#wimseys

[vinca-majors]

adore | lady mary wimsey x charles parker

The first thing she notices is that he radiates calm, as though he is the eye of the storm and no matter how winds rage and debris flies, the chaos cannot touch him. The second thing she notices, though it will be some time before she realizes she knows it, is that his eyes are brown. If Mary cared anything for kindness she might have taken a closer look at him, but she has no time for the romance of kindness, and her starving, brittle, betrayed heart rejects it outright. Kindness never killed a dragon. She is fighting for their lives. Lady Mary Wimsey falls in love with her life, her family, and Detective-Inspector Charles Parker.

#lord peter wimsey #dorothy l. sayers #mary wimsey #charles parker #wimseys #fic: mine #edit: mine #writing: mine #fanfic #the truest angst is in imaginative character x unimaginative character #one wishing and hoping and praying #the other sternly telling himself 'not in your wildest dreams!!' exactly 1x & never reassessing the situation bc not in his wildest dreams #and that is what dorothy sayers gave to me with this ship

[fromthedeskofcripslock]

This really ought to top every “Best Opening Lines,” list. The 21st century reading public is sleeping on Dorothy L Sayers.

(Have His Carcase 1932)

#harriet vane #dorothy l sayers #have his carcase #lord peter wimsey #golden age mystery #authoresses #authors

[aceredshirt13]

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

#red randomness #acd holmes #poirot #lord peter wimsey #sherlock holmes #hercule poirot #peter wimsey #100 and up neat #the contrast in resulting authorial attitudes also ends up being somewhat amusing #christie basically wanting to kill poirot but going 'i gotta give the people their pompous little guy. and also it's money.' #doyle constantly wishing people would read his other worse books #and then sayers comes in like 'hey remember the guy i kept comparing to a slug? yeah i'm marrying him to my self-insert'

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Father Brown: Beneath the foolish-seeming exterior there lies an analytical, supremely sympathetic man.

Lord Peter Wimsey: Beneath the foolish-seeming exterior there lies an analytical, supremely sympathetic man. Beneath him there lies another very silly man, except this one reads Donne.

#lord peter wimsey books #lord peter wimsey series #lord peter wimsey #lord peter #dorothy l sayers #g k chesterton #gk chesterton #g. k. chesterton #father brown #the complete father brown series

[elodieunderglass]

Friend and I were pondering the curious specificities of the Permitted Aristo

#lord peter wimsey #creeping yellowly into your nightclubs #where you sneakily drink skimmed milk #so lovable so weird #pondering upon the curious predictions of the 1930/ #the cheerful conviction of a socialist revolution and #the certainty that social order would reverse #it’s also interesting that Peter being born in the 1890s #is picturing himself in the 1980s or 1990s here #communist British scallywags and punks sneaking off to drink raw milk #go off girlies!!!

[wormtimenow]

Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane my beloved

#harriet vane #lord peter wimsey #I don’t know how to tag the adaptation this is from #because the title is super vague #but it’s the 1987 tv adaptation #these sketches are from when I watched the Have His Carcase episodes #so I guess #have his carcase #dorothy sayers

[thesarahshay]

Dorothy Sayers in 1932: "Church clocks and bodies in belfries are rather overdone lately."

Dorothy Sayers in 1934: lol jk I have a new special interest so strap in

#dorothy sayers #lord peter wimsey #have his carcase #the nine tailors

[mywingsareonwheels]

All of the comparisons with Poirot etc. are valid, especially considering the Agatha Christie influences on both Knives Out and (especially) Glass Onion, but actually the Golden Age detective Benoit Blanc most reminds me of is Lord Peter Wimsey. Especially with the epic obfuscating chattiness/stupidity. Blanc turns up his Southern Hokeyness to eleven when he wants people to underestimate him; Wimsey turns up his Upper-Class Twit, for the same reasons and in the same way. (And in both cases it’s a play on their own real mannerisms and accent, but they deploy it as a shield and a weapon.) Both are epically courteous, polite, and friendly, but you Do Not Want To Piss Them Off by being horrifying.

