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Johnlock
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English
Etymology
en John Sherlock.
Pronunciation
en /ˈd͡ʒɒn.lɒk/ RP
en /ˈd͡ʒɑnˌlɑk/ GA
en John lock
Proper noun
right|thumb|250px|Johnlock on set in 2013.
en fandom slang The en ship fandomnoun of characters John Watson and Sherlock Holmes from the television series Sherlock (TV 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.
en 2015 Nikki Stafford Investigating Sherlock: The Unofficial Guide https://archive.org/details/investigatingshe0000staf/page/58/mode/2up?q=%22johnlock%22 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.)
en 2017 Alyxis Smith Lynnette Porter Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations Fan Fiction as an Argument: Arguing for Johnlock through the Roles of Women and Explicit Sex Scenes in Sherlock Fan Fiction https://www.google.com/books/edition/Who_Is_Sherlock/dencDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22johnlock+is+certainly%22&pg=PA167&printsec=frontcover 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.
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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 (TV 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.
Derived terms
en Johnlocker TJLC TJLCer
en eponyms
en M/M ships (fandom) Sherlock (TV series) Ships with portmanteau names (fandom)