Intro post, or, What ho, what ho, what ho!

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

Hello! Intro post, since I don’t think I’ve done one yet. I’ve got a whole list of fic ideas I’d like to palm off on you talented people, but for now, I’ll just say “what ho” and post a section from “The Great Sermon Handicap” that is not slashy per se, but the combination of words made my brain explode just a little bit, and I was stuck on it for minutes, unable to move past it (although the “feeble intellect” part was pretty funny once I’d calmed down enough to notice it). The section is as follows:


“And, what’s more, Jeeves, my cousin Claude and my cousin Eustace – you remember them?”
“Very vividly, sir.”
“Well, they’re down there, too, reading for some exam or other with the vicar. I used to read with him myself at one time. He’s known far and wide as a pretty hot coach for those of fairly feeble intellect. Well, when I tell you he got me through Smalls, you’ll gather that he’s a bit of a hummer. I call this most extraordinary.”


Claude and Eustace. With the vicar (who, in my mind, looks like Stinker Pinker). A pretty hot coach. And isn’t “smalls” a British term for underwear, like briefs? So I was trying not to read that as “he got through my smalls” (or to keep my eyes from jumping lines and seeing “he got me pretty hot”).....And I know it says “he’s a bit of a hummer,” but still. Just the sheer number of words that were perfectly innocent when they were written (and still are, to normal people) but are utterly suggestive to slash addicts like me, all packed into that one paragraph. *is semi-ashamed of own perviness*

Oh, and when I finally was able to move on, here’s the start of the letter from Eustace:


“Dear Bertie,

“Do you want to make a bit of money? I hear you had a bad Goodwood, so you probably do....”


Yes, I know that Goodwood is the name of the horse race that took place in the previous story, but still. It’s like Wodehouse looked into the future and decided to make fangirls’ heads explode.

Anyhow, cheerio, tootle pip and all that, and I'll post that list of fic ideas one of these days. Oh, and if I'm annoying, you can blame purplefluffycat. It was her fic "Jeeves and the Artistic Verisimilitude" that got me started on this whole thing. :-D

Comments

[derien.livejournal.com]

What ho, hail and wellmet and all that! :) You might even have a dirtier mind than I do. ;)

[emeraldreeve.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the community!

[ironicbees.livejournal.com]

Hello there!

Have you read Joy in the Morning yet? There's loads of unintentionally slashy lines in that one! ;D

[dreamwaffles.livejournal.com]

I think that Wodehouse was secretly a fangirl. I mean...titling a book Jeeves and the Tie that Binds? :P

I love Joy in the Morning. Also, the Inimitable Jeeves has a lot of good lines!

(by the way, I've brought this up before, but do we Wodehouse fans have abbreviations for the books like the Sherlockians do? And if not...why?)

[dreamwaffles.livejournal.com]

Oh, and welcome sor_bet! Good to see another addition to the community!

[ceruleanshipper.livejournal.com]

I mean...titling a book Jeeves and the Tie that Binds?

Although, to be fair, that's the American title. But it features Bertie ejaculating twice and the last bit is as close to a proposal of marriage as one could reasonably expect during that time period.

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

Hello, back! And what do you mean "might"????!? *facepalms* XD

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

Hello! No, I haven't read that one yet; I just finished "The World of Jeeves", a collection of the short stories, and now I need to track down the novels. Looking forward to it! (Oh, and I found more slashy stuff in later stories, just didn't write it down. I'm sure it's been quoted on this comm before, though! :-D)

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

the Inimitable Jeeves

Ooh! That's in the omnibus I have. Okay, I'll start it right away!

As for book abbreviations -- maybe we don't because the books have different titles, depending on where/when they were published? But I really don't know; I'm so new to this, I don't consider myself a real Wodehouse fan yet, so I don't think I'm qualified to answer. :-)

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

Hee. Thanks!

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

I really need to read that one!

There was the whole section at the end of "Bingo And The Little Woman" where Bertie rushes back to his flat, ready to part ways with Jeeves, and when he gets there, everything is so perfect that he gives up.

"And then through the doorway there shimmered good old Jeeves in the wake of a tray full of the necessary ingredients, and there was something about the mere look of the man--"

And then Bertie decides to dine in. I mean, really. :-)

[ironicbees.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you'll enjoy JitM. I can't find it now, but there's a line in it where Bertie's friend Boko accuses him of "bursting with [his] meat"! But for sheer quantity of slashy lines, "Thank You, Jeeves" beats all the other stories.

