#Jeeves/wooster

[aspiring-creative-person]

Ok but I was just thinking

Jooster is kind of the only actual solid relationship in Jeeves and Wooster?? Like platonic or romantic, let me explain

Like obviously it’s the focus, but like. Listen.

Everyone else hops from girl to girl, or guy to guy, and each one is filled with turmoil. This is just talking about Bertie’s friends, right?

But also, as friends, they really suck. They constantly get him to do things for them and do nothing in return.

Even the aunts and uncles don’t usually have spouses that are actually on screen!! Who knows if there were divorces or something?? Like people’s parents are hardly ever present it’s always some rich aunt or uncle, with Bertie yes but even with all his friends 😅😂

Everyone in that show is just so… detached from each other. There’s a particular moment where Bertie is driving Bingo and Tuppy home, and they’re just ranting about their women to each other and not listening to the other, and Bertie is just so done with it. I think that illustrates this point pretty well.

Anyway, Jeeves and Bertie are so not that. There’s another post somewhere on Tumblr talking about how Bertie always replies to Jeeves’ subtext and they pick up on each others moods essentially, which I think is a great point. And generally they just really like each other. Just read any of the books to see how much Bertie admires Jeeves, and read “Mr. Wooster Changes His Mind,” which is from Jeeves’ perspective, and you can see how he cares a lot for Bertie as well.

And like. They have their own language. Bertie is used to Jeeves materializing into rooms (this generally freaks out other people), he is now comfortable with it. Also he knows that whenever Jeeves is cold to him it’s almost always about his fashion choices, and that is a constant theme of how they interact. They have their quips about music sometimes. Jeeves always helps solve Bertie’s (and friends’) problems, and even when Bertie gets the short end of the stick, if it’s Jeeves’ plan he immediately is satisfied with the conclusion.

The biggest thing, though, is probably their brief break-up. Like. They had a disagreement and broke up, and then missed each other. There weren’t even any hard feelings, just longing tbh. And at the end they got back together, and stayed together, and were happy to see each other again. They clearly enjoy each others’ company. And Jeeves seemed to think that the other candidates for his employer did not even compare to Bertie.

Name another couple in this show who is as devoted as they are

Half of the women go for men for their status, the other half at whims

All of the men go for women on whims, and half of them find another girl when they have some sort of disagreement with the previous one

And even if they get back with a previous partner, there’s no guarantee that they will stay together

But Jooster is in for the long haul. The most consistent relationship, the most caring relationship, the most in-tune relationship, the most long-term relationship.

Oh yeah also with familial relations and all that. Aunt Agatha has been quoted to say she thinks Bertie should probably be put in some home. Like, that’s pretty rude and everything. She also tries to get him to marry all the time, she doesn’t care about him in a way that is healthy at least, only so much as he can be out of the way and out of trouble. Even Aunt Dahlia, who says he is her favorite nephew, and who takes advantage of his nature to get him to do things for her, insults him and throws things at him sometimes. His cousin Gussy, when he gets drunk, insults him in front of a crowd, going so far as to say he hates him. Claude and Eustice put him into the soup without a care for how mad Aunt Agatha will be at him.

Jeeves never insults him, or not his character at least. Yes, they have their disagreements about fashion and music. But Jeeves never insults his intelligence. He never calls him clumsy. He never underestimates him. Yes, he is his employee, but I have a feeling that it doesn’t have to do with that. Even when he was split up, like I mentioned, he came back and said the other employers weren’t up to snuff compared to Bertie.

Omg and then there’s all the women who think Bertie loves them/who want to marry Bertie. Of course, they all have delusions about him, because if they knew him at all they would know he is not in love with them. They would know that he’s too much of a pushover to say no to them. But they don’t. Which just shows further the disconnect everyone has in this show.

Ok referencing one more post because I like the point they have. It was something about how the actors keep changing for the side characters, unintentionally showing how Jeeves is really the only constant in Bertie’s life. Again showing the difference in their relationship vs his disconnected everyone else is. While I’m sure it’s not an intentional choice in that regard, it certainly is an interesting connection.

Anyway like I said at the beginning of this, you can interpret their relationship as romantic or platonic or somewhere in between, but it’s definitely the only solid one in the series.

#jooster #Jeeves and Wooster #essay #in this essay i will #but here’s the essay #Jeeves and Wooster analysis #fandom analysis #Jeeves/wooster #Jeeves/wooster analysis #jnw #Jeeves #Reginald Jeeves #Wooster #Bertie Wooster #Bertram Wooster #aunt dahlia #aunt Agatha #bingo little #Tuppy Glossip #this was really long #I am supposed to be sleeping #3am literary essay #with textual evidence AND two outside sources #suck on that AP LIT #I’m extremely proud of this

[fromthemouthofkings]

On Touching Sunlight

Jeeves/Wooster, M

In the days after the cat leapt out of the bag, I found myself rather shaky. A great upheaval had passed over our little London flat–a great earthquake, that knocked the china from the cupboards and rattled the windows in their sills–and not a soul in the world outside had marked it.

I felt I must look different, that the sun might shine through my raw and new-birthed skin and reveal me. For so long, my safety had been in secrecy, and now that secret lay equally in the hands of another.

Fine hands. Long, slender, dextrous hands that, with just a little guiding, had proven themselves excellent at drawing out such gasps and ambrosial moans from me, of pleasure dripping and honey-sweet.

