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queering_holmesPlease feel free to introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your interest in this community.
Speaking for myself... I identify as a fan and as an amateur history nerd. Most of my fandoms -- at least, those that I am most deeply involved in -- are historical fandoms, and I enjoy learning and thinking about the history of the periods in which they are set. When it comes to history, I lean most towards social history, especially women's history and queer history, and I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between Britain and its colonies during the colonial period. As far as Sherlock Holmes is concerned, I read the books and enjoyed them years ago but didn't fall head-first into the fandom until the 2009 movie came out. Since then I have been immersing myself in reading every related thing I can find, especially about homosexual subculture in late-Victorian London. (Previously, my main historical fandoms centred around the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.) I don't have an academic background but I enjoy reading and discussing scholarly texts with smart, interested people, and I'm hoping this community will give me more opportunities to do that.
Speaking for myself... I identify as a fan and as an amateur history nerd. Most of my fandoms -- at least, those that I am most deeply involved in -- are historical fandoms, and I enjoy learning and thinking about the history of the periods in which they are set. When it comes to history, I lean most towards social history, especially women's history and queer history, and I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between Britain and its colonies during the colonial period. As far as Sherlock Holmes is concerned, I read the books and enjoyed them years ago but didn't fall head-first into the fandom until the 2009 movie came out. Since then I have been immersing myself in reading every related thing I can find, especially about homosexual subculture in late-Victorian London. (Previously, my main historical fandoms centred around the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.) I don't have an academic background but I enjoy reading and discussing scholarly texts with smart, interested people, and I'm hoping this community will give me more opportunities to do that.
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Date: 2010-05-14 06:44 am (UTC)Boy, this reads a lot like a credentials listing thread, doesn't it?
My credentials: I read a lot and forget most of it.
More interestingly, I enjoy ALL Holmes canons. Yes, even the bad ones. I have a strange love of all those derivative films made throughout the decades. I would consider Doyle canon when writing fic for the 2009 movie but not vice versa, and not when writing Basil of Baker Street fanfiction, and can approach each new Holmes as a wholly new character informed by all the others. I'm guessing having read so much fanfiction helps with all that. But I've never been in the Holmes fandom, really (and I know that's a huge gap in my Holmes knowledge because fandom is pretty important and a world of its own), so poking about here feels all strange and new, and I'm looking forward to seeing other people's angles on the stories and characters.
Label list: woman, 30 years old, BA in film, unambitious, fat, white, Finno-Belgian, bi-queer, feminist, etc. TMI? Oh well.