I’m having a minor breakdown over this and y’all think it’s funny.
Why is it having this effect on you? Help me understand, please.
Why is it having this effect on me. Well, let’s see.
First and foremost, I appreciate people finding new things to be enthusiastic about. This is the core of a fandom, after all, per definition.
What I find distressing is that about 60% of my dash these last two weeks is GO. And it’s not just people reblogging stuff on tumblr. Artists are moving on, too. Some of my favourite writers have declared they’re done with writing Sherlock fiction. I see graphic artists sliding away too.
I have not watched GO yet. I’m sure it’s lovely. I adore David Tennant in other roles, so I have good motivation to go and watch GO.
You might say ‘well, block the GO tag, then’. I HAVE done that. ‘Unfollow blogs, then’. I AM starting to do that. But what is left then? You know what kills a fandom? It’s the fans leaving.
Hence the distress. Am I being prissy? Maybe. But I have this nagging feeling of earth being salted.
Problem is that, for many of us (me included) Sherlock S4 has been a angering, painful, and deeply distressing experience. Yet people stayed in the fandom, trying to fix the mess the authors made, trying to find something to hold on, bacause we learned to love this fine piar of idiots, and the fandom has been incredibly productive along the years.
But then Good Omens came (I didn’t watch it, too - not my cup of tea, tbh) and I noticed that for many people it has been a healing experience, so I can totally understand why they’re moving away from a series that had a toxic ending and where people involved are always really fast to blame the fans for whatever happens, toward another one that is clean and beautiful and where the cast and the people involved in it are wonderfully supportive to the fandom.
Yes, it’s sad to see less and less Sherlock - and Johnlock - content on my dash, because Sherlock fandom has been important to me - primary in many ways, and without it I wouldn’t have know many wonderful persons who are still in my life (hi @ohana), but I really can’t blame people for leaving. Indeed, I’m happy they found something that’s making them happy.
@alexaprilgarden - I can’t send this to you so I’m tagging you :)
I haven't watched GO yet but i am in love with it through everything on my dash, and my friends' blogs, mains or sides, whatever. As others in the notes have said, it's now, it's vanishingly unlikely there will be more of it, and how REFRESHING to be loved and respected by the writer, director, and actors. I watch very little tv or movies, so most "multifandom" stuff means nothing to me, i'm on tumblr because of sherlock. But GO is really special. I understand wanting "all sherlock all the time", that's been my own focus (mostly).
