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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.
... 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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But IMO what kicked off this rant was the fact that back in the day this guy was the gatekeeper, able to use his editorship of the Baker Street Journal to diss the incoming Brett fans. Whereas the current editor of the BSJ started 2012 with an editorial addressed directly to the Ritchie and BBC Sherlock internet fans titled "Consider yourself at home."
In the cold sober light of a Sunday morning, I wonder slightly if that *although* the rant was aimed straight at Kurly of the Babes, it was really intended as a smack upside the current editor's head. If so, Steven Rothman has made himself clear: he doesn't give a damn how people came to the canon or what they enjoy beside canon.
On a side note, the men running I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere have come out swinging on the side of the Internet fandoms. I'm just nasty enough that I'm going to enjoy reminding them of this event the next time they diss a fringe of a fringe as embarrassing all Holmesians.
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