Oh my – RL Armitage is overshadowing everything at the end of week 3, 2013. Looks like the staged reading was a great evening for all – performers and attendees. I am not linking to any of the tumblr-based accounts because they have already been spotted and passed on I think. Instead let me distract you with the best of the rest, tumblr edition 😉
After last night’s performance and the classy, considerate fan interaction of our favourite man I feel more vindicated than ever:
BTW, it never ends. No sooner do I post a Weekly Round-Up, goodies for the next instalment of the tumblr best-of appear. This week it was a mere three hours after posting Round-up #2 that I saved my first link for Round-up #3. I am not sure whether my soul will escape this new compiling venture unscathed… The things I see, people, the things I see… I might need therapy. Is there a RArmy therapy fund somewhere? It could get expensive… For the newest of the new in Armitage fanfiction check out The Arkenstone’s round-up. Agzy’s overview over the week in RA blogs is here. Go forth and spread the blog love. And in good blogging manner, don’t forget to leave a comment 🙂
As you have noticed by now, the tumblr round-up is nothing but subjective. How else could it be. I may have to put out a bit of a policy statement here, I suppose, before people wonder why I choose some stuff over other. I am a bit of a edit-fiend. I do not reblog or recommend manips, but I do like pastiche and collage because they add something entirely original and new to a previous version of a photograph. Plus, I strive to show you something that you have not seen *like that* before, rather than recommend a previously seen old chestnut image with a new colour cast . The creativity of the users amazes me all the time, though, and I really love the combination of graphic design, words and images. That is what tumblr does best – plus the often hilarious captions and comments that accumulate underneath a post. They make the “old chestnuts” worth seeing again if that is not blasphemy… RA in any old image is never a “chestnut”.
So here is this week’s round-up – tumblr edition #3:
- MrPuddingston combines a quote in the caption with a word cloud that makes you think. The picture of RA is not too bad, either…
- Thorin’s long tresses just lend themselves to this kind of fun by theuntitledpiece
- I still haven’t read those books, but when I see the fan art that is already being generated by Armitage4Clairmont, I feel very tempted…
- Has Richard got memory problems?
- BTW, it’s not just carnal, you know…
- This was just so unexpected and unlikely, I nearly burst out laughing loud. Future musical plans of Richard’s?
- What a range!!!
- Have I already mentioned hair?
HairHere is more. Gifs by richardrmitage, put into a set by zwergenfee - Richard’s recollections of New Zealand, compiled by mezzmerizedbyrichard. I am soooo jealous! I wanna go!
- A Hobbit AU by ohsofili that made me laugh (my bad, I shouldn’t have), especially at the appearance of the “celebrity lawyer from London”. Inspired. I’d like to see this as a Downton-esque mini-series
- I loved the tragic truthfulness of this gif set by theheirsofdurin
- It’s still time to print a 2014 calendar with all things RA (part1) and (part 2)
- A gif set by richardarmitage-poland that takes you right back to the start of his career
- And for this week’s “blast from the past” I bring you the “Armitage Twins” with a special dedication to Angie (hint, hint x), courtesy of richardrmitage aka gaporter
[Edit: Repaired link xiv. Thanks Richardiana!]
Guylty Pleasure 
Thanks guytly.. #8 breaks my heart… #14 IS broken, and I would (hint, hint) love to see it!
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Thanks for pointing that out, Richardiana! I have just updated the link to a source that works. Would be a pity to leave that particular visual feast out…
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Oh dear. I think I should lie down a bit.
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Yeah, I know – it’s a bit much, isn’t it? Twice the joy – twice the bother?? *ggg*
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I am so excited looking this. I have to run out to see Mum. Read this. See Mum. Read this. See Mum. Take this to show Mum….got it. Now where’s my Nexus?
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*giggles* Does Mum appreciate RA as well? Thank Cod there is nothing naughty in it this week 😉
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Lovely. Thanks, guylty! Love Richard’s memory problems!! LOL!!
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He doesn’t get away with anything, poor man. Fans are very quick to put it into context – and prove him wrong 😉 Glad you liked it.
