#fandom: sherlock & co

[aishime]

Johnlock on the year of our lord 2025

referenced pic bellow

[herius-is-drawing]

Cuddles 🥰

[tsukihasnolife]

The Blue Carbuncle 🪿

[fcheez]

started the podcast, my interpretations of the gang

[reallyunluckyrunaway]

Please SOMEBODY make it happen!!!!

[ponkydraws]

As one of my non-Sherlock friends expressed, it’ll always be funny how the Sherlock fandom is so obviously…the Sherlock fandom. The most detail oriented, relentless, neurodiverse, nitpicky fandom out there is the Sherlock fandom. The one fandom that lays its life down to study the microscopic details of everything the media has to offer is the Sherlock fandom. You don’t think Johnlock is canon? Here’s 177 color coded and annotated pages with specific examples, references, definitions and research we’ve deduced together. Have a read, that’s just part one.

Like. Isn’t that just so fitting??

[l0ud3r-ch33ps]

SHERLOCK AND CO SLASH ACD ??????

still figuring out process for animating so have this practice snippet yayayyayayyyyy

also ive only listened to part 1 so far so no spoilers plss ee!!

[vargdottern]

you know when i first watched bbc sherlock i loved it so much, but the more i get into other sherlock adaptations the more i realize how flawed it really is

[poet-guy]

Writing johnlock fanfic on my calculator, now I just have to see how to access ao3 from it

[sharkparq]

Day one done of podtober!!

[herius-is-drawing]

HEADCANON: (sadly): when Sherlock is overstimulated he doesn’t speak for days, one day he try to communicate with John through the sign languages and John respond to him, so in those days they communicate with language sign 😭🤧

The sign of four? NOPE THE SIGN OF LOVE 🗣️

I hope I did the signs right cause I don’t know the BSL so I watched some video for reference 😭

[ramigir]

[fcheez]

[trickytrick]

my own sherlock & co designs :33

[lalaloves]

Him every couple episodes I feel

[clearwingedmaven]

Alright, so. I've got little time and some ideas, so I'll do a brief thought process on the death of Sherlock Holmes in 1893, and the fandom as a whole.

Firstly, getting this out of the way. Sherlock Holmes was not the first modern fandom. That honor most likely goes to Charles Dickens and his work, especially the Pickwick Papers. There is evidence and record that fan merchandise, like joke books, tobacco, and shoe horns, were made with Pickwick Papers characters, especially Sam Weller.

However, Sherlock Holmes is probably our first instance of a global fandom where consequences quite literally created a literary and cultural firestorm. This isn't an exaggeration.

ACD's relationship with Holmes is... strange. Of course, he wanted to kill off Holmes, and move onto other books. (Historical novels, mainly, or Spiritualist manifesto), but there was always a love hate relationship, and we see that most predominantly through fan letters.

Almost immediately after Holmes’s death in 1893, there was shock. Scandal. Mourning. Fans exchanged letters in newspapers, trying to reach out to other fans to figure out what just happened, and what to do next. Holmes was dead. And for all anyone knew, so was the series.

So how'd they cope?

By creating communities. Discourse communities, to be more apt. They exchanged letters, asked questions, and talked through newspapers. Each one plucked from 1893 and 1894 show grief and confusion: for a fictional character.

People even started seeking out Joseph Bell, the man who inspired Holmes, in order to try to fill the void. There's even record of fans venturing to Reichenbach Falls in costume to pay tribute to their fallen hero. And this kept happening. For years. The world lost not just a character, it was their friend.

Keep in mind! Victorian literature was a family affair. Many people would gather around and read stories and books together, so the firestorm went further.

Until, it made ACD change his mind, and bring back Sherlock Holmes. (Can we call it bullying? Perhaps. I call it a unique circumstance of cultural phenomena.)

So where does it leave the fandom?

Ah, that's the question. This fandom, uniquely, has a distinct honor of being one of the oldest living discourse communities, an exchange of reader response, engagement, and including even more material.

So to the fans: from the fanfic writers, to the game makers, to the cosplayers, to the fans of adaptations near and far, to the editors, to the artists, to the dreamers and thinkers...

It is, given the nature of the fandom, that you are all a part of history, as part of one of the oldest(and still going!) Fandom discourse communities.

Keep that in mind. And keep going. 🙂