Richard Armitage Legenda 97: 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.]
Richard Armitage fan art for the last day of summer in the northern hemisphere
Source: Tanni Tani
Next, we need him with a pumpkin.
Richard Armitage archive
- If you need some Richard Armitage stuff, here’s a competition to enter.
- Nat’s thinking about Halloween costumes.
- What would Thorin do?
- How would Thorin feel about dwarf tossing?
- Crystalchandlyre interviews Ali about the history of RichardArmitageNet.com.
- On being an Armitage fan of a certain age.
- An astoundingly obscure classical Armitage connection. Also astoundingly yummy!
- Responses to Guylty’s cardigan *ooof* at Confessions of a Watcher and Armitage Agonistes.
- Responses to the different things we’ve learned this week about Black Sky / Into the Storm at RAFRenzy and Phylly’s Faves and at Armitage Agonistes here and here and here and here and here and Something About Love.
- Are you counting down to your next Thorin Therapy?
- What was Richard Armitage like in school?
- A blue hat, and some Thorin GIFs.
- Kelbel75 can’t get Standring off her mind, even if Robin Thicke makes an appearance.
- Lucas North as Hermes.
- Obsessive Behavior reacts to the possibility of Armitage as suburban dad.
- Thorin Oakenshield speed sketch.
- Richard Armitage pheromone power.
- The latest comments on the latest appearance of Richard Armitage’s hair.
- Mulubinba’s looking for the good guy Guy of Gisborne.
Richard III news
- The fan initiative reaches 2,000 supporters! If you haven’t signed the petition yet, why not?
Do you think he could do that many kisses?
Seen on Richard Armitage Friends Network on FB.
One of the most inspiring confessions ever
Source: Thorin Oakenshield Confessions
Richard Armitage tumblr
- Definitely NSFW: Thorin of Skyrim.
- Owlish Armitage.
- Anonymous Armitage fantasy.
- Does Mr. Perfect have skeletons in his closet?
- The way that people make intimate connections with Thorin.
- Guy of Gisborne’s text messages from last night.
- Gorgeous painting of Richard Armitage.
- Black Sky has been retitled.
- Mabelalexa’s atmosphere Sir Guy edits.
- Guy of Gisborne as Jack of Spades.
Armitageworld changes
- Itsy’s twentieth wedding anniversary!
- Obscura’s birthday!
- How tweeting changed KathrynD’s life.
- Gigglepants makes two big life changes: one and two.
- Judiang takes another step toward fulfilling her writing dreams.
Richard Armitage-related fanfic
- Keep checking out story recommendations at My Story Blog. It looks like she’s taking recs for much older stories, so if you’re a newbie, this is a good place to look.
- Why TheArkenstone writes.
- Sandy Sue’s “Technical Consultant” goes to ch. 2. Armitage inspired / RPF with names changed. An actor consults an expert on the portrayal of bipolar disorder on stage.
- Wattpad: MorrighansMuse’s “A Willing Heart” goes to ch. 14.
- Wattpad: TheArkenstone’s “Rubbing Me the Wrong Way.” Further adventures of Thorin and Lady 0akenshield.
- tumblr: Morning Sex with John Standring. NC-17.
OT, collateral attractions, and things I think about
- The final piece of West of Milton’s review of the 1975 North & South with Patrick Stewart.
- Graham McTavish has a new job — I wish him very, very well!
- If you haven’t read the new interview with Pope Francis that everyone’s talking about, here it is.
- Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen’s friendship is better than yours.
- Lily Myers, “Shrinking Women” — this made me and at least four of my friends cry.
- On what bloggers owe readers — a statement by my much-admired dooce on what she can share with her readers. I’m not posting this so much because I agree with everything she says as because the general question is one that intrigues me.
- Where I’d go this fall, if I were going to be in Europe.
- Meeting the actor who changed your life.
- Learning to be a massage therapist.
