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What is... a rarepair?

Rarepair refers to a rare pairing inside a fandom. This means that a pairing that someone ships does not have a lot of fanart or fanfiction about them or anything at all.

While crackships are always rarepairs, these rare pairings can make a lot of sense in canon, but they are just not that popular. But they often also refer to shipping characters that do not interact in canon at all, maybe not even know each other in the source material.

There are no exact numbers on when a pairing is considered a rarepair but some characteristics are that the tag on AO3 does not have a lot of hits and that most of the entries were written by the same person.

Shipping a rarepair can be frustrating, when you feel like you are alone in your love for a pairing, but it can also be fun to be able to shape the pairing together with two, three other shippers however you want them, because you basically own the ship by solely contributing to it.

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fanfic writers who write for rare pair ships are treasures and I hope they all know about the impact they have on fandoms. like… they’re the ones bringing these ships to lives, they’re one of the few people who saw the potential between two characters whose dynamics, whether or not they interact in canon, were overlooked by most fans, and they created something beautiful out of these potential dynamics. like??? hello???? that is pure genius.

not to mention how they’re the lifelines for other people who enjoy these ships but didn’t have any fics to consume until these tireless writers spent hours or days or weeks or months or years writing about these characters and their relationships, and just shared the worlds they created with their audiences for free.

or how they singlehandedly introduced the ships to new people who would’ve otherwise never thought about these ships before.

how they could just make people fall in love with the dynamics between characters who have little to no canon screentime together.

how they could just make people fall in love with the dynamics between characters who aren’t lovers in canon, characters who don’t indicate any clear hint of romance in canon.

how they see what most fans don’t and how they create such beautiful worlds for these characters are simply insane.

fanfic writers who write for rare pair ships are treasures.

shoutout to every fanfic writer who writes for rare pair ships.

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hi.

hi welcome to my rarepair blog. i just write for rarepairs/rarepairs that were made popular here, but not on ao3, that i like lol.

you can request rarepairs, however they must not be comships (incest, philia-related, ect.). they also must be for fandoms im in (see my post on my main blog ( @n0rthern-star) for that)

rarepairs i like :D

sodapop curtis x cherry valance / cherrycola (the outsiders) - starting to become popular

curly shepard x johnny cade / jurly (the outsiders + that was then, this is now)

steve randle x sodapop curtis x evie / steviepop (the outsiders)

sodapop curtis x bob sheldon / vodkasoda (the outsiders) - 99% sure me and my moots are the only people who fw this ship

emu otori x ichika hoshino / ichitori?? idfk ive never seen anyone ship this. (project sekai/colorful stage)

rarepairs i fw but dont really ship

two-bit mathews x randy adderson (the outsiders) - legit the only content ive seen of this is from a tiktok edit

ace x sodapop curtis (the outsiders)

theres more but i dont have them off the top of my head though

ao3 acc: n0rthern-star

blog-specific-psued: writing_for_rarepairs