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theanglophile.livejournal.com

Hello, I would like to do a series of recommendations for old (pre-1980) movies and TV shows about Holmes, but I'm unsure if that would be allowed? They are technically fan-works, though professionally made. They are not widely popular films/shows within the internet fandom at the moment, and I want to hopefully introduce more fans of "Sherlock" to some wonderful older productions, which provided inspiration for the newest incarnation of our favourite detective.

Please let me know if this would be a good fit for this comm.

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tanpopo03.livejournal.com

Ha... that is a difficult one to answer. Yes, on the one hand, if not written by ACD every work can sort of be seen as an homage of a Sherlock fan to the original and could count as the work of a fan. But both these old movies/shows and new ones like Sherlock made other people money and as such are a whole different ball game than fan works only posted to AO3 or vimeo.

We've denied a similar request before, when it was about a Neil Gaiman story. To be honest, I personally sort of like the idea. But if we allowed this we'd have to remodel comm rules and those posts could not count as "normal" recs but would rather be primers for a relatively unknown "verse". Or something like it.
I've pitted the idea to my co-mod but I really can't say right now what we're going to end up deciding. She tends to have good counter arguments ;).

I'll let you know!

From:

tanpopo03.livejournal.com

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you again. I had originally planed on making this happen. But as I said it would necessitate changing the rules of the comm and I've sort of not gotten around to that so far. I've been really busy RL wise, so I've sort of not had the energy. Also I'm quite sure a lot of people wouldn't like it and I wasn't really in the mood to start of a huge discussion. So... it's not completely off the table but not happening right now.