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Please, for the love of god, someone has to watch this movie. It’s corny as fuck, so incredibly German it hurts but also queer and goofy as hell.

It‘s basically a big character study hidden behind a bad cluedo-esque plot

#I need someone to talk about this with #danny rambles #tom schilling #it’s cringe but idk #Der Pfau

Am I writing fanfiction for a non existent fandom? Maybe.

#danny rambles #der pfau

getting a canonically queer tom schilling character was not on my 2025 bingo card

#tom schilling #der pfau #that was incredible #andreas voigt #why does that man always go for blonds #danny rambles #the literally almost fucked

The longer I watched Der Pfau, the hotter I thought Tom Schilling was in it.

#😅🙈#personal #der pfau #tom schilling

Went to see Der Pfau today.

My mom half way through the movie: Is he flirting with him?

Me, whose been on them since the first little wink, when they wrote down their names: The whole time!!!!

#and with half way through the film i mean when andreas invited david into the hot tub #german stuff #personal #storytime #der pfau #tom schilling #david kross

so i finished der pfau (the peacock, if you wanna find it) two nights ago in the same spot where i finished iwwv, in about the same amount of time (2 hours for half of the book) and the only reason i didnt start howling and laughing at the end is because i had a child sleeping next door.

so here goes whatever those high end critics say, its witty and hilarious and whatever else, but it really is.

i had a weird time getting into it because isabel bogdans style of writing is like... completely without any direct speech so that threw me off my rhythm at first, and it also seems really formal because it’s about the lord and the lady somewhere off in the scottish highlands, and there was a bunch of here is and there is description stuff and people talking (but also not quite because the “speech marks or whatever these are called” were just missing).

looking back though.... i recently watched that weird mockumentary on netflix about david harbour’s dad and that theatre play and when i finished the book i was like.... yea... so thats what they meant with the gun being shown at the beginning. (which is something i never heard before, because i’m an art kid, not a theatre kid) so yea bogdan really tied that up, and she tied it up to a really fancy bow.

so yea thats the frame for the story, i guess. the picture though.... the bankers that came out to the highlands to participate in some kind of teambuilding and stuff... it was just really good. you had all these different people, which i had to make a small mindmap for because i love doing these (did them for iwwv as well), and they were just so... special! every one of them did these things that they thought were right but because it’s not written first perspective but rather third, you immediately found out how dumb it was what they just did there. about halfway through the really bitchy boss got a cold and a fever and the smart but really ruthless cook helps her recover simply because shes nice, while the most annoying guy on the trip breaks his foot and befriends the dude that he makes responsible for his break up, all the while that one gets sucked up in some other disaster. the dynamics are crazy and really fun to get through. there’s always some kind of break (in journalism we call that Insel der Verständlichkeit, isle of clarity) where you can rest for a second and get your head straight and follow along in this chaos. when you started out disliking any character, theres a fair chance it changes in the second half of the book, which is just really nice and classic arcs that are simple but fun to read.

its the nature of the story, the biggest irony, that the big conclusion they come to during their teambuilding is that they need better communication between them, they need to talk to each other, when this whole disaster could have been easily prevented if they had just told each other what they knew - they could have easily pieced together the whole story about the mad peacock in the scottish highlands. and still, they didnt. at some point, when i think about it, it becomes tragic. but it’s still mostly funny, so theres that.