Richard Armitage Legenda 78: 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.]

As I said, he’ll never live this one down

Richard Armitage with Kermit the Frog in Sydney, May 1, 2013. Source.

And: Is it wrong to be envious of a frog?

Changes

• Judiang is back with a huge life change. Read her inspiring post here.
• The “remembering Anna” posts (please let me know if I’ve missed some; I’m sure I have): at DistRActed Musings of One ReAlity; at RAFrenzy; at Garden Maine; at Everything You Ever Wanted to Know […].

Richard Armitage archive

• Frequent reader / commentator Mezz gives her view of the Popcorn Taxi event.
• Many modes of Richard Armitage fans.
• Do you prefer Robert Ascroft’s photos of Richard Armitage in black and white or color?
• On feeling a revival of Armitagemania.
• On injuries developed while writing racy Armitage fan fiction!
• KathrynD comes out joins the dark side [cough] confesses.
• How bechep met Richard Armitage: Part 1 and Part 2.
• Generous Sir Guy.
• Is there such a thing as Apollo concentRAte? If so, Richard Armitage’s definitely drunk it down!
• Referencing Richard Armitage’s remark that he loved Jason and the Argonauts as a child, Ray Harryhausen, who animated big pieces of that film, has died. Here’s a memorial to Harryhausen by Brian Sibley, who wrote one of the Hobbit movie guides we’ve been devouring.

Richard III news

• At KRA: fans confirm Armitage’s actual remark in response to questions about Richard III at the Popcorn Taxi Q & A, which seems to have been edited from the transcript — not only that he’s too old, as I’d heard, but also “there is a possibility”.

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• I’d have so much to say about this, but I can’t go there right now, so simply linking to this confession without comment for now.
• Beautiful Sydney interview animated GIFset.
• Sir Guy of Gisborne booty appreciation post.
• Richard Armitage dancing around things.
• How does the fall of 2010 suddenly seem so long ago?
• A Richard Armitage dream.

Richard Armitage-related RPF and sexy fanfic

• “Broken” went to ch. 31. (Lucas North + OC).
• “The Saga of Vaenomar” went to ch. 26. (Thorin + OC; prequel of Erebor exiles)
• “Love is a Wound” went to ch. 12 and 13. (Guy of Gisborne + OC)
• Fascinating: someone’s created a pinterest board to illustrate the apartment background of a RPF / slash fanfic. This is where Richard Armitage would live with his lover in this story.
• Check out the latest at RAucous: What would Armitage be like if he’d just gotten off the plane? RAvenous? (RPF, heterosexual intercourse)
• At A03: “A Lesson in Arching.” Richard Armitage gives a female coworker an archery lesson. (RPF, OC)
• At A03: “The Problem with Power Trippers.” Richard Armitage is the object of sexual harassment at work. Read warnings.

Richard Armitage fans discuss the creative struggle

• On having your ducks in a row to be ready to write. And then discovering that you don’t.
• Reasons for blogger’s block.

OT, collateral attractions, and things I think about

• On staying friends even when one friend falls out of love with the crush (in German).
• Via West of Milton, news that the DVD of the 1970s North & South is now available for purchase on amazon, currently listed at $35.99 U.S. to ship July 2, 2013. If you purchase it via RichardArmitageNet.com, you will generate a donation to a Richard Armitage-endorsed charity. Search for “North and South”.
• Wishing you really were the person who talks to your therapist.
• A missionary to the Philippines tries his first durian.
• It’s graduation time and this 2005 David Foster Wallace speech is making the rounds again — really worth your time. Education is about awareness. If you have learned how to think, you have learned that you have options … you have freedom.
• FL remembers her mother and her jitterbugging.
• Charlaine Harris (author of Sookie Stackhouse novels, the inspiration for True Blood) receives threats, blistering reviews from fans on social media because she didn’t end the series the way fans wished.
• “No, Virginia, There is No Such Thing as Extra Credit.“

~ by Servetus on May 11, 2013.