Taking the current topic as an excuse to ask you to tell me all the reasons you love Rarijack. Your art for the ship is so sweet and intimate I'd love to hear any in depth thoughts you have.
Breathes in.
I think what makes their dynamic really strong is that they have opposing personalities but aligned values. It's deeper than just "opposites attract." Rarity's fancy, prissy, and femme while Applejack's modest, rough, and "masculine." But both value hard work (to the point of being workaholics), their families (both have guardianship over their little sisters), running successful businesses, and eventually each other. Their relationship can be boiled down to, "Despite our differences/disagreements, I still like you because we value the same things."
We see their relationship develop so much. In the first season, they can't stop bickering about surface-level differences. By season four, they still bicker, but will mend their relationship because they can't help but do nice things for each other. In Trade Ya, they start off arguing over personality differences (Applejack likes old junk and Rarity likes useless crap). Then they pivot and start arguing that they value their relationship more than the other. In the end, they mend things by sacrificing their needs and buying each other a gift. Even if they don't understand it, they know it'd make the other happy. And that's all that really matters. It's a genuinely sweet moment that shows how arguing can be healthy and necessary for relationships to strengthen.
We even see them dropping their hang-ups about each others' personalities. In Made in Manehattan, when Rarity runs off in dramatics about someone's fashion, AJ doesn't roll her eyes or scoff, she smiles. Oftentimes, their conflicts are very common domestic conflicts romantic couples face. Applejack's Day Off is about a woman's inability to balance work and life and find time to properly spend with her partner, causing her partner to feel neglected.
By season seven, they're actively participating in each others' interests. Any problems or conflicts that arise are dealt with, and they come out the other end stronger and closer. In Honest Apple, AJ pretty much spells out why their relationship works so well: even though she doesn't understand fashion, she can recognize and appreciate how much work it takes and wants to respect that. When she realizes her mistake in the episode, AJ goes above and beyond to fix things and apologize to Rarity. They care about each other so much.
The two go out of their way, sacrificing their personal desires and beliefs and doing things they normally wouldn't, to make the other happy. That's just love.
There's Simple Ways, where AJ gets stuck in an unwanted love triangle between Rarity and her hipster crush. And her frustration and anger can be so easily interpreted as AJ finding herself in a terrible position; the girl she loves wants another man, and that man wants her.
I dunno. I've always had a preference for opposