#anti johnlock

[lecoindecachou]

Do I hate that ship or do I just hate the shippers, a novel by me

[musclesandhammering]

If you ever wonder how easy it is for people to get sucked into cults, just search the tag of the most popular ship in any fandom.

[fugamalefica]

I can't stand opposites attract dynamics. They make no sense to me. Why would opposites attract? Kindred spirits who have never seen themselves in anyone but each other and that's why they fall in love>>>>

[hitchell-mope]

Two connected unpopular opinions.

You know how Madame Vastra is the in universe inspiration for Sherlock Holmes? And given her marriage to Jenny Flint I’m sure many here on [tumblr] would love to believe that Jenny is supposed to be John Watson. But I have a rebuttal for that. You see. It’s STRAX who is the war veteran medic. And it’s JENNY who is Vastra’s housekeeper in public. So you could say that Moffat and Gatiss like the idea of Sherlock getting together with Mrs Hudson.

Now as for house md. Cuddy is the Lestrade analogue in the show. And she’s the one who Greg actually dates, albeit Cuddy fucks it up and he ends up in prison for a year when she should’ve just coped with his Vicodin addiction, not Wilson. So you see. Two separate analogues to Sherlock Holmes and neither of them get with the Watson analogue. It really makes you think doesn’t it?

[something-wrong-with-us]

Can I just say, as a Holmescest shipper, a surprising number of evidence John/lockers claim are proof of JL can be used as Holmescest proof? It happens so often?

Like when a TJ*C video stated how romantic it is to say "I will always be there for you" and I just paused. I actually couldn't believe it. Someone that I know adores TAB and watched it countless times and I am supposed to believe they genuinely didn't remember Mycroft says that? (Their usage was referring to Sherlock's vow to John, Mary and their child)

Or this. Quote:

“You will look after him for me, won’t you?”

I feel like that line hides so much more pain than it shows. I feel like it’s a “look after him for me, please. Take care of him, cherish him, love him for me. Hug him, kiss him for me, instead of me, cause that’s what he wants, that’s what makes him happy, so that’s what I want too, although it pains me to say it.”

End quote.

This is about Sherlock saying it to Mary. And it's not even a completed parralel in the case of John and Sherlock.

However...

"Look after him, please?"

"Make sure he's looked after."

Or those about the eye-fucking and the cigarette metaphor. Or when someone claimed John not being able to shoot the governer was a sexual metaphor about his repressed bisexuality because guns are dicks and the governer is a man...

In the same episode where Sherlock points his gun at Mycroft and doesn't even for a moment consider pointing it at the John. And all three of them know that.

Totally unrelated gif ;)

That one would be hilarious if it wasn't linked to The Gun Scene. Or maybe this way I can finally channel it into something positive? Small mercies.

I wonder if it's just because people are uncomfortable with incestuous implications, is it bias because they only ship JL, or they do see it and hope we never notice? Do they not want to admit to seeing it because they think the act of noticing it makes them gross?

[maryholmes94]

Found this list of questions on fanfics.me and decided to answer them here (my fandom being ‘Sherlock’ of course)

the character everyone gets wrong

Eurus

2. the character everyone loves you hate

Moriarty

3. description of the worst fandom take you've seen

Mary actually wanted to kill Sherlock in ‘His Last Vow’

4. what was the funniest last straw that made you finally block someone?

When a person assumed I was a native German speaker simply because I wasn’t an English one

5. worst discord server and why

Don’t use discord

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

Johnlock

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how the fandom acts about them?

Irene Adler

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

“Season 4 is awful”

9. worst part of canon

“His Last Vow”

10. worst part of fanon

Johnlock

11. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Eurus; because she is the best and very well written villain of ‘Sherlock’

12. worst blorboficiation

John Watson

13. that one thing you see in fics all the time

Hysterical Sherlock

14. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

Mrs. Hudson being rude and unwise

15. there should be more of this type of fic/art

Sherlock being a good caring brother to Mycroft and Eurus

16. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

The soundtrack of ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’

17. part of canon you found tedious or boring

‘The Reichenbach fall’

18. part of canon you think is overhyped

‘The Reichenbach fall’

19. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

Sherlock forgiving Mary and Eurus

20. ship you've unwillingly come around to

Marylock

21. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

Sherlock’s sexuality

22. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

Sherlock and John not kissing/getting married/sleeping together at the end of season 4

[hussyknee]

Some tinhat in the Will Darling Adventures tag said that it's "obviously JohnLock fanfiction rewritten", which is the most horrible thing anybody could have ever said about KJ Charles, a historical romance novellist who thinks the entire aristocracy should be beheaded and writes characters of colour like they're just people. The only JohnLock resemblance I can see is the fact that Kim's a tall, self-flagellating idiot who looks a bit like a worried greyhound and Will an endearingly decent, unbelievably obstinate, terrifyingly pragmatic ex-army officer with a craving for homicidal violence like a nicotine habir. But, very crucially, both these characters are openly and deeply concerned about other people, don't treat their loved ones like shit, and generally act like normal, likeable human beings instead of egotistical self-absorbed shitstains. They're also, crucially, far younger and better looking.

