#but pro johnlock

[raingoddess214]

Holmes brain 24/7

[pro-philosopher]

Meet John Locke in our Ace Attorney Like philosopher DEBATING SIM.

No.

You CANNOT DATE HIM!

[thalialunacy]

for @naefelldaurk and @fandomtrumpshate <3

In which John has to be shoved into moving forward, Sherlock actually manages to be surprised, and Mycroft turns out to be an A+ uncle. (And they all live happily ever after, of course.)

All of the Things I Need by thalialunacy

Johnlock | Explicit | 10k words

[all-or-nothing-baby]

shippers! do any of you have a song that's on practically all of your pairings playlists?

(mine is my body is a cage by arcade fire)

my spotify

[johnlockbbc]

I’m on episode 16 of Sherlock & Co and I love it but where’s the angst

It’s not johnlock without angst

[moriarty1234]

All conspiracy theorists think and talk in the same way.

sherlock are you and dr watson a couple?? 🤨

Isn't it obvious?

[ryal-is-reading]

Not sharing the original post I pulled this from because it was full of some hate, but - GOOD ON HIM!! Awesome poet, like him even better now.

Do I ship wincest? No, not my cup of tea. But I will always defend *your* right to do so. IT'S FICTION!! You don't have to like what an author writes, you don't have to agree with it or condone it. I've read some VERY dark novels where horrific things happen. BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE THE AUTHOR EVIL!! I can choose to read that, or not, but it has no impact on who the author is or who I am.

If you can't separate real life from fiction that's a YOU problem and something I hope you work on. It's not other people's job to curate your experience. Read what you like, and let others do the same.

[cringelock]

i think talking about “cope” within a tjlc context is hilarious at this point. i’m not on copium baby i’m on something worse! we moved beyond notions of cope approximately 4 years ago. blog theory and EMP have burned out like great stars and all that’s left is the hardest stringiest life forms. what anyone still riding this train has going on is much more complicated and personal than cope. i invented cope. after what i’ve seen there’s nothing cope could do for me. i stare into the eye of the storm with breathtaking awareness. i welcome entropy. “what else could they possibly mean by this?” is our equivalent of “what is the sound of one hand clapping?” almost a meditation on the nature of our state. there is no answer to this question, in fact the very lack of an answer is the point. cope is for those who still can shield their eyes, but we have been burdened with sight! i took an edible approximately three hours ago

[musclesandhammering]

Pro tip for antis: if their profile picture is the character you’re arguing against, just.. don’t even try lol.

[tour-de-pants]

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This blog and all of its original (ie, non-reblogged) content is part of a work of fiction in support of Fandom Trumps Hate 2023. As a thank you for one individual’s donation to a charitable organization, I am creating a remix—a fanwork based on and reinterpreting another fanwork. That clever person requested content that appeared to be produced by the fans of the main characters in the selected fanfiction story, Slipstream. Please take everything here with the same grain of salt you afford traditional fanfics. This blog’s content will eventually be posted as a work on AO3 as well. Enjoy!

[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.

[pro-philosopher]

Pro Philosopher 2 is out in the wild and the player reception has been wonderful to see.

Locke is convinced the positive response is because everyone appreciates him solving everything forever.

[is-the-fire-real]

Whither the pro-Pals a year from now?

I feel that "fandom as politics" most adequately covers the behavior of pro-Palestinians on Tumblr, and being an Old Hand At Fandom, this gives me some impressions on what the future holds. I know this is a matter of great concern for those of us on Tumblr who are their favorite targets.

My estimates are not scientific, and are based on experience in seeing the rise and fall of many fandoms. I am not psychic and make no guarantees.

The Old Guard: The smallest contingent of pro-Palestinian activists will be permanently, irrevocably radicalized by propaganda, and they will not go back. Truthfully, there is nowhere for them to go. They have burned all of their online goodwill invested in this fandom, and as the rest fall away, they will rage at their own allies, burning those bridges as well. These people are just as hateful and insufferable IRL as they are online, so they will know nobody who isn't also pro-Pal. They will remain behind in the fandom. When it later repopularizes as Tumblr rediscovers the fandom due to future content being released in the form of another war, the Old Guard will snark and brag about how they carried the torch while everybody else abandoned the fandom of The Great Cause. The Old Guard will constitute the BNFs of the pro-Pal fandom and their closest friends, at most 10% of the current fandom.

