Well, they bill it as an interview, but it’s really an article taking some quotes from said interview. You don’t get to read the whole thing. Pout.
Anyway, that’s here.
New Rory interview!!!
Y’all y’all y’all y’all Y’ALL.
New Rory interview about his Ahsoka role!
Thoughts in no particular order.
1. That doesn’t look like a boat interior (go ahead Rory, laugh at me, I dunno all the technical terms) in the background. Doesn’t really look like a hotel either. Home? I TOLD YOU HE HAD A HOUSE.
(I did. It was a while back. You might not remember. It’s okay. I DID.)
2. OMG HE WENT TO SEE A NEW HOPE WITH HIS DAD. I know his father is no longer with us, per another interview he did years ago, and may have passed in Rory’s childhood because Rory later found a recording of his dad’s voice and was startled to realize it sounded like his own. He would have been eight going on nine on that movie night long ago, because ANH was released in the UK in December of ’77. I am so glad for him that he has that memory.
3. Also glad to see he’s back to Wildman Beard. I make no bones about adoring his beard. Well, I suppose he has to keep it for Ahsoka as well.
And speaking of that gorgeousness. Some of the reactions to his debut at Star Wars Celebration were pretty shitty. “Oh, they should have colored his beard.” And how do you fucking know they won’t? But if they don’t, there is bound to be some explanation in the storyline, if people would just shut the fuck up for long enough to find out. It’s weird. I am in many fandoms, but I hate the other people in nearly every one of them. Except Harry Potter, and I even hate most of those fans. Because they’re just so judgmental and stupid. They think they are catching all these “plot holes” and “fan service” and “flaws” and then they make it obvious pretty quickly that they weren’t paying attention. That they were projecting their own desires for the story’s direction onto the actually existing storyline and then throwing tantrums when it didn’t match. It spoiled my enjoyment. A lot. There are other reasons I dislike Supernatural and Harry Potter fandoms in particular, but I won’t go into those here. Some of you probably know already, but it doesn’t matter to any of you. (It really doesn’t.)
God. Give it a fucking rest. If you spent half as much time writing your own shit as you did tearing down everyone else’s, you’d have your own story out there just the way you want it and you could calm the fuck down. And we all say thankya.
(I did say I am in many fandoms.)
Okay. Rant over. Stepping down from the soapbox. Just had to share that link. It was a nice treat. RORYYYYY. Gaun yersel, big man!
Administrivia: 27 April 2025
I had meant to be a good little fangirl and wish Rory a happy birthday on the day of, but I’ve got all manner of stuff going on that isn’t usually going on in my day-to-day, and the minute you throw me off my daily routine, I start forgetting things left and right. I did post about it on Facebook, but I get on Facebook daily. I don’t write here daily. Therein lies the problem.
Anyway, happy birthday, big man! Hope you had a great time.
Similarly I’ve got all kinds of shit to do today, but I wanted to pop in here real quick because I got this in the Google Alerts and thought it was funny so I am passing it on to you: Apparently, we’re seeing another wolf reference in Rory’s life and career. You may have seen from his bio on this site that McCann means “son of wolf cub,” right? And then there was the whole House Clegane saving the girls of House Stark thing. Here we go again with the lupine references. And I don’t mean the flowers.
That’s okay. My life’s pretty much wall-to-wall with the big dogs and the caniforms; I live with three Great Pyrenees (and am dogsitting at present until the middle of next week), and I see black bears around here a lot. And to think I identify as a cat person…
Administrivia: 11 April 2025
I just want you all to know that when you search the name Sandor Clegane on Amazon (USA store), this turns up in the search results.
A panini press. A grilled-sandwich squisher. A toastie-maker. And this was NOT the first one I saw in these exact search results. Third or fourth actually?
I wanna know what smartass at Amazon algorithmed this one. I wanna shake his hand.
Like, five of you are outraged right now. Look. Rory’s gonna laugh too. Don’t believe me? Show it to him.
I’m giggling just thinking about him giggling. This has totally made my night. (I’m up late, not up early.)
Administrivia: 20 March 2025
Happy March Equinox! Spring for probably most of you reading, fall for the Southern Hemisphere.
