#my lead actor delusions keep growing with every win

[nicolethered]

TLOU is cleaning up in the technical awards, hope some of it spills over into the acting categories

ETA: They’re up to 8!! now on night one!!!

[villainousshakespeare]

AO3 Master List

Loki - Series

Exile’s Return: Rated M, Fluff, Smut, Romance, 16 chapters (complete)

Banished from Asgard for his various crimes, Loki seeks to use the rescue and return of Thor’s betrothed (ofc) to secure his release from exile. But he is the God of Mischief, and when the lady in question proves to be smart, caring, and lovely he can’t resist trying to slowly turn her affection away from the prince she is promised to marry and claim her for himself. My first ever (and still personal favorite I’ve written) fic!!

Loki and Kela’s Adventures on Midgard: Rated E, Smut, Fluff 8 chapters (complete)

A sequel to Exile’s Return, but not really necessary to read that first. Loki brings his love Kela to Midgard despite being wanted for war crimes by The Avengers. While attending the theater in New York they cross paths with a dangerous man with mind control abilities. Will Loki be able to keep Kela from becoming his latest victim?

In Exchange for Submission: Rated E, Smut, Fluff, Romance, Angst, 77 Chapters (completed)

Loki’s invasion of NY has taken a turn for the better, and he is now in charge of a growing percentage of the United States. During his campaign he acquired a group of hostages from resistance pockets and is keeping them captive in Stark Tower. Now, with things settling down a bit, he needs to decide what to do with them. Two of them, from a prominent family, are set to be released. One of these, a feisty, irritating, impossible woman, desperately offers to ransom the rest of the prisoners, including her best friend. Loki has no need of Midgardian coin, but the woman, who has been a thorn in his side for weeks, has something else that he desires - her submission. He offers her a bargain - every day he will require a new willing act of submission from her, and in exchange, he will release one prisoner. How long can she keep up the deal? And how much of herself will he demand she surrender?

Trigger Warnings: Dark elements, Dark!Thor, attempted rape (not by Loki), angst, tons of kink and smut

For the Price of a Book: Rated M, Romance, Fluff, Smut, Angst, 35 Chapters (completed)

In the days before the events of Thor I, Loki inadvertently comes upon a female servant being “punished” by a pair of guards. Her crime? Stealing a book from the rooms she was tasked to clean. Curiosity captured, he decides to break through the shy exterior by any means necessary. A bit of softer Loki story, as he is younger and pre-Jotunn discovery. He is still Loki though, so sass and drama will not be far away!

Christmas Mischief: Rated M, Romance, Fluff, Smut 4 Chapters (completed)

You have been dating Loki for several months, so it is only natural that he would accompany you home for a very old fashioned family holiday, right? This could be your dream come true… or your worst nightmare.

Loki - One Shots

The Rarest Flower: Rated T, Romance, Angst, 1 shot

Birthday Challenge from the prompt: Could I request the “forbidden/secret relationship” with Loki and reader? They dated back in Asgard, but with Loki as prince it was somehow forbidden so they needed to keep it secret. Someone found out and the reader was sent to Midgard and to not see Loki again and while she is there she found out she’s pregnant. Years later Loki found a way back to the reader and is surprised to see that they have a child

Retribution: Rated E, Smut, NonCon, 1 shot

Loki has just conquered two united armies on the field of battle. Now he confronts the woman who brought them together to oppose him - daughter to the proud king of one army, betrothed of the general of their ally. Angry at the challenge to his throne he decides to make an example of her, and gives her a choice: be tossed to his soldiers for their entertainment, or willingly submit to his every perverted demand as his personal slave. Basically, my attempt at a Loki/slave one shot.

Trigger Warning: VERY NON-CON! This is not the love story Loki of my previous works, but just pure, unadulterated, dark, perverted porn.

Team Bonding: Rated T, Drinking, Implied Future Smut, Drunken Silliness, One Shot

Now that Loki is a member of the Avengers, he needs to develop a better report with them. As his fiancé, you feel it is your duty to encourage him to go out for post-mission drinks with the team. What could possibly go wrong?

The Perfect Costume: Rated E, Smut

Loki needs to find the perfect costume to wear to a party with you. What will he come up with and how will you react?

Life of the Party: Rated T, Drinking, Implied Future Smut

An empath and a scientist in the service of SHIELD, you are blackmailed by Tony Stark into attending one of his parties for your own good. Expecting to have a miserable time, you instead strike up a conversation with the God of Mischeif. Written for @scrumptious-delusion 2K Writing challenge!

A Flood of Emotions: Rated M, Smut, Fluff, Set During Pandemic

As an empath living through the Covid-19 pandemic you are struggling to deal with being confined with everyone else's emotions. When Loki arrives at your door for a delayed rendezvous you are moments away from a panic attack. Can the God of Mischief take your mind off of your problems?

This is a continuation of the story begun in "Life of the Party", though it is not necessary to read it first.

You’re My Obsession: Rated M, Angst, Smut, Avenger Loki

As the head of PR for the Avengers, you are faced with a lot of problems. None of them, however, is as big as your obsession with a certain God of Mischief. While he cavorts with models and treats you as a nothing more than a close friend, you find yourself unable to control your feeling for him. Can you find a way to make him final take notice of you?

