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

[poisonivory.livejournal.com]

Well...war sort of doesn't exist in the Land of Wodehouse. Neither does depression. And Bertie sidesteps even minor period inconveniences like prohibition (when he's in America) with little fuss, so...I mean, the Wooster world is not a realistic one, and though Wodehouse himself was very much affected by WWII, he never put war in his books. At least that's the impression I got. So I bounce along in the frivolous happy universe he's created and fret about war and depression and such in other books. As Stephen Fry says in Blackadder, when all else fails, a pigheaded unwillingness to look facts in the face will always see us through. ;)

[lifeisame.livejournal.com]

well, yarr. I just think too far into things some times. My imagination runs wild and such. That's why something like this wouldn't work as a fic idea (I believe). It's not erm - fluffy - enough, I guess is the term I'm looking for. The biggest charm in Wodehouse is the absolute " XD " attitude it has. But it's interesting to bring it up to see what other people think.

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

I think you could make the transition to drama, or weave drama into the comedy as long as you were careful and had some good betas and all the good stuff like that. :) I mean, if we can get comedy-of-manners!HP fiction and *N Sync science fiction, than surely a dramatic take on Wodehouse wouldn't be too insane. A friend of mine used to try going at J&W from a dramatic angle; I wish she'd published more of what she'd written, because I liked it a lot.