Fandom: JEEVES & WOOSTER 
Pairing: gen
Author on LJ: iridaceaena
Author Website: lj fic tag
Why this must be read:

World War II is looming, but this isn't a war fic. iridaceaena, in fact, calls it "an unwar fic," which is just what it is. We've got the same old problems-- Aunt Agatha wants Bertie to marry some girl, Jeeves dispenses with her lecture in pitch-perfect fashion (a bonus is a rare and deft glimpse of a hint that Aunt A. might actually be human), and Bertie wants out of it. Through conversation woven out of Bertie-isms and literary references, we gain a bit of backstory for both Bertie and Jeeves, and an illustration of how protective Jeeves is of Bertie's sunny innocence.

I won't spoil it for you (not that I could really explain it), but the same magic that Wodehouse commands to keep Bertie's world untouched by the serious and the weighty is in force here, and I'm happy to accept it as canon fact.

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Hello! Or possibly I should say what ho! I'm thirstyrobot and I'll be shuttling you about from fic to Jeeves and Wooster fic in a van that looks an awful lot like a '24 Austin. As fic goes, it's a slash-heavy fandom with a near-universal OTP (as seen below), but I'll try to show you a bit of everything along the way.

Fandom: JEEVES & WOOSTER 
Pairing: Jeeves/Bertie Wooster
Author on LJ: triedunture
Author Website: lj fic tag
Why this must be read:

Everything triedunture writes is pretty much an instant classic, and I honestly had a terrible time choosing between them. She has longer fics, more complicated fics, fics that show us the parts of this world that idyllic canon turns a blind eye to, fics that take a left-field premise and make us love it unconditionally.

But I come back to this one again and again, perhaps because of its simplicity. We're along for the ride with a cranky Bertie on one of those holidays he sometimes promises Jeeves for pulling him out of the soup, but that Wodehouse rarely shows us. There is (of course!) a girl that likes Bertie a bit too much, Bertie being endearingly inept in the unfamiliar territory of fishing in Florida, a silly cross-talk misunderstanding, all framed by atmospheric scenery and spot-on canon language.

What really makes it, though, and what triedunture is so unfailingly good at, is the way it gets Jeeves out of his morning coat (both literal and metaphorical) and shows us the man beneath. For me, it began a long love affair with getting to the bottom of Jeeves-the-man, and how Bertie processes what he sees of Jeeves-the-man, and the cautious tenderness that exists between them even when we fanwriters aren't slashing them up.

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