Geek Alert

I know what I want for my birthday. And I also know what I want for Christmas. Or I could be frivolous for a change and purchase them myself.

I had originally planned on just asking for the last two volumes to complete Tolkien’s History of Middle-Earth series for my collection, but the books can wait since I haven’t even read any of the ten installments I currently own. I. WANT. THESE. All the articulation… the pose possibilities… the notion of having a twelve inch model of movie-Hawkeye on my shelf!

Spellbound

I’ve reached a disturbing conclusion that if anything could convince me to sign up for a Twitter account it would be Tom Hiddleston.

Although sadly enough Tweets would be the perfect outlet for random book thoughts that come to mind which warrant nothing so grand as their own post. Would I really come to the dark side all for the sake of fandom?

Is it bad when I’m reading books and I fantasize that he’d be a good fit for characters if ever a film adaptation were made? I suppose the ultimate test would be to find the perfect role for him in something of Tolkien’s Arda. I think I would have to read The Silmarillion again to be sure about that book, but if we were just confined to The Children of Húrin would he be good as Beleg? Pointy ears!

Although I imagine I’ll have a dream cast role for him in The Count of Monte Cristo soon enough. Valar preserve us, I love that book!

Distracted in a good way?

Tom Hiddleston is a distraction. Granted he is a talented and attractive distraction, but a distraction nonetheless. How am I to get any reading done when I’m watching his movies or scouring the Internet for images and interviews that leave me like this?

I’m wanting to see The Avengers so badly I can’t stand it! (If I directed all this energy toward The Hobbit all year long I shudder to think what would happen!) My significant other admitted that I was more excited for the film than he, and I’m not even the Marvel fan. Yet I’m also looking forward to Black Widow and Hawkeye so I do have legitimate reasons for wishing to see the latest superhero spectacle.

Seriously when is The Deep Blue Sea going to come out on DVD here in the States? This is so not fair! Normally I wouldn’t seek to watch something revolving around an adulterous affair, but the object of much fangirling is in it.

Midnight in Paris would have been absolutely perfect if it had more Scott Fitzgerald and less of that pedantic Paul.

I wish that Hiddleston would read for more audiobooks. Heh, I would listen to books I had absolutely no interest in because I could listen to that voice for hours! (I would even subject myself to the hellish experience of suffering through the Night Angel trilogy again if Tom was reading it, that’s how devoted I am.) You know I have to be crushing much harder on Hiddleston than Sean Bean because I still haven’t listened to those Sharpe audios that I got last year. That radio drama of Dracula puts me in the mood for Bram Stoker’s classic. Can we get the man to read the classics? The Count of Monte Cristo, please?!

Anyway I’m going to go… find a quiet place and watch War Horse, despite knowing what happens to him. Spoilers are a bane.