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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

not to center myself, but, in a way I both had not peaked and had no idea how much I had peaked... watch this space in like two weeks 👀

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

they're calling it the most beautiful shot captured on film

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Talked to Sarah Afful, Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat's newest cast member about playing Merrick Mayfair in the penultimate episode. Nice chat! Good show! Witches! Witches who may become vampires!! www.themarysue.com/sarah-afful-...

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Sarah Afful on Joining 'The Vampire Lestat' as Merrick Mayfair | The Mary Sue

Interview with 'The Vampire Lestat' cast member Sarah Afful who plays Merrick Mayfair in Season 3 of the AMC series

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The thing about Interview with the Vampire is that it’s kinda like a lot of folks sat down and said what if we made a TV show that was good? Not sure why everyone doesn’t do this!

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Mutual aid for kitties! We’re raising money for this little guy’s chemo treatments. He’s doing very well so far!! Please pass along XOXO gofund.me/6abba3b5e

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Side quest! For @teenvogue.com I reported on focus gaming, productivity apps, and how being gentle with yourself and your time actually helps to get stuff done. www.teenvogue.com/story/focus-...

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Focus Gaming Apps Are Challenging Us to Be Kinder to Ourselves

Games like 'On-Together' and 'Love and Deepspace' are broadening what a productivity app can look like.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

one thing i really appreciate about interview with the vampire is how much they understand that men should wear more eye makeup

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Wrote about how #TheVampireLestat, aka this season of IWTV, introduces media, like books and songs, and the public opinion to an already complex exploration of post-modern truth. Thanks to @tvcritics.org, I asked Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson for their thoughts, too! www.themarysue.com/sam-reid-jac...

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"It Now Belongs To Them": Sam Reid & Jacob Anderson On How 'The Vampire Lestat' Pushes Their Characters Into The Public Eye

'Interview with the Vampire' stars Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson discuss their characters' newfound fame on ‘The Vampire Lestat’

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

As we go into the weekend: it is not too late to start and get caught up on Interview with the Vampire. No more putting it off. You will thank me, promise! I've been evangelizing this intelligent, silly, romantic, challenging series from the start. It deserves to be a sensation.

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Mutual aid for kitties! We’re raising money for this little guy’s chemo treatments. He’s doing very well so far!! Please pass along XOXO gofund.me/6abba3b5e

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

reading about the new season of a certain show. anyway, amy seimetz' the girlfriend experience...

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 02/04/2026

The loss of 22 episode seasons means we're losing out on the time honored tradition of "episode in which recurring character is suddenly turned evil via MacGuffin and now the actor gets to have fun"

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The cat wanted attention so I hit him with Hamlet’s to be or not to be speech. This was his reaction

Benji the cat having an existential crisis. Hard to describe what that looks like, honestly.

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

on this disney+ maul show, richard ayoade voices a character named two boots richard ayoade IS

storefront of two boots pizzeria in the east village, manhattan

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

ok it’s there. what’s the politically correct bluesky way to say suicide postponed?

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

so snl uk on peacock was a fucking lie

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The thing about this television program is that it’s a perfect, flawless, nobody’s doing it like them, GOATED television program. Words that should not be used carefully, and probably never at all. Yet here I am saying them!

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

hate when you send someone a video that’s under two minutes long and they say “can’t wait to watch!” like ok miss busy and important

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

i personally hate to see high point winning

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I wrote some jokes. I am NOT weighing in on discourse. Please don't put in the newspaper that I was weighing in on discourse. That moment has hopefully passed, anyway. This is for comedy. Please laugh only. leahmarilla.medium.com/why-women-li...

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Why Women Like What Women Like According To A Woman, Explained

The first time the internet told me that I was fetishizing gay men, I was a teenage girl on a message board devoted to the Harry Potter…

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Me: I want more people to follow me on Letterboxd! letterboxd.com/leahmarilla/ 🤪 Also me:

I spent ten minutes before the Oscars watching French silent films directed by Alice Guy-Blaché. I'm not a pretentious person, but I am unpredictable.

