indeedsir_backup | Master/servant slash

So I think it's safe to say that this fandom has warped any and all master/servant relationships in fiction for me (not that I have a problem with that ;D). That established, I was just a little nervous about reading/seeing Comedy of Errors this past week because it has TWO master/servant pairs and a housemate that I have a crush on was playing one of the two servants. This could have ventured into RPS. However, the actual performance seemed to justify my suspicions of Syracusian bromance. Antipholus and Dromio did a CONSIDERABLE amount of touching and clinging to each other and giving meaningful looks.

But what I'm really getting as is, do you guys see master/servant relationships as automatic potential for slash, or do the undertones from Jooster just bleed over into other fandoms? Just curious.

Discuss.

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Frankie Howerd did the same sort of thing with his partner-- I think the title was actually manager but I remember reading an interview saying he also sort of acted as valet.

Oddly I've never seen any J/W stories using the premise that the boys were lovers first and that Jeeves being Bertie's valet was really just a way of hiding their true relationship.

I second (third?) the goodness of this notion! I guess maybe it never occurred to anyone because we have a canon description of their first meeting? Though there are certainly fics where they knew each other before. Gahhhhh, now I want to write it.

I really wanted Wimsey/Bunter to be slashable, and in fact quite enjoyed what little slash there is with them, but the more I thought about it, the more I had a hard time making it really work as well as say, Bertie and Jeeves. I can see Wimsey/Bunter more readily during the war.

Just long-windedly voicing agreement, I suppose.

Master/servant slash

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