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

Comments

[missfoxie.livejournal.com]

*splutters at that new & improved quote*

Much improved.

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

To be absolutely and totally fair about that DLS line I heard it on Radio 4 (probably Front Row though I can't swear to it) in around 1976 0r 1977 and then I did leap to the conclusion that Lord Peter must have been a stunning boy soprano. 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, and from my history lessons I knew slavery had been abolished in 1807.

Obviously I was being stupid, but I didn't think so at the time.

[marginaliana]

I have therefore started proper work on the infamous Wimsey/Potterverse Mpreg

*cheers*

Also, ought I to force myself through Thrones, Dominations just for hilarity purposes, or is it so bad that it can't even be so-bad-it's-good?

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

Elbows Troy aside and puckers lips. Oh, and giggled at your T&D threesome.

[tree_and_leaf]

*boggles, and wonders what Harriet would say* Though I suppose it's not that much more implausible than T&D - though surely Peter wouldn't really be bad mannered enough to commit his wife to a threesome without asking first?

[threerings.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHA.

I don't know which I like more, your opening line or the idea of improving Thrones, Dominations with threesomes.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

George the intrepid, that symbol of pluck

Wow! I was halfway through that article before realising that it probably wasn't a joke. I suspect The Unknown Poet has been done a major disservice by his translator - given that Holes is capable of translating the strictly constrained forms of Bedouin poetry into the much more accessible "if Ah'm the ruttin stallion - they're the hairs on mah testicles!" (George W. of the Arab leaders), why on earth did he opt for such dreadful doggerel in Galloway's case? "Pluck", forsooth! It sounds like a parody Kipling/Enid Blyton crossover from line one.

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

I wandered (lonely as a cloud) over here from...somewhere. Was lookin' for some fic, don't you know.

I must say the threesome comment made me snort water right up the beak. Mother would be horrified. (And then we'd have to explain to her what it was.)

Smashing in a hilarious sort of a way, though. Somehow I can't imagine Bunter unclothed. I do believe he formed from the very ether, completely kitted out, bowler and all.

And everyone knows bowlers in the bedroom are just no go.