Richard Armitage Legenda 83: 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.]

Fire on the set of The Hobbit

Giving thanks that everyone’s okay.

Hope TDOS trailer went over well. We saw it last week, even we were jumping up and down!!….

— Graham McTavish (@grahammctavish) June 11, 2013

Reactions to the sneak peak trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

I liked it a lot, but I didn’t have an incredible complex response to it — except for my reaction that it was a nice combination of exciting action and apparent emotion / conflict. I’m excited about Lee Pace and very excited about the possibility for the Thranduil / Thorin exchanges. I’ve posted about my two favorite images this week, and want to write more about one in particular. One more week of summer school and then I should have my blogging mojo back.

More from Armitageworld on the trailer at:

• The Armitage Effect
• White Rose Writings
• RAFrenzy
• It’s an RA World
• Obsessive Behavior
• Do I Have a Blog?
• Well, There You Go …
• Something About Love (A)
• Love, Sex & Other Dirty Words
• Saraleee — this is a really neat reflection on a moment in the trailer.
• zRYSIOwana ja (Polish)
• Grendel’s Mum (Japanese)
• Unkraut vergeht nicht (German)

Richard Armitage archive

• When and how will the Richard Armitage obsession fade?
• Something else Richard Armitage might be touching in that Ascroft photo.
• More Richard Armitage family time.
• Wonky for Wichard?
• Who doesn’t love Richard Armitage and cats associations?
• Guy of Gisborne / Apollo — Armitage as spurned lover.
• Obsessive Behavior wants to see Armitage on Broadway. But / and Neil Patrick Harris should keep hosting the Tonys.
• Siriusly’s phone understands her — or suddenly speaks Armitage?
• What are you like in your dreams of Richard Armitage?
• Reasons to need Mr. Thornton on a bad day — or any day!
• Possibly of interest to newer fans — April’s Violet collects photos from an exhibit several years ago about the making of Robin Hood.
• Kelbel75 on joining the realm of Armitage-related social media.
• At West of Milton: Who knew Mr. Thornton was in love?
• On seeing Armitage in Captain America (and forgetting him afterwards).
• Grati wants a role for Armitage that might be closer to the real life guy.
• Armitage’s face is so not menacing.
• Ania’s got some stunning Guy of Gisborne fan art.

Richard III news

• At KRA: Is Richard III human? Commentary on human rights objections to the king’s reburial.
• (H/t Fabo): Plans for Leicester Richard III visitor centre revealed.
• Maria Grazia’s really excited about a new Wars of the Roses series on BBC. Richard III to be played by someone called Aneurin Bernard.

Richard Armitage-related fanfic

• MorrighansMuse ponders stepping into AU territory with Lucas North.

Richard Armitage-related fanfic: RPF, mature, slash

• Wattpad: “Broken” goes to ch. 37.
• Wattpad: “Love is a Wound” continues to update (there seems to have been some problem with notifications last week), here with ch. 20. and it has updated meanwhile through ch. 25.
• Dreamer Fiction [note that DF is a membership site; if you want to read these stories, please contact a member]: obscura’s “Recovery” goes to ch. 9 and ch. 10.
• At A03: “Sword of Damocles” by St. Germaine. RPF / slash. Make sure you read the warnings. This is a crazy tearjerker.

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Remember that much of this stuff is NSFW.

• Loving the fellow fans.
• Wet Thorin Oakenshield!
• Boot fan feels isolated.
• Thorin, the Misty Mountains, and good vibrations.
• Hobbit cast in peacoats.
• Amazing John Porter tongue animated GIF.
• Thorin worthy of one’s wall and so much more.

Armitageworld blogs OT

• Epiphany about love.
• Ancient Armitage gets ready for the annual family vacation.
• The birth of a blog.

OT, collateral attractions, and stuff I think about

• The Duchess of Cambridge to have the first ever royally-sanctioned baby shower. And other celeb baby showers.
• A final interview with GQ: Peter O’Toole. He still wants to record all of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
• The pleasures of wild garlic (Bärlauch in German — it grows all over southern Germany and I remember harvesting some in a woods near Tübingen once). For U.S. foodies, this is a relative of the wild leek or ramp. Yum.
• Game of Thrones finale breaks piracy download records. I’d have a few choice words about this one, especially the statistics presented in the end. When your illegal audience is the equivalent of 20 percent of your legal audience, basic microeconomics suggests that you’ve set your price too high. (Servetus neither watches nor pirates GoT.)
• On leaving a creative project that you love but that everyone’s ignoring.

~ by Servetus on June 16, 2013.