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if there's one thing about classic literary detectives it's that they are not conventionally attractive. doyle told sidney paget to stop drawing holmes so pretty. christie was like "let me introduce you to this short pudgy balding man who is retirement age and i hate him." sayers compares wimsey to maggots on literally the FIRST PAGE

i love it. i love them. stop casting hot people in these roles. we need our detectives to be Charmingly Weird-Looking

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Doodles for THE GLORIA SCOTT - aka that early stage in a relationship where you talk about your exes - this is part 1!

(Part of the Watson’s sketchbook series)

#sherlock holmes #john watson #acd holmes #the adventure of the gloria scott #fanart #not my fanart

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you guys ever notice how in his dialogue when he's in bertie's presence, jeeves uses quotations and references constantly, but in his THOUGHTS during "bertie changes his mind," he doesn't use any? this is obviously because he doesn't care if we the audience know he knows shakespeare, but he will languish and die if he doesn't get to dazzle bertie with his wit and knowledge every five seconds

#the audience jeeves is presumably writing for in bertie changes his mind is new and aspiring valets #members of his own class #to whom he probably feels he has less to prove #but when he's talking to rich people who are liable to look down their noses at him #he needs them to know how smart he is #though he is also a dramatic secret theater kid who's addicted to his crush's attention and admiration #that's very much part of it too #< previous tags #jeeves and wooster #reginald jeeves #bertie wooster

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@yeah-thats-probably-it YES! You see my vision. As I was drawing, I wondered if I'm not making this fem!Bertie too much into a typical flapper, and then went down a thought path that led me to conclude that while she would be very into all the outrageous female fashion and silly fads of the era, she would most likely wear trousers as well sometimes, and try a full suit at least once or twice. I'm no fashion historian, but I think she would like the attention it would draw, and the 20s/30s seem to be exactly the time when it was simultaneously conceivable and eyebrow-raising.

And then the thought path made me consider the crossdressing plot from the TV show, and I sighed a small sigh imagining it for fem!Jeeves and fem!Wooster. Though I must say I'm even more interested in fem!Jeeves's society lady makeover from when she had to enjoy the New York City's nightlife for Rocky's sake.

#jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #regina jeeves #genderbend #jooster

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#jeeves and wooster #ides of march #bertie wooster

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I have never seen this photo before! Who is congratulating whom, what do you think?

#the greek interpreter #granada holmes #granada sherlock holmes #sherlock holmes #john watson #mycroft holmes #mr melas #jeremy brett #david burke

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Bertie being forced to explain to an American why you would ever want a cup of tea

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The hour remained rather on the painful side of ack-emma, but the lark was on the wing, the snail on the thorn, and Jeeves in my room doing the important work of restoring this Wooster to the world, body and soul.

"Jeeves, you stand alone," I said after I had a bit of that.

"If I may be so bold, sir, I think I no longer do."

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Bertie in a barbershop quartet

He would sing either tenor or lead. I'm thinking tenor

Jeeves would be forced to attend and probably sing baritone

#jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves

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Bertie in a barbershop quartet

He would sing either tenor or lead. I'm thinking tenor

Jeeves would be forced to attend and probably sing baritone

#jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves

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Why I Ship Jooster

I’ve been trying to figure out to articulate this for some time, and I’ve finally hit upon how to say what I came to love most about the Jooster ship, as I continue to work my way through the canon.

It’s that Bertie Wooster changes Jeeves. 

Jeeves of the early canon is a jerk. Reading the short stories, you see just the kind of cruel hijinks he’ll entangle Bertie in, often all in the name of getting rid of an ugly piece of clothing. And there’s always the sense that there’s strings he’s pulling you can’t see, along with the strings you suspect he’s pulling and the strings you know he’s pulling. A little bit of thought paints early Jeeves as quite the sinister character.

The early novels retain this trait. Right Ho, Jeeves is cruel with its ending of Jeeves forcibly reestablishing himself as the authority to be trusted in any situation, against Bertie’s wishes of actually solving his own problems and the problems of those around him.

Compare this with the Jeeves,of the penultimate novel The Ties that Bind that admits that Bertie is better at getting on with people than he is, who burns the Wooster section of the club book because he’s decided he wants to be with Bertie indefinitely.

Or even the Jeeves of Joy in the Morning who spouts poetry about the stars at him and openly looks concerned when Bertie is in trouble. And the Jeeves of The Code of the Woosters who takes a bit more of a backseat role and has Bertie actually take more of an active role at getting himself out of the soup (Jeeves saves the day, yes, but I still swoon over how competent Bertie was in that book).

Being around Bertie Wooster has made Reginald Jeeves a better person, although probably still not a very good one. Still, that is why I will ship Jooster until my dying day.

#a detail that also kind of ties in with this i found very nice in the mating season is the multiple conversations where bertie gets to #pick up the poetry jeeves is spouting at him and continue right where he stopped #in that conversation near the end about walter scott we dont just not have jeeves the puppetmaster anymore #we dont even have jeeves the schoolmaster who reminds bertie of the things he has forgotten anymore #he and bertie are on even footing! having a fun hobby together! #i cant imagine that happening in any of the short stories or even the first novels #also i might have forgotten something but isnt it that in the short stories at the end of some of the debacles jeeves gets a tip? #because i could swear that used to be a semi-frequent occurence #and at the point of the mating season that has as far as i remember disappeared completely #i just adore not just how much they change over timem but also how much their relationship changes over time #< previous tags #reginald jeeves #bertie wooster #jooster #jeeves and wooster #jeeves books #pg wodehouse

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#jeeves and wooster #reginald jeeves #bertie wooster #jooster #fanart #not my fanart

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yeah right

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Bertie Wooster: a summary

#bertie wooster #jeeves and wooster #jeeves books #thank you jeeves #pg wodehouse

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He's an upholder of the law. He's also a law unto himself. In other words, he releases people and Scotland Yard says 'How could you do that?' He also loves children because I've wondered where his love is channeled. Because no one can be that unemotional. So whenever I can, I have the Irregulars around. I think Holmes loves children.

— Jeremy Brett [x]

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your swag too different your bitch is too bad....theyll kill you

#the head tilt 🥺🥺🥺🥺 #they’re flirting fr fr #granada holmes #john watson #sherlock holmes #holmes/watson #h/w