Did you enjoy yesterday’s RA Blog Reunion Day? I have to say I found it really lovely – to read so many blog posts on one day, catching up with bloggers, and reading so many good stories and entertaining content. It really reminded me of ‘the olden days’. No, I am not saying everything was better then. Things were different, fandom was different. (An interesting description and remarks on fandom back then is included in Servetus’ Blog Reunion post. Check it out.) I think there was a certain feeling of “safety in numbers”, of not feeling quite so exposed and “weird” for being an Armitage blogger because there were a handful of others who posted about him, too. I guess I am a bit of a herd animal… After I had posted yesterday, a few more bloggers added to the pool. In case you haven’t read via the hashtag #RABlogReunion on Twitter, here are a few more links for your consideration:
Lots of still-active bloggers also took part – you know where to find them 😉. Suffice to say the idea was brilliant, so a big thank you once again to Nat for instigating.
And now the Saturday round-up.
We needed a new header:
- Not new, but those blue eyes… Large picture, 2012? posted by mzperx0506universe
- Including a piece of fan fic here – makes a nice change because it is written in 1st person. Francis Dolarhyde, written by fizzyxcustard for Lyn’s Writing Event
- A little bit of young Claude Monet giffed by riepu10
- Richardarmitagefanpage has noticed that CJ Tudor’s The Other People has a new cover illustration
- Egotistically including this set of gifs here because it is exactly the episode of Spooks season 3 that pulled me into the abyss. This is where I fell for Lucas North, and then got lost in a rabbit hole online. Gif set by riepu10
- Mezzmerizedbyrichard has put four images of RA in his grey Burberry coat in a set.
Feels a bit hot right now. But well, hot is apt - A nice set of screenshots of Richard in snow white, taken from the most recent video message. Posted by mzperx0506universe
- Jeepers Creepers. This picture is 10 years old. RA photographed by Perou. Posted by Richard-crispin-armitage
- I find it really, really strange to see Richard with dark eyes. He is, however, stunningly attractive in these screenshots (?) by ausschweifendemotte
- And more of the same. Seriously – it’s weird. It looks like him, and yet it also doesn’t. Also by ausschweifendemotte
- Um. UNF. *coughs* Guy of Gisborne all tied up. Pic set by narnvaeron
- And the 3D effect in this gif by narnvaeron is really cool
There we are. A little bit late today due to an unexpected broadband outage and an annoying sore throat.
Have a lovely weekend, all!
Sonja ❤
Guylty Pleasure 
Also Phylly: http://phyllysfaves.blogspot.com/2020/05/ra-blog-reunion-2020-pandemic-edition.html
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Oops, I mispelled Phyllys. She was already on the list, but spelled wrong. Thanks for the link.
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#5 I posted part 2/2 on Friday, but Tumblr seems to hate me and that post doesn’t show on the tag or even on the dashboards. I posted and deleted it more than 10 times, but nothing changed. There’s something wrong with Tumblr at the moment.
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Tumblr is riddled with bugs.
I must go through your tumblr individually next time. (I always tell myself that – and then duly forget.)
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#9 – Fur alert. Glorious fur. Looks silky, like a cat’s. Would love to find out. 🤤😌😍
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LOL – the beard?
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Um, I was looking further south, in the shots with that unbuttoned, button-down shirt. 😏😉
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*scurries back to #9*
Oh.
Oh.
In the last two pictures of the post?
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Thanks Guylty, some luscious pics here!
5) I’m not surprised that Lucas in that episode was to blame. Resistance would have been futile. It is one of my favourite ones, we see a great range of emotions, he is simply chilling – that scene at Malcolm’s! – but oh he was hot (Lucas, not Malcolm).
9) Yes, James is strangely and disturbingly attractive. With the contacts he looks even more like my brown-eyed father. I would love to know the reason why RA’s eye colour was changed.
12) I’m quite overcome by that thrusting sword!
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Forgot to add that the reunion day was such a lovely warm, nostalgic and reassuring event. I hope your sore throat is better too.
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I threw all the paracetamol I had at my throat, and luckily it only took two days and then was gone. Phew. I hate being sick when it’s such nice weather outside.
