#wodehouse

[crawlingbetweenearthandheaven]

The Code of the Woosters, PG Wodehouse, 1938

#pg wodehouse #Wodehouse #p. g. wodehouse #jeeves #jeeves and Wooster #Keats #ode to autumn #british literature #literature #bookblr #now reading #dark academia

[probablyday]

Followed you, anyone who is deeply dippy about Plum is my sort of mutual. Now you have me imagining a millennial Ukridge investing in bitcoin.

I'm pleasantly stunned by the amount of Wodehouse appreciation on this site! Sure, I'll write you some Ukridge

#ask box #woosterposting #but not really #pg wodehouse #ukridge #pastiche #crypto bros #buttcoin #wodehouse

[joomju]

Just read Jeeves and Wooster for the first time in yeaaaaars.

I love how as a way to indicate "Yes, I'm listening, this is great, please continue" they interrupt each other to offer up synonyms, and alternate metaphors to describe the situation. So good.

I really love how Wooster doesn't sit on information (At least in this book, it was Right You Are, Jeeves). Woman still loves man? Good! Go tell the man. Right away. If Wooster had a cellphone half the plot wouldn't work. It's fantastic. It was nice to be able to trust that the main character would do something fairly reasonable, if in a silly way.

I was raised with The Protestant Work Ethic and I remember not liking Wooster much as a teen because he didn't work. He hadn't earned his wealth. The money really should've been Jeeves'. Now, as an adult, I can appreciate the humour more. Wooster is a walking muffin. He should never be in charge of anything more important than the Sunday paper; he never wants to be in charge of anything more important than the Sunday paper; he was lucky enough to inherit enough money that he doesn't have to care about much more than the Sunday paper. Firecracker Aunts notwithstanding.

I liked it more than I thought I would. I was sad to have to send it back to the library without having time to read it again. I've got more books from the library I need to finish, but in a few weeks I can go snag another Wodehouse. It's going to be fun :)

#wodehouse #jeeves and wooster

[infraczern]

I didn't have anything to do so I drew Jeeves. It was rather fast but I haven't really expected anything. Just enjoying my new favourite book and series ^-^

#Jeeves and Wooster #Reginald Jeeves #Jeeves #Wodehouse

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.

P.G. Wodehouse,  Very Good, Jeeves!

#wodehouse #pg wodehouse #quote #femme #beauty #redhead #red #literature #culture

[jumpin--bean]

Read a passage of Reggie Pepper last night and HAD to draw a stupid comic for it 😁 look at him and his lil barely-mentioned valet!!

(og passage is under read more)

Also if you like this guy's vibe PLEASE read this fic about Reggie Pepper & ghosts, it's amazing and also has Bertie Wooster in it:

(thank you @aceredshirt13 for sharing both these things 🙏)

#my posts #my art #j&w #reggie pepper #<- gonna populate that tag one day!! #wodehouse

[tally-ho-hurrah-bravo]

why is bertie blushing and getting heart emotes when seeing jeeves...

#jeeves and wooster #jooster #wodehouse #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves #please jeeves #1920s british posh yaoi?

[aceredshirt13]

So as I was looking through Madame Eulalie’s Jeeves and Ukridge story transcriptions, I thought it was interesting that so many of the magazine advertisements mentioned the character of “Archie” being popular. Thus, I had to investigate, and by now I’ve read a little under a third of Indiscretions of Archie, the novel that rewrites and compiles all the short stories about Archie Moffam (pronounced “Moom” because of course it is). And I… wow, well, let’s just say I was not quite expecting it to be the way it is.

You know how there’s a subset of Jeeves fandom who believes Bertie and Jeeves were in World War One together, and that Bertie’s cheery narration is hiding the fact that he was traumatized from it? What if I told you that there is a cheery, ditzy Drones Club-esque Wodehouse protagonist who is actually, canonically, a former officer and veteran of the war? Who gets into absurd shenanigans involving colorful swimsuits and stealing adorable, amiable reptiles, and doesn’t even realize a robbery is occurring when it’s blatantly obvious, but also recognizes an automatic pistol on sight (a weapon that was, by the way, invented by the German military during WWI), immediately looks for cover whenever he panics as if he’s going to be bombed, and has an old friend who has literally become an alcoholic because of his military service?

