#the attenbury emeralds

[mywingsareonwheels]

I always forget precisely how much Jill Paton Walsh was a Lord Peter Wimsey multishipper until I relisten to the talking book of The Attenbury Emeralds.

Her Harriet/Peter? superlative and beautiful and warm and sexy and glorious, absolutely lives up to what Sayers created

Bunter/Hope? delightful, a lovely JPW-canonical pairing for Bunter, approve so much

Peter/Bunter? everywhere, and tender and moving and unspoken, with Harriet and Hope massively shipping it.

Harriet/Hope? not *not* there, for sure Harriet/Peter/Bunter/Hope? honestly, not too far from being canon

Parker/Mary? oh yes, they’ve still got it, Parker’s still a parfait knight, love them

Peter/Parker (aka the Spiderman ship ;-) )? off the scale implications, glorious; contains a completely gratuitous neck-touching scene, and a theology-related meet-cute in the flashback; Peter and Mary are clearly managing to be siblings who are also metamours just fine; Harriet clearly adores it all too

Also JPW seems to have a lot of interest in characters that Sayers, dearly as I love her, had got a bit bored of. Like when Eiluned and Sylvia the glorious (and pretty definitely canonical) lesbian couple from Strong Poison turn up in Thrones, Dominations. And the fact that Freddie keeps turning up and being a darling and a bunny-ears lawyer (well, bunny-ears finance expert). :)

In short: hooray. :D

[mayliang17]

Book review: The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh My rating: 4 of 5 stars I love the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries written by Dorothy Sayers.

[teachingmycattoread]

Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #2

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

“nasty, brutish and short”, The Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes

Ernest Hemingway

This #relatable John Mulaney favourite:

Sandman, Neil Gaiman

Jeeves and Wooster, P. G. Wodehouse

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Stardust, Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess

Stardust (film)

Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman

The witches, Terry Pratchett (Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad etc)

The Birds, Daphne Du Maurier

The Birds (film)

Blink (Doctor Who)

Douglas Adams

Leverage (TV)

Black Sails (TV)

Dark (TV)

r/relationships, r/AmItheAsshole

The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe, meme

Bill Nighy

His Dark Materials (TV)

Lucian Msamati

American Gods (TV)

Orlando Jones

Sleepy Hollow (TV)

Cab Calloway

Breaking Bad (TV)

Giancarlo Esposito

John Boyega

The Penumbra Podcast, Juno Steel

The Haunting of Hill House (TV)

Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black (TV)

Eartha Kitt

Rogue One

Harry Potter (auf Deutsch)

The Event, That Mitchell and Webb Look

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Living A Feminist Life, Sara Ahmed

Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L Sayers

The Attenbury Emeralds, Jill Paton Walsh

Agatha Christie

Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones

The North Remembers, qqueenofhades (ao3)

Sherlock Holmes

Jeremy Brett

[preux-chevalier]

i'm not that anon, but i just finished murder will advertise and i picked up a 1938 edition of strong poison (which i read about 5 years ago but seem to remember nothing of) so now i'm going through like a wimsey renaissance. i like the way sayers dealt with shell-shock and wimsey's experiences in wwi and it always made me wonder what bertie wooster's war would have been like.

BRUH. I THINK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME.

There's so much meta to be meta'd about the relative experiences of Bertie, Jeeves, Peter, and Bunter during the war, and how it shapes who they are in canon. The Sayers boys live under the constantly looming spectre of the war, while the Wodehouse boys live in defiance of it in some ways. (I don't know if you ever made it to Busman's Honeymoon years ago, but there's a scene at the end where Peter's mother is telling Harriet about what he was like in the immediate aftermath and how Bunter came into his life in a civilian capacity that gets me incredibly emotional every time I read it.) I'm sure there have been plenty of scholarly and fannish metas, but I imagine the latter have been mostly lost with the desolation that is now livejournal :((((

There's a fantastic but heartbreaking crossover fic that deals with this, actually. It's set during the Attenbury emeralds case that we never actually see in canon, but which precedes Whose Body as Peter's first foray into sleuthing.

(Also Murder Must Advertise is my favourite of the Wimsey novels! The atmosphere of the copy writers at Pym's is so similar to the newspaper I work at, down to talking shit about the things we report on and trading witty headline ideas that inevitably get shot down for weird reasons, although thankfully no one has ever died in our office... that I know of...)

[lazygeisha]

“But it’s a general principle. If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself." -Dorothy L. Sayers "The Attenbury Emeralds"

[honoria-lucasta-delagardie]

The Attenbury Emeralds

I finally finished reading (actually listening to Edward Petherbridge on my commute) The Attenbury Emeralds and I'm feeling a bit, I don't know, disturbed? I didn't mind the other Jill Paton Walsh continuations, but Thrones, Dominations was mostly DLS and A Presumption of Death was a least based on the Wimsey Papers. There were parts of this one that felt wrong, like the writer would suddenly forget an important aspect of a character only to remember it later. This shouldn't be bothering me so much, but it just isn't sitting well with me.

I'd be interested to know what the rest of you think, especially about Duke's Denver and Bunter. Certain scenes with Bunter were the worst of it, I think: they took me out of the story completely. Thoughts?

[mywingsareonwheels]

All I’m saying is that Harriet and Peter Wimsey would both be young enough still in the mid-late 60s to visit Oxford, possibly for another Shrewsbury College reunion, or indeed one at Balliol/Bailey, or something to do with one of their kids. And might even have one or more of the rest of their friends in tow, I mean even if Bunter’s retired by then he (and Jill Paton Walsh-continuations spoiler-character!) would still be living with or near the Wimseys. And Charles and Mary Parker also very happily go anywhere Harriet and Peter are as we know. :D

And then inevitably there might be a murder, which leads to the glorious possibility of them all being interviewed as witnesses by DI Thursday, DS Jakes, and DC Morse, and then Peter trying to investigate it himself anyway and at least one of the Endeavour characters turning out to be massive Harriet Vane fans and and and...

*sighs* So many plotbunnies, so few spoons to actually get any writing done. So if any fellow fans of both Endeavour and Dorothy L Sayers (and ideally the Jill Paton Walsh continuations! my thinking is that it would be great if it agreed canonically with The Attenbury Emeralds especially...) want to write this before I get around to it, please please *please* be my guest. :D