ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Filipina teenager fans (aka “Filo Fangirls”) who write and consume texts such as fan fiction, fan arts, Alternative Universe (AUs) real events turned into conspiracy theories and social media posts focused on the Male to Male (M/M) Romantic and Erotic Relationships of one of the most talked about ship in the music industry at present – Larry Stylinson, from the combined names of Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson who are members of the British-Irish boyband One Direction. These female reader-writers who on the one hand try to conceive a non-heteronormative environment for M/M relationships to thrive in order to display their belief of a real, but management -hidden and manipulated relationship of Harry and Louis to sustain the required boyband image, also uses heteronormative conventions of what is romantic as a backbone for their narratives. In doing so, it is also apparent that their writing-reading process do not fail in presenting its alternative formula in terms of genre, theme, character type, etc. to make the romantic, domestic and erotic relationship between Harry and Louis romantically desirable and sometimes sexually pleasurable for the female fans who are not precisely familiar with the situation and environment a gay couple is immersed in on the basis that they themselves do not directly belong to this particular kind of relationship they write and read about.