James Conrad

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The Mark: Rated E, Smut, Angst, Fluff, Romance, Gooey Ending, One Shot

Desperate for money in a backwater town in South East Asia after the Vietnam War, Jennifer follows a tall British man she has just seen win a roll of cash at pool. She is determined to make him her latest mark, but James Conrad is more than what he seems and not one to fall for any woman’s game.

Trigger warning: Mention of attempted kidnapping/human trafficking

Tracking the Beast: rated T, fluff, alcohol use, implied smut

James leads a group of inexperienced adventures to track a rare beast.

Sir Thomas Sharpe

In Search of Refuge: Rated E, Smut, Gothic Romance, Work in Progress

A disastrous carriage accident leaves Rose stranded in a snow storm. Desperate to find shelter from the elements, she stumbles upon a run down estate and throws herself on the mercy of its owner, Sir Thomas Sharpe.

Magnus Martinsson

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Protection: Rated E, Smut, Romance, Fluff, Angst, 36 Chapters (completed)

Against his wishes, Magnus is assigned an undercover case to protect a witness and bring down a criminal. He gets more than he bargains for with his protectee. This starts with a slow burn, but I promise there will be smutty goodness in upcoming chapters!

Bunnies in the Rain: Rated E, Smut, Fluff, Romance One Shot

Birthday Challenge: Magnus and Just. One.  Bed. You and Det. Magnus Martinsson get stuck in the rain out on the job, and have to take shelter in a Bed and Breakfast. What could possibly happen?

Robert Laing

Her: Rated E, Smut, Kidnapping, Dub/Con, Nonconsensual Drug Use

Laing enjoys life in the high rise as every woman’s favorite amenity, but lately he’s been getting bored. When he sees Grace, he knows he has to have her, no matter what it takes.

Trigger Warnings: Please, please, please read the rating. This is a dark fic unlike my usual ones.

Tom Hiddleston

Kicked Out: Rated M, Fluff, Angst, Kissing,

Birthday Challenge: Tom and Just. One. Bed.On your first professional tour you are unceremoniously ousted from your hotel room when your roommate hooks up with one of the stars. It is at this point that the other lead, one Tom Hiddleston, wanders into the room. Being a gentleman, he can hardly let you drink alone!

In the Timing: Rated E, Smut, Angst, Fluff 4 Chapters (completed)

After a horrible first date, you end up at a pub filled with University students. You are feeling rather old and sorry for yourself, until a blond haired Adonis strikes up a conversation with you. Obviously he is too young for you, but what could a little flirting hurt?

Tom Hiddleston/Loki

Personalities Within: Rated E, Smut, Fluff, Angst, Loki, Oakley, Jonathan Pine, Coriolanus, Adam, tbd, Work in Progress (currently on hiatus)

Tom had been so careful for so long. He rarely got involved in relationships, and if he did he only let them go on for so long before ending them. It was the only way to be safe. The only way that HE wouldn’t come out. And while HE, among others, might make Tom a great actor, the dangers were to great. But what happens when Tom falls for someone. Someone who not only is his perfect type, but the other’s perfect type as well? Can he pursue a relationship with her while keeping his secret and protecting her? Or will the unthinkable happen?

Trigger Warnings: Mental illness

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[its-just-like-the-movies]

The Fifties, Debut 2017 Edition

Hello! So, as I semi-explained before, the goal of the fifties is to make a sort of halfway-through-the-year progress report of all the films you’ve seen and what you’d want to commemorate if you had ballot to cast, especially since plenty of films released before the fall aren’t really considered in that way for one reason or another. Not all categories have five nominees, though most do, and several contain runner-ups (alphabetically listed) to boot. Only Foreign Film isn’t listed. I’m very, very thrilled to be posting this, and even more so thinking about how this list will and will not change as the year goes on. The bottom of the page will have screencaps of the films I’ve seen for this ballot but, now that we’re here, let’s begin!

Best Picture

After the Storm: This is how you treasure a family you cannot help but repel, and earn second chances you are doomed to trip over

Get Out: Flaunts its jokes, its anger, its horror, refuting subtlety in favor of building itself towards confrontation with its characters and its audience

Last Men in Aleppo: Its mere existence feels dangerous and sparking with energy, fully putting us in the viewpoint of people fighting for their lives

The Lost City of Z: Keeps track of a journey that’s pulsing and present, even as it changes on itself, and on where it’s going

My Entire High School....: The funnest little slice of a film I’ve seen, visually resplendent, bristly about friendship and growing up

Raising Bertie: I’ve only had peripheral experience with people in these situations; how valuable it is to see these stories up close, and handled so well

The Salesman: Astonishingly light in handling the ordeals of its characters, wearing its themes with ease and deepening with every viewing

Starless Dreams: Fully sees the lives of these girls, what got them there, and where they could possibly be heading, on a personal and systemic level

Whose Streets?: Our streets; captures the rise of history and keeping track of the people bravely making it happen

Your Name: You can’t see where it’s going till its final scene but carries you through with empathy and resourceful plot navigation
           

Runners-Up: Not the hardest list to make, and I’m in love with my ten, but leaving off Atomic Blonde and Casting JonBenet still stings a little.

