[ SECRET POST #2861 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2861 ⌋

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Comments

[othellia]

I've never understood how a fandom can be as large and active as Sherlock's is when all they get is three episodes every two years.

I mean, I guess you could say that movie fandoms have a pretty equal content to time ratio, but TV vs movie fandom standards always felt different to me.

[kallanda_lee]

Star Wars Fandom only had 3 movies originally, and yet it thrived for decades until new material was released.

[dreemyweird]

Wait, weren't there SW comics and novelizations being published right from the start?..

But it is a good example of an old but thriving fandom, as are the Tolkien and the Sherlock Holmes fanbases; the difference being that the Sherlock fandom is all online and so has 1) much more visibility, 2) more visual content and 3) more interactivity. I've never seen another purely (or almost purely) online fandom blossom like this before, so that'd be the main source of confusion for me.

[kallanda_lee]

there were a few comics - but I think there were a few years between the novelizations. And let's be honest, some of it is basically just official fanfic.

[dreemyweird]

guilty confession: sometimes I look at the Sherlock fandom and get horribly jealous. How I wish ACD canon, Granada, and the Soviet series had half as much wonderful currently-produced fanart!

The sheer popularity of this show just makes me think of how many shows and books are immeasurably better but will never have even one percent of the Sherlock fanbase. Sometimes I wish the hiatuses got so long that all the fans would go away, leaving behind the confused Cumberbatch&Freeman duo stuck in the midst of eyeroll-worthy plots.

/bitter dmw is bitter.

[(Anonymous)]

da

sometimes I look at the Sherlock fandom and get horribly jealous. How I wish ACD canon, Granada, and the Soviet series had half as much wonderful currently-produced fanart

Yeah, I wish they had more high quality fanart too but I also comfort myself with the fact that it's at least easier to find good fic for those series...with Sherlock, there's such a high rate of badfic that you really have to search hard for anything that doesn't suck or doesn't involve woobielock

[dreemyweird]

That's generally true, but only if you're a H/W shipper and/or have access to some kind of huge printed zine archive. If we are talking, say, gen casefic with friendshippy undertones, the Sherlock fandom has a considerable amount of it. The ACD/Granada/Soviet fandom? Not so much. Most of the BNFs who write lengthy fic are hardcore shippers (e.g. mistyzeo, tweedisgood, or tigerintheflightdeck).

Ficlets, though, and other forms of short fanfic - about this I can agree with you. We have lots, almost all of it good 9_9

[othellia]

guilty confession: my favorite Sherlock canon is The Great Mouse Detective.

Not sure what kind of fan that makes me.

[(Anonymous)]

You've got fantastic taste. It is a great movie.

[dreemyweird]

Yes.

[othellia]

Hooray!

[brooms]

my favorite is the adventures of shirley holmes. most people don't even know what that is.

[(Anonymous)]

My theory is: Initial influx from doctor who fandom + a original canon that is well known and easy to write + the anti social guy fandom loves + gay subtext + overall very quick flashy and easy to watch

[othellia]

...good equation.

[(Anonymous)]

actually I think the smaller number of eps helps it-- leaves lots of grey area to fill in, and the long gap between seasons encourages lots of speculation about what will happen next. Also homoerotica.

[(Anonymous)]

Because long hiatuses for popular media always results in big fandoms. Knowing that new material is coming out keeps people from jumping ship, while still giving them time to produce fanworks. Other notable examples are Harry Potter (in general) and Teen Wolf (which experienced a huge boom in fanworks between season 2 and 3).