I do think a lot of people read online for the slash element. I also have noticed after reading widely in *mumble* fandoms for *mumble* years that some fandoms - TS for instance, have good Gen readership and other fandoms do not.
In point of fact, in many fandoms the Gen readers do not crossover - ever - and vice versa. Again TS comes to mind as one of the exceptions where readership seems to straddle the divide comfortably and without rancor for the most part, whereas in LOTR I find myself as one of the few that reads both. I even read Interspecies and that is the wicked step sister in that fandom.
For all that I am unfamiliar wth SPN except to as what you have 'edumacated' me to by slipping in Jim and Blair ; ) Maybe there is a layer of Gen SPN peeps you need to locate? I do know I ran across a couple of het SPN stories here recently somewhere...
...there was a point to this comment but I fear I have wandered and forgotten and I apologize : (
You write really well, sweetie. Maybe you just need to find you some Gen readers and chat them up?
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In point of fact, in many fandoms the Gen readers do not crossover - ever - and vice versa. Again TS comes to mind as one of the exceptions where readership seems to straddle the divide comfortably and without rancor for the most part, whereas in LOTR I find myself as one of the few that reads both. I even read Interspecies and that is the wicked step sister in that fandom.
For all that I am unfamiliar wth SPN except to as what you have 'edumacated' me to by slipping in Jim and Blair ; ) Maybe there is a layer of Gen SPN peeps you need to locate? I do know I ran across a couple of het SPN stories here recently somewhere...
...there was a point to this comment but I fear I have wandered and forgotten and I apologize : (
You write really well, sweetie. Maybe you just need to find you some Gen readers and chat them up?