tykobrian wrote:

At what point of the show did you start?

I started watching the show after S2. About two months later I started reading fanfic. But I soon realized that (with a few exceptions) the best fanfics included Johnlock. So at first, I read them even though there was Johnlock. Then I didn't mind the emotional aspect of it but skipped the sexual parts. Then I read one I actually enjoyed, probably because in it John had to be convinced of Johnlock, just like me. Then I was lost.

tykobrian wrote:

And do you think it will become canon?

After watching S3, yes.

tykobrian wrote:

: what reasons do you ship Johnlock?

Good question. Like I've written above, at first it kind of happened. Now I love it because it touches a romantic string inside of me. And I have a weakness for pining Sherlock for some reason. I think that John and Sherlock would make a very interesting couple and love to read all kind of fanfics with all kind of interpretations of how their relationship could develope. And I am hopelessly romantic. And I love both of them and want to see them happy, and reading about them being together happily makes me happy.

besleybean wrote:

They can still be together and not a couple.

This is exactly my problem. Provided John were an exclusively heterosexual healthy male and Sherlock were a gay how are they meant to be together? John having one-night stands or changing girlfriends on the side and afterwards returning to Sherlock for tea and cases? An eternal continuation of what he did in series 1? I have said it more than once that for me there is no way back to what they had before the fall. And even as early as series 2 things had started to change. After Jeanette there was no woman in John's life anymore, it seems he gave up dating after that. 

Though of course others don't see Johnlock at all.
We'll see.

... and "The Elephant in the Room" 

Only if he returns and continues to be just friend and blogger.

Well I'm perfectly happy for John and Sherlock tio return to how they were before, but I dion't know if this would please everybody.

So to enliven this thread a bit. Just found this and liked it:

“In August of 1889, Joseph Marshall Stoddart, who published the Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in Philadelphia, came to London to organize a British edition of his magazine. He invited Conan Doyle for dinner in London at the elegant Langham Hotel which was to be mentioned later in a number of Holmesian adventures, and he also asked Oscar Wilde, who by then was already quite well known. 

Oscar Wilde appeared to be a languorous dandy, whereas Conan Doyle in spite of his best suit, looked somewhat like a walrus in Sunday clothes. Yet Oscar and Arthur got along like a house on fire. “It was indeed a golden evening for me.” Conan Doyle wrote of this meeting. As a result of this literary soirée, Lippincott’s commissioned the young doctor to write a short novel, which they published in England and the US in February of 1890. This story was The Sign of Four and was instrumental in establishing Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle once and for all in the annals of literature.”
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[x] So, in summary, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle got along “like a house on fire” and the same night that they met was instrumental in the creation of Sherlock Holmes… 

(via the-navel-treatment)

That can also be read as an attempt to show compassion for people who were in his opinion falsely accused of being criminals.

That is exactly what he thought.
But he still considered them sick.

He wrote in his diaries that he considered homosexualiity to be a vile aberration.