I almost don’t want to know the context because I feel like it would ruin the magic.

It was an image of Jeeves covered in text in the style of that “Look at this motherfucking dog” thing that went around in like… 2010.  Most of it I found pretty meh but ‘Toodle-fucking-pip’ is the song of my people, holy shit.

indigobluerose:

ladyyatexel replied to your post:Yeah, when it comes down to it, you know Jeeves…

There were discussions many moons ago on LiveJournal about this undercurrent of sinister that exists in Jeeves if you think about him too hard. I always find it really intriguing. That dude could fuck ALL the shit up, where did he learn it??

I sometimes wonder if he doesn’t have more in common with Garak than we know.  Not necessarily a dark past, but maybe a more complex past than we’re told.

This was part of why one day it hit me super hard that Jeeves and Bertie was a ridiculously similar ship to Garak and Bashir and I had to drag Tinsnip into it too.  I’m pleased to see so many parts of dash falling headlong into it too, haha.

I read a fic once I think that had assigned Jeeves a darker past than one would think possible in a Wodehouse world, and I enjoyed it for the time I read the fic at least, but I like at least the idea of ‘complex’ covering it without doing too much to the structure of the canonical world.    He seems much like Garak in that he has skills that seem to fall outside his job description and that he watches and logs away EVERYTHING. 

Jeeves knows everyone’s family tree, and he knows their butler’s family tree and he gets a ridiculous amount of information from this wacky grapevine of seemingly underground informants.  Encyclopedic knowledge of music, poetry, classical literature… Even considering the sort of standard classical education that someone may have received then, it is still fucking impressive. Add that to incredibly random knowledge about animal classification and modern art and the TV series showing him quite good with the piano as well as shit like acting, makeup, darts, high class social conversation…

I’ve said it of Garak far more often, but it seems to apply to Jeeves too: the man is a fucking geisha.

Or maybe none of this falls outside of 'valet’ and it really is just like, you train to be a valet by taking on the skill sets and knowledge of at least two people.

(I like to think about this with regard to real people, sometimes. That what we see of people on tumblr is just a facet and that I probably follow someone who can weld like a motherfucker but it never turns up on their blog.  Or someone who is really into collecting something that we never hear about, something like that.  Perhaps I know someone with encyclopedic knowledge about something. Perhaps I’m that person to someone else and I don’t know it!  …I’m probably not Jeeves, though.)

okay so the whole post it is from seems a bit over done but “Toodle-fucking-pip!” is delighting me in the deepest crevices of my heart