[ SECRET POST #2333 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2333 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 019 secrets from Secret Submission Post #333.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - ships it ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, THIS, I hated how BBC!Sherlock Tumblr fandom was all justification-y over Irene, and TRYING TO RETCON THE CANON TO SAY THAT IRENE ADLER IN SCAN WAS ACTUALLY A PROSTITUTE AND AAAAGGGHHHH

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Sorry. I'll mop up.

[fenm]

Even if she was, ACD didn't use that as an excuse to have her talking about sex all the goddamn time. Honestly, I think that's one of the reasons Moffat made her a "sex worker", to justify her walking around naked and talking about fucking Sherlock on a table and all that...

[(Anonymous)]

Also, I believe Moffat has a Thing for sexually dominant female archetypes. Keep seeing it over and over again. But the female has a vulnerability the male eventually addresses/rescues, even as he is being in awe of her "powerfulness".

AAAAARRRGHHHHHH *rage comic face*

[fenm]

Yeah, exactly... d-:

[(Anonymous)]

Well, she was a loose woman, in the sense of having multiple (and politically dangerous) lovers pre-marriage in the Victorian era. She compounded that a bit by being an actress and regularly crossdressing and also the whole 'blackmailing the king' thing.

Things she wasn't: in love with Holmes. Working for Moriarty. Taking any form of money from her lovers that I remember (blackmail, yes, payment for services rendered, no).

She was a 'fallen woman' in the sense of having pre-marital sex (with kings). Not in the sense of being a prostitute.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

And nowhere did/do I dispute your last sentence. The Tumblr fandom, OTOH, felt significantly differently, and was all "RESPECT TEH VICKTORIAN SEXTRADE WORKERS!!!ELEVENTY!!!" about it. Which. Yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, something she WAS: extremely competent

[(Anonymous)]

+100000

[silverr]

yeah, I mean, I suppose that they saw "Adventuress & mistress of powerful man (Prince of Bohemia)" = "dominatrix" but ... it's just not.

Plus - imo ACD Irene (and Granada Irene) ALWAYS had the upper hand, and admired Sherlock the way one would admire a challenging fencing partner.

[abharding]

Exactly. They viewed each other as kindred spirits - someone who was an intellectual equal. For Holmes Irene was someone who he could actually have a battle of wits and have it be a challenge. She wasn't exactly a female version of Holmes - but that was because she wasn't interested in doing what Sherlock did (and part of that could have been the fact that she was a woman and such a thing would not have been acceptable).