Richard Armitage Legenda 96: 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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Editorial: Don’t worry, you’re not doing it wrong

In my opinion, there’s no right or wrong way to blog about Richard Armitage, and no right or wrong reason, no content in a blog that would disqualify someone as an Armitage blogger or suggest that s/he should stop.

(Any exception I can think of to that generalization involves behavior that’s criminal on its own terms and so doesn’t need a separate prescription from the fan perspective.)

As far as motivation goes, if you’re blogging for hits, if you’re not blogging for hits, if you want comments, if you don’t want comments, if you’re blogging to vent, to practice your writing, to learn some technical skills, to earn money, to spend money, to enhance karma, to destroy karma, to make friends with other people, to make enemies, to have conversations, to express your creativity, because you don’t know what to do with the time on your hands, if your motivation is healthy, if your motivation is unhealthy, if you don’t understand your motivation, if you have no motivation — or for any other reason you can think of or not think of — it’s all fine.

Really. Every fan and every blogger is good enough, just the way she is! There are no minimum requirements or rules for being an Armitage fan.

As far as readers go, it doesn’t matter why you’re here — but I’m happy that you are!

We all belong here in the Armitage blogosphere, all of us who want to talk and write about Richard Armitage, no matter what our motivation or what we have to say about Armitage.

Of course I don’t agree with everything I read. I know of at least two blogs where, when I see a new post pop up, I know that I’m likely to disagree with 80-90 percent of what’s been said. At least one sister blogger of ours blogs episodically because she dislikes what Armitage has been doing the last several years.

Does everything I read everywhere thrill me? No. But disagreeing with the content of something that I read, or even thinking I wish it hadn’t been written, is not a good reason for me to prescribe for others what they should or should not blog about. Not liking someone else’s motivation is never a convincing reason for me to tell her/him to stop writing.

The more diversity we have in our blogosphere, the more room for different opinions, the more creativity, the more possibilities there will be for everyone to find places where they wish to talk and associate.

Rock on, Armitage bloggers! Armitage commentators! Armitage blogosphere lurkers! We’re all good.

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Richard Armitage as Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood 1.13. Put here to break up the space.

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Richard Armitage archive

• A new blogger loves Richard Armitage, too!
• Ania reflects on three years of loving Mr. Thornton.
• On the difficulties of Armitage blogging.
• And why it’s great to want to be connected to other Armitage fans.
• Richard Armitage on a French list ten sexiest English actors.
• The Red Armitage left behind him in New Zealand.
• Fans come up with alternative titles for Richard Armitage’s next project and AgzyM’s got the graphics.
• Richard Armitage in skirts. I really wish kilts would become fashionable somewhere outside of the UK.
• Is Richard Armitage nesting?
• Thorin spotted in Paris.
• What MarieAstra thinks Peter Jackson is doing right.
• Richard Armitage and The Wall.
• Richard Armitage / Pour Some Sugar on Me.
• Nothing here excites me anymore. Read the picture and the poem together. Effective and provocative.
• Richard Armitage mustache madness.
• MorrighansMuse’s review of Frozen.
• Richard Armitage and the Muppets.
• Comparison of “our” Strike Back to the subsequent series.
• Richard Armitage and creativity dreams.
• Twisty Armitage.
• What’s your feel-good Armitage viewing?
• In search of the “good Guy” posts — some of these are older, but Mulubinba promises to continue them again soon.

Richard Armitage tumblr

Some of these may be NSFW.

• “This just happened on my dash” is a tumblr genre where bloggers screenshoot interesting combinations of posts that appear together on their blogging dashboard. Here’s a neat one from AwkCelebEncounters.
• All kinds of neat dwarf hugs!
• Pressganged into the Armitage Army.
• Admiring Thorin’s butt.
• Admiring Thorin’s hold on his temper.
• Thorin string-biting=unbelievably hot.
• Guy and the wolf.

Richard Armitage-related fanfic

Make sure to read the disclaimers.

• Kate Forrester (you may know her as khandy, author of the renowned fanfics “The Gruinard Project” and “In the Bleak Midwinter”) publishes her North & South WWII-era retelling as “A Nightingale Sang” on Kindle. Haven’t read this one, but can’t wait to try it. A strong revision of “Bleak Midwinter” with added material as “Weathering the Storm” is also available, as is her original novel, Degrees of Silence.
• Something I wish I’d gotten to read a lot sooner — but that gave me a big smile when I did — at wattpad, TheArkenstone’s “Hide and Seek,” an ongoing chapter in the adventures of Thorin and Lady 0akenshield. Yes, I think that’s me! Big smiles.
• TheArkenstone announces a new blog to aggregate Richard Armitage-related fanfic.
• Which reminds me to put in a plug as well for Dreamer Fiction. This is a members-only site for mature fiction about Richard Armitage-related themes. If you’re interested in reading and over eighteen, ask one of your fellow fans to explain the procedure for joining. Many of us are readers.
• At A03: Crossover-Critter’s “Listen to the Music.” When it’s rough being a fangirl.
• At AO3: gameofthorins’ “Just Kiss Me Slowly.” A unique Armitage + Idris Elba fic. RPF, slash, mature.
• At wattpad: Trudy brings “In Consequence” to an end. (Retelling of North & South.) This will probably be available via ebook, eventually. I’m going to want a copy.
• At wattpad: CarlyQ’s “Watching Paint Dry.” Brief, light-hearted sequel to “Iron and Ash,” in which Thorin and Esja learn to deal with daily life.
• At wattpad: MM’s “A Willing Heart” goes to ch. 13.
• At A03: rashisama’s “Dancing with Richard.” A brief fantasy about dancing with the guy. RPF.
• At fanfiction.net: kethry47’s “Mountain Bells.” Thorin stops to smell the flowers.
• At DF [you must be a member to read]: Obscura’s “Recovery” goes to ch. 16.
• At Something About Love: “Thorin’s Dream of Love.”

Armitageworld changes

• At Richard Armitage Fan Blog: How Natalie spent her summer.
• What’s been up with Grati. She needs some hugs.
• Angie’s most recent struggles.
• Judiang and her moves toward becoming a writer.
• Zan’s son gets married!
• Xenia’s in school.
• It’s Maria Grazia’s birthday!
• Jas deliberates [sorry, link apparently deleted by its author], and then says goodbye, or rather, until later.
• Mulubinba has a birthday too and tells us what your daughter says on your birthday about your Armitage fascination.
• The author of (R)Ailment deleted her blog this week recently. For most of 2012, the blog was the “Onion” of Armitageworld and many hilarious satirical posts, in which fans’ pets occasionally played a role, appeared there. My favorite was “Mum’s Bedtime Story,” which you can read here (page down a little) via the Wayback Machine.

OT, collateral attractions, and stuff I think about

• Shakespeare and courage.
• Armitageworld 9/11 memories: Love, Sex and Dirty Words; Armitage Agonistes; West of Milton.
• Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and Elmo.
• September 9th was John Thornton’s 159th birthday.
• Review of “Side Effects” from the viewpoint of someone suffering from chronic depression.
• What if the Apostle Paul had written email to Timothy?
• On the bothersome aspects of grace.
• Agzy, like me, has a little bit on the side for Dean O’Gorman.
• A favorite Graham McTavish tweet.
• Dean O’Gorman’s dog’s new toy.
• JK Rowling makes the jump to screenwriting. And characters we’d like to see in an HP spinoff.
• My Debonair Affair profiles her next novel.
• Text messages from Little Women.
• Watching Roseanne 25 years later.

~ by Servetus on September 15, 2013.