Rare Pair / Crack Pair Fic Exchange: Round 2

[lavanya_six]

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This time I'm shipping Zei/June, Ursa/Hue, and Toph/Aang. How 'bout you?

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[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

"No I can't leave, all this knowledge. I won't"

"Fine kill yourself, but I'm getting out of here! And I'm pretty sure there aren't any other women with a fetish for nerds down here."

"But-"

"Book or boobs, your choice."

"I...I...."

PS. Taang is crack?

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

"But they don't just have T&A here, June! They have twenty-four other letters too!"

Re: PS -- Apparently Taang counts as a rare pairing. I was kind of surprised too.

I was thinking about this, and Taang is sometimes used as a "spare the pairs" for Zutara. Except it doesn't really count because Mai is still alone (unless she turns dies or turns evil). So for Taang to truly pair the spares... Katara should be paired with The Duke.

[loopy777.livejournal.com]

Mai's consolation prize was usually Haru, when they bothered to give her one at all. I always hated reading that.

Naturally, it was one of the pairings I asked for. ;D

The other two were Aang/Yue, because I liked it the first time it came up on the message boards and no one writes it, and Pakku/Ursa, because it was the most original thing I could come up with when filling out my entry form.

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

I've never seen Mai paired with Haru. Honestly, before this instant, I'd never even considered the pairing. The very idea of it bizarre, and that's coming from the person who requested Ursa/Hue!

I almost went with Yue/Suki instead of Taang for my third pick, but decided I should offer my writer some low-hanging fruit after my other two pairing requests. Slash pairings got some play in Round 1 but femslash didn't.

[loopy777.livejournal.com]

I recall one Mai/Katara piece, but I think that's it for femslash. Kind of surprising, now that I think about it.

I guess you just haven't been reading the right Bad Zutara. I'll admit, the Mai/Haru solution kind of died once everyone and Ty Lee stopped doing alternate Season 3 stuff, and Mai/Jet seems to be on the rise now that people are putting more thought into Mai's future.

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

Eh, I've never really had bile fascination with bad fanfics. I usually stop reading after a chapter or two, or just skip to the end. The closest I'll get is to go through the reviews for bad fics and search for the (if any exist) nuanced critiques. There's usually only one or two even for popular (but terrible) shipping fics by reviewers who make an effort, and the link to the reviewer's account can lead to a jackpot of a Favorites list.

[loopy777.livejournal.com]

Not a bad system. Me, I need *something* to do on my lunch hour, and since there's no way to transfer anything I type at work to my home computer, I read fanfic. If nothing good is available, I read amusing bad stuff.

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

With Mai/Jet, I get that they look good together... but I figure they'd try to kill each other after they slept together. Jet because he'd be consumed with self-loathing for sleeping with a Fire Nation woman, Mai because the hell she's going to let some wheat-stalk chomping peasant get the drop on her.

[loopy777.livejournal.com]

I can buy that scenario. :D I usually dislike it because Jet is portrayed as a typical teenage lecher, and Mai as the "I want him but I can't admit it!" archetype so popular in anime/manga. I'm just waiting for the fic that will sell me on it by actually exploring their characters and dynamic.