Also if anyone wants to write a backstory for Benoit/Philip in which Benoit saves Philip from a false accusation of murder and Philip spends years unsure whether he wants to get together with this man who saved him because gratitude is a terrifying burden, etc... omg I would read the fuck out of that. :D

#benoit blanc #benoit x philip #knives out #glass onion #lord peter wimsey #dorothy l sayers

[vinca-majors]

clouds of witness was the first LPW book i ever read, and even after umpteen rereads this page always feels like coming home ♡

#something kind of special about this being set in November 1923 and reading it in November 2023 ♡ #clouds of witness #lord peter wimsey #dorothy leigh sayers #wimseys

[leojurand]

funny thing about me reading all of peter wimsey and adoring it: i don't like mysteries. and this series didn't change my mind! i still didn't care much about the crime-solving in these books. that's not why i read them. i decided to try the series despite the genre because i always saw sayers's name mentioned at the same time as dunnett's, so i had to at least try. and what kept me going was the great writing and peter himself.

sayers had a gift for writing witty dialogue. if i had to think of an author who's on the same level as her when it comes to that, i would struggle. and you kinda need to be a master at writing witty dialogue if you have a main character like peter winsey. peter!! i think, while reading the series and talking about it on twitter, my most common reaction: peter my best friend :). one of the most lovable and maybe the most delightful protagonist i've ever had the pleasure of reading about.

i didn't always feel 100% connected to him. one of the things i dislike about mystery fiction is that (in my opinion) it's very episodic and so there's no overarching plot, and the characterization doesn't really take center stage. ask me about one favourite peter moment from bellona club or nine tailors and i could not tell you.

but the thing about this series is, it does end up having a sort of overarching plot that sees it's main characters grow and change and kinda gets them out of the "mystery of the week" formula that i think can make characterization stagnant. and that's the harriet vane storyline.

i can't tell how much better harriet makes peter (and i don't need to tell you because if you've read it, you know). seeing peter from the outside, or from the inside but in this situation that changes his priorities so much, was so good. their banter, their chemistry, their misunderstanding, the way harriet perceives peter, from her repressed feelings to her protectiveness and unconditional love. all of it makes peter a much more compelling character. not to say he wasn't before, because i adored peter from book 2 onwards. but harriet always brought the best in him.

i could say a million things more, but tl;dr is sayers has become one of my all time favourite authors, i will never forget peter wimsey, and i'm both incredibly happy to have read this series and so sad that it's over. now what :')

#book stuff #lord peter wimsey #busman's honeymoon my beloved

[gwydpolls]

Lucian's Library 3

Feel free to suggest never written books you wish you could read.

Option slightly shaved to fit the format.

#Patrick Rothfuss #The Kingkiller Chronicle #The Sandman #Terry Pratchett #The Mystery of Edwin Drood #Charles Dickens #Hilary Mantel #Shirley Jackson #Elizabeth Gaskell #A Mansfield Park #Jane Austen #Patrick O'Brian #Aubrey–Maturin series #C.S. Lewis #Agamemnon #Dorothy L. Sayers #Lord Peter Wimsey #Kubla Khan #Samuel Taylor Coleridge #Christopher Marlowe #Kit Marlow

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

#literature #booklr #hilarious #meme #dorothy l sayers #lord peter wimsey series #lord peter wimsey #Lord Peter #Lord Peter wimsey books #lpw #murder must advertise

[skyriderwednesday]

Finished Gaudy Night. Let me assure you that the only reason I'm not screaming is that it's quarter past midnight and my parents are sleeping.

#dorothy l sayers #lord peter wimsey #gaudy night #FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[e-louise-bates]

Whilst in Oxford, I also did a bit of homage-paying to Dorothy L Sayers—found Balliol on purpose, stumbled across her birthplace on accident. Both delightful!

#dorothy l sayers #lord peter wimsey #balliol college #oxford

[agardenandlibrary]

Is it okay to cry about Bunter taking care of Peter Wimsey during a war flashback? Asking for me.

#its too late anyway i cried about it #whose body? #dorothy Sayers #lord peter wimsey

[dduane]

Status report, fictional experiences dep't

In the middle of an extended watchthrough of Jeeves & Wooster on YouTube, and have reached that at least semi-blessed state where the whole thing has reduced itself to a general sense of people chasing one of the protags around various grand English estates screaming "Bertie? Bertie!" or "Wooster!!!"

#Jeeves & Wooster #binging #am running out of this though #it'll be Lord Peter Wimsey shortly