inevitably-johnlocked:

prettyrealisticjohnlockfanart:

shirleycarlton:

constant-warmth-and-tea:

I’m here because of you. You took a pretty cool show and put it through a
beautiful metamorphosis. Your story, your interpretation, is the one I
want to read. Your ideas fascinate me. Your creations delight me. You
make me want to think harder and write more. You are some of the
funniest, whip-smart people I’ve ever had the good fortunate to ‘meet’.
And did I mention brave?

As the community shifts around the show’s tremors and pitfalls, I’m
staying because the show was merely a springboard for
your brilliance.

Yes, it started with Sherlock. I was in agony. At first I loved their re-telling. I have never been so smitten with a goofy tv show. It helped that I’d loved the HolmesWatson dynamic forever. But the chemistry between these actors! The score! The sets! But it hurt, too. My beloved Watson and Holmes were clearly falling in love and doing it messily and painfully and… wait, was the show even telling that story?

So I hunted my way here, like thousands of others, looking for meaning in a messy, sometimes brilliant, story. Your clever analysis and observation, the theories and debates, the puzzles and codes, the huge array of interpretation were marvelous. Through YOUR lens, the story became what I had needed it to be.

I don’t give a fig how Moftiss mops up their mess or unveils their
Reveal. I’m curious, but wary. They lost my trust years ago as
storytellers. You made it right. If the writers were telling the Love Story, I disliked that they chose to do it with intense subterfuge. I mean for chrissakes I knew when I was 7 in 1987 growing up in a close-minded backwater corner of the world that these men were Only For Each Other and loved them for it. How could that be such a mindfuck to today’s audience? How could the writers blow the chance to be Storytellers on the side of Good?

But I could be mollified if the love story I perceived was being told as a Sherlockian mystery that had to be decoded in order to wow the world with its Big, Vital Statement for our times. I mean, I guess. A really well-crafted, patiently evolving love story for long-repressed historical characters would have been perfectly acceptable for our times, too, and earth-shattering and history-making all by itself (sadly).

All this is to explain why I haven’t left this fandom after a Bizarre and Deeply Unsettling s4. They have been unsettling me for years.

I’m here because of you. And it’s totally fine if you want to do other things. I just want you to know it mattered, and it was fantastic.

So there. Please reblog if you’d like to spread the love. There is no way I could possibly reach all who deserve to see this.

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OMG this is lovely, thank you SO MUCH for tagging me!

The show was merely a springboard for our brilliance: YES, A THOUSAND TIMES THIS!

Mofftiss’s version was only one fanfiction out of many. Not only did the fic writers in our little corner of fandom produce many more, but I daresay much better ones. I am flattered that I could be considered one of them. I’m not a great writer and I still have a lot to learn, but I started writing fiction thanks to BBC Sherlock’s fandom in the first place and I intend to get even better at it. Better than them, anyway! ;D

(I’m writing a long S4 fix-it fic right now!!)

Let’s not forget, in these hard times, that this fandom is a lovely place, that does only very partly depend on the show BBC Sherlock. Of course, this fandom became what it is now thanks to that show, but it was indeed just a springboard for something much bigger that we have created, collectively, from that point onwards. I would never have started writing if it wasn’t for all the wonderful and amazing fanfic writers and fanartists that inspired me to give it a try. And I would also never have started writing if it wasn’t for all the lovely fans who actually read my work and let me know they enjoyed it.

(And it is the absolutely brilliant meta on S4 that inspired me to start writing my fix-it fic about this series!)

We have this wonderful thing, called fandom, that we created together, and to which everyone can contribute as much or as little as they like, as long as they enjoy it. A little corner of the internet where people make each other feel appreciated and where people get inspired, and where johnlock will be real forever, in countless different forms and shapes, with different backstories and different AUs, thanks to our amazing collective intelligence and creativity.

Fandom rules!

Spread the love.

Johnlock is real. No matter what.

As long as it’s real in our minds. And as long as we keep pouring it into our creations, for everyone to see and enjoy!

That’s what fandom is all about.

WE’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE.

What an amazingly beautiful sentiment! Johnlock is canon and real. This fandom has been such an amazing experience for me, and I plan on staying here for the long haul ❤