Ooh, thank you, this perspective is helpful! I think for years I was sort of semi-subconsciously dismissing the idea of Chocolate Box because requesting purely based on relationships (even if those relationships can be either gen or shipping) seemed so limiting. Like, there are so many things I like about a fandom, or about characters, and "relationships" seems like such a narrow way to define that... But then I think it took until now for it to occur to me that, you know, character interactions and dynamics (i.e., relationships) are pretty much always what draws me most in a fic, and what I'm generally most interested in writing, so what exactly am I objecting to here? I think I'm gonna sign up! Thank you. :D
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