#the rest cure

[eirinstiva]

"I had no man."

The second part of "The Rest Cure" arrived today, and because this is one of my favourite stories of the Rafflesian Canon (?), it's harder than usual to comment because [heavy breathing].

What with his flourishing beard and the increasing shabbiness of the only suit he had brought with him to the house, there was no denying that Raffles had now the advantage of a permanent disguise.

This is the start of Bunny's revenge, and this time Manders left the idea mature all the night. This is not something that he's doing on impulse, this is Bunny showing his own criminal ability.

She was a tall woman; I was not too tall a man. Like Raffles, I had not shaved on Campden Hill. That morning, however, I did my best with a very fair razor which the colonel had left behind in my room; then I turned out the lady's wardrobe and the cardboard boxes, and took my choice.

Bunny knows that he's short, he can't grow a proper moustache and beard, and maybe he needed a haircut soon. He used all of this as resources to his disguise. Bunny used makeup, curled his hair and dressed with almost all the necessary (I'm sure the shoes like the gloves didn't fit him) to get what he wanted:

My idea was first to give him the fright he deserved, and secondly to show him that I was quite as fit to move abroad as he.

But Murphy's Law strikes! And the drama starts.

I had no man. I was alone, had broken in alone. There was not a soul in the affair (much less the house) except myself. So much I stuttered out in tones too hoarse to betray me on the spot. 

Who can save this poor lady Bunny in distress? Raffles! He got hurt but at least they kepy everything controlled.

It was Raffles at his worst, Raffles as I never knew him before or after—a Raffles mad with pain and rage, and desperate as any other criminal in the land. Yet he had struck no brutal blow, he had uttered no disgraceful taunt, and probably not inflicted a tithe of the pain he had himself to bear. 

I would love to see Bunny and Raffles running away while keeping their disguises just like ACD's story The Man with the Watches. At least in this story nobody dies.

This is the one of the most queer moments of Raffles and Bunny's stories with them sharing a house like a couple and Bunny dressed as a woman. Sometimes I think that Manders is too comfortable with this costume except for the clothes being not appropiate for the season and my bi-fi screams "genderqueer" and "non binary". Also this reminds me of Sherlock Holmes dressing as a woman in The Mazarin Stone, so this feels like Bunny left for a moment his Boswell role and become the protagonist.

I was thinking that Raffles getting so dangerous when Bunny or Faustina are in danger reminds me of saiyans leveling up and unlocking new powers.

By the way, I want to read this reference cited on Wikipedia: Yue, Isaac (2015). Translating Culture: Late-Victorian Literature into Chinese. London: National Taiwan University Press. pp. 19–36. ISBN 978-986-350-070-4.

Hong Kong University Professor Isaac Yue has noted that some elements of "The Rest Cure" hint at a homosexual relationship between Raffles and Bunny. For example, Bunny shows a strong desire for Raffles's attention, while there is no female character diverting Bunny's attention. Moreover, the contrast between Bunny's female dress and Raffles's long beard suggests that Bunny is characterized in the role of the female and Raffles is characterized in the role of the male in their relationship.[5] Yue argues that Hornung's portrayal of the relationship between Raffles and Bunny violates the traditional Victorian family values of strict and separate gender roles for men and women.

I'm tempted to write more about this, maybe a fanfic, but English is so hard! See ya~

[jelloduckie]

Bunny's Choice in Clothes

[kajaono]

The second German raffles edition not including out of Paradise or The Rest cure shows that those stories were too gay for them eventually

A shame, I would have loved to read them again in a more modern translated version. *shrugs* I will always have you, first German edition from 1900

[heliotrope155]

I do think it'd been hilarious to have a truth-serumed or spelled Dean around Cas, just start spilling his guts and flirting worse. But also genuinely think Cas would get so overwhelmed from going zero to eighty on this that he'd duct tape Dean's mouth shut after attempts to tell him to stop confessing romantic feelings kept failing. Final resort, Cas would whoosh away to some glacier and sit there until he'd collected himself.

[royaltea000]

Hmmmm…monkey

[kotaki]

character tropes

↳ Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure → Sora Harewataru

[toanw]

A couple of alchepre power up forms (perfect petal and perfect rainy)!!

[dyinginafield]

[scisac]

newtmas - the death cure 2018

[lexiesdoodles]

🐰🐤

[starz-jo]

hell is a teenage girl.

[eirinstiva]

Parallel playtime

[arrives late and eating pineapple] Bunny Manders sent a letter with the first part of The Rest Cure. My poor Bunny is alone and penniless. Where are thou, Raffles?

"I've taken a house near here for the holidays, where I'm going in for a Rest Cure of my own description. Why? Oh, for lots of reasons, my dear Bunny; (...)

Raffles is hiding from Mackenzie, I guess. After reading Mr Justice Raffles and Clustering Around Young Bingo I'm very familiar with a rest cure, so I think it's a good idea to run away for a short time.

Raffles could be as full of himself as many a worse man, and I did not like his society the less for these human outpourings. They had rather the effect of putting me on better terms with myself, through bringing him down to my level for the time being. But his egoism was not even skin-deep; it was rather a cloak, which Raffles could cast off quicker than any man I ever knew, as he did not fail to show me now.

Yeah, Raffles, yeah! This is a good oppotunity to spend time together doing something different from eating at clubs and less criminal than... the usual, u know~

"So this is how you have taken the house," said I in his own undertone. "'Taken' is good; 'taken' is beautiful!"

So Raffles and Bunny are now squatters? I prefer the word in Spanish okupas (from ocupar: to occupy, to use. Written with K because is associated with punks).

[ID: Front of an old building with a white sheet with black and red letters hanging as a poster. It says in Spanish "¡¡¡Somos artistas no terroristas!!! Kasa ockupa aki". Translation: "We are artists no terrorists!!! Okupa house here" /end ID]

So they are in a house with many books to read, but they can't make noise, use electric lights or have a decent bath. Just reading, sleeping and eating.

"My dear, good Bunny," said Raffles, "I've told you already that I didn't come in here on business. I came in for the Cure. Not a penny will these people be the worse, except for their washing and their electric light, and I mean to leave enough to cover both items."

AJ lies like he's trying to convince himself, and he's failing. And Bunny? He went from "I was no longer to be alarmed by this sort of thing; it was all so like the Raffles I loved least" at the beginning to:

His neglect of me seemed wanton at the time. I have long realized that he was only wise to maintain silence at the expense of perilous amenities, and as fully justified in those secret and solitary sorties which made bad blood in my veins.

Raffles wants solitude. Bunny wants parallel playtime. Raffles doesn't give the attention Manders desire, so it's time for revenge!

[aru-art]

jumping on the chimera mhin bandwagon. is this anything

[arsenicflame]

so ready to see exactly this happen in canon

[vrieseasees]

Scrawny lil lesbian Shanks and fem Mihawk

[i-bring-crack]

A–Aventio TGCF idea?? Wherein Civil God Veritas Ratio meets the infamous Ghost King Aventurine during his first mission cuz cuz like— The "live for me" paralels?!? The one who has all the luck partner as well?!? The villain who was actually not the Villain this whole time!?!? The loving humanity a little too much it causes their downfall !?!?!?

Rant AU in the tags proceed with caution