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[mercyrobot]

Totally stolen from blackletter, because you know how much I love blathering about ficcing!

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

All my stuff is on this tag and anything is fair game. C'mon, you know you want to.

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[queen-fiend.livejournal.com]

Fic blathering is always fun! :)

What was about to be a 'steady on, Jeeves,' or similar exclamation-- for there are liberties and then there are liberties-- died on my lips, as said lips were covered by other lips. Jeeves's, to be precise. The Wooster bean is not ordinarily up to quick thinking, but as the fellow I tend to leave the quick thinking to was the one causing the need for it, it managed to come up with the goods. Jeeves had misunderstood me so utterly it was nearly laughable, but I doubted he'd want to be laughed at just now. While I'd been thinking of gliding walks and serene thoughts, of domestic harmony and everything just so, he'd concentrated on the loving hearts and sweet dearness, and had apparently been hoping for some declaration of this s. d. from me for some time.

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

My idea with this one, quite simply (and fairly obviously), was to kind of turn the 'both secretly pining' cliché on its ear. Bertie being as sex-oblivious and innocent as he ever is in that kind of setup, but when the moment comes where the kiss and declaration from Jeeves would bring about the good old epiphany, it doesn't, because Jeeves has totally misread what kind of adoring Bertie's been doing.

And okay, all that's been done too. I almost, at this point where Bertie's copping onto the misunderstanding, had him do the doltish spluttering thing and cause a big old argument. The "choose your own adventure" version of this would diverge depending on whether or not Bertie has the wherewithal not to actually laugh. I think I remember that around the time I wrote this I'd just read one too many things where Bertie was just a little too clueless, so I let him have a clue.

There's two possible endings after the close of this, too-- the happy one where Bertie warms up to it quick-like and falls equally head-over-heels, and the not-so-happy one where he's guiltily going through the motions because he wants Jeeves to stay and wants Jeeves to be happy. And maybe a third (or combination of the two) where Jeeves works out what's happened and it all goes horribly wrong. Maybe in the midst of a painful rift, Bertie finally gets his epiphany, or maybe he doesn't. And maybe he does and it all works out okay, or maybe he does and it still doesn't get fixed. I prefer them to get their happily-ever-after, of course, but I like playing with things that will mean it won't come without a fight.