Johnlock

English

Etymology

Proper noun

Johnlock

(fandom slang) The ship of characters John Watson and Sherlock Holmes from the television series Sherlock.
- 2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8:
  All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.
- 2015, Nikki Stafford, Investigating Sherlock: The Unofficial Guide‎^[1], pages 57-58:
  (Of course, as any fan knows, the shippers watching the show who want the relationship to be there will find it anyway — as they did with Xena and Gabrielle — and the Johnlock fanfic is alive and well.)
- 2017, Alyxis Smith, “Fan Fiction as an Argument: Arguing for Johnlock through the Roles of Women and Explicit Sex Scenes in Sherlock Fan Fiction”, in Lynnette Porter, editor, Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations‎^[2], page 167:
  Although Johnlock is certainly the most prolific argument for a queer reading of the relationship between John and Sherlock, Johnlockary argues that there is more than one queer interpretation of the text, and the inclusion of a woman in the Johnlock relationship does not make it any less queer.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Johnlock.

Usage notes

This term is almost exclusively used to refer to the versions of John Watson and Sherlock Holmes from the BBC television series Sherlock (2010-2017). In this series, the characters address each other by their given names, unlike in the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and most other adaptations.

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