newbie, here

[derien.livejournal.com]

To this community, not to slash, nor, exactly to Jeeves and Wooster.

I've been reading slash for years (and composing it in my head ever since I was a kid). I saw the Fry and Laurie series of Jeeves and Wooster and adored it unreservedly. I sought Wodehouse in the used bookstores, sporadically, and, since I read Steven Fry's essay on why everyone should read Wodehouse, I've sought it continuously, with no luck People don't give up their Wodehouse, apparently. A guy I work with keeps offering to loan me his book that has 3 novel-lenghth Jeeves stories, but he keeps forgetting to bring it in (maybe today). Yesterday I was able to tell him that I found Wodehouse on Gutenberg and have now read a few short stories, and it's way more slashable than I had even imagined! Yes, I did tell him that. And he said he'd been introduced to Wodehouse's work by a gay guy. (Where I work there is this odd interplay - some of the guys seem a little homophobic, this guy included, but at the same time will flirt with each other quite a lot, or make comments on themselves. And I like to reinforce that behavior by openly drooling at it. ;) For some reason they think I'm an attractive woman [I'm actually genetically female, but my attractiveness is questionable to me], and guys always like to do things that amuse an attractive woman.)

Er, and now that I've unearthed myself from my multiple parenthetical comments... nice to meet you all.:) Would you like some PWP Jeeves/Wooster smut? I think I might be able to do that, though I won't vouch for the quality. :)

Comments

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

I've never encountered bodice rippers in canon, and would actually think it a bit out of character for Jeeves to put down Spinoza's Ethica in favour of one of those paperbacks of the bodice ripping kind. ... Still, the man does read "lower" literature. He was quite knowledgeable on Rosie M. Banks! (Yes, Jeeves, romantic alliances between upper and lower class members DO happen! *L*)

The butlering/valetting business has (alas) become virtually extinct. Happened around the time of the world wars, when all of the sudden a large number of rich families became impoverished rich families and couldn't afford a huge staff anymore. I read 'Over Seventy' a couple of days ago in which Wodehouse was complaining that there weren't any real butlers anymore. ^_^

Hm, I was trying to think of a way to still make Bertie and Jeeves work in the present time but can't think of anything. Dash it.

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

Hm, I was trying to think of a way to still make Bertie and Jeeves work in the present time but can't think of anything. Dash it.

I'm not sure how WELL it would work, but perhaps Jeeves would be Bertie's PR guy, his spokesman, administrative aide, personal assistant? There are still titled, monied Englishmen, aren't there? Maybe there aren't....but if there are, what do they do every day? And wouldn't they need some sort of Man Friday to keep their days organized? I could see Bertie as needing someone to keep him in line in the business/social world, even if he does fold his own socks now. :-)