The demand for more f/f fic (written by people who aren't turned on by it) has been going on online for decades. In the LiveJournal days, writing and reading f/f was called "eating your vegetables." You weren't supposed to like it, but it was morally suspect if you didn't do it. Like, callout posts would be made for fic writers who had never written f/f.
Obviously, this strategy worked very well to encourage f/f fics, and everyone was happy forever.
Unknown, illustrations from the late 1800s of Japanese fireworks bursting into life. Taken from catalogues published by the British company CR Brock and Co
Photograph: courtesy of Yokohama City Central library
the way people talk about mark helly and gemma from sevens is the same way people talked about like. ichihime and ichiruki. or like cluclu and kallulu back in the day. potent vintage shounen anime het ship war vibes