Have fun reading!

[purplefluffycat.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the community sor_bet! It's lovely to have you here, and thanks for the mention! :-)

PurpleFluffyCat x

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

Hello and thanks for the welcome! After linking your fic, I decided I wanted to re-read it, so I spent all of yesterday doing so. It's even better than the first time I read it, maybe because I've actually read some Plum now, or because we've gone through all four seasons of J&W, but whatever the reason, there's even more to love about it. ♥ :-)

[purplefluffycat.livejournal.com]

Gosh! Thank you very much! *blushes* It's especially nice to know that someone is enjoying the story a while after it was originally posted.

PurpleFluffyCat x

[dreamwaffles.livejournal.com]

I read and reread that fic all the time as well.

Partly because several years ago, I was in the Mikado. (I was one of the girls in the chorus. We did a really cool dance with fans at the end of the first act. But because our stage was really weird, every last one of us while we weren't singing or dancing had to sit onstage...and pretend we weren't there. We were mostly very still, you should know, but kimono + lights = hot and our fans were working...also, the position I was sitting in made my foot fall asleep and I lost a shoe, and didn't notice until halfway through the dance. :D Good times.)

But anyway, I'm very familiar with the Mikado, and so reading all the little jokes about the play that I remember just gave me such a good time I didn't even mind Bertie was usually away from the budding romance. And actually, you pointed out some puns and things that went over my head before, which was lovely. (I didn't get a lot of the subtle jokes when I was 12...)

Wow, this turned into a review of that fic. -cough- Sorry.

Oh, and I'm about...halfway through the second part of the HP/J&W crossover. NaNoWriMo is getting in the way, though.

[utopiantrunks.livejournal.com]

Hello, hello, hello! Welcome! Although I'm a bit late in saying so. :) Oh, heck, I don't know... I think some of that language was suspect even back then ('kay, admittedly not the hummer, but that made me snicker when I read it just now)... And it's still fun to read pervy stuff into anything, but especially a text for which I have such a raging OTP. ^^

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I'm about...halfway through the second part of the HP/J&W crossover.

Yay!! I'm still catching up at other comms and haven't read any new HP fic since about July 22, so don't rush on my account. NaNo away! :-)

And good reviews of purplefluffycat's fic are always good -- it should be recced far and wide so that everyone can enjoy it. :-) I was never in the Mikado, but we must have had a set of records because I seemed to know a lot of the words and music when I was pretty young. Like you, too young to get all the jokes, but I can appreciate them now. :-D

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

And it's still fun to read pervy stuff into anything

Yes, it is. XD

but especially a text for which I have such a raging OTP. ^^

It's hard not to ship them, especially when their OTPness just so blatant at times. :-D I think that maybe back then, most people (or straight people, anyway) would have thought, "It's too bad that Bertie can't just marry Jeeves, since they seem so perfect together." All we're doing is saying, "Why the heck wouldn't they be a couple?" I can't believe that PGW didn't mean to write them that way, at least subconsciously. :-) That section I quoted in a comment above -- it's so obviously a man forgiving his significant other because he's totally in love (or maybe just whipped ;-D).

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

OTOH, as I re-read that quote just now, it's actually a lot funnier if they ARE straight (and just plain romantic if they are gay)....but I guess that's what fanfic is for. :-)

[utopiantrunks.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Is this the same one...? Where Bertie comes home, all ready to fire Jeeves for something he's done, and sees that everything is just so perfect in his flat--his slippers and so forth, all as he likes them--and he's pacified, and says that he feels like a man who was about to have a huge fight with his wife and calls it off at the last minute. XD Yeah, I... really don't think Wodehouse was doing it accidentally. Especially towards the end of the series... I don't know, I think he was at least playing with it... ^^♥

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

Where Bertie comes home, all ready to fire Jeeves for something he's done, and sees that everything is just so perfect in his flat--his slippers and so forth, all as he likes them--and he's pacified, and says that he feels like a man who was about to have a huge fight with his wife and calls it off at the last minute.

The first part is the same, but the last part is different -- he doesn't actually say anything about a wife, but that's the feeling the reader gets (or I got, anyway). I'm sure he used that scenario more than once.

Even if he did it all accidentally, I like to think that if he could see us now, he'd say, "You know, I hadn't thought about it like that, but I think you ladies may be on to something." ;-D

[utopiantrunks.livejournal.com]

*grin* I like to think so, too. ^^