Suggestion on where to find good Sherlock Stuff

[karadinart]

The other day I was telling a friend that I found the Sherlock BBC fandom not welcoming, and then I had a think about why that is. The largest community on LJ for Sherlock is sherlockbbc and people tend to gravitate there like a black hole, but you'd be surprised how many great talented people no longer post there because the moderators there are so unfriendly. (incidentally I haven't posted there since 2010 and I've found it's been no loss to me in terms of meeting people and getting reactions on work. When you think about it, there are very few posts in that com compared to the size of it's membership which I notice has shrunk about 2,000)

I like to follow holmesian_news, which is a great resource on where to find fic all across the Sherlock Holmes spectrum, and there are plenty of nice sherlock coms out there. Here's a link to a post about sherlockbbc applying posting rules retroactively  if you don't support such behavior, vote with your feet and follow places that give fandom a good name, ne?

Comments

[goodbyemyfancy.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking of dumping sherlockbbc since I NEVER read any of the fics that get posted there, don't like the mods approach, and tend towards recs from friends and Archive of Our Own. This pretty much confirms my feelings of leaving the comm.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I see this everywhere, ' I've meaning to stop following', but at some point, it needs doin. I mean, I love Sherlock as much as I ever have, but I'm doing all my blogging about SPN, there's a reason for that.

[koshien.livejournal.com]

It's a really mean comm, I don't talk to anyone about Sherlock.....I don't understand most of what makes up the fandom now. I kind of enjoy being told I constantly miss the point of everything to do with Sherlock because I have no interest in shipping John/Sherlock. LOLOLOL.

More days than not I wish they never made SHERLOCK at all. Loved the first series, now I find the whole thing very boring.........it must be fab if you are a shipper though. So much good material for headcanon.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I love the first show, first series, and I find that most fan things that are created are really OC, and these days my appetite is for humour,casefic, and that is a very small section of fandom. I was a big fan of Holmes since I was a kid, and I consider the Brett series to be the best, so I know eventually things will calm down from Sherlock. I may like shipping Sherlock/John, but sex isn't important to me in stories these days, it's the relationship.

[mildly-neurotic.livejournal.com]

I had a go around with them months ago where I got a story deleted because one mod didn't like my headers. So I changed them as per that persons instructions to have another mod delete me saying no that wasn't right either. So I rewrote them again, as I was instructed, and got deleted yet again. After trying three times to make them both happy I gave up. I still watch their kink meme, but I dropped sherlockbbc and find no lack of fic to read. There are plenty of Sherlock communities with less hassle. To be honest I read and post more on AO3, but here I am watching:

http://221b-baker-str.livejournal.com/
http://johnsherlock.livejournal.com/
http://sherlock100.livejournal.com/
http://sherlock-john.livejournal.com/
http://sherlock-ldws.livejournal.com/
http://sherlock-remix.livejournal.com/
http://sherlockrare.livejournal.com/