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Welcome to the Dummy’s guide to Sherlock! Here are some of the Sherlock fandom in-jokes and crack. (PS- none of the fanart/gifs used is mine.)  (PPS - I am now trying to  update it with some stuff from Series 2 as well now :] woo )

For ultimate newbies who havent yet seen the series yet but were curious, this gif basically sums up the whole 3 episodes of Series 1 (yep, only 3 episodes god damn it!) If you don’t want to spoil it then i don’t know why you are even on this blog, but yeah look away lol.

Joke Number One - “Sooo Hetreosexual”

The dictionary definition of heterosexual is ’ someone who is attracted to the opposite sex.’ So basically, it means ‘straight’. Since John and Sherlock are (obviously) in love and are married, whenever a scene pops up when they are eye -fucking etc, the Sherlock fandom be sarcastic and say ‘they are so heterosexual.’ 

Joke Number Two - JAM

John LOVES Jam. Yeah, we are a strange fandom :’) The origin for this is from the K. Beaton comic (The Case of Two Watsons). Here it is below:

Yep, such a simple comic has caused a outburst of crazy John/Jam crack obbession. Here are some examples…

Joke Number Three -John’s Cat Jumpers

As we can see from the Sherlock series, John is very much in love with fabulous jumpers. So when someone found this creepy/amazing cat jumper on the internet and showed everyone on Tumblr, many fan-arts were born. The oringal post is here. There is also a green one which Sherlock/ Moriarty wears. The jumper is by a designer called ‘PrettySnake’ 

Joke Number Four - Anderson and Dinosaurs

Ah well this all started one day when a prompt was posted. This prompt  said” “Anderson thinks of dinosaurs when he masturbate.” And many a crack has been started since. 

Joke Number Five -Martin is made of kittens 

Could have started after the obsession for the Cat jumper…But anyway Martin is adorable. Kittens are adorable. So therefore Martin must be made of kittens. Want proof?

Joke Number Six- Tell me about Rupert Graves 

“Rupert Graves is good at football and has five children”.

The origin for this is from the audio commentary of The Great Game which is on the Sherlock DVD. During the commentary, Mark says: “Tell us about Rupert Graves, Benedict.” Benedict answers in a extremely cute voice ““Rupert Graves is good at football and has five children”. 

Joke Number Seven - The Purple shirt of Sex

 In ‘The Great Game’ Sherlock wears a deep purple shirt. The shirt is tight. The shirt is sexy. The shirt is sex. Therefore it’s called the Purple Shirt of Sex. We love it. 

Joke Number Eight - Sherlock the Hammer shark 

This started with the comic “Meet the Mummy” in which Sherlock and John are visiting Sherlock mum who turns out to be a hammer shark. Read the comic here.  It made me laugh :’) Basically they are saying Benny looks like a shark because of his fabulous cheek bones hehe. 

Joke Number Nine - John The hedgehog 

It started from a fan fiction with fanart a bit ago. It’s about Sherlock as a child, only having a friend that’s a hedgehog he names John.

Joke Number Ten - Moves Like Jagger/Sherlock

The Sherlock Fandom Theme Song. I can’t remember how it started, to be the theme song for the fandom. I think someone posted a fan music video of the song onto Tumblr and everyone agreed it should be the theme song. The entire song describes all the sexual tension and homoerotic subtext in the the show, Sherlock has got them moves like Jagger, and well it’s a awesome song. Simples.

(Sad) Joke Number Eleven - Alone on the water

The most famous Sherlock fanfic ever. It’s like a rite of passage to read this fan-fic at some point. Very, very depressing. You will cry. You will think ‘what is the point of life?!’. This is where the famous quotes “Will you miss me John?” “Till the end of my days Sherlock.” are from. Omg just…arg so sad!

Joke Number Twelve - Striped cups

 During the Sherlock series 2 shooting Mark Gatiss tweeted this photo of Martin and Benedict’s tea cups/mugs. The fandom loved it as they were matching and just like John’s jumper. 

Joke Number Thirteen - Sherlock and John are constantly out of milk 

Well the origins for this started with the banter on Sherlock’s and John’s blogs. If you scroll all the way down on this link , you will see Sherlock says that they are out of milk. On John’s if you also scroll all the way down on this link, he also says they need to buy milk. Conclusion = they are always out of milk. Fan fic writers use this as a excuse to get John and Sherlock to argue. 

Joke Number Fourteen - Mycroft’s umbrella 

This one is quite simple. Mycroft has had his umbrella with him in A Study in Pink and The Great Game and it is a great way to Mycroft’s indentifier. 

Joke Number Fifteen -The Emergency Comb

Fans say that Sherlock has an ‘Emergency comb’ so he can always prepare his hair for John’s benefit. The origins of this was when the fandom noticed this difference in two consecutive scenes :

Joke Number Sixteen - MERMAIDS ARE A SERIOUS ISSUE

The origin for this is debated. Most people agree that it was from Geo the bio’s comics where Sherlock is afraid of mermaids.

Joke Number Seventeen - Mycroft and Cake

In the novels, Mycroft has always been shown as being quite chubby because on his case he does not really do a lot of ‘legwork’. Gatiss decided to make the twist that Mycroft is trying to go on a diet but is struggling. And as cake is impossible to resist, i guess the fandom put the two together.

Joke Number Eighteen - Sherlock and bee’s

This is something which isn’t mentioned in the Sherlock BBC series, but the fandom have tracked in down anyway, from the original Doyle novels. In the story “His Last Bow” it is revealed that in Sherlock’s retirement years he took up beekeeping and enjoyed it the same way as he once enjoyed his detective work. I have seen fanarts where people colour John’s stripey jumper yellow and black and pretend he is a bee, so Sherlock will love him :P

“7/12/2011 - THE NIGHT SHERLOCK FANDOM BECAME A FIELD OF ONIONS”  …..

Seriously, you go to do a bit of homework for about 10 mins and you miss out on a whole new fandom joke. Gosh. Well this proves homework is bad :P Or um, that this fandom is mad… hehe. But anyway, 7th December was the BFI screening of Sherlock series 2. It was a depressing time for the Sherlockians on Tumblr who couldn’t see it. Very sad indeed. Jealously and terror roamed the dashboard of us Sherlockians. Some even blacklisted the Sherlock tag because of spoilers, and to be honest, it was complete chaos lol. And because everyone was crying with pain, we are now appararently ‘onions’. Because, onions…make you cry? Yeah… so i don’t know why we are the onions, surely we are the onion victims.. But yep, thats what happened. Appararently this started it? (someone found a onion comment on ‘The Wall of Creys’) —http://www.yourworldoftext.com/WHYAREWENOTWATCHINGSHERLOCKRIGHTNOW

And listen to this - http://gobarbra.com/hit/new-a8f3e38021f129b642f98d498e95bb1e   - yeah, even a truly maginifcant song to the tune of ‘Barbra Streisand’ has been made for the onion joke. 

SERIES 2 

1.) Martin Freeman won a BAFTA. And he can use this as a excuse for everything. Everything…

 

2.) Sherlock the Otter….

A post was made on Tumblr one day by ‘redscharlach’ with screenshots of Benedict with a otter which looked like he was doing the same facial expressions. It was very amusing. See, take a look.

BUT THEN SHIZ GOT REAL. A simple Tumblr post had found it’s way into a magazine and into the eyes of le general public… I mean, just look.

And from that day on, Sherlock is now a otter.