#beneloo

A follow up to our past post about sherlollians - or should we say beneloos? - being a little obsessed with Louise and Ben. It’s a well-known fact that Lou has been infatuated with Ben and still is, and what with sherlollians lavishing upon her and shipping her with Ben (granted some of these are before he married Sophie, but there are also some that were made AFTER), it’s a wonder why they ship Molly with any one of Ben’s characters.

Some johnlockers play with the fantasy of Freebatch (Martin and Ben) but it never was like this. It didn’t go as far, like, “if Martin is with Amanda then he and Ben can never be together *sob*” or “they should sleep together that would just be the cutest thing ever.” We never hoped that Martin and Amanda would break up, and when they did, it was a sad time for a lot of the fans, and we wished them all the best. When Ben fell in love with Sophie and married her, it was hard to find anyone in the fandom that wasn’t thrilled about it. But we never “went after” Amanda or threatened Sophie. That’s such a terrible accusation, it makes us nauseous, and we have to pause and wonder how that came into play. The only reason we think such an accusation exists is because 1) Johnlockers ship John and Sherlock so we must be “women haters” and/or 2) some of us like Ben and Martin.  *major eye rolling here*

Is shipping Sherlolly fine? Of course it is! But this over-the-top fawning over two people that were never together, wishing they were married - even when Ben was dating Sophie, engaged to Sophie, married to Sophie? CRINGE FACTOR ACTIVATED.

We’re also curious at why some antis were accusing us of being the ones not happy about Ben’s marriage. Where the hell did they get that? Is there any reason that WE, johnlockers, would have been unhappy about Ben finding happiness? No. There is none.

There was no doubt a small portion of Ben’s fans being unhappy, and going so far as running blogs dedicated to dragging Sophie and calling her a ruse to promoting Ben’s popularity. (....And... yes, they’re still doing that today, even after Sophie has had two babies. You think it’s disgusting now, you should have been around when it started.) None of them were Johnlockers.

Or was it the sherlollians who were unhappy, seeing that their dream of Lou and Ben tying the knot would never happen, and covered their devastation by pointing their fingers at others? It makes perfect sense! Seeing that they fawned over those two for the longest time, and claimed to be heartbroken “if it didn’t happen” or if one of them was in a relationship with another person.

Seriously, we mean.... talk about a bunch of shippers so INVESTED in their OTP that they wish the actors and actresses that played those characters would get together in real life.

Just to rub it in the face of some Beneloo shippers, here are some photos of Ben IN LOVE with Sophie classy-af-mother-of-two-opera-director Hunter. QUEEN.