Meanings
- slanglifestyleThe ship of characters Mycroft Holmes and Greg Lestrade from the television series Sherlock.
[…] whereas SailorChibi's Walking Together is labelled an 'AU' featuring 'Johnlock & mentions of Mystrade'.
2016, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, “Paratextual Navigation as a Research Method: Fan Fiction Archives and Reader Instructions”, in Gabriele Griffin, editor, Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities, page 622 more examples
The latter include Lestrade (as played by Graves) appreciation and fanfic sites [URLS redacted], a significant strand of (self-evidently, fanon/non-canon) ‘Mystrade’ slash activity, in which Lestrade is imagined to be in a romantic/sexual relationship, or even civil partnership, with Mycroft Holmes (played by Sherlock’s co-creator, Mark Gatiss) […]
2011 November, Claire Monk, “Heritage Film Audiences 2.0: Period Film Audiences and Online Fan Cultures”, in Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 7, number 2, page 474It seems natural in the context of fandom that Mystrade and Wincest are important generic categories, or that Kirk and Spock is an entirely different fictional animal from Kirk/Spock.
2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 361
Origin
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Mystrade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mystrade
“Mystrade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mystrade. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mystrade,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mystrade.
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