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Introduction! Woah!

Hi, I'm Jay! she/her lesbian :)))

I'm also Canadian so you know I'm really cool

my big interests :

okay wait I've realized I've never really mentioned all my big interests on tumblr yet... okay so it goes like this: the dragon prince scr

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alainagatorr

ts fanfic shit easy

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first mcpriceley dump kinda nervous...

left my mark on the bench today ♡

#good omens #i forgive you #dont bother

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Holmes and Watson pulling up to the crime scene 😎

the-bedheaded-league

It’s 2025. BBC Sherlock ended 8 years ago. The last season was so bad the fans didn’t even want to talk about it when it came out. Occasionally a post resurfaces where we all laugh at struggling to plug our phones in and being called alcoholics. Every time, there are more and more people in the comments who don’t get the joke. There are two currently airing Sherlock Holmes audio dramas that both portray a queer Holmes (as well as several other excellent queer characters), and one of them now has Holmes and Watson in a canonical romantic relationship. There’s an adorable crowdfunded short film where Watson plans Holmes’ birthday party and they flirt with each other, share a bed, plan their retirement, and kiss on the mouth. A video game about retired beekeeper Holmes just released where he arranges a romantic picnic so he can finally tell Watson how he feels. A popular graphic novelist just released the first part of a queer comic book retelling of the complete Holmes canon and had to do several rounds of preorders because she kept selling out too fast. Sherlock is garbage and here’s why has 15 million views on YouTube. Nature is healing. ❤️🐝

Edit bc I forgot to drop the names: The podcasts are Sherlock & Co and Fawx & Stallion aka @224bbaker (the one with the canon gay relationship.) The short film is called The Adventure of the Furtive Festivity and it's on youtube. The video game is @beekeeperspicnic and it's on Steam. The graphic novel series is by Molly Knox Ostertag, aka @contact-guy) Please feel free to drop any other queer Holmes adaptations I may be missing.

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The erasure and forgetting of the immense amount of queer fanfiction, art and communities that that showed derived, and all thanks to the deliberate attempt by Mofftiss to destroy a queer reading of the show with his season 4, is not a thing to celebrate either.

Pretending that thousands of queer fans felt identified with the story just because they couldn’t see that it was “garbage” the whole time is reductive and overlooks the complex ways audiences engage with media.

I hope for the day where the queer Sherlockian community stop wanting to cover the sun with one finger by thinking that erasing the massive history that is the BBC Sherlock fandom from the annals of queer sherlockiana is somehow a Win for all of us fans of H/W. You can turn up your noses and act like BBC Sherlock was a blemish on the history of Holmes adaptations, but its cultural and emotional impact—especially for queer audiences—can’t be denied or dismissed just because it’s imperfect.

No, nature is not healing by indulging Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ gaslighting of pretending the show was just an unserious, hetero buddy-cop drama the whole time and we, the queer fans, were just too dumb to not see it.

It’s time we start embracing The Intentional Fallacy and understand that art’s value far supersedes author’s intentions.

beekeeperspicnic

Reblogging this version too - when reading the original post I focused on the excitement at the list of all of the new, indie, queer adaptations and read it more as a celebration of the concept that when the gatekeepers of media make disappointing choices, creators tend to rise up and make awesome stuff in spite of that.

But rereading it, I can see how it is framed against BBC Sherlock in a way which is likely hurtful to the people who enjoyed that show, created amazing things and formed great friendships around it, and which dismisses its legacy and continuing fandom activity. I really don't want to contribute towards that division in our community, and I think that the OP probably didn't want that either.

the-bedheaded-league

I absolutely did not want that. 😓 Honestly I didn't really think this post would breach containment like this (it's always the posts you least expect), and while I was also mostly focused on how excited I was about new adaptations, I seem to have unintentionally upset a lot of BBC Sherlock fans with this post so I wanna be clear about something real quick:

I used to be a fan of the show. It came out when I was like 12 and I was obsessed with it. I wrote fanfiction of it. I cosplayed as Sherlock. It took over my brain. In season 2, there were things that made me really uncomfortable (looking at you, Irene Adler) but I ignored them. And then season 3 came out, and I started getting upset at the obvious disdain the writers had for their audience AND for the original stories. They literally had a whole episode where they just made fun of the people who had spent the past several years trying to figure out the mystery they’d written in their own show! Calling us weirdos and losers for being obsessed with the cliffhanger they gave us! Not to mention the digs at shippers (I’m not even a Sherlolly fan but the way they mocked that ship made me angry on their behalf).

And then I couldn’t ignore that those problems had always been there, even in the seasons I’d preciously loved. The queerbaiting was off the charts. The no homo jokes were too bad to ignore. The misogyny was vile. And Jesus christ, the way they massacred my boy! They took one of my favorite characters of all time (an autistic/ADHD/depressed weirdo who's rude but endlessly kind and wouldn't hesitate to kill for his friends) and turned him into a cruel, sadistic sociopath who tortured his friends for fun. They took the only potentially interesting female OC they’d created and turned her whole character into a joke about how she's sooooo in love with Sherlock (because he's soooo sexy and cool), she never gets to do anything besides be obsessed about him while he treats her like shit and we laugh at how pathetic she is (Molly my love you deserved so much better). And don’t even get me STARTED on Irene, I could write a whole essay about that disgusting, sexist, lesbophobic mess. Id spent the first couple seasons deluding myself that maybe the characters would get to develop. Maybe they’d make Johnlock canon. Maybe the story would actually go somewhere. But at that point, I realized that none of that was ever going to happen and the creators thought I was an idiot for believing that it would.

