A gentlemanly tattoo

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Hello everyone. I was thinking about the fashionableness of tattoos recently after looking at a colleague's arm (he likes old-fashioned tatts) and doing this quiz:

http://www.blogthings.com/whattatooshouldyougetquiz

(My result was that I should have initials - not that I'd have anything, but I think it suits me).

I can almost imagine Bertie perking up at the idea of something so unsuitable, and Jeeves' reaction. Do you think RJ in beautiful copperplate script and the colour of Jeeves' eyes in a place that a gentleman never shows in public would be too outrageous even for our bad taste boy? 'Property of R. Jeeves' might be too vulgar, after all, Bertie is well-bred. And he wouldn't risk it unless they were 'outed' and forced to flee, but still.

I have silly ideas sometimes. What a story it would make, ha ha. Anyone like to write it, if game enough? ☻

Art, etc.

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This bit of off-topicness probably doesn't warrant its own post, so I'm shoving it in here. I recently found a mention of Bertie in an unexpected place. While reading "The Victorian Underworld", I came across this in the chapter on pornography:

"Flossie: A Venus of Fifteen" (1900) was said to be a work of Swinburne's old age. Though Swinburne corresponded with Carrington and privately wrote schoolboy flagellation epics, there is nothing in this novel that suggests his work. Flossie talks and acts like a female counterpart of P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster in a wold of energetic copulation. Despite the premise of her immaturity in the title, she sounds like Wooster's contemporary.

I looked up the book online. Flossie didn't actually seem all that Bertie-ish to me, but then I didn't read the whole thing, just skimmed it.


( Now on to the art... )