leg-grestrade:

lj-writes:

@bbcumbercutey replied:

lj-writes:

Noah Fence but the way I hear the show went (I dropped it at the pilot) having better ideas than the writers seems like a low bar. That’s what fanfiction is for, though, right? I get wanting a ship to be canon–and I’m a lot more sympathetic to the ship you mention than to reelo–but blowing every little “clue” out of proportion and, worse, mocking people for disagreeing, that’s just being a conspiracy-theory hawking asshole.

I’m also reminded of the worst behaviors of zootarians from the ATLA fandom. This was another great ship that had a dedicated group of asshole shippers who insisted it HAD to be canon, that it was ALREADY canon, and, after the show ended, that it was ACTUALLY canon and they were ROBBED. To this day, almost a decade after the show ended and after we’ve had sequels featuring the actual main ship’s children and grandchildren, this contingent spreads conspiracy theories about a secret fourth season, the head writer being strongarmed by the producers and so forth.

It gives me all sorts of schadenfreude that there’s a significant overlap between disappointed Zitarians and reynos. So much for their infallible powers of analysis.

It poped in my tumblr app, so I hope you don’t mind If I add. With BBC Sherlock both writers admitted that they put those gay references

as jokes

cause they thought it was funny. So it’s fair to discuss the

queerbaiting. Also the general writing just went completely down the loo with last season, ratings dropped, many critics trashed it and the writers began to blame press, fans and even went into denial that ratings dropped. So it’s a bit different story.

It’s fine, I tried to disguise the spellings but I see the dark Tumblr magic is at work again. I don’t mean to imply the writers’ behavior in regards to JohnLock was good, except maybe with being clear (in vain, it turns out) that it was not happening. I only know of the whole mess from hearsay and a really long video which I didn’t fully watch, and according to those sources the show actually mocks the fans for trying to read some deeper meaning into it, for essentially trying to fix the writers’ mistakes. So I don’t expect much from the creative team, but treating gay references as a joke is a whole new low.

I am sympathetic to the ship itself as I said, it’s just the lengths some fans went to esp. in regards to mocking and being rude to other fans that I disagree with. The rational thing to do would have been to recognize the show, especially in later seasons, for the turd it was and drop it, or at least accept the pairing was not coming to pass and write copious amounts of fanfic. There was never any call for whipping up false hope and snapping at other fans.

I was in BBC Sherlock from the start. TJLC scuttled the fandom. A few BNFs literally had their minions stalk, harrass and in some cases, racially taunt people who had the nerve to not believe in the magic of TJLC. Reylo fandom is very much like it.

OH GOD WHY IS FANDOM SO HORRIBLE WHY