And now that I got my 'first' comment in, a more sober reply.

And as somebody whose first slash fandom it was, too (I was seven! SEVEN!!! Okay, the slash came a bit later.) I wholly applaud your attempt to get more people into this. I hope it works! :-)

Funnily enough, I had a chance during the CW day school today to bring up Karl May, because one of my students is actually from Germany. Unfortunately, she said it had 'never been her thing'. I didn't sulk openly....