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Actually still seeing people say stuff like âmaybe the adlockers & sherlollies were right about sherlock being hetero-â
BOY. When did we say that? Who the hell is saying that?? Cause from where this adlockerâs sitting, sherlock is the most bisexual character on the show. Heâs queer as hell. Manâs straight as a slinky. As bi as a bicycle.
âŠâŠ.Oh but I forgot that doesnât actually count, because the only queer identities that are queer enough to count in their minds are gay men they can ship with other men without female interference. Right. My bad. Silly me thinking women had any place in the equation.
#going on bbc sherlock Twitter was a mistake now Iâm pissed#these j*hnlockers assume a whole hell of a lot donât they#anti tjlc#anti johnlock#Adlock#sherlolly#fandom wank#fandom discourse#sherlock discourse#bbc sherlock#bisexual erasure#once again#as an irl bisexualâŠâŠâŠâŠ. Iâm tired
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my favorite gender is men finding out about the concept of shipping non-canon ships
#fandom#shipping#shipping discourse#tiktok comments#stucky#cherik#poolverine#johnlock#destiel#stony#drarry#marvel#sherlock bbc#xmen#amy talks#deadpool and wolverine#wolfstar#jegulus#tomarry#dinluke
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Why do you (as in the royal you) as a member of a fandom,, seem to believe that things need to be,,, canon??? in fanfiction??? why would? that ever be? if you wanted to read pure canon, you could,,,, idk,,, read canon? pick up the source material,,, and if you wanted to read pure canon fanfiction just search the âcanon compliantâ tag. thatâs how ao3 works. so silly.
#was it canon when sherlock holmes and his little gay boy kissed on the hogwarts express? prolly not i wouldnt know#iâm not in that fandom#discourse#<- prolly#dcu#batman#would tag the character this is abt but many would hate me if i did that im afraid#batfam#fandom#fanfic#batfamily#batfanon#dc comics#fanfiction#tim drake#timkon#damian wayne#batkids#superfam#theyâre involved#like âthere should be more canon compliant worksâ valid criticism there r not a lot#but ââi hate that anyone writes fanfiction thatâs ooc or inaccurate to canonâ is giving old man screaming at clouds energy rn
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sometimes, i forget that people ship sherlock holmes with characters other than watson. genuinely startles me
#objectively speaking#holmes and watson are literally meant to be#cant forget abt mary too#however#everyone is entitled to their opinion#but come on#those two#theyre meant to be#holmes wouldnt be happy with anyone else :((#sherlock holmes#acd sherlock holmes#john watson#acd canon#acd holmes#sherlock holmes/john watson#holmes/watson#johnlock#ac johnlock#acd johnlock#canon johnlock#gay#bisexual#character ships#shipping discourse#rarepair#fandom ships#ah the joys of shipping two internationally recognized characters who are also 130+ years old
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He brightened and rubbed his thin hands together as he listened to the meagre but remarkable details. A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use. That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction. Sherlock Holmes's eyes glistened, his pale cheeks took a warmer hue, and his whole eager face shone with an inward light when the call for work reached him.Â
'His whole eager face shone with an inward light' oh Watson you besotted darling
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shout out to Sherlock Holmes the most aspec character to ever aspec. And shout out specifically to people who view his and Watsons relationship as a qpr I am kissing your forehead
#IF I FIND DISCOURSE ON THIS POST I WILL TURN THIS CAR AROUND#bbc sherlock#granada holmes#acd canon#Honestly all the canons???#granada canon#My posts
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Iâm kind of glad tumblr âdiedâ because it means this website is now mostly populated by adults who survived the fandom insanity of the early to mid 2010s and are now much more chill for it. Sometimes I see teenagers getting into fandom discourse on TikTok or Twitter and am immensely grateful that this site is no longer the primary stage for vitriolic fandom fervor
#tumblr#fandom discourse#fandom drama#the marauders#harry potter#doctor who#supernatural#bbc sherlock#superwholock#hamilton#iwtv
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In defense of RP Shipping and RP Fiction
I donât normally come out and give my opinion on things like this so plainly about such controversial things. I tend to shy away from confrontational writing such as this. However this idea has been brewing in my mind for some time now so I had to write it.
I am a Real Person Shipper.
Iâm seeing people talk a lot more about RP shipping (and the hate towards it) since David Tennant and Michael Sheen appeared smiling at each other in a photo after David's appearance in Macbeth.
RP Shipping is not a choice.
