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alexander skarsgard is such a good actor (hes one of the few nepo babies i like) soo it sucks that his character in the monsterverse was a one film character (most likely anyway) who was rather bland and one noted đ
need attention from a certain someone of the erik dracula victor frankenstein zach varmitech anakin prince hans mr hyde gordon comstock eric northman pedro pascal henry winter dr gregory house persuasion
My fic 'OUROBOROS' is up!
OUROBOROS is a part one of three!
Links: AO3
Fandom: True Blood
Pairing: Eric Northman / OC / Godric
Summary:
Agatha is as human as you can be - that is, if being immortal doesn't rule that out.
Curses are powerful, they extend over time and leave scars, too deep to be forgotten. But in the middle of it all, Agatha finds two vampires that drive her mad, constantly having to fix their problems and keep them out of trouble.
But hey, they have eternity to figure it out how to stay away from it.
Word count: ~50k
Status: Completed
Warnings: graphic violence, blood (lol) and mentions of suicide
Every chapter has it's respective music, so I highly recomend to listen while reading!
Holy shit! He is totally channeling his inner Johan in this sequence of shots! He looks & is moving just like a 4y/o! I love it!
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Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd on âLorraineâ (May 23, 2025)
Grandpa SkarsgÄrd mastered his sword at an early age, too.
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Soldiers and a young visitor, 1910s, Sweden.
My new favorite quick interview with Alex - is he becoming more comfortable in his own skin?
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Câmon along, câmon along, to Alexanderâs Rag Time bandâŠ. Iâll party.
ALEXANDER SKARSGĂ RD Photographed by Victoria Stevens for Variety
Iâll take that one on the leftâŠ
Remember when true blood did thisâŠ. yeah
Oh, those boots! Can we just say âfull of the devilâ?
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I thighed, too. And thirsted. And burned. And now I think we need to see need more thigh.
I'm still mesmerized by that pic, I'll be living there for a while. I saw it and immediately
so much thigh
Lol! Look at his face in every one of these pics - he is having more fun in Cannes than he has anywhere else in years! He is totally in his element! And heâs getting more attention than any other man at the festival. He is this yearâs fucking A-bomb. THE BOMB! Poor Anon. Iâm sure weâll continue to hear from her/him anonâŠ
https://x.com/hennethed/status/1924544864802230451?t=5-iY4Qbp5J3jlsMCevrTzQ&s=19
Is alex even doing OK? Wtf is wrong with him. Its like he needs people to sexualize him and he is seeking for attention like ... The fuck?
God forbid a man wears short shorts. Manifesting this for Bill!
Well, it seems to be received well - and here are the nominations, so far:
Alexander SkarsgÄrd Is the Dom, Harry Melling the Sub, and Pillion Their Kinky, Sweet Love Story
Vanity Fair Exclusive By David Canfield May 17, 2025
The two stars and their director, Harry Lighton, learned many lessons making a movie set in a vivid queer subculture: âIt emerges that you canât just chuck a load of dicks on screen.â [damnit]
This still is all the photo we have
Few movies have achieved are both as emotionally resonant and deeply horny as Pillion. Perhaps they could learn a thing or two from writer-director Harry Lighton. While helming his feature debut, Lighton left a message pinned to his bedroom wall, intended to serve as a reminder before rushing to set every morning: âDonât sacrifice the real for the sake of the laughsâor the sake of the gasps.â
There are laughs, and gasps, aplenty in Pillion. The A24 film, adapted from the novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones, stars Harry Melling (of the Harry Potter films and The Pale Blue Eye) as Colin, a meek traffic warden who lives with his parents and sings in a barbershop quartet on the side for fun. He meets Ray (Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd), the leader of a local gay motorcycle club, and falls head over heels. Ray brings Colin into his particular world, where pillionsâthat is, those who ride the passenger seat on the motorcycleâare designated submissives. Colin doesnât know much about any of this, but he goes with the flow because Ray is, well, hotâbut also enigmatic and direct and, in his own odd way, protective.
What unfolds is a frank, kinky, utterly idiosyncratic first feature from Lighton. He deftly depicts a sexual relationship that some might deem extreme or unusual as the engine for a moving rom-com (with, yes, some dashes of trauma skirting the edges). This is not to say he tamps down on the specifics of the sub-dom dynamicâPillion comes complete with orgies, cock rings, and boot-licking. But as Melling and SkarsgĂ„rd dig into some of the most intricately wild material of their careers, you wonder if these two crazy kids are going to make it: leather, lube, and all.
Lighton: What I wanted from Colinâand Harryâwas that magnetic beta quality. What I wanted from Ray was not necessarily an inverse, but another version of that where you had someone who had all the surface of the worldâs hottest biker, and then an unknowability. Wherever Iâm talking about Succession or even his interviews on talk shows, Alex is an interesting combination of things. Heâs very playful and mischievous, and the roles heâs chosen reflect that.
Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd: When I got a little brief from my agents about the project, biker and sub-dom, it just sounded quite intriguing to meâŠand from our first conversations, he just felt a lot of confidence in me and his vision for the project. I definitely wanted to put on the leather gear and jump into the trenches with it.
In the film, most of the members of the biker gang in the movie are basically playing themselvesâthey are members of GBMCC. Iâm forever grateful and indebted to them for their generosity and support and patience. They told us about their lifestyle, and how they socialize and about these gatherings, when they go out riding together, down to details in terms of the outfits, and the dynamics between the subs and the doms and what that would look like. I credit everything to those guys.
The film is obviously graphic, and sex is a key engine of the storytelling. Harry L., this is also a relatively commercial film. So how did you figure how much you wanted to, essentially, show?
Lighton:Â I remember trying to ignore the practicalities of wanting it to get seen for as long as possible. Because so much of Colinâs experience through the film is driven by transgressive sex, and the way in which he experiences that, I didnât want to be too hands-off or prudish in the handling of that. I thought that that might feel like it was a judgment on the part of me as the filmmaker, and I wanted to leave it to the audience to be able to decide at which point sex strays into something which is unpalatable to them rather than to give them that information by keeping too much off screen. Once we got into the nitty-gritty, it emerges that you canât just chuck a load of dicks on screen.
But we shot some stuff which was more explicit, and it wasnât the case that I was told to remove it out of the cut. I chose to remove it out of the cut because I think it was always important to me that the provocation of it didnât override the sentiment, the experience.
For the actors, what was your comfort level filming the sex scenes going in?
SkarsgĂ„rd: You canât just apply the kind of the sub-dom structure to every relationship. I talked to some people who are in sub-dom relationships, and certain aspects of Colin and Rayâs relationship rang very true to them. And others, theyâre like, âWell, I know people who have that kind of relationshipâŠâ It was just important for us to figure out what worked for us, in between Harry and myself.
I knew that it was going to be graphic, and Harry was very clear on his vision for itâwhen and how nudity was going to be depicted. I felt that it really served the story, and it made sense to me. I was very, very comfortable with all that. We had a really terrific intimacy coordinator named Robbie [Taylor Hunt] who was there with us the whole way.
Melling:Â Alex is just the most generous, dreamy scene partner, so what could have been quite a daunting experience couldnât have been more different, really. When you sort out the choreography of it, which is often the most difficult partâyou sort out what everyoneâs doing, where their hands are goingâand then once action is called, youâre in the world of Colin and Ray.
SkarsgĂ„rd: I fell in love with Harry from the first second I saw him. Heâs just the sweetest, nicest, loveliest human being. I felt comfortable going as far as we needed to go in these situations with him. I also discovered a lot of things about Colin and Rayâs relationship that I didnât anticipate discovering when we first started working on it. There were these tender, beautiful moments that just happened organically, and some moments that were weird and some moments that were funny. But he was incredibly game, very brave in just throwing himself out there.
Harry L., how did you work with the intimacy coordinator and others to figure out how best to depict this kind of sub-dom relationship?
Lighton:Â I was speaking to Robbie three months before we started production, about the way in which we were going to approach it. So it wasnât the case that he just turned up and did the blocking of the scene at that moment. What was key was that whichever way we achieved it, it didnât feel like the symbol of sub-Dom sexâthat it felt like there was a reality to it. And that meant embracing moments of clumsiness or discomfort as well as the highs of the sex.
A lot of the supporting biker-gang people we cast from both the GMBCC and the kink worldâwe definitely leant on them to tell us, like, what lube you might be using if you were doing an orgy. I wanted anyone who watches it from the kink community, or whatever community, to feel like what theyâre watching is accurate.
Melling: In a way, that made it easier. It wasnât close-ups of hands. It felt very real. This wonderful community of supporting actors was so valuable. Just in terms of taking me through what a successful boot-lick would be so that I knew how to do it...not successfully.
SkarsgÄrd: There are orgy scenes in the film, and with a combination of actors and non-actors with different levels of experience in that field, it was great to have Robbie there to kind of help and guide the team.
Lighton: It was the moments of mundanity that I most took away from that [research]. There are 80 men in leathers getting onto bikes at the beginning of the day, but then an hour-and-a-half later, youâre having a pork pie and talking about what people thought of Kylieâs Glastonbury performance. And the GMBCC are not definitionally a kink-based or a sex-based organization. Itâs for queer people to go biking. So the bike gang in our film, and the way pillions and riders are delineated, thatâs very much a fictional creation.
