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[thirstyrobot]

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

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[thirstyrobot]

Oh, Gala! ♥ This one has a special place in my heart as my first-ever non-fluffy Jooster. I have always been fascinated with their pre-canon lives and the possibility that they could have run across each other, not out of the realm of possibility because Jeeves has worked for people that Bertie is connected to. My other fascination is with Jeeves-as-servant, i.e. as a part of the below-stairs social microcosm and how that whole "other half" would see Bertie. Which maybe makes it a little weird that this is Bertie's POV since I'm so interested in that but only give it a passing glance, but it's why I set up Bertie coming upon the malingering servants the way he did.

It was important to me, too, that Bertie's first interaction with Jeeves show a bit of the special Jeevesian magic right away, and therefore we have the invisibly-struck lighter. And the instantaneous connection through gaze and the slightest touch--there's something so intimate to me about a man lighting another man's cigarette, that close moment of leaning over and careful attention.

And that moment was the same to both of them, by the by. The whole little fic grew out of an image that popped into my head of Jeeves standing in shadows watching Bertie play (it will be no surprise given how often pianos pop up in my fics that Hugh Laurie has made an irrevocable impression on my personal Bertie), and he's absolutely rapt and holding his breath without knowing it. It's always in the back of my mind to write Jeeves's side of this but it's just never quite happened.

[nox_candida]

Gala is one of my faves precisely because it's a sort of what if they'd met earlier (which is one of my interests, too). lol, and you're such a tease: I would die if you wrote this from Jeeves's point of view. :D Still, this was some awesome commentary. Thank you for doing it. :)