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Don’t look to numbers to validate anything. Especially in this fandom. I see typically observe vocal hate for more of the mainstream/popular ships. Being underrated has its perks too.
I don’t just like dismissing people to block art they don’t like because the tag system is good, but it’s not perfect. Instead, since you’re sick of seeing it and may not want to block the rarijack tag, just see rarijack as another ship. Isn’t after all? “Oh those silly rarijackers are at it again!” Also, just kinda brace yourself to the idea that a lot of artists are drawn to rarijack. Artists are the original hopeless romantic ;) It’s not going to become canon anyway. (If it does ….um….idk, I really think the whole same-sex thing wouldn’t happen with this show, especially with main cast).
Edited because: Forgot reply buttons exist. Derp.
Sure, it’s not an absolute rule. I’ll give you that. But the way these two are written, the way they interact, i just don’t see them every changing to the point of them making it stable. One big flaw many people have is thinking ‘oh, they will go great together - he will change her and she will change him and they’ll have changed for the better’. The flaw being that people don’t really change at all - such pairs built around changing one thing or another for the other person doesn’t really work like that. But it’s such a change that would be needed for Rarijack to work in a stable manner. Something huge would have to happen - and I don’t believe this will happen.
It bothers me because lately, it’s all derpibooru every seems to be filled with.
This is as of today. Rarijack being #1 is a recent thing - within the last year or so. The bottom 2/3rds need much, much more love. Yet page after page after page is yet more RariJack - it’s honestly getting a bit… overbearing, maybe is the word? Along the lines of “oh come on, do something NEW for once!” - both for artists and those who commission them. (My own otp is among the upper third, but I’d argue for more balance rather than anything else. I’m just getting sick of Rarijack, which i already dislike intensely as is! :P). And then small innocuous scenes like this are just taken like more fuel for the fire, and it we’ll be swamped with more of the same. I’d like to see more variation :|
Which I know is not really a good reason, but it’s one reason - not for disliking the ship, but the tidal wave that results from these images.
@Evil Emperor Proteus
@Background Pony #A474
Nah, perfectly tame debate, for once!
Oh I’m sure they are watching already, but this is just innocuous debate. Background Pony#DC6E has not been insulting, petty, or otherwise and I certainly hope that I have not been either.
But it’s not doomed to fail and repeat. Why? Because nothing is final. (In the case of rarijack, I still hold that it is better than mere exception for unstable and sentenced to typical failure, but I understand others may see it differently)
And why let what others enjoy bother you so much? That can’t be good for anybody. (People ARE going to have shipping goggles on after all) Like I said before, rarijack in any form should be certain toxicity, but it’s not!
Of course they wrote the hand holding thing in to make it look good! Because it is! Just like they decided to write in a conflict, magic, and lore.
And that’s my whole gripe with it. I understand the whole ‘grand passion’ thing, but this is one doomed to fail and repeat - their constant small foibles that would build up over and over again to ruin what they have. That plus the apparently oh so ever popular ‘opposites attract’ idea (which honestly needs to stop existing) seems to be what attracts people to it.
Is it so much to ask for a relationship that isn’t that unstable and doomed to fail? One that is stable? Maybe a little rocky (no relationships exist without fights) but nothing as bad as RariJack would be? That’s why i can never like this, and am getting sick of constantly seeing it around and seeing people go gaga over small things friends would do. Heck, the whole hand grabbing routine here is probably just something they wrote into the song routine to make it look good.
It’s from a song which has a line about holding hands, at which point they hold hands.
I checked out the blog. It’s very thought out. The part about where the author states that in the way the ship fails, a success makes for an epic romance (paraphrasing here) kinda is what I was trying to get at.
The part about how the author says they use the term “grand passion” over “eternal flame” is especially insightful. I would say it’s both.
Blog was a good read.
that would be credible in fluttershy and rainbow dash case
The differences are there, but since they are not actually together, and don’t live together, the differences don’t matter. They’re things that as a friend you can gloss over. As more than friends, such things become far more important and begin to cause far more problems. That’s how I see those two going. (Check out that blog, it explains it better than I can)
Likewise, just as AJ may have those syncing moments with the others, she can also have those “butting of heads” moments with the others.
I guess I should just chalk it up of how viewers can see a thing in so many different lights. Remember, the way you are painting them as fighting over little things as romantic partners is not concrete and has not even had an opportunity to be explored of what could be a realistic portrayal of a very excellent and successful romantic relationship.
Beyond just saying that they could have a nice relationship, the MLP universe they exist in has given it a nice climate for that to happen, should writers ever act on it (I know they wouldn’t risk doing the same-sex thing). Rarity and Applejack should have a toxic relationship, but they don’t. They are friends, and have the content of character to hold a friendship, but they shouldn’t be as close as they are. But they are. Since there is no animosity about differences there, the differences that make them so polar from each other has given them both an opportunity that the others may have yet to experience: respect. Consider respect as a more evolved form of tolerance. Say that Rarijack turned romantic. The differences, since they are not avoiding each other, would serve to complement one another.
Uhh, no?
@Background Pony #3CB6
Dog Spike and Dragon Spike are not the same character.
