Oh for crying out loud!

[nineveh_uk]

“He had once owned the finest lyric soprano in Europe” does not refer to Peter Wimsey’s having been a particularly gifted boy treble. Not even as a pun.

Meanwhile, the WIP is still being recalcitrant. Fine, Troy, if you don’t want to be snogged senseless by Mr Scotland Yard 1938, back in the queue you go. I have therefore started proper work on the infamous Wimsey/Potterverse Mpreg, though don’t expect it any time soon. For one thing, it may take me a little while to recover from the horrors of the research.

Still a few of the prompt-based drabbles to go, but nearly there. This prompted me to think (via circuitous neural pathways) first how much Thrones, Dominations might be improved by zombies, and then how much Thrones, Dominations might be improved by almost anything.

For example, from p. 305:

‘All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well,’ said Peter, returning to her half-an-hour later. ‘You were quite right, Harriet; it is surprisingly easy to solve things by a little straight talking between intelligent adults if one can only throw off the shackles of tradition. Bunter has agreed not to get married and to stay, and I have agreed to the occasional threesome.’

Finally, George Galloway praised in traditional Bedouin verse (and remarkable Grauniad spelling):

George the intrepid, that symbol of pluck

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[azdak.livejournal.com]

Mainly because no-one had told me at age 14 or thereabouts that any man could be vulgar enough even to think about claiming he "owned" a woman

Agreed. Peter as choirboy would be a less gut-churningly awful use of "own".

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

For all his estimable qualities, Peter does occasionally show himself a man of his time (as does his creator).

[azdak.livejournal.com]

It's one of the things I love about the books - that there are things which would be a huge deal now, but which DLS is quite unselfconscious about. And some of those moments are merely wonderfully alien (like the casual mention of Mary Thoday's missing front teeth), and others make you go "Oof!" (like the Dowager Duchess's discussion of the Bunter Problem with Harriet, saying "These attached people can be rather difficult", as if he was a particularly possessive dog or something).

Anyway, I bet the soprano saw their relationship in a rather different light, with Peter as her pet English gentleman.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I want to know which ex- kicked him out of bed when he had nightmares.