#i have too many rarepairs

[cupids-patheon]

Hear me out

[willwoodwithadditionalgrapejuice]

@bluetheanimator i have offerings

girlies when i learned the bill code like 3 years ago i accidentally combinded both the arthurs notes and the code bill uses in the third book so i had characters from both codes. i had to try really hard not to combine the codes while writing that so it wouldnt be a pain for you guys to decipher sjnsji

ANYWAYS KILL (bill x kayne) IS LIKE MY SECOND FAV CRACK SHIP and im pretty sure @bluetheanimator was the first to say anything about jt on here so ill give them the credit for that :3

[zukkaoru]

"create the art you want to see in the world" and "i wish more people would write fics/draw art of my favorite characters/ships/etc." are two statements that can coexist. btw.

[gabbertrapmix]

happy lesbian week of visibility

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[heta-micronomics]

(Side note: I've always headcanoned Luxembourg and Molossia as 19 and 18 respectively since, to my knowledge, Hima has never stated their ages and the wiki has no sources)

But I am not kidding when I say I think about these four daily. There is so much potential. There are a few CanBel works, but there is zero MolLux. I've looked. Which is a crying shame because it's such an interesting concept-- Molossia gives Lux a chance to unwind away from the spotlight, and Lux gets to spoil Molossia because no one has before.

And for Canada and Belgium, both just want to be able to relax and be appreciated. Breakfast in bed would be a common occurance.

Ned doesn't approve of Molossia (he's an urchin; let's be honest) until Belgium gets them to bond over weed gardening.

Also, double date potential.

If you still want asks for the shipping bingo, how about Canada/Belgium or Molossia/Luxembourg?

Can't stop, won't stop!

Don't let the lack of "dots" above fool you, Canada/Belgium seem like a good match! Canada almost always makes a ship a comfort ship, it seems. And Belgium has such a great, non-extreme personality that she brings to the table. I guess it would be underrated because they don't interact much due to their geographic separation. But picturing them hanging out together, going on a date, I can definitely imagine a healthy relationship. Now that I think of it, I probably should have selected "literally perfect" as well...

MolLux, love that name! First, I will say that I had to look up their ages, they are both "under 18" but they look like older teens to me, so I'm going to say both are 16 or 17. So maybe friends with a budding romance? Anyway. I feel like they both have a bit of "different on the inside than the outside" going on. Molossia is obvious, but Lux also might be a bit like this - he seems all fancy and prim and proper, but then he sometimes uses a less-fancy accent/dialect. I think Molossia's true self would get along well with Lux's, if they just let each other see who they really are. The "friends with benefits" above really means they start as friends and the benefits they get from opening up to each other allow the relationship to blossom. This is a ship where the development of it could be really interesting. Oh, where I put "INVERTED" I mean that THEY know what they have going on but NO ONE ELSE DOES - which they contribute to with their facebook status. Ha ha. Final note: they both have dogs! They can bond over that.

[rookandstorm]

We need to make T'Pring/Bones a thing. The bitch4bitch energy that these two would give would be phenomenal. And Spock and Jim would be fucked. Spock is horrified; he knows what T'Pring is like and he sees all the ways this is going to bite him in the ass coming. Jim doesn't, so - at first - he's tickled by the whole thing. (Bones is dating Spock's ex-wife - best. day. ever.) But then reality sets in. If he thought Bones harped about things, well. At least Bones gets to the point - loudly and often - but T'Pring is subtle. She says things in a way that means Jim doesn't even realize he's been insulted until 2 hours later. Or that she's cleverly tricked him into doing something he didn't want too until he's halfway through the task. And also - why the hell does Bones get to date a Vulcan when he's the most illogical human this side of the galaxy? Jim can barely get Spock to call him by his first name half the time, how is this fair? This is horrible.

(The rest of the crew find it all hilarious. Nyota and Christine are especially amused.)

(T'Pring's family - if they're still alive - are exasperatedly resigned. They always thought bonding her to half-human might corrupt her mind, but they didn't expect it to go this far.)

(Joanna loves her. It was the one thing that Bones was worried about, honestly. But they bond over fashion and books and things like the philosophical and ethical merits of revenge and whether it's better to bury your enemies quickly or play the long con. Jocelyn has (1) more reason for hating Bones.)

[necrotic-nephilim]

do you ship helena bertinelli with anyone? if yes, then which characters and why? what's your favorite helena ship? do you have any helena rarepairs? (i know you've talked about helena/steph and you're so right about it, it's a very interesting ship)

!!!! i have so many ships for my best girl ever yes oh my god thank you for asking.

my top pairing is probably Vic Sage/the Question. Vic is the basic answer, but man. i love them so much. no couple has matched each other's freak like that have. Justice League Unlimited is a great adaptation of Helena in general, but it also did a great adaptation of Helena and Vic's relationship. how he just dedicates himself to helping her with no expected return, but also wants to make sure she doesn't go too far in a hunt for vengeance that never ends for her. i think a lot of characters often want to change Helena or expect things out of her for their own needs, like the Batfam and the BoP. but Vic is one of the few people who just wants her to be better for her own good. when he tries to stop her from killing it's not because of his morals, it's because he doesn't want this crusade to consume her. and i just. man i think about them a lot. Helena rlly likes weird little men who give themselves wholly to her.

