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[wemblee.livejournal.com]

Man, has there been a lot of high-class fic comin' outta Yuletide. Green Ice is a Lord Wimsey/J&W crossover and it's just... pitch-perfect. On the Wooster side of things, at least -- I'm not familiar with Wimsey canon, but I'm willing to bet that it's just right, too.

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[derien.livejournal.com]

Heh, I was just preparing a post about that particular story. :) I'm sure that if I looked around indeedsir carefully enough I could figure out who wrote this wonderful story, because I remember the conversation that took place here regarding the wars and how neither of them seem to happen in Bertie-verse.

daegaer sent me to "Green Ice," and that inspired a short conversation between us about Bertie's age (http://www.livejournal.com/users/daegaer/309915.html?thread=4239771#t4239771) and which war, exactly, we'd be talking about. Short version - (if I understand correctly) she concluded that if we say he was born around 1897-8ish he could have spent a few months on the front lines at the very end of The Great War.

Unfortunately this tells us that today, if we want to stick to cannonical, he'd have to be nearly 107 years old. Plainly, Jeeves must be a genie, and keeping his Bertie young, as he's been reported galavanting around Smallville like a mere 50 year old.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

I've been checking the phenomenon in the Reference Library I'm making, as well (sort of an Annotated Wodehouse). He does go as far as to refer to the FIRST World War (using WWI slang and a couple of direct mentions), and the period between the two WWs (the Black Shorts, for example), but then he tends to skip a decade and starts again at the early 1930s.

[derien.livejournal.com]

but then he tends to skip a decade and starts again at the early 1930s.

Did you mean 1930s, or 1950s? I recall in "The Return of Jeeves" a phrase something like 'the post-war world,' and I got the impression it was set after WWII (9/1/1939 - 9/2/1945).

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Erck, I mean WWII obviously, and I'd looked at it before, only my brain failed to work at the moment. Terribly sorry for the comfusion.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

CONNNNfusion.

It's still not working.

[derien.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking it's WWII he's blocked out...?

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately this tells us that today, if we want to stick to cannonical, he'd have to be nearly 107 years old. Plainly, Jeeves must be a genie, and keeping his Bertie young, as he's been reported galavanting around Smallville like a mere 50 year old.

Isn't there a story where Jeeves is a genie? (Er, a fanfic story, I mean.)

I pretty much imagine that they never age. It works for me. ::g::

[derien.livejournal.com]

Woops, and I wanted to add - yes, indeed, Green Ice rocked my socks. :)

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Golly, I can't wait for her to continue this.

Gorgeously written, well thought out plot, hints of something deeper sprinkled over it. Beautiful. Can't wait for more.

[peak-in-darien.livejournal.com]

Who is Lord Wimsey?
Or am I really showing ignorance?

[derien.livejournal.com]

Dorothy Sayer's mystery investigating character.

[peak-in-darien.livejournal.com]

*nods knowingly*