First up, a recent interview with Rory, just ’cause we all love to hear his voice:
He’s righter than he knows. It’s not just a matter of scenery or of the Scottish economy. If you know enough about Scotland, there is a whole treasury of Scotland references in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Or I dunno, Rory probably knows that. He’s not one to show off his brains, but he’s a smart fella. I once hoped to compile a list of ASOIAF/GOT Scotland references for another site I was keeping, but during my worst poverty I lost that domain. I have another one I can stick it on, though. It’d be fun.
Next up. I wanted to let you know that I’m moving this site’s domain name again. There’s a sale on with .com domains for new registrations at my current hosting service. This wasn’t a new registration but I still got half off. I thought, “fuck it,” you know? I will have three more domains after this to move and I’ll probably do that later this week if I don’t forget. But ANYWAY, there may be a blip in site availability as they switch over. Past experience tells me that if there is one, it won’t last long, but I’m going to warn you anyway ’cause I’m nice like that.
And obviously, at that point it’ll be paid up for the following year, too. So that’ll be out of the way and no more drama for a while. Yay!
I haven’t forgotten Rory, this site, or y’all. Some things are better in my life, some I wish I could change, and basically just the whole past three and a half years has taken the wind out of my sails, and my mother’s passing last December didn’t help. (I have gotten particularly useless, except for the odd jobs I do around here, ever since then. Didn’t feel hugely sad, just went numb and got stuck. Same thing really, I guess.) I am currently planning a way to redirect my energy and make sure I get more done. This time in NorCal was never meant to be a final stop, unless the universe suddenly makes it one. It’s a way station, and I need to be making plans to move on at some point. I know where I’m going. You probably do too. (Not Scotland. Unless they develop a digital-nomad visa?) I just can’t do it YET. Got work to do.
Also got work to do here. As I allocate my time, that’ll include time spent here. Looooong overdue. Massive apologies that this place has gone stagnant. (Sorry, Rory!) I need to consolidate some more material at the very LEAST.
New from Rory: Tornado
You’ve all heard about this and seen the stills on social media by now; I’m just marking it here, particularly as they’ve already held the premiere this week. I had actually meant to post about this several days ago, but crashed and burned.
Rory seems to be playing a bad guy again though, if this follows his dominant pattern, maybe it’s a bad guy with a few good-guy tendencies. (Or maybe not. We’ll just have to watch to find out. Or spoil ourselves reading the Wikipedia synopsis which, at least for now, I refuse to do.)
But… his character’s nickname is “Kitten.” I LOLed a bit.
Here ’tis:
Also, I first heard of this from a Facebook post, and not even from a Rory McCann fan. Hey Google Alerts? BOOOOO. 👎👎👎
Administrivia: 18 February 2025
Sorry for my long silence here. I’ve been neglecting a whole bunch of stuff I shouldn’t be, one item of which I’m actually getting paid for, and I’m fairly disgusted with myself but hopefully I’m coming out the other side of it and can get on with things.
I wanted to drop in and say something because I just got the news about Denzil Meyrick today.
If you’re going “what’s that got to do with Rory?” then you’re new to the fandom, right? Meyrick wrote/ was writing a series of crime novels about a character named Jim Daley, a police officer in Scotland, and in recent years had been working on bringing DCI Daley to television. He posted on Facebook wondering aloud who his fans would want to see in the role, and they put him onto Rory as a candidate. Last I heard there had been filming of the pilot episode but I’ve heard nothing beyond that. The way TV works, the creators will put together the pilot episode and then shop it around to various networks and maybe it’ll get picked up and maybe it won’t. Rory’s already featured in at least one TV series that didn’t get picked up. You may have seen the video of the ad for it on YouTube.
I don’t know if that will be the fate of the DCI Daley series. It could go either way, really, if the decision has not already been made; they could say, “Oh, Meyrick has passed away so let’s drop this because it won’t be the same without him,” or they could say, “Oh no, Meyrick has passed away so let’s make this happen in his honor.” We’ll just have to wait and see.
One thing’s for sure: the news doesn’t say (as far as I’ve seen) what took Meyrick from us, but he didn’t see it coming. His recent Facebook posts indicate he expected to have a full year. There will be one more DCI Daley novel coming out this summer, apparently, for instance. All I can think is it was one of those things that tends to take us middle-aged people off when we least expect it. I always say that from ages forty to sixty we’re really running a deadly gauntlet and if we can make it to sixty we’ll be okay for a while yet. I am sorry for Denzil’s family, friends, and fans that that was not the case for him.
