my GG predictions (TV)

Best Comedy Series
“Black-ish”
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
“Master of None”
“SMILF”
“Will & Grace”

Best TV Comedy Actor
Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish”
Aziz Ansari “Master of None”
Kevin Bacon, “I Love Dick”
William H. Macy, “Shameless”
Eric McCormack, “Will and Grace”

Best TV Comedy Actress
Pamela Adlon, “Better Things”
Alison Brie, “GLOW”
Issa Rae, “Insecure”
Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Frankie Shaw, “SMILF”

Best Drama Series
“The Crown”
“Game of Thrones”
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
“Stranger Things”
“This is Us”

Best TV Drama Actor
Sterling K. Brown, “This is Us”
Freddie Highmore, “The Good Doctor”
Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”
Jason Bateman, “Ozark”

Best TV Drama Actress
Caitriona Balfe, “Outlander”
Claire Foy, “The Crown”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Deuce”
Katherine Langford, “13 Reasons Why”
Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale”

Best TV Movie/Limited Series
“Big Little Lies”
“Fargo”
“Feud: Bette and Joan”
“The Sinner”
“Top of the Lake: China Girl”

Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor
Robert De Niro, “The Wizard of Lies”
Jude Law, “The Young Pope”
Kyle MacLachlan, “Twin Peaks”
Ewan McGregor, “Fargo”
Geoffrey Rush, “Genius”

Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress
Jessica Biel, “The Sinner”
Nicole Kidman, “Big Little Lies”
Jessica Lange, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
Susan Sarandon, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
Reese Witherspoon, “Big Little Lies”

Best TV Supporting Actor
Alfred Molina, “Feud”
Alexander Skarsgard, “Big Little Lies”
David Thewlis, “Fargo”
David Harbour, “Stranger Things”
Christian Slater, “Mr. Robot”

Best TV Supporting Actress
Laura Dern, “Big Little Lies”
Ann Dowd, “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Chrissy Metz, “This is Us”
Michelle Pfeiffer, “The Wizard of Lies”
Shailene Woodley, “Big Little Lies”

my GG predictions (movies)

Best Film Drama
“Call Me by Your Name”
“Dunkirk”
“The Post”
“The Shape of Water”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Best Film Drama Actor
Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”
Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”
Tom Hanks, “The Post”
Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”

Best Film Drama Actress
Jessica Chastain, “Molly’s Game”
Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”
Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Meryl Streep, “The Post”
Michelle Williams, “All the Money in the World”

Best Film Comedy/Musical
“The Disaster Artist”
“Get Out”
“The Greatest Showman”
“I, Tonya”
“Lady Bird”

Best Film Comedy/Musical Actor
Steve Carell, “Battle of the Sexes”
Ansel Elgort, “Baby Driver”
James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”
Hugh Jackman, “The Greatest Showman”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”

Best Film Comedy/Musical Actress
Judi Dench, “Victoria & Abdul”
Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
Emma Stone, “Battle of the Sexes”
Helen Mirren, “The Leisure Seeker”

Best Film Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
Armie Hammer, “Call Me by Your Name”
Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”
Christopher Plummer, “All the Money in the World”
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Best Film Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”
Hong Chau, “Downsizing”
Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”

Best Director
Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”
Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”
Ridley Scott, “All The Money in the World”
Steven Spielberg, “The Post”

Best Screenplay
Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
Aaron Sorkin, “Molly’s Game”
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, “The Post”
Guillermo Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, “The Shape of Water”
Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri”

Best Animated Feature
“The Boss Baby”
“The Breadwinner”
“Coco”
“Ferdinand”
“Loving Vincent“

Ok, while I appreciate the “reason” behind wearing black at the Golden Globes, at the same time, I find myself agreeing with an article I read back in December from the Chicago Tribune, which basically said, if you’re going to make a statement of strength, don’t do so behind the color of mourning–wear bold colors, colors that say, “I AM STANDING HERE, I AM SURVIVOR, I WILL NOT BE SNUFFED OUT OR HIDDEN AWAY LIKE SOMETHING THAT IS TO BE SHAMED”–reds, purples, oranges, yellows–colors of FIRE, because this is a flame that will burn brightly and spark inspiration

If you’re going to make “what you wear” a statement, I just feel COLOR is a better answer, but that’s just me

Watching the Downton S2 Christmas Special and I can’t help but

when Robert tells Mary to go to America and find herself a “cowboy to shake things up”–that he wants her to marry a good, brave man…MEANWHILE, IN THE SAME SENTENCE, grumbles about Sybil’s choice in marriage

This is why I have issues with you, Robert (that, and the whole “cheating on your wife while she was possibly dying” thing)

Christmas Surprises

magfreak:

Does it really count as a Secret Santa fic, if Santa has come and gone and is now somewhere in his North Pole man cave watching college basketball with his feet up about now? I don’t know.

I do know that tomorrow is the deadline for posting my fic, and naturally, I couldn’t finish because I’m a procrastinator extraordinaire (and also a person with a lot to do a little time to do it). 

So here, valoisqueens, is part 1 of 2 your Secret Santa fic. Ta-da! I hope you like it. The rest has been outlined. About half of it has been written actually. I simply wasn’t able to find time to get it all done, so I’m posting up to a point that it made sense to stop. The rest will be up this week. So sorry for not having it completed (and for not doing a pic set—I’m not great at those anyway), but I do hope you enjoy! 

Read it on AO3, because ff.net is not letting me post. 

“I said no peeking!” Tom yelled.

“My eyes are closed!” Sybil said in a huff.

Tom hoisted his load and looked around in the small sitting room of their apartment, trying to find the best place for it.

“What’s happening?” Sybil asked, her impatience and curiosity getting the better of her.

“Just wait!” Tom replied.

Sybil could hear the strain his voice. Is he lifting something?

When Tom had left early that morning with Jose, their neighbor and friend who lived downstairs with his family, Tom promised they’d return later that day with a “big surprise,” Sybil was positively stumped as to what he could be talking about. She sensed a smell in the air, like Tom had brought the outdoors in with him, but beyond his clunking around, she had no clue.

“This is … well, it’s something.”

Eyes still closed, Sybil turned toward the voice that had just spoken, next to her. It was Jose’s wife and Sybil’s dear friend, Hortenzia—or, as Sybil knew her, “Ten.”

“Does it strike you as a good or bad idea?”

Ten laughed her loud, infectious laugh. “Good, I think, but messy,” she said in the accented English that Sybil had initially been hard pressed to decipher but that now was as comforting to her as the sound of her own voice. Like Sybil’s, it was foreign to the Americans who surrounded them, but in a different way. Ten was a native of Colombia, and had moved to Boston with Jose, a Puerto Rican, at nearly the same time Sybil and Tom.

They had moved from New York City, where they’d met and spent their first years as a married couple and where Ten had worked for a time as a housekeeper for Martha. Their journey from New York to the South End of Boston had been far shorter than that of Sybil and Tom, who’d traveled across an ocean. But both were young couples with young children, interested in arts and ideas and broadening the rights and minds of their offspring. They all took to one another straight away.

“Ay, Dios!” Ten exclaimed in her native Spanish—as she was prone to do from time to time—upon seeing her husband, who followed Tom all the way into the room carrying the back of the load. “It’s big!”

Sybil jumped at the sound of moving furniture. “Can I please open my eyes now? want to see what you’re doing to my sitting room!”

Full chapter