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This week in Larry news
All dates listed for CEST (Central European Summer Time).
❤️ Sunday, October 1 ❤️
Louis
Louis tweeted “Can’t wait to be back on stage tonight!”
Louis’ tour chef Sara shared today’s menu on Instagram, inspired by Spanish cuisine 🥗
Louis performed a show in Bilbao:
outfit: white tank top and black pants
Louis fumbled a fan’s phone (description)
Louis signed an Argentina jersey for a fan during the show (photo)
outro song: “Where is my mind” by Pixies, which Harry has previously mentioned that he would like to slowdance to 💙💚
Post-show insta post & LTHQ post-show pics
One hour after the show, Louis(‘s team) posted a longer reel to his Instagram, captioned “It was amazing to go to countries I’ve never been to before. Thankyou to everyone who came to a show! Buzzing to be back on stage tonight!”
Harry
New photos of “Harry out in London recently” with Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson. These two were involved in producing Harry’s last album, so the outing fed rumours that Harry is already working on HS4. The whole thing also caused exasperation because he wore, you guessed it, a super expensive Loewe cardigan.
Video of a very relatable and funny encounter of a gym employee with Harry years ago
🧡 Monday, October 2 🧡
Louis
The AFHF account shared a survey for “where should we take the festival to next year” (their tweet) As of today, the survey is still open for more entries, so please take part!
Coverage of last night’s concert in a local newspaper
💛 Tuesday, October 3 💛
Louis
Louis liked yesterday’s AFHF post on Instagram (screenshot)
Ticketmaster Spain shared some fan projects for the shows in Spain
Louis performed a show in Lisbon:
outfit was a white tshirt with print and green pants, like, AGAIN 💚
The megaymix 🏳️🌈 lights were spectacular tonight 👀
(and another stunning photo)
Post-show insta post & LTHQ post-show pics
Louis met fans after the show wearing the softest looking dark-green hoodie and the brightest smile :) (video | photos )
Harry
Picture of “Harry with a fan today in London” (and another picture placing him in London today)
HLD tried to sell us this “Harry with a fan” picture as being from Paris and from July, but we noticed and they quickly had to correct the info to “London” and “May”.
Larry
Katie has updated her “Larries’ Great Big Doc of Everything”, a comprehensive spreadsheet of all larrie events
💚 Wednesday, October 4 💚
Louis
Louis' documentary All Of Those Voices is now available to stream on Paramount+ in the US and Canada.
Louis co-posted a video with Paramount+ to his Instagram reels
According to fans, the Paramount+ version of AOTV is not the cinema-version but the Veeps version, meaning it has the AFHF Malaga footage.
You can get the first 30 days of Paramount+ for free if you sign up using the code LOUIS. Here’s a tutorial for how to use the code!
Swedish luxury brand CDLP posted to their Instagram story this picture of Louis wearing a tank top from their collection
💙 Thursday, October 5 💙
Louis
Louis performed a show in Madrid:
wore a black polo shirt with red stars, and black jeans
Louis mentioned that he’s very tired tonight, and thanked the crowd for bringing good energy (quote)
Outro: Munich by the Editors
Post-show insta post & LTHQ post-show pics
💜 Friday, October 6 💜
Louis
Louis’ offhand comment during last night’s show that we “don’t care about” him being tired caused a huge outcry in the fandom. We ended up trending "#WeCareLouis” and some fans even brought signs to this effect to tonight’s show
Louis replied “Love this!” to a tweet of an update account celebrating AOTV being #1 on Paramount+ worldwide this week
An article was published on los40.com about Louis and his tour success
Video of Louis arriving at the venue in his tour bus 🤣😂🥰
Someone responsible for the Paramount+ twitter account is a Louie (video - 🔊SOUND ON)
Louis performed a show in Barcelona:
wore a Moncler t-shirt with a blue-green-gold smiley on it 💙💚. The t-shirt would have also been available in red-black-silver, which would arguably have fit the FITF theme much better, but no. 🐀
got confused for a second and addressed the crowd as “Madrid” (quote)
stunning video of the SIBWAC lights 🥰 🏳️🌈
Louis noticably smirked after singing the line “sometimes you still like to wear my jumper” in “Chicago” (video | see “Larry” section below for relevance)
Video of what very much looks like Louis kissing his heart tattoo while leaving the stage 👀
Post-show insta post & LTHQ post-show pics
Louis did not talk to fans after the show
Harry
Harry shared a post in his Instagram story about Mitch’s new album and people cooed about his emoji usage 🐶🥹
Larry
Harry was seen collecting frequent walker miles “today in London”, wearing his old Umbro jumper/shirt (which arguably was Louis’ jumper originally), a blue 💙 jacket, and sipping on a bright green 💚 beverage. The whole thing was Larry-signaling so strongly, we barely knew how to digest it.
The Umbro shirt had the fandom in a tizzy all afternoon, and then HLD posted their poll about “what do you think Louis will wear tonight” and included “Umbro” as an option 💀
reaction tweets:
🤎 Saturday, October 7 🤎
Harry
In this video, Neil Patrick Harris talked about Harry flirting (?) with his hubby 🤣
Fic recs
📚 “On The Horizon” by FitzAndLarry, 261k words, rated M.
Recced by: Bee
Summary: The “cruise fic” everybody has been talking about recently
Content notes: Deals heavily with anxiety and issues of self-worth, both of which the character is slowly healing from during the story.
Why you should read it: I just finished this glorious novel-length fic last night, staying up to the small hours because it was just so compelling. This story has everything you could possibly want out of a fanfic. This is for everyone who, like me, feels comforted by watching them both heal and grow and love. The ending is PERFECT and extremely rewarding.
📚 “Love is the Only Goal” by a_momentwithme, 30k words, rated E.
Recced by: H_Linlove
Summary: Louis Tomlinson is the football sensation whose name is on everyone's lips. When he lands a transfer to the world's greatest club, he has the chance to meet Harry again and set the record straight after a misunderstanding that left them both scarred.
Why you should read it: It is a beautiful love story, with wonderful, honest characters and really good written scenes and dialogues. Is cute, is fun, is hot, in just the right amounts.
📚 “You're Not My Type (still I fall)” by Imogenlee, 38k words, rated M.
Recced by: Lilly_Sayuri
Summary: (A/B/O) Harry is only twenty-four and has no inclination to settle down at all, especially not at the behest of an Alpha. But, as his mum would point out, that was the same stubborn attitude that got him here: in his car, in a thunderstorm, on the side of a forsaken lane of some little countryside town in Yorkshire. His mobile's got no signal, his GPS isn't working, and he's running low on petrol, so he can't even use the heater.”
Why you should read it: A good dose of fluffy A/B/O by an amazing author :)
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Final words
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