Varia and on blogging at the moment

Just some stuff, not a comprehensive review, written in no particular order, to clean up my Armitage brain and my email inbox, which feel totally verzettelt at the moment:

• Win a copy of Lords of the North at RAFrenzy’s! A great opportunity for anyone who’s been worried about the expense, additional transaction fees, using your credit card number overseas, etc., etc.
• Saw at Life of Wylie on Friday the various cast and plot news about Spooks 10. I’m still not to the point that I’d go through the gymnastics to watch it illegally as I did for Spooks 9 (of which, I’d like to point out, I do now own a legal copy), but the inclusion of Lara Pulver, who I really liked in Robin Hood, and the fact that it will be reduced to six episodes (so is not such a large time commitment) mean that I am likely to watch it when it becomes available on Netflix. (Sadly for me, at least, Sophia Myles appears to be leaving.) Honestly, as someone who both really dislikes extended tension and also hates spoilers, it’s going to be nice not to be worried about accidentally picking up a spoiler if it happens. See, Mr. Armitage’s departure from Spooks definitely has at least that benefit.
• A new author with a new Guy of Gisborne fic that involves an OC and time travel: “A California Girl in Nottingham’s Court,” at wattpad.
• Is this another first chapter of a potentially sweet story? Love how Guy is written here.
• As with everyone else, I’m sure, my insides are turning liquid to the beat of HeathRA’s “Sexy Back 3.”
• Violet’s beard website is just so much fun to play with, especially on days when you think you can’t take it anymore, when you can just click a few times for some beardy goodness. (Not for facial hair haters.) Check it out. Imagine rubbing your face against Mr. Armitage’s cheeks. I did. My favorite picture is probably the one of him sleeping on the leaves.
• Hope everyone’s aware of khandy’s John Porter fic, “Absolution.” Now that she’s writing her own original fiction I imagine there’ll be less time for fanfic, but I still love the fanfic.

Probably regular readers of this blog have noticed I’ve been struggling a bit to keep up my personal commitment to post every day, even if just a little. On top of my work, the reason for that’s been two-fold: one thing is that the last ten days have been another anniversary phase for the troublesome events of the last year; the other is that I’ll be leaving this job on June 1 and the logistics of the transition are starting to occupy my time and energy. In particular I need to move out of both an apartment and an office and either ship those things cross country or put them in storage here, tasks that are weighing heavily on my energy at the moment. The result has been that I don’t manage to comment as much on my own blog as I’d like, and I haven’t been present as much on those of others. In the attempt to prioritize, because writing this blog has been so essential to my own emotional health, writing my own posts has been my first choice when I have available time, and other things go by the wayside. I’m sending a plea to fellow bloggers and regular commentators here to understand that my frequent inability to go everywhere and comment everywhere I’d like is not a reflection on them, only on my own issues of the moment.

As a short term suggestion: I know it can be frustrating to flip over to blogs that don’t update as anticipated, and that it can cause you to stop reading. For this reason, I encourage you to add “me + richard armitage” to your RSS feed or newsreader so you don’t come over here repeatedly looking for stuff that hasn’t appeared, and for the same reason, if you comment, to check the box that sends you emails of new comments. My schedule is such that I’ll usually be updating in the evening rather than during the day. I also point you to the many resources in my sidebar — on any given day, several of the other bloggers are sure to have written or posted something.

I really have no idea what I’m doing IRL after June 1st — I’m not kidding — but, barring unanticipated catastrophe beyond unemployment, I do plan to continue writing this blog. I’ve got pages and pages of notes for posts. One of the things I anticipate being able to do in June, at least, a month that I’m “taking off” to visit family, get enough sleep, and look specifically at my future employment goals, is return to the more detailed writing and commenting of the past year. For now, my plan is to continue to post at least once a day if it doesn’t become completely impossible. My current timeframe for continuing to write this blog extends to the premiere of the first part of “The Hobbit,” whenever that happens.

So. Thanks for your patience, and for continuing to read. You guys are an important lifeline for me.

~ by Servetus on April 3, 2011.