Best Director

Sabah Folayan & Damon Davis, Whose Street?: Assembling their footage like pros from innumerable sources, finding emotional toil in doing the right thing

James Gray, The Lost City of Z: So rich in examining Percy’s life and those around him, blending modern and classical methods in truly epic scale

Hirokazu Kore-eda, After the Storm: Offering full portraits of his characters and their lives, handling thorny subjects with sensitivity

Mehrdad Oskouei, Starless Dreams: Astonishingly gentle in examining the lives of these girls, showing full humans instead of criminals or victims

Jordan Peele, Get Out: For accruing so many tones and tenors with unsettling ease, gaining more force by refusing to hide his targets or his methods
       

Runners-Up: Margaret Byrne’s, Faras Fiyyad’s, and Kitty Green’s differently heroic documentary work on Raising Bertie, Last Men in Aleppo, and Casting JonBenet, and Asghar Farhadi’s and David Lietch’s takes on potboilers operating universe apart with The Salesman and Atomic Blonde are an equally commendable set of directorial achievements.

Best Actress

Ashleigh Cummings, Hounds of Love: Whose delinquent ids, poignantly honest pain, and surprisingly powerful will give the film a reason for being; refusing to bond with Evelyn

Dafnee Keen, Logan: ‪For steely expressions, animalistic fury, and alarming directness, standing tall in a cultural boom of murder children

Melanie Lynskey, I Don’t Feel At Home….: Owns that madcap tone while balancing the comedy and the ache of every scene; managing a tricky arc while playing a normal woman‬

Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion: For prickly intellect and dexterity, handling Davies' dialogue like a pro as she hold Dickinson under an illuminating, painfully true light‬

Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper: Makes every twitch, stammer, glance count with barely corked rage, terror, and contagious anxiety, with hardly a screen partner

Runners-Up: Taraneh Alidoosti in The Salesman, who does sterling work alongside Shahab Hosseini as a conflicted and heartbreakingly plausible woman.

Best Actor

Hiroshi Abe, After the Storm: Because that gentle, paternal charisma keeps this increasingly unreliable character so valuable to us, the film, and his family

Shahab Hosseini, The Salesman: As casual in his characterization as Abe is, but of a stabler man taking an even bigger fall, lashing out at those he cares for

Charlie Hunnam, The Lost City of Z: For standing by Percy's jungle obsession, caring about and using the people in his life to further that quest

Hugh Jackman, Logan: Expanding the Murder Dad trope from Prisoners in heightened tones; keeping Logan's rage and depression in boldfaced check; naturalizing an inevitable arc

Channing Tatum, Logan Lucky: Convinces us a doting father, a loyal sibling, and a criminal mastermind, in that cool, low key style

Runners-Up: You are more than willing to swap out Tatum and Jackman for Steve Coogan’s spin on mental illness and narcissistic victim complexes in The Dinner, and Kumail Nanjiani’s tenderly comic and heartfelt rendering of himself in The Big Sick if you want to. I might.

Best Supporting Actress

Holly Hunter, The Big Sick: ‪For the ways she warms towards Kumail and her husband without betraying the flames she held against them to begin with, funny when it counts‬

Kirin Kiki, After the Storm: Cheerily knows her family better than they know themselves with sad self-awareness; delineating relationships with astute physicality‬

Melanie Lynskey, XX: ‪Elevates the best film in XX's anthology with neurotic warmth and exhaustion, keeping a sympathetic hold on the audience throughout‬

Sienna Miller, The Lost City of Z: For the grace of period and of Gray, and the deep love she has towards her husband, soured by her painful longing to join him

Allison Williams, Get Out: Topping that Cassavetes in Rosemary’s Baby arc without bleeding her hand, believable with her affections and liberal awakenings

Runners-Up: Is a performance in a short film in an anthology even eligible? If not, there’s always Betty Gabriel in Get Out, giving the year’s most terrifying close-up, one-take performance, and Ella Rumpf in Raw, who probably would’ve made the list if I felt confident in my memories of her grubby, anxiety-inducing work that I wish I could’ve revisited before publishing this list.

Best Supporting Actor

Jake Gyllenhaal, Okja: Hilariously self-pitying with unexpected outlandishness in rendering the fraying, washed-up superstar hovering on the film's edges

Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, The Salesman: That ailing, shamed frailty; inhabiting the film's most despicable character with pathetic gentleness, making Emad's decision that much harder

Lil Rel Howery, Get Out: The friend you want and need, hilarious and moving without trying to make himself respectable

Angus Macfayden, The Lost City of Z: Because the scale of this man's pomposity outstrips expectation at every turn, but his sussing of Percy isn't wrong

Ray Romano, The Big Sick: So compelling as a character we never really know even as his relationships are hilariously, painfully palpable

Runners-Up: Luke Evans might have ended up here for his charismatic, physically and vocally adept take on top-dog narcissisms if I hadn’t felt so ill my second trip through Beauty & the Beast I had to leave the theater. LaKeith Stanfield wins some points too for his quietly, discordantly unsettling cameo in Get Out. Patrick Stewart may have shown up if another tour of Logan hadn’t betrayed so many stretch marks, but his final outing as Professor X is still a commendable one.

