Citations:Johnlock

Noun: "(fandom slang) the ship of characters John Watson and Sherlock Holmes"

 * 2013, Alexa Posliff & Laura Stanley, "This Ship Has Sailed: A Look Into TV Relationships Capturing Hearts", Pro Tem (Glendon College), Volume 51, Issue 4, February 2013, page 12:
 * What makes viewers even more infatuated than the endless witty banter (read bickering) of "Johnlock" - and of course the latent homosexual undertones - is the fact that the dreamy Benedict Cumberbatch plays Sherlock while the equally dreamy (don't deny it) Martin Freeman aka Bilbo Baggins is John Watson.
 * 2013, Justin Mendoza & Mandy Whited, "Fans create tight-knit communities based on strong feelings", The Hawk (Hendrickson High School, Travis Country, Texas), Volume 6, Issue 6, 7 March 2013, page 19:
 * One True Pairing; when two characters should absolutely be together romantically and are an audience member’s definite favorite. Ex. Johnlock, the two leads from the BBC series Sherlock.
 * 2013, Charles Wang, "Definitely a Mad Man with a Blog", Kitsch (Cornell University), Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 2013, page 55:
 * A preponderance of JohnLock shippers romantically ship John Watson and Sherlock Holmes, producing an astounding amount of gay fiction/fanart.
 * 2013, Bertha Chin & Lori Hitchcock Morimoto, "Towards a theory of transcultural fandom", Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, May 2013, page 104:
 * In the fan art of self-described Mainland Chinese fan Zjackt, she discerns specific points of affinity between the slash pairings of Harry/Snape and John Watson/Sherlock Holmes (‘Johnlock’) of the BBC’s Sherlock series;
 * 2013, Amanda Rodriguez, "Sherlock Inspires Mystery, Tumblr Erotica", The MQ (satirical newspaper of John Muir College, University of California, San Diego), Volume 19, Issue 6, 1 May 2013, page 10:
 * They solve mysteries every week, and there have been hints that they are also a gay couple (I have a couple of examples on my Johnlock blog
 * 2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8:
 * All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.
 * 2013, "Sherlock returns for 26 seconds. What a tease!", The Telegraph (Calcutta), 6 August 2013:
 * Martin Freeman's moustache and Benedict Cumberbatch's expressions have already spawned hundreds of Johnlock moments among Johnlock shippers.
 * 2013, Rosamund Urwin, "Cumberfiction: the Sherlock fans 'reviewing' the new series before they've seen it", London Evening Standard, 9 September 2013:
 * Sherlock fanatics love their fan-fiction. There are the romantic fantasies: Sherlock with Molly (portmanteau name: “Sherlolly”), Sherlock with John Watson (“JohnLock”) and Molly with Moriarty (“Molliarty”).
 * 2013, Sheetal Reddy, "The social politics of 'slash shipping' and fanfiction", The Runner (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), 10 September 2013, page 8:
 * As for the ships, currently the three most popular on AO3 are “Johnlock” (Sherlock Holmes/John Watson from Sherlock), “Destiel” (Dean Winchester/Castiel from Supernatural) and “Sterek” (Stiles/Derek from Teen Wolf).
 * 2013, Jessica Bickford, "Fangirl: taking it back", The Carillon (University of Regina), Volume 56, Issue 6, 26 September - 2 October 2013, page 15:
 * Yes, it may take affection into unheard levels sometimes, but what exactly is wrong with loving something intensely, whether that something is StarCraft, or Johnlock fanfics?
 * 2013, Gerrit van de Riet, "November for Fandoms: Sneak Peek", The Window (New College, Toronto), November 2013, page 20:
 * For Karen the most exciting thing about the comeback is the reunion between Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman: “I ship Johnlock!” Karen enthused.
 * 2013, Pragya Parmita, "Fandoms: Too Powerful?", The Bottom Line (Associated Students, UC Santa Barbara), Volume 8, Issue 5, 6 November - 12 November 2013, page 8:
 * Across the pond, writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss often place characters Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in situations that suggest a relationship between them, even though the series establishes Watson as heterosexual, to placate the fans that “ship Johnlock” in the BBC series “Sherlock.”
 * 2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books (2013), ISBN 9781939529190, unnumbered page, published 26 November 2013:
 * In this way, "Johnlock" as a romantic pairing often lives up to, albeit in a different configuration, Thackeray's dream of "middle-aged" romance.
 * 2014, "Shippers: the people who knew Harry Potter better than JK Rowling", The Guardian, 3 February 2014:
 * One more recent ship is "Johnlock", after the union of Sherlock and John Watson, which is a popular fantasy among fans of the BBC's hit series.
 * 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.