Squee and request

[rainfire-dancer.livejournal.com]

[Yes, I know, you're probably thinking OH GOD SHE'S JUST JOINED AND SHE'S SPAMMING US TO DEATH. Jeeves, fetch us a w. and s., we're feeling in need of a bucking up! Sorry about that. ^^]

Thing One: Would anybody be willing to beta for me? I have a fic in the works, but I'm not sure whether I have the Bertie-voice quite right.

Thing Two: You are probably the only people I know who will find this squeeful, but: I found two books by Saki in the local charity shop.

Vintage 1928 editions.

For £1.50 each.

*asplodes*

So now I have a copy each of "The Square Egg" and "The Unbearable Bassington", and oh God I need to go write Reginald/Young!Jeeves, Clovis/Psmith, or any combination of the above.

Cheers!

Eli :D

Comments

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm always up for a beta. Me me me me! *waves hand like an idiot*

Also, I love and adore Saki, and am madly jealous. And if you write a Wodehouse/Saki crossover I'll love you forever. Back in February, I actually had a bee in my bonnet for about 48 hours imagining Reginald actually being Young!Jeeves (http://community.livejournal.com/indeedsir/147090.html), but it passed as these things do.

[rainfire-dancer.livejournal.com]

I shall! Please to beta for me, and I will write you Saki!fic. Not like my summer holiday is going to be spent revising, as Exams of Death are over, so, yeah, expect lots of fic from me! XD

Also, as I said above, I found Saki's "Complete Short Stories" in that shop, so now I have both "Right Ho, Jeeves!" and the complete Saki on my desk. Which brings my Wodehouse collection up to four books, and my Saki up to three. Huzzah!

The fic involves established-relationship Jeeves/Bertie, references to "The Vesuvius Club", and silly Welsh names. XD

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

*bounces* Yay! Okay, send it to brookechappell@gmail.com whenever you like.

I have an embarrassing number of Saki collections, since I kept finding them at library sales, with something or other that the ones I had didn't include, be it only an introduction by someone fabulous. I was thinking, at one point, of writing a play about his life, with the stories intertwined, so I've read a couple of bios, too. Graham Greene or someone said that, "Few writers are less interesting to read about. Saki exists only to be read," which is utter poppycock, IMHO. There's a great anecdote from his sister of when they were little kids, and their aunts walked in on Hector chasing his two older siblings around the room, shouting something like, "I'm God Almighty! I will destroy you!" (Better than that, actually, but I'm away from my books right now and can't look it up.) Needless to say, they all got in trouble. Lots of it. XD

OoooOOOOoooh. Shiny! (I love that one story in one of the Mulliner books, with the gentleman named ffarrowmere-ffinch.)