Richard Armitage Legenda 106: Stuff worth reading

Last week’s edition.

Editorial note: This post (probably) marks the last installment of my customary weekly Legenda feature, which began over two years ago and involved a comprehensive web scour of materials I noticed and read regarding Richard Armitage and that I thought were worth your time. Instead, I’m going to experiment in the next few weeks with a new format called Legenda “Boutique.” (This edition is already a bit of a hybrid.) It may not appear every week. The new format, except on rare occasions, will not attempt to track the news cycle or responses to the news cycle comprehensively. Instead, the “boutique” edition will focus primarily on material in Armitageworld that I found civil, introspective, analytical, deep, self-critical, honest, vulnerable, creative, thought-provoking, amusing, fun, artistic, supportive, uplifting, moving, and/or inspiring.

The Philippines

I don’t have anything more to say or links to give you except that the reports are still terrifying. Please consider helping out. Here’s a link to the World Food Programme.

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Hilarious — tweeted by Lady 0akenshield.

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Richard Armitage archive

• Why Guylty loves this fandom. Complementarily, by Janine Pineo: Ways you can have Thorin.
• IngeD3 reappears to say something similar to Guylty about loyalty.
• Would you date a dwarve?
• Guy of Gisborne will attend a play premiere if desired.
• Go to the Berlin premiere or don’t go?
• Gisborne’s leather trousers.
• Responses to the Thorin cocktail challenge at RAFrenzy and FunkyBlueDandelion. To me, just the thought of being asked to create a cocktail makes me want to pour myself a very generous vodka tonic and sit down and watch Spooks 9 again.
• The Hobbit takes Lower Manhattan.
• A question we’ve asked before: will you reread The Hobbit before seeing The Desolation of Smaug?
• Siriusly’s second Armitage playlist.
• A profile of the Richard Armitage group at ravelry.com (site for avid knitters / crocheters).
• Kelbel’s cold and Guy of Gisborne.
• Mr. Thornton — smiling?

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Fun stuff that’s happening

Check out Agzy’s blog for more information!

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Not fun stuff that’s been happening

I admit I haven’t been thrilled with everything, but as several people have said to me, maybe we really need to clear the air. For years, I did my bit to try to foster something like peace, but what if there is no peace? If we’re really this separated on all these issues, maybe it will help to be honest about that instead of pretending. My own position on this in life as in art is that silence always works to the detriment of the already marginalized, and I think that’s what we’re seeing play out at the moment, the result of too much silence for too long. I don’t want to be appear to be condoning something I don’t condone merely by having been silent about it, and it disturbs me to discover things I absolutely don’t condone in people I thought were friends. I’m sure a lot of people have felt that way this week. I’ll do a lot for the sake of Richard Armitage, but there are lines.

In that light, Jazz is back! She’s had a lot to say this week, on responses to Armitage’s NY Moves interview, on the controversy over ship manips and the problem in this fandom with sockpuppets.

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Busdrivers have come a long way since my schooldays

Glimpse of Richard Armitage in the forthcoming film Into the Storm, as music is recorded. Source: Todd Garner on Twitter

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Richard Armitage-related fanfic

• At A03: St_Germaine’s “Dirty Pool” (RPF / slash / Armitage + McTavish / guns). Another take on the best way to fieldstrip and reassemble your rifle.
• Siriusly’s “Waiting for a Blue Sky” goes to ch. 7 and 8 and 9. (Armitage-inspired English teacher … need I say more?)
• At wattpad: MorrighansMuse’s “A Willing Heart” announces it’s over (Hobbit AU / Thorin / OFC / romance).

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Early signs of Christmas

Source: the-imaginary-owls

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Source: JAWN STAPH IT

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Source: Born in the Wrong Decade

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Richard Armitage tumblr

• [warning] self-harming Armitage.
• Some more great pictures from November 4th.
• Richard Armitage on mobile devices.
• Richard Armitage as reindeer.
• Richard Armitage and red carpet glamor.
• Richard Armitage’s introduction to the Visual Guide in Polish. Because I like how Polish looks.
• Another bus shelter Thorin?
• What spooning with Armitage leads to.
• What’s the wristband?
• Best Guy’s text from last night!
• Richard Armitage and goblin shit.
• English teacher is not so secret Armitage fan.
• Dwarfsmut. Very NSFW.

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Beverly Blvd. in Los Angeles. Source: Ian McKellen’s FB.

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Armitageworld allies write OT

• Coming home to that beachhouse you loved.
• Illness as spiritual path.

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OT, contexts, collateral attractions, and things I think about

• These pancakes sounded good.
• C.S. Lewis’ 1937 review of The Hobbit.
• Tolkien biopic planned.
• Ian McKellen on coming out, religion, and Shakespeare.
• Support for writers.

~ by Servetus on November 23, 2013.