A Bunny of Sorts

[lifeisame.livejournal.com]

On the somewhat SERIOUS lines of fanfic:

Something that bothers me late at night is the thought of the time period J and W live in. Pretty soon the depression hits in the US, and I know England didn't suffer nearly as hard, but I wonder how they got by with that? And then of course, the scariest thing is WWII!! (and my knowledge of London life during this time is really limited to what I remember from high school history. Which isn't much.)

I mean, did Wooster have the money to avoid the military? Or did Jeeves for that matter? Or did Jeeves manage to get them both out of it? *fret fret* I'm pretty sure there's ample slash opportunities either way.

>_> These things keep me up at night. LOL, it doesn't make a very good plot bunny for me, but I figured I'd post these disturbing ideas here, in case someone else gets a bite.

I think waaaaaaaaaay to much into historical fiction and real history.

Comments

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

Well, there have been impoverished nobles for ages. Dickens is chock full of them. Hell, even the Romans had their share of 'em.

WWI and the Depression did create a new influx of them, though.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Hm, is what I meant. I've been racking my brain to remember where it was but i'm quite sure Jeeves makes a reference to it somewhere. Can't. Quite. Remember. Ack!

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

However, I highly doubt that any of Bertie's friends would have needed a stock market crash or a war to end up broke *L* I don't know, I guess I've read so much about young well-born chaps losing all their money to a Misspent Youth that the proportion of them didn't register. I'd come to expect it by now.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Haha, point taken. Except, of course, hardly any one of Bertie's friends really has money of his own. They're just all mooching off their parents or aunts or uncles.

I may have been horribly corrupted by reading 'Remains of the Day', of course. With all the big houses dismissing all or almost all of their staff because of financial issues. Butler POV is a beautiful thing.
Grah, I need to see that movie.