We define a rarepair as a pairing that is unusual, unconventional, or has a significant lack of fanfic or art dedicated to it. We generally consider rare pairs to be anything not listed here:
We review these pairings every six months or so and adjust the list if necessary. Generally, a pairing is deemed not "rare" if it has one or more active communities devoted to it, a newsletter already devoted to it, one or more fests devoted to it, etc. The following pairings we have deemed "rare-ish" and may be recc'ed occasionally, at the editor's discretion:
Harry/Ron Remus/Tonks Severus/Remus Scorpius/Rose
...and we define gen as a work of fanfiction (or art) that does not have a romantic or sexual relationship as the focus. (This of course does not mean that relationships cannot be present in the story.)
Our editors consult community postings on Livejournal, Dreamwidth, Insanejournal, and Archive of Our Own every week to bring you the pairings and characters you crave, but don't often see. We will rec het, slash, femslash and gen, and strive to bring you fanfiction and art that we feel is underrepresented or under-exposed.
If you've written or drawn a rare pairing, or a gen fic, and you didn't crosspost it to a community on our watcher list, you can tip us off by by leaving a (screened) comment on our last post.
You can find our first post here (from 2005!), which also explains things.
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Membership to this community is restricted to the editors. While you cannot join the community, you can still help us out by linking us to any fanfiction or art that we may have missed!
This community was begun by the marvellous xylodemon way back in the beginnings of HP fandom. We are proud to continue the recsletter for as long as we can.