Richard Armitage Legenda 75: Stuff worth reading

Legenda offers a brief, non-inclusive index of stuff about Richard Armitage that 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.]

First, thanks for the cheerleading!

I read them as they came in, even if I couldn’t reply promptly. They helped immensely. When I went back to reply to comments last night I was overwhelmed again by the level of emotional support you guys were offering. I’m seriously in your debt. You may be glad to know that while there are again thousands of pages of finals grading approaching, I only have to read those papers and write numbers on them. (No comments.) So it should be somewhat easier.

Thanks.

Richard Armitage Archive

• A participant report on #ThorinWatch! For details of future events, watch this site.
• Stitchin’ Richard returns!
• Richard Armitage is part of a clue in a treasure hunt. Wish my mom had access to something like this — she’d be an ace.
• Side effects of writing racy Armitage fanfiction.
• Other effects on one’s husband of watching Armitage.
• Family bonding: “Me, my mom and The Hobbit.“
• Does Richard Armitage look more like Roman statues or Greek ones in recent photos?
• Siriusly blogs about her read of the novel, Strike Back: part 1 and part 2.
• Richard Armitage characters if they were in Game of Thrones (I may have linked this at some other time, but it’s amusing).
• Thorin, Middle Earth, and Modern Day Quest Planning. ETA: Link fixed.
• A vid that proves that Richard Armitage is a seriously dour, mean, nasty guy.

Richard III news

• Latest updates on the Richard + Richard situation from the KRA page. That letter of Richard III’s? Sold for £35,000.

Richard Armitage-related fanfic

• “Nonnet: Fragile.” Poem about Lucas North.
• Neat news: Hosmond has joined wattpad and is posting “Love is a Wound” there. This an AU/Guy of Gisborne fic with occasional explicit moments and violence but it has a fantastic plot and it’s a great love story, one of the alltime classic Robin Hood fanfics from Armitage admirers. And hosmond took her Armitage fascination and turned it into cash — she’s become a successful romance novelist. The story’s been available on DR and C19, but now it will be visible to others as well. It’s a long story; the first nine chapters are here.
• “The Saga of Vaenomar” goes to ch. 25.
• A fanfic author gets a call from Lucas North.

Richard Armitage-related sexy and RPF fanfic

• “Broken” goes to ch. 28.
• At A03: “Masterpiece.” Lee Pace paints on Richard Armitage’s body. RPF, slash, mildly explicit. I found this image so tantalizing — violet paint against Armitage’s skin?
• At Dreamer Fiction: “Recovery – A John Porter story.” NC-17, heterosexual intercourse and how. Seriously sexy but with a believable conflict and a not-so-perfect Porter and OC. [You must be a DF member to read. If you’re not a DF member, get in touch with me or one of the regular commentators on this blog for the referral.]
• At A03: “What is Essential.” RPF, slash, mildly explicit. Graham McTavish re-encounters his childhood friend, Richard Armitage, on set.
• OT: A Hiddleston fic sent to me be a reader that’s just really beautiful: here.

Thorin with baby art from tumblr. OK, I don’t dream about Richard Armitage as the father of my children, because I don’t dream about children, but Armitage with children? I might be persuaded. Source.

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• Beautiful Strike Back 1.2 (Porter looking at Katie) animated GIFset.
• Neat Miss Marie Lloyd animated GIFset.
• Wear Richard Armitage on your thighs.
• I don’t know if I necessarily agree with the conclusions the confessor draws about Armitage, but I like the point about courage and sex scenes — refreshing to read someone capable of seeing them as art- and identity-building.
• Someone’s starting another Armitage birthday project.

OT, collateral attractions, and things I think about

• “Why I Have to Stop Ogling Jon Hamm’s Penis.” There are a few missing steps in reasoning here, but this is one of the better defenses of this stance that I’ve read recently.
• Happy birthday, Sean Bean! On twenty-four years of being a Sean Bean fan.
• KathrynRuthD discovers more about her ancestors. I’m telling you, novelworthy!
• Fan Girls of Violent Men. Although there don’t seem to be too many of these — another case of finding three pieces of something on the Internet and assuming it’s a trend?
• As a blogger, to what extent are you obliged to reply to every terrible thing that happens in the world?
• Interesting, detailed discussion of the traits of donors to sperm banks in the West. In the attempt to commodify one’s genetic material, looking like a celebrity actor apparently constitutes a selling point.
• On purgatory and parenting: “Parents who lose their children’s respect lose their ability to correct them.”
• Amanda Abbington (partner of Martin Freeman), declares bankruptcy.
• Hungarian mushroom soup and baked avocado and eggs (I’ll still be leaving off the bacon).
• Disappointed by the Kristin Stewart Snow White film? Didion recommends this alternative.
• On academics and self-financing your career. I could have written this post; I did exactly what this writer did for exactly the same reasons. One year in the 2000s my tax-deductible career-related expenses (Schedule A) alone constituted 28% of my AGI. And what the person does whom she links to — plans to take a year of unpaid leave to work on research — was a strategy recommended to junior faculty who were “behind” at the job I used to have.

~ by Servetus on April 20, 2013.