FanChats💬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? 
Marine 
@FandomChats another thing on talking about rare pairs is the degree of rare pair
Like, throwing specific experiences out here, I applied for a rare pair zine in a fandom I was in once and the mods proceeded to publicly laugh at my ship for essentially not being popular enough
And I think that's interesting in terms of like what the expectation of rare pair is when you are then hosting what is essentially a popularity based event. The rare pairs that were actually wanted were pairings that were either popular but fell out of fashion as other ships got more content or that it was perceived a lot of people did ship but few people made content for
Because, in the end, who is going to buy a zine made exclusively of ships they don't like or have no interest in
⚜️Samifer@MarineHaddock @FandomChats wow, that really fucking sucks, i'm sorry that happened to you :/
@samifer it's okay, they were those kinds of shitty people that I expected that behaviour from - well I expected them to make fun of me, not the ship which had a lot worse chance of collateral damage (how are people meant to feel comfortable submitting their rare pairs if they might get publicly mocked?)
I just think it's an interesting part of rare pair discussion that there's still that popularity heirarchy
I just think it's an interesting part of rare pair discussion that there's still that popularity heirarchy