{"id":233703,"date":"2014-01-07T18:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T18:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/07\/johnlock-its-not-just-for-fans-anymore\/"},"modified":"2014-01-07T18:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T18:06:54","slug":"johnlock-its-not-just-for-fans-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/07\/johnlock-its-not-just-for-fans-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnlock&#8211;it&#8217;s not just for fans anymore. (Sherlock SPOILERS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/prettyarbitrary.tumblr.com\/post\/72507623946\/johnlock-its-not-just-for-fans-anymore-sherlock\" target=\"_blank\">prettyarbitrary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You know, I have never been one to actually buy into fannish ships. \u00a0I mean, they\u2019re fun to run with, and it\u2019s fun to take things from the show and reinterpret them with a different spin.<\/p>\n<p>But really and truly, I had not, previous to this season, believed that Sherlock and John canonically had a Thing. \u00a0When the writers called \u2018no homo,\u2019 I believed them.<\/p>\n<p>But after this episode, I no longer ship Sherlock and John \u2018fannishly.\u2019 \u00a0I no longer buy the writers\u2019 insistence that these characters are not attracted to each other. \u00a0I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the people who want a queer reading they\u2019re lying to. \u00a0I think the ones they\u2019re lying to are the homophobes they (or the BBC) are afraid they\u2019d upset with an explicit queer relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Fine, we may never see them snogging explicitly on screen. \u00a0But it\u2019s IN THE TEXT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettyarbitrary.tumblr.com\/post\/72507623946\/johnlock-its-not-just-for-fans-anymore-sherlock\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>prettyarbitrary: You know, I have never been one to actually buy into fannish ships. \u00a0I mean, they\u2019re fun to run with, and it\u2019s fun to take things from the show and reinterpret them with a different spin. But really and truly, I had not, previous to this season, believed that Sherlock and John canonically had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/07\/johnlock-its-not-just-for-fans-anymore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Johnlock&#8211;it&#8217;s not just for fans anymore. (Sherlock SPOILERS)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5326,15,9037,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}