saturnR wrote:

I don't mind reading slash as long as it is part of canon. To bring up a long forgotten fandom from yesteryear, I love reading haruka/michiru stories because in the canon, they are lesbians. They are my favourite characters from the series & at the time the series came out, the world was much less gay-friendly than it is today so the writer/creator was very brave for showing that kind of relationship to teen audiences.
But I generally don't like reading slash for characters who are not gay in canon (if it's done well that's another matter - I have read some in Sherlock & Harry Potter (re: Remus & Sirius) that were done well, but usually it isn't done well).

Just curious, but how can a sexual gay relationship be canon in a TV show that won't "go there"? God forbid, but the writers could write a Sherlock-Molly pairing and have them indulge in pillow talk and every other damned (sexual) thing in the future.  But I don't believe we'll ever see John and Sherlock under the covers, or doing anything else remotely sexually based, not in my lifetime, anyway. *shrug*  So M/M slash will NEVER be canonical in BBC Sherlock, IMO. That's what Johnlock fan fic is for, after all-- to fix it!

 

saturnR wrote:

I don't mind reading slash as long as it is part of cannon. To bring up a long forgotten fandom from yesteryear, I love reading haruka/michiru stories because in the cannon, they are lesbians. They are my favourite characters from the series & at the time the series came out, the world was much less gay-friendly than it is today so the writer/creator was very brave for showing that kind of relationship to teen audiences.

But I generally don't like reading slash for characters who are not gay in cannon (if it's done well that's another matter - I have read some in Sherlock & Harry Potter (re: Remus & Sirius) that were done well, but usually it isn't done well).

I don't mind it, as long as the story is written well. I used to write Starsky and Hutch, waaaaaaaay back in the day. I guess, it's just that there really aren't too many Gay characters in most popular media; so.... that being said, I don't have a problem with straight stories as long as they are done well. 

I think that as writers, we're allowed to play with the characters anyway we wish, and as long as stuff is labeled, everything is cool. 

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Wholocked wrote:

I think what saturnR means is that she struggles with fanfics that change the established sexual identity of a character in canon.

Yes. That is what I was trying to say

I guess the confusion arose because I was using the wider definition of slash as stories featuring gay and lesbian relationships. I didn't use the original (and narrower) definition of slash which is stories featuring gay and lesbian sex.

I've never seen sex as a seperate entity. If you have a sexuality then it includes everything - the relationship; the banter; & if you really wanted to go there - the sex. I don't see why we should need to seperate the part from the whole.

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:

.....Is it a bit too distracting if I name him Ben Carlton? ...

Yes. Doing that will take the reader right out of your story and stick her in Ben's private life. I wouldn't do it.
 

Thanks for the input!

I'll think of another name! 

Good luck with your writing, Rebecca! I honestly can't wait to read it!! 




The other night I finally killed off my character, but I'm not totally happy with Sherlock's reactions to seeing her dead just yet... I want him to be rattled a bit; but sentiment is just not him. It's doing my head in. (And I'm still mourning my own loss of the girl... )

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I'm actually going to write an alternate version of Sherlock and John's reunion based on a gifset I saw on tumblr.  Make it like a twisted version of A Study in Pink as John and Sherlock meet each other again yet they are so different than who they were before.

Oooooo got so many scenes in my head. I'm excited. 

If I only can get myself to actually write it and not be scared. XDD

Last edited by LoveIsAViciousMotivator (April 11, 2014 2:06 pm)

I recently finished The Quiet Man, and even though I'm not a Johnlock person, I quite enjoyed it. Very well written, although sometimes the stream of consciousness/inner thought style was a bit too much for my liking.

tonnaree wrote:

Started reading The Quiet Man by ivyblossom for the first time.  Already drowning in feels. Anyone reading MadLori's Lifetime Achivement?   Initial opinions?  I confess I'm impatiently waiting for the whole story to be posted.  It's less painful to be able to read it all at once. 

I hate how Lori is posting this sequel to her original PIALR. Once a week, in a chapter that takes a half hour to read, is just plain silly.  I've been trying to read it that way, and I find I'm losing all the continuity.  At this point, I think I'll just bite the bullet, wait till it's all up, months from now, and read it then.
 

We had this link  here about a hundred times, but I can't find it right now and it's always worth being recommended:

The Sherlock Fandom Glossary
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BueXx9a4JmlpXGckaH_ODSPLGcRmw4AuxyT79UO6zLI/edit?pli=1#

might be of some help, AT