[Jeeves & Wooster] Fic: Sorting Out the Dance Card (Index Post)

[mercyrobot]

Well, this is it, kids. The Thing. I hesitate to call it a novella/novel; it's more like the world's longest one-shot in terms of structure.

I don't know most people's preferences about how much they want to be surprised vs. how much they want to know in advance, so you can highlight where indicated if you like.

Title: Sorting Out the Dance Card
Pairings: Bertie/Jeeves, (highlight for more if you don't like surprises) *with small sides of Bertie/Stinker, Bertie/OMC, some past Jeeves/OMC(s), and Marion Wardour/OFC.*
Rating: strongish R overall
Words: 61,000 and some change
Summary: An overheard conversation changes everything. Histories, mysteries, romance, and a dive or two into the soup.
Warnings: Nothing huge, but (highlight) *there's one bit that mentions what could be construed as dubcon, but nothing explicit.*
Disclaimer: I own nothing. You can probably play literary-reference bingo with this, but in the grand Wodehouse tradition, absolutely nothing is cited. 
Notes: Serious, serious massive beta-thanks, gold stars, kittens, and cookies to storyfan, without whom you probably wouldn't have seen this for another year. I must also thank random_nexus and chaoschick13 for staunch support and just general good-eggishness. I ♥ you guys.

Part 1: Of Harpoons and Anonymous Crumpets
Part 2: Stiff Upper Lip, Bertie
Part 3: A Little Flutter
Part 4: Playing To the Audience
Part 5: Fantasie Impromptu
Part 6: Ticking Off Stinker
Part 7: More Fuel to the Fire
Part 8: Book Marks

Or download/view the whole fic: .pdf (fancier-looking) or html (plain vanilla with formatting & images).

Comments

[randomslasher.livejournal.com]

New to the fandom and as such late to the game, but I had to tell you how incredible this story is. Though I'm sure you've heard it dozens upon dozens of times--and if you haven't you should--it was everything it should have been, fifty times over. I admit I'm a sucker for long, drawn-out, angsty unrequited things that then turn out happily, and this was purely perfect. Better than chocolate! Bertie's voice was perfect, and your Jeeves broke my heart. I also admit I sometimes have trouble with Jeeves post-declaration, when he drops formality and whatnot (it's uncharted territory--no matter how beautifully one writes formal Jeeves, there's no real standard or source after which to model relaxed Jeeves), but in this case it felt 100% spot-on. Which made it all the more toe-curling, I have to add.

This is definitely going to be printed and perused repeatedly, and I knew it'll quickly take its place as one of my all-time favorite fics in any fandom.

Thank you so much for writing this!