Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140818053714/@comment-14138255-20170528155333

Nah, people have been flirting with the ideas that Holmes and Watson were together since the original ACD novels (not to mention Sherlock Holmes lead to a revival in the field of fanfiction, not seen since possibly Greco-Roman times), it's just they could never be explicitly gay even if Arther Conan Doyle wanted to (due to it being, ya know, illegal). Since Sherlock is set in the Modern Day (where attitudes about homosexuality have relaxed), the homoerotic subtext has only been amplified and more people are accepting of it (though it's a bit too late when it comes to the books they're adapting, though they at least made Mary an interesting character).

On queerbaiting, CS Louis one time got really frustrated when people were reading homoerotic and/or heteroerotc subtext between his characters (who really were just friends), so he made a book called "The Four Loves" to distinguish between the different emotions in love.

There's:


 * Storge, which is love amongst family and family members (blood or no)


 * Eros: Romantic love, the deep caring of another person that is associated with sexuality (but isn't really an emotion in the book).


 * Philia: The love between friends or a group of friends.


 * Agape: Unconditional love, which is exemplified by self-sacrifice and is seen as a descision, fueled/boosted by the other 3 loves.

It's a very important writing tool for anyone making deep interpersonal relationships in stories, and helps prevent unneeded/undesired subtext of any kind or prevent accusations of 'baiting' when it isn't intended (and it often isn't intended, and not with malice when it is). Despite being a Christian author, the guide doesn't rule out homosexual relationships (indeed it probably defines them better) it's just prevents people from seeing subtext where none really exist.

Ruby is probably going to be celibate (*Crosses fingers and chants* RedPineRedPineRedPine!). Nuts and Dolts really was a smaller ship though (Bumblebee had more tender moments as well as character allusions to Team STRQ's situation). Lancaster is the runner up ship (if such a thing were to happen, shipping really is just another name for betting on horses), but I personally want JaunexWeiss 2.0 (I forgot what we were calling it this week), since it'd be great from a character development stand point.

What happened in LoK was that shippers were being themselves and ordering the deaths of anything that threatened their ship. Personally I think Black Sun's going to happen, if only because that's what's being implied the heaviest (as I said before, shipping wars are really just geeky horse race gambling).

I'm going to keep my responses to a minimum (1 a day ideally) on this thread, the last time I got seriously involved in an LGBT thread, I caused it to burn down for very....cyclical reasons ("Yo dawg, I don't want you to start a shit storm on the wiki, so I started a shit storm on the wiki so you don't start a shit storm on the wiki.")