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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[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Or you get Queen Bee types who have to insist that they were the only woman in Who fandom back then.

I'm still bitter about being asked to cite a source for my statement that Classic Who had a large female audience. I mean, early Saturday evening family programme in a country with 3 TV channels only? Regularly getting 25 million plus viewers? How could it not have done?

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I have vivid memories of playing at Daleks with my (female) friends in 1963. In between skipping games and conkers.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Somewhere on my flist is the infamous then-girl who was playing at being Leela in Australia and actually killed a snake with her homemade spear.