Tunalock

Tunalock

English

Alternative forms

• tunalock

Etymology

Blend of tuna +‎ Sherlock.

Noun

Tunalock (uncountable)

1. (Sherlock fandom slang) A subgenre of Sherlock fan fiction and fanart portraying Sherlock Holmes as a tuna or tuna-headed reverse mermaid.
   • 2015, Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, page 255:

     (There is, for example, an enormous genre of fan-made visual art depicting Sherlock Holmes as an anthropomorphic tuna: collectively, Tunalock. It would confuse Sidney Paget, but I find it hilarious and rejoice in its existence.)

   • 2017, Christoper Redmond, About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community, page 7:

     If the proponents of Tunalock (Holmes and Watson are fishes) or Farmlock (cows), the fans who post pictures of Martin Freeman on Tumblr and the devotees of crossover fanfic, want to claim the name of Sherlockians, they are welcome to it.

   • 2018, Jennifer Wojton & Lynnette Porter, Sherlock and Digital Fandom: The Meeting of Creativity, Community and Advocacy, page 36:

     Perhaps the strangest AU is tunalock, with Sherlock as a fish wearing a scarf.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tunalock.