It’s sort of a complicated issue because emotions are running high between the TJLCers who don’t believe anymore, the ones that are too emotionally exhausted to believe, and the ones who wholeheartedly believe. The BBC Sherlock knew about this history and winked at it. (Some people are holding out hope for the 28th/29th as that’s the anniversary of when John and Sherlock first met.)[56]. But then in 2014, just after Season 3 of the show aired, a user posted a very elaborate fan theory online. This repurposing of a commonly known fannish term prompted some confusion, even amongst other TJLCers. We’re not engaging in a clever conspiracy to write something under the radar, we’re just writing the show we’re writing.”, “There was a chunk of people who just knew it was going to end with us getting together. Mary’s fate? Using The JohnLock Conspiracy (TJLC), developed by the fandom of the BBC television series 'Sherlock' (2010), as an exemplar, we analyze how the functionality of Tumblr supported the development of a fandom eschatology. He would seethe about antis on his blogs. The hours and hours and hours of video babbling. 3.) Posted by loudest-subtext-in-television to Tumblr in 2014, "M-theory"[29] presented a unified theory of TJLC, connecting disparate predictions and ideas about the future of the television show. Pretty Resigned to Scrolling Through All of It. Sherlock was a hit immediately upon its release in the U.K., popular and well-reviewed. Some Always Sunny fans were frustrated by the TJLCers' theorizing about the potential canonization of MacDennis, and the ways in which the influx of TJLCers seemed to change the IASIP fandom: The twelfth season of Always Sunny - which aired over the course of the first three months of 2017, contemporaneous with the premiere and aftermath of series 4 of Sherlock - brought several significant changes. Simple theme. But that doesn’t mean I can’t also be upset at a show I like possibly losing its capacity to interest me without a full Gang. [68], The relationship between TJLC and the rest of the Sherlock fandom has often been complicated - and at times, certainly acrimonious. What isn’t common knowledge is that in April 2009, as Sherlock was being reworked, the BBC commissioned a working group to research LGB portrayals, which focused on the following topics: how LGB portrayals are the BBC’s responsibility given its Royal Charter; how people feel about LGB portrayals; how to present those portrayals to BBC audiences; how to do LGB portrayals right; how far the BBC wants to take LGB portrayals; and how the BBC can do more to encourage its showrunners to include both incidental and landmark LGB portrayals. Our position was essentially confirmed in the Sherlock Special, which, if you didn’t notice, has a major plot point devoted to this league of super smart female conspirators actually being right after All These Years of being ignored and disrespected. It’s easy to stand back from fandom and point to shipping behavior as a hallmark of fan entitlement. Tinhatting is not a prerequisite for being able to participate in the current fandom climate – all you’ve got to do is find your niche and go for it. Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review. In the second part of an exhaustive 48-part YouTube series called TJLC Explained, the host declares, “Almost every time the writers or actors come out or say something, I see people being discouraged and worrying Johnlock won’t happen. Serious is fine, I'm pretty serious about a lot of dumb shit. [118], TJLCers are often blamed for driving other Sherlock fans out of the fandom. Kind of the general blog theme, actually. 1.) TJLC, or “The Johnlock Conspiracy,” is a concept that sprouting [sic] into existence in fandom a few short hours after the airing of The Sign of Three. episode with the real ending (figure 16). (Notice I said full Gang - not just Dennis.). For more than a century, fans of Sherlock Holmes have been analyzing, debating, and creating new texts using Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters. But for some TJLCers it became an eventuality, not an opinion or a possibility. Post accessed via a. Christensen, Bo Allesøe, and Thessa Jensen. This meta[30], also written by loudest-subtext-in-television, drew on data from the BBC's 2009 Report on the Portayal of LGB People to make the case that not only is John/Sherlock endgame, but it is part of a concerted effort at the BBC to improve queer representation. It’s about making something new. Season 5 predictions? Willa Paskin is Slate’s television critic. A passionate fandom sprung up around the show on fan-fic sites and social media platforms like Tumblr. Some non-TJLCers have been frustrated, even offended, by this - and some former TJLCers have felt ultimately betrayed by their initial faith in the ultimate, eventual queerness of the show. The meteor doesn't arrive. As of June 2018, Howerton. And at this point, it’s true that TJLC has connotations more about who your friends (and enemies) are, what jokes you do or don’t get, what Tumblr blogs you follow/follow you back and how much you’re fond of the term ‘curly dad’ (by which measure I’m definitely a TJLCer). However, many