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I would say that there was just a general lack of passion for the femslash ships?

Haha, ouch.

I'm kind of curious as to what you're watching now. Are you watching shounen stuff? Seinen? Shoujo? I don't watch anime anymore, but I read manga occasionally. I mainly stick to Yuri, so there's almost no male characters.

Even in western animation, there's a lot of F/F content in the past few years. The dominant ship in legend of Korra is F/F after that finale. Two of the top three ships in Overwatch is F/F. And iirc, steven universe, adventure time, and she ra all have prominent F/F ships. Regardless of the canon interactions, I think their respective fandoms have put a lot of effort into fleshing out those relationships.

Often girl characters would be tossed aside to lesbian ships so they wouldnt "get in the way" of the slash ships

Ah, yeah, I think I've seen that. You can usually spot a slash writer because they try to pair the spares. Most F/F writers write men like background characters. In some Yuri mangas, male characters don't even have faces.

also, I wouldnt be surprised if a lot of these tifs were bi/straight girls who originally thought themselves to be lesbian

Yeah, I get that. I'm just not understanding why lesbians would even like BL.