Citations:Johnlock

English citations of Johnlock and JohnLock

Noun: "(fandom slang) the ship of characters John Watson and Sherlock Holmes"

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2013, Alexa Posliff & Laura Stanley, "This Ship Has Sailed: A Look Into TV Relationships Capturing Hearts", Pro Tem (Glendon College), Volume 51, Issue 4, February 2013, page 12:
What makes viewers even more infatuated than the endless witty banter (read bickering) of "Johnlock" - and of course the latent homosexual undertones - is the fact that the dreamy Benedict Cumberbatch plays Sherlock while the equally dreamy (don't deny it) Martin Freeman aka Bilbo Baggins is John Watson.
2013, Justin Mendoza & Mandy Whited, "Fans create tight-knit communities based on strong feelings", The Hawk (Hendrickson High School, Travis Country, Texas), Volume 6, Issue 6, 7 March 2013, page 19:
One True Pairing; when two characters should absolutely be together romantically and are an audience member’s definite favorite. Ex. Johnlock, the two leads from the BBC series Sherlock.
2013, Charles Wang, "Definitely a Mad Man with a Blog", Kitsch (Cornell University), Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 2013, page 55:
A preponderance of JohnLock shippers romantically ship John Watson and Sherlock Holmes, producing an astounding amount of gay fiction/fanart.
2013, Bertha Chin & Lori Hitchcock Morimoto, "Towards a theory of transcultural fandom", Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, May 2013, page 104:
In the fan art of self-described Mainland Chinese fan Zjackt, she discerns specific points of affinity between the slash pairings of Harry/Snape and John Watson/Sherlock Holmes (‘Johnlock’) of the BBC’s Sherlock series;
2013, Amanda Rodriguez, "Sherlock Inspires Mystery, Tumblr Erotica", The MQ (satirical newspaper of John Muir College, University of California, San Diego), Volume 19, Issue 6, 1 May 2013, page 10:
They solve mysteries every week, and there have been hints that they are also a gay couple (I have a couple of examples on my Johnlock blog
2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8:
All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.
2013, "Sherlock returns for 26 seconds. What a tease!", The Telegraph (Calcutta), 6 August 2013:
Martin Freeman's moustache and Benedict Cumberbatch's expressions have already spawned hundreds of Johnlock moments among Johnlock shippers.
2013, Rosamund Urwin, "Cumberfiction: the Sherlock fans 'reviewing' the new series before they've seen it ", London Evening Standard, 9 September 2013:
Sherlock fanatics love their fan-fiction. There are the romantic fantasies: Sherlock with Molly (portmanteau name: “Sherlolly”), Sherlock with John Watson (“JohnLock”) and Molly with Moriarty (“Molliarty”).
2013, Sheetal Reddy, "The social politics of 'slash shipping' and fanfiction", The Runner (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), 10 September 2013, page 8:
As for the ships, currently the three most popular on AO3 are “Johnlock” (Sherlock Holmes/John Watson from Sherlock), “Destiel” (Dean Winchester/Castiel from Supernatural) and “Sterek” (Stiles/Derek from Teen Wolf).
2013, Jessica Bickford, "Fangirl: taking it back", The Carillon (University of Regina), Volume 56, Issue 6, 26 September - 2 October 2013, page 15:
Yes, it may take affection into unheard levels sometimes, but what exactly is wrong with loving something intensely, whether that something is StarCraft, or Johnlock fanfics?
2013, Gerrit van de Riet, "November for Fandoms: Sneak Peek", The Window (New College, Toronto), November 2013, page 20:
For Karen the most exciting thing about the comeback is the reunion between Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman: “I ship Johnlock!” Karen enthused.
2013, Pragya Parmita, "Fandoms: Too Powerful?", The Bottom Line (Associated Students, UC Santa Barbara), Volume 8, Issue 5, 6 November - 12 November 2013, page 8:
Across the pond, writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss often place characters Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in situations that suggest a relationship between them, even though the series establishes Watson as heterosexual, to placate the fans that “ship Johnlock” in the BBC series “Sherlock.”
2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page, published 26 November 2013:
In this way, "Johnlock" as a romantic pairing often lives up to, albeit in a different configuration, Thackeray's dream of "middle-aged" romance.
2014, "Shippers: the people who knew Harry Potter better than JK Rowling", The Guardian, 3 February 2014:
One more recent ship is "Johnlock", after the union of Sherlock and John Watson, which is a popular fantasy among fans of the BBC's hit series.
2014 January 17, Jeff Jensen, “Sherlock, season 3”, in Entertainment Weekly‎, number 1294, page 100:
Another recurring joke-plot plays to the “Johnlock” shippers who fanfic a romance between Sherlock and his partner in crime solving, John Watson (Martin Freeman, rocking a furry grief-stache), whose agitated reaction to Holmes’ faked suicide speaks for all who felt the season 2 cliff-hanger was contrived.
2014 January 31, Jeff Jensen, “Sherlock”, in Entertainment Weekly‎, number 1296, page 150:
It also established a narrative that plays—and satisfies—like a rom-com, in which the evolution of the renewed “Johnlock” relationship is mirrored by John’s romance with Mary (Amanda Abbington), a surprisingly welcome addition to the mix.
2015, Malorie Blackman, Love Hurts‎, page 89:
VC is a dedicated Johnlock shipper.