As a writer, I was appalled at the sloppy plot lines, inconsistent characterization, and lazy mystery plots. As a young, queer, female fan who adored the books and saw myself in them, I felt betrayed. The creators obviously thought that the way I personally connected to the stories (and the way so many other queer people did) was just something to be mocked. The show made me feel like these asshole white men were telling me, and others like me, that I didn’t understand these characters the way THEY did, with their superior Clever Man Brains. I was just a stupid teen fangirl who wanted to see boys kiss because I thought yaoi was hot. Not a real Sherlock Holmes fan, like them.

I came to hate the show because Sherlock Holmes fans deserve better. The BBC Sherlock fandom, which had so many creative and interesting people in it, deserved better! So by the time the 4th season came out, I had no interest in it anymore, and neither did any of my friends. I guess I just assumed that was how most people felt because I’d seen so many similar sentiments from people who’d left the fandom.

I never hated the fandom. I felt sad for us. Sad and angry. And I guess that’s how I still feel about it. There are still fanfics that I look back upon fondly. I’m not trying to judge anyone who still likes the show or participate in the fandom. I’m a firm believer that I should never judge anyone for enjoying things that hurt no one, even if I don’t get it at all. I even left my old BBC Sherlock fic up all these years because I know there are still people who like it.

But I guess it makes me sad to see people still using so much creativity and love on a fandom for a show that has only ever hated us back. Yes, the fandom has an immense queer legacy within the larger fandom of Sherlock Holmes, but absolutely none of that came from the actual content of the show. The queerness and the creativity came entirely from the fans. The showrunners should get no credit for it at all. It's kind of like how some people want to give JK Rowling credit for making Dumbledore gay even though he was never gay in the books, except it's actually way worse because in this case, the creators explicitly said he wasn't gay and made fun of people who thought he was. It was always so fascinating to see the fandom create these entire alternate versions of the characters and the show that were actually good. The Sherlock of BBC fanfics is infinitely more nuanced and interesting than the one in the actual show. He's literally a different character at this point. A much better one.

So while of course I’d never tell people to leave a fandom they don’t want to leave, and I completely understand peoples reasons for staying, I guess I just wish that all of you amazing writers and artists who helped create those alternate fanon characters would just… make your own adaptation at this point! You’re already like halfway to creating your own entirely original Sherlock Holmes modern AU. And recently, the world of Holmes adaptations has been ruled not by Hollywood or the BBC, but by small indie creators like all of the ones I mentioned above. Sherlock & Co is a current modern adaptation where Sherlock is accurately portrayed as autistic and ADHD (fuck you “high functioning sociopath” THATS NOT EVEN A REAL THING) and he’s actually queer! It’s fucking awesome!!! You guys do that too!! I hope you do!!!

All I’m saying is, I’ll never read another BBC Sherlock fanfic again. But if I was in a bookstore and saw a modern AU Sherlock Holmes novel where John is a blogger and Sherlock calls himself a sociopath but it’s obvious he’s not and Moriarty is some insane little gay man, and there was no mention of BBC anywhere, I’d absolutely pick it up.

Anyway, sorry this turned into a whole essay. If any BBC fans would still like to give their opinions, please reblog this version of the post, and understand that I am coming from a place of both deep love and deep hatred for the show because I used to be one of you. Also please try reading ACD Holmes/Watson fics if you haven’t already, I promise your brain will be forever altered.

buckingham-ashtray

No matter how it always ALWAYS seems like John Watson and Sherlock Holmes are love at first sight that’s never the entire truth because they never “fall” in love because they have been in love for one hundred and thirty seven years and they are in love in every universe so no matter when or where or how they meet they will always fall in love with each other all over again because their love is carved into Fate since the start of creation just as firmly as Olympus Mons stands on Mars because their love runs and fills all the arteries and veins and vessels mapping every inch of their bodies and bleeds through every universe into them because Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are destined to be in love CAN'T YOU SEE

di4ryofamonflower

mmm doritos flamin hot

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femmeboggart

this is very self-indulgent

jannywanny

and while i’m on my soapbox, what’s the deal with dylan? i’m not gonna police anyone’s headcanons or fanfiction, but hand to god i have seen people completely mischaracterize dylan when it comes to CANON events. like dude called himself squishy exactly once and everyone said “awww look at this gay femboy cinnamon roll uwu” and i’m just like 😒

again, this is specifically related to discussion of canon events, nothing about headcanon because that’s none of my bees. i just cannot stand when people throw their headcanons into discussions of canon like it is the truth when it’s NOT GUYS IT’S NOT

and just don’t even begin to get me started on the ppl who are like “dylan deserved better than ryan, ryan doesn’t even like him” so if you consider ryan’s mannerisms with dylan vs any other time CLEARLY there is some sort of mutual attraction there.

i HATE this notion that because ryan doesn’t bat his eyelashes and have little cartoon hearts swirling around his head he somehow completely hates dylan.

and furthermore, everyone who ryan hates in the game, it has been so, stupidly, entirely, completely clear that he hates them that i genuinely don’t get why ryan would randomly deviate from this pattern of very vocally and very obviously loathing people.

okay i’m done sorry about that