Best Original Screenplay

After the Storm, Hirokazu Kore-eda: A slice of life about the life you want and the life you get, fleshing out its characters while denying them arcs

The Big Sick, Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon: Messy like a life is, especially one dealing with a mess like this, finding specific and uncommon beats for a rom-com and for a film, period

I Don’t Feel At Home…., Macon Blair: Aware of its own low stakes and scope without diminishing its lead's crisis amid a strangely wound structure‬

Okja, Bong Joon-ho: ‪Handles an ever-evolving tone, pointed satire, and colorful characters with shocking ease; suggesting by the end it's all arbitrary‬

The Salesman, Asghar Farhadi: A tale of shell-shocked wives and husbands seeking vengeance for semi-noble reasons; perfectly refracted through Miller    

Runners-Up: It feels wrong to leave off Jordan Peele’s script for Get Out, which has such ingenious dialogue and tackles a tougher, more ambitious target by the end than by its start, but the structure of it didn’t exactly wow me, especially once Chris starts actually Getting Out. Maybe another run-through will convince me? Either way, props to Peele, and to Dash Shaw’s deliriously fun, plausibly high schooled (within this film’s reality), and often unpredictable My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Atomic Blonde, Kurt Johnstad: Not the main attraction, but twisty and fun with a plot that’s rewarding if you look for it, delicious with spy tropes either way

The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola: Carved into Coppola’s take on antebellum delusions and psychosexual manipulation, less messy than ‘71 but carries that bloody build

The Lost City of Z, James Gray: Properly epic, credibly ever-changing, compressing Percy’s life while finding innumerable riches throughout the years

Their Finest, Gaby Chiappe: Saggy middle, yes, but charming buildup and characters culminates in an affecting final third

Your Name, Makoto Shinkai: Maybe too long but emotionally potent, carrying its conceit with aplomb and crazy swerves while filling out the worlds of both leads

Best Ensemble

After the Storm: For uniform lightness of tone and crisp delineation from a sprawling cast, keeping personalities consistent as we learn their histories

The Big Sick: No one’s a joke, and no one’s infallible either, everyone standing by their character’s take on difficult events

Get Out: Because everyone’s boldly in sync with Peele’s demands while adding their own flavors, funny and terrifying and in on it all

My Entire High School….: For teenage snark, angst, and sweetness; adult caring and regret; apocalyptic terror; operating within a limited vocal range

The Salesman: That everyone plays such clearly and swiftly drawn people rather than just ideas makes Farhadi’s conflicts even tougher to bear
          

Runners-Up: I Don’t Feel At Home…., whose cast works wonders with a tone that has to operate between the dangerous, the mundane, and the truly odd; and The Lovers, whose characters are so charming and full of history after a half hour of nothing you wonder if it was shot in sequence, and what took this captivating cast so long to show up.

Best Film Editing

After the Storm, Hirokazu Kore-eda: For letting familial relationships and new discoveries unfold themselves at the character’s pace, allowing gaps to fill themselves

Atomic Blonde, Elísabet Ronaldsdottír: A trip with action film timing while nailing comic-book interludes, slowing and stopping with fascinating rhythm

Casting JonBenet, Davis Coombe: For tragicomic inflections, interweaving personal testimonies that bristle against each other, keeping track of its subjects

The Lost City of Z, John Axelrad & Lee Haugen: Refuses great beginnings or climaxes in favor of continuation, keeping an even hand, plus the year's sexiest match cut

Whose Streets?, Christopher McNabb: Jumping between professional, newsreel, handheld, and cell phone footage, makes this portrait even more valuable and feeling multiply authored

Runners-Up: Sarah Flack’s careful measuring of time in The Beguiled; Marion Monnier’s blotting of scenes in Personal Shopper; Hayedeh Safiyari’s unexpected vantage points and remarkable character beats in The Salesman; and Makoto Skinakai’s accenting of his own scripted swaps and reveals in Your Name

Best Cinematography

Atomic Blonde, Jonathan Sela: Delicious framing of fight choreography and comic-book blocking, handling neons as easily as interrogation-room dinge

The Beguiled, Philippe Le Sourd: ‪The power of candlelight excursions and daylight toils are the film's most reliable sources of tension; gives real stakes to shifting dynamics‬

Dunkirk, Hoyt Van Hoytema: Traps its characters in their environments while miraculously keeping score of the world and people around them

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Henry Braham: ‪Because the film's exuberant color wouldn't work without managing the frame so carefully; has great fun with the setpieces/numbers‬

The Lost City of Z, Darius Khondji: Keenly with Gray’s love of golds and yellows, but so lushly mixed with greens and properly grandiose

Runners-Up: Michael Seresin’s frequent moving lensing of War for the Planet of the Apes, for handsome apes and attention to detail, finding potent, impactful imagery in their quest for survival.

