replies to your post “i dunno if i can stil be a part of a fandom for a queerbaiting show…....”
evidoe: same
*hugs you warmly*
valeria2067: Same here.
gay or trash my friend. gay or trash.
reblogged your post and added:
otp221b: This is a decision I’m struggling with also. I’ll...
glad we’ll be staying mutuals no matter what! <3
martinfreemanisababe: I think the best thing to remember right now is that this show is fanfiction. If you want something to be canon, you do it and it is. This show has opened a lot of people up to ACD's original stories, which leave a lot of room for what could be. Take it and make it your own.
i find your reply insensitive and condescending. we all know we can write fanfiction, but we can’t all make a multimillion dollar TV show. there are tons of hurting ppl, hurting queer ppl rn who honestly believed they were going to get their story told, only to find out it was just another ploy to get us watching.
they treated these characters as two halves of a whole. plus, we’ve had literal decades of straight bro crime solving stories-much of it due to ACD. we’ve seen that tons of times already! we thought we were getting what Doyle and Wilde couldn’t explicitly say due to the times. i mean look at Elementary, everyone knows they’re not getting together as there’s no subtext. whereas BBC Sherlock is a romantic drama with some crime solving.
There’s been all sorts of wonderful things that happened because of this show, but that doesn’t diminish the pain we are feeling. don’t belittle our feelings just because you don’t share our heartache.
we can make anything our own. that’s not the issue. the issue is we wanted BBC Sherlock to have canon gays and we were tricked into believing it would actually happen. all because of queerbaiting- an all too common occurrence even in this day and age. we deserve to have our stories told too.
let us mourn our shattered dreams, and stop telling other queer ppl we have to do all the work to make our stories a reality. some of us already have jobs that are important and valid as they are. we can’t all be filmmakers, but tht doesn’t mean we don’t deserve to have our stories told.