SkarsgĂ„rd: The way itâs set up in the script, the audience knows as little about Ray as Colin does, and we kind of maintain that kind of level of mystery around the character. In terms of the specifics of the sub-dom relationship, heâs very clear and very upfront with Colin about what he wants, and that also creates an interesting trajectory for their relationship as the story and the love relationship evolve.
The film has a surprising sweetness to it that might not be what you expect in a film with this subject matter.
Lighton:Â Thereâs a knee-jerk reaction when you hear about BDSMâthat itâs going to be either very ironic or itâs going to be very severeâand I knew that I didnât want to lose the fun of it. But I also didnât want to create a distance between the audience and Colin and Ray through irony. Thatâs probably where the sweetness comes through. The film is meant to be funny, and I want people to laugh. But itâs not meant to be funny in a way which detaches you from the people in front of the camera.
Melling:Â It grounds it in an interesting way. Itâs familiar, and then suddenly weâre somewhere else. That tone is constantly what Harry L. was playing with.
Lighton:Â No matter how atypical your sex life is, the likelihood is that youâll have some aspect of typicality from family life or something like thatâthose two things can live side-by-side. You can go from a family lunch to an orgy, and those two things can not feel incompatible. The hardest thing for me was allowing the characters to exist as extremes without turning them into cartoonsâand allowing for that to be quite broad humor at times without compromising the realism.
Pillion will be premiered tomorrow 18 May at Cannes. No word on release date and how we can see it - anyone have a clue there?
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@maxwell-demon @askarsjustsoswedish @m-f1 - when you have a chance. I didn't write it - it's from Cannes today about Pillion via Vanity Fair.
All hail your favorite viking!
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Reenactor throws a spear at a drone
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LA Weekly.
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Wow! 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes pre-release!
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Per Tommy Arnold's email list, there is going to be a drop of prints of his Murderbot artwork this coming Friday (May 16, 2025). You can sign up to his mailing list on his website to be notified when the orders go live.
Tommy Arnold created the covers and insert illustrations for Subterranean Press' special editions of The Murderbot Diaries and Network Effect. Additionally, he recently has been involved with the Apple TV show as a costume designer, notably for the SecUnit armor.
I haven't seen anyone else post about this in the tag or in any communities yet, but every once in a while I see folks bummed about missing his last drop when Network Effect first released. He only does limited releases, so this is your chance if the art strike's your fancy!
Text of the email after the cut.
Hey hey everybody!Â
We are one week out from the premiere of Murderbot on Apple TV+, and I have to admit: I'm getting pretty excited. It was such a privilege to be asked to help bring this show to life visually, and I've been hankering to see what all our effort would come to. So many skilled and wonderful people put their hearts into this!
In celebration, a new timed edition featuring 5 pieces from Subterranean Press' The Murderbot Diaries and Network Effect will be available for 72 hours (throughout release weekend). The following prints will be available from 3:00 pm EST on May 16th, until 3:00 pm EST on May 19th:
Artificial Condition - 2nd. Ed: 12x17 - $67 Rogue Protocol - 2nd. Ed: 12x17 - $67 The Murderbot Diaries, Omnibus Cover - 2nd. Ed: 12x17 - $69, and 8x11 - $39 Three Climbs The Plateau - 1st. Ed: 12x17 - $69 Network Effect, Endpapers - 1st. Ed: 12x15 - $67
All 1st. Edition prints will be signed in Gold, and 2nd. Edition prints (those that've been available once before) will be signed in Silver.
'Til next week (some joke about pinging you)!
Tommy
Tuvaâs mom in an Elvis movie? Barbro Hedström was in Speedway with Elvis Presley
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how sweet
A new description of Pillion(!) premiere at Cannes next week.
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Itâs all good until Jack gets jealous, but just who the hell is Janice, and wtf is she up to with Alex? Will there be fika?
I thought Jack & Diane were still together - Iâm so confused⊠(a little story about jack & Diane - 2 American kids grow inâ up in the heartland???)
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Sooooo, small note here: 238 is a valid Canadian area code, and 776 is a valid exchange. We seem to be missing a digit.
Shall we play a game???
Well, today was apparently a good day for Alex...
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Murderbot SkarsgÄrd Toronto Star article.
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I must applaud your segue, catcat!
Golden-naped Tanager (Chalcothraupis ruficervix), family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes, found in NW South America
photograph by Eric Gofreed
Alex? Pillion style. Umm, yeahâŠ
To quote the immortal words of âcool riderâ:
âI'm looking for a dream on a mean machine
With hell in his eyes
I want a devil in skin tight leather
He's gonna be wild as the wind
And one fine night I'll be holdin' on tight, to a cool rider, a cool riderâŠ
Just give me a black motorcycle
With a man growin' out of the seat, then move aside
Cause I'm gonna ride, with a cool rider, a cool riderâŠ
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If murderbot could (or would) danceâŠ
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