[ SECRET POST #1896 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1896 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 115 secrets from Secret Submission Post #271.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

I really need to watch Sherlock someday, then. Is he actually asexual in canon, or is it just a fandom thing?

[saya22.livejournal.com]

He remains a bachelor until the very end in ACD canon, and Watson's observation of his distaste for relationships with women in A Scandal in Bohenia seems to support it.

It was never openly acknowledged in BBC Sherlock canon that he's asexual, but there's this exchange in the first episode sounds very familiar to most aces who were asked if they were in a relationship http://vimeo.com/15893769

To Sherlock, sexual relationships are just distractions, and aside from his brief (intellectual) attraction to Irene Adler, he's refreshingly free of love interest in the series. The show opened up a discussion of asexuality everywhere (because wow, a male lead with no love interest! Shocking!).

While there are some people who claim the he's just repressed and hasn't found the right person (sound familiar, yeah?), most of the fandom educated themselves and incorporate Sherlock's asexuality in fics, even when he's paired up (usually with Watson, of course). Some of the fics makes me so happy and hopeful, because their sexless yet loving relationship is exactly what I hoped for to have but never dared to dream, and the thought that some people gets it is encouraging.

[fenm.livejournal.com]

As much as I like reading and writing the man-love, I do like seeing the asexual fics, yeah. I've written a few, but not enough...

[saya22.livejournal.com]

There's a LOT of asexual!Sherlock fics out there, and well-written to boot. My absolute favourite is the Horse and Carriage series (http://archiveofourown.org/series/6433), and you can check out more asexual and/or ace-friendly fics at asexy_sherlock (http://asexy-sherlock.livejournal.com/).

I have never encountered asexual fics anywhere in any fandoms, it's really exhilarating to find so many here.

[fenm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I like asexy_sherlock. I've read some of the Horse and Carriage series, but not all of it. Perhaps I should. (-:

[saya22.livejournal.com]

Definitely! I love all those "Watson realizes he might as well marry Sherlock and get it over with" fics haha

[fenm.livejournal.com]

Heh.. yeah.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

and incorporate Sherlock's asexuality in fics, even when he's paired up (usually with Watson, of course).

*shakes head* It's a really nice change to hear that. I don't even know if I'm ace, but... the Supernatural fandom is very, very pairing-oriented (not to mention, it has lots of porn into the bargain). There are some really, really odd pairings. I mean, people can write what they want, obviously, but sometimes it feels like the 'just friends' fics (particularly Dean and Castiel) get lost in all the pairing up.

[saya22.livejournal.com]

Seriously, in most fandom the good gen fics are hopelessly lost among the sea of pairing and porn fics. Which is fine but I haven't enjoyed reading fanfics anymore because they're mainly badly written porn and miscellaneous pairings.

Sherlock, otoh has many pairing fics, true, but they also have an abundance of case fics and friendships fics are aplenty, and most of them are well written. I couldn't remember the last time I enjoyed reading fics so much.