The Fond Recollectors: A lack of new, shiny, emotionally-evocative content for the pro-Pal fandom will drop it, the same as how many fandom members abandon a fandom once it is cancelled or after endless delays for new material. These folks will not think of their time in the pro-Pal fandom as wasted. They will look back on this time of trauma, war, and upheaval as one of the most exhilarating and joyful times of their lives. They will generally act as though they weren't part of the fandom, but when they find people who used to be in the fandom, it will be like finding somebody who shares a fandom you used to adore. They will whisper, with smirking conspiratorialism, of how one time they got a Jewish--uh, Zionist--person to deactivate their Tumblr account. They will confess among one another how many times they sent "kys" messages to Zionists, and giggle. It will be like ex-Johnlockers lol'ing among themselves about having stalked the actors IRL. If the fandom gets new content in the form of a war, then the Fond Recollectors will rejoin with glee. They will accept the Old Guard's hostility ("Where were you all this time?") as their just punishment. Otherwise, Fond Recollectors will be mid-grade antisemitic in whatever new political or media fandoms they join. They will constitute roughly 30% of the current pro-Pal fandom, and will mostly be composed of folks who post extremely prolifically but are not currently BNFs.

The Shamefaced Ex-Fans: Whether we like it or not, most folks get caught up in a fandom cycle due to hype from friends and socmed pressure. This creates a peak of interest which is followed by burnout. A person in this category engaged constantly and thoughtlessly with pro-Palestinian fandom content for hours every day, yet never engaged with purpose or by creating transformative works. Once the fandom fails to produce enough new content, they will look around, dazed, and wonder what the hell they even liked about it in the first place. Now out of the hype cycle, Ex-Fans will be able to look more critically at their behavior. They will not recognize their Jew-hate, but they will recognize the silliness of a lot of their behavior. "Gosh, I can't believe I thought reblogging on Tumblr would end a war" will take the place of phrases like "... would make that ship become canon" in their lexicon. They will look back at this time with embarrassment; again, not because they understand the harm they have done, but because they understand it's "cringe" to care about stuff that's not pluperfect and doesn't achieve the stated goal. They will be the least apparently-antisemitic and the most likely to make friends with Jewish people online, because they will change their names and will not admit what they were doing during the Hamas/Israel war. If the pro-Pal fandom gets new content in the future--again, in the form of a new war--the Ex-Fans will primarily fall silent. They will be overwhelmed by shame (not guilt, and not responsibility). They will not rejoin unless dragged into it, but they will not speak out to support Jewish people. They will constitute roughly 60% of the current fandom.

These are bleak estimates, because a newly revitalized pro-Pal fandom will not need the Shamefaced Ex-Fans. The core of the fandom, the Old Guard and the Fond Recollectors, will do what all passionate cores of fandoms do in these situations: recruit. And while most of these recruits are destined to become Ex-Fans in the far future, many will join the other two categories, being partially or permanently radicalized into a movement of antisemitism.

In a sense, what we are seeing is what Tumblr would have been like if Moffat had said "Johnlock will never be canon, and it's all because of the Jews".

[stephdrawsjohnlock]

SH – :Pride 2024: Procreate on iPad Pro

YAAAAAALL I FINISHED A PRIDE PIECE THIS YEAR BEFORE PRIDE!!! AND IT'S JOHNLOCK!! Gosh, I raced to get this done between FTH, C-19, and a hectic work schedule... but I was determined to get you guys not only a Pride piece done THIS year for Pride, but ALSO a Johnlock one because I know I haven't posted a lot of Johnlock the past few months, LOL.

