Fannish 50: 2024: Everything is Murder edition: #1: Jeeves & Wooster

alexcat is hosting the Fannish 50 challenge this year (Here if you want to sign up: https://alexcat.dreamwidth.org/1357645.html). I did this last year, and so to make it more interesting I would do the same prompts (or most of the same prompts) but have the theme 'Everything is Murder' and try to make every topic somehow related to a murder mystery. We'll see how it goes!

The first one is straightforward because yesterday I posted my Jeeves fic based on Agatha Christie's "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest" and one kind commentor pointed out: Jeeves' large brain would be put to far better use solving murders than untangling romantic entanglements.

This isn't the first time I've mixed Agatha Christe and Jeeves. I've also done The Mystery of the Blue Train [Jeeves & the Blue Train] and Hallowe'en Party [Boo, Jeeves!]. And Wodehouse and Christie were friends and great admirers of each other's works.

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Fannish 50: 2024: #1: Jeeves & Wooster

Views & News: Questions 1-6 Feb

1. The boys' father is leaving on Saturday for 2 weeks so I'm getting ready for that.

2. My car has had all kinds of expensive problems this week, and the flashing maintenance light is still on. Sigh.

3. I'm working on Valentines. The international ones have gone out, and I am about half way done with the domestic ones. It's fun.

365 Questions for 2024 [Feb 1-6]

1 Feb: International Face & Body Art Day: Do you have tattoos? What’s the most memorable tattoo you’ve seen on someone else?

I am open to a tattoo in theory but I have nothing that I feel strongly enough about to put on myself permanently.

TMI: I have this little Golden Girls soap opera I play in my head before I go to bed and in it, my first girl friend wants to put a tattoo on me and so we do it (some kind of symbol on my upper arm) then a few years later my second girl friend (girl friend/girlfriend depending on the mood, mostly the former) wants to add some kind of flower or vine to it. The second part is one of the episodes in Okapi's Cinema of the Mind. My friends all come to the tattoo shop and we make a big party of it.

The most memorable tattoo I've ever seen is a large sea-green sea snake on an older white/gringa lady's arm when I was living in Ecuador. It really didn't look that great to me, and I always think of it when I think of myself having a tattoo and decide that that ship has sailed in reality (not in bedtime fantasy, see above). I respect her decision to have it and support anyone who wants one at any age, but I just thought it probably looked cool Back in the Day and then at the age she was it just looked kind of ridiculous (to me, just my opinion, like I said, I respect her decision to do it and know my attitude is probably a minority one).

2 Feb: Crepe Day: What’s the best filling and/or topping for crepes? Sweet or savory?

Also in Ecuador, there was a crepe shop and I learned the delights of savory crepes. In the US, they are almost always chocolate and/or jam.

3 Feb: Feed the Birds Day: Do you have a bird feeder? Do you or do you remember feeding ducks?

I used to have a birdfeeder on the balcony (apartment living we aren't allowed to hang anything so it just sat on the ground) during the pandemic, but I gave it up because it was too much mess. Once in a while, a pigeon comes back and glares at me through the sliding door.

I don't ever remember feeding ducks. Feeding ducks makes me think of Good Omens.

4 Feb: I Heart Horror Day: If you heart horror, what is your favorite horror story (film, literature, true crime, etc.)?

I do heart horror. I like all kinds. My favorite is a Korean film from 2014 called Hide and Seek. It always scares me.

5 Feb: World Nutella Day: Nutella, yay or nay?

Nay. Minor is alllergic to tree nuts so we don't have nutella in the house.

6 Feb: International Frozen Yogurt: What’s your favorite topping on frozen yogurt?

So there is a frozen yogurt place that routinely has fundraisers for the boys' schools so we go fairly often to Yogi Castle. It's a self serve, pay by the weight, and I like vanilla with chocolate chips, nuts, cookie dough bites, little peanut butter chocolate turtles. The boys get something very child-appropriate like cotton candy flavor with lots and lots and lots of gummy worms.