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.
Thanks for doing Legenda this week, Serv. Lots of good stuff I missed. Again! So is that soul piercing or just plain old flesh piercing? Hah!
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CarlyQ said this on September 28, 2013 at 11:06 pm |
both, I would say. Sex as metaphor, doncha know.
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Servetus said this on September 28, 2013 at 11:08 pm |
Loss of intellectual energy…that’s for sure! I was sitting at the computer today struggling to pull myself out of the abyss caused by those pix and post on something…anything else!
Thanks as always for the links to my stuff…(“very mature”…yikes!)
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obscura said this on September 28, 2013 at 11:14 pm |
that’s what happens when all your blood suddenly flows from your brain to your loins … 🙂
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Servetus said this on September 28, 2013 at 11:16 pm |
I think my blood has coagulated there. I need to get up from this chair and get it pumping again.
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TheArkenstone said this on September 29, 2013 at 2:27 am |
what did I tell you….Thanks for the listings…I am forever in your debt.
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TheArkenstone said this on September 29, 2013 at 2:28 am |
🙂 🙂
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Servetus said this on September 29, 2013 at 7:10 pm |
Oodles of gReAt links here! Thanks so much for collecting and sharing all of them! And thanks for including my link in the RA mania of last week. Ha!
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Gratiana Lovelace said this on September 29, 2013 at 3:14 am |
🙂 🙂 🙂
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Servetus said this on September 29, 2013 at 7:10 pm |
Thank you for adding my stories to your list! Glad to see my posts and stories in wonderful company! Alas no piercings in mine 😉
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morrighansmuse said this on September 29, 2013 at 5:05 am |
I added that note because the way that board is organized you don’t always see disclaimers. I love stories w/o piercings, too 🙂
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Servetus said this on September 29, 2013 at 7:10 pm |
I was supposed to write a disclaimer? Guys! You have to tell me these things! (my internet etiquette is sorely underdeveloped) I was just assuming that anything posted there had a good chance of leaving me red-faced, sweating, scared, repulsed, disgusted, intrigued and/or horrified with equal regularity. Off to declaim…..
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CarlyQ said this on September 29, 2013 at 8:50 pm |
DF doesn’t require disclaimers, b/c it’s all behind a password anyway. There are a few stories there that have an additional password, but for the most part you’re assumed to be capable of reading the stuff there if you are a member. Since I’m directing the potentially unsuspecting there, however, I think it’s only fair.
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Servetus said this on September 29, 2013 at 10:54 pm |
Okay, thanks! That’s good to know.
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CarlyQ said this on September 29, 2013 at 10:56 pm |
Oooh, I am just loving the longer hair. So luscious. I like the less-anal retentive look, always… and the fact that he’s just a little bit more feminine somehow rivets me.
Also: what great links!
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Didion said this on September 29, 2013 at 5:29 pm |
Armitageworld is a really creative place. So glad to be a part of it.
It’s the only time that my sexism seriously worries me — when I see a picture of him and find myself wanting to say “smile a little more, honey.”
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Servetus said this on September 29, 2013 at 7:11 pm |
As with each Legenda, there are so many goodies here. But I just discovered CarlyQ. Oasis is so beautiful and nuanced and honest. Such a lovely departure from what one might typically expect of Sir Guy fiction. But thank you for all of this!
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crystalchandlyre said this on September 30, 2013 at 12:16 am |
check out her earlier story on DF as well.
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Servetus said this on September 30, 2013 at 1:54 am |
I certainly will.
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crystalchandlyre said this on September 30, 2013 at 4:11 am |
Thanks again for the link to my blog Serv and for all the great stuff you found 🙂
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Herba said this on September 30, 2013 at 7:12 am |
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Servetus said this on October 2, 2013 at 6:38 pm |
Thanks for the link to my post. 🙂 Photos of Richard from the BAFTA Tea Party, will inspire us for a long time, I suppose. * sigh*
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Ania said this on September 30, 2013 at 10:43 am |
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Servetus said this on October 2, 2013 at 6:39 pm |
Thanks for the link to my post. 🙂
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april73 said this on October 2, 2013 at 11:25 am |
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Servetus said this on October 2, 2013 at 6:39 pm |
Sorry…forgot I hadn’t said thanks for the link! So thanks 🙂
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kathrynruthd said this on October 3, 2013 at 3:55 pm |
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Servetus said this on October 3, 2013 at 4:36 pm |
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