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Fawnlock
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English
Alternative forms
en fawnlock faunlock
Etymology
en fawn Sherlock.
Noun
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en Sherlock _ fandom slang A subgenre of Sherlock (TV series) Sherlock fan fiction and fanart portraying Sherlock Holmes as an anthropomorphic deer-like creature.
2014, Lynne Stephens, "The Game Is Never Over: A 221B Con Review", Canadian Holmes: The Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto, Volume 36, Number 4, Summer 2014, page 4:
Certainly it would be hard to guess why individuals dressed as humanoid woodland animals would be at a Holmes convention if you weren’t familiar with Fawnlock stories and art, in an Alternate Universe where Sherlock is a deer-like creature with antlers and fur.
2015, "adagio", quoted in Kee Lundqvist, "Stories of Significance: The Process and Practices of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 76:
One of my oldest informants, adagio, confirms this in an e-mail interview and admits to sometimes feeling as if fandom is deviating too far from the story told on the show: "I don‘t really see the point when the names is all that‘s left. I don‘t get things like fawnlock or tunalock at all, but I guess it‘s amusing. [...] Sometimes I think the internet has made it too easy to publish stories."
en 2017 Kristina Busse Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities https://www.google.com/books/edition/Framing_Fan_Fiction/0mgwDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22femlock%22&pg=PA112 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).
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en Fan fiction Fictional characters Literary genres Sherlock (TV series)