Holmes and Watson cosplay in the Netherlands. Via Qsimple.
…guh.
At first, I saw the suits and was enchanted.
And then I scrolled enough to read the caption.
Cave Hibernum: So that whole ‘The Indian Sherlock’ thing got me brooding over the... →
So that whole ‘The Indian Sherlock’ thing got me brooding over the shitfit some parts of fandom tend to throw at the prospect of a Holmes and/or Watson that aren’t British - and how by ‘British’, they in fact mean ‘a very narrow idea of ~Britishness~ that includes the following attributes: white,…
this is the greatest thing
i have ever
ever
saw
like what??? an adaptation of my bbs that actually does something different and interesting???
I only wish it kept in Moriarty.
Like, being black and poor means no archrival,
just Serious Business Issues? How is someone
supposed to hate!ship Sherlock with The System?
…and also, I’d like everybody flailing
to step away from Sherlock altogether
and go create a fandom for this series.
If only half would do it, just imagine
how many fics and fanworks we would get
for female black detectives in Botswana
who started out that way. How great would that be?
8 – Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they’re not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.
Of course I write them, if the story needs it!
The trick is that it needs to be organic.
A story where the OC just appears
from nowhere, and the canon warps around
their specialness, is never gonna work.
And when the fic’s AU, already changing
the background of the canon folks around,
it’s best to use them everywhere you can.
But when you’re flashing back to times pre-canon,
or giving someone illness, in a series
where doctors aren’t a staple of the cast,
or when exploring how a canon setup
appears to someone not at all connected,
or seeing how this couple works with kids,
or working on a casefic (needs a client
for Holmes; a new potential bride for Wooster;
some aliens in trouble for the Doctor;
a victim of the day for Sailor Moon)…
you can’t just shoehorn canon people in.
Provided the OCs are built to fill
the story’s need, and not the other way
around, they likely won’t devolve to Sues.
