Wow!!

[gingergoldfish.livejournal.com]

Firstly, I am absolutly amazed at the response my first entry got, I think this is because I questioned about reading J&W and basically you were all saying the same thing-READ THE DAMNED BOOKS!!!!
I shall endever (If "Endever" is the word I'm looking for ;) ) to perchase or at lest find the stories online Thsi one about Jeeves, Wooster and melting has me dashed entrigued (I cannot spell)

Anywho, fanfic will be writen asap!

You are still all lovely people!

Comments

[nomdefandom.livejournal.com]

(If "Endever" is the word I'm looking for ;) )

You're probably looking for a word like that. 'Endeavor', maybe.

(I cannot spell)

It's a huge club ;-)

[meleth.livejournal.com]

Or even 'endeavour'. Just because I'm a snob like that.

[nomdefandom.livejournal.com]

I guess that depends on where you're from and, perhaps, whether you're a British snob or an American snob ;-)

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

*L*! Were we that bad? Sorry! Hey, I know that tootsiemuppet has said that some of the stories are online at... arrrgh... what's it called... The Gutenberg Project? Try googling that.

[muggleangel.livejournal.com]

Any public library should have Wodehouse. Any public library that does not have Wodehouse is not a library.

[sine-que-non767.livejournal.com]

*from the back* 'Hear hear!' :)

[derien.livejournal.com]

(I cannot spell)

Nobody can actually spell everything right in English, that's why they have spell checkers. Unfortunately I'm not bright enough to download a British spell-checker, so I have to send my texts to people who have them for fixing.

[gingergoldfish.livejournal.com]

'endeavour' is the one!
I have reading Melting Bertie/Jeeves thingy and I'm wondering...was it simply a form of brotherly love, Like in Sherlock Holmes? or did Wodehouse know what he was saying to us young people of slash?????????

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...............

[sine-que-non767.livejournal.com]

(Argh, sorry about messed up comment - *kicks LJ*)

I didn't comment on your original post as I wasn't around, but I volunteer to be the 4868349th person to humbly suggest that the J & W books will make you snort lemonade up your nose due to wild laughter and make all your relatives look at you strangely. They're definitely worth it. :)

was it simply a form of brotherly love, Like in Sherlock Holmes?

Er...you do know there's a large Sherlock Holmes/Watson slash following on the net, right? Once you put on the slasher goggles, Holmes & Watson left brotherly love about 200 miles back. :D Check out the Granada TV series - it's fantastic, and Jeremy Brett as Holmes is superb (and has a slashy vibe with Watson to rival Jeeves & Wooster). If you can download stuff from the net, you can get the Granada series here (http://www2.digitaldistractions.org:8080/torrents.php?showid=whodunit). It's the kind of thing they'd repeat on ITV3, too.

I have Holmes recs here (http://notquiteroyal.net/sine_que_non767/otherfandomrecs.html) (scroll down). If you like what you see, cox_and_co is THE place for Holmes slash on LJ. Just comment to say you're ok with slash, to join.

Sorry. I can't actually stop recruiting for other fandoms. It's a disease. :D

[gingergoldfish.livejournal.com]

I do know v.v. well the SH slash and the TV series, First time slash for this baby!! LOL

I would refer you to the three gables where Watson is shot and he describes Homles with "A trembling lip and eyes wide" or something like that, anywho holmes showing love for his friend awwwwwwwww.....SLASH IT!!!!!

What I ment was the authors, do you think ACD might of realised the possibilities between his two characters? and the same with Wodehouse. Porbably not as the way they describe the brotherly love bewteen their men is soooo unbelievably slashy to modern audiences.

P.S. I LOVE JEREMY BRETT!!! all hail the true Holmes!!!!

[sine-que-non767.livejournal.com]

Squee! :) So glad you know the fandom...and Brett is, well. I can't think of a description that doesn't include 'orgasmic'. I need an icon 'The Delicate Art of Flirting. By Mr Sherlock Holmes, Esq.' All those seductive glances and 'I thought I knew my Watson' - cue satisfied smirk. Gaaaaaaah. If they ever remake it, Brett will be a very tough act to follow. I enjoyed BBC's 'The Case of the Silk Stocking' last year with Rupert Everett - but though he's walking sex, he's too much himself to be Holmes.

ACD, on all accounts, was pretty typical of his time and regarded same-gender sex as utterly perverted. But, to give him credit, he did help a man who was accused of this crime - took up his case - because he considered it unfair in his case. But I think he'd have really hated the idea of H/W slash.

PGW...no clue. Obviously a less repressive time, but if he didn't write it that way, he might not have agreed J/W slash was a possibility. You know how these authors get about their creations... ;)

And to be fair, I don't think it's slashy to everyone. Though it seems blindingly obvious in retrospect, I read both Holmes and Jeeves before getting into slash and never saw any subtext, because 'that's the way it was' - men could relate intimately without it being sexual. I wonder sometimes, esp. with historical slash, if it's distorting the historical context...but it's too much fun to care, frankly. :D

[derien.livejournal.com]

As regards spelling: I have downloaded an interface-thingy for posting to LJ called 'Semagic,' and its spellchecker saves me from looking foolish on a regular basis. I'm very grateful for this. I always forget that there's also a spell-checker for when I'm posting responses to posts - next to the 'more options' button at the bottom of the window there's a 'Check spelling and preview' ticky-box.