TJLCers also produce and consume creative fanworks that explore similar themes or theories as those found in TJLC meta. This became known as the Johnlock conspiracy: TJLC for short. One important aspect within the TJLC community is the relationship between the fans and the creators. If you are an adult and you encouraged teenagers to invest in this *barefaced drivel* you need to look at yourself a little. (S... Sherlock's comment on Mollys body in ASiB (Sherlo... Sherlock and Sex and Eurus’ deduction (Sherlock m... How did Euros know Sherlock had sex? I want to be clear that there were people who were into Johnlock or TJLC in different ways, who thought of it primarily as a great hope or a fun idea or a worthy cause, a huge leap forward for gay representation. Drevet af Pure, Scopus & Elsevier Fingerprint Engine™ © 2020 Elsevier B.V. Vi bruger cookies til at hjælpe med at tilvejebringe og forbedre vores service og tilpasse indhold. Even in the case of theories put forward more comprehensively by a single author, TJLC meta tends to accrete many layers of meaning as it evolves through reblogs on Tumblr. No one cared if people didn’t believe in TJLC, they just didn’t care to be worn down by condescension, insults, and unceasing entitlement to our attention for literal years.). I dance on His grave. Whenever he sent *us* anons, he would seethe about *us* on his blogs. TJLC is more than a readerly approach to a text. I am mod jules joolabee, joined by the illustrious grace graceebooks and mia martinfreeman. [22][23] The "phone-as-heart" metaphor is another example of this phenomenon, illustrated in gif sets[24], conversations on Tumblr[25][26], in video meta[27], and written meta.[28]. In fact, many of the central assumptions or tenets of TJLC are collaboratively developed, and evolve over time with input from various authors. Links and further reading on some of the things we discussed on the show: Email: decoderring@slate.com Not trying to insult anybody or make any kind of issue out of it. TJLC advocates drew the ire of other fans not just because they turned the fandom wanky[122] and supposedly scared away a lot of less intense fans but also because of their treatment of the cast and creative team: Many of the TJLC BNFs were considered to be "older" (i.e., in their late twenties and thirties), in comparison with younger TJLCers in their teens and early twenties. In Johnlock meta and authorial intent in Sherlock fandom: Affirmational or transformational?, Melissa A. Hofmann proposes an expansive articulation of meta in Sherlock fandom: Many of the most popular TJLC metas were written by loudest-subtext-in-television[19], who was active in the fandom from 2014 until she deleted her blog in early 2016, returning in December 2016 as loudest-subtext-in-tv. Inside jokes and memes abound in TJLC, and over the years, many TJLCers have asserted that much of the wank surrounding TJLC is due to non-TJLCers misinterpreting ironic or intentionally absurdist posts as serious discourse. In January 2009, the BBC saw the pilot of Sherlock. Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. … We’re not trying to fuck with people’s heads. I'm very confused, loudest-subtext-in-television: The belief that The Final Problem was an intentionally bad nightmare episode and that a secret fourth episode will air probably this Sunday the 22nd. In this instance, eschatology is not religious but secular: fans claimed to know what the final end of the Sherlock series was to be, and they interpreted various signs as indicating that this would happen. Then, because there were ~30,000 of us, there would inevitably be some idiots who would happen across the drama and *also* not understand someone had been making a joke post for their friends. In Johnlock meta and authorial intent in Sherlock fandom: Affirmational or transformational?, Melissa A. Hofmann sums up these varied stances on the queerbaiting question, within TJLC as well as Sherlock fandom more broadly: See: F*ck Your Conspiracy and The “Sherlock is queerbaiting” argument doesn’t even make sense at this point.. While much of it has been collected on this blog, at this point, TJLC feels so obvious and gone-over that we are just waiting our patient little asses off! When I say very elaborate, I mean it was tens of thousands of words of high-minded literary analysis that began by interpreting a BBC report on queer representation and then went on to closely read every episode of Sherlock, the shot composition, the score, the colors, the lighting, the dialogue, the references, the letters in the character’s names, all with a helping of string theory. What they did was scale back that conversation and make it about something extremely silly. Now I look back at my affection for those "joke" posts[note 4] (e.g., "trust me, I am an expert at gay sex, there is no way Sherlock could top without crying") and cringe. They analyzed the show, riffed on it, chatted about it, built a community around it, and they rooted for various romantic relationships—known as ships—but most especially, they rooted for Johnlock, the nickname for the romance between Watson and Holmes.
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