“I’ll be a reporter. I’ll cover the story. And this I absolutely guarantee—I’m going to find out the truth.”
- Action Comics #830
Joan Watson is the new Starbuck
An originally male character gets genderswaped for an updated version of the story and the fandom explodes.
Let’s just hope that Joan doesn’t die, come back as an angel to lead Sherlock home and then disappears into thin air.
Elementary ficlet
When Joan got up to make her sixth cup of coffee that night, she found that Sherlock had unplugged the coffee pot. By cutting the cord off.
“Don’t bother,” he called from the couch, still absorbed in the photographs he’d been studying for the past two hours, “it wouldn’t have been of any help.”
“How else am I supposed to stay awake?” replied Joan, rubbing her forehead as she felt another headache coming on. The coffee was terrible, the only brand she could find at the minute market, but it had been doing the trick.
“Don’t. Go to bed.” Joan stared at the back of his head.
“And where am I supposed to do that? My apartment is halfway across town, and you’ve occupied the couch.” He sighed, the one he usually did when he was about to explain something obvious.
“Use my bed. I certainly won’t be.” There was a beat between where Joan wondered what Det. Abreu and the gossips at the NYPD would think of that, and where she decided she didn’t care. She gave Sherlock a perfunctory “Good night”, marched off down the hall, and slept.
Unfortunately, she also got to find out exactly what the NYPD would say when Abreu and company showed up at Sherlock’s door the next morning and she stumbled half-asleep out of his room.
We haven’t even watched the first episode and yet there’s fanfic. I already love the Elementary fandom!
tbh a big part of me watching Elementary will be me memorising Joan Watson’s outfits and trying to copy that style later.
Real people have flaws and failures. It fucking happens. We come in all sorts —strong, successful, weak, simpering, funny, terrible, assertive, smart, stupid and every other possible adjective— and it is more than okay for media to portray something other than a perfect wonder woman.
The problem comes not from women being shown as fallible, but from women only being portrayed as one-dimensional and only important in terms of their relations to men.
In fact, acting as if any woman who isn’t perfect is somehow not okay suggests that while there are thousands of compelling stories with imperfect men, a woman is only worth telling a story about if she has no flaws.
I only bring this up because I am sick of people talking about how Joan Watson is somehow a bad female character —despite knowing next to nothing about her seeing as how the show has not even aired yet— because we see that she had a failure as a surgeon. She is quite literally the support to a guy who is a recovering drug addict. They both have made mistakes, and yet hers is the one that is totally unacceptable for the character and supposedly a commentary on how women are stupid? Are you even listening to yourselves?
I’m not defending the show. I haven’t seen it yet, so I don’t know what it’s going to be like any more than you. It could very well be that it’s terrible and that Joan is a horrific character, but we still don’t know that yet. All we know is that she fucked up once. Since when are female characters not allowed to fuck up, too?
Reblogging for truth. I’m so fucking sick of the fake Strong Female Character (TM) trope. Real women are real people and writing a SFC is just saying that it’s ok to write a one-dimensional female character if she shows no emotions and fires a gun.
So what you may not have realized is that the casting of Lucy Liu as “Joan” Watson in Elementary was just the first step in a plot by Hollywood to ruin ALL your bromances by inserting Lucy Liu.
Take White Collar, for instance. It’s well known for the slashy potential between the two male leads, even though both are canonically heterosexual. But wait!
IT’S LUCY LIU! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SHIP NOW?
It’s not just limited to TV, either. How about one of the classic ships, one that practically invented slash?
HA! COCKBLOCKED!
Suits is a show about two dudebro lawyers who are totally gay for each oth-
NOT ANYMORE THEY’RE NOT. GROSS, HETEROSEXUALITY!
Merlin and Arthur are sooo cute…
UGH! A GIRRRRL IN MY SLASH SHIP!
But wait, you say. I’m a multishipper, how can you possibly-
THAT’S RIGHT.
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NEW - Elementary - 4 min Exclusive Preview uploaded for people who live outside the U.S & are blocked from watching it on youtube…here ya go!
Reblog if you are going to watch Elementary.
I want to see how many of you actually likes the concept of this adaptation and are going to watch it and are excited for it and can’t wait for it…
So reblog if you are thinking any of the above.
GoT / Asoiaf prompts #2: her hands were gentle
This is IMPOSSIBLE to draw without a reference, and I will probably end up doing a second version of it, but I did try because well, you don’t resist a prompt like that. Anyway, Jaime and Brienne win Best Take on the Gallant Knight Catches Fainting Beauty Trope ever, y/y?
Yes!
It’s almost spooky that you draw them exactly how they look in my mind.
