Citations:Fawnlock

Noun: "(fandom slang) a subgenre of Sherlock fan fiction and fanart portraying Sherlock Holmes as an anthropomorphic deer-like creature"

 * 2012, Aja Romano, "The top 10 most important fandoms of 2012", The Daily Dot, 26 December 2012:
 * Sherlock fans also jumpstarted what seemed to be endless memes on Tumblr, from Red Pants Wednesday to Superwholock to, er, Fawnlock.
 * 2014, Lynne Stephens, "The Game Is Never Over: A 221B Con Review", Canadian Holmes: The Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto, Volume 36, Number 4, Summer 2014, page 4:
 * Certainly it would be hard to guess why individuals dressed as humanoid woodland animals would be at a Holmes convention if you weren’t familiar with Fawnlock stories and art, in an Alternate Universe where Sherlock is a deer-like creature with antlers and fur.
 * 2015, "adagio", quoted in Kee Lundqvist, "Stories of Significance: The Process and Practices of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 76:
 * One of my oldest informants, adagio, confirms this in an e-mail interview and admits to sometimes feeling as if fandom is deviating too far from the story told on the show: "I don‘t really see the point when the names is all that‘s left. I don‘t get things like fawnlock or tunalock at all, but I guess it‘s amusing. [...] Sometimes I think the internet has made it too easy to publish stories."
 * 2015, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, page 104:
 * and you can even make a bunch of new fangirl friends (or fan girlfriends?) who you already know share at least one of your very specific interests (like Faunlock fanfic).
 * 2015, Jenna Wortham, "My Dear, Dear, Dear Watson", The New York Times, 18 February 2015:
 * For example, one offshoot of Johnlock, known as Fawnlock, imagines Cumberbatch as an ethereal deer, complete with graceful antlers and a speckled coat — and of course his lover, Watson, cradled in his forelimbs.
 * 2017, Kristina Busse, Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities, page 112:
 * Sometimes the thematically focused groups are a clear subset of shippers, such as teenlock, femlock, vamplock, or fawnlock (respectively describing John Watson/Sherlock Holmes as teens, women, vampires, or young deer).
 * 2017, Angela Fowler, "The Adventures of the Inexperienced Academic", About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community (ed. Christopher Redmond), page 237:
 * There were people dressed in deerstalkers, people dressed in dark Belstaff coats and blue scarves, and people dressed as deer with flowers on their antlers (it's called “faunlock,” and it's just as Sherlockian as deerstalkers).
 * 2017, Carolina Lindström, "'The power of characterization': A comparative analysis of the transformative works created by the English-language and Japanese-language fandoms of BBC Sherlock", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 31:
 * Fawnlock, a portmanteau of the word fawn and Sherlock. A merge of the fantasy genre, picturing Sherlock (and sometimes John) as an anthropomorphic character in the form of a fawn.