so hard though sometimes to decide what counts as a rarepair. ships that nobody has thought about before except this one weird fic, ships that most people vaguely agree are reasonable but rarely ever write about, ships that have a tiny but dedicated fanclub, ships that get written about with some regularity but can't ever hope to reach the levels of the major ships in the fandom, etc. where on the continuum is something no longer a rare ship?
and the place to put that line changes depending on the size of the fandom too, I feel, making it even harder to be consistent throughout all my bookmarks for many fandoms!