Caitlin Moran's Fic Stunt
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| Event: | Caitlin Moran's Fic Stunt |
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| Date(s): | December 2013 |
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| Fandom: | Sherlock |
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Caitlin Moran's Fic Stunt occurred in mid-December 2013 at a Sherlock promotional event. The event included a Q&A panel for the BFI following the screening of the newest Sherlock episode, due out New Year's Day 2014.
Caitlin Moran, a journalist and long-time writer for "The Guardian," demanded that Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman read some Johnlock fanfic Moran found on the internet.
This conceptual approach (people vs. text) was discussed in fandom circles on tumblr. The overall perception among the fan community was that this was done to mock fans who wrote slash fanfiction.
Meta/Commentary
- Caitlin Moran: my love affair with Sherlock by Caitlin Moran (December 24, 2011)
- An Open Letter to Caitlin Moran (December 14, 2013)
- Why fans are outraged at Sherlock and Watson reading sexy fanfic, Archived version by Aja Romano (December 16, 2013)
- Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch and fanfic: don't mess with these women (and men) by Dr Brooke Magnanti, formerly known as Belle de Jour, for "The Telegraph" (December 16, 2013)
- Caitlin Moran is a bad feminist (and a shitty fan) by C. Rhodes (croguesberg) (December 16, 2013)
- Caitlin Moran's Sherlock Fanfiction Stunt Isn't a Big Deal by Pope Alexander (December 16, 2013)
- "‘Fair dealing for the purposes of humiliation, embarrassment & mockery’ is a bit of a contradiction in terms." at ef yeah copyright law (December 16, 2013)
- Sherlock and the Adventure of the Overzealous Fanbase by Laurie Penny for The New Statesman. (January 4, 2014)
- A Sense of Belonging by Elizabeth Minkel (July 2014)
- Why it doesn't matter what Benedict Cumberbatch thinks of fan fiction by Elizabeth Minkel (October 17, 2014)
- ‘The Ethical Hearse’: Privacy, Identity and Fandom Online, Archived version by Bethan Jones for The Learned Fangirl (March 25, 2016)
Commentary Fanworks
- I Ship It, Archived version by bomberqueen17 -- "And then the scandal broke with Caitlin Moran forcing the actors from Sherlock to read fanfiction featuring their characters-- *gasp* EROTIC fanfiction, HOMOEROTIC fanfiction, like it was the worst thing in the world-- and suddenly my strange left-field veer didn't seem so bad after all. So I'm publishing this, in honor of #noshameficathon on Tumblr. Because fuck shame." (December 20, 2013)