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Kate. Introvert, sci fi nerd, recently kdrama obsessed, consumer of media and tea, book hoarder, Californian, history lecturer, probably having a midlife crisis.

Here is the secret to fandom:

Give zero fucks about what anyone else is doing.

Seriously.  I mean it.  Because inevitably you will love something that no one else loves.  Or you will love something that everyone loves and people will shit all over it because it’s “so trite and unimaginative and done.” Or you will love something that no one else has ever heard of.  Or you will love something dark and edgy and or obscure and people will roll their eyes and say, “What, do you want people to think you’re dark and edgy and obscure?”

Alternatively, you will not love the thing that everyone else loves, and you will wonder what precisely is wrong with you that the sight of that thing is aggravating the shit out of you now when the whole world sings its praises as one.

People will irritate you.  They’ll irritate you with headcanons that make no sense and misinterpretations of canon.  They will make the same jokes 500 times.  They will overwhelm your corner of fandom with something you either are tired of hearing about or don’t care about.  They will post art that isn’t theirs.  You will meet people who think you are the greatest person ever and bombard you with messages  only to wander off when they find someone new or shinier; you will meet people whom you admire and who do not really seem to notice you exist. 

So give zero fucks about it.  Seriously.  Like what you like, blacklist what you need to blacklist, and ignore everything else.  Be friends, play nice, enjoy it.  And in the meantime, just do you.  Like what you like, love what you love, and to hell with all the rest of it. 

I really love that not only do Sherlock and Joan never get together in the entire run of Elementary, it's never even really played as a possibility.

As an ace person I appreciate that so much. Like, there's a few one off minor characters that assume Joan is Sherlocks girlfriend, but only one reoccurring minor character that flat out asks Joan if she ever considered dating Sherlock. When Joan says no, they drop it and never bring it up again. SEVEN SEASONS and that's it.

I know more than one allo person that expressed disappointment that there was never more than friendship between the two of them, and that to them the series finale was unsatisfying, but for me it was the opposite.

A man and a woman were allowed to form a deep friendship with a strong sibling energy, and no forced romance.

Both Sherlock and Joan have aro vibes to me. Sherlock has two romantic relationships in the entire series that we see. One with 'Irene Adler' who is also this series's Jamie Moriarty, and one with a computer programmer named Fiona (goes by Mittens online) who is openly autistic (a bit stereotypical but not a bad representation tbh). Neither relationship is exactly standard. Aside from those two, Sherlock maintains a handful of amicable physical relationships with a revolving cast of women that are mostly played for laughs and niche knowledge for cases.

Joan, she dates a few people here and there, including Mycroft Holmes, with there being one other major romance that we see with a man named Andrew. That ends sadly, right as Joan was poised to break up with him anyway (which is an extra layer of guilt for Joan) because she's just not feeling the depth of emotion she knows she should as they hit the 'meet the parents' milestone.

A few seasons later, Joan goes through a whole character arc focusing on her trying to adopt a baby as a single woman and how that would affect her and Sherlocks relationship.

Joan goes on to, in the last skip ahead episode, adopt a child as a single woman, no guy in sight, with Sherlock implied to have fallen happily into an Uncle role.

Just two aro self adopted sibling detectives, raising a kid, solving crimes. I love it so much.

CBS elementary is absolutely bonkers, okay?

  • Sherlock crashes Joan’s car in the first episode. This is never addressed again.
  • Sherlock goads Joan into an illegal autopsy after he kept doing it wrong
  • One time Sherlock comes home with a human head and has no idea where he got it
  • Moriarty has a daughter who is kidnapped. Sherlock and Joan have to rescue her. With Moriarty.
  • Moriarty kills someone who tries to assassinate Joan and then sends her a letter basically equaling out to “only me kill you <3″ 
  • Joan beats up a cop in a boxing ring. Then she annoys Joan again so Joan prepares for round #2.
  • Joan shaves Sherlock’s head on purpose. At his request. He is bald or almost bald for several episodes. 
  • Someone mocks Sherlock and Joan asks the man “what’s the hardest you’ve ever been hit?”
  • Joan threatens to stab Sherlock in the thigh with a push-pin if he doesn’t pay attention to a meeting (she has the push pin the whole scene in her hand)
  • Sherlock and Joan take down an entire drug gang in like a weekend.
  • Sherlock goads Gregson into marrying his girlfriend for insurance.
  • They keep roosters for like four episodes because Sherlock is trying to teach them to get along
  • Lestrade takes a helicopter to go down the block
  • “I’m Gay” “I am not” “No that’s my name. But I am actually gay, so it saves time.” “How efficient.” 
  • Sherlock becomes friends with a serial killer
  • Sherlock and Joan need help with a case so they go visit a detective in stolen antiquities who demands their help with a SEPERATE case that Sherlock solves in ten seconds
  • “Tell me you didn’t start that fire” “I didn’t start that fire” 
  • Sherlock’s solution to dealing with annoying neighbors is to start sculpting bushes with a chainsaw
  • In order to stop Marcus from assaulting someone, Sherlock assaults them first
  • Joan gets attacked by a serial killer and when Sherlock looks at her with big puppy eyes of apology she tells him that she’ll break his rib if he apologizes
  • One of Marcus’ professors refuses to teach Marcus because of a grudge they hold against Sherlock
  • “I’ve been robbed. How offensive.”
  • A LOT of people Joan knew get murdered (this is weird now that I’m thinking about it, I can think of at least three people)
  • Mycroft and Joan dated
  • “Her first hidden body, you must be so proud.” “You’re jesting, but I am.” 
  • “You don’t know I play the violin?” “Until last week I didn’t know you ate food.” 
  • Sherlock gets into a disagreement with his father and his solution to dealing with his frustration is to squeeze an entire honey jar down the drain 
  • Joan publishes a book detailing Sherlock’s life SOLEY for revenge after Reichenbach 
  • No one can understand Sherlock’s texting except for Joan, who used the fact he WASN’T talking like a teenager to realize he’d been kidnapped 
  • “It’s the orange high lighter, it always brings bad luck.”
  • Joan dyes her hair blonde to deal with a personal crises 
  • Joan and Sherlock lie under oath about breaking into people’s houses because they “heard puppies and babies under distress”
  • “Holmes and Watson are tracking down some sort of Holmes and Watson thing.”
  • Joan’s adoption lawyer lies about failing to notify her of meetings and Sherlock gets a king involved
  • Joan meets her sister because her sister runs an illegal poker game
  • Clyde. Just. Clyde
  • Joan’s mother tells her that she thinks Joan’s brother is having an affair and when Joan vents her frustration about this, Sherlock tells her she can (and should) cut off her family
  • The first half of season three is basically Joan and Sherlock mentoring/parenting Kitty 
  • Sherlock was SO CONFIDENT that his father wouldn’t show up to the meeting that he hired an actor to stand-in for his father (and he was right)
  • A consistent running gag of the series is Sherlock waking up Joan in new and strange ways
  • “Uncle Detective” “My child is not calling you detective.” 
  • “What does the moon landing have to do with someone trying to kill your father?” “Nothing. Or everything.”