Hello and top of the mornin’ to ya. You know that comedy OTT “typical Irish” accent? Well, I am in the part of the country where the Irish accent is really musical and almost a singsong. It took us a few hours to get here, but we arrived last evening, and this was the view from our room:
It has been a long time since I was in this part of the country. In fact, Co. Cork is where I first learnt to love Ireland. I came here at the age of 14 for a language holiday, and I fell in love with the country more or less immediately. I remember thinking back then – “this is where I want to live”. And somehow I made that dream come true. But in all those years, I never went back to Cork. Until now, with my friend requesting a holiday down South.
Anyway, that is just to illustrate why I am a bit short here in this post – travelling takes time. Oh, and tumblr has been quiet. But I compiled a tiny little round-up for you:
- Guys, I don’t know what is happening with me, but I suddenly can’t stand RPF anymore. Am I getting old and boring? Well, I better let you decide yourself whether you like RPF. Here is one (not read by me) by legolaslovely
- Eyelash porn courtesy of riepu10
- Is that a derp or are you just angry to see me? Thorin, posted by fizzyxcustard
- *rofl* Where does this tweet exchange come from and why was this not posted on Twitter? Found by ra-of-light
- And harking back to last week and our community re-watch of TI, riepu10 giffed some Monet
- Intense Daniel Miller, courtesy of fizzyxcustard
- Sorry, there is a lot of fizzyxcustard in this round-up today, but this
slightly smugpicture of RA is just too good to ignore - The latest picture of RA (from “A nearly normal family” audiobook), cropped more closely by fizzyxcustard
- Castlevania stickers? richardarmitagefanpage passes on the tweet by Adam Deats
Short. Sweet.
By the way, any suggestions yet on the next re-watch?
I am travelling on today from Roscarbery towards Baltimore. Nope, not the one in Maryland, US. 😁 This Baltimore is a small village on the coast, and it’s almost as Southern as you can get on the island of Ireland. If we are lucky, we are going to take a ferry to Cape Clear, Heir or Sherkin Island today. If not, we’ll explore the seafood festival in Baltimore.
Have a lovely weekend, all!
Guylty ❤
That was just right and tumblr cooperated for a change. I didn’t try the fic. Not sure I have that in me today.
As for the rewatch, maybe a one-off? I might throw my hat in the ring for Ricky Deeming, but idk how feasible that is for everyone else access-wise. I wouldn’t mind basking in that glory once again. Of course there’s always Harry, about whom I feel major HPM after the article that shall not be named. 🙄
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dreaming of Ricky Deeming….
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Always, sparky, always!
{Feel free to hit me with a newspaper if my nickname is out of line. 🗞}
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I love ‘sparky’ – makes me feel all spunky and stuff
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😆 Awesome.
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Oh, George Gently is such a good idea. I like it – because I like Ricky.
And the HPM is definitely justified. That part of the article was really just so full of venom. The author kept shaming fans all the time. Infuriating.
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Was this something new? Or just a rehash of her 2016 article?
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Wasn’t even a rehash. It was a new piece she wrote for the New Statesman about “interviewing actors has made me hate them”. And she quotes Armitage in it… The whole thing is bad grace, tbh, and her little sentence about him just confirms what we thought ourselves back then – that the interview was not a good one, and that she had an ulterior motive when she phrased it the way she did. She quite obviously didn’t get from him what she wanted – and decided to wreak revenge by writing an obnoxious article about him. I am sorry, but she has completely disqualified herself. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/10/i-have-interviewed-many-actors-doing-so-has-almost-made-me-hate-them
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Dateline 2016, or am I misunderstanding something?
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Ooopsie you are right. I just checked and that article is from October 2016…
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NP, I was pretty sure we’d heard this before but living with someone with memory loss is really dragging me own.
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You definitely have a better memory than me. I had not seen the NS article before. (I can imagine that your family situation is taking a toll on your own memory and habits… )
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OK, I just checked — this is the same article.
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Love Ricky. ♥️
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Frozen
I am really interested in your opinion, about the story and the beautiful filming as much as Richard’s small but central part lol
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Yve
Frozen would be great. It’s a haunting movie and he is pretty good in it for the amount of time he’s on screen. Shirley Henderson is dynamite in it.
