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.

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Ah, but '34 was when the BSI was founded, before it let in those icky girls.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Those icky girls like Dorothy L Sayers?

I'm sure there must be a similar essay on the subject of 'those damned BBC Darcy fans' who ruined the gracious little world of Jane Austen fandom - er - devotees.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

She was Sherlock Holmes Society, the British equivalent, who weren't anti-women so far as I can tell.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

There is a Jane Austen Society of North America that I consider joining now and then, but they scare me a little bit. They come across like the BSI does to the media fans.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

If they're in any way like the American Georgette Heyer people who used to run a Yahoo list, stay well clear.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Likewise the LordPeter yahoo group.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that; I wouldn't mind a good Lord Peter discussion.