Citations:Sheriarty

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) the ship of characters Sherlock Holmes and Jim Moriarty from the television series Sherlock"

 * 2014, Lori Rackl, "Answers to your ‘Sherlock’ questions — because you know you’ve got ‘em", Chicago Sun-Times, 19 January 2014:
 * The Empty Hearse club member goth girl who came up with the romantic Sheriarty solution to Sherlock’s fake suicide is played by Scottish actress Sharon Rooney, star of the British dramedy “My Mad Fat Diary.”
 * 2014, Qu Zhi, "Sherlock China’s new sex god", Shanghai Daily, 25 January 2014:
 * The Sheriarty and Jimlock fans believe the two men are struggling in a love-hate relationship, while WH is a gay “couple” beloved by most fans.
 * 2015, Kee Lundqvist, "Stories of Significance: The Process and Practices of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 77:
 * Having exhausted what meager supply of Sheriarty fic there was, I ended up reading a Mormor (Moriarty/Moran) story – and ended up loving it.
 * 2017, Mattias Boström, From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon, unnumbered page:
 * Johnlock was what it was called when Sherlock and John interacted this way. "Sheriarty" was Sherlock and Moriarty; "Mystrade" meant Mycroft and Lestrade.
 * 2017, Christina M. Miranda, "Minding the gaps: deducing meaning in Sherlock Holmes fanfiction", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 27:
 * Certainly, not everyone who watches ​Sherlock comes away determined that the men are romantically attached, or that​ any​ men are attached (there are infinite other popular queer ships, from Sheriarty (Sherlock and Moriarty) to Mystrade (Mycroft and Lestrade).
 * 2017, Christopher Redmond, About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community, page 237:
 * The panels were laid out to show the diversity of Sherlockiana: a panel about shipping (or supporting the relationship of) Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty (or Sheriarty) was held in a room beside a panel about villains in the Canon, which was also beside a panel about Victorian costuming.
 * 2019, E. J. Nielsen, "The Gay Elephant Meta In The Room: Sherlock And The Johnlock Conspiracy", in Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities (ed. Joseph Brennan), page 88:
 * though other male/male ships such as Sheriarty (Sherlock/Moriarty) and Sherstrade (Sherlock/Lestrade) have also been the targets of harassment.