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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2021-12-07 10:16 pm

[ SECRET POST #5450 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5450 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2021-12-08 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"If anyone still cares, I'm not gay."
"Well I am. Look at us both."

Don't pretend that people weren't led into it. It was intentional. It was one of the few genuine cases of queerbaiting.

(Anonymous) 2021-12-08 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
90+% of fandom and zero casual viewers ever thought anything was happening there, but sure. Whatever makes you feel better.

(Anonymous) 2021-12-08 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
I think what the writers were going for was a sense of "With the way they're committed to each other, the fact that they aren't gay for each other is irrelevant."

Unfortunately, the writing wasn't very good, so it ended up coming across a lot more like, "No homo, definitely no homo. Unless... Lol, jk... Or are we?"

I definitely never thought Johnlock was going to be canon, but I do feel like the writing was grating and didn't really track the way they wanted it to. Also, "They're so close that the fact they're not together Like That is irrelevant" is not the brave and meaningful storytelling a lot of writers think it is, IMO.