clockheartedcrocodile:

I’ve been doing some casual research into P. G. Wodehouse lately bc I was curious as to why the Jeeves and Wooster books are Like That, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that my preconceived notions about Wodehouse were wrong! I had always kind of assumed from reading the books that he must have been a closeted gay man, given the kind of dreamy gay wish fulfillment element these books have, but it turns out there’s actually a lot of evidence pointing towards him being asexual, which is so delightful to me bc a lot of what I had taken for dreamy gay wish fulfillment- i.e. a handsome man sweeping into your life to solve all your problems, wryly put up with your idiosyncrasies, and rescue you from an endless series of women and miserable coerced engagements with quiet, competent affection- also makes so much sense coming from a man who was most likely ace.