Rare Pair Rec List
Basically, these are the fics that got me into a fandom/pairing that I NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS imagined I’d be into…
Once Upon a Time in Mexico: Sands/El
This is a pairing that shouldn’t work. But, against all reason, it really really does.
The Dark Knight: Batman/Joker
I’ve written a dozen fics for this pairing, and this was the fic that made me see its potential.
The Dark Knight Rises: Bane/John Blake
Again, doesn’t seem to work on paper but the author somehow makes it work in insanely wonderful ways.
Downton Abbey: Thomas Barrow/Jimmy Kent
The romance is one-sided in canon, but fanon has a way of making me root for even the most misanthropic under-butlers.
ASoIaF/Game of Thrones: Sandor Clegane/Sansa Stark
Aged up (as in the show) or taking place years after the end of the series, this pairing can really work.
Les Miserables: Jean Valjean/Javert
I have been listening to this musical for years and never saw it, then read this fic and was like, “Well yeah, of course.”
Glee: Dave Karofsky/Kurt Hummel
This pairing in problematic as fuck because of the intense bullying in the series, but poetikat has managed to write a graceful, beautiful story of redemption that happens slowly and believably.