I was talking to you and lux about this on twitter a while back, right? and it seemed like it was a thing that maybe I wasn't the only person with a stake in, so. everybody should come have a chat about the role of non-slash fic in footie fandom! :)

oh, definitely, I don't think it's a number or whatever, there are 18-year-olds who are way better writers and appreciators of het than I'll ever be, and there are forty-year-olds who wouldn't touch hetfic with a stick. it's just that sort of... trajectory? in general? that I wanted to comment on. everybody's mileage will vary, obvs, and maybe we're getting to the point where the new baby fans have not been raised to think their gender is inferior and unworthy of their own stories! that would be exciting!

yeah, and also I can't and won't be the one to bring it up if anything needs to be aired formally, and the alternative that I've seen bandied around (footiefic) isn't one that I personally feel comfortable with. I'd rather have something that is explicitly a space for stuff that cannot be posted at fbslash than something that's vaguely trying to compete with it, if we can't have utopia and only one comm. but. I hope people will talk here and we can see what the general attitude is, and go from there! now gooooooo, sleep sleep! <3