Mar

Honestly, I don't even know. Oplà.

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Just something based on a drawing trend that was around not long ago. Also, hello Star Trek fandom!! This show is pretty great. Reference under the cut.

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Half finished ACD sketches, one of them a little comic project that has to do with the list Watson writes at the start of their companionship. I’ve always enjoyed the coziness with which the apartment is fondly described and portrayed in both books and movies, so this is a small tribute to domesticity and couches, I suppose.

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Jeeves’ musings regarding his employer.

A short comic, that came from how often Bertie is used and made a fool of in the books and series; of course this is a big comical pillar of J&W, but I started to think of how much it could weight on Bertie, and, after years of service and the deepening of their bond, on Jeeves. Hopefully the writing is decent enough, and I am sure I am not the first to explore such an idea. I will transcribe the text for easier viewing:

“A great number of words has been written on the subject of my employer, Mr. Wooster, and his various misadventures.

Many a gentleman or lady come knocking at our door, calling for my employer's aid...

Whether that be in the form of a favour…

…or, more simply, money.

Mr. Wooster has, for this reason, been described in many accounts (and very often by himself) as foolish, naive, and lacking spine.

On one occasion, I myself must admit to having referred to him as “mentally negligible". This declaration, in truth, revealed much more of my character than that of Mr. Wooster.

For the truth is that Mr. Wooster happens to be kind, instead of brilliantly cutting; good natured, instead of respectably distant; and caring, instead of decorously cold.

No, he’s not a fool at all.

These may not be the traits of the proper gentleman; but they are those of a good man, one I am proud to stand beside.

So I shall strive to follow his example, and be kinder; and be more goodnatured; and (this, in truth, comes easier to me when it comes to him), to show my care, and the regard which I hold for him above all others.”

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From Watson’s notes.

Self-indulgent comic, because I miss the days when all I did was read ACD Holmes stories.

Text of the comics under the cut.

“Me and Holmes frequently went to a small establishment near our lodgings.

We sporadically enjoyed a spot of theatre, which rarely kept the interest of my friend.

He had a most noble profile.

When my friend was in one of his moods- that was the worst of all, for my efforts to aid him in them were mostly unsuccessful.

But when my friend was well… No man could ever hope to match him; and basking in his brilliance was my favourite way to spend an evening.”

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Sketches and fake posters of “The other Bennet sister”, to cope with the fact that it’s over.

Was this… the best series I’ve watched in the last hundred years?? It very well might be. Everyone’s performance was absolutely brilliant.

Its message is also very dear to me. I read the book ages ago and loved it as well. Do yourself a favour and enjoy it for the first time if you haven’t; I wish I could.

I’ll go rewatch it now.

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The Drones’ official badminton match.

A Jeeves & Wooster sketch, as most things that I draw lately are.

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“Amadeo e Dante, circa 1310”

Top 10 dumbest things I’ve ever drawn. Am I aware that they lived two centuries apart? Yes. Did I really want this meeting to happen? Also yes. It’s just fun to imagine them interacting and Dante giving Armand sneak peaks of the Divine Comedy. Also, the clothes were absolutely improvised off a two-minutes search on Pinterest for Amadeo, and my memory of Dante, glaringly obvious though it might be. Sorry!

Close-ups and transcription of the bubbles under the cut.

Amadeo: “Yes, yes, all well and good, but, really Dante, you could’ve spared Paolo and Francesca! Their story has moved me deeply, surely Purgatory was enough!”

Dante: “Amadeo, my friend, I wish I could. But He is clear. A sin is a sin, no matter the amount of love behind it.”

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As usual, silly Jeeves and Wooster sketches, and snippets of a J&W comic I’m scribbling down when I can.

In the last comic I realise my handwriting might be unclear; it says: “And so I finally set sail. The things one does for their valet… But I imagine it’s rather more “the things one does for Jeeves”. Which, I can safely report, are most of them.”

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“You’re a marvel, Jeeves!”, by Bertie Wooster.

Made-up cover of a made-up Jeeves and Wooster book.

In the imaginary world in which this story exists, it’s set in a theatre, and there’s all sorts of shenanigans, including desperate last-minute rehearsals, chaos and bonding in the wings, and the atmosphere that, thanks to its highs and despite its lows, only exists in the making of a show.

Of course, this particular copy is signed by the author himself, with a foreword by Rosie M. Banks.

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More of the silly J&W doodles. They really stave off boredom. The first comic’s text is directly taken from “Fixing it for Freddie”, a short story in which Bertie and Jeeves have a bit of a row (hence the initial coldness from Bertie, but it’s swiftly resolved, no fear).

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A Jeeves & Wooster Bridgerton AU. When I saw the meeting scene in S4 I thought it was very fitting. Parallels, parallels. Something about them and masquerades… What fun!!

Close-ups under the cut.

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From “The aunt and the sluggard”, a J&W short story, in which Jeeves is away for a while. As soon as I read that passage, I wanted to draw something for it. Transcription:

“I got dressed somehow. Jeeves hadn't forgotten a tring in his packing.

Everything was there, down to the final stud. I'm not sure this didn't make me feel worse. It kind of deepened the pathos.

It was like what somebody or other wrote about the touch of a vanishing hand.”

As far as I can tell, the poem Bertie is attempting to quote is “Break, break, break” by Alfred Tennyson. The poem deals with the terrible grief brought on by the loss of Arthur Hallam, the poet’s dear friend.

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“Did I catch you in a fantasy, where the boy somehow fumbles his way to publication? Where (Lestat) strolls past a bookstore, your book displayed in a shop window, where he buys himself a copy, reads your nasty embellishments and comes chasing after you again?” , from IWTV s2ep5.

Sketched this super quickly because I got this idea in my head, of the parallels that could be established if Armand really did check in on Daniel during those years. Guess we’ll see in June.

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Doodles on doodles on doodles. In order: two screenshot (broadly speaking) redraws, a silly comic, a floating tea cup and the infamous pajamas, and a quote from the end of “Much obliged, Jeeves” which I still haven’t read (so really the hand-wavy setting is speculation).

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Sketch of a comic, inspired by the song “Quando finisce un amore” (“When a love story ends”) by Riccardo Cocciante. The text and more about this under the cut.

The version I reference, with switched pronouns, is a cover sung by Mia Martini. The translation from the Italian isn’t very legible, so I’ll transcribe it again:

“And you want to change your face

And you want to get away (translates literally to “change the air”)

And you want to change your name

But you know perfectly well that it would be for nought

Because he’s there

Because he’s there

Because he’s there”

(Arguably it could also translate to “because he exists”, which hurts even more).

The song continues with “he’s there in your bones, in your mind, in your life”. I found it very fitting for a Watson who’s trying to move on during those two years post-fall. Only a sketch for now, I might polish it in the future.

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Lately I’ve been reading and watching a fair amount of Jeeves & Wooster. Tinkety tonk.