Citations:Femlock

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English citations of Femlock and femlock

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) a female version of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, especially from the television series Sherlock"

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  • 2015, Kee Lundqvist, "Stories of Significance: The Process and Practices of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 83:
    Invoking the creators works and personalities when interpreting the show, or arguing for a particular interpretation of it, often involves references to other projects of theirs, as when piningjohn writes of Stephen Moffat‘s fondness for 'married!femlock'.
  • 2017, Judith May Fathallah, Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts, page 65:
    These lead me to search the more fan-specific terms 'genderswap' and 'femlock'. In fic utilizing these popular tropes, male characters either are or turn into women.
  • 2017, Kristina Busse, Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities, page 112:
    Sometimes the thematically focused groups are a clear subset of shippers, such as teenlock, femlock, vamplock, or fawnlock (respectively describing John Watson/Sherlock Holmes as teens, women, vampires, or young deer).
  • 2017, Carolina Lindström, "'The power of characterization': A comparative analysis of the transformative works created by the English-language and Japanese-language fandoms of BBC Sherlock", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 31:
    As the fandom of BBC Sherlock, English and Japanese alike, is predominantly female, it comes as no surprise that a lot of fans have taken this matter upon themselves by cosplay. Thus, this makes up for a big part of the Femlock content available online.
  • 2021, Emma Byrne, How to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood, unnumbered page:
    Fan-created versions of characters like 'Femlock' (female Sherlock) allow adolescent girls to create a world where they can incorporate all the atavistic traits of 'boy heroes' into female characters.