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[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Newbie here. Just thought I'd say what-ho for once instead of just lurking around like I usually do.

I'm a Gussie fangrrl, Bertie/Jeeves slasher (with a side-pairing of Bertie/Bingo -- isn't my fault. Bingo keeps massaging him. My brain tends to automatically zoom in on these things.)

Bought the boxed set of the series about a month ago and uh, that's about it for me, I guess. I'm the weird kind of fanatic who, while unable to make screencaps, will make transcripts of everything and anything, so I've actually started doing that for the series.

Favourite stories: The Aunt and the Sluggard (Jeevesless Bertie, I felt so bad for him)
Bertie Changes His Mind (Not only because it's Jeeves-verse, but because he said theirs was a "connexion so pleasant in every aspect". I melt.)
... and every time Bertie says something and adds "And I meant it to sting".

I was going to add a favourite quote, but am finding myself incapable of picking one.

Comments

*spams*

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

You should fix the virus thing!

Re: *spams*

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Spamming me to tell me off, are you now?

Tisk, I say, and I could say it again. TISK!

(Will do, love, thanks for the link.)

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

Hullo, Gilly! *waves* Perhaps I should de-lurk as well.

I'm a bit of a Wodehouse neophyte, having only read The Code of the Woosters, Jeeves and the Tie That Binds, and Leave it to Psmith. It's eaten my brain in the most delightful manner, though. Wodehouse is quite the bonafide genius.

I'm popping off to the used bookstore tomorrow for more...any suggestions? I've been thinking of delving into some of the short stories.

And I suppose it goes without saying here that I'm a Jeeves/Wooster fan...I've a bit of a fancy for master/servant relationships in any case (romantic or otherwise), especially ones as delightfully odd as that of Bertie and Jeeves. I'm firmly of the opinion that if there is a master in the Wooster household, it is most decidedly not Bertie. *grin*

Sorry if there are any problems with this post, I'm posting from a computer that has, without a shred of exaggeration, about as much RAM as a Super Nintendo cartridge from 1995.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

I reached Wodehouse through the Code of the Brandybucks fic, don't know if you've read it. So I probably cheated a bit in my way of getting to know Plum. Well, it was a combination of said fic and Ros making incessant remarks upon the genius of Wodehouse and how much of a Bertie Canon!Pip was, that I got intrigued.

As for suggestions, "Carry On, Jeeves", definitely. Though "The Inimitable Jeeves" would be a very close second for me. "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves" is the one I find myself quoting most. But for short stories you should probably be with Carry On.

I'm actually just now ten pages away from finishing "Code of the Woosters" because I've had a dickens of a time getting my paws on an English copy of the thing. I came back from America bearing a pile of books and the boxed set of DVDs, for fear I wouldn't find them here. Leave it to Psmith is next on my list. Will probably start that tonight. I'm trusting it's good? I've heard a lot about it...

I'm firmly of the opinion that if there is a master in the Wooster household, it is most decidedly not Bertie. *grin*

You're not the only one ;)

"He told me that you and he were starting almost immediately on one of those round-the-world cruises."
"Oh no, that's all off, I didn't like the scheme."
"Does Jeeves say it's all off?"
"No, but I do."
"Oh?"
He looked at me rather oddly, and I thought he was going to say something more on the subject. But he only gave a rummy sort of short laugh and resumed his narrative.

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

Hahahah, and Bertie did end up giving in eventually...Jeeves ALWAYS gets his way.

I actually ended up getting Carry On, Jeeves. And Leave It To Psmith is absolutely delightful -- doesn't have the impressively excellent first-person narration, of course, but rest assured that Plum has equal skill with the third.

I think Wodehouse was mentioned so often by various people on my friendslist that did some poking around and picked up Code of the Woosters half out of interest and half out of sheer intellectual guilt. I suppose I owe the Internet some thanks for that ^_~

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Argh, I just finished the longest reply and Explorer committed harakiri on me (as well it should, it was dashed dishonorable of it to let viruses onto my beautiful computer).

I finished Code of the Woosters today (I'm actually now behind the pc solely to write down the quotes I've marked -- My Wodehouse Quotes file is starting to burst at the seams. Damn that man and his witty phrases! *shakes fist) and I just took a sneak peek at the Psmith story.

!!!

It's set at Blandings! I adore the Blandings stories! Ooh, this'll be fun.


half out of sheer intellectual guilt
Do you mean these are books on that infamous 'everybody should have read this author' pile if they are to appear at least a bit interested in literature?
As to that I always feel i'm a day late to the party. I am inevitably late at discovering authors that anglophones have already started to read and love (or read and hate with a burning passion, whichever the case) in high school or right after (or in the case of the Narnia stories, before), and I feel guilty about still being excited about stuff that is old news to 99% of my internet friends. Most unnerving. Add to that the fact that I can't get half of the books mentioned on my f-list and you get one very agitated Gilly. ;) I'm going to see which other Wooster books I still need and order them all over from England together.

... I strayed from my point, I think.

Meh.


*shrug*

[sn4fu.livejournal.com]

Hey! There seriously aren't enough Gussie fans. He's just adorable!

I just finished a horrible ordeal--realizing that I'd only brought one book with me on vacation. I had to ration "Jeeves and the Tie That Binds" over the course of last week, and it was torture. Such a good book though. It makes the slasher's heart go pitter-patter.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Gussie's a geek. A newt geek, but still a geek. ... I'm irresistably drawn to geeks. I was talking to Hyel a couple of days ago that Gussie would be perfect for ME, but he's useless from a slasher's POV. Hehe. *glomps him*

I haven't read "The Tie That Binds"! Shall definitely put it on the To Read list. I've read, erh, Code of the Woosters; Much Obliged, Jeeves; Jeeves in the Offing, The Inimitable Jeeves; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves and Carry On, Jeeves... and a couple of the Blanding stories that I got from the library but forgot the name of.

... *cough* so it's slashy, is it? I am prepared to beg for details. And quotes. And visuals. And erh... yes.

[sn4fu.livejournal.com]

Well, mostly it's the end that's the slashiest. Not that they aren't all slashy, in one way or another. One starts to get the distinct impression very early on that Jeeves has a thing for Bertie...of course, saying this while watching the television show with your parents is scarcely a good idea...XD

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

My mom's already gotten used to me pairing people off in television shows/movies/*cough* real life. Heh. She's made great progress from "what on earth is an otp and why do they make one?" to "oh, come on, you can't be serious. You can't slash those two, I've already got him paired off with the other one. Don't ruin my perfect pairings!"

Ah, I love my mom.

I haven't gotten her started on the Jeeves and Wooster DVDs yet, though. There's no subtitles on them and Hugh Laurie's Bertie is just a tad too fast for her, I think. :-/ Pity.