underwood: (vivid Yancy flashbacks) Fair enough.

[percabethownsmybutt]

percy: the path to inner peace starts with four words

percy: not my fucking problem