I say this as someone who has written many thousands of words of mostly explicit smut

I'm never going to get why people assume everyone will automatically be interested in something just because the characters fuck in it.

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Also I found out there is a (supposed) Moriarty character in Miss Sherlock and I was reading about this and my feelings about that are basically what the fuck?
It's just kind of further proving to me that not everything with even the vaguest connection to Sherlock Holmes needs a Moriarty. If you want some sort of Big Bad Villain you could just have that as an original character instead of trying to make out that is still somehow Moriarty when you've changed pretty much every single thing about him? Why are people so obsessed with still trying to claim these unrecognisable characters are the same character as the one I love and, worse, often expecting me to be thrilled about the fact they made the character I love basically into an OC who is completely unrecognisable? I am so tired of this idea that you can change everything and it doesn't matter and because it's ~diverse~ that makes it more appealing to existing fans? It does matter and I don't give a shit about ~diversity~ if I can't see anything of the character I love in your character? I just want Professor James Moriarty? Not... what pretty much every single adaptation now seems to keep doing with the character? (And Moran too)