Best Original Score

Dunkirk, Hans Zimmer: For unrelenting tension without repeating past achievements, refusing to let the audience think these characters are ever safe

Get Out, Michael Abels: The song of every sinister smile; unrelenting and undeniably potent, like you’re about to get stabbed by a harp

The Lost City of Z, Christopher Spelman: Keeping the film’s operatic yet temporarily restrained sensibilities; always in continuum, and gorgeous to boot

My Entire High School...., Rani Sharone: Malleable and moody; the soundtrack to the best video game you’ve never played

Okja, Marco Beltrami: Accents the film’s shifting tones and making them easier to swallow; adventurous, then zany, then stomach-churningly awful
            

Runners-Up: One of the few lists I’d truly be happy to keep for the rest of the year, but still, props to Hanaregumi’s scoring of After the Storm, finding soft Margaret-style interludes that perfectly match its tone; Tyler Bates’ work on Atomic Blonde, which dazzles but maybe dazzles better as a soundscape; and Michael Giacchino for War for the Planet of the Apes, who came the closest and may make it on later for the way it practically carries the whole enterprise like a silent film for long stretches, even if it is over-scored.

Best Sound

Atomic Blonde, Jonas Jansson & co.: An amazing (diegetic!) soundtrack in tandem with a jam of a score, unsubtle but swings between the calm and the storm (of fists)

Dunkirk, Richard King & co.: Because who needs dialogue when the whole world is crashing around these people, creating unbearable sonic claustrophobia

Get Out, Trevor Gates & co.: Horrific spoon-on-tea cup action as affecting as the gulf of the sunken place, mixed with an unsettling score and painful thunks

My Entire High School…., S. Henshaw & R. Price: Because the soundscape is almost as satisfying as the array of art styles, keeping it zany in fatal crisis

War for the Planet of the Apes, Will Files & co.: As much variety in bombs and bullets as apes’ cries and the sounds of fingers on palms

Runners-Up: Jan Pasemann’s endless soundscape of All These Sleepless Nights, making it even harder to tell if this project is “real” or not, keeping up its only unique thread.

Best Production Design

Alien: Covenant, Chris Seagers: ‪For all the weird nooks, crannies, and mad scientist laboratories in Fassy's cave; the spaceships look pretty great too‬

Atomic Blonde, David Scheunemann: Plausibly 80’s, plausibly Russian, all heightened into a reality where the film can exist without spinning out of control

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Scott Chambliss: For Ego’s insane spaceship, palace, and dioramas; golden, remote-controlled pod operators that look like arcade games

The Lost City of Z, Jean-Vincent Pouzos: For the way the jungle creeps in Percy’s homes as much as it does his mind; for colonist’s huts, native shacks, and strange opera stages

My Entire High School.…, Dash Shaw: Delightfully rendered in such a very teenaged aesthetic, as perfect a compliment to the variety of styles as everything else

Best Costume Design

Atomic Blonde, Cindy Evans: For dressing Charlize to the nines in clothes that give her room to kick ass, doing equally right by Boutella and McAvoy

The Beguiled, Stacy Battat: For conveying dignity and desperation of character through cut and fabric, in day-to-day and formal wares; Kirsten's spinster-at-30 dresses

The Lost City of Z, Sonia Grande: Pinning class, rank, and character details onto the men's breasts; Sienna's dresses and hats

Personal Shopper, Jurgen Doering: For all the impossibly chic looks Maureen buys for her invisible boss; the slick array of jackets she sports on a lower but sturdy budget

Wonder Woman, Lindy Hemming: For genuinely practical armor on the Amazons; Doctor Poison's mask; the renderings of style icon Diana Prince and superhero icon Wonder Woman

Runners-Up: Katarzyna Lewinska for The Lure, for all the glorious, punk-loving reasons I’m throwing laurels at the makeup; and Catherine Georg for Okja, for crisply-dressed eco-terrorists, corporate glam, and a lovely little red coat.  

Best Documentary Feature

Casting JonBenet: So adept about communities, and how public crises are inevitably refracted through individual ones without suspicion or invalidation

Last Men in Aleppo: Dangerous and vital, for the director, for his subjects, and for us, chronicling the actions of real life heroes

Raising Bertie: These are the American lives that deserve eight million op-eds, sensitive with subjects trying to stay above water

Starless Dreams: That it finds so many textures and spots of light only makes the oppressiveness of their situation harder to watch

Whose Streets?: Diary of a living, breathing moment, one that rewards its audience while demanding more than just viewership


Best Visual Effects

Alien: Covenant: Because the film’s most consistent scare is the slimy skin of the fetal Xenomorphs, making that final form all the more terrifying

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: The sheer visual pleasure of so many saturated colors is as bold to superhero films as Logan’s finality; Never steps into Wonderland garishness

My Entire High School….: Such a deliciously realized combination of mediums working in tandem that I fell in love instantly

Okja: For making that damn pig the cutest creature on the silver screen in years, so vividly realized you could smell it, feel it, cherish it

War for the Planet of the Apes: Perfecting the art of digitally rendering genetically engineered apes, evolving and improving as much as the virus wiping out humanity

Apologies to whoever I’m supposed to credit here. Supervisors? Studios? Who knows. Either way, well done folks.