Zinda Blake/Lady Blackhawk is also a top ship for me. tbh i just like Zinda. but i do love how Helena and Zinda interact, being the more rough and tumble members of the BoP. they're both outsiders, in different ways. Helena is an outsider of the Batfam and Zinda is literally from a different time and an outsider to the current world. their friendship is so genuine and i think if Babs and Dinah can have. whatever homoerotic nonsense going on during BoP, then Zinda and Helena deserve some homoerotic nonsense too. as a treat.

if we're willing to count New-52 Helena, then i enjoy Helena/Dick/Tiger. i think Helena and Dick being a past relationship is really important in pre-Flashpoint for Helena's development, though i don't ship them as a serious couple beyond a fling. but in the New-52, i think this throuple be fun. Helena and Tiger respect each other as two very driven, no-nonsense agents and then well. they both clearly have some kind of thing for Dick. so it's fun finding the balance of how they could all work together romantically.

and ofc. it's a crime to mention Helena ships and not mention Renee Montoya/the Question. every time they interact it's really fucking gay. it's so gay that Kate Kane, Renee's own ex, assumed Helena and Renee were gay. i cannot be convinced against this ship. i genuinely think this ship should be canon. i mean. DC did tease us with this moment from an alternate universe and it's lived rent for me since. fucking criminal for us to only get one panel of what we could have if DC let Helena be a fruit in the main universe. being in love with Helena Bertinelli should be a right of passage for the Question mantle, i personally believe. if you asked me like. genuinely who i want to see Helena date in the current comics, Renee is my top pick. (i would say Vic but he's fucking dead and the New-52 butchered him so rip my mans-)

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besides those ships, just about every ship for Helena probably falls into the category of rarepair. like you said i've talked about my love for Helena/Steph before bc god. i think it should be a thing more people ship. once i finish the fic i'm writing about them i will convince others to like it.

i also think Helena/Cass could be fun. in a *lot* of ways Helena and Cass are narrative parallels to each other. Helena was a victim of her family being murdered at about the same age Cass was forced to be a murderer. Helena grows up to believe in lethal justice because of this, and Cass grows up to be staunchly against it. Cass' Batgirl suit was made *by* Helena. they both want to be protectors of the most vulnerable people. they balance each other out in a lot of ways and i think they should kiss about it.

also probably a rarepair, i think Helena/Lady Shiva is fun. their fight during Birds of Prey (2010) had... questionable moments for Helena's characterization, but i do love so much that Helena knocks Shiva off her feet and gains a deep respect from Shiva. like. Shiva gives her a nickname and shows her admiration. i would like to see fanfic where Shiva continues to be weirdly admirable of Helena and bothering her non-stop. they could be a fun fucked up toxic yuri moment. this is just. so gay to me.

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my most rare Helena pair would probably be Helena Wayne, actually. but specifically Helena Wayne of JSA (2022). ever since, for some reason, it was made canon that the current Helena Wayne was named after Helena Bertinelli and took the name Huntress to honor her i *cannot* stop thinking about them meeting. because in-universe it makes *no* fucking sense for Bruce to name his kid after *Helena Bertinelli*, someone he's regularly at odds with and doesn't like. it's clearly an awkward explanation to try to make the whole two Huntress situation make sense. (it's almost as bad as Helena Wayne in the New-52 using Helena Bertinelli as an alias.) but because it's such an odd choice, i do think it could be fun for Helena Wayne, when she's back in time to see Bruce, to find Helena Bertinelli to get to know the woman she was named after and Helena Bertinelli just being. baffled by the idea of *Batman* naming his kid after her. it could be a fun fucked up moment.

my other super rarepair is Kara Zor-L/Power Girl. they had like. one meaningful interaction of JSA Classified and it's been PLAGUING me. something about when Power Girl doesn't remember her past and she's seeking a friend, she instinctively goes to find Huntress? but it's wrong bc this isn't *her* Huntress and neither of them understand why Power Girl would seek Helena out? god it's so good. i'm always a big fan of ships where one person in the ship is *so* obviously using the other person as a replacement for someone they lost and they both know it. it's such a doomed angsty thing where you could play with Helena actually really liking Kara, but knowing that she's just a replacement for Kara's Helena Wayne. good fucked up shit man.

and lastly: i really ship her with Dawn Granger/Dove. there's no canon basis for this, they didn't have a ton of interactions even when they were both on the BoP. but there's a very kind innocence to Dawn that contrasts Helena's violence really well. and i do love a ship with a corruption kink vibe to it. let Helena corrupt Dawn. i could write such fucked up porn about these two.

