Just "Hi!"

[vaiteru.livejournal.com]

And a small video =)
Well, I've made a video on Hugh's song - "Sophisticater Song". This is my first experience, hope you like it.

Watch on YouTube

And a lurker emerges from the woodwork...

[dreamwaffles.livejournal.com]

Hello, everybody!  I realize that none of you will have any idea who I am, but I've been lurking here since January.  I have not posted even once, but today I finally caved and made a livejournal for myself.

So...hello!  Call me dreamwaffles.  To give you a bit of background, I fell in love with J&W when I started reading it last winter, and started slashing about five minutes into the first episode of it I watched.  I'm already a longtime Holmes/Watson slasher and a House fan, (yes I ship House/Wilson) so it wasn't like donning the slash goggles for this was hard or anything.  :)

I believe I squeed rather embarrassingly when I first found this community.  I spent the next few days combing feverishly through every single fic archived here and at frenchowlssayqui.  And since then, I've been lurking, and never posting...

Other miscalleneous items: I do write fic, though I haven't posted any to my livejournal considering I made it about fifteen minutes ago.  I check indeedsir every single day, right after I check Neil Gaiman's blog.  I've got a few ideas for some J/W, but I'm nervous about my Bertie-voice.  My current pet project, while I learn to deal with Bertie's idiosyncracies, is a Hitchhiker's Guide to Wodehouse.  I've got one for men and one for women.  I'm also working on a pamphlet for the new Drones member, though I may combine that with the HHG2W.

I don't have anything more to say, so...tinkerty-tonk, then!

Jooster in sci-fi

[shiplizard.livejournal.com]

Long time lurker, first time poster, and if this has been pointed out before I apologize sincerely.

It's Jooster! In widely-read, professionally published sci-fi.

There is a sci-fi writer named Spider Robinson, whose writing I will not compare to a summer's day, but rather to a Reeses cup. His writing is sugary, without much merit and extremely self-indulgent. But it's also sweet and comforting and familiar, of at least adequate quality as candy goes, and at times you find yourself wanting to consume it in large quantities.

Robinson's characters bump elbows with such notables as Jesus (on a pogo stick, in fact), Nikola Tesla, and Robert A. Heinlein's cat, so this shouldn't have come as quite such a surprise.

I was craving mind-candy in large quantities, so I picked up one of his stories about Lady Sally's Whorehouse (it is a wonderous place where everyone is happy. An enlightened brothel run by a time-traveler from a utopian age. The narrator is a PI investigating a disturbance in the House, and being exposed to the wonders of enlightened sex.)

I hadn't read Lady Slings the Booze in at least two years, before I read Wodehouse or saw the BBC adaptations, and when I read through it this time, something that had always puzzled me before snapped firmly into place.

See for yourself: here, Joe Quigley is meeting just some of the varied staff of artists.

( Lady Sally's magical whorehouse )

But no, you cry. Certainly not. (Actually, I doubt you're crying that.)

But Mr. Robinson is never content to let his subtle homages remain subtle, and so he proves it, some dozen chapters later, while the main characters are in the cafeteria once again, discussing with Nikola Tesla how best to save the world from a pacifist terrorist.

In the most depressing way possible.


( A thousand pine tables. )

Passages transcribed from Lady Slings the Booze, Baen paperback, pages 130 and 253-254.

Non-Existence of Jeeves

[wistful-shadow.livejournal.com]

 Hello,

Someone mentioned that there is a fic out there where someone convinces Bertie that Jeeves does not, in fact, exist. It sounds amusing so does anybody have a link for it? 

Also, does anybody know which first-time/oral fic has a very smug Bertie informing a slightly shocked Jeeves that he learnt it all at Eton? 
I just don't have the energy to go back through the indeedsir!archive and all the other pages of recs I've been through recently looking for it again!

Cheers and Toodle-Pip

silly question

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

dreamwaffles' intro post mentioned that she started out in Holmes/Watson fandom before coming here, and I was wondering how many others of us started there as well, because I feel like I've heard that before. I definitely found Wodehouse via Holmes/Watson, because I met my friend careena there, who was big into Jeeves/Wooster, and she introduced me to the books, and the rest is history.

I understand that this might be considered a little off-topic for the comm, but I'm just curious. Anyone else come to J/W through Holmes/Watson? Or vice versa? How many came via House? Or do House fans usually come from J/W first, already knowing who Hugh Laurie is? (That's how it was for me.) I dunno, fannish migration patterns interest me. :)