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neadods ([personal profile] neadods) wrote2013-01-25 09:25 pm
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I have officially been in too many fandom wars

I have officially been in too many fandom wars. Because my reaction to finally reading the essay that's caused so much anger in Holmes fandom was to shriek...

... with laughter. Because it's all about someone who couldn't keep those awful Brett fangirls out of his hobby, and now the leaders of the REAL fans are letting in all the Cumberbatch fangirls AND THAT OFFENDS HIS DICKENSIAN PRINCIPLES! If you let in people like that, they'll just go and interrogate the text from the wrong perspective!

The supplanted SMOFs of Trek and Who fandom will doubtless chime in to sing the Butthurt Battle Hymn in harmony.

Me, I'm going to continue to be equally as proud of Watson's Tin Box and Sherlocks NYC and DC. And the canon on my phone is going to have to continue to live pixel-by-pixel with a metric ton of BBC fanfic.

For fuck's sake, has shouting "YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!" ever actually chased the kids off the lawn?

*eyeroll* Here, have Lucy Liu being buried in Pomeranians.

[identity profile] inamac.livejournal.com 2013-01-26 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Sharing your giggles.

The kids eventually grow up and drift away - or start defending their own lawns.

[identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com 2013-01-26 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
In this particular fandom, the original set of "kids" started their own group and then picketed the BSI. With that still in living memory, it's even sadder to think that someone thinks that *this* time, it'll stay segregated to The Right People.