It’s a big, wide wonderful Armitageworld!

[I want to preface this by saying I know it’s quite awhile since I’ve visited some of the other Armitage blogs. Spring Semester is always busier for me than Fall (in fall I teach right in the center of my research speciality, but in spring I cover the five hundred years after it), and as you will suspect, blogging comes behind other priorities. I’m also starting to get ready for Fanstravaganza in mid-March. So as maintaining this blog gets more demanding I’m just not getting to as many places as I have in the past, and I’m not getting to be as attentive to commentators here as I’d like to be. I’ll continue to do my best, but I just wanted to say to everyone that I still love you all. The world needs more Armitage blogs, so keep up the good work and be assured of my support, even if I can’t always take time to make personal comments. Also because of that, probably many of you are aware of many of these things already, so I apologize for any repetition, as I also use this blog to document my own travels in Armitageworld.]

• I think I’ve updated my blogroll and fansites in the sidebar completely, but it’s inevitable that I’ll forget someone or something. If I forgot you or you want to be included, please just let me know. My email is in the sidebar under “About.”
• khandy, author of the much beloved The Gruinard Project, is finally striking out into the world of writing with all of her own original characters! She’s posting chapters of her first attempt at a novel at wattpad. It has a very eerie beginning.
• Els, who’s commented here frequently and faithfully as iz4spunk, is starting an “RA Club” on wattpad as well with other fans. Information here. I haven’t had any time to comment, but it looks like some great discussion topics are already there! Also, Els wrote a Secret Santa story (adult themes) that really creatively uses the anachronism at the heart of the series. I know it’s out of season but you’ll still love it!
• Servetus’s other fan fic reading: “Truce” has updated and Angie promises it’s on its penultimate piece (I’ll believe it when I read it). “A Heart for Milton” has updated; seems like this might have been the end (sob!). “Grant What I Wish” has ended very satisfyingly, although (from my perspective) sadly without a description of the wedding night. Best image: Guy folding his legs behind Marian to watch her nurse their child. Gisborne continues to update at Mesmered, who I believe is planning a lot of neat stuff in that line for Fanstravaganza. I’m loving a story called “Speculation” by Leah147 that’s currently at a frightful cliffhanger! I wanted to remind everyone of “Rebel Mine,” which is a sequel of sorts to The Tempest (which I loved), but which I haven’t been able to start reading yet. I think Ann Marie’s been betaing it, and at Christmastime she published her own story, “A Christmas Gift,” with redemptive themes that are really good the year round. As long as I’m retroactively mentioning Christmastime fiction, check out khandy’s “A Christmas Gift,” a multiparter with a lovely ending that carried me right into January. Although I haven’t been able to start reading it yet, for fans of North & South fan fic, “Fate and Circumstance” looks promising. And some older stuff I love is now making its way onto wattpad: in particular, Red Rose Witch’s “A Yorkshire Lady,” a Standring story.
• Don’t forget to check out the Armitage Movie Club.
• This post is really cute, from a blogger whose output is more in the “achieving simplicity” genre than the Armitage fan genre, but I suppose I like it because I wish for more simplicity myself.
• Mulubinba’s new blog specifically to record her reflections on the Thorin Oakenshield character. This is the kind of scholarship I admire!
• A very funny, relatively new blog: Jonia’s Cut.

I’m sure I’ve missed stuff, so feel free to plug your own favorites in the comments if you like (comments with URLs in them may get hung up in moderation; I’m not sure exactly how that works).

~ by Servetus on February 20, 2011.