Femlock
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[edit]Femlock
- (fandom slang) A female version of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, especially from the television series Sherlock.
- 2017, Kristina Busse, Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities[1], page 112:
- Sometimes the thematically focused groups are a clear subset of shippers, such as teenlock, femlock, vamplock, or fawnlock (respectively describing John Watson/Sherlock Holmes as teens, women, vampires, or young deer).
- 2017, Carolina Lindström, "'The power of characterization': A comparative analysis of the transformative works created by the English-language and Japanese-language fandoms of BBC Sherlock", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 31:
- As the fandom of BBC Sherlock, English and Japanese alike, is predominantly female, it comes as no surprise that a lot of fans have taken this matter upon themselves by cosplay. Thus, this makes up for a big part of the Femlock content available online.
- 2021, Emma Byrne, How to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood, unnumbered page:
- Fan-created versions of characters like 'Femlock' (female Sherlock) allow adolescent girls to create a world where they can incorporate all the atavistic traits of 'boy heroes' into female characters.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Femlock.