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Title: Sometimes you deck the halls, and sometimes the halls deck you.
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Length: 100
Rating: Gen
For: Day 11: Christmas tree fail.

The crash was inevitable.

It was the first year in many my employer had elected not to grace another’s residence with his presence at Christmastime. He’d consented to a New Year’s Mediterranean holiday as well as donating his Sugar Plum Fairy braces to the deserving poor, and thus I was compelled to assent to his request for a fir.

I’d stepped to the kitchen at the kettle’s whistle.

CRASH!

I raced to the sitting room and discovered the tree and my employer horizontal, the former atop the latter.

“Sometimes you deck the halls, Jeeves, and sometimes the halls deck you!”

Indigo to me means Sherlock Holmes's dressing gown. So I did this watercolor crayon tracing of a famous Sydney Paget illustration of "The Man with the Twisted Lip" in which Holmes sits on five pillows and smokes a pound of shag and figures everything out. Note: the color of the dressing gown is much more purple in real life.



I got the color from BBC Sherlock's "The Abominable Bride" episode. Where Holme sits down and goes to his Victorian Mind Palace and solves the case. I think they were trying to re-create the Paget image. And I wrote a genderswapped Sherlock Holmes fic called "Indigo" about this very dressing gown. [Non sequitir: Indigo also happens to be the name of my sister's poodle. It's black, not purple-blue.]

Indigo (1184 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Gender or Sex Swap, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Femlock, Fem!John - Freeform, dressing gown, Episode: The Abominable Bride, Gen or Pre-Slash
Series: Part 11 of Clothes Make the Woman
Summary:

Sherlock receives a belated birthday gift from John. Inspired by the blue dressing gown from "The Abominable Bride."

Edited to add another fic with indigo in the title. This one is called "Mood Indigo," wherein Bertie Wooster and Jeeves get together with a little help from a song by Duke Ellington.

Mood Indigo (1000 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Additional Tags: Inspired by Music, Fluff, Declarations Of Love
Summary:

Music inspires Bertie and Jeeves.

Fluff. Inspired by Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo.

I've been neglecting my Merry Month submissions. Last year I had 14 and I've only done 6 this month. So have another of Jeeves & Bertie.

Title: Almost Special
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Rating: Mature for masturbation
Word Count: 250
Summary: Bertie has a hangover but they are out of Worcestershire sauce. Jeeves offers a temporary substitute.

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A variation on an exercise from thisbluespirit. Here are the steps.

1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.

2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER [Note: Random Poem is the fourth tab from the left]. Write down the 5th line. Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list them in alphabetical order!

3: Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the drabble - it's just inspiration. [Note: I did a full drabble for each]

My fandoms:

Agatha Christie
BBC Sherlock
Good Omens
Jeeves & Wooster
Sherlock Holmes (ACD)

My random poem 5th lines:

He never misses a Degree— [Dickinson, “The Moon is distant from the sea”]

His thoughts were bare, his words were brittle [Robert Service, “Rose Leaves”]

That sowed the flower, he preferred— [Dickinson, “Although I put away his life”]

through wire and fog and dog-bark [Charles Bukowski, “Love & Fame & Death”]

--"You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks, [Thomas Hardy, “The Ruined Maid”]


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Title: That Cat Solves a Mystery
Fandoms: Jeeves & Wooster (Wodehouse) and Miss Marple (Agatha Christie)
Rating: Gen
Length: 1500
For: the 51 +Crossover Fandoms Challenge prompt 05. cat.
Notes: Plot is from "The Trinity Cat" by Ellis Peters. Takes place after A Caribbean Mystery. In the same AU as my Jeeves & the Blue Train, where Jeeves moonlights writing mystery novels.
Summary: Jeeves housesits for Miss Marple while she's on holiday in the Caribbean.

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Prompt: Santa opening/reading letters.

“…you know who also has to deal with letter-opening, Jeeves?”

“No, sir.”

“Santa Claus. Not our Father Christmas or Saint Nicholas, you know, the Time Square fellow in the red suit. He opens heaps of letters from blighted offspring around the globe.”

“True, sir. You’ve not yet opened Mrs. Gregson’s missive.”

“Aunt Agatha wants the pride of the Wooster in a pair of sponge bag trousers for Christmas. No, let it simmer a while longer. Better yet, why don’t you Sherlock Holmes it?”

“Sir?”

“Skewer it to the mantelpiece!”

Jeeves frowned. “Might I just lay something heavy on it, sir?”

Prompt: Christmas Pine (It's just a pun)

“I say, Jeeves, what do you think that species of tall and needled over there is? I don’t believe I’ve seen one quite like that before.”

“That is a Christmas pine, sir. During the Yuletide season, it stands stoic and stalwart and silent in the face of that which it most desires and denies its own longings, preferring to guard its tenderest elements from the scorn or, indeed, the very recognition of its beloved.”

“You don’t say. Do you think I should, oh, I don’t know, slip it fiver or give it a fraternal pat on the trunk or something?”

Prompt: Christmas kittens

Jeeves turned the corner and crashed into his employer carrying a hamper.

“Sir?”

“Jeeves! Apologies and whatnot, but I can’t talk now. I’m in desperate need of children. Cherubs, you know. Wee ones. Pitter-patter of little feet.”

“Indeed, sir?” Jeeves’ brow crinkled an eighth of an inch. “Confirmed bachelor, no longer?”

“Don’t be daft! I found these, and if I don’t pawn them off on some unsuspecting excrescences soon, I might succumb to their siren charms and then we’ll be the proud owners of…”

He lifted the lid.

“…a pair of Christmas kittens.”

“Oh, dear. I’ll help you look, sir.”

My Choose Your Own Adventure fic is up!

The other fics in the collection include a Spooks MI-5 AU by smallhobbit as well as Stargate Atlantis and One Direction fics.

Cleopatra Had a Jazz Band: a Choose Your Own Adventure (10198 words) by okapi
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves & Wooster, The Mummy Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Reginald Jeeves & Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Ardeth Bay/Jonathan Carnahan, Ardeth Bay & Jonathan Carnahan, Jonathan Carnahan/Helen Grosvenor
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Jonathan Carnahan, Ardeth Bay, Helen Grosvenor, Agatha Gregson
Additional Tags: Choose Your Own Adventure, Mummies, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, References to Ancient Egypt
Summary:

Bertie's old friend Jonathan Carnahan (from The Mummy films) comes to town and hijinks ensue.

For the 2019 Choose Your Own Adventure challenge.

Note: I have purposefully not tagged everything to avoid spoilers. There are different endings with different resolutions.