When I caught the shipping bug, it hit me like lightning. It occurred to me one night as I lay in bed next to the husband with which I had a deteriorating relationship: âare there stories about Dave Gahan and Martin GoreâŠbeing together??â
Dave Gahan/Martin Gore (Gahore) are in Depeche Mode. They were my 1st ship as an adult. You can read about it here. Obviously Depeche Mode is a band so there is no fictional narrative anywhere to follow. I quickly learned that RP shipping was taboo. However in my shipping community we all shipped the band so I was more or less insulated from it.
I dove in headfirst. I literally couldnât not do it. It was something my brain needed. Sure I could have forced myself to not go look for it because of some kind of moral (?) imperative which I wasnât even aware of at the time, but even if I stopped myself, that would not stop my brain from wanting it. Making up stories and scenarios. Finding evidence in videos, songs, interviews, etc. I shipped these two people because of what I had observed between them.
I saw love. So did my shipping friends. We all saw it. I needed to experience it. My life lacked it.
My next RP ship was Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch (FreeBatch). First I fell in love with Sherlock and John, obviously. But then as I started to follow the fandom, I started noticing the same things that others noticed. My brain just went there. I literally had no choice. Itâs not as if I could tell my brain âdonât do thatâ. It would not listen. You canât tell a starving person to not think about food. In fact telling them that probably makes it worse.
In my personal life, I had been through a breakup with the man I dated after I got divorced, and then I began dating a woman for the 1st time. I really started to relate what I was seeing on the screen and reading on Tumblr and in fic to my own life. I was starting to process my own bisexuality. I started to notice things about Martin and Ben that other people were noticing too. Shipping them helped me navigate that time in my life because I saw myself in it. I related to it. But it wasn't a choice. My brain just went there. Maybe I was Baader-Meinhoffing but even if I was, that doesnât mean itâs something I didnât need to explore, work out in my mind, and discover.
Shennant (Michael Sheen and David Tennant) is my 3rd RP ship. Yes I fell in love with Aziraphale and Crowley of course, but again, as I started to follow the fandom and Davidâs and Michaelâs careers specifically, watching interviews, watching Staged, etc, I started noticing the same thing that many others noticed. I literally couldnât help it. My brain, again, just went there. Also in Staged of course, they play themselves. I have to say that my RP Shipping really took off after I watched them in that. They play themselves. Their actual partners are in it. If one were to write Staged fic, is that not RPF? Where is the line between what is supposed to be okay and what is not?
Again, with this ship, I had big things going on in my personal life. Dad passed away almost a year and a half ago, and now I'm taking care of my elderly mom long distance. It's a huge emotional burden. I'm not dating anyone right now mostly because of that but also because I was in a poly relationship with the male half of a het married couple (longtime friends of mine) that ended extraordinarily painfully (so this was V or chain-style poly not group-sex poly). Since then I've been alone for more than 2 years. I'm still getting over it.
The love I see between Michael and David feels unconditional. I see adoration. If they are indeed in a healthy poly relationship, my god, how on earth did they do that? Even while navigating fame? Itâs certainly a lot more difficult than my own situation. I can explore it: What kind of person feels safe to me the way I believe David feels safe with Michael? What kind of relationship can withstand the kind of obstacles they (and I) might face? What would have had to actually happened for them to be as happy as they seem to be? What discussions were had? What agreements were reached? How does one do this the right way? What does that tell me about my own relationship and what went wrong? What should have happened?
This is, in its most academic sense, a tool for my brain to heal and to discover what kind of a relationship I want. And my brain knows it. Thatâs why it ships. My heart doesnât know that. It just knows I love seeing them happy together. This is the magnet that drew me.
RP Shipping helps us to work shit out in our personal lives.
I bought Spark edited by Atlin Merrick recently. One of the essays by Angela Nauss, LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) really stood out to me is titled Sympathy for the Devil: Attachment Theory and FanFiction.
The article is about fanfiction authors, however I would extrapolate this to include readers and RP Shippers as well. RP Shippers are authors of narratives in their own mind, even if they are not always written down.
From the book:
âFanfiction authors process attachment wounds using fictional characters as proxiesâŠto process and understand the origin of the problems encountered during adolescence.â
âSome authors write fanfiction to humanize uncomfortable aspects of their identity, grieve and repair damaged relationships, and process attachment woundsâŠby exploring how the character would behave in adaptive relationships.â
âFanfiction authors project their unconscious trauma onto the characters.â
âThe characters gain insight into their behavior and no longer feel responsible for their childhood attachment wounds. Through their writing, the author incorporates repressed trauma and attachment wounds into their conscious experience and achieves catharsis.â
âWriting fanfiction is a valid form of therapeutic self-exploration.â
Iâve been in therapy for several years, In fact the poly relationship I was in is why I seeked out therapy in the 1st place. I know that shipping these people, exploring aspects of that, is helping me to heal attachment wounds and the trauma caused by past relationships.
