#bertie and honoria

[mowiththehat]

“…so you’ll understand why our joining in holy matrimony is impossible,”

concluded Honoria after some lengthy explanation the duration of which I had worried my elbow she’d end this sentence sort of completely oppositely, don’t you know.

“Ah, yes, rather!” I sighed, much relieved. But really, I needn’t have worried. Jeeves’s schemes always end up ending well, in the end. “Topping!”

“You haven’t listened to a word I said, have you, Bertie?”

“I say! Of course I have! That is, I mean to say—”

“Oh, shut it, you ass. The short version is: We can’t marry because I sail for Greece.”

“What! What! When is your ship?”

“Not like that, Bertie,” she said sternly and very much like a General that was disappointed in their soldier. “Good Lord. Haven’t you ever heard of Sappho?”

“The poet beazel?”

“Yes.” Honoria kind of looked at me intently. I gave the lemon a pensive scratch. I thought that perhaps Jeeves had mentioned her once, because he has mentioned almost all of the poets and philosophers and great thinkers to me. Something in the dark and faraway corners of the Wooster brain finally seemed to stir at the fifth-and-a-half scratch.

“Oh! Oh, I see! My word, why didn’t you say so?”

“I just did, you clod. Anyway, I’m telling you now because I rather thought we might be the same in regards to our proclivities.”

“What a preposterous notion! No, no, dearest Honoria, old chum and so on, you’re absolutely wrong! You couldn’t possibly be more wrong if you tried. Me! Love a woman! What a ridiculous idea.”

I barely dodged the steely fist that descended upon me to strike my arm. The second blow no one could have evaded.

“Oh, Bertie!” she laughed and ruffled my hair.

[shittywriterbrain]

honoria sounds great tbh

[promithiae]

Me, watching Bertie Wooster do whatever he can to not marry Honoria Glossop: out of the way, gay boy I'ma bout to get it

[beetle-goth]

[bananapajama87]

JEEVES AND WOOSTER!

Characters in order: Bertie, Jeeves, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Aunt Agatha, Honoria Glossop, Madeline Bassett,Trixie

I love them so so so so much so I did some character designs :3

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Jeeves

Sample Size: 1,173 stories

Source: AO3

[foxofninetales]

The Code of the Wu-sters

So an offhand comment @xcziel made about a Wodehouse DMBJ AU stuck in my head, not because it doesn't work, but because it works too well.  After suffering for weeks under this burdensome knowledge, I really, really feel the need to traumatize other people with the undeniable parallels between Wu Xie and Bertie Wooster.

Heirs to wealthy families with conspicuously absent parents

Just want to have fun but keep getting pulled into various conspiracies.

A book keeps tumbling them into adventure (his grandfather's diary, the Ganymede club book)

Aunts/Uncles who are the bane of one's existence.  (Right down to trying to get him married to a nice suitable girl).  

Both have a tall, dark, quiet, efficient, mysterious, and inexplicably faithful chap who shimmers into existence at times of greatest danger to rescue his idiot.

Everyone is running around in disguise pretending to be everybody else.

Constant references to degree in architecture = constant references to scripture knowledge prize.

[jeevesbattle]

BATTLE OF THE EX-FIANCEES

[vickyvicarious]

From Honoria's perspective, Bertie proposes to her by taking her on a walk, telling her he has a FRIEND, not him okay but a FRIEND OF HIS who completely adores her but is kind of dumb and unworthy of her and shy about openly speaking of his feelings for her, but is a good guy in his own way really, and then ends by saying this:

 "Well, that’s the posish. You might just bear it in mind, what?”

That is very ridiculous and charming. I get why she was laughing but fond.

(And then he shoves her little brother into a river to pretend to save him, right after she says he might fall in and get hurt.)

[petork]

No but for real if there was a Jeeves and Wooster game:

You would play as Bertie and have to progress through boss fights mostly against his fiancées

They all have different attacks, e.g honoria can stun you with a back slap, Madeline cries a river of tears and makes you slip, Florence puts you to sleep by reading from her book

There’s also a Spode boss fight where you have to rescue Gussie. He gives you a newt as thanks. The newt has absolutely no in game use but when you go back to your flat it’ll be in the background.

The final boss is aunt Agatha

Aunt dahlia isn’t a boss but will give you really really hard quests

If you go back to your flat Jeeves will heal you/sort out your inventory etc.

You can buy clothes which have different stats but Jeeves won’t always let you equip them bc he doesn’t like them… you’d have to do side quests/mini games for him to let you

In between boss fights, you mostly do quests set by your idiot friends. Sometimes aunt dahlia or rarely Jeeves give you quests too. Which are really hard

There are optional mini games where you play as Jeeves where you do shit like endurance ironing or chucking stuff out of Bertie’s wardrobe before he comes home

When you beat the game Jeeves gives u a kiss like princess peach. Not that you have to rescue him or anything, he just does it

But if you die to aunt Agatha McIntosh will cock his leg on your corpse.

[sandwichsapphic]

JW as iasip pt2

"the LORRRDD provideth!" bertie whenever jeeves walks in the room

in my head stiffy tuppy biffy bingo honoria and bertie are all besties/worsties

[eirinstiva]

Wet cat

Guess who should be sleeping but is reading a letter on his bed and kicking his feet like a schoolgirl? Me! New letter from my old chap Bertie and, just as I expected, his plan didn't work as he wanted.

