Aw, thank you! I don't feel very polished in my fic, I feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants. lol But you're very inspiring and though I haven't been able to get pen to paper yet, ever since you mentioned sanding the table the story's been unfolding in my head! I can't wait to get it down!
I'm sorry you had to quit your job! But I hope the change was a good one! And you're studying online? May I ask what you're studying? I'm dashing headlong toward a degree in English, graduating this semester. I've taken a lot of courses online and find some of them quite satisfying when my peers are chatty. Sometimes online courses can really drag on and feel cut off though.
LOL! Right, Bertie caused no end of mayhem with his friends, didn't he? Jeeves has rather mellowed him out. Or perhaps Bertie's maturing like a nice whiskey. I know he plays dinner roll cricket but it's just hard to imagine he lobbing blancmanges onto unsuspecting people! To be fair though, the policemen could do with a bit of helmet-stealing, to keep them on their toes. *g*
Talking about Bertie's past, and considering Jeeves' vast knowledge on the upper class, I wonder if Jeeves picked Bertie as his next employer because he knew he could mold Bertie/he wanted a less complicated employment, or if he knew being in Bertie's employment would be complicated. Considering Jeeves' past employers and Bertie's biscuit-stealing history, maybe Jeeves picked Bertie because he likes the employer who's flexible enough about the law that Jeeves can go about his business without concern of censure. (Well, without concern of censure beyond the occasional clash over mauve ties. Bound to happen in any household possessing men of iron will and all that. ;) Did that theory make any sense at all?
Bertie's honesty—and his Code of the Woosters—is interesting, because he's willing to commit himself to an ultimately painful and harmful future so he won't hurt a woman in the present moment. I love that Bertie will commit all sorts of bad behaviors and criminal activities to protect the feelings of his fiancés though. He goes to such epic lengths to avoid hurt feelings and it's very sweet. I wonder where he got that from, if it's just his nature or if his upbringing among inattentive relatives brought it out in him.
I'm very, very, very flexible on my notions of both Jeeves and Bertie. I can read them so many ways, depending on the way someone wants to portray them. I largely think of Jeeves as a more romantic figure myself—I'm a big romantic actually.—it's just I see this dark in him that can be used to color his actions, you know? For me at my core thoughts on Jeeves he's a bit of a caretaker by nature and likes to help people much like Bertie does; it's why they make such a great pair, and I think Bertie only brings out Jeeves' better nature more and more over time, and vice versa. But because of Jeeves' position I can see people trying to misuse him a lot—though he's quite capable of avoiding such people by the time he enters Bertie's employ—and so he's more wary and more careful about building his network and maintaining the leverage he gains through time. And for me he definitely very carefully picked out Bertie, who is a pretty optimal employer. I agree, Jeeves would have convinced Lord Worplesdon that he'd chosen to dismiss Jeeves. I don't think Jeeves would want to leave a door open for Stoker for a couple interconnected reasons: he's American and so not socially ingrained with the ways of the upper class and serving class, he's also nouveau riche causing the same problems, and those things make him harder to control so harder to deal with. (OMG. Florence with a crush on Jeeves. I must read this! Does it exist? Or you could write it! That would be brilliant. *beams at you* Bertie would get confused, and then figure it out and be unsurprised—because who wouldn't fall for Jeeves?—and then horrified at the prospect of the brainy nightmare charging his beloved valet.)
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Date: 2012-12-01 05:01 am (UTC)I'm sorry you had to quit your job! But I hope the change was a good one! And you're studying online? May I ask what you're studying? I'm dashing headlong toward a degree in English, graduating this semester. I've taken a lot of courses online and find some of them quite satisfying when my peers are chatty. Sometimes online courses can really drag on and feel cut off though.
LOL! Right, Bertie caused no end of mayhem with his friends, didn't he? Jeeves has rather mellowed him out. Or perhaps Bertie's maturing like a nice whiskey. I know he plays dinner roll cricket but it's just hard to imagine he lobbing blancmanges onto unsuspecting people! To be fair though, the policemen could do with a bit of helmet-stealing, to keep them on their toes. *g*
Talking about Bertie's past, and considering Jeeves' vast knowledge on the upper class, I wonder if Jeeves picked Bertie as his next employer because he knew he could mold Bertie/he wanted a less complicated employment, or if he knew being in Bertie's employment would be complicated. Considering Jeeves' past employers and Bertie's biscuit-stealing history, maybe Jeeves picked Bertie because he likes the employer who's flexible enough about the law that Jeeves can go about his business without concern of censure. (Well, without concern of censure beyond the occasional clash over mauve ties. Bound to happen in any household possessing men of iron will and all that. ;) Did that theory make any sense at all?
Bertie's honesty—and his Code of the Woosters—is interesting, because he's willing to commit himself to an ultimately painful and harmful future so he won't hurt a woman in the present moment. I love that Bertie will commit all sorts of bad behaviors and criminal activities to protect the feelings of his fiancés though. He goes to such epic lengths to avoid hurt feelings and it's very sweet. I wonder where he got that from, if it's just his nature or if his upbringing among inattentive relatives brought it out in him.
I'm very, very, very flexible on my notions of both Jeeves and Bertie. I can read them so many ways, depending on the way someone wants to portray them. I largely think of Jeeves as a more romantic figure myself—I'm a big romantic actually.—it's just I see this dark in him that can be used to color his actions, you know? For me at my core thoughts on Jeeves he's a bit of a caretaker by nature and likes to help people much like Bertie does; it's why they make such a great pair, and I think Bertie only brings out Jeeves' better nature more and more over time, and vice versa. But because of Jeeves' position I can see people trying to misuse him a lot—though he's quite capable of avoiding such people by the time he enters Bertie's employ—and so he's more wary and more careful about building his network and maintaining the leverage he gains through time. And for me he definitely very carefully picked out Bertie, who is a pretty optimal employer. I agree, Jeeves would have convinced Lord Worplesdon that he'd chosen to dismiss Jeeves. I don't think Jeeves would want to leave a door open for Stoker for a couple interconnected reasons: he's American and so not socially ingrained with the ways of the upper class and serving class, he's also nouveau riche causing the same problems, and those things make him harder to control so harder to deal with. (OMG. Florence with a crush on Jeeves. I must read this! Does it exist? Or you could write it! That would be brilliant. *beams at you* Bertie would get confused, and then figure it out and be unsurprised—because who wouldn't fall for Jeeves?—and then horrified at the prospect of the brainy nightmare charging his beloved valet.)