As part of my healing from this poly relationship I was in, I intend to write a meta and/or a fic about David and Michael. I know it will aid in my healing. I may or may not post it.
Also, even Shakespeare wrote RPF.
Iâm seeing people say that we RP Shippers are terrible, immoral, disgusting, gross people and that we want David and Michael to leave their partners. That we want to break up their families. Let me be clear that I want nothing of the sort.
There are people out there that want to "protect" them from this âimmoralityâ by shaming us, berating us, calling us names. Even sending certain blogs directly to Georgia and Anna! This is the exact opposite of what actions like this are actually doing. This does not protect them from harm. It creates it.
There is no such thing as thought crime.
Not only is it impossible for me to choose not to ship these people, but I also get the sense that even thinking about it is supposed to be wrong. That it makes me an immoral person.
Something I keep seeing is that people are so upset that we RP Shippers are doing this. Like, why donât we just, stop. Just look at all the other appropriate characters that are out there to ship! Or just never start in the first place. As if this was a choice we are making to consciously ship real people.
When shippers ship a couple, do they choose that couple consciously? Do they say, hmm, I'm going to ship X person and Y person because it's...logical? Or for whatever consciously thought of reason? I'm going to go out on a limb and speak for mostly all shippers and say no. Shippers ship because we see something in those 2 characters that we are drawn to like magnets, for whatever reason. Real People included. If you're on Tumblr for a fandom and read fic, you know what I'm talking about.
Male/Male relationships is a fetish, or a kink, for me. And by extension, RPS/RPF as well. I do enjoy thinking about what might be the "reality" behind the curtain that we are shown as part of their public personas. This is part of the ingredients to this fetish, or kink, for me.
Kink is defined by Wikipedia as âthe use of non-conventional sexual practices, concepts or fantasies. The term derives from the idea of a âbendâ (a âkinkâ) in oneâs sexual behaviour, to contrast such behaviour with âstraightâ or âvanillaâ sexual mores and proclivities. It is thus a colloquial term for non-normative sexual behaviour.â
A fetish is defined by Wikipedia as referring âto any sexually arousing stimuli, not all of which meet the medical criteria for fetishism. This broader usage of fetish covers parts or features of the body (including obesity and body modifications), objects, situations and activities (such as smoking or BDSM).â
Generally, modern sexual health thinking seems to say âSo long as your fetish doesnât get in the way of your own well-being, the safety of others, and your partners participate enthusiastically, there is nothing wrong with it.â
It seems to be another taboo to claim gay (or bi/pansexual) men as a fetish, or a kink. There are some who claim that itâs objectifying the very real experiences of gay men. I struggle with this because I can't deny that I enjoy it but I also don't want to hurt anyone.
I am not a gay man. I will never be a gay man. I am a cis bisexual woman. I can never know what that experience is like. This is, in essence, the core of the fantasy. It can feel as good and perfect and romantic and loving as I want it to be because I donât have the parts or experience to know it first hand. Therefore I've come to the conclusion that my thoughts in my head and anything I write down in a safe space does not hurt anyone. For me personally, itâs a way to disconnect from myself. People enjoy fic for all sorts of reasons. I shouldnât have to prove that my reasons are "wholesome" to be allowed to enjoy it.
I donât enjoy reading het fiction for reasons I wonât go into, however they are probably not individual to just me alone. Hoards of women like me also enjoy the same thing.
So yeah. To the surprise of absolutely no one, thinking about Michael and David, or Martin and Ben, or Dave and Martin, or men in general, kissing or having sex or a romance with each other â turns me on. That leads me to state the following:
Anti-RP Shipping and Anti-RP Fiction is kink shaming.
When I say "Anti", I'm referring to those who loudly object to it. Not those who (thankfully) say "that's not for me" and move on. Just like I would with say, Omegaverse.
Because my interpretation of these real people is in reality, âfictionâ in my own head, then by definition all RP Shipping is RP Fiction. It cannot be reality because I donât know them. Therefore any stories, speculation, comments, analysis, conclusions, art, etc, IS ALL FICTION.
Real people are characters to your brain.
Obviously I donât know them personally, so anything that I were to believe or create in my head about them is by definition, fiction. My brain makes it up according to what Iâve seen, read, heard, observed and drew conclusions from. This creates a fictional reality for my brain to consume. It canât be reality because I donât know them.
