Richard Armitage Legenda 98: 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.]

Drowned by the waves

Now I understand what someone meant (sorry, I’ve forgotten who said this to me) that Armitageworld sort of loses intellectual energy when new material appears. Not that it’s bad, but the power differential between Armitage and fans changes and we’re all kind of knocked on our asses for a while. And then we procrastinate!

Richard Armitage, Los Angeles, September 2013.

Responses to the BAFTA Tea Party in LA

See what I mean?

• The Armitage Effect
• Armitage Agonistes, which sort of strengthens the Poldark rumors. He didn’t manage to stay out of the background, And even smiled once.
• zRYSIOwana ja (Polish and English facing text)
• It’s an RA World
• Something about Love
• Unkraut vergeht nicht
• I Want to be a Pinup and yet again.
• My Sort of Bloke
• Obsessive Behavior and again.
• Love, Sex & Other Dirty Words
• allthingsrarmitage
• Confessions of a Watcher
• Swooning Maruca
• April’s Violet
• Collar City Brownstone
• My Debonair Affair
• Well, There You Go
• Grendel’s Mum (Japanese)

More food

This looks like Tanni Tani again — not sure where I picked it up, though.

Richard Armitage archive

• Relinked this week b/c the link was broken last week, for which apologies — Crystalchandlyre on being a female fan of a certain age.
• Congratulations to AgzyM on her degree results!
• How Lego Mini-Thorin celebrated Durin’s Day and Talk Like a Pirate Day.
• Infidelity to Thorin threatens — with The Desolation of Smaug still weeks away!
• Comments on the latest autograph hound photos. I honestly don’t think it’s fair for a man to have natural waves like that.
• Richard Armitage’s hair, and Alexander the Great.
• Perry doesn’t like the hair as evidence for the Poldark role, but if not that, then what?
• No matter what the long hair means, TheArkenstone recommends reading Poldark.
• Richard Armitage gallant.
• How to know when you’ve taken your Armitage blogging too far.
• Armitage Army can’t keep calm.
• Lara Pulver reacts to Richard Armitage’s hair.
• Lucas North / “Wicked Game” picspam.
• Obsessive Behavior comments on that Harry Kennedy smiles vid.
• This is a bit old now, because I didn’t have time to read it when it came out, and now it looks like the blogger has moved on from Armitage to Hiddleston, but it’s an interesting series of questions about the way that fans view the social behaviors of the “real people” Hiddleston and Armitage. In Dutch; miserable machine translation here.
• Hello Richard Armitage, Goodbye My Sanity.
• This is that “play with Armitage’s beard” game that Tanni devised. I forget whether I ever linked to it.
• Michelle finishes her Thornton eggshell art.
• ManCrush Monday.

Richard Armitage tumblr

May be NSFW. Somebody make me stop!

• Looking at Harry makes me feel
• Mezz’s gorgeous edits of Claude Monet.
• Richard Armitage side-bum appreciation.
• Fallen out of Armitage Appreciation?
• Delightfully incongruous: Armitage admires Thorin.
• We read this passage at shul this morning, but this excerpt was not in it!
• Letter of a hopeless someone.
• Fan does not need to have actual sex with Richard Armitage.
• Another author dreams of Richard Armitage in the lead role of his novel.
• Sweet pickup line.
• Someone’s going to the Desolation of Smaug premiere as Thorin!
• Armitage as source of hope.
• Now he’s everybody’s Richard.
• Thorin Oakenshield’s ear thingie.
• Thorin as father.
• More Guy’s texts from last night.
• Armitage Army coat of arms.
• Guy of Gisborne lower body appreciation.
• Definitely NSFW, but what a fantasy.
• Would definitely pick the one on the left.

A fanfic invitation

If you’ve never written a fanfic, writing a short Christmas-themed story with your favorite chaRActer(s) can be a great way to get your feet wet. Here’s an invitation to do it! This is a great idea, and even if I’m not a Christian anymore, I LOVE reading Christmas-themed fanfic.

Richard Armitage-related fanfic

Be sure to read any and all disclaimers.

• Keep checking out “My Story Blog” for fanfic recs.
• “The Saga of Vaenomar” goes to ch. 32. Prehistory of the Erebor exiles; occasionally edgy, sexy.
• At wattpad: MorrighansMuse’s “A Willing Heart” goes to ch. 15 and 16 and 17. Dwarves between exile and retaking Erebor; romance.
• At DF [let one of us know if you want to be reading DF and aren’t]: Obscura’s “Recovery” goes to ch. 17. John Porter + OFC. This chapter is very “mature.”
• At wattpad: Arkenstone’s “Rubbing me the Wrong Way” continues. Humorous adventures of Lady 0akenshield and several of her compatriots.
• At DF: CarlyQ’s “Oasis.” Guy of Gisborne + OFC, AU, very explicit, piercing.

OT, collateral attractions, and things I think about

• Not excited about Sherlock series 3.
• Fangirls surviving at school. Via a former student of mine.
• Which GIFs are most likely to get shared.
• What every man needs to know about suit buttons.
• Looks like not all the dwarves will be making the international premiere rounds this time?
• Could you have lived with Mrs. Thornton?
• When, if ever, does the past need to make way for the present?
• Another very belated recommendation via KatharineD — vid of the Hobbit panels at Dragon Con 2013 featuring Graham McTavish, William Kircher and Manu Bennett. The first one begins here and the second begins here. You can follow the links on the right margin to the later chunks of each panel.
• Beyond relatability in instruction.
• At TORn: win tickets to Ian McKellena and Patrick Stewarts’ plays on Broadway.
• Linked in dozens of places this week — what the CakeWrecks author learned on her Internet break.

~ by Servetus on September 28, 2013.