In Which I Am a Lurker No More

[mrs-conclusion.livejournal.com]

Hello, all you topping individuals. I've been sneaking around this community lately, and first of all I'd like to thank everyone for sharing their brilliant fics, art, links, and everything else that can be found here. Thank you!

Also, I'm possibly the least productive ficcer on the internet, but I'm actually working on a story right now. It involves Bingo Little, and he's causing me a little trouble because I don't know him well enough. Wodehouse books in English have proven quite difficult to come by where I live (I refuse to read translations, especially as research for a fic), and I don't have the money for ordering them all from bookshops online, even though they're easy to find that way. Now, if I were to splash out on one J&W book, does anybody know which of them has the most Bingo in it? And does anybody have any opinions of TVadaptation!Bingo vs. Book!Bingo?

To make something in the way of a contribution, those of you who have a passing knowledge of Star Trek might get a smile out of this:

(I should point out that I didn't make it, I just found it.)

 

Comments

[sunquistadora.livejournal.com]

Oh dear god, the Spirk made me laugh. <3
The Inimitable Jeeves has a lot of Bingo. As for getting the books though, you probably already know this, but Project Gutenberg has My Man Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves for free here: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a783 (although neither of them have Bingo in them at all)
Good luck!

[mrs-conclusion.livejournal.com]

What a splendid icon, and I'm glad you enjoyed the vid!

Thanks for the link - I have seen it before, and always thought I'd click it some other time, but this time I really did. Ta-dah! Wodehouse on USB stick for perusal at leisure!

[sunquistadora.livejournal.com]

Ha - love your icon as well! Really though, there's so much subtext it's practically cannon.
Because I'm a horrible dork/broke/spend too much time on public transit, I definitely copy Project Gutenberg texts to ipod note files so I can just read them on my ipod on the el. Handy, that.

[ironicbees.livejournal.com]

Hello and welcome! :)

Bingo isn't in any of the novels, but he's in several short stories, mostly in "The Inimitable Jeeves". I loved the tv Bingo, at least the first one. He captured the character perfectly.

Have you checked any discount sites for books? Abebooks has a lot of cheap used Wodehouse, as does Barnes & Noble, which is where I got most of my books.

[mrs-conclusion.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I've been hoping that First Bingo was close to the book version, because I love that character. And I haven't checked very many book sites, since I really shouldn't buy anything at all right now, but I'll take a peek at those you recommended.

Also, I found some of your art today (spent an unproductive but interesting afternoon browsing the archive here), and I'm dead impressed. It's absolutely fantastic.

[ironicbees.livejournal.com]

If you do decide to buy anything, you should be able to find some very inexpensive editions at those sites. I got my books for probably around $3 each.

Thank you! :)

[derien.livejournal.com]

Heee!!! Oh my god, I sat here actually giggling out loud over that vid! :D

[mrs-conclusion.livejournal.com]

I used to chuckle over it long before I saw my first J&W episode, but it's even funnier now that I know both fandoms! :) mortmere's videos are overall superb, actually.

[jestana.livejournal.com]

*giggles madly* That is so true about Spock's eyebrows. *snicker*

Welcome to the community! I wish I could help you out with Bingo, but I haven't read all the books or seen all of the TV series. Sorry!

[mrs-conclusion.livejournal.com]

Yes, isn't it? I also love the "women are always after him, but Spock is there to help" part :D

Thanks for the welcome, and, you know, it's the thought that matters!

[xlions-roarx.livejournal.com]

I watched this a while back and thought "so there are some TOS and Jeeves & Wooster fans?!"

[serpenatrix.livejournal.com]

XDDDD That vid was wonderful, thank you very much for sharing!

[vensre.livejournal.com]

Fantastic video! Thank you for posting it. ^__^

[layarda.livejournal.com]

Omigosh that video was so wonderful. Thanks so much for posting it!

[georgeodowd.livejournal.com]

Ohoho! I only seem to have a knowledge of Star Trek from youtube videos, but this was hilarious. Thanks much for sharing.

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

Bingo is well-known as the friend of Bertie's who is never out of love, and in each story it seems the object of his affection is someone new. But my favourite Bingo story is one that takes place after his marriage. It's called 'Jeeves and the Old School Chum' and deals with some problems Bingo is having with an old friend of his wife's. I can't remember which collection it appears in - it might be 'the Inimitable Jeeves'. I know it ISN'T in 'Carry On Jeeves.'

Being such a romantic himself it's ironic that Bingo winds up marrying a romantic novelist.

[mrs-conclusion.livejournal.com]

I've really taken to Bingo based on the few TV eps he's in; that innocent, unassuming outlook he has. He's the kind of character that would probably be incredibly annoying in real life, though :)

Thanks for the heads up, I hope I'll be able to read that story soon! For my own plot, though, I need him to be unmarried...which turned out to be a bit of a problem, because my story takes place after Thank You, Jeeves and I found that Bingo's marriage is mentioned in that one. Thankfully, the fandom seems rather relaxed about this kind of lapse, I suppose since canon contains quite a few incongruities itself. (For example, Thank You, Jeeves has a Roderick Glossop who is single and a J Washburn Stoker who claims to have only one daughter.)

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

Yes, I don't think you need to worry about being a little inconsistent. Wodehouse was rather inconsistent himself - for example, I just read How Right You Are, Jeeves, and in the story Bertie and Sir Roderick bond and put their past differences behind them. It was a great chapter, but a bit confusing if you're trying to read the novels with some sort of overarching progression of events in mind, because they had a similar bonding and putting-aside-of-differences in Joy in the Morning.

This fandom does seem very nice and relaxed. I sometimes visit the Harry Potter fictionalley fandom, which is great but sometimes a pain because the rules as to what is considered canon and what isn't are very strict. You'd have to do an hour's research to find out what category to post your story in, and suffer the horror of having it rejected if you got it wrong!

One of my best friends is a female Bingo.