#03.04.25

what we know : a summary UPDATED 8/5/25

my original LT3 post was getting super long since it stated all the way back in 2022, so here’s a version 2.0 covering just what we've learned in 2025 :

Jan 28th 2025 Louis tweets “Had a good break, looking forward to getting back to it. [..] Excited about the next few months of writing as well. Big year incoming!”

Feb 4th 2025 on the podcast The Champ & Contender songwriter David Sneddon, who worked with Louis on multiple tracks on Faith In The Future, mentions that they're currently working on LT3 !! “There’s a song on [Louis'] last record.. we’re in the middle of doing his new one..” 👀

Mar 6th 2025 at his show at Electric Brixton Louis tells the audience: “Let me bring you up to speed on what I’ve been doing for the last six months, [..] Yeah, I’ve spent the last couple of months writing the next record.”

Mar 25th 2025 Louis posts an instagram story from a studio, Real World Studios in Bath. two days later (27/3) producer and songwriter Nico Rebscher - who worked with Louis on Faith In The Future - posts four stories also from Real World, one soundtracked w. Out Of My System. same day Matt Vines also posts an instagram story that may or may not be from Real World Studios..

Apr 3rd 2025 Louis does a twitter Q&A and answers a bunch of question about his next album; "it's cooking", the vibes are "sunny" with a sprinkle of "chaos" and "high in california vibes". there aren't any collabs on the album "yet"..

Apr 16th 2025 songwriter Robert Harvey who co-wrote four tracks on Faith In The Future has signed a publishing deal with BMG - and the press release mentions that he is currently writing with Louis!

May 2025 Louis is in Costa Rica, working at Elstudio in Santa Teresa with songwriters Nico Rebscher, David Sneddon and Theo Hutchcraft.

May 5th 2025 3 new songs - ’Sunflowers’, ’You Don’t Know Me’ and ’Lazy’ - are registered to ASCAP and SACEM with credit to Louis and his fellow songwriters

May 7th 2025 Louis tweets “Still in the middle of the process but can’t fucking wait for you all to hear this next record! [..] This album is going to be my best yet. I can feel it!”. He also replies to a bunch of tweets about the album, answering that if the record was a flavour it would be “lemonade”. He also said that he’s written “At a guess like 30 maybe more” songs and that he “Definitely feel(s) more confident about the approach” [to making the album] and that he’s “feeling really ambitious”. On the question of whether the album has a name he answered “Not yet but got a few ideas”. (all his replies about the album are here)

tbc..

January • February • 2024

I have read 5 million words in fanfic this month :D and also, I've surpassed 4k bookmarks on Ao3! 50 of them are my March Fic Recs!

The Geraskier obsession that had me in its grasp since reading the Accidental Warlord in February is still going strong, and the first weeks of march I really read nothing but Witcher fics! Now I've branched out a bit again through bookmark surfing (reading everything a fic author has written, then going to their bookmarks and reading them all, going to the author of the best one, rinse and repeat), and I've also read some James Bond 00Q, Marvel mainly ClintCoulson, NCIS Tibbs and H50 McDanno! Very slash heavy last month for main ships, I also ended up reading a bunch of femslash rarepairs in basically all of the fandoms I was reading in, looks like it might be time to get back to more of that xD probably Avorah, what with the new season of Hacks coming out soon!

When it comes to books, I've really just continued the bird book from the month before - made it to page 100 before I had to bring it back to the library last week. I'll for sure borrow it again! Check out this pretty illustration:

Whose fic I read is a lot more spread out than last month (tho some Witcher repeats, & I'm not spam tagging ppl who I've already tagged last month xD I'm not sure anyone but me cares about these stats anyway but I do like to give a little shoutout to everyone whose Tumblr I can find) , 37 works (6%) by penandinkprincess, 34 (6%) by whisperedstory, and also still 11 works (2%) by inexplicifics who was at 14% last month because of all the accidental Warlord works, and should probably be even higher wordcount wise bc the fics are so long!

And the new ones: 15 works (3%) also Witcher fics by @hummingbee-o0o hummingbeeooo and 14 (2%) by @suzukiblu suzukiblu, 13 (2%) 00q by @beaubete beaubete, and once again Witcher for the others: 12 (2%) @livingintheworldofstories snowkatze, 10 (2%) fandomtrash24601, 9 (2%) @eyesupmarksman eyesupmarksman, 9 (2%) @lurikko lurikko... So yeah apart from one 00q it's still all Witcher really xD

Thank you all for your many wonderful stories, allowing me to read so much :D

Of course I also read fics from authors with less fics or where I just stumbled across one and didn't get around to reading more yet, some of my faves were:

NCIS Tony/Gibbs

Something New by summersquares - Gibbs gets some new neighbors and a dog, and later a new love...

Hawaii 5-0 McDanno

Lost at the Edge of the Sun by @gilajames - Danny tries to hide from the team that he is homeless.

The Witcher Geraskier

when you feel bad about what you've done by ollyollyoxenfree - Jaskier is so used to bickering with Geralt that the mountain argument barely registers for him - but Geralt feels guilty!

of bards and witches and witchers by writethroughthenight - Jaskier and Yennefer are siblings. Jaskier made everyone forget that though...

James Bond 00q

Sigh No More by @dhampir72 - "Bond wants nothing more than for someone, just once, to be waiting for him at the airport when he returns home."

Remember Me by @consultingwriters, which I actually had an (fic spoilers!!) inspo idea for (but of course no energy to write it... Leaving the idea out there for maybe someone else to pick up!) - James forgets his gay revelation and his relationship with Q.

Fidelity by @marlowe-tops - Q is doomed to always fall for someone who won't be loyal to him. He thinks his unrequited crush on Bond will let him stay happily single without risking further heartbreak...

Out Tonight by @starredthought - Q is a drag queen, and James has many feelings, also on this but mainly on other matters entirely!

Thanks y'all's, really bringing me joy with all the fics <3

Those fics and more can be found in my Ao3 bookmarks and recs, feel free to check them out!

No pressure tagging everyone who sees this to show us your own fic or book recs and/or make some more Ao3 bookmarks :D (in a new post pls)