...most creators look the other when when fans re-imagine their favorite characters doing all sort of things, some of them fairly inappropriate... But pastiche... is a different matter. It's not about making the characters do what you want them to do, but instead trying to let them do what they might in such different circumstances as you've created.
and the head of the biggest Doyle library in the world replied about how this is why he never uses the word pastiche or even Sherlockian in his work because he thinks it's too pretentious
anyway i dont consider myself a Hero for bringing you Real Sherlock Holmes but if you all wanted to thank me profusely i think that would be appropriate???
The head of the Baker Street Irregulars recently flounced and left this manifesto about how he hoped the society would seek to admit people on a merit-based system
side note: he's part of that pugilism club I was interested in trying so there's like, a possibility I might get to punch him if I can get along with him long enough
One of my bffs is a creative writing professor at a midwest university. She knows I write fanfic (we've known each other since high school), and a few months ago she mentioned that without fail the best writers in the classes she teaches are the students who are fanfic writers.
(I'm also giggling about him saying that as a professor he'd be fired for talking about it in class. I wrote an entire PhD dissertation chapter on hypersexual Roman eunuchs. Academia is not prudish.)
Suddenly you had a lot of middle aged dudes going to conventions they thought would be about 19th c revolvers and shit and they were about how to write gay sex?
...most creators look the other when when fans re-imagine their favorite characters doing all sort of things, some of them fairly inappropriate...But pastiche... is a different matter. It's not about making the characters do what you want them to do, but instead trying to let them do what they might in such different circumstances as you've created.
so this is Sherlock Holmes, the original and unmatched, as best as I can show himif you have to denigrate something, denigrate the les mis fansi say this as one of them🍆👊⬅
this guy
Diverse, exceptional, merit-based membership—not elitistAspirational, not reactionaryExtremely high standards—reject “good enough”Kind, welcoming clubbability with joyful, whimsical environmentNo politics and no contentious agendas
can you say "dog whistle"