Citations:Sherlolly

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

 * 2014, Kate Bellamy, "It’s only January but Sherlock is the best thing on TV in 2014", Metro (UK), 12 January 2014:
 * All we really want to know though is will there be a series four? When? What will happen? Will Sherlock be all right? Will there ever be a Sherlolly?
 * 2015, Rosamund Urwin, "Sherlock star Louise Brealey talks touring, feminism and reading love letters with Benedict Cumberbatch", London Evening Standard, 31 March 2015:
 * Cumberbatch and Brealey will read love letters to each other, the correspondence of RAF man Chris Barker and his ex-colleague Bessie Moore. This, I suggest, will make many Sherlock fans — the “Sherlolly Shippers” — very happy.
 * 2015, Kee Lundqvist, "Stories of Significance: The Process and Practices of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 79:
 * Once touted as the second biggest ship in the Sherlock fandom – based on the number of fic [sic] featuring the pairing on AO3 – it is now being surpassed by Sherlolly (Sherlock/Molly), Mystrade (Mycroft/Lestrade) and the canonical Warstan (John/Mary).
 * 2016, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, "Paratextual Navigation as a Research Method: Fan Fiction Archives and Reader Instructions", in Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities (ed. Gabriele Griffin), page 62:
 * To exemplify, 16magnolias' Lessons in Love is described as containing 'sweet, slow Sherlolly' and 'minor OCs' whereas SailorChibi's Walking Together is labelled an 'AU' featuring 'Johnlock & mentions of Mystrade'.
 * 2018, Jennifer Phillips, "A Woman in a Man's (Fictional) World: Considering the Importance of Dr. Molly Hooper in the BBC's Modern Adaptation of Sherlock", in Women in STEM on Television: Critical Essays (ed. Ashley Lynn Carlson), page 180:
 * Where there are undoubtedly some within the Sherlolly fandom who are attracted to the pairing because of the sexuality and charisma of Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal, there is a large and vocal section of fans who are inspired and encouraged by the characterization of Molly herself.
 * 2018, Jennifer Wojton & Lynnette Porter, Sherlock and Digital Fandom: The Meeting of Creativity, Community and Advocacy, page 151:
 * The Sherlolly writing challenge specifies that authors must bring Sherlock and Molly together in a relationship by the happy ending.
 * 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 87:
 * Some supporters of TJLC have been known to troll in tags for other ships, most frequently Sherlolly (Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper) to mock that ship