“if you want to avoid some of [the AUs] then don’t set johnlock as a tag”
I’m sorry, how the fuck does that make any sense? What the fuck kind of ignorant, selfish, blind, self righteous shit is that?
You know what makes sense? If I don’t want to see femlock, I won’t use the femlock tag. If I don’t want to see parentlock, I won’t use the parentlock tag. If I don’t want see slavelock, I won’t use the slavelock tag. If I don’t want to see omegalock, I won’t use the omegalock tag. It’s that fucking simple. That is the most logical fucking answer to that, rather than just putting every AU, no matter how controversial or potentially harmful or upsetting or degrading, under the johnlock tag as an umbrella for all of it. Because how the fuck does it make sense that you shouldn’t have johnlock as a tag when all you want is to roleplay johnlock? Why the fuck would you deny someone an entire ship just so they don’t have to put up with shitty femlock and parentlock? Is that really what this has come to?
I mean, I understand that this child in this prompt is little more than a plot device and a means to encourage an establishing of a relationship between John and Sherlock, which I usually excuse, sure - but it’s fucking ridiculous regardless of your opinion, it is still parentlock and should be tagged as such, and this person’s logic is just up the fucking wall, and more importantly - the prompt can be continued without the parentlock. The parentlock is unnecessary. Fucking Christ.