I have officially been in too many fandom wars

[neadods]

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.

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[dameruth.livejournal.com]

All this gent is doing is ensuring that his little corner of fandom will eventually wither and die for lack of new and enthusiastic blood -- anyone outside his little circle of "approved" individuals having been roundly turned off by the snobbery.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Yes - and this from a fandom that has already not only seen gender wars (the picketing of the BSI) but survived both the dog and the mouse incarnations. Drawing a line in the sand *now* just gets even sillier.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

I wish to know more about this picketing.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

The Baker Street Babes podcast about the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes (ASH) had the full story. The short version goes like this:

A puzzle was printed somewhere (newspaper?) saying that whoever answered the trivia correctly was a member of the new Baker Street Irregulars.

Half the correct answers come from women.

The BSI forms and announces that it is a stag organization.

ASH forms. It has its own structure, BUT...

...ASH members stand in the snow outside the restaurant where the BSI is having its annual invite-only dinner, picketing them.

One of the Watson's Tin Box members is an ASH founder and, I think, one of the picketers.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Hooray for the ASH.