Citations:TJLCer

English citations of TJLCer

Noun: "(fandom slang) a proponent of The Johnlock Conspiracy (TJLC)"

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• 2017, Christopher Redmond, About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community, page 171:

  Stalwart TJLCers were the only ones clever enough to have unearthed the plot and follow the trail of the imaginary breadcrumbs.

• 2018, Bo Allesøe Christensen & Thessa Jensen, "The JohnLock Conspiracy, fandom eschatology, and longing to belong", thesis submitted to Aalborg University, pages 6:

  Despite the writers' repeated explanations of how they concocted ideas on the go and developed plot points within the series on a whim, TJLCers stood their ground, claiming that everything shows the endgame to be JohnLock.

• 2018, Diana W. Anselmo, "Gender and Queer Fan Labor on Tumblr: The Case of BBC's Sherlock", Feminist Media Studies, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2018, page 92:

  TJLCers still believe that outing Sherlock and John as a romantic couple on worldwide television can propel ideological shifts in national attitudes and global awareness, resulting in broader social equality for everyday queer people.

• 2018, Melissa A. Hofmann, "Johnlock meta and authorial intent in Sherlock fandom: Affirmational or transformational?", Transformative Works and Cultures, Number 28 (2018):

  While some TJLCers may still discount Mofftiss's fan dismissals as part of a long con, others cannot accept their rude treatment of fans; even if canon Johnlock is in the future, the ends would never justify the means.

• 2019, E. J. Nielsen, "The Gay Elephant Meta In The Room: Sherlock And The Johnlock Conspiracy", in Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities (ed. Joseph Brennan), pages 91:

  Treating a gay relationship as a puzzle that must be pursued by the clever viewers and hidden from "casuals" until the narrative reveal at the eleventh hour seems antithetical to the idea of normalized representation that TJLCers claim as the main reason they want Johnlock to be canon, […]