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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[neadods.livejournal.com]

I've still seen "fancy" used in that sense today. "Cat Fancy" magazine, etc.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Monica Dickens' best novel (in my opinion) is simply called "The Fancy" and it's about rabbit breeding. But pigeon fanciers are fanciers and not "fans"

[inamac.livejournal.com]

The premier UK registration body (of which I am a Delegate Member) is still The Governing Council of the Cat Fancy. One of their rules sets out penalties for the crime of 'Bringing the Fancy into disrepute'.

Mind you, we still have a Siamese Cat Society of the British Empire, the cat world being rather slower to change than fandom.

I ought to write them into a Holmes story....

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Chalk another one up for the cat world.