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Been reading sandwichsapphic's absolutely precious fic Pride and Prejudice, if That's The Word I Want, and couldn't resist but draw these two in regency clothing, it felt necessary Featuring Augustus the cat, of course

#yes i made this my phone background #yes i am freaking out #i will always love you regency bertie and jeeves #jeeves and wooster

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Two more drawings inspired by the same Pride and Prejudice/Jeeves fic from @sandwichsapphic , got a bit carried away at this point, uh huh (ʘ ͟ʖ ʘ)

#pg wodehouse #WOAH!!!!!#i havent been on tumblr in eons so thank you to the ao3 commenter who told me about these #BECAUSE WOAH!!!!!! WOAH!!!!#they are so beautiful #just woah #i cant believe my silly little fanfic inspired such amazing illustrations #thank you to jane austen she's the real important one here #thank you op so much #i just love looking at them

obsessed with bertie's custom numberplate on his stupid yellow car. no wonder his enemies can find him so easily hes driving the world's most conspicuous car with his own fucking initials on it

#jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves #pg wodehouse #also jeeves with his arm around bertie ? ok #i imagine bertie is speeding out of the place and jeeves is trying to ensure he stays INSIDE the car #and bertie is exactly the type of person to choose a yellow car just so he can punch people when they see it #every time he parks outside the drones club every member has at least a dozen bruises by the end of the night

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Thank you, Jeeves!

i did a wee bit of research and you know what's funny? Bertie only uses his middle name THRICE in the whole series! of course this is as far as i can gather, i went through every book/short story collection online and searched for 'Wilberforce' and 'B.W.W.' just to see if he used it for his initials, but actually it only appears four times!

First in The Mating Season (ch 4):

So we immediately know Bertie does NOT like his middle name, much like PG Wodehouse himself!!

Second in Jeeves In The Offing (ch 2):

This is a newspaper announcement that Bobbie wrote for her own devious reasons, not Bertie using it himself.

And finally in Much Obliged Jeeves (ch9):

And again later (ch16):

The second time is also to Aunt Dahlia, so it's more of a funny reference to the earlier convo than anything. I do wonder at what point Wodehouse decided on the horse-christening lore, whether or not he just gave Bertie a goofy middle name as a one-off gag in MS and then decided to make another joke out of it later. We all know Wodehouse is notorious for forgetting his own canon, but it's nice that he remembered both the name AND Bertie's horrifying vision of 'The Voice That Breathed O'er Eden' playing at his wedding.

Anyway, what I've gathered from this is that I totally overuse his middle name, when actually Bertie is rather embarrassed by it! He most often refers to himself as plain old 'Bertram Wooster', or, when in a pinch, 'B. Wooster' or 'Bertram W.' He dare not utter that middle W.

#jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #pg wodehouse #jeeves & wooster #i must add that this was done in like an hour and a half and is totally ready to be corrected #the internet archive search button and crtl f might not be fool proof lol #but i think its one of those moments for me when i realised that just because something is iconic/sticks in my head about wodehouse #does not mean its used all that often #kristen thompson noted that the iconic method of bertie's repetitions between narration and dialogue only happens a handful of times #which really got me because its so funny and tempting to overuse when writing in the wodehouse style #and then a friend once pointed out that bertie doesn't use 'what' nearly so often as you'd think!#he only really adds it at the end of rhetorical questions but again its such a noticable quirk in his narration that i used it too much #so i ttry to avoid it now in my fics... i can have the occasional “what?” as a treat #anyway all this to say i love wodehouse!!!! i love his style and the little details that always stick in your head!!#and correct me if i'm wrong!!!#i checked every novel and short story collection (even EYG lol!) but the search function might've let something slip!!

i can’t believe there was never any elaborate gag about bertie wooster and bobbie wickham having the same initials. not even a mixed up carving on a tree or something

#bobbie has a love interest with the same initials as one of bertie’s fiances #cue mix up with a letter addressed from “b.w.” or something #i know her name is roberta technically but bertie calls her bobbie #now imagine him sending a telegram like BW ENGAGED!! HUZZAH!!#and jeeves losing his mind #reginald jeeves #bertie wooster #pg wodehouse #jeeves and wooster #j&w

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Too old to break free, still young enough to be unworthy

I can't recommend this fic enough. It's a breathtaking painting with words.

