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abundantlyqueer:

guysguysnoguysreallyguys

i think we might be getting an actual room for this at 221b con

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Abstract: Conan Doyle frequently uses the army as backstory, most obviously for John Watson but also for many other minor characters. To his contemporary readers, the…

abundantlyqueer:

snogandagrope:

eddyfate:

snogandagrope:

eddyfate:

snogandagrope:

beaubete:

snogandagrope:

songlinwrites:

snogandagrope reblogged your link: Sherlock, His Drug Habit and the Science of Addiction

Not completely useless, unlike the Drugs in the Victorian Era panel at 221b Con.

snort

Come on, I learned at least one thing at that panel.

Was it after I left?…

Oh, good.  Here I thought it was just me who was really disappointed by that one.  I was expecting in-depth conversation about canon-based evidence for either direction, and what I got was “I think he’s actually straight because — ” and more rehashing of that old chestnut that women only like slash because there’s not another woman involved.  I’m really hoping that 221b con goes with more fan-run panels next year, because as fun as learning about such varied subjects is, I’d like to hear about them from someone who kind of maybe understands what they’re talking about and the audience they’re talking about it to.

The only one?? The largest room at the con, full of shifting and grumbling ficcers. We were seething.

Original Stories panels were both pretty good, and the audience participation picked up any slack. There was better discussion of their relationship in those than that useless Sexuality panel, which was basically: In My Book… In Our Book… Fracking Bollocks. So yes, actually knowing what is going on in the fandom you are speaking to is pretty dang important!!

Here’s hoping 221b Con sends out those surveys like they said they would, and that we are honest, and that they listen!

I am now really glad I decided to grab food and watch Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century for that hour instead.

I could bitch about that woman for, oh, look, at least a week :/ Honestly, someone doesn’t need to be invited back. I’ve poked one ficcer about putting herself forward for the Drugs panel next year, because it is a GOOD topic!! and we OBVIOUSLY have ficcers who are able to pull canon forward and postulate on sexuality

Eddy, again, I enjoyed the fuck out of you, on both sides of the table. Maz too!! *pointing to your Sexuality reblog of ProfessorFangirl and AQ*

Thank you. I admit I’ve been doing a bit of “Holy fuck, was I that asshole?” since this topic came up.

No. This asshole was female, wore a deerstalker, and listed 89 inapplicable things about herself on the guests page. I’ll be the cunt who names names. Author Stephanie Osborn, if you come back to 221b Con next year, please stay on THIS side of the panel tables and learn something about the creativity and thought that is going on in the Sherlock fandom.

oh look, it’s aq’s rules for panelists:
1. the people in the cheap seats are ‘fans’. it stands for ‘fanatics’. we care enough about this shit to fly halfway round the world to talk/hear about it. for every single person in that con, there was at least one aspect of the holmesian universe that they live, breathe, and bleed. panelists who can’t accept, respect and ideally revel in that fact have no business at a *fan* con.
2. if you have a theory about something, please posit it as a theory. if you state something as fact, for the love of god i dunno look it up on the internet or something first.
3. i can almost excuse a ‘fanfic what is that’ attitude from an academic if the academic is fucking blowing me away with the depth and vividness of their understanding/knowledge of whatever their area is. but lukewarm, sophomoric insights *and* a condescending attitude? nope.

abundantlyqueer:

John murmurs against Sherlock’s lips, a soft sound of pleasure and surprise and encouragement. Sherlock leans harder, the turn of his mouth against John’s sharpening.

John lets his hand fall from Sherlock’s arm, glancing down the front of his body, and coming to rest clasped over Sherlock’s hip. Sherlock’s breath stutters inside John’s mouth. John’s thumb presses into the tender skin inside the curve of Sherlock’s hipbone.

Sherlock pulls back, twisting aside from John’s hand.

“I don’t – don’t - ” Sherlock scowls.

“I’m – okay, I’m really not trying to be obtuse but – you’re mixing your signals a bit,” John says, trying to steady his breathing even as his eyes devour the damp flush of Sherlock’s mouth.

“I – I don’t know if I want to be touched,” Sherlock says.

“Okay,” John says doubtfully.

“But – I do know I very much want to touch you,” Sherlock says.

“Right,” John says.

He lifts both arms, reaching up and back to grasp the top of the bedhead with both hands. Sherlock’s gaze flickers over John’s torso.

“All yours,” John says softly. “Go wild.”

abundantlyqueer:

havingbeenbreathedout:

An issue that I haven’t seen raised explicitly in this discussion, is that as a reader, if what you want is a clever mystery plot, then the whole wide world of published detective fiction is available to you. Including a hundred years’ worth of Sherlock Holmes…

wow and i hadn’t even really applied this to myself either - my experience and my feelings are not reflected in stories where sex is the prize at the end, where they have sex and then happily ever after. i want stories where sex is the first, inchoate expression of the connection between them. where their bodies understand the connection between them before their minds or even their emotions can begin to make sense of what’s happening. and i want stories where sex is an ongoing thing, where repeated acts take on different nuances as time passes, where it’s woven into their interactions, not ‘they had sex, the end’.

(Source: notunprepared)