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You NEED to read the books!!!!! I”m not into paranormal at all! Really. (I mean, c’mon – vamps don’t have blood, therefore they cannot achieve a hardon!) But they are really good and I”m waiting with baited breath for the last one. I’m scheduling a grand re-read in June in time for the July release!!!
Read them!
As for the pictures… *dies* A most beautiful man inside and out!
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Are you referring to “A Discovery of Witches”? I may be convinced, eventually. I just can’t get into vampires, really…
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You could get into Michael. Throw away any misconceptions — Sookie Stackhouse vamps, Vampire Diaries, or gawd forbid Twilight. Think Richard licking your neck. As for the *cough* erection *cough* They’re a bit cold and stiff in the flesh arena so I don’t think you’d have a problem there…who’d care anyway if you were in bed with RA.
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*coughs chokes* Arkie!!!!! [further commenting censored] *haha*
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Yes yes yes I’m talking about A discovery of witches. I’m not into vampires at all. The whole paranormal genre just leaves me…. cold. So yeah, like Arkenstone says… think Richard. Yeah. Think Richard….Matthew IS Richard.
Who is Michael???
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Ok, ladies, you have me convinced. I’ll order the damn books. I take it I have to put the visuals in whenever Matthew/Michael/vampire man turns up? That was easy enough with the Potato Peel book, I am sure I can do it again…
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Potato peel???
what did I miss????
Alright I’m off to bake brownies.
(those little girls should be easy to catch)
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Oh, that novel that was thrown around as a potential role for RA to play. “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”. It was actually nice to read, and yes, it was made even nicer by visualising RA as the lead.
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Who wrote it. I probably have it in my arsenal….
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Mary Ann Shaffer
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I’ll go hunt after I make the brownies.
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I meant Matthew. I had just finished writing an email about Michael our chef at the club who up and quit….too many things running around in my head.
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Miss G, brilliant round-up, as always! I get bummed when I reach the end of the list. Little Orphan Annie just floored me! Some things cannot be unseen 😉
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Forgot to add re Little Orphan Annie that I actually had that hairstyle once, just separated into 2. I had horrible orange hair after a dye job went terribly wrong and I was once convinced to get a dodgy perm and ended up looking like a lamb (to slaughter…). I don’t recommend either…
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Photographic evidence? It might just be that you are twins, separated at birth? Ah well, no, there’s a good few years between you 😉
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I won’t rain on the parade since I’ve had my say about the first book, but limit myself to saying I love the collection!
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Probieren geht über studieren as we say in German. Is it an easy read? In that case I’ll test and try it. (Anything else I have got no time for :-D)
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yes, it’s very easy; it won’t take you long; there’s nothing deep or puzzling about it.
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😀 hehe… sounds about right for my sort of reading list…
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Thanks for these Guylty. I just relaxed through them with my coffee at side. I cracked up when I saw the Little Orphan Annie Edit and loved the Puddington one from the time I saw it.I seem to find at lease one new blog to follow each week.
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[Damn, another comment got lost here when I commented via phone] – I am acquiring more and more subscriptions, too. I love the humour you can find on tumblr. Glad you liked these.
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I miss all the Mr Puddingston vocation inspired collages she used to do, and by request – lots of “what if Richard was” characters. I think I have to say 13 & 14 are my favorites here. Nice collection here, Guylty, thank you!
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Oh yes, those vocation graphics were cool. Maybe I’ll bring them in as a “blast from the past” some time. The Armitage Twins are an all-time favourite of mine. It just works so well!!!
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It really does! And I wish you would. I did screen caps and saved a few – just for posterity – but that might have been on another computer (that since crashed). I’d never use them with out asking. But I reblogged almost all of them, so I still have them on Tumblr. 🙂
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That sounds as if she has deleted them? I reblogged a lot of them, too – hell, I actually prompted a few myself. Must dig those out.
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Oh no, please don’t think I meant that. It’s just that they were quite a while back. June or July of last year, I think. And…yes, please. 😀
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I’ll see if I can find them 🙂
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I must have missed the Armitage twins on my dash, love them! Thanks for this collection Guylty, and for including the link to my post. 🙂
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Quality stuff always finds its way into my round-up, Mezz 🙂 Keep ’em coming! x
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