Legenda 16: Stuff worth reading

Did you bid on the quilt yet? Currently priced at £530 — a great donation for Project Linus UK. And the SpReAd the Love Valentine challenge continues for all of February. A pint’s a pound the world around: donate a pint of blood or a pound of food in honor of Richard Armitage and the fellowship of his fans.

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FanstRAvaganza 3’s big news: we announced the F3 tagteamers and two new core bloggers this week — a proud crowd!

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Monday Classic FanstRAvaganza! Did you, like ChrisB, crack up last week while reading about attempts to record a message for Frenz during the leadup to F2?  Listen to some of Nat’s attempts here (where you can also hear Phylly of Phylly’s Faves)!

The natural followup to last week’s classic post is the entire F2 series by RAFrenzy, which focused on voices — Richard Armitage’s, but also those of fans. It’s hard to pick just one. In this classic post from F2, Frenz discusses her reaction to Armitage’s voice in North & South and Vicar of Dibley. She includes recorded reactions to his voice from several of our sister bloggers: fellow F1 and F2 blogger, the sometimes elusive mulubinba; F2 blogger Musa; and new F3 participant Jonia. I remember being particularly startled by these posts because the only fan voice I’d heard up till then was Frenz herself. OK, in retrospect I know I should have expected mulubinba to have an Australian accent — but it still kind of surprised me, beginning with the information that it’s a short “u” in the first syllable of her name (“mull,” and not “mool”).

So check out Frenz’s F2 voices — you can also hear Judi (of Confessions of a Watcher), hear iz4blue / Sinjoor / Fanny (of DistRActed Musings), hear Frenz herself (a big deal, since I gather she has a love / hate relationship with her voice), and CDoart (of CDoart). Probably there are some other people recorded in that series, too, whom I missed during my quick flip through, so if you are curious what some of our real voices sound like (yeah, she got me, too, but I’m not linking to that post and you can’t make me!), go to Frenz’s and type in “FanstRAvaganza.”

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[Legenda offers a brief, non-inclusive index of stuff I noticed and enjoyed since the last episode. It doesn’t usually include materials presented on the major fansites, which I love dearly, but which are linked in the sidebar. Because I always forget or just miss stuff, please add additional pieces of interest via link in the comments.]

• Have you been following bccmee‘s February animation challenge? She just wrapped it up, and I think today‘s might be the best one yet.
• I saw a few Armitage Valentine’s vids — by bccmee, angie, and jasrangoon. Were there others?
• Now this is the kind of meticulous analysis I can really get behind: Deciphering Dwarf Documents at Heirs of Durin.
• In praise of escapism.
• Please give our former sister blogger some love.
• Some really pretty Valentine’s Day graphics at richardsbabe’s doodles.
• The Thursday before Lent begins is a special day in the Catholic parts of Germany — it marks the beginning of Carneval at 11:11 in the morning, and it’s called “Weiberfastnacht” or women’s carnival. In the Rhineland women march on the town halls, and men who wear ties on that day need to be careful. I only lived in a Rhenish city for one year, but it was a gas — though loud. CDoart explains what might happen to Lucas North’s beautiful tie on Weiberfastnacht if he wore it on Fat Thursday.
• Do you think Jonia should be worried about her English? I sure don’t!
• Posts on Spooks and women at Fly High! and at Confessions of a Watcher.
• OT: Also check out Maria Grazia’s review of the hands down best historical novel I have ever read. Unfortunately she disliked it, but if you read it and didn’t get what the critics were so excited about, this is a place to chat about it. So verschieden sind die Menschen! Had I known that this kind of achievement was possible in historical novels I’d have skipped grad school.
• Tangent: a good comment on the questionable merits of anonymous reviews and comments. I got a big anonymous poison email yesterday — yeah, I know I’m a loser already — so this was like balm on my soul.
• If Richard Armitage needs to change his brand of moisturizer, here are some suggestions. Subtitle made me laugh, as I’ve never moisturized, ever.

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What to get the man who insists he already has everything? Answer: more work for our beloved workaholic. Since watching his work gives us so much delicious fantasy fulfillment, we thought we’d turn the tables with a fantasy present: the job that he’s most repeatedly expressed interest in doing — a retelling of the Richard III story. Would you like to share the fantasy more actively? Sign the manifesto: Richard Armitage for Richard III!

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• Comments on a comic book version of the Richard III story.
• Discussion / review of The Shepherd Lord.
• Why Richard III is intriguing, apart from the nephews problem.

~ by Servetus on February 20, 2012.