This is a very strange question

[shiplizard.livejournal.com]

What ho! I'm beating down your doors for advice yet again!

I'm working (forever) on my Wodehouse crossover for the AU Big Bang and I need some silly competition for the young American lads (and British guests) at the Pumpkin club to engage in in order to impress a young lady. I came up with the brilliant idea of soup bowl croquet and a fuss because they keep trying to use Gussie as the wicket hoop.

Or did I.

This idea feels fantastically familiar. I'm not sure if I read it somewhere else, and I don't want to rip off any authors in this fine friendly fandom-- is this ringing bells? I don't want to use it if it really is someone else's.

Comments

[nzraya.livejournal.com]

No idea about the story, but I'm confused by the mention of a "wicket" in croquet.

[shiplizard.livejournal.com]

Hoop, not wicket. It was a late night.

[shiplizard.livejournal.com]

Although a quick google confirms that I'm not making it up: in the US (where we set our scene) hoops are also called wickets.

[nzraya.livejournal.com]

True! I guess I was led astray by the seeming singleness of the wicket (one would need several for croquet, wouldn't one?).

[nzraya.livejournal.com]

Er, but, in case that sounds hostile in any way, it wasn't meant to be. I was just being confuzzled.

[shiplizard.livejournal.com]

I imagine they're using chairs and other things for the rest. Or they'd planned to make Gussie move after each play, if he weren't being such a spoilsport.

[nzraya.livejournal.com]

Recalcitrant Finknottle!

[chaoticchaos13.livejournal.com]

I don't recall this particular scene coming up in any of the (many) stories I have read.

I can't wait to see this story!

[dogwoodblossom.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever come across this idea either and I have read way a lot of J/W fic. Pretty much all of it that exists on LJ or AO3 I'm familiar with. Cause sometimes I just have a lot of time on my hands...