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neadodsI 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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Date: 2013-01-27 01:23 am (UTC)I get the impression that ASH itself is one of Shreffler's problems, considering that he cites the founding of the BSI as a date special in the hearts of fans. Not the female ones!
there was discussion at the time, and some folks thought that Phil was either writing tongue in cheek or had a stick up his kazoo
I think that's been definitively answered now. :/
I'm sorry I missed that ASH paper. Maybe someday... I've got my eyes on ASH again.
It's for sure that Shreffler speaks for a small minority now - now that the Journal welcomed the Babes and the Ritchie/Cumberbatch fans in print, and there is quite a lot of the old guard circling in defense of the new kids now.