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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: 2013-02-20 04:37 pm (UTC)My name is Dorothy, and I'm about to earn my BA in English with a concentration in Media and Communications studies and a minor in Writing.
I'm a nitpicker, a fact-checker, a feminist, and a fan. I love fitting works into their contexts and then pulling them back out and saying, "To hell with the author! This is how I read it!"
I grew up with the Baring-Gould Annotated in the house, reading it from an early age and trying to figure out just what a tantalus is. My Holmes is Jeremy Brett, with Basil of Baker Street coming in a close second. Reading the relationship between Holmes and Watson as a romantic one always just seemed common-sense to me, like Sam and Frodo in my other childhood favorite; it wasn't until I discovered slash fanfiction, paradoxically, that I realized most people weren't seeing books the way I was.
I'm fascinated by, but not a scholar of, Victoriana in general and the minutiae of differences to their social mores in particular. The resources available here seem very helpful; I may try posting a few recommendations of my own soon and seeing if there's any interest.