Unfortunately, now that it's in my head I cannot unsee it because I am a pathetically suggestible person. Kim is easier not to cast as Bendydick Cabbagepatch because he's really not anything like Sherlock and instead so quite clearly evocative of a lissom 1920s silent film star. Will, otoh, being the POV character, doesn't give any clear description of himself at all except for being the absolute personification of mulish just-getting-on-with-it-ness, which regrettably leaves my mind too much room to conjure that racist piece of damp Hobbit bread whose only facial expression is of Some Guy stuck in the permanent realization that the crosswalk light isn't working. It's no good to reason that Will must be good-looking enough to score a hottie like Kim, which would necessarily rule out Freeman at every stage of his life. Or that Will is fundamentally not a secret asshole nor impressed by assholes and would in fact go out of his way to give a smug superior smartypants clotpole like Sherlock a wedgie out of a sense of social obligation.

It is a mistake to scroll Tumblr tags before reading things. There's too many white queers shipping middle-aged moldy white cis het toast everywhere.

[ladyofthelake]

LOL people really saying that GO was QB when they are CANONICALLY IN LOVE and CANONICALLY QUEER they literally just had a stupid argument and are gonna spend time away before they realise what the fuck they’ve done. Their endgame is together the actual writer has told us the ending. 

Its so funny to me that it comes from batshit shippers (like not normal shippers ship whatever you want lovelies) but the ones that attack cast and crew and genuinely try and force their ship as canon reality like I’ve just seen two sherlock posts rise from the dead saying how GO is the last QB show its over

and I’m like um Jan, tell me you wouldn’t have KILLED to see John and Sherlock kiss like we just got? But you believed that elephants and tea meant something (seriously if you haven’t heard of the tjlc look it up its insane lmao) and they’re just so bitter and jealous. Our CANON couple are just going through a rough patch and are also idiots. They end up happy together and thats their story. Maybe just focus on your ship instead of gatecrashing another.

[musclesandhammering]

Queer women are the main culprits of fetishising mlm relationships (both real and nonexistent ones), and I think we’re all scared to admit that.

[lady-raziel]

Recently I've seen a lot of people in many different fandoms go after those who express interest in shipping characters who aren't together in canon, which is just...wild to me. Like these people cite a lot of different reasons why the ONLY right relationship people can ship is the canon one, and some of the takes are even valid, but the core argument is just nuts to me as a person who's been around in fandom for a long time. Idk. I have no solid theory or anything but it feels like this weird shift somehow corresponds with the end of Supernatural or events around that time. It was like Destiel became "canon" and the show ended and now fandom people today have forgotten how shippers were literally ready to burn down the CW to claw the most lukewarm canon acknowledgement of a non-canon ship out of the writers' hands.

Like buddy, do you know what shipping IS? Do you know the history of that term?? The literal definition (you can go google it right now if you don't believe me) is created from people's desire to put two characters together in a non-canonical relationship. The act of shipping has been NON-CANON by nature from the start. So for some (many young, some not) fandom people to say nowadays that you can ONLY ship things from canon?? It's...absolutely revealing a flaw in how we share and perpetuate fan history. Absolutely baffling that the very term created to refer to something could be weaponized against that very same thing. We need to do a better job educating people on how all the fandom staples like AO3 and ship culture came about lest we lose them to the very things they were created to combat.

[musclesandhammering]

^ This is exactly what I was trying to explain. You literally can’t watch this scene without either 1) admitting that adlock is real or 2) admitting that johnlock is not real.

LINE INTERPRETATION

For those who say we are erasing Miss Adler’s sexuality.

[musclesandhammering]

Reminder that queerbaiting is “characters in this show were intentionally & definitively advertised as being queer in order to increase viewership with queer people, when the show itself doesn’t depict the queerness advertised.”

Queerbaiting is not “these two characters seem to have lots of romantic chemistry to me & even though there has never been any explicit evidence of queerness & the creators have in fact politely denied the romance rumors multiple times, I’m convinced they’re just hiding the secret gay love agenda, and when it turns out that wasn’t the case, I’m going to absolutely crucify the creators/actors/show.”

[kinardsheart]

buddie has nothing on johnlock oh youve been waiting 8 seasons for them to go canon? we’ve been waiting 5 novels 297 tv show adaptations 108 movie adaptations 275 vague form of media adaptations and more just for them to never kiss.

[rowinablx]

Destiel, Sterek and Johnlock fans after the Buddie fandom tried to down play the amount of queer baiting and bullying they went through

[renthebarbarian]

(Meanwhile, in the early 2010s)

House MD: We’re the queerbaitingest adaptation of Sherlock Holmes

Guy Ritchie films: No, WE’RE the queerbaitingest adaptation of Sherlock Holmes

BBC Sherlock: [pulls up] both of yall can hold my dick and balls

[myimaginarywonderland]

The fucking funniest scene is I just saw someone say everyone is making Buck's coming out arc about Tommy (someone who is genuinely a major part in Buck's journey) meanwhile I have had to literally scroll past so many fucking posts that just complelty made every important moment for Buck slowly accepting that he might not be straight about how Buck and Eddie (who is currently still a straight man with some heavy religious trauma) can finally get together and cheat on their respective partners.

The call is coming from inside the house you all.