Bingo is a wild card, he can be helpful sometimes until he does something that wasn't part of the plan, or he falls in love. Again. At first sight.

I really love this illustration. Bertie looks like my cat when she stays outside in the rain. She does that to be dried by her humans.

I agree with Honoria, Bertie is funny and he wants somebody to take charge of him but not to be molded by his partner. Just ask Jeeves how much he tries to use bold fashion clothes against Jeeves' recommendation.

It's nice to see Jeeves sending cards to Wooster and having a good time just like Bingo and Honoria. Bertie is the one with bad luck.

(Also: Ruskin? John Ruskin? *opens Wikipedia*)

[noandnooneelse]

i didn't quite like aunts aren't gentlemen as much as i would have expected to and i'm not quite sure what exactly it is about it that i didn't like. i mostly liked the beginning, i mostly liked the ending, i think the series was done with much obliged, and this is the sort of Ehrenrunde that wasn't quite necessary. all the old threats to bertie are gone, madeline is married to spode, stiffy bing is married and can't blackmail him anymore, florence thinks he's a criminal and won't marry him, i have completely forgotten what happened to honoria but bertie ends the book un-affianced and about as nicely as anyone could, and while bertie's problems in general have something sisyphean about them, and that is usually a nice thing! we like what wodehouse is doing and now we're reading another one! its somewhat depressing this time when in aunt's aren't gentlemen all the same problems are back, when one would have expected him to be free of all that stuff. i think its that the book breaks the contract of wodehouse for me and i'm not sure if it's because i read it after Ring for Jeeves, which has a very different sort of contract and isn't quite the real world, but it's real world-adjacent, and in aunts aren't gentlemen we're not quite in berties world either, i think. at the end of the day the book isn't any less slapstick than the others, and it isn't that there's a tangible difference - all dangerous situations bertie ends up in are quickly resolved, und während sich in aunts aren't gentlemen genau wie in den anderen büchern auch letzten endes alles in wohlgefallen auflöst it seems to me like the world has gotten a little. meaner. it's like the illusion that keeps wodehouse contained in its own little world isn't quite there in aunts aren't gentlemen, and i can't quite put my finger on what it is, or if its something that the book itself does or if i'm imagining it

[johannestevans]

one thing i love about S1E1 is how jeeves invites the wooster twins and rainsby in is that like. jeeves doesn't know that they've stolen stuff yet that will be valuable in the immediate scheme to deter the glossops

jeeves is establishing his value to bertie and he's ingratiating himself with his immediate friends and family but like

he's gathering data on the drones club, on their personal relationships, getting the low-down on everything

and i just. i love my big manipulative bitch valet man and how he's ALWAYS scheming when bertie isn't there

especially the fact that the scheme puts all the insanity on bertie's shoulders and none on his own - we know the glossops only eat bland food, but if he served stuff with flavour it would reflect badly on HIM as valet and cook

and ditto like. going out "to retrieve our umbrella", aka talk to the the glossops without bertie in earshot so that jeeves can ensure bertie doesn't stay engaged to honoria but also that his own reputation remains sparkling

[cactusspatz]

pre-reveals YT recs

I hardly ever manage to do these before reveals, but I love the anonymous aspect of Yuletide, so I made an effort! Two prior recs here for Goblin Emperor and Nine Worlds, and these are in alphabetical order by fandom:

(Batman: WFA) It Takes a Village

Roy and Jason are pining from afar. Romantic strategery isn't Dick's forte. As per normal, it's a good thing the women are around.

Very cute WFA romcom. I especially enjoyed Lois's contribution.

(Breakfast Club) Mirror Mirror

In which Allison and Claire trade makeovers. Adorable!

(Biggles) In Step

Biggles and von Stalhein are taken prisoner together. Worse: they're handcuffed together.

Chock full of tropes: best enemies! handcuffed together! daring escape! adrenaline fueled sex! pining! Happy Yuletide to me!

(Jeeves & Wooster) Supporting Partner's Suit

Never let it be said that Bertie Wooster will abandon a pal in need, even if that pal is a woman who is temporarily in possession of his body and he doesn’t fully understand what’s going on.

In which Bertie bodyswaps with Honoria Glossop for maximum hilarity and inadvertent lesbian yentaing.

(Knives Out) the most riveting intermission

“Rough day, eh?” Phillip asked. “Confounding. Absolutely confounding,” was how the man chose to answer. “The crux of the matter seems most certainly to be banquet, and yet not a hint of malice was cooked into any of the dishes. No poison in the duck, nothing slipped in the wine. For the life of me, I can’t parse it out.” Phillip stared at him for a moment, before throwing out another handful of rice to the ducks. “I’m sorry, what?”

Adorkable first meeting.

(Princess Tutu) To Dream Upon Paper and Silk

While cleaning the practice rooms at the end of the day, Ahiru comes upon Rue preparing her pointe shoes for the week to come.

Vivid and wistful missing scene. Canon levels of pre-friendship - er, pining for friendship?

(Temeraire) Intercession

During the ragged flight from Istanbul, Granby and an injured Tharkay reach an understanding.

Lovely character piece.

[ravens-and-redcarnations]

Anyone else just... feel sorry for Honoria? Especially in season 4 she just seems lonely. She's having such a good time with Bertie and she's so excited..