#i don't expect ppl to LIKE jezri i just don't actually think it really is the worst pairing on that show and doomed to failure | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

nostalgia-tblr · 2 years ago

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( @mylittleredgirl I was gonna reblog ur RWH reblog but than I was like no that is drawing attention from Real People and that is Scary, so I made this new post instead. )

Is it too Controversial Hot Take to say J/E would get less singled out as The Bad Ship if the fandom wasn't 96% dedicated to Garashir Endgame with which it obvs conflicts? I mean there's a lot of lacklustre pairings in DS9 (in Trek in general really) but they don't usually conflict with anything important to the fandom(s) so we don't have to spend as much time reassuring each other that they couldn't possibly work out and they would def split up within a week? The notable exception is probably C/7 and that one... yikes, I do very much feel for anyone who actually liked that and goes looking for fic about it because it's NOT popular. (The 'all the jezri on AO3 is tagged because it's a background pairing that gets split up in the opening paragraph to get to the ACTUAL ship the fic is about' problem but EVEN MORE SO.) Anyway I don't think it's an inherently bad pairing (despite writing fic where it's fucked up in some way because well That Is What I Tend To Do) but the common take is that it's The Worst and I am still not convinced that's not partly (largely, maybe) because it gets in the way so it needs to be Objectively Bad.

#jezri #ds9 #fun fact: i scrapped a few Fucked Up Jezri fics because i eventually felt like i was just adding to the problem u kno?#like i was giving people extra reasons to call it Bad even though those reasons were just in fic and i felt kind of weird about it?#i know 'i hate this ship but this fic is aces' is a go-to for many of us but the amount of that was off-putting in some ways?#or rather the ones that went 'thanks for proving this ship is TERRIBLE' when that's not really what i was going for usually?#(relatedly I avoided some F'd-Up Garashir ideas lest anyone took that as me attacking the ship not playing with wrongness and angst-fuel)#DS9 fandom is great and doesn't have shipwars generally (no hate) tho i do a bit wonder if that's just because We All Agree on the OTP?#i don't expect ppl to LIKE jezri i just don't actually think it really is the worst pairing on that show and doomed to failure #however at least people aren't mean about Ezri herself as is the usual way of things #'the woman in the way of my m/m OTP is actually gay' may not be a perfect answer but there isn't one and it's way better than 'THAT BITCH!'

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