Guylty; enjoy Cork I had the same reaction when I went in 2000!! 👍👏❤️❤️
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Frozen is another great idea. Guess what: I have never watched it!!!! So that would definitely get my vote. Mind you, I am not sure where to access it. I don’t have the DVD, I think.
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It’s possible to buy it second hand from Amazon UK
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I’ve tried reading RPF occasionally over the years I’ve been a fan of Richard’s, but I’ve never been comfortable with it and the RA x reader ones in second person……..just….no. Each to their own though! 😉
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OMG Mezz, me too!! I have read a lot of fanfics in my life, but I had never come across this second-person thing until now and I’m baffled. I can’t get my head around it at all. Totally off putting. People must love it though judging by the amount that’s out there and more power to them (as long is I don’t have to read it).
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IDK, I have read a good bit of RPF in my time, no matter which person. But lately I just haven’t felt interested in it anymore… I wonder whether that is because I have encountered RA as himself a few times and it doesn’t feel right to me anymore…
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I still read it, but I think in general RPF is successful to the extent to which it squares with your own picture of Armitage. That was often a problem for me even years and years ago — the author would seize on some aspect of his life that s/he thought was central, and if I felt like the author misunderstood whatever datapoint it was, it would detract from the picture in the RPF. To me that is a bigger problem than even liking / not liking any OCs in the RPF, which I think is a significant issue for a lot of readers, and one of the reasons many of them write in second person.
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That’s bang on! And in that sense, the only RPF that I enjoy is RPF written either by myself or by someone whose writing I admire and whose view of Armitage mirrors my own. Lately I have noticed that my interpretation of him just doesn’t match the RPF writers’ anymore…
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That makes sense to me, G. He is now flesh and blood, you have encountered the human being behind what we see on the screen, even though he is still playing a role in those public circumstances.
Kate, second person feels like voyeurism to me. The author is relating to me what happened/is happening to me with Richard and personally that feels ick.
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Are you saying “Faith and begorra” too? 🙂 I’ve learned somewhere that actual Irish people don’t start their sentences with “Sure and …” which was apparently an Irish-American thing but is also disappearing now.
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😂Hehe, I get away without having to say that… my accent gives me away as a blow-in 😉
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I’ve seen this Nearly Normal pic.a few times…I have to comment..Did he sleep in that shirt?? What a wrinkled mess..
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Dotti maybe he picked it up off the floor 🤣actually I think he looks adorable in it and the hairs in place and nice beardage going on 😘❤️❤️
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Like everything except shirt..Hopefully he’ll wear my plaid shirt, then I’ll be happy..
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Hope so! I like him in anything and nothing but color on him is always nice!! The plaid shirt from?
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Matkhal on twitter did a hilarious photoshop that I think Dedeotti would like
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Rachel, I don’t do Twitter..Maybe she’ll put it on Facebook..
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LOL – yep, he certainly must have spent a day working in it. But hey, I like that he is not always dressed like a model…
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I’m just back to Canada from N.Ireland where we did a lot of nature walks in the forest, mountains, sea shore — what an absolutely beautiful country.
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Oh, I am so glad to hear you enjoyed it. The weather has been nice in May – try, and mild. It could be a bit warmer, but as long as it’s dry, we are happy.
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and I forgot to say, totally agree about RPF. I really don’t like the ‘insertyournamehere’ stories much – just pick a name already. I prefer imagining the characters, not being literally in the story myself.
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Pick a name already is exactly my feeling when I see something like that.
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LOL “pickanamealready”…
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Pick a name already is exactly my feeling when I see something like that.
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There was a pic of him in this plaid shirt.I have one with the same color and plaid, in fact I had it on and I made a comment about it and you replied kismit.It was on Guilty blog..
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Dotti ah great! Sorry bit slow lately
Def kismet! 😘❤️❤️👏
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#1 I tried to read the RPF but the “You”s got in the way and made me abandon ship. #8 I can picture him running late, picking that shirt from the laundry pile, shaking it out and saying “this’ll do.” 😆 When he is caught out as a mere mortal it always warms my ❤️
I would love to revisit Ricky again and he’s in my collection so a rewatch would be easy. I saw Frozen a looong time ago (I think on YT) but don’t remember that much about it.
