So why have the two things not collided into an ubermeme and resulted in I BELIEVE IN PHIL COULSON posters everywhere???

221cbakerstreet:

Dead. I’m so dead.

LUCY LIU

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squintyoureyes:

sherlocked replied to your photo

I like Lucy Liu, and I’m pleased they’re casting a WOC as Watson because TV NEVER does that, but I’m worried they’re just doing this so they can slap them together while avoiding homoeroticism or, heaven forbid, gay people.

welllllllll

in my experience network television rarely ever shies away from homoerotic subtext between two white male leads. what they do tend to avoid is TEXTUALLY portraying two male (or female) characters in a same-sex romance, or even bother to put queer characters in the background. so what you end up with is a lot of closeness between two guys (bcs women rarely get to be co-leads lbr) that isn’t ever allowed to be more than that, instead it’s just teased at. a lot. because the networks know we’ll eat it up. so you get a lot of coded ‘no-homo’ jokes that reinforce how it’s never going to happen, and in fact that the idea of it is laughable, and show creators chuckling nervously about how they’re flattered but the close partnership between the two dudes they wrote was soooo not intended to be read as romantic i mean ew right

which happens on show after show after show 

and as I see it that is WAY more of a blatant rejection of homosexuality than genderflipping a traditionally male character. which is all that has happened here. the way i see it there’s a few leaps being made that make me unable to follow most of the concern trolling on my dash:

- that casting a woman is ‘hetting’ up ACD’s Holmes (when neither the original text nor ANY adaptation i can name were ever textually queer to begin with, as awesome as that would’ve been. i’m tired of subtext, when will we finally get some text?)

- that Joan and Sherlock are OBVIOUSLY going to hook up (which isn’t quite so obvious when the Joan is a woman of color, it’s just not) (but also the assumption that a woman would NATURALLY only be brought in so that a romance could happen is faulty because it stems from fandom’s tendency to conflate women with icky girly romance and other things that have no place in their traditionally male-centric canons).

- that Lucy Liu’s casting is the problem and not Jonny Lee Miller’s (when the only problem I can see is that Sherlock wasn’t also genderflipped).

Fandom’s rage over all this is very typical and it’s an extension of the boys’-club mentality that forms around canons that hyperfocus on white straight male homosocial relationships, and that tend to marginalize anyone who isn’t that. The shows (and there are a lot of them) do it, and then the fans follow suit. There’s a lot of valid reasons to not be on board with another Holmes adaptation, but I don’t think this is one of them because I’ve seen it too many times before.

^^^What they just said.

Since I’ve never been a Sherlock fan (any version) in particular, this is all interesting to me from a fandom anthropological angle, but primarily I’m annoyed at the pure hypocrisy of a fandom that will laud genderswapped fanworks but be venomous to professional creators who might try to do the same. And the complaints about how they’re hetting it up so they can get the romance past subtext is 1. as yet unfounded and 2. actually a message about the inequality of homosexual vs heterosexual romance that says something like “if it’s gay it’s better.” and THAT leads to some wonky shit. If it’s love, it’s good, or interesting, or important. But the gender presentation of the people involved shouldn’t be what makes the romance WORTHY or not. Most particularly because, as fandom is primarily female, and we’re always on about gay (male) romances, you start thinking that part of the reason the gay of it all is so popular is that we can hold it at arms’ length. It’s objectifying and non-threatening. And I love me some objectifying and some non-threatening, but part of the reason why femmeslash never really quite reaches the levels of popularity that male slash does is that it’s too directly representative. We can’t detach ourselves from it quite as much. So when you have a normally gay ship that turns heterosexual, and the character that people normally identify with - John, the muggle - is the one turned female, you immediately get this almost threatening thing. Oh, suddenly, you’re REALLY placing yourself in John’s shoes. And, wait, do you REALLY want to fuck Sherlock? That bitch be crazy. Anyway my sort of roundabout, poorly worded point is that I think some of the kneejerk rejection of this comes from the hypocrisy of a lot of fandom tropes being pointed out a little too clearly. And that if SHERLOCK were the genderswapped character, there wouldn’t be NEARLY the outcry.

Right, so, never talking about this again.

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rectumofglory:

thestudyintime:

Elementary preview

THIS SHERLOCK IS LESS VULCAN AND MORE ROMULAN. I LIKE IT.

