First, we’ll begin with this. We appreciate that some sherlollians are humble enough to know you shouldn’t bother Johnlockers, whether anon or not, baiting or direct, what have you. We agree that Johnlockers shouldn’t do the same, but there lies an inner problem with that fact, and we will touch on that shortly.

This is good news, right? They’re aware of their own members doing wrong things and they agree they should be better than this. Good, right? What a good start! We’re not even being sarcastic here; we appreciate the fact that we could all get along in the future if this sticks.

..... Well what happens when an anti posts about TJLCers complaining about one of the show’s writers and tags it “johnlock” and “tjlc?” Here’s the post. It appears that diglestrade is another one of those people that believe s4 wasn’t terrible and that we ... called Mark straight...? Sure, some of us were hurt that Mark would queerbait even though he’s a gay man, but we never did call him straight. Nevertheless, the post was tagged johnlock and it upset a few to reply to diglestrade. We blacked out the URLs of the johnlockers out of respect.

Diglestrade, if you didn’t want to start an argument, … maybe don’t?

Diglestrade’s response is quite amusing [”Stop fighting me and start fighting your own kind”] – says the person who lights up a match and throws it into a field.

Whoa. Okay, let’s shine the light on two things. One, is what the johnlocker says:

Remember that theleftpill said to stop sending hate to tjlcers/johnlockers. Granted, this is of course also counts baiting them to a fight. Because if we’re all so hoping for peace in this fandom, it has to start somewhere. With anybody. Right?

And then diglestrade’s conclusion:

Ohhhhhh, so you still ship Johnlock, diglestrade? Well now we’re even more upset with you! That’s pretty embarrassing for us to know a fellow “Johnlocker” is stirring up shit just to make the rest of us look bad.

Diglestrade went back to doing what they do best:

Wow. For someone who starts a fight and tags it johnlock, they sure do get pissed off when johnlockers come forward to defend themselves. “I’m going to tag them and bait them,” giggles an anti. [Half an hour later…] “[scratching head] This is not going how I expected it.”

The tagging business is something else. If a post is tagged johnlock and is created to provoke us, those who respond are treated with vehemence and that we deserve it. Of course, the sherlollians are all about their system of tagging and preach constantly on the matter that you should never tag Sherlolly in a post that’s baiting them, insulting them, hating them. So why is it that when Johnlockers get tagged in a similar post, the sherlollians don’t give a damn, and at times even laugh at us?

Soooooo, sherlollians get to preach peace and WE CAN’T? It’s okay to multi-ship, but if you just ship Johnlock you’re a dick? It’s okay for sherlollians to tag johnlock in posts like these, but we’re not allowed to tag sherlolly even in harmless gifsets? We can’t have pleasant conversations with nice sherlollians without one of their own poisoning the water? We can defend one of our own when they’re being attacked? What we call “joining a conversation,” THEY CALL “HIJACKING”, AND THEY DO IT??

We do believe that tagging does apply when calling out particular behaviors, but not when you’re bored and you’re seeking a thrill to watch some shippers get mad. That’s not how it works. We’re sure a lot of antis have blocked us because they believe we’re “hating on them”, but we’re not TJLCschadenfreude, we’re not out to expose everyone. Just the ones that practice nastiness and hypocrisy on a normal basis.

It sounds like not everyone took theleftpill’s instructions to heart…