Choose Your Own Adventure (Authors Edition)

[kalichan]

Item: Lord Peter Wimsey.

Sadly Dorothy Sayers wrote Lord Peter mysteries of a finite number, and then moved onto religious plays, and Dante of all things...[and I say, wasn't one infernal poet enough??? I ask you. When the world could have been blessed with tales of Lady Peter (nee Miss Harriet Deborah Vane) and the Wimsey sproglets in WWII to say

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[fmanalyst]

I would actually go from Lord Peter to Dorothy Gilman's Mrs. Pollifax series as having the same sort of quirky, intelligent lead.

[kalichan]

Yet another Not-Read. I will go and investigate forthwith.

[copperbadge]

I would do whatever it took to get Tennant as Wimsey. Whatever it took.

I opted to reject Jill Walsh's continuations of the Wimsey books, but instead to go the UUBERGEEK route of going up to Wheaton IL, where the original MS for Thrones Dominations is stashed, and reading Sayers' version of events. Her handwriting is atrocious but once you get used to it you only have to squint about four times a page.

If I could write mysteries I'd write more LPW fic; I'm pretty good at the piffle but the plot never seems right.

[copperbadge]

Oh and -- someone wrote a Jack/Peter TW/Wimsey crossover, I can rummage around and see if I can find it, if you're interested.

[kalichan]

Um, yes. Very, very interested.

I would do whatever it took to get Tennant as Wimsey. Whatever it took.

Right? Right??? I can't unsee it. Though what would DT look like with primrose locks? Who would be Harriet? Bunter??

I couldn't tell from your fic -- are you Team Harriet, or Team Bunter?

I half three quarters read it for the piffle, I'm afraid. And the characters. And the class/sex/decaying world.

The Walsh continuations are not... great. But they are long. Which is what is lacking in most of the fic I've found. I want something long and meaty to sink my teeth into.

I'm really bad at deciphering handwriting. I took a paleography course once and had to quit in self-defense. Only after I had bled over a 15th c. manuscript, after stabbing myself with a pencil, of course.

[copperbadge]

Tennant would look fine with a deep gold blond, as long as they did his eyebrows and paled him out a little with makeup. He has the nose for it, and Peter's actually quite manic at times. And anyway, if history has taught us anything in re: people playing Peter, it's that the persona is more important than the appearance

[kalichan]

Dunnett post upcoming soon. And yes, David Tennant would feature. (God, I have become obsessed.)

Someone when I was ranting earlier about Tennant playing Lymond suggested the best Francis Crawford would be played by a mashup of Tennant and young David Bowie.

Yeah. Now try and unsee that.

[chiara7]

I'm on the Tennant Bandwagon, waving a bottle of Cockburn '68 or whatever the damn vintage was. I'm with you; I can picture him, and only him

[kalichan]

I'm afraid I have become too obsessed with DT. Nothing good will come of this.

I'll have to dig up the Ian Carmichaels. I've only seen the Edward Petheridge ones. He's good for more sedate Peter; Tennant would be the more frenetic younger chap.

I've read "Daughter of Time" and adored it. But not the others. I'll have to dig her up.

Perhaps there might be more manuscripts in my future, but I'm not sure it's where my talents lie, and it wasn't as romantic as I thought it was going to be. Fortunately they don't make pencils out of lead anymore. ;-)

[ophymirage]

waving a bottle of Cockburn '68 or whatever the damn vintage was

WAVING? You'll stir up all the lees in the bottom!!

Bunter *blanches in horror and fury* "All his lordship's vintage port! Eighty shillings the dozen!"

[chiara7]

Oh, the shame! I pulled a Mrs. Ruddle!