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

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Interesting. On the recording I have it's
And I envy the rose/That you held in your teeth, love/With the thorns underneath, love/Sticking into your gums.

Aha! There exists http://dmdb.org/lyrics/lehrer.diff.html . God (once again) bless the Internet.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

I think the Masochism Tango got enough problems even with the moderately sanitised version of the lyrics. The London stage show Tomfoolery managed to get away with rather more

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Saw that at the Criterion. Still laughing.