Wikipedia says RPF writers are âbuilding a fictional universe based on the supposed real-life histories of their idols. Information from interviews, documentaries, music videos, and other publicity sources are assimilated into the stories. It is also very popular to write fiction about celebrity couples. Communities of writers build collective archetypes based on the celebrities' public personas".
I would never, under any circumstances, present any RPS/RPF questions, stories, insinuations, or even mention it at all directly to the actors/musicians/personalities or their partners or even anyone associated with them. I would be beyond embarrassed to do so. Even though Michael himself seems to be accepting of it, I would never present it to him. Never. (I mean itâs not like I could really anyway but still).
I believe that 99.9% of RP Shippers would do the same. Itâs the .01% that have done so (and unscrupulous âjournalistsâ looking to shock by asking questions/showing them the RPF, and those people claiming to prevent harm by sending it directly to them âfor legal actionâ or tattletale âlook at what these terrible people are doingâ and blaming the RP shippers for creating it â wow talk about projection) -that make a bad name for us all. Showing it to them and asking them about it IS a choice.
If RP Shipping is not a choice, a way to work out personal mental health issues, is fictional by definition, and a non-pathological aid to sexual excitement that hurts no one if it is contained within safe spaces such as fic sites and Tumblr, then what exactly is the harm?
Tumblr is a safe space.
Why is there such vitriol against RP Shipping and RPF? You claim to be protecting the actors or people in question, but by raising your voices so loudly in various ways, you are harming the very person you claim to be protecting. I think you have to ask what it is within yourself that makes you so aggressively hate this? Why can't we just say "that's not for me" and move on?
Don't we on Tumblr and on AO3 celebrate non-mainstream ideas such as this? Or if not celebrate, at least live and let live. The fact is that Tumblr is supposed to be a safe space. I should feel safe speaking my mind here. I know quite a few RP shippers follow me so I don't feel completely alone, but I don't feel entirely safe posting this.
My morality is not yours to police.
I strongly doubt Iâll be changing anyoneâs mind with this. If youâre Anti RP shipping and Anti RPF youâre probably going to stay that way.
Donât like, donât read.
You can unfollow, block people, block tags, filter tags on AO3...any number of things. Think of it like a trigger. Just please don't spew hate.
#rps#rpf#good omens rpf#sherlock rpf#gahore#gahore rpf#real person shipping#real person fiction#dave gahan#martin gore#depeche mode#benedict cumberbatch#martin freeman#freebatch#sherlock#good omens#shennant#sheenant#ineffable lovers#david tennant#michael sheen#shipping discourse#shipping discussion#rp shipping#SlashWhore
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two main ways jim appears in sherlockâs mind. either Gay or Crazy. both are equally terrifying to sherlock
#me when iâm bbc sherlock and iâm not projecting etc#i always forget how diabolical the second jim photo is lol#but itâs like. transsexual comrade voice sherlock they see u like this anyway lol#like secondhand dysphoria discourse but for bbc sherlock#i have more to say on this i feel like iâm yelling into the void#jim moriarty#bbc sherlock#sherlock meta#tjlc#this also feels v in line w the Moriarty is Internalised Homophobia tjlc reading#n how the moral of abominable bride is that sherlock needs to accept that he needs johns help (and that heâs gay lol)
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it doesn't matter what people in the "fandom" think - keep doing whatever the fuck you want
they say your fan art is cringe? it doesn't matter
they don't think you should be writing THAT type of fanfiction? it doesn't matter
they have some sort of moral objection to a ship you like or a personal head cannon or something else you enjoy? it doesn't fucking matter
just do whatever you want
don't bother having tedious "discourse" about it, don't bother trying to justify yourself to anyone, and don't get stressed out over strangers on the internet who want to police the way you interact with your favorite media.
I say this as an old woman who has used Tumblr on-and-off for the past 10+ years. None of it matters. The petty arguments, the rules and guidelines they try to impose on you, the self-righteous call-out posts about innocuous bullshit - tune it all out. it doesn't matter, it never mattered, and it never will.
