Legenda 26: Stuff worth reading (the get caught up after travel edition)

[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.]

Happy Mother’s Day, North America. I basically still feel about this holiday how I felt last year. This year, of course, I’m home. We went to church, and I made a big dinner. I was relieved this morning that obviously the church leadership has decided to back off the unrestrained motherhood worship. Now I’m blogging. Eventually I will take a nap. The weather is gorgeous, so hopefully I’ll be able to nap outside. Mmmm.

• New home page with detailed information about the N&S global rewatch. You can also like the facebook group for the same updates. Dates: June 1 & 2.
• Bccmee‘s “Graphic a Day in May” continues. This is probably my favorite one so far.
• Grati muses on the tension between loving a real someone in real life and ongoing fantasies about Richard Armitage.
• Fic updates: Saga of Vaenomar (Thorin AU), chapter 7; Cruelle Splendeur (French/ Guy of Gisborne) — explicit passages this time — chapter 5.
• Ania loves Richard Armitage’s hands! (in English; Polish also available).
• Ian McKellen’s doing a one-man show in New Zealand to fundraise for a local theatre that needs renovation. More on this at Heirs of Durin.
• A very creative Thorin wallpaper by JasRangoon.
• Slightly OT, but still sweet: April’s Violet recounts her personal encounter with Rupert Penry-Jones.
• Cute fan art at CDoart. I missed the original directions at JasRangoon’s, but you can click over there, too. An Armitage coloring book can’t be far off! We can addict the young!
• If you haven’t seen it, a new Spooks S9 promo photo excavated by Jonia. (This was featured at RichardArmitageNet.com).
• Is this ever pretty!

To wrap up my trip: I listened to Venetia, three times, but did not even open Lords of the North. Too afraid of the tears! And finally, on the open poll question, here are the results:

Most respondents thought he’d either simply go with the flow, or return to the Don Johnson look. (Although I’m not sure how many people were voting here for what they wanted to happen, or what they think he will actually do.) Only two people thought he wanted to look like Thorin in real life, but I was cheered by the five “amusement” votes for shaving off all of the hair on his head. I have to get my hair cut myself, soon, and that’s what I’m dreaming of!

I’m hoping to post again tonight but we’ll see. Now it’s on to my nap.

~ by Servetus on May 13, 2012.