Richard Armitage tangentially related

[reminder that Vulture links may be paywalled depending on how often you visit the site]

Kudos for Armitage:

• The Bloody Chamber makes Slate’s best audiobooks of 2018 list. What pleased me about this particularly, apart from the kind words for him, is that he’s finally in the company of other books that I have read this year. I didn’t love all of the ones I read, but it’s in the right literary category for me. Here’s hoping for more of that.
• Berlin Station makes Monsters & Critics’ 2018 ultimate binge list.
• The Christmas Hirelings makes Audible.com’s top ten list this week (keep in mind, it was free).

Current projects:

• Further comment from Adi Shankar on Castlevania.
• The show makes Gadgets360’s best of 2018 list.
• Interview with Mina Tander translated by Guylty.

Past projects:

• Trudy’s latest comment on N&S, this time on Fanny as a character. I tend to agree with her discussion of how people treat the character, but I do remember one time where a fanfic author tried to rehabilitate her. It was in a story I loved that was never finished (warning: sexually explicit).
• Ocean’s 8: Part of a trend that has changed Hollywood for the better? It makes a regional “best of 2018” list. And it’s the 20th highest grossing film of 2018. And female-led films beat male-led films at the box office this year.
• (Love, Love, Love): The Russian fan page has a few images that I hadn’t seen as images (or maybe they are just exceptionally good caps). Via Mat Khal on FB.

Mulubinba wakes up her blog:

Long-time fans will remember Mulubinba, the main (maybe the only?) Armitage blogger in the southern hemisphere, and one of the bloggers from the first-gen blogs (i.e., she was already there when I started). She’s got new posts for the first time in over a year.

• She takes stock of her eleven-year Armitage fan journey and where she is now.
• She reviews her listening and viewing in the last year.
• She comments on last week’s political tweets and his recent work and her current picture of our hero.

Things Armitage has said:

• Armitage stated months ago that he’d wanted to work on Mortal Engines but was unable to reconcile it with his Berlin Station filming schedule. Now the film may be set to lose $100M. A fellow Armitage fan saw it and comments here.
• He liked Vox Lux — here’s an interview with Natalie Portman.

Collateral attractions:

• Andy Serkis (The Hobbit) parodies Theresa May. Linked via our Japanese fellow fan’s blog.
• Zoe Kazan (Love, Love, Love) makes Vulture’s ten best performances of 2018 list.
• Theo James (Castlevania) will be in The Dark Crystal.

Industry issues:

• Taylor Swift starts using face-recognition technology to see if her stalkers are attending her concerts. Really conflicted about this.
• There are over 500 scripted series in production right now — why isn’t Armitage in a better one?

Things we’ve talked about:

• In honor of Mary, Queen of Scots, a retrospective of Queens Elizabeth past. I’m probably going to see it after all as I’m being offered triple rewards points.
• On the lastest iPhone selfie filters.
• Green Book: Mahershala Ali apologizes to the Shirley family.
• Pride and Prejudice as Christmas story.
• Review of Eastwood’s The Mule that expresses exactly what I thought after seeing only the trailer. Yuck.
• On liking complicated sentences (something I wrestle with).
• Comment on tumblr’s transition to no NSFW. Perhaps some tumblr peeps might want to comment?

Stuff that interested me that I can’t talk about on my RL FB:

• On the sudden popularity of weighted blankets. I inadvertently started sleeping under a very heavy cover when I switched bedrooms after dad’s stroke, and I do have to say, it does totally alleviate anxiety at least while I am under the damn thing. Not sure I’d want to sleep under 200 lbs or whatever, though.
• One of the people who was caricatured in “Making of a Murderer” sues for defamation. Finally!

~ by Servetus on December 19, 2018.