Johnlock

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Johnlock (short for John/Sherlock) is the fan nickname for the hypothetical romantic relationship ("ship") between the character Sherlock Holmes and his companion John Watson as depicted in the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017). Fan artwork and slash fiction of the two as a romantic or sexual pairing became popular on Tumblr, particularly among young queer women, and Sherlock Holmes/John Watson remains a common pairing on the fan fiction site Archive of Our Own. Some fans and academics have accused the show of queerbaiting—subtextually hinting at the possibility of romance between its two male leads to attract an LGBTQ audience, without ever making the romantic reading explicit. In interviews, John's actor Martin Freeman, and showrunners Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat denied that this was their intention, saying the show's "gay references", such as Sherlock and John being repeatedly mistaken for a couple, were meant as jokes. A fan theory called The Johnlock Conspiracy (TJLC) speculated that...

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