You know how in Right Ho, Jeeves, one of Bertie’s ideas is that even if a woman is angry with her beloved, she’ll jump to his defense like a tigress defending her cub if someone else attacks him? Well, in Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen, Jeeves returns from his aunt’s house—where he’d spent the night because he was in a snit about Bertie’s latest engagement—to find Bertie tied up by the antagonists of the week. After this he becomes completely cooperative again and redirects his previous coldness toward Bertie’s captors instead
What I’m saying is that it took nine books, but it looks like the tigress gambit finally worked
you know what sometimes i wonder if the other people in jeeves and wooster know bertie is a fictional character. the way they're always putting him into situations
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
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.
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