Best Makeup

Hounds of Love, Hayley Atherton: For grubby kidnappers and horrific bruises that indicate the passing of time and the suffering of Vicki without prurience

The Lost City of Z, Nana Fischer (?): For making the aristocrats look so glamorous, the wear of the jungle so exhausting, individualizing native tribes without exoticizing

The Lure, Artist Currently Unknown: For 80's punk-rock glamour specific to each character's style and each band's look, keeping these fishes rocking to their own beat

Runners-Up: Beauty and the Beast, for eccentric townsfolk and grooming their leads so romantically, though I can’t tell if making Dan Stevens’s prologue prince into Hedwig Robinson is a plus.

Special Acknowledgements to....

A Cure for Wellness, which falters in the beginning but whose second half is the most deliciously mad experience at the theaters this year

The Dinner, so astonishingly flabby and uneven but brings it together and cuts to the core of a lot of horrific white delusions and entitlements

Oh, Hello! On Broadway, because I had no idea if a filmed play on Netflix counts at all, but it’s a riot and I recommend the hell out of it

The Void, with creatively disgusting monsters and astonishing practical effects in a time where all that seems in the past

[villainousshakespeare]

AO3 Master List

Loki - Series

Exile’s Return:  Rated M, Fluff, Smut, Romance, 16 chapters (complete)

Banished from Asgard for his various crimes, Loki seeks to use the rescue and return of Thor’s betrothed (ofc) to secure his release from exile. But he is the God of Mischief, and when the lady in question proves to be smart, caring, and lovely he can’t resist trying to slowly turn her affection away from the prince she is promised to marry and claim her for himself. My first ever (and still personal favorite I’ve written) fic!!

Loki and Kela’s Adventures on Midgard: Rated E, Smut, Fluff 8 chapters (complete)

A sequel to Exile’s Return, but not really necessary to read that first.  Loki brings his love Kela to Midgard despite being wanted for war crimes by The Avengers. While attending the theater in New York they cross paths with a dangerous man with mind control abilities. Will Loki be able to keep Kela from becoming his latest victim?

In Exchange for Submission: Rated E, Smut, Fluff, Romance, Angst, 77 Chapters (completed)

Loki’s invasion of NY has taken a turn for the better, and he is now in charge of a growing percentage of the United States. During his campaign he acquired a group of hostages from resistance pockets and is keeping them captive in Stark Tower. Now, with things settling down a bit, he needs to decide what to do with them. Two of them, from a prominent family, are set to be released. One of these, a feisty, irritating, impossible woman, desperately offers to ransom the rest of the prisoners, including her best friend. Loki has no need of Midgardian coin, but the woman, who has been a thorn in his side for weeks, has something else that he desires - her submission. He offers her a bargain - every day he will require a new willing act of submission from her, and in exchange, he will release one prisoner. How long can she keep up the deal? And how much of herself will he demand she surrender?

Trigger Warnings: Dark elements, Dark!Thor, attempted rape (not by Loki), angst 

For the Price of a Book: Rated M, Romance, Fluff, Smut, Angst, 35 Chapters (completed)

In the days before the events of Thor I, Loki inadvertently comes upon a female servant being “punished” by a pair of guards. Her crime? Stealing a book from the rooms she was tasked to clean. Curiosity captured, he decides to break through the shy exterior by any means necessary. A bit of softer Loki story, as he is younger and pre-Jotunn discovery. He is still Loki though, so sass and drama will not be far away!

Christmas Mischief: Rated M, Romance, Fluff, Smut 4 Chapters (completed)

You have been dating Loki for several months, so it is only natural that he would accompany you home for a very old fashioned family holiday, right? This could be your dream come true… or your worst nightmare.

Loki - One Shots

The Rarest Flower: Rated T, Romance, Angst, 1 shot

Birthday Challenge from the prompt: Could I request the “forbidden/secret relationship” with Loki and reader? They dated back in Asgard, but with Loki as prince it was somehow forbidden so they needed to keep it secret. Someone found out and the reader was sent to Midgard and to not see Loki again and while she is there she found out she’s pregnant. Years later Loki found a way back to the reader and is surprised to see that they have a child

Retribution: Rated E, Smut, NonCon, 1 shot

Loki has just conquered two united armies on the field of battle. Now he confronts the woman who brought them together to oppose him - daughter to the proud king of one army, betrothed of the general of their ally. Angry at the challenge to his throne he decides to make an example of her, and gives her a choice: be tossed to his soldiers for their entertainment, or willingly submit to his every perverted demand as his personal slave. Basically, my attempt at a Loki/slave one shot. 

Trigger Warning: VERY NON-CON! This is not the love story Loki of my previous works, but just pure, unadulterated, dark, perverted porn.

Team Bonding: Rated T, Drinking, Implied Future Smut, Drunken Silliness, One Shot

Now that Loki is a member of the Avengers, he needs to develop a better report with them. As his fiancé, you feel it is your duty to encourage him to go out for post-mission drinks with the team. What could possibly go wrong?

