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If the show isn't supposed to be gay why was it like a wave that hit dozens of people and made us all realise we were gay? Like that's quite a phenomenon, isn't it? What other show made quasi half the fandom realise their sexuality?

true i mean just consider this for a second. this completely ordinary show about a straight detective and his straight flat mate and their epic bromosexual friendship literally brought thousands of young queer people together on multiple platforms on- and offline and helped them come to terms with and open up about their sexuality. obviously i’m neither a sociologist nor do i possess the intellectual capacity of mark châtisse or steven walmart, i’m really just a dumb deluded fangirl but… if my opinion was relevant at all i would say that all of this is a weird coincidence that ought to be examined more closely because… all of this is strange, isn’t it, given that there is no gay subtext in bbc sherlock whatsoever

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get the zine now or forever hold your peace!

the johnlock fanzine will be closing sales this Friday February 17th, so get it while you still can 

xoxo B&A 

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A Reading List for Holmes and Watson Romance/Relationship Topic pre BBC Sherlock

Obviously, there is little written evidence of the Holmes and Watson romance school of thought until the 1940’s. However oral history has passed on that the idea of Holmes and Watson as a couple was suspected but not talked about openly since the characters inception. I can only bare witness to this oral history as it came to me from my Dad and his partner, who spoke of literary discussions in London ‘queer’ pubs on the subject.They were both young men in the 1950‘s but spoke to other men at these meetings, who were elderly and who had been fans since the publication of the works. There could be no documentation of these meetings due to the laws and stigma in existence at the time. Maybe one day we will discover a manuscript or notes on this speculation and discussion. I have included some works in the list that show the literary and social background in which Doyle wrote his stories.

Therefore the first person to give voice to a romantic relationship between Holmes and Watson was Rex Stout’s 1944 presentation;  a tongue in cheek analogy to show the romance but having to gender swap Watson to make it palatable for the era. {Things may not have changed very much; hello Elementary] I included a few Baker Street Journal articles [BSJ] with the date of publication, plus the wonderful nekosmuse’s ‘Decoding the Subtext’ as it is the companion when reading the canon and looking for evidence of a romance within the subtext.

Please feel free to send me names of any other books you feel should be on this list.

Non-Fiction

Victorian [background and ethos]

Men at Work: From Heroic Friendship to Male Romance -  Stephen Arata

A Man’s Place: Masculinity & the Middle Class Home -  John Tosh

Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature - Brian Reade

Web page With Love, SH - Decoding the subtext -                        www.nekosmuse.com

http://welovethebeekeeper.tumblr.com/post/98054738938/a-surprise-johnlock-experience-today-wanted-to-share1940’s - an oral history story of Holmes and Watson’s love affair.

Watson was a Woman - Rex Stout

1950’s onward

Llove at Lhasa  BSJ 3/57 - Stanley McComas

Eros in Baker St  BSJ 4/75 - Donald Pollock

Love Notes  BSJ 6/79 - Tom McGee

Did Sherlock Holmes Kill CAS?  BSJ 3/82 - Bruce Harris

Most Unromantic: Most Sexy Too  BSJ 3/82 - Christopher Redmond.

Baker St and Beyond -  Lord Donegall

In Bed with Sherlock Holmes  - Christopher Redmond

Sherlock the Man and His Word - HRF Keating

Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century - Graham Robb

Naked is the Best Disguise - Samuel Rosenberg

The Gay Book of Days (Jan 6th) - Martin Greif 

Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy - Sawyer J. Lahr

Fiction.

My Dearest Holmes - Rohase Piercy

My Dear Watson - L.A. Fields

A Study in Lavender - Joseph R.G. DeMarco   

The Sexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Larry Townsend

 Reblogging on request.

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Sherlock: Hey Rosie do you know the easiest way to get your dad's attention? Watch this (he clicks a button on his phone and it plays Irene's text tone)

John, not 1 second later: wHAT WAS THAT

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director: martin this is great but you’re barely following the script

martin:

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“all”

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Sherlock: Moriarty is definitely dead and i know exactly what he's going to do next

Narrator Voice: he did, in fact, not know what moriarty was about to do next. neither did the writers who hadn't planned anything in advance and pulled crazy edgelord's shutter island spin-off out of their asses as they went along

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IT’S THE SWOOP!! 😂

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Peter, 49, from Glasgow: the last episode of sherlock was weird and makes no sense, i hope the show gets cancelled because my tax payer money is wasted on it

BBC Complaints Team: OH MY GOD PETER! SHERLOCK AND JOHN NEVER WANTED TO FUCK

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All the people who sent non-Johnlock complaints

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John starts hallucinating after being shot – PART 2.

A sort of extended version of this meta-video. Watch carefully for parallels and metaphors. Remember that since we’re in John’s head, everyone is, at some point or another, John himself –even Sherlock when he’s being hit in the head. In this one I focus on the approximate order of the events taking place in reality as John unconsciously picks up on what’s happening around him, translating it into an hallucination/dream. Also, dreams are emotional, not rational, so don’t try to find a logical explanation for anything in TFP (you won’t be able to). I’m making a separate post on how even (specially I’d say) the seemingly ooc details are perfectly understandable, and believe me, it’s heartbreaking once you see it. Take what John imagines Sherlock saying as a decoder ring for everything: “look how brilliant you are, your mind created the perfect metaphor”. The only way we can understand this episode and its purpose in the show’s narrative is through the metaphors.

Summarized explanation of this video under the cut:

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If it was never supposed to be a love story what the actual fuck was benedict cumberbatch doing in TSoT

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i had a dream that the garridebs actually meant something. Course, I woke up :/

– Steven Moffat, in his foreword for the 2011 reprint of ‘A Study in Scarlet’

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You can pinpoint the exact moment this show went wrong, and it’s when they decided to treat a person who murders for fun and money as a saint and the person who has repeatedly sacrificed themselves for his loved ones as someone flawed and wrong who needs to be fixed.

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no

can you believe this

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Why hurt your characters for years, why put them through torture, mental, physical, and emotional pain, WHY subject your characters to their past inflictions why treat your characters badly when you won’t give them a good character arc why not tie up all the loose ends when it comes to who this character is as a person why do you make a show about a character and then say who they are isn’t important why why why why why wh

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from ‘Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century’ by Graham Robb

i’m so alive rn