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⌈ Secret Post #4387 ⌋

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Comments

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

for some reason I was under the strong impression that Top!Sherlock was much more popular.

This is definitely not the case, though I can see why you might think that.

I'd say toplock was more popular for...maybe like the first year of the show existing? Then for another year or two I think toplock and bottomlock kind of achieved parity. And then bottomlock took over - especially after S3 aired, for reasons that are too complex to explain in a concise way.

I think in the beginning fans were more inclined to take Sherlock's character at face value as he was presented in canon - this wildly domineering, debateably sociopathic arsehole. So at first people were like, "He's a Dom-y top and no mistaking," and wrote that. But I think a lot of people were just kind of bored (or turned off) by that very matchy-matchy "Dom in the streets, Dom/top in the sheets" approach to his character, and to his relationship with John. So it didn't take very long before a lot of people started questioning their initial assessment, and bottomlock caught on in a big way.

I feel like it's gotta be 5:1 bottomlock at this point. IDK, it's possible I'm biased. But I feel like if I were going to be biased it would more likely be the other way. Stuff we don't like tends to stand out more to us than stuff we do, right?

This changes everything.

Ha! Indeed.

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

I also feel like part of the change in the dynamic is that, like most versions of Holmes/Watson, it's a brain/brawn dichotomy. Sherlock is the intellectual and John is the muscle. Sherlock is fashionable and dramatic and has pretty hair and plays the violin, John is an ex-soldier with a gun and a temper. So you get into a lot of stereotypes about masculinity and how that's defined and what that (stereotypically) means for who pitches and who catches.

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

like most versions of Holmes/Watson, it's a brain/brawn dichotomy. Sherlock is the intellectual and John is the muscle.

I agree this is often how it's depicted in fanon (and TBH I like that dichotomy). But in canon? Nah. John was depicted as more likely to get in a fight, sure, but Sherlock seemed to have more physical prowess than John did. I always thought it was quite a bad choice, narratively. If Sherlock is a better fighter AND much smarter AND it's his work they're doing all the time, it makes it nearly impossible for John to have a truly active, pivotal, necessary role in the story. But for some reason that never seemed to bother the writers. *sigh*

Sherlock is fashionable and dramatic and has pretty hair and plays the violin, John is an ex-soldier with a gun and a temper.

This part is all true though, and I agree that it does play a role in how people stereotype them, sexually.