#fandom#Tumblr#discourse#time to tag every fandom I have ever dealt with#sherlock fandom#supernatural#fan art#fanfiction#fanfic#doctor who#harry potter#MCR#my chemical romance#steven universe#pro shipping#shipping discourse#sleep token#ghost#fall out boy#taylor swift#slipknot#anime#anime fanart#online community#fan community#fandom bullshit
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Aimé Césaire saying that colonization works to decivilize the colonizer truly lives in my head rent-free
#this is the essence of the v problematic anticolonial critique in so much 19thc literature (eg heart of darkness) right?#(and also its more modern inheritors eg apocalypse now and the Doing An Imperialism Makes Our Soldiers Sad genre of war story)#it glosses right over the crucial 'systems of rapacious cruelty are bad IN THEIR OWN RIGHT BECAUSE BROWN PEOPLE ARE HUMAN' bit#but in that one limited sense - that cruelty also brutalizes the perpetrators - it is very much the same critique#anyway i guess my brain continues to find ways to circle back round to discourse on colonialism no matter the initial topic#lit tag#no more war#imperialism#imperial violence always comes home#cultures of dissociation#aimé césaire#i am also choosing to tag this#sherlock holmes#as like solidly 98% of the stories in which the murderer is a former colonial officer or official are ROILING w this exact anxiety#(especially the hella racist ones. lol.)#i mean loads of authors in that time period are doing it but i have a tag for acd so.#my posts
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How come people whose DNI lists Iâm on will interact with me. Youâre going to file a restraining order and then walk into my house? Reblog my post with an addition but I cannot boost it because you rail furiously about how you want blogs like mine nowhere near you? Must I go to the trouble of reading your DNI and respectfully not engaging, and you will not even read my bio to see that I am one of the ones you prefer to suicidebait on anon before you decide to write a soliloquy in my tags?
#this is not meant to be taken seriously#it just makes me smh every time i make a popular post#and then all the people in the fandom who i see around#and sometimes really like their work#but iâve never been able to interact because they hate me#and iâm in their DNIs#theyâre commenting on and reblogging and tagging MY post#and itâs like come on man. what am i supposed to do here#do you want me to interact or not#star wars#the clone wars#cloneshipping#codex#mormor#sherlock#the mandalorian#magneto#nile/andy#x men#discourse#ao3#fanart#fanfic
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so this thought isn't very well formed yet but I wanted to know how the people who's been on here since circa 2012 thinks about how the nature of fandom discourse has changed or stay the same. How does the new good omens/ofmd/what we do in the shadows (??? is that the third one???) triumvirate stack up with 2012 OG superwholock whose name I can finally say out loud without wanting to lock myself in a fridge? Is it as insane? does it even qualify? To me I think it doesn't because like. tumblr really is the best site out there for fandom culture and I know there's a whole lot of very hot takes in the ofmd fandom being made on tiktok or insta now instead, and i've dipped my feet there a bit, and it doesn't feel the same. idk. superwholock entrenched every corner of this shithole to the point it leaked out to other sites. but sometimes i see posts there like 'i've never watched a show before that has altered my brain chemistry this much' and the james franco "first time?" meme pops in my head and how time is a circle that is, in this case, a decade long lol. what are we thinking about the recent generation of discourse.
#fandom#fandom culture#tumblr culture#fandom discourse#good omens#ofmd#what we do in the shadows#wwdits#our flag means death#discourse#go#superwholock#UNHOLY#supernatural#sherlock#doctor who#in terms of show creator's attitude towards its fanbase tho truly rip the superlock fandom lol GO and ofmd has it waaaay better#does that affect the discourse?
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I hate the last season of BBC Sherlock not because it was bad but because it was bad and it tricked me into thinking I was stupid. "why cant I really follow whats going on here I must be dumb" no you're just 12 and also its not very good TV. not a matter of your intelligence, really.
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Now, presuming that the source of the crime is as we suspect it to be, there might be two different motives. In the first place, I may tell you that Moriarty rules with a rod of iron over his people. His discipline is tremendous. There is only one punishment in his code. It is death.Â
It's slightly horrifying to learn more about Moriarty - about what a dangerous, merciless kind of man Holmes choose to atttempt to have arrested
#kind of wish I had read this novel before The final problem#the threat of Moriarty and Holmes' fear of him would have been more believable and made more of an impression upon me#letters from watson#sherlock holmes#the valley of fear#chapter 2#sherlock holmes discourses
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Reblog for bigger sample size! Based on this post by @rigorwhoring
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
#ao3 fanfic#ao3feed#archive of our own#ao3#wattpad#ffnet#fanfiction.net#fanfic writers#fanfic writing#fanfic readers#fanfiction#fanfic discussion#fanfic discourse#fanfic meme#ao3 memes#ao3 my beloved#ao3 writer#steve rogers#tony stark#sam winchester#top 3 after dean lmfao ofc ofc#sherlock holmes#orv#jeon jungkook#stiles stilinski#draco malfoy#destiel#stucky#HOLY FUCK SAM/DEAN IS 10TH PLACE FOR MOST FANFICS ON AO3 D: I regret looking this up holy fuck#ben solo
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