mary morstan

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pennypaperbrain:

faerymorstan:

you know what?

i’m not done.

lil history lesson for the beeblockers in the audience who weren’t around post-s2 and pre-s3 (or any hints about same): the mary hate didn’t start after HLV.

the mary hate didn’t start after TSoT.

the mary hate didn’t start after TEH, or after setlock, or after whatever the hell point you’ve seen ppl use to justify their And After That, Well, Of COURSE We Had To Speak Up About How ~Problematic~ This Character Was, I Mean, Anyone Who Could Enjoy This Fictional Human Clearly Lacks A Moral Center, Anyway Enough Unpleasantness Here’s A Rec Post Of My Favourite Holmescest Fics.

the mary hate started when yall heard the show would involve mary at all.

i know. i was there. people i used to consider friends posted hate, including that they wanted “THAT woman” to die ASAP, on the same day of the “hey there will be mary” announcement.

when ppl, including me, pointed out that uh all we knew about her character was that she was a woman, so hating her based on

  1. she is a woman
  2. getting her yucky vajayjay all over your media

was misogynist as yikes, we were dismissed as Fandom Police. we couldn’t MAKE people like her just because she was a woman!! in fact, that made us the REAL misogynists!!! like, GOD, how stupid could we be!!1!?

it went downhill from there.

pre-s3, if you were excited about mary, in public, you could pretty well count on at least one person chiming in with BUT THE STORY IS ABOUT JAWN AND SHELROCK HOW CAN MAKE ROOM FOR MARY TRICK QUESTION U CAN’T MY OTP EVERYTHING IS RUINED. (i mean, imo, everything is ruined at the outset because the writers can’t pace or emotional thru-line their way out of a well-lit paper bag; mary “ruins” the story much as same-sex marriage “ruins” marriage in that opposite-sex couples, like the writers, do just fine ruining everything on their own.)

BUT I DIGRESS.

post-s3, if you were still excited about mary, fandom was fucking unbearable. i didn’t have it anywhere near as bad as lots of others and it was still unbearable. i stopped being part of the fandom. i deleted and orphaned my jawnlock fics. sometime after the fucking thing that got its own fucking tag – and, more tear-out-what-was-left-of-my-hair-fully for me, after fandom could not collectively agree that a) there were sides and b) one of them was REALLY DEFINITELY WORSE THAN THE OTHER – i packed up the last of my shit and got the hell out of the sandbox.

so here, on Weekend Of Last Ep For A While Possibly Ever Eve, i tell you: each and every one of you who spat bile about mary, who thought fargolockgate was a tempest in a teapot and anyway seeing john beat mary to death with a hammer was kinda hilarious amirite, who clutched your pearls and whined about The Integrity Of The (Whitedude) Story, who concern trolled mary fans because omg surely no decent person could like her, who speculated for YEARS that mary was evil, mary was cheating on john, mary was only pretending to be pregnant, mary meant to kill not wound sherlock, john and sherlock were plotting to kill mary and become a couple, the showrunners made it all perfectly clear right there in the subtext, it would all come true and we “bitter has-beens” would be proven wrong and what a great and righteous day that would be –

– every last one of you can fuck right off. if you don’t like what the show gives you… if you don’t like what what’s left of the fandom can do to reinvent it… then i leave the last and, fittingly, frustration-mangled word to jiminy cricket:

“you buttered your bread… now sleep in it.”

Fandom history lesson.

Actually, if we’re doing fandom history –

(bear in mind I’m not really in Sherlock fandom, but I am more or less in ACD!Holmes fandom)

– Mary was hated before Sherlock existed. Remember the Robert Downey Jr Sherlock Holmes movies? They came out before the show did and were popular for a couple of years, it’s how I got into the books and the fandom. Anyway, Mary was in them and she was awesome. Smart, sympathetic, hidden depths of badassery, adored by Watson, respected by Holmes, was never an assassin or killed anyone or hurt a soul if that’s what you’re worried about –

People still loathed her. It was very discouraging.

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In the original Sherlock, he and Mary get on very well. Where she’s turned up in movie versions, it is always a spiky relationship. But why would they not get on? We really liked the idea that Sherlock immediately takes to Mary and she takes to him. There was lots of stuff we never used, like she would go around for violin lessons and John would not know. They’re just great friends.

Steven Moffat at Sherlocked ‘How do you describe the relationship between Sherlock and Mary?‘ – (x)
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