your daughter’s disappeared without a trace, your youngest son is playing fetch with an imaginary dog in the garden and you’re avoiding phone calls from Victor Trevor’s parents
The people who appealed to the BBC Trust about the elaborate and offensive queerbaiting on BBC Sherlock, after having remained unsatisfied with the previous derogatory responses from the BBC Complaints Team on the matter (x and x), received this rather stupefying reply today in the mail.
The most baffling sentence in this long letter is perhaps this one:
“It was not about fact and although the issue mattered a great deal to those who complained it was not serious – it was fiction.”
The BBC Trust almost seems to suggest that the BBC’s editorial guidelines do not apply to fiction, while the BBC’s own introduction to those very guidelines states the following: “We seek to uphold the BBC’s Editorial Values in all we do. They embody our freedoms and responsibilities and, like the Editorial Guidelines, apply to all our content, whether it is made by the BBC itself or by an independent company working for the BBC.”
So how can this be an argument not to put the appeal before the Trustees?
Also, the Trust gave this puzzling statement:
“[The subject matter] was not a matter of intense debate or importance in a particular nation, region or discrete area likely to comprise a significant part of the audience.”
Apparently, a particular but significant group of the audience not centred in one geographical location doesn’t count when it’s negatively affected?!
OpNorbury would love to hear your thoughts on this!
Go read this! At least they are finally adressing the complaints in detail. (they even mention the online petition). Their answer of course is horrible. It boils down to: Everything is allowed in fiction + the lgbtq part of the Sherlock audience is too small for them to be bothered.
wow. i’m fucking speechless. I’m seriously amazed and not in a good way. so yeah, three things that made me go ‘woah! w t f’:
– bbc has double moral standards for fiction and non-fiction products
– it doesn’t matter if lgbt audience is hurt if the majority is okay with the content
– freaking british broadcasting corporation used a link to urban dictionary definition of queerbaiting.
not only this is a big lol as a matter of fact, but another ‘fuck you’ from them. because that article has this:
Sherlock fandom, 2016: GIVE US SEASON 4 N O W
Sherlock fandom, 2017: haha
Fandom: hahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Fandom: *muffled crying*
Fandom: put that thing back where it came from or so help me
Honestly it feels like the fandom was a thriving city that was fucking burnt down and now we’re trying to pick ourselves up, take account of survivors and figure out what to do as we look at the ruins of what has been our home for years
fic-writers are the roving teams with the defibrillators
That’s the best analogy.
I feel like the girl with the basket of sandwiches and a thermos of tea, occasionally griping about how i can’t keep the soot out of the food.
very relatable analogies 👌🏻👏🏻
Setting up a triage tent and handing out fic recs as needed …
Providing IV’s filled with AUs, fill-ins, and fix-its
I am the crazy old lady sitting in the smouldering rubble with my cat, rocking back and forth, drawing pretty pictures and pretending nothing has happened.
Eventually, groups get together and start building anew. It is still early but already you can tell – what rises from the rubble is sturdy and strong, and slowly, we create beauty from the destruction thrust upon us.
Actual footage of the BBC Sherlock fandom:
I’m like the resident archeologist who has a horde of relics. Some ancient and falling apart, some shiny and new. Some I’m not sure wtf they are or do (still cool either way). Most of the things are covered in soot now, but I have my little brush
Honestly it feels like the fandom was a thriving city that was fucking burnt down and now we’re trying to pick ourselves up, take account of survivors and figure out what to do as we look at the ruins of what has been our home for years
fic-writers are the roving teams with the defibrillators
Youtube’s new restricted mode takes away half of the official Sherlock youtube content. You know, the restricted mode that filters out LBGT content? Yeah, well, if Sherlock wasn’t intended to be gay, then why is youtube flagging them at all?
i hope sherlock gets a dog and by that i mean i hope he gets a fucking ridiculous dog like a corgi / dachshund mix with 2 inch legs and floppy ears who makes funny noises and flops up and down when he sees a tennis ball and is completely useless in the line of casework and has a ridiculous name like Wallace-Binglebert and sherlock thinks this ridiculous dog is the most majestic beast on the face of the earth and parades him around and introduces him to Lestrade as his new colleague while doggo pees all over a crime scene but it doesn’t matter because sherlock loves his dog and he’s so proud of him. and he spends all his money on toys and The Very Best Food for his ridiculous dog and he’s just…. a really really proud doggo owner
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