2015, Nikki Stafford, Investigating Sherlock: The Unofficial Guide‎, pages 57-58:
(Of course, as any fan knows, the shippers watching the show who want the relationship to be there will find it anyway — as they did with Xena and Gabrielle — and the Johnlock fanfic is alive and well.)
2015, Carrie Hope Fletcher, All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully‎, page 231:
I have watched heated discussions about whether Johnlock actually exists.
2015, Jenna Wortham, "My Dear, Dear, Dear Watson", The New York Times, 18 February 2015:
For example, one offshoot of Johnlock, known as Fawnlock, imagines Cumberbatch as an ethereal deer, complete with graceful antlers and a speckled coat — and of course his lover, Watson, cradled in his forelimbs.
2015 November, Michelle Ruiz, “Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys”, in Cosmopolitan‎, Australia, page 133:
Tina, a married 33-year-old slash fan, says her jam is the Johnlock ’ship, Benedict Cumberbatch’s TV incarnation of Sherlock Holmes and his partner John Watson.
2016, Brigid Cherry, Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles: Handicrafting as Fan Art‎, page 141:
Knitting is most often written about in the context of Sherlock’s relationships, either in “Johnlock”—Sherlock/Watson slash-fiction—or in “Sherlolly’— Sherlock/Molly shipper fics.
2017, Alyxis Smith, “Fan Fiction as an Argument: Arguing for Johnlock through the Roles of Women and Explicit Sex Scenes in Sherlock Fan Fiction”, in Lynnette Porter, editor, Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations‎, page 167:
Although Johnlock is certainly the most prolific argument for a queer reading of the relationship between John and Sherlock, Johnlockary argues that there is more than one queer interpretation of the text, and the inclusion of a woman in the Johnlock relationship does not make it any less queer.
2017, J. Caroline Toy, “Constructing the fannish place: Ritual and sacred space in a Sherlock fan pilgrimage”, in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, volume 5, number 3, pages 259-260:
Like the Graceland messages to Elvis Presley examined by Derek Alderman (2002), they display a wide variety of engagements with Sherlock and potentially contentious opinions. ‘Johnlock’ (Sherlock/John slash) advocates seem to prevail, both in the number of references to that relationship and in the condemnation of others through remarks like ‘Sherlolly is stupid’.
2018, Jennifer Wojton, Lynnette Porter, Sherlock and Digital Fandom: The Meeting of Creativity, Community and Advocacy‎, page 147:
While many stories describing Johnlock have incorporated elements of television canon, such as John's marriage, into the number of options authors may consider when they write a story primarily about John and Sherlock, the fan fiction about asexual Sherlock listed in the advocacy category does not appreciably change in reaction ot television canon.
2019, Benjamin Poore, “Masters of the Universe?: Viewers, the Media, and Sherlock's Lead Writers”, in Johannes Fehrle, Werner Schäfke-Zell, editors, Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence‎, page 146:
In the days around the initial screenings of Sherlock series three, Sherlock fanfiction writers were also mocked by Caitlin Moran’s stunt (at the BFI screening of “The Empty Hearse”) of asking actors Cumberbatch and Freeman to read a piece of “JohnLock” slash fiction (an event at which Gatiss was present on stage).

Citations:Johnlock

English citations of Johnlock and JohnLock

Noun: "(fandom slang) the ship of characters John Watson and Sherlock Holmes"

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