*Looks to the left and looks to the right* Nobody here? Good.
It still gets me to this day that whenever I see any Sh*rl**m content I automatically feel this sense of extreme loathing and dislike with matching grimacing and rolling of my eyes. I just..I never expected to actually hate a ship. I'm usually very open for like seeing or reading other ships of my otp. Don't get me wrong here, I have friends who are big fans of it and ofcourse I fully support them on it. I get so happy because they're excited for the new season and manga leaks.
And yeah, I have read I think up to chapter 27? of the manga and I did enjoy the plot and characters. It was very interesting and I loved that each of the cases and story arcs were like a twist in the canon holmes stories and I did try to get into it and join the fandom but when I suddenly saw all the shipping and seeing sh*rl**m everywhere it just turned me off. I understand though because obviously its like the main ship there and I do see how its been pushed since the very start, and yes I know that its moriarty whos the main character and not sherlock but anyway, besides this and also another factor I think would be the fact that I've always been a Holmes/Watson fan since ever. I think the clusterfuck that is the western side of the MTP fandom also turned me off it completely. Like, fandom policing and purist have actually invaded the fandom and my friends were "called out" because they believed that you should ship and let ship so ofcourse thats wrong according to the mtp antis.
Have I completely gone of topic? probably LMAO
Anyway, a positive note I actually got from this was that I am proactively practicing ye olde fandom proverbs:
- Your headcanons and ships are not universal
I mean, I have always been practicing this ever since I joined any fandom but yeah, I needed to actually remind myself this from time to time because of my negative emotional reaction to sh*rl**m was very intense. So yep, I do mostly avoid MTP like the plague because I don't wanna stress myself further but the problem is 🤣 since it is technically a holmesian adaptation and I always wanna devour holmesian content, its like a tug of war between me avoiding it and trying to low key find out what happened to Holmes and Watson there LMAO like, I wanna interact and yet I don't want to since theres a good chance I might see that ship I hate hahahaha my brain is just all over the place when it comes to this.
But anyway I know that more or less these feelings will fade or atleast lessen overtime and I know thats its a "me" problem so I thought that writing about it a bit here would be like a sort of release and it has to an extent 🤔 really made me reflect and think about it more and I'm thankful for that. Ofcourse in the end, enjoyment in a fandom is a personal responbility so its also my responsibility to like just avoid my dislikes and participate on the things in the fandom I do like. And never harass or cause pain to others just because I don't like something.