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.
That's hilarious actually. Wildly superficial engagement with text, treated as a solemn duty.
The ask wasn't joking?
Also I love the derogatory slang term for this more general phenomenon, "dutyfic"
No nuance. What are our thoughts?
Deranged behavior
This is awesome bring back femslash tithing
bring it back
Deranged in the sense that if it is truly such a chore to write femslash then I absolutely do not want to read your contemptfic. It is endlessly frustrating how few femslash fics there are in fandoms, to such a degree that minor character or non-canon mlm pairings will drastically outnumber wlw fics. But the solution is 1. Supporting people who already write femslash 2. Encouraging people to broaden their horizons with engagement
Yeah thats fantastic if it inspires interest in a pairing, and better yet if it produces some sort of art, and yeah it is pretty shitty to dismiss wlw content outright, but I don’t think clogging results for a pair with shit written out of a guilty obligation is gonna be any more enjoyable than having few fics.