…Cheesy, an obvious stylistic ripoff of bbc Sherlock, every choice appears incredibly *safe*.

But otherwise? Seems pretty good. If Joan’s a lesbian I might even watch it.

mycroft-queenofcake:

bennyslegs:

mycroft:

omg but what if s3 opens up and they just show john sitting in his chair from october-december like in new moon

#about three things i was absolutely positive #first sherlock was a sociopath #second there was a part of him #and i didn’t know how dominant that part might be #that thought i was an idiot #and third i was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him

LDASOFGSDODS LMAO

ooooh noooooooo

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jianafg:

x x

good god

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drlarrysalt:

If I ever start a Sherlock fantumblr I swear I’m going to name it “Young, Dumb, and full of Cumberbatch” and then hate myself.

Yes this is a good plan. Take it before some Cumberbitch does.

reapersun:

AMERICAN SHERLOCK???

IT COULD BE WORSE

#sherlock #AMERICA #the goat is named mrs hudson #it’s not offensive if i used to be one of them right #how many of you know how to milk a goat not that fucking many i bet #oh my god i’m so sorry

hahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhaha

you know what this needs? TRUCKNUTS.

thegestianpoet:

idiosyncratic-lavender:

annathemarmotqueen:

opallynn:

I think I’ve made my point

i love both of them

and cowboy bebop was one of the first animes i watched

I feel like I need to actually watch this anime now

Even if it’s just for the fucking incredible music

And for Spike

HOLY SHIT

GOOD 

OH NO EIN IS MORIARTY!

WE NEVER SAW IT COMING~

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thesemenarebam:

My guess at why Sherlock likes John so much…he had a pet hedgehog when he was a kid. 

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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sonicscribblings:

Been bustin’ out the markers lately - I’ve been doing so much digital these days that I hadn’t realized just how much I’ve missed working traditionally. Hoping to strike a better balance between the two in the near future.

ooooh loving the hatching on his jacket and hair

foilfaerie:

daunt:

Cuppa Bonding (more Star Trek/Sherlock crossover with my favorite doctors)

I’m dedicating this one to lazulisong since they wrote an adorable little micro ficlet on my last Doctors picture. X)  I found it inspiring!

While I still think Bones would rip John a new one for carrying around a ‘barbaric weapon from the stone age’ (“Oh, I see. Well, why not just beat them to death with a rock, it’s just as civilized!”) and John would ask him if he ‘ever stops complaining’…I think they would bond in MANY OTHER WAYS.

Like. Shared exasperation.  And adoration for their heterosexual lifepartners.

SPOCK IN THE BACKGROUND.

eeeeeeeeeee

don’t stop never stop

foilfaerie:

# ugh now I have images of Alfred going: NOT YOUR HOUSKEEPER

I can’t.  This is too perfect.

hey where was that heartbreaking fic where John has a psychotic break and Sherlock takes care of him and John takes to calling him Batman half the time??

it was aces.

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lazulisong:

daunt:

John Watson & Leonard McCoy….and company.

They would commiserate well in this sense, I think. Though on fundamental doctor levels I don’t think they would mesh, lol.

STILL, I will draw all the Army/Fleet Doctors ALL THE DAYS/NIGHT/DAY.

After a while, when all attempts at gaining any attention have failed, John looks at Dr McCoy. “Cuppa?” he says.

“Cuppa what?” says McCoy.

“Well, tea,” says John, “but under the circumstances, there’s a pub down a ways.”

“First sensible person I’ve met,” mourns McCoy, as they leave Sherlock and the pointy-eared man staring each other down coldly, “and it’s god knows how many years in the past.”

YES THIS IS PERFECT

Watson and McCoy would be BEST FRIENDS within 20 seconds. They wouldn’t be the sort of BFFs that Watson and Holmes are or McCoy and Kirk or even McCoy and Spock are, because that’s a different sort of friendery. But Watson and McCoy would have so much in common in their fundamental makeup that it would be like going down the pub with family you didn’t know you had.

And later, Watson would convince McCoy to put Spock’s harp in jello.

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slappityslapslap:

I love that I live in a world where “Sherloaf” is an ACTUAL RECURRING MEME THING.

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