a fic request/prompt?

[cosmosmariner.livejournal.com]

Not sure if this is completely allowed but I'm posting on behalf of both myself and fleaflyfo.

We have been discussing a particular Jeeves/Wooster AU in which they are on the Titanic. Now, this thing would require a sad ending and I cannot write sad ending stories, and so we both decided that the good and talented people at IndeedSir might be the ones to appeal to.

We have some notes of things we want to see. Small things, but we just can't write this one. If anyone's thinking of writing this, we'll forward the ideas to you.

Is anyone interested?

EDIT: upon further review, the lady and I have thought maybe there can be a sad/happy one? There was one fic I read where there was a sad version and also a happy version? Would that be more likely then?

EDIT AGAIN: OK, so fleaflyfo and I have decided on a super angsty yet no deathy (ha) story. And since there is no death and no particularly sad ending, I can write it. Um, so thank you. Go about your business. :)

Comments

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

I could neither write nor read a story where they both die like that. *weeps at the entire concept* But you know, a fair number of people did actually live through it...

[chuffing.livejournal.com]

Yeah, just reading this made my heart hurt. I'm sure someone here could write a really heart-wrenching story with this bunny, but I'm not sure I'd make it through without just cracking. I would need a happy ending.

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

I know that gini_baggins is working on a Jooster Titanic story, but she promised me no dead Jeeveses or Woosters, so it probably wouldn't be quite what you've asked. She did, however, send me the first chapter today for beta...

[hazeltea.livejournal.com]

I think it wouldn't need such a sad ending, Jeeves would have no moral issues with bonking Bertie on the head, dressing him in drag, and cutting the line to the life boats XD

[krisreinke.livejournal.com]

Actually - something like 20% of the first class males survived. (And some also in second and third class.) This was below the % of women who survived ( aprox 30% for third class, and higher for first class). Nor did all the surviving men do anything sneaky or pushy. Mostly survival depended on the side of the boat and the location at the time of the crash ( which in turn influenced the chances of reaching a launch-able lifeboat). Some boats launched 'not full' just because where the boat was... passengers couldn't reach in time. Or because the ship was tilting such that it was too dangerous to wait. Some passengers waited too long to report to the boats, thinking that a wreck was impossible.
(This is not to stay there were not other, less pleasant, factors to consider. Just that Jeeves wouldn't have to deck Bertie in drag. It would be sufficient for him to have memorized the lifeboat locations and be very firm about getting Bertie out of evening clothes and into a life jacket - and a life boat - STAT.)

[fleaflyfo.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. I've been doing some quick Titanic research and perhaps Jeeves would get Bertie safely to one of Murdoch's lifeboats. He did allow men on (when women and children were not around apparently) while Jeeves survives the way Jack Thayer did. Clinging to the ship and ending up on the collapsed lifeboat.
I'm liking that version the more I think about it.

[krisreinke.livejournal.com]

Jeeves and the Sinking Feeling

By Darklady

[ Quick fic. No beta – no value – no excuses.]

[I take a few liberties with the time line. And with nautical procedure. And with sundry other things. As for Mr. Wodehouse’s characters? I shall leave them to take liberties with each other. They like it better that way. Really.]

It was a bitter, frigid night aboard the RMS Titanic. Not just the weather, mind you, although given that we were twixt and tween the North Sea, that ran the opposite of balmy. No, the chill came entirely from my dragon-clawed aunt.

Aunt Agatha had launched herself over the pond to fetch me back from the innocent pleasure of New York. Worse, she had fetched a bride-in-waiting along with her other baggage. Not that the beezle in question wasn’t a fetching baggage, mind you. Just more that … what with the events of my American stay… my tastes had rather changed. Less of the blonde and bubbly, more of the brunet and brainy. Once particular brainy brown-haired sort who I had packed along on my own behalf, and in fond encouragement of some less-than-innocent pleasures.

At this point discretion urges silence. Sorry.

Also, I suppose, I should apologize for media res-in matters again. Although thinking on it, that moment really was as much as start as any other. The Auntly one and self were repasting the usual sort of seabound fare in the first class dining room. Or past repasting, seeing how the Waldorf Pudding had been whisked away a fair hour before. We were lingering over brandy and the grim silence she used in place of conversation.

I was all for tottering off myself, but the nephew crusher had a firm (if metaphorical) grip and would no more let go than a bulldog with the Filet Mignons LIli. That last explains why, when a nasty sort of grinding noise made a surprise introduction, I took it as my signal to exit forthwith. Politely, one must allow.

“I say, old thing.” I rose with the help of the anchored table. Things were proving unstable, and not just because of the multiple glasses of wine taken to warm the Wooster insides. “That sounded rather … wrenching. Not to put too fine a note on it. Plus I spot the captain making a swift egress. Shouldn’t we be calling for out coats? Or rather those life jacket thingies?”

“Nonsense, Bertram.” Aunt Agatha settled more formally into her chair, as one above such petty weakness of the world such as gravity. You will sit down, you will eat your pudding, and you will wait until Miss Plum makes her appearance. Then you will dance with her, propose to her, and if you have any regard for your own skin you will marry her.” Her frown turned impossible grimmer. “Preferably before the ship docks in England.”

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

If it had a happy ending, I'd love to read something like this. The idea of dead Jeeves or Bertie (unless it's of great old age) fills me with great sorrow.

[fleaflyfo.livejournal.com]

No worries. No Jeeves and Wooster death. I like the idea of them reuniting on the Carpathia anyhow. Although I imagine that witnessing the Titanic sinking would be damaging in some ways.

[gini-baggins.livejournal.com]

I'm currently writing a fic on this!!!!!!! I'm posting the prologue tonight :PP

But you can go ahead and write one to!! The more the merrier!

[umpteenth-gail.livejournal.com]

Am I am awful person for hoping that in this brilliant AU, Aunt A goes down with the ship?

Unlikely perhaps. She is the sort who lives to be 101.

What about the timeline though? The Bertie chronicles were set in about the roaring twenties or perhaps even early 30s - post-war anyway. The Titanic sailed and sank in 1912.

[lapin-petite.livejournal.com]

Thanks to that sad anniversary there is lot of facts,photos and sad life stories at newspapers or news these days. And I imediatelly imagined Wodehouse and J/W era.I want write about that in my last post but at the end I didnt.So im glad that somebody mentioned it:3
In reality I think it must go sad and heartbreakingTT_______TT So if i could i wish for happy ending.

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

Yay! I will read angst with un-sad endings in a heartbeat! *happysigh*