Now, the story is still Wodehouse’s characteristic brand of wacky comedy, and I will certainly not deny that it is very funny in many ways. (So far Peter, the friendly, optimistic, stolen pet snake, has got to be my favorite Wodehouse character of all time.) It is ultimately about a silly guy who loves his wife and whose father-in-law thinks he’s an idiot who needs to get a job - and all the pitfalls that come with him attempting to get said jobs to please him when he’s never worked in his life. And yet - whether intentionally as unexpected contrast, or just as a result of humor in rather “too soon” poor taste given that it was written barely two years after the war ended - it has this visible and unmistakable undercurrent of tragedy. The fact that the war’s indelible effect on the characters is present without being fully delved into, but hovers starkly in the background, makes it genuinely more upsetting than if it was addressed directly. You get the sense that the Wodehousian world is trying to be its regular goofy self, but fundamentally it cannot - that Archie himself is the archetypal silly little guy, but that his chatty, slightly nervous optimism cannot fully overtake these horrors that he’s experienced - like he, and the narrative at large, are suppressing this collective darkness.

Or maybe I’m just overthinking it. But regardless, I think a certain genre of Jeeves fan might take some interest in this book. Seems like the sort of thing fandom would run with - and run very far.

#red randomness #jeeves and wooster #indiscretions of archie #wwi #wodehouse #p. g. wodehouse #archie moffam #I need to actually read more of the book but I’ve been losing it for over a week #but yeah the contrast is a bit. jarring to say the least #cannot believe that a dude named fucking Squiffy has a drinking problem because of his war wounds #the more I read I’m like. how much of Archie’s ditziness is truly him and how much is dissociation? #regardless this guy is definitely not okay

[unhingedhyacinth]

P.G Wodehouse's books are something you need to just drink in and enjoy. There's no use analysing his work, simply because they're not fit for analysis.

#pg wodehouse #jeeves and wooster #wodehouse #books #booklover #comedy books #humour books #humour

[funnuraba]

#wodehouse #jeeves and wooster #note the 'comparatively' - bertie is the overarching boke

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

I’m a top P. G. Wodehouse blog! What an honour!

#shall I follow myself? #I do say some very interesting things #literature #booklr #p. g. wodehouse #pg wodehouse #p g wodehouse #Wodehouse #reginald jeeves #jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #the inimitable jeeves

[chekhov-and-chill]

“Oh, well, tra-la-la” - “precisely, sir” I love them

#Jeeves and Wooster #Jeeves #Wooster #the inimitable Jeeves #wodehouse #pg wodehouse #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves

[probablyday]

Contemplating writing a full Woosterposting short story but I might need some research time.

Does anyone have some favorite tertiary Wodehouse characters? I may or may not reference them later

#day post #wodehouse #pg wodehouse #woosterposting meta

[whatdoyoumeanitsnotawesome]

BAD SLIDESHOW TIEM

Keeso ain’t Billy Shakes (he’s P. G. Wodehouse)

#letterkenny #jared keeso #jKeesey #pg wodehouse #wodehouse #plum #pelham grenville #original post

[cynosurus]

Psmith on fish in Leave It to Psmith by PG Wodehouse:

To me, Miss Clarkson, from the very start, the fish business was what I can only describe as a wash-out. It nauseated my finer feelings. It got right in amongst my fibres. I had to rise and partake of a simple breakfast at about four in the morning, after which I would make my way to Billingsgate Market and stand for some hours knee-deep in dead fish of every description. A jolly life for a cat, no doubt, but a bit too thick for a Shropshire Psmith. Mine, Miss Clarkson, is a refined and poetic nature. I like to be surrounded by joy and life, and I know nothing more joyless and deader than a dead fish. Multiply that dead fish by a million, and you have an environment which only a Dante could contemplate with equanimity. My uncle used to tell me that the way to ascertain whether a fish was fresh was to peer into its eyes. Could I spend the springtime of life staring into the eyes of dead fish? No!

#Leave It to Psmith #wodehouse #pg wodehouse #psmith #psmith on fish #the fictional character I identify most with? #not because of the fish

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.

- P.G. Wodehouse,  Very Good, Jeeves!  

#wodehouse #pg wodehouse #quote #literature #red hair #redhead #jessica chastain #female #beauty