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Updated my villain origin story chart + added some notes

A chart showing Academy Award-nominated/winning films written and directed by the same woman. The women are: Coralie Forgeat, Justine Triet, Celine Song, Greta Gerwig, Sarah Polley, Jane Campion, Sian Heder, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chloe Zhao, Emerald Fennell, Dee Rees, Lisa Cholodenko, Debra Granik, Courtney Hunt, Tamara Jenkins, Sofia Coppola, Shari Springer Berman, Nora Ephron, Agnieszka Holland, and Lina Wertmüller. They share 25 screenwriting nominations total (5 wins) and 10 directing nominations total (3 wins, 1 honorary). Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to win (or be nominated) for director with a screenplay she did not write. Elaine May, Nancy Meyers, and Nora Ephron have all been nominated for screenplays they did not direct, May and Ephron twice. Marielle Heller and Barbra Streisand have never been nominated for director, but women were nominated for screenplays they directed. Of the 21 Best Picture nominees directed by women in history, 8 were nominated for director and 20 for screenplay, excluding Selma.

Ryan Coogler (Sinners), Barry Jenkins (Moonlight*), Jordan Peele (Get Out), and Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman*) have also all won screenwriting Oscars and lost Best Director for the same film. Spike Lee was nominated for screenplay for Do The Right Thing and not Best Director that year, which is absurd. Taika Waititi has a screenwriting win for JoJo Rabbit and a short film nomination, but no Best Director nominations.

More relevant notes I gathered while researching:
- Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to win (or be nominated) for director with a screenplay she did not write.
- Elaine May, Nancy Meyers, and Nora Ephron have all been nominated for screenplays they did not direct, Elaine May and Nora Ephron twice.
- Marielle Heller has never been nominated for director, but Nicole Holofcener was nominated for Can You Ever Forgive Me*. Similarly, Barbra Streisand has never been nominated for director, but Becky Johnston was nominated for The Prince of Tides*.
- Of the 23 Best Picture nominees directed by women in history, regardless of who wrote them, ten were nominated for director. Twenty two were nominated for screenplay. The only film not nominated for either director or screenplay is Ava DuVernay’s Selma.

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Congratulations to Jessie Buckley, who I saw play Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music on the West End in 2009 from behind a pillar for probably like £15 or something stupid. I was entranced for two hours. One of the best theatrical experiences of my life. See below. Tiny future Oscar winner:

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I have liked every single Oscars bit equally.

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

zoe saldaña solemnly reading the phrase "balls to the wall" off of a teleprompter

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Angel Salvatore-Cullen in the opening credits of The Vampire Lestat, I love you

poster on a wall of a moody, brooding, 90s and 00s style teen heartthrob vampire wearing a long-sleeved v-neck shirt.

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Starting today and continuing for the next week-ish, you can watch the National Theatre's recent-ish production of The Importance of Being Earnest on Youtube for FREE! Ncuti Gatwa! Hugh Skinner! Eliza Scanlan! Ronke Adekoluejo! Don't miss it! Treat yourself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=obX-...

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The Importance Of Being Earnest (Full Show) | Take Your Seats | National Theatre at Home

YouTube video by National Theatre

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

remember bj novak's li.st app? remember bj novak's fictional sister keough? remember bj novak?

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

stage show where a decent amount of the plot is dancers taking turns saying 'hey so this is my deal' ranked low brow to high brow: cats* nutcracker** a chorus line *reg cats not the jellicle ball (camp ergo unrankable) **nutcracker can get ranked higher when it wins a pulitzer any others?

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

this week's episode of starfleet academy can go RIGHT to jail

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

should i try and shop around the kind of satirical thing i wrote on a topic that won't die (see recent repost) again? should i self publish? is it worth it? when you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around do you ever really crash or even make a sound? ugh.

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Caroline Siede @carolinesiede.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Tbh, the question “Why do women enjoy gay romances?” is built on the assumption that when women consume fictional stories, they only ever relate to the female characters. But, actually, only relating to characters of your gender is a male privilege that women don’t get!!

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Leah Marilla Thomas @leahmarilla.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Don't let anybody make a docu-series about the evil underbelly of Project Runway. I don't want to know.

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