The Perfect Costume: Rated E, Smut

Loki needs to find the perfect costume to wear to a party with you. What will he come up with and how will you react?

Life of the Party: Rated T, Drinking, Implied Future Smut

An empath and a scientist in the service of SHIELD, you are blackmailed by Tony Stark into attending one of his parties for your own good. Expecting to have a miserable time, you instead strike up a conversation with the God of Mischeif. Written for @scrumptious-delusion 2K Writing challenge!

James Conrad

The Mark: Rated E, Smut, Angst, Fluff, Romance, Gooey Ending, One Shot

Desperate for money in a backwater town in South East Asia after the Vietnam War, Jennifer follows a tall British man she has just seen win a roll of cash at pool. She is determined to make him her latest mark, but James Conrad is more than what he seems and not one to fall for any woman’s game.

Trigger warning: Mention of attempted kidnapping/human trafficking

Tracking the Beast: rated T, fluff, alcohol use, implied smut

James leads a group of inexperienced adventures to track a rare beast. 

Sir Thomas Sharpe

In Search of Refuge: Rated E, Smut, Gothic Romance, Work in Progress

A disastrous carriage accident leaves Rose stranded in a snow storm. Desperate to find shelter from the elements, she stumbles upon a run down estate and throws herself on the mercy of its owner, Sir Thomas Sharpe.

Magnus Martinsson

Protection: Rated E, Smut, Romance, Fluff, Angst, 36 Chapters (completed)

Against his wishes, Magnus is assigned an undercover case to protect a witness and bring down a criminal. He gets more than he bargains for with his protectee. This starts with a slow burn, but I promise there will be smutty goodness in upcoming chapters!

Bunnies in the Rain: Rated E, Smut, Fluff, Romance One Shot

Birthday Challenge: Magnus and Just. One.  Bed. You and Det. Magnus Martinsson get stuck in the rain out on the job, and have to take shelter in a Bed and Breakfast. What could possibly happen?

Robert Laing

Her: Rated E, Smut, Kidnapping, Dub/Con, Nonconsensual Drug Use

Laing enjoys life in the high rise as every woman’s favorite amenity, but lately he’s been getting bored. When he sees Grace, he knows he has to have her, no matter what it takes.

Trigger Warnings: Please, please, please read the rating. This is a dark fic unlike my usual ones.

Tom Hiddleston

Kicked Out: Rated M, Fluff, Angst, Kissing,

Birthday Challenge: Tom and Just. One. Bed.On your first professional tour you are unceremoniously ousted from your hotel room when your roommate hooks up with one of the stars. It is at this point that the other lead, one Tom Hiddleston, wanders into the room. Being a gentleman, he can hardly let you drink alone!

Tom Hiddleston/Loki

Personalities Within: Rated E, Smut, Fluff, Angst, Loki, Oakley, Jonathan Pine, Coriolanus, Adam, tbd, Work in Progress (currently on hiatus)

Tom had been so careful for so long. He rarely got involved in relationships, and if he did he only let them go on for so long before ending them. It was the only way to be safe. The only way that HE wouldn’t come out. And while HE, among others, might make Tom a great actor, the dangers were to great. But what happens when Tom falls for someone. Someone who not only is his perfect type, but the other’s perfect type as well? Can he pursue a relationship with her while keeping his secret and protecting her? Or will the unthinkable happen?

Trigger Warnings: Mental illness

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Loki - Series

Exile’s Return:  Rated M, Fluff, Smut, Romance, 16 chapters (complete)

Banished from Asgard for his various crimes, Loki seeks to use the rescue and return of Thor’s betrothed (ofc) to secure his release from exile. But he is the God of Mischief, and when the lady in question proves to be smart, caring, and lovely he can’t resist trying to slowly turn her affection away from the prince she is promised to marry and claim her for himself. My first ever (and still personal favorite I’ve written) fic!!

Loki and Kela’s Adventures on Midgard: Rated E, Smut, Fluff 8 chapters (complete)

A sequel to Exile’s Return, but not really necessary to read that first.  Loki brings his love Kela to Midgard despite being wanted for war crimes by The Avengers. While attending the theater in New York they cross paths with a dangerous man with mind control abilities. Will Loki be able to keep Kela from becoming his latest victim?

In Exchange for Submission: Rated E, Smut, Fluff, Romance, Angst, 77 Chapters (completed)

Loki’s invasion of NY has taken a turn for the better, and he is now in charge of a growing percentage of the United States. During his campaign he acquired a group of hostages from resistance pockets and is keeping them captive in Stark Tower. Now, with things settling down a bit, he needs to decide what to do with them. Two of them, from a prominent family, are set to be released. One of these, a feisty, irritating, impossible woman, desperately offers to ransom the rest of the prisoners, including her best friend. Loki has no need of Midgardian coin, but the woman, who has been a thorn in his side for weeks, has something else that he desires - her submission. He offers her a bargain - every day he will require a new willing act of submission from her, and in exchange, he will release one prisoner. How long can she keep up the deal? And how much of herself will he demand she surrender?