I blushed to think these thoughts around my master still, though I doubted he’d begrudge them of me. It just seemed wrong, somehow; indecent. I glanced at him through my eyelashes as I busied myself dusting the curio cabinet.

His finely-formed fingers held between them a book. His eyes were vacant in that pleasant way that shows when we are dreaming. A little furrow of concentration marked his brow. His head was haloed in the soft golden light of the sleepy afternoon, that slid softly over the flat.

He was almost too bright to look at, and I felt the heat, sun-like, on my face.

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#jeeves/wooster #jooster #reginald jeeves #bertie wooster #icarus & earthworms #my fic

[nemuineko]

“Bertie receives news that threatens to topple his neatly stacked world. This time his plan for resolution may have more lasting consequences than even Jeeves can foresee - OR the one in which Bertie is introduced to the idea of eloping with one’s valet, Jeeves tries desperately to shove the whole thing back into the closet, and hijinks ensue.”

Fantastic fic!!!

#jeeves and wooster #reginald jeeves #bertie wooster #fanfic #Jeeves/wooster #Reginald Jeeves/Bertram Bertie Wooster #Wooster/jeeves #bertram wooster #bertram Wooster/reginald Jeeves

[shittywriterbrain]

#brilliant bertie brilliant #jeeves and wooster

[hattersarts]

Jeeves & The Inherent Homoerotic Nature of Becoming a Mans Valet

#jooster #jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

#jeeves and wooster #i want to watch tumblr go rabid i want to watch ao3 overflow with jeeves/wooster fanfiction #yes obviously the fandom EXISTS but it's a cozy little neighborhood #a handful of talented artists and writers doing their best to keep their charming little village going #but i'm tired of cozy i want this fandom TRENDING #I WANT TO SEE THIS ON MY DASHBOARD PEOPLE #i swear to you if they made a shiny new tv series tumblr would absolutely obsess over these characters. good omens levels of obsession #it's just such a great dynamic! the good-natured overly-trusting bumbling idiot in constant need of rescuing! #the stoic all-knowing genius who quietly masterminds mayhem in order to protect this one moron he's devoted himself to for some reason #jeeves as a morosexual is just such a beautiful interpretation of the original text #wooster as a happy-go-lucky himbo who stumbles his way into a relationship with a protective caring and supremely competent mastermind #the angst and social complexities of a same-sex cross-class relationship in turn-of-the century london! #oh AND half the stories are about jeeves helping wooster get out of engagements/desperately avoid marriage #two men who live together constantly scheming to maintain their bachelorhood. this is quite literally the main plot point #the gay subtext is there! the gay subtext is there and very ripe for picking!!! #this thing is LOCKED AND LOADED we can pounce literally any time

[probablyday]

I don't know that the canonical Bertie Wooster could be called "progressive" (or "politically engaged" or "aware of anything that's going on outside of his immediate sphere of acquaintances with funny nicknames") but you can't argue he wouldn't support gay marriage. Bertie Wooster neither likes nor understands straight marriage, but he fights for his friends who inexplicably want to do that.

#bertie wooster #ally to heterosexuals #jeeves and wooster #pg wodehouse

[jeevesandwoosters]

#myedits #joosteredits #jeeves and wooster #reginald jeeves #bertie wooster #jooster #rockmetteller todd #stephen fry #hugh laurie #john fitzgerald jay

[not-jeeves]

#insane #s01e04 #jeeves and wooster #*

[archers-gauntlet]

#jeeves and wooster #s1e4 #AG is posting things again

[speedwayy]

threatening divorce (!!) over the woostache

#jeeves and wooster

[aspiring-creative-person]

This is such a nice clip 🥹 I just like it you know?

Friends :)

#Jeeves and Wooster #Jeeves and Wooster clip #jooster #Jeeves/wooster #jnw #Jeeves #Wooster #reginald jeeves #bertie wooster #Bertram Wooster

[fromthemouthofkings]

*rubs hands together and laughs evilly* hoohoohoo my pining repressed 1920s gays are having...not miscommunications, exactly. what do you call it when you very successfully hide your feelings from your love interest but that only makes things Worse?

#jeeves/wooster

[illuteridae]

joosts (this time in color)

#wayahagaghrrhbrhggg (big lump on brain #jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves #rogart

[anotherclassicpretence]

This sent me. The line. The delivery.

#jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #p g wodehouse #hugh laurie #3x03

[hattersarts]

sorry, sorry, sorry, the tv show jeeves & wooster ends in bertie getting engaged to two women by accident (he asked neither) being forced into a wedding day due to manners, jeeves then rescues him via a "does anyone know why these two should not marry" themes scene in the church. also included wistfully looking out the window on the day of the wedding waiting for jeeves to return with the evidence needed to cancel the wedding and bertie having a look of absolute joy as he's standing by the alter and jeeves enters the church door to decalres he doesnt have to go ahead with the wedding. hello???????????????

also haunted by images of the midnight strolls in the gardens that are very popular in fics

#jeeves and wooster #jooster #still only watched 3 eps but they've involved some insanely subtexty things #reginald jeeves #bertie wooster #my only proper hc at this point is that jeeves would call bertie bertram and bertie would call him reggie bc the spin on each others names #but in their own taste is cute