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Glad to hear it
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re his eye colour in My Zoe- i reckon it’s cause the daughter eyes are brown and either Richard or Julie needed to change eye colour and I guess not many naturally fair haired people have brown eyes…just my reasoning
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Makes sense, Rachel. I thought Julie Delpy had brown eyes, perhaps she hasn’t. (She reminded me curiously of Mads Mikkelsen in the film).
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i had a look-she looks like she has greyish blue -very similar to me!
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Ah, then I bet you’re right. It’s a shame that Richard had to hide his beautiful orbs in that case instead of Julie, whose eyes look brown to me anyway.
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I think you’re right Rachel. If I remember my high school science lessons correctly, it’s to do with blue eyes being a recessive gene, brown the dominant. Blue + blue = blue, brown + blue = brown. So either Richard or Julie had to change.
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I was just about to agree then I realised that my son’s eyes are blue, so are his father’s but mine are brown.
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Mezz is right, but it’s not that “simple”. Blue is recessive gene and if both parents have blue eyes, all their children are blue eyes. But brown eyed parents can children with blue eyes. It depends what genes they get.
BrBr = Brown eyes
BrBl = Brown eyes
BlBl = Blue eyes
So if both parents are BrBl, children’s can be BrBr, BrBl or BlBl.
If parents are BrBr and BrBl, children’s can be BrBr or BrBl.
Children can have blue eyes only if both parents are BlBl
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I posted that comment too quickly before it was ready. That last point is: children can have blue eyes if their parents are BlBl or BrBl
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Or BrBl. (Sent that last message too quickly)
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Ah thanks Riepu, so, if I understand correctly, there was no reason for Richard to wear uncomfortable brown contact lenses and deprive us of his beautiful blue eyes?
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Theoretically, yes. But optically it probably made sense because she mentioned the eyes specifically iirc and people react well to simple visual clues. (I haven’t watched it yet, so not sure if that scene made the movie.)
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Oh I don’t remember eye colour being mentioned, perhaps that would explain it. Interestingly Gemma Arterton and Daniel Brühl both have brown eyes, so maybe it was a style thing or the near future is only inhabited by brown-eyed people. Now, what about parents with green eyes ….?
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Thanks for clarifying that Paula, I should’ve known better than to rely on my very sketchy memory!
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Actually, it is even more complex than that because the genetic information for eye color is located in at least three separate genes. But blue eyes are far less likely in kids if both parents have brown eyes.
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Hehe, great – really learning something here today.
Thanks for explaining this, P!
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Yup – thought so too.
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5) That episode was so confusing to me. It was the first one I saw, and so I had no context whatever. I did not know whether Lucas was good or bad, and his actions in the episode are not even ambiguous. SPOILER He *does* let her die. But wow, RA really got me there.
9) I just looked at those screenshots again, and I just can’t get over how different he looks. Dang, I am just not flexible enough to enjoy the brown eyes… (I am glad, however, that RA does NOT remind me of my father. As much as I loved the latter *grins*)
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I’m not surprised you were confused if that was your first introduction to Lucas. His good/ bad personas were all over the shop!
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Yep… In hindsight I really wonder what drew me in, nonetheless. Just his pretty face?
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Well, it is an staggeringly pretty face.
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Yep. It did the trick.
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Thanks for the roundup, Guylty, a lovely bunch of treats. I hope the sore throat is better now. 💕
#11 Poor Gizzy, I can’t begin to imagine why he got tied up so often, can you? And it being originally broadcast on a Saturday teatime and all.
#5 Noooooo!
And #2 A big 👍 for fizzyxcustard’s fanfic, that last line was a doozie, *shiver* If anyone’s interested, there are more fics from Lyn’s event over on AO3.
Thanks too for the list from the blog reunion. Lots for me to discover there.
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I’m back in business, sore throat and stupid thoughts have been eradicated 😁
#11 All that bondage on family time TV… seriously… It also makes me wonder what RA thought about that. Was it lost on him?
Great tip re. the fan fics also published on AO3. All in one place.
Hope you enjoyed catching up on the old blogs, Jenny!
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Thank you for the roundup, hope your sore throat has gone.
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I’m back in business. Those stupid throat bacteria must have affected my brain, too. 😂 Well, or definitely my mood. But a secret weapon cheered me up again. Thanks 😘
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Sorry comment wasn’t supposed to appear here, or twice, I’m all over the shop more like
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Have thrown one of the comments into the trash 😉
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