So YAY, happy Pride 2024! Hoping to get another one done for August (my city's official Pride Week is my birthday week!), but for now, enjoy a Johnlock smoochy to kick off Pride Month! :)

Also, apologies for the weird cropping... I REALLY wanted to draw a full body piece because I wanted all the flags!!!!! :D

Love you all :)

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[olderthannetfic]

re: 711522392342740992 - wait wait wait, hold on. Do you not think Sherlock was queerbaiting? Or did I misunderstand your response? I honestly thought that that was, like, the _one_ example of a show that everyone agreed was actually queerbait. (I am 30, so, you know, by your metric I Definitely Would Think That. I guess you're right!) (Tumblr is doing something weird so it's possible I've sent this multiple times. I'm very sorry if that's the case!)

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I think it was a prime example of tumblr being too up its own ass to see reality.

Johnlock was obviously never going to happen, and only a highly selective reading of "But the showrunners lied about other things!" could have ever made it seem like it would. The show was pretty popular overall, meaning that the tumblry factions of its fandom, while loud around here, were not actually that important to the people making it. John and Sherlock's relationship was written how lots of male friendships are written in mainstream media. Ditching a long series of girlfriends for your bro is the default for writers who don't care about women and value male friendship above all. I enjoyed the first couple of seasons, but no new ground was being broken here, to put it mildly. I thought fandom was hallucinating from the beginning, and it only got more ridiculous the longer the show went on.

The one example I can think of where some pro media dangled a gay ship to attract a certain audience, then went back on that promise, is not Teen Wolf but Teen Wolf advertising in the form of that "we're on a ship" video. It was obviously in jest, but they did implicitly go "If you vote for us in this poll, we'll give you sterek". No one with half a brain cell should have believed them, but they did more or less say that.

Sherlock made no such promise and did not appear to be courting a specifically queer or progressive or whatever audience. If you define 'queerbaiting' as "Fans were butthurt when their ship didn't happen", then sure, it can count. If you use a strict definition, then no, absolutely not.

[a-different-equation]

Ken Ludwig: Moriarty. A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure (Der Fall Moriarty; Hamburg, 2024)

Pros:

Dr John Watson liebt Sherlock Holmes: all das Händchen halten, Kussversuch, Liebesbriefe schreiben etc. Der Mann rechnet sich nicht nur Chancen bei ihm aus, der hat sein Leben nach seiner großen Liebe ausgerichtet <3

Die Canon Illustration vom Reichenbach in bi colours

Der Schauspieler, der von Montag bis Mycroft alles spielte, inklusive e König von Böhmen im Goldenen High Heels

Irene Adler, die durchgängig Amerikanerin und kluge Frau war — die als Kette einen Schlips trug

Toby The Dog <3 überhaupt das Bühnenbild war einfach und clever

Props für Sherlock Holmes in scharlachrot/pink Mantel, und Watson und Holmes in Schlafanzügen, und die Frauen in Hosenrollen

Katy Karenbauer

Contra:

Das Stück ist einfach murks. Hamburg hat wirklich WIRKLICH das beste draus gemacht. Es hat so viele Zitate, aber Ludwig hat ein zu großes Ego, als dass das klappt

Und Ludwig will eben HETERO schreiben, was einfach null klappt. Weil Skript Holmes nur queer klappt.

Was Hamburg zeigt, weil es — mit Aufnahme des Endes — es konsequent queer(er) macht. Die letzte Szene, aber das Original ist — und es antiklinatisch und WTF ist. Weil Ludwig unbedingt Irene Adler und Sherlock Holmes küssen sehen will?!?! Und das einfach null Sinn macht.

Whatever Hamburg mit „Fake News“ rüber bringen wollte???

Oder soll die Kussszene das sein??? Dann nehme ich es. Weil das war so Fake.

Kurz: außer die letzte Szene gut, lustig und echt Fanservice. Ehrlich, lasst Irene und Moriarty den bi Reichenbach runter fallen und gut ist. Oder das TAB Ende dann am Ende. Boah, das wäre ehrlich gesagt EPIC.

Ne, Geld absolut wert. War auch voll (ausverkauft?). Von Kindern bis Leuten mit Hörgeräten alles dabei. Und we love that people were ranting about the ending even in the U-Bahn <3 Die haben völlig recht: zwei Männer gemeinsam in der Wohnung… und es sind ja echt andere Zeiten. Und Hamburg zeigt eigentlich immer Canon Johnlock. We have standards 🕵️‍♂️🌈