spammy scholastic sadface

[lotesse]

Am having unhappy handwaving at all the scholarship that casts Sherlock Holmes as the Kyriarchal Avenger. Not saying ACD didn't have The Problems with race/class/gender, not to mention the weird imperial Issues, but still! Holmes can be on the side of the angels, damn it!

Sulking now. And then finishing writing up my rebuttals for the purposes of this dratted paper.

eta: yo, in formal writing, is is Doyle or Conan Doyle? I somehow think the latter, but I just realized that I don't really have a justification for that, and that I should probably know what I'm doing for real here.

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[schemingreader]

Whatever ACD wrote in canon, and I think the critics are essentially right, you can rewrite or overwrite in fan fiction. It is my strong suggestion that you do so. Do not question my motivations for saying so...certainly not to give me more lovely H/W fan fic to read. Oh not that.

[lotesse]

Working on it! Tho I do think canon is more, hrm, flexible than a lot of people seem to think. A mixed bag, as it were.

...I've got half-a-dozen maybe-fics on the brain, but my writing mojo is being taken up by classwork atm. I'll get there, I promise!