I want to see a Bertie tumblr.Jeeves, kitten, kitten, selfie, Jeeves, selfie with Jeeves, picture of MacKintosh, piano video, Jeeves, kitten, selfie with affectionate-looking Jeeves, Jeeves, love-poetry quotation, Jeeves, Jeeves, selfie with annoyed-looking Jeeves, picture of Gussie’s newts, picture of natty ties in shop window, kitten, Jeeves…
text post about his aunts coming soon followed by requests to stay with followers for a fortnight to avoid her, Jeeves, selfie with Jeeves in background, reblogged reaction gifs of people running/screaming/reacting in horror tagged ‘aunt agatha’, kitten, Jeeves, quote from Jeeves, mysterious text posts in the vein of ‘Note to s: Be wary of Wickhams and waterbottles.’ youtube video of the Drones playing water polo that cuts to Barmy asking where the horses are…
Can you imagine Bertie with a smartphone, though? Taking photos of Jeeves the moment he opens the door, hoping to catch a rare sighting of Jeeves surprised ‘on film’. Taking videos with only consist of Jeeves doing something mundane and Bertie talking like you do to your cat who stopped doing something interesting the moment you began recording. ”You were just doing it! Please?” “No, sir.” There’d be videos his friends took, Claude and Eustace’s selfies after they stole the thing for a while (which he puts on Tumblr upon recovery of the phone, captioned as ‘Dirty Thieves - Wanted For Crimes Against The Code of The Woosters Do not approach, and be careful when thinking, in the spirit of familial charity, that you might lend a cousin in need the quick usage of your mobile.’)
I would love Bertie with a tumblr. It might be interesting to see an AU in which modern technology plugged right along, but the whole serving class thing vanishing did not. I’d love to see Bertie interact with this technology, but there are few ways to bring Jeeves and his position forward in time with him other than just pretend it still exists or invent some weird ‘personal assistant’ or something.
bertie’s fashion blog~~~~~
all kinds of posts with awesome ties and really fantastic shoes and unbelievable jackets and wow wow
and then they are all mysteriously deleted
‘this tumblr thing, jeeves, perhaps it’s not for me… why do you suppose all my posts keep bally deleting themselves?’
'i could not speculate, sir’I HAVE NEVER BEEN TEMPTED TO START AN RP BLOG BEFORE
As to bringing Jeeves and Wooster into modern times without losing the necessary period elements, well, I figure if Steampunk can have complex aircraft and sentient robots powered by teakettles, and Urban Fantasy can have fae in the London Underground and swordfights on Brooklyn Bridge, then a modern Wodehouse AU can have servants. Jeevespunk.
YES, SO MANY PICTURES of ties and shoes and hats and coats… with Jeeves replying to most of them with “NO, SIR,“ or just making them disappear.
When Bertie visits Aunt Dahlia he has to blog every course of Anatole’s cooking, with lavishly complimentary captions, much to the chagrin of all of his followers who aren’t there to taste it. Aunt Dahlia, of course, has a tumblr called Milady’s Boudoir.
Gussie has a very detailed blog about his newts. Madeline has a blog that’s supposed to be poetry, but is mostly full of pictures of bunnies, and collected “evidence” that faeries are real. Bingo Little has had about ten different tumblrs, and for some strange reason has deleted all of them except for the most recent one, which is called Bingo Round the Rosie.
HA, Bertie would probably liveblog reading mystery novels, the way I do with his books. “Mysterious footsteps coming from the attic now. Butler trying to stash the evidence until safe for disposal, no doubt.”… “Can’t believe it! Turned out to be [SPOILERS!] (Read More)…”
Good grief, I HAVE TO STOP.
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