Richard Armitage Legenda 91: 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.]

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Source: Phylly’s Faves.

Armitage Day activities materializing

For an explanation of the term “Armitage Day,” look here.

Consider, before you do anything else, a small donation left in honor of Richard Armitage’s birthday at his JustGiving pages! Need some encouragement from me? Well, I’ve been the beneficiary of charity. And here’s my opinion about this sort of donation.

Leave birthday greetings in the following places. (Keep in mind that many have deadlines, so don’t dawdle!)

• At RichardArmitageNet.com.
• At Armitage Army, here. (You must be an Armitage Army member.)
• At C19, here. (You must be a C19 member.)
• At Richard Armitage Central, here. (You must be an RAC member.)

Watch for King Richard Armitage Week at the fan initiative. There will be a quiz and games and articles of all kinds.

There also will be some kind of charity stunt here at “me + richard armitage”, as there has been in the past.

Not an editorial statement on my part, I just love the graphic. Source: Jas Rangoon at Me, My Thoughts and Richard Armitage

Armitageworld responds to Batman rumors

[these I have not linked to, yet]

• As always, inimitably, pi.
• mulubinba on Batman and other rumored projects.
• zRYSIOwana ja’s opinion. (Polish and English side by side)
• Misha at It’s an RA World weighs in.
• Guy of Gisborne’s opinion about Batman.
• Bookies give Richard Armitage 7 to 1 odds to play Batman.

[these were linked earlier in the week]

• Visual proof that Armitage has the stuff!
• Armitage as Batman, Uch!
• Armitage, Batman and Roman virtue
• Obsessive Behavior still prefers Matthew Clairmont.
• ItsJSforMe remembers Lucas North’s typo problems.
• Grati’s got a signature for Batman Rises Again.
• The Arkenstone points us to a poll.

Source: The Armitage Effect

Richard Armitage archive

• Armitage Agonistes announces a discussion of Between the Sheets.
• Guy of Gisborne, Hades, and coercive relationships.
• There’s a pic in this post that somehow makes me think, “Thorin on his wedding day.”
• Is Peter Jackson’s Thorin building a new archetype?
• The Armitage Stare.
• What if Armitage were as “big” as Cumberbatch?
• Favorite Armitage characters with glasses.
• The Arkenstone gives in.
• And, she wants to kiss her header. Who wouldn’t?
• Thorin Oakeychain.
• Oakentoon! (At Grendel’s mum — blog in Japanese but cartoon in English.)
• Philip Turner or Philip Durrant?
• Special thanks to Armitage friends.
• Who has the bigger sword, Guy or Thorin?
• What does half a cow weigh?
• Who was Dee’s first?
• Thinking about Richard Armitage’s (second) personality. (In Dutch.)
• Mulubinba ponders buying an Armitage autograph. (If you go over to read this, please be a supportive fan friend and do not leave her any grief in the comments. I myself am agnostic with regard to buying autographs.)

Daniela Denby-Ashe. Looks like a girl who’s naughty and has a sense of humor. Wonder how she feels about food.

Armitageworld anniversaries — if you like these blogs, this is a great time to leave your first comment!

• Kelbel75 is marking three months!
• Obsessive Behavior ponders the six months anniversary of Armitagemania.
• Zan’s first blogiversary — give her some love!
• Happy Birthday to Fabi!
• AND: yesterday was Daniela Denby-Ashe’s birthday. (via: Bring North & South to PBS.)

New Richard Armitage / Richard III fan art by Tannni Tani. Source: Richard III for Richard Armitage

Richard III news

• Latest news and links from King Richard Armitage fan initiative.
• My Debonair Affair is painting Armitage as Richard III. And here’s her progress on the project.

Richard Armitage-related fanfic: Sexy, mature, slash, RPF, etc.

• At DF: Obscura’s “Recovery” goes to ch. 14. (Strike Back / Porter + OFC.)
• At AO3: “Richard and Layla” stories. (RPF / Armitage + OFC.) I’ve been trying to decide how I feel about these stories. I think they’re great stories. I don’t think she’s writing about Richard Armitage.

My least favorite search string of the week

Richard Armitage Tumblr

Remember that tumblr may be NSFW.

• at The Atlantic: tumblr is shrinking. Why?
• Lots of confessions this week about the sadness / frustration of not having Armitage. Here and here, for instance.
• Has Armitage had his heart broken? Somehow I think anyone who thinks “Somebody that I Used to Know” is a great song knows that feeling.
• Loving the braids.
• Beautiful GIFset if you need a nosegasm.
• Sassy Richard Armitage interview moments.

Speaking of collateral attractions, Graham McTavish looks *great* with specs. Servetus makes passes at men who wear glasses!

OT, collateral attractions, and things I think about

• Michelle gets a tweet from Graham McTavish.
• KathrynRuthD comments on silence against abusive tweeting.
• Personal memories of disappearing malls.
• On regressing in response to concentrated exposure to one’s parent.
• An anthropologist comments on the Walking Dead fandom.
• On the rise and fall of mid-Atlantic English accents (the way Katharine Hepburn spoke), with some comments on English actors’ attempts at US regional accents.
• At TORn: interview with MrCere, who was embedded on the Hobbit set for six weeks in 2011.
• Also at TORn: An attempt to improve child literacy rates with Tolkien exposure. Donate a copy of The Hobbit!
• John Callen’s letter to a fan.

~ by Servetus on August 10, 2013.