Hope you’re having a wonderful holiday in Cork. It looks gorgeous there.
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I can’t stand the YOU narration style. And it’s not just RPF. I’ve seen it in chaRActer fanfic as well. Mr. Kate joked that it sounds like role-play instructions for Dungeons and Dragons. 😂
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What can I say? I think you haven’t read it often enough 😂. If you do, you simply get used to it…
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NEVER!!! #PickANameAlready
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Stubborn!
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It’s my middle name. 😉
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LOL – I know 😉
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Have you heard about Blenheim Films going bust!
Candida Brady made a complete ‘dogs breakfast’ with Urban and the shed crew and I am so sorry for everyone connect to it ,me included.
If I could go back to one moment in history it would be to see this film.
On other blogs everyone one is being so ‘understanding’ Perhaps they have all seen it …….
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Oh no, I hadn’t heard that. Wow, as much as I thought that Brady really didn’t get her act together for the whole Urban distribution thing, I sure do feel sorry that she may have gone bust for that film… Especially as it would have been worth distributing (and seeing).
Which “other blogs”?
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I read it on The Armitage Army @Richard Armitage Central site
Blenheim TV FILMS is listed as in liquidation at Companies House, if this is somehow unrelated to Ms Brady then I apologise but it would explain her silence.
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I just googled – yes, you are right. What a shame. I’m so sorry for Brady – and everyone involved with the film.
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Thank you for the update/info. Awful news indeed
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But the dissolution notice is from 2015, or am I reading this wrong? So that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with now. The DVD and streaming efforts are far newer. 🤔
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yep, they’re an active company https://companycheck.co.uk/company/10383477/BLENHEIM-FILMS-LTD/companies-house-data
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http://film.britishcouncil.org/muse
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Ah thank you for the links and the research..
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I hope everything is okay, but this is Candida Brady’s husband.
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Candida Brady is the director of Blenheim Films – under her married name “Ogilvy”. So she’s definitely involved.
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I went straight to the horse’s mouth and emailed the CEO of Tribal Films. He emailed me back and also put his social media team on it and this is the tweet:
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Bravo, thanks for getting some info. (I now have to permanently exclude you from my blog. *hahaha*)
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Sorry, just an insider joke.
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Yes, ticket revoked and all that. 🙅🏻♀️
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Exactly.
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Update 2019: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03169687/filing-history
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It’s like Russian dolls…
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And Spanish train stations.
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I attempted to read the latest report re: the winding up of the business and was totally confused it seemed to be a justification of the work done by the insolvency company and little to do with the business involved!
Perhaps there is someone following your blog who has some knowledge of this confusing world.
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Agree. It sounded like the liquidator listing what he has been doing so far.
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Noooooo!!!! 😭😭😭 Why can’t they still release it? Argh!
(I know it’s probably a legal matter or whatever, but I just want to irrationally wail rn.)
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I mean, if I may say this here ( …), I have seen the thing, and I wasn’t even FULLY in awe of it, but I still believe it has an audience and would be worth while distributing and watching. Honestly, such a pity.
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It is absolutely possible that I was in just the right mood when I watched it, but it touched me and has stayed with me. And unless we get to see it again, I’ll never know if it was a hormonal fluke or if this is really one of those special movies to me. 😏
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It didn’t touch me like that. But I do believe that it is *possible* to be touched by the film, so personally I do not think it was fluke.
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I hope you’re right and I hope I’ll get to confirm it. 🤞🏻
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she has a new film coming out though, with Rupert Everett
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9867458/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4
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Thanks for the tidbit!! Looks interesting!!🤗👍👏🇬🇧
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Everett Schmeverett. I WANT MY CHOP!
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Yve can I ask where you read that? Very interest news. Thank you for the info! 😘👍
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It was on The Armitage Army @Richard Armitage Central fan site
It appears Blenheim films are in financial difficulties which makes the fact that a new film appears in post production more confusing.
A lay person would think selling the DVD to repay her creditors would be the fair thing to do but what do I know lol.
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I’d say that producing a DVD means some investment prior to sale (i.e. having the thing printed). However, since starting the discussion about the whole thing yesterday, I have also heard that the company may be involved in a legal case that refers to Urban, hence the delay… That would be extremely unfortunate…
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