Richard Armitage Legenda 79: 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.]

Thorin threat

Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com

Richard Armitage Archive

Some of these are tumblr links but nothing risqué — put them in here b/c I didn’t really read tumblr this week.

• Gorgeous: Richard Armitage and the canon of classical sculptural proportions.
• Is Richard Armitage boring? On the utility of exploration.
• Her computer’s gonna make her marry Richard Armitage.
• Loving the fluffy part of being an Armitage fan.
• The conclusion to Bechep’s “The Day I Met Richard” series: Part 3.
• Misha makes it to 10,000 hits. Give her some love!
• Update on the status of the fan campaign to bring North & South to PBS.
• Why Denni loves that picture and needs a scratch ‘n’ sniff Richard Armitage.
• On Richard Armitage as Dreamlover.
• Armitage GIFs and understanding context.
• The arrival of an Armitage fangirl package in the mail (in German). When I’ve gotten one of these it’s been tremendously exciting as well.
• Should Richard Armitage play Zeus?
• Reactions to the Popcorn Taxi pre-interview at Obsessive Behavior and Love, Sex, & Other Dirty Words and the discussion in both places.
• Another great response to Armitage’s statements at In Praise of Wickedness.
• Loving Thorin’s pelt — or is it Richard Armitage’s face?
• Would definitely to have that on my bed.
• Guy of Gisborne or John Mulligan for dinner?
• I saw this a long time ago, can’t remember where, and it’s reappeared, the frame of credits listening Richard Armitage as “Swing” from a CATS video.
• And Fabo has a new video about how Armitage fascinates her:

Please love on CDoart

• Her computers are revolting. Leave her a comment here.

Richard III news

• What’s up with the Richard III story in Leicester and elsewhere. Worth it for the link at the end regarding Richard III and Darth Vader.

Armitageworld novelist news!

• Kate Forrester / “Khandy” (author of one of our favorite Lucas North fanfics, “The Gruinard Project” and the much-beloved Sparkhouse fanfic to original novel, “In the Bleak Midwinter”); now has her first completely original novel out on Kindle and in paper: Degrees of Silence (2013). [Buy on amazon.com or buy on amazon.co.uk.] I have not read this one yet, but I know everyone who’s followed khandy’s other projects will be interested. Khandy was interviewed on “me + richard armitage” here.

Servetus’ pic of the week

Via Grendel’s Mum. This is like the perfect Servetus picture.

Richard Armitage-related fanfic

• Trudy’s “In Consequence” goes to ch. 19. (Retelling of N&S w/significant character study / exploration). Aaaah.

Richard Armitage-related fanfic, mature themes, sexy, and/or RPF

• “The Saga of Vaenomar” goes to ch. 27. (Pre-history of the Erebor exiles).
• Wattpad: “Broken” goes to ch. 32. (Lucas North + OC).
• Wattpad: “Love is a Wound” goes to ch. 14. (Guy of Gisborne + OC).
• Wattpad: “A Willing Heart” goes to ch. 2. (Thorin).

OT, collateral attractions, and things I think about

• What’s so special about the dwarves in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey?
• I wasn’t planning to see the movie, but Didion and JustMeMike have published this wonderful review of the Baz Luhrmann The Great Gatsby (2013). So now I’m pondering whether to write how I feel about the novel, at least.
• Elizabeth Smart (kidnapping victim) about why we need to stop putting so much emphasis on female purity — because after her abductor raped her, she thought, based on her upbringing, that she was worth nothing and no one would want her anymore.
• The latest sockpuppet scandal at wikipedia.
• Paris apartment remains untouched for 70 years — since its owner fled the German occupation.
• Geek time: Map of early modern England (useful for historians and novelists).
• Tweet your way to stardom!

~ by Servetus on May 18, 2013.