New from Rory: Ahsoka!
Possibly as a sort of digital birthday present for me today, someone posted a Nerdist article to my wall about a new gig the big man’s got. I was excited, but reserved judgment because while I think Nerdist is probably a reliable source, I wanted to see news from other reliable sources before I got too excited.
Well! It’s true. The big man is joining the Star Wars universe!
I know it’s Ahsoka and that one’s not supposed to be all that great. I don’t care. Apparently the character he’ll be playing is a pretty good character. That works fine for me.
He’s also posted some new stuff on his Instagram, so go enjoy that if you haven’t seen it already.
Administrivia: 04 January 2025
Oh hey, everyone! Happy New Year.
While I’d be lying if I said I was wall-to-wall busy, at least in a way that would have kept me from updating here, I have definitely been very distracted. Things got financially hairy there for a while. They may still yet again, but for now I’ve reached a weird little harbor: I’ve got a new odd job that may keep me for a while, and I’ve got a one-off gig for a friend that I’ve already been paid half for and when I get done, I’ll get the other half. That’s going to be my backup-slash-emergency fund. The odd job will be good for day-to-day financials, of which I have very few at this point, and also for adding to my savings. So I’m not panicking like I was. If you’ve never had money woes, you can’t really appreciate how much of your brainspace they can take up. I hate it. Hopefully I just went through my final year of things being That Bad. We’ll see.
We’ve just seen the U.S. debut of The Damned. Well. I haven’t seen it. The way things have been going, I’ll likely wait ’til it’s on DVD; there’s a movie theater in town, but it’s a bit farther than I would want to walk. If I already had a bicycle, that would be one thing; I can now afford the occasional movie excursion. The bicycle is coming. I just haven’t figured out how I’m going to make that happen yet. I have a few options, all with their unique pros and cons. But after I get it, I can start thinking about functioning a bit more normally as far as going out and doing stuff.
I’m certainly not going to wait until I’ve got a guy to do things with. There’s a vaguely possible candidate but, true to my general pattern of unavailable men, he’s in Canada so I can count on maybe seeing him once or twice a year unless we start dating, and even then it wouldn’t be often. I can at least look seriously at getting a passport now — the first time I met him in person, a passport might as well have been on the moon for me, so my change in fortunes affects that too. But this is counting my chickens before they hatch. I’ve seen signs that he’s interested? But he’s a weirdo, in a different way than I am a weirdo, so it’s hard to tell for sure. I do not say that to disparage. I mean, Rory’s a weirdo, and we all love him for that. Nothing wrong with being a weirdo. In general. But meanwhile, I’ve gone to movies by myself before. Restaurants too. It didn’t kill me. There’s also a library in town and I’ll be hitting that too.
I could even, hypothetically, restore my Rory collection and add to it. I probably will. I still have his autographed photo and some DVDs and that Entertainment Weekly edition with him and Thor on the cover. Also that miniature Hound helmet and the enamel pin. I’d like to snag the Game of Thrones box set again. I might do that for myself as a birthday present, since that’s coming up next Friday. (Fifty-one. Kind of anticlimactic.)
Hope you are all doing well. I see my visitor count hasn’t dropped any, and it’s nice to see that you still stop by. I’m not going to make any promises about upcoming updates, but that’s at least a thing I want to do, if that counts at all.
Administrivia: 03 November 2024
In case three of you have not seen this yet. Sound on:
I suspect there is a female-type person aboard in one clip, but of course I cannot tell who it is (even if it were his wife, I can’t confirm or deny that as I have no idea what she looks like, though the possibility of it being his sister is not off the table because now I think of it, Sally-Gay’s hair looked a lot like that during the filming of Season 8), and of course that’s not going to stop the wild speculation from fangirls generally. I get it. Just don’t expect any final answers, because those would have to come from the big man himself and y’all know by now he’s no blabbermouth.
He sort of used to be. He used to be more open about his life, but I can’t help thinking that backfired on him at some point and he has since wised up. It’s kind of a shame because he seems like a really interesting person, but if people were giving him shit because they knew stuff and they could find him — well, y’all know what they say about rotten apples and barrels.
Anyway. Enjoy.
P.S. I wouldn’t have done any better with that pillow shot. Except the ball would have STAYED ON the pillow as it sailed into the water. I’m talented like that.