FanChats馃挰submit your prompts!It's trope discussion Monday! What do you think about Crack Ships/Rarepairs? What makes them work for you? Can you recommend a fic that makes an unexpected pairing work well? 
Soph (they/them)@FandomChats I love it when a creator puts in the work to make a ship work even when the very thought of it seems initially like a joke! I also love when a creator decides to shine a loving light on a rare ship that's very canon-plausible but just doesn't get a lot of fandom attention.
for svsss rarepair recs:
- Not in All Possible Worlds, But in These Few, by violent_entertainment is a series of unconnected fics, each shipping sqh with a different one of the can qiong peak lords, and it's SO much fun! https://archiveofourown.org/series/2717113
and a bunch of cql/mdzs rarepair recs:
- Disrupt, Corrupt, and Interrupt Me by hansbekhart is a rare delight as a fic that takes su minshan seriously as a character while sto;; displaying him in all his petty awfulness! ft. lwj/sms https://archiveofourown.org/works/26068588
- Fruit Wine from Grave Dust by villainousfriend gave me so many feelings about fourth uncle/wei wuxian! https://archiveofourown.org/works/48670459
- bourbon, vermouth, bitters, cherry, by newredshoes... jiang yanli/song lan? SURE. it was so interesting! https://archiveofourown.org/works/27623837
- Who Doesn鈥檛 Cry At Weddings? by wayofcloudbrain is such a great look at nie huaisang/qin su! https://archiveofourown.org/works/29744430
- Tricks of the Trade, by nirejseki is a delightful lan qiren/jin guangyao fic where jgy discovers a different source of affirmation to aim for https://archiveofourown.org/works/40558518
- Come and Hold My Hand, by locketofyourhair is a totally unexpected ouyang zizhen/wen ning fic and it's great https://archiveofourown.org/works/33363229
more cql/mdzs rarepair recs because I had too many for one toot:
- the beauty of maturity, by hisevilforest has such fun dynamics with lan jingyi/xue yang https://archiveofourown.org/works/27662581
- a compromising position, by verity is the lan jingyi/jiang cheng fic that opened my eyes to how great a ship it is (and has surprisingly decent mdzs canon support!) https://archiveofourown.org/works/24621349
and to end with something a bit different, a tortall rarepair rec:
- in the perfection of conduct and virtues, by rain_sleet_snow is a fic I adored about maura of dunlath/princess kalasin and what they value and prioritize https://archiveofourown.org/works/38064010
understandable armpit holding@soph_sol have you read that jiang yanli/xue yang fic? it lives rent free in my brain 馃憖