Richard Armitage Legenda “Boutique” 107: Stuff worth reading

[Legenda “Boutique” focuses intermittently on material in Armitageworld since the previous edition that I found civil, introspective, analytical, deep, self-critical, honest, vulnerable, creative, thought-provoking, amusing, fun, artistic, supportive, uplifting, moving, thoughtful, and/or inspiring. This is still a bit of a hybrid with the previous format.]

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Richard Armitage Archive

• Dance is a big theme this week — IngeD3 with a beautiful “I hope you dance” picspam, and Fabo dreams of dancing with Richard.
• A fan friend collects all the WETA signatures for another fan friend and then the book goes on a long journey.
• Agzy’s sister gave her another dwarven’ fabulous birthday!
• In Australia, they’re so desperate that they’re celebrating Tuesday!
• Richard Armitage Movember. And, OT: Stephen Hunter alleges he’s been offered money to abstain.
• Richard Armitage and team sports.
• Richard does Old Hollywood!
• Like Australia, Poland is on the late side of the TDOS premieres. Lots of waiting.
• Jazz comments on Warner Bros. renewed forwarding of Armitage for the Best Supporting Actor nomination.

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• Rock of Armitages.
• Armitage inspiration: stamina.
• Thorin inspiration: against depression.
• Richard Armitage and the inner recluse.
• Richard promises to give back everything he borrows.
• Find yourself shamelessly fondling a poster?
• Fantastic resentful Guy of Gisborne animated GIFset.
• A really pretty Armitage / Thorin collage.
• Armitage tie collage.
• These pickup lines make me grin every time.
• Richard Armitage and tight slacks.

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Good advice for the rest of the year as well. Source: Perfection Personified.

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Richard Armitage-related fanfic

• At wattpad, Siriusly’s started a new Thorin / OFC / Hobbit AU romance: “The Fire in his Heart.” She’s also continuing her NaNoWriMo story, “Waiting for a Blue Sky,” from ch. 10. Even a guardian angel needs comfort. And a struggling girl needs an encouraging English teacher.
• At wattpad, in response to Arkenstone’s Thanksgiving challenge, MorrighansMuse’s “Woman of the House” (N&S, elaboration on canon). Mrs. Thornton processes her son’s engagement.
• At Something about Love (A), “Thorin’s Dream” (Thorin + OFC / Hobbit AU / mature) comes to an end with ch. 13 and 14. As a side note, since last December, I’ve been following a whole swarm of Thorin + OFC romances written in the wake of Armitage’s remark that Thorin must have had a lost love. I wonder if the genre will change after we see TDOS — insofar as we’re going to see much more of a craven, sick dwarf. Will we see a lot of “nurse Thorin to mental health” stories, for instance?
• At A Mind Divided, Sandy Sue posts ch. 3 of “Technical Consultant” (RPF / Armitage + OFC). Armitage consults a woman with bipolar disorder for advice on a script and a role.
• At wattpad, Arkenstone’s “Durin’s Legacy” (Hobbit AU / Thorin + OFC / romance). The continuing humorous romantic adventures of Thorin and Lady Oakenshield.
• At A03 — you know it was coming after you saw that photographer’s photoshop of Armitage and Luke Evans together: FoxRafer’s “Evening Serenade” (RPF / slash / Armitage + Evans). Luke sings.
• At A03, Chaotic_heart’s “Just a Little Coaching” (RPF / slash / Armitage + Dean O’Gorman). A reunion story.
• At RASexualfrustration, Thorin is turned on by his very pregnant partner (Thorin + OFC / Hobbit AU / mature).

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OT, contexts, collateral attractions, and things I think about

• Check out Jed Brophy’s first post-Hobbit project, Minister of Chance. Free to download. For those in New Zealand, in January Brophy also has a play coming up with his son: “An Unseasonable Fall of Snow.”
• Stephen Hunter puts on his Bombur audition costume before preparing to teach at his old acting school.
• How involved should fans be in lobbying for their preferred outcomes?
• Though we (definitely includes me) are tempted to judge “Black Friday” shoppers or shopping (or pity them), we need more information.
• TORn’s embed comes out with a lengthy interview with Luke Evans.
• How to create a great product.
• I’m not having this problem with plagiarism specifically, but with the whole “building blocks” assignments strategy in my research seminar syllabus (A leads to B; use parts of B to create C, and so on). I always do some variation on that, because completing the whole project is too frightening for everyone to contemplate at the beginning of term. On the other hand, if they mess up at the beginning it’s really hard to keep them on track. Actually, that’s part of the lesson I want them to learn — the systematic process of thinking through a problem; but it means that students who couldn’t come up with a thesis six weeks ago are now hopelessly behind and endangering their graduations. Don’t know.
• The problem with sex scenes that are too good: “Society at large, in its blind and blundering way, senses that sex is perhaps the biggest deal of all, and, if the director and the actresses were ever in danger of forgetting it, the media noise will remind them as they clamber back up.”
• Reflections on culling books. I’ll be doing this again soon.
• If you’ve never made giblet gravy, this is how.

~ by Servetus on November 30, 2013.