[4th-make-quail]

btw if anyone's looking at my iwtv rec list and thinking "quail, where's the zamasian rec list tho???" please know that there are as of now *checks tag* 22 (!!!) zamasian fics and they are ALL EXCELLENT so to make a rec list would basically be redundant lol

in such small tags, commenting is even more important! we have a rarepair, and it's up to us rarepair enjoyers to uplift and celebrate the authors! this helps keep our rarepair writers and creators watered and fed and happy, which makes our writers and creators want to make more things!

you want zamasian recs? GO LOOK AT THE TAG MY CHILD. READ ALL OF THE GOODIES. LEAVE COMMENTS AND KUDOS AND BOOKMARKS FOR ALL OF THE LOVELY AUTHORS. FEAST AND BE FREE!!!!

[differentdancesfandom]

I want to interact with so much cool Voltron stuff on Tumblr, but the more I do, the more Klance appears in my feeds, and as much as I love my M/M ships, I never shipped any the guys together on VLD. If I squint I get why Klance and Sheith exist, but I never really found my M/M VLD OTP. (Closest I got was some musings on Alfor/Coran, or Alfor/Zarkon as brothers-in-arms sex friends. I shipped Ulaz/Shiro for the one episode Ulaz was alive o(TヘTo).)

Keith/Lotor could be fun based on their parallel shared heritage, but I can't write Lotor/Pidge AND Keith/Lotor at the same time, my brain can only fixate on one pairing per character when I'm in a creative mood.

And Lotidge has my heart more, so...plus, Lotidge has scarcely over 100 fics on Ao3, Keith/Lotor has 900; I tend to go where I can add something new.

Hell, there isn't really an MM VLD ship I actively read.

The closest I've got for a VLD MM ship is a Thace-centric side story to Lack of Scientific Consensus Concerns Me (I haven't abandoned this series entirely, folks), and the ship I have in mind was inspired by a comment someone left on LoSCCM; the relationship tag on Ao3 says it's even more of a rarepair hell than Lotidge, because of course my brain won't let me write ships people actually want to read.

[azuzula]

plotting out my fics for roku week and i think i just gave myself a new multi chapter fic 😭😭😭

[rotisseries]

inspired by elli's poll lol cause this seems fun actually but if you guys have bad answers I'll kill myself on your doorstep or smth

[goatyuuji]

I need to make a jjk rarepair fic rec man holy fuck there are so many hidden gems in this fandom...

[emily-mooon]

✨Sparks in the Club✨

[shoopsthereitis]

i finally switched one of my AO3 accounts to be solely for minis, oneshots, fun fests etc and first off HELP bc the random hate sex quidditch locker room jegulus on there from months ago was so funny to find but ALSO now i have so many little oneshots sitting in my docs i can finish and post and im so delighted

[sagegarnish]

I DO understand the frustration of having a rarepair, of seeing a ship and dynamic you think is SO GOOD and "why can't other people see it?" Some of my ships only have two fanfics and then one of them is MINE. But the "solution" is not to yell at people for not making other fanworks. If someone told you YOUR ship was shitty, and that you should write this other pair instead, would that make you want to write it? Probably not, right? It's the same for other people, even if you haven't figured that out. OTHER PEOPLE ALSO DO NOT LIKE THAT.

"How did THAT pair get so many fics? That's fucked up, when OTHER PAIR is right there!!"

The secret: Positivity.

Fandom communities where people are positive and encourage others are the best soil to grow in. Big Bangs, Fic Fests, Pairing Weeks, art/fic trades...and a general sense of welcoming to newcomers and multishippers. That is how you get the big numbers. If every time someone sees your ship on their TL and they associate it with a sense of negativity, and dread, that's NOT GOOD. Be an evangelist for your ship! When you post about your ship, pretend you're making a pitch for why it's good, not why OTHER ships are bad.

Think about reasons why you ship something. Talk about those reasons! No one is out there shipping characters "because the other pair sucks". Keep in mind that many of the most popular ships are that popular because the already experienced and prolific fic and art creators found it and said "Oh wow this is great, I gotta do something for this ship!" The goal is to draw EVERYONE IN, to welcome people.

Many of the ships that people complain about "not having much content" are the same ones where the negative posts about that topic is often all people see. They witness the complaints and bad behavior first. Many people think "Wow, that ship fandom is full of mean people, and they kinda scare me, so I'm not going to make anything."

I hope this was not too lecturey, because I see the real true emotion behind the complaints. It SUCKS when you can't find fics/art of a pairing! It can feel very alone and frustrating! I know that's why there's so much negativity.

But the negativity only increases the problem.

Anyway, next time you feel annoyed or frustrated by the lack of fanworks or attention for a genre or pair or dynamic, try organizing an event. Start small! Maybe just your own mutuals. Or go big! But don't police what other ships those people enjoy.

And most of all, be kind.