- A tumblr about the common language that separates North America from the United Kingdom.
- TDOS previewed in HFR — my, how the mood has changed.
Me + Richard Armitage 
Thanks so much for the referral! I would love to have more RA fans read and comment on my story.
LikeLike
Thanks for the comment, and welcome 🙂
LikeLike
that John Standring fic did not help get him off my mind, AT ALL *fans self*
LikeLike
No. But it did other things for you? 🙂
LikeLike
I could smell the sheep out the window and hear the dogs barking…is that what you mean?
LikeLike
sheep smell. Hmmmm.
LikeLike
Thanks for linkage … “Astoundingly obscure” – I’m honored! I was just looking at Porter’s teres again and thinking how much I also like the slight “farmer” tan line at his neck. (This all started as “research” for a scene in Recovery 😉 – quite a rabbit hole! )
LikeLike
I feel like the plan to exercise so he looked like a real person totally paid off in this film. Of course, Porter will never look like a real person, but this kind of thing makes him look realistic, anyway …
LikeLike
I’m going have to paying you an Agent’s fee. Thanks for all the mentions. We’re getting a lot of hits on the story board!
LikeLike
that’s great! More love for fanfic authors!
LikeLike
I loved “Shrinking Women.” Her delivery reminds me of Sarah Kay, who I love.
LikeLike
I thought there were so many true observations in that poem — after a while, it just kind of slugged you over and over and over with them.
LikeLike
Thanks for the referral! Cheers! ;->
LikeLike
🙂
LikeLike
For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet there are new photos to look at of RA in Los Angeles this evening (21st) at the BAFTA LA Tea Event. Be prepared they are absolutely gorgeous but do take a look at those shoes he is wearing. Actually I know we will be discussing the whole outfit eventually and it will be interesting to hear Serv’s take on this. I just don’t like the shoes. Back to Porter though, odd I do think that John Porter looks real to me but I guess that is just me. Compared to some of the other characters RA has portrayed, such as Standring, perhaps not so realistic, but I say real meaning that I can see him as a soldier though obviously in some of the photos and such he is a bit too neat, too clean and such for what one would really look like in a war.
LikeLike
I just almost fell off of my chair, Peggy!…*squeee*..He looks georgeous and ( Oh Lord! I hate it but I must say it )..sexy as hell! 😀
LikeLike
I like those shoes. I don’t think they went with those jeans, however.
LikeLike
Lili’s Myers poem scares me ….what I teach my doughter, unintentionaly?..
Thanks for legenda, ((Serv)) esp. for O.T, collateral attractions and so on :*
LikeLike
yeah — a lot of resonance there. Things we pick up from watching people, not just eating habits.
LikeLike
Thank you so much for the mention! I appreciate it so much! ❤
LikeLike
🙂 🙂
LikeLike
Once again, and as always Serv, thank you for the generous link back! 🙂
I do have a question, and I don’t want to assume this is about one of my posts, but the following seems to be going to a broken link on FB – “On being an Armitage fan of a certain age”.
LikeLike
Thanks for letting me know — I will fix it here and link again next week. I apologize.
LikeLike
No worries at all. 🙂
LikeLike
The Thorin confession moved me very much. RA characters resonate with us in many different ways, but this one seems especially significant.
PS. Delicious week in Legenda, as always 🙂
LikeLike
Yes. It’s interesting how actors, people involved in professional identity reenactments, can facilitate and legitimate this process for private individuals. I think maybe on some level an inspiring actor is the only sort of person who can do that. This isn’t the first story like that that I’ve read, but it is a particularly intense and moving example.
LikeLike
Thank you for linking to my competition page and also the link to Crystal’s interview with me. Appreciate that, thanks 🙂
LikeLike
[…] 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 […]
LikeLike
Richard Armitage Legenda 98: Stuff worth reading | Me + Richard Armitage said this on September 28, 2013 at 10:32 pm |