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Also, there was mention of wildflowers but not which kind, so I chose these for their symbolism (all native to England for bonus points):

Musk mallow - softening of the heart, consumed by love

Wood anemone - anticipation

Cornflower - hope in love, devotion

Chicory - perseverance, endless waiting

Yarrow - everlasting love

#jeeves and wooster #oh it’s so beautiful #THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!#this is too kind and too wonderful #i mean look at the flowers #the ones you choose are just perfect #“perseverance endless waiting” that’s it that’s the whole fic #and of course devotion is a byword for jeeves AND bertie #oh and the rain dripping from bertie’s face and hands to jeeves’s feet #i love this so much i am in awe #AMAZING!! <3

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I am sorry to everyone who tagged me in some tag game and I never responded. I saw it and thought “aww they thought of me” and proceeded to forget about it right after

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I don't know what the applicability of this data is, if any, but it can't be denied that it does exist now, so you guys can look at it if you want

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#wait am i understanding things correctly in that there are more instances of 'bertie' in ring for jeeves than in the mating season?#acting on the assumption that the mating season is the first third of that bar and ring for jeeves the second third#which doesn't quite seem like it'd make sense

You are absolutely correct, actually, I had forgotten that in the third omnibus, RfJ is listed second on the cover but on the inside the order of it and TMS are switched (judging by this and the general number of typos in them, I kind of think the omnibuses - omnibi? - were thrown together in a bit of a slapdash manner). I will correct this in the original post! However, I did run the program on both books individually, and those plots might be of interest!

I added the word "Jeeves" this time as well, and I think that's interesting because you can see where there are no "sir"s but quite a high number of "Jeeves"s, and that's where Bertie is talking about Jeeves when Jeeves isn't around!

#this is so amazing #actually a lot less ‘indeed’ than i would have assumed #but when they do crop up they’re kind of bunched together #presumably it’s jeeves repeating “indeed sir” at bertie’s ramblings #now i need to find out how many times the ‘lark is on the wing’ bit is used cause it’s at least twice every book lol #jeeves and wooster #thank you for this it’s so fun

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Poor sketch of a my fav writers fic (@ sandwichsapphic)

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#HOLY SHIT!!!!#i saw this when i was at work and it literally kept me going for the whole shift #the letters in the lighting???? its so beautiful #THE RUBBER DUCK AHH!!#oh this is so beautiful amazing wonderful #its literally perfect #thank you so much i am. overjoyed #my little old fic! getting gorgeous art! losing my mind #jeeves & wooster #oh i just love the leg sticking over the bath too the posing is just perfect #dont even get me started on jeeves in his shirt sleeves #LOOK AT THIS!!!!

bertie hyphenates his surname when he gets married so he can keep using "we woosters fought at agincourt" but also start saying "you know the jeeves name is synonymous with intelligence" so hes unstoppable in arguments

jeeves obviously still wins most arguments they have but bertram wilberforce jeeves-wooster does try

#jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves #jooster #pg wodehouse #“aunt d remember im a JEEVES of course i have a large brain”#“you MARRIED IN you hound bring me the blood-jeeves”#obviously jeeves would also get to be a wooster and he would ALSO be really annoying about it #just name-dropping every chance he gets when someone pisses him off like “the wooster name is much more historical than yours maam”#you can only imagine how insufferable he would be when bertie becomes lord yaxley #he wants bertie to introduce himself as lord yaxley versus bertie who INSISTS on being mr jeeves-wooster till the day he dies #yes he would put the jeeves name first i wrote a whole fic exploring that idea it makes sense to me

*cracks her knuckles* you asked for this. Don't tell me you didn't. How dare you make a fic of the silly little headcanon I had and then write such a tender piece about it. I was so excited that I kept babbling about the fic. I had to re-explain to my family and non-fandom friends what fanfiction is. I would not shut up about this.

So I made very terrible visuals for you of all the letters and telegrams in 'I Met Him There and Told Him I Believe'. (They should be in order...if not please forgive me.).

I made this painstakingly in my Viewer program because I literally have nothing else. Shout out to Unsplash for copyright free pictures and the Call of Cthulhu fandom for making a handy dandy machine for telegrams. I did add the GR myself (which is probably very obvious). I fell down a rabbit hole and combed through the UK post museum site to uncover which logo UK telegrams used before 1935. (It was surprisingly interesting! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Anyway after this frenzy I am gonna take a business day to get my scattered thoughts together and write you a proper review on AO3. <3

(If you spot a mistake I will make you a new visual)

I am in tears over this. How dare YOU come in here and make beautiful visuals for my fic that wouldn't even have existed if you hadn't given me the idea! The telegrams!! Oh this is so exciting. They look exactly like I imagined!!

Thank you so much for this!! The hand-writing is so perfect for Jeeves, and I actually had to set down my phone seeing them all laid out like that. The amount of work this must've taken, I can't believe it. It's so beautiful. <3

#jeeves and wooster #these are edits for my fic on ao3!#arent they just amazing!!!!#I had to share them with everyone because they deserve recognition