fake-faith wearing all black with dyed black hair?????? whaatttt…..
Hi my name is Faith Dark’ness Elizabeth Elsa Smith and I have long ebony black hair with a slightly flamboyant walking cane and scars on my arms and icy grey eyes like a tranquilizer gun and a lot of people tell me I look like Eurus Holmes…
My takeaway from all this is: man, if these are real, the most third-string, read-only-in-case-of-fic-emergency authors of this fandom are freaking Bronte or Shakespeare compared to these smug chowderheads
sherlock fandoms been the absolute wildest most intense unbelievable thing ive ever seen/been involved with in my life and im hanging on for dear life loving every minute of it
i will always have a soft spot for trash john who after he fell asleep on his first day at the clinic and had to get his boss help him with patients said ‘oh i’m sorry… well anyway, see you!’
Pretty sad about it tbh. We lost A LOT of folks after the dumpster fire of s4. It felt a bit like a post-apocalyptic AU the week after TFP aired. We the survivors picked ourselves up, dusted off our knees, and set to work rebuilding what was left of the Sherlock fandom. I miss so many artists who have moved on to other things, and the talented writers who are now doing fantastic work for other fandoms.
Still, not all of this migration was due to S4. Some folks will naturally drift off to new passions, but others left the fandom because they were harassed and hounded and that REALLY saddens me. When TJLC was going strong, a small angry group seemed intent on policing how others did fandom, going after anyone they thought were being heretical against the church of Johnlock. Sigh
Still, new people will always be coming in. New voices and talents can grow in the gaps left in the forest when old trees fall over. Everything has a life span, and things will wax and wane in the Sherlock fandom, though I see this group could last a looooong time if the ACD canon fans are any indication. Holmes and Watson seem to continue, born again and again with new faces in new situations, ready to right the wrongs, solve the crimes, and delight in each other.
Whoops, tumblr went all wonky on me. Ignore my prior reply… as I was saying, sad to hear about such exoduses in the fandom. So maybe it will help if I share
my story: I’m a complete newcomer who didn’t watch a single episode
of Sherlock until March 2017. Was utterly impressed
by the passion, creativity & inventiveness of the fandom when I
checked it out. Took several wks for the s4 DVDs to arrive at
my public library & make their way thru the queue to me. (goodness, I can’t imagine having been a fan from the start, all those years of waiting…what stamina and love y’all have!) Now I am
working on a s4 fic of my own….and looking forward to starting
Granada Holmes & delving deeper into the ACD stories…so…ray of hope…? Us new fans do exist, and we’re awfully excited to be here!
Oh my God I completely forgot about the sherlocked con in two months… I forgot probably because??? like I just said, the show aired 9 months ago, there was a con in US in April or May idk, what the hell are they gonna talk about?? How straight Sherlock and John are? How in love with Molly and Irene Sherlock is? Same old, same old, they just want the fucking money, don’t they, I can’t possibly imagine why doing a con for a show that aired so long ago and, apparently won’t air for a couple more years again… makes no sense
I don’t think it will ever air again and, if it does, it will probably be a Rathbone & Bruce style of case-focused one-off stories, which is great when done right, but it’ll be deeply unsatisfying for all the fans who were expecting much better and were given S4 instead.
The Sherlocked con is mere money-milking and creator/actor self-promotion, and it will stop when ticket sales are low enough. Here’s hoping, tbh.
Agreed, it’s a money grab & a chance for TPTB to pat themselves on the back. To each their own, but I can’t imagine wasting my money on it.
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