Re: What Does Jeeves Symbolize?

(Anonymous) 2019-06-12 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
For myself, I don't see him as particularly masculine, either physically or in personality. I have noticed that a lot of fics portray him as a big strapping manly man, which is not really my type anyway. I see him as tall but with a more average body type, not especially physically fit, a bit more effeminate, metrosexual basically. I agree about finding his domestic competence inherently sexy, but I've always been into men who are more androgynous/blurring traditional gender lines, so it doesn't need to contrast with him being extra masc to be attractive.

Also in fic Bertie is often described as extremely thin, but I see him as a little more solid than that. An otter, not a twink! More masculine than Jeeves in some ways and less in other ways.

I also usually read Jeeves as not being very sexual experienced. He just seems too reserved/prude/proper to have done a ton of philandering. Although with this topic and all others, I'm open to other interpretations and really enjoy hearing people's different perspectives!

Re: What Does Jeeves Symbolize?

(Anonymous) 2019-06-12 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree about Bertie. In canon he describes himself as willowy; another character envies how well he looks in clothes. I like "an otter, not a twink"!

Re: What Does Jeeves Symbolize?

(Anonymous) 2019-06-12 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I also recently read the story where Rocky borrows his evening clothes and is apparently several sizes too big for them, even though Rocky is never described as a particularly large guy. So Bertie's definitely slender-ish, I just don't see any evidence that he's actually, like, scrawny.

Re: What Does Jeeves Symbolize?

(Anonymous) 2019-06-12 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I think of Jeeves as being sexually experienced. For one thing, he's been a servant in a large household where all sorts of things are got up to. Perhaps he's too reserved for philandering, but I assume he knows enough to handle himself well in the bedroom.

But I don't think of him as being as brilliant about sex as he is about everything else. If someone else wants to read him that way, well, more fun reading for me!

Re: What Does Jeeves Symbolize?

(Anonymous) 2019-06-12 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree about Jeeves not being muscular and hyper-masculine: I don't view him as particularly fit or imposing. But I do see him as sexually experienced. He just seems to understand himself so well, and accept everything about himself.

And to me Bertie is a Pure Twink hahaha The twinkiest twink that ever twinked (which, if I'm being perfectly honest, is 100% my type!)

But of course this is all just personal headcanon!

Re: What Does Jeeves Symbolize?

(Anonymous) 2019-06-12 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
What is a twink?