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[potatofiend.livejournal.com]

So...Jeeves and Handsome Black Elevator Man.

There must be fic, right? Why isn't there fic? I cannot be the only person who thinks their knowing looks exchanged imply SEX SEX SEX.

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[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

I abhor the whole 'black dialect' thing, myself, but history is history and I've read that, on MANY occasions, black servants - in particular - were at one point EXPECTED to talk in that servile patois and if they didn't they were seen as acting 'above their station', though this was FAR FAR more so in the US, if memory serves. I'm woefully poorly informed on a lot of history (I tend to get really huffy and cheesed over things that happened generations ago, so I tend not to retain the things that peeved me), but I THINK the UK relaxed on the equality thing sooner than the US. Please, correct me if I'm wrong here.

SO, my point here (yes, had one, just a moment ago, aha!) I could see the elevator chap talking the way he's 'expected' to and then breaking character in an intimate moment, which might work quite well in a little ficcish fun.

[potatofiend.livejournal.com]

Indeed - see my above comment - Jeeves would have been far less concerned by the fact that this man is of colour than an American would have been. And I agree with you on the last point wholeheartedly; that could be very fun indeed!

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

You're probably right about this. Many famous black Americans well into the 1940s and 1950s (being able to afford this was key) moved to England and to France and other parts of Europe to escape the racism so prevalent here. I don't know about the 'acting above their station,' part, but I imagine it could be true. I've never read anything about that.