But those examples have happened with many others too - and I don’t mean ponying up. AJ and Dash making the same joke about the crystal castle in season 3 without even consulting each other - that’s an example of syncing right there. Or the innumerable amount of times any of the m6 have finished each other’s sentences. That’s not rare, and more importantly that’s not the basis of a relationship. You say she backs AJ’s thoughts values and ideals - but she doesn’t, really. It’s a ‘live and let live’ type of thing. She accepts that AJ is different from her, but that in no way means she actually likes many of the things that AJ is all about. In this case, it IS a matter of ‘tolerating’.
I’m not saying they can’t be friends and will always fight - but I am saying that they can’t be romantic partners because said little things will build up to fights, and that will happen CONSTANTLY. I recently found this blog , which pretty much exactly shows what I think about RariJack and how it can work - it can happen, possibly, but is in no way stable and definitely not long term. She’s also done blogs for a bunch of other ships, which you will find in the blog index here .
And I don’t mean that that is how it works for AJ and Rarity interactions at all time. But, it definitely seems to be the writer’s go-to interaction for a lot of humor. It’s cheap and easy jokes because it requires no effort to put the two in conflict - even if it’s just a minor thing like “this isn’t a show, this is camping!” type of thing.
And for what it’s worth, even if they each marry off to someone else, I totally hold that their respective marriages would suffer because they would be obsessed with each other, bickering or otherwise.
First, anything is possible ;P
If individuals from the proverbial different planets couldn’t possibly be involved romantically, then there wouldn’t be any successful marriages (I have PROOF that men and women are from entirely different planets!). But the differences actually complement each other. Hey, sometimes the wife wants to throttle the husband for doing something she thinks was stupid.
AJ and Rarity have more in common than you think. On much more than one occasion, I see Rarity often being the first in backing AJ’s thoughts, values, and ideals. Syncing minds and all. At this point in the show, these insurmountable differences haven’t driven them to polar sides of the room.
About that last part: I’m not explaining it as good as I want it to be. Using that AJ/Rarity interactions only happen because it is funny to the audience reason for them interacting is not a true factor. Y’know? AJ and Rarity don’t wake up out of bed, grab their clipboards, read the current Nielsen ratings surveys saying that “interaction with your polar opposites makes for good television” and then proceed to clock in their hours with each other. I mean, it’s not canon. Point is, good television is not their reason for interacting, it’s because they’re drawn to interacting with each other, for whatever reason. Simply, it is.
I’m not saying they just ‘tolerate’ each other. The six of them are better friends than that. I’m just saying that between AJ and Rarity, their entire lives are so different that they are so often at odds - not (always) arguing, but coming at the world from entirely different places (practically entirely different planets) that to be anything romantic is impossible. Rarity very often has expressed disgust or dislike for AJ’s very way of living - roughing, hiking (“eew, dirt!”) and so on. She’ll do it if she needs to, but she’ll avoid it at all costs otherwise. A lot of which is very much core to AJ’s character. That’s the type of differences I’m saying are insurmountable.
Not really sure what you’re saying with that last sentence though.
Personally, I ship a romantic rarijack, but that’s me (along with others). I can’t affirm anything about where the writers would drive that couple, if they did that.
But I beg to differ about them simply tolerating (that seems to be what you are implying?) each other. In toxic relationships, when people are constantly at odds, “friends” or otherwise, the relationship ends, one way or the other. Depending on their character, they can end it cordially and civilly, or dramatically and violently. Sometimes, people at odds will stay around each other for the good of a cause or for the sake of others, continuing to tolerate each other. But with those case’s there is no negligible bond and certainly no hand holding when it’s not being done by or with the rest of the group while you’re playing instruments.
And AJ’s reasons for interacting with Rarity making for good television doesn’t and wouldn’t make sense to AJ and Rarity. This reality is not theirs anyway.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t deny that they ARE friends - but they’re friends despite their immense differences. But those differences is what would prevent them from ever being any more than that. As for constantly standing near each other, ALL SIX constantly stand near each other. Heck, except for scenes like that, AJ was next to Dash just as often (the bus ride, the campfire, etc). They all six hang out with each other just as much - AJ and Rarity’s dynamic is just so often at odds because it’s FUNNY to see them at odds, and that makes for good television. Not because there’s ‘more to it’ between them. If there is any shipping at all, the show does it with a ridiculously heavy hand. See: ‘BEST FRIENDS’ explicitly stated for LyraBon, or Timber and Twi in this movie or FlashLight in the previous ones, etc etc.
Oh horse apples, they are constantly standing near each other. They enjoy their dynamic. They could easily not interact at all, or be hostile towards each other, but that’s not the reality.
It honestly really is - they’re on stage, and reaching out to the person closest to them. Happens to be these two.
I don’t really see what people are seeing in the ‘best friends’ thing. Nothing they’ve done ever compares to the scenes we’ve seen with Lyra and Bon Bon. In fact, the entire time in this movie they’re constantly at odds about what the thing thing they’re building is even about. “God damnit, get your mind off dresses once in your lifetime!” etc. It’s still a constant clash of opinions that never ever changes. That’s not a good dynamic to have at all.