Why bring this up NOW? I guess it’s a slow week on Slate so they thought they’d prime the fandom “well” for more johnlock and TJLC bashing because we clearly haven’t had enough of THAT.
Ohhh boy this article is a good time
“Conan Doyle wasn’t trying to create a homosexual subtext when he wrote
the characters, but he did write a deep and committed friendship, and
Johnlock shippers are not the first people to see something
romantic in that bond, not the first people, to put it in academic
terminology, who have “queered the text.”
hahaha yeah okay, sure Jan.“The BBC Sherlock knew about this history and winked at it. In
the first 15 minutes of the first episode, Holmes and Watson’s landlady
asks if they’ll be sharing a bed. And that was only the start. But
according to the people making and starring in the show, all this is
just subtext. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are platonic. Many fans
disagreed.” I’m pretty sure this is called queerbaiting.“I want to be clear that there were people who were into Johnlock or TJ/LC
in different ways, who thought of it primarily as a great hope or a fun
idea or a worthy cause, a huge leap forward for gay representation. But
for some TJ/LCers it became an eventuality, not an opinion or a
possibility. Shipping other pairs or doubting the theory, even thinking
it was really clever but probably not going to happen, was denying that
truth, not just one ship among many. For some fans, TJ/LC became too
important to doubt—so they started to attack the doubters, who then
attacked back.” Attacked back?? You mean defend themselves about being called antis just because they don’t believe in moffitss? This article is a wild ride!Thank you for bringing up all these points @yorkiepug especially the last one! I’m seeing a lot of people conveniently “forget” or minimize the nastiness that happened in the fandom, especially in 2015-2016. That, or they weren’t around for it, or somehow weren’t directly affected by it. It was a shitshow, and drove a LOT of people out of the fandom. It still breaks my heart to think about some of the amazing writers we lost during those years, who left for other fandoms after being harassed, doxxed, threatened, etc. I felt like the podcast also backed off from some of that at the end, actually offering a balanced look at the different factions and experiences amongst a variety of johnlockers. I’m not surprised this article/podcast is getting such a negative reaction in the fandom, but I honestly think it did a decent job of showing many POVs in an overall empathetic and humanizing light, while still addressing the shit that tore the fandom apart WELL BEFORE s4 even aired. And this is coming from someone who wrote meta and theorized and hoped for a johnlock s4 (I mean look at my url) and is still heartbroken by the whole ordeal.
Who Gets to Decide if a Fictional Character Is Gay?
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