#dair jeric parallels

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Call me delusional but I don't care. I will go down with these ships.

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Adding onto this post; here are some other Dair-Jeric parallels

-seem like opposites attract, but are actually very similar (Dair loving the same books and movies having Cabbage Patch kid dolls/Jeric being hopeless romantics and getting teased for their passions. For more content, check out this meta post from @sulietsexual

-JE & DB's previous relationships were abusive (JK (I count them s abusive since it's canon that Kelso would pressure Jackie into sex)/CB) or just plain unhealthy (DS/ED)

-Dan/Eric are the "straight men" (not in that way, they're both bi af), while Blair/Jackie are the queen bees with hearts of gold

-enemies to lovers

-Dair and Jeric start out hating each other and their love for Serena/Donna are the only things keeping them together, but they do grow to have a genuine bond (even if neither of the writers cared about them)

-they both try to hide their friendships (Dair's secret friendship in s4/Jeric agreeing not to tell people they're friends...also in s4)

-this and this

-neither ship being endgame in favor of the ships that are "meant to be" (CB & DS/ED & JK), despite how unhealthy and just downright awful they are as couples

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am i insane or are jackie/eric very dan/blair coded?

Haha funny thing, I was actually just now thinking of making Dair Jeric parallels!

Not at all and if so, we're both insane lol.

Jackie is obviously the 70s Blair (queen bees with hearts of gold, daddy's girls, stuck in toxic relationships for most of their runs (Kelso/Chuck), and Eric is just so Dan coded with the love of dolls, their 'geekyness', and being smooth as hell despite coming off as dorky.

Not to mention the fact that Eric/Donna and give Dan/Serena in them being the main couples and how Eric and Dan constantly uplift/worship Donna and Serena. While Jackie and Blair, who are best friends with both girls, just do not have it when it comes to Eric and Dan haha.

Plus Eric being there for Jackie when she thinks she's pregnant with Kelso's baby is giving Dan advising Blair to be honest with Chuck in Pret A Poor J.

Both ships had a lot of potential but the writers ended up going for the toxic ships that clearly don't work (Chair/Jelso) and the ships that have clearly ran their course despite GG/T7S trying to say otherwise (Derena/Formciotti).

I'm grateful that at least the GG writers went for Dair, whereas the T7S writers dragged on those other two ships (technically counting Jelso since ended up together in end). Sticking Jackie with two fuckboys (Fez, then Kelso again), and then keeping Eric and Donna, because God forbid Eric be with anyone else. Let's stick him in a relationship which fucks up his self esteem and only benefits Donna!