Trigger Warnings: Dark elements, Dark!Thor, attempted rape (not by Loki), angst 

For the Price of a Book: Rated M, Romance, Fluff, Smut, Angst, 35 Chapters (completed)

In the days before the events of Thor I, Loki inadvertently comes upon a female servant being “punished” by a pair of guards. Her crime? Stealing a book from the rooms she was tasked to clean. Curiosity captured, he decides to break through the shy exterior by any means necessary. A bit of softer Loki story, as he is younger and pre-Jotunn discovery. He is still Loki though, so sass and drama will not be far away!

Christmas Mischief: Rated M, Romance, Fluff, Smut 4 Chapters (completed)

You have been dating Loki for several months, so it is only natural that he would accompany you home for a very old fashioned family holiday, right? This could be your dream come true... or your worst nightmare.

Loki - One Shots

The Rarest Flower: Rated T, Romance, Angst, 1 shot

Birthday Challenge from the prompt: Could I request the “forbidden/secret relationship” with Loki and reader? They dated back in Asgard, but with Loki as prince it was somehow forbidden so they needed to keep it secret. Someone found out and the reader was sent to Midguard and to not see Loki again and while she is there she found out she’s pregnant. Years later Loki found a way back to the reader and is surprised to see that they have a child

Retribution: Rated E, Smut, NonCon, 1 shot

Loki has just conquered two united armies on the field of battle. Now he confronts the woman who brought them together to oppose him - daughter to the proud king of one army, betrothed of the general of their ally. Angry at the challenge to his throne he decides to make an example of her, and gives her a choice: be tossed to his soldiers for their entertainment, or willingly submit to his every perverted demand as his personal slave. Basically, my attempt at a Loki/slave one shot. 

Trigger Warning: VERY NON-CON! This is not the love story Loki of my previous works, but just pure, unadulterated, dark, perverted porn.

Team Bonding: Rated T, Drinking, Implied Future Smut, Drunken Silliness, One Shot

Now that Loki is a member of the Avengers, he needs to develop a better report with them. As his fiancé, you feel it is your duty to encourage him to go out for post-mission drinks with the team. What could possibly go wrong?

The Perfect Costume: Rated E, Smut

Loki needs to find the perfect costume to wear to a party with you. What will he come up with and how will you react?

Life of the Party: Rated T, Drinking, Implied Future Smut

An empath and a scientist in the service of SHIELD, you are blackmailed by Tony Stark into attending one of his parties for your own good. Expecting to have a miserable time, you instead strike up a conversation with the God of Mischeif. Written for @scrumptious-delusion 2K Writing challenge!

James Conrad

The Mark: Rated E, Smut, Angst, Fluff, Romance, Gooey Ending, One Shot

Desperate for money in a backwater town in South East Asia after the Vietnam War, Jennifer follows a tall British man she has just seen win a roll of cash at pool. She is determined to make him her latest mark, but James Conrad is more than what he seems and not one to fall for any woman’s game.

Trigger warning: Mention of attempted kidnapping/human trafficking

Tracking the Beast: rated T, fluff, alcohol use, implied smut

James leads a group of inexperienced adventures to track a rare beast.

Sir Thomas Sharpe

In Search of Refuge: Rated E, Smut, Gothic Romance, Work in Progress

A disastrous carriage accident leaves Rose stranded in a snow storm. Desperate to find shelter from the elements, she stumbles upon a run down estate and throws herself on the mercy of its owner, Sir Thomas Sharpe.

Magnus Martinsson

Protection: Rated E, Smut, Romance, Fluff, Angst, 36 Chapters (completed)

Against his wishes, Magnus is assigned an undercover case to protect a witness and bring down a criminal. He gets more than he bargains for with his protectee. This starts with a slow burn, but I promise there will be smutty goodness in upcoming chapters!

Bunnies in the Rain: Rated E, Smut, Fluff, Romance One Shot

Birthday Challenge: Magnuss and Just. One.  Bed. You and Det. Magnus Martinsson get stuck in the rain out on the job, and have to take shelter in a Bed and Breakfast. What could possibly happen?

Robert Laing

Her: Rated E, Smut, Kidnapping, Dub/Con, Nonconsensual Drug Use

Laing enjoys life in the high rise as every woman’s favorite amenity, but lately he’s been getting bored. When he sees Grace, he knows he has to have her, no matter what it takes.

Trigger Warnings: Please, please, please read the rating. This is a dark fic unlike my usual ones.

Tom Hiddleston/Loki

Personalities Within: Rated E, Smut, Fluff, Angst, Loki, Oakley, Jonathan Pine, Coriolanus, Adam, tbd, Work in Progress (currently on hiatus)

Tom had been so careful for so long. He rarely got involved in relationships, and if he did he only let them go on for so long before ending them. It was the only way to be safe. The only way that HE wouldn’t come out. And while HE, among others, might make Tom a great actor, the dangers were to great. But what happens when Tom falls for someone. Someone who not only is his perfect type, but the other’s perfect type as well? Can he pursue a relationship with her while keeping his secret and protecting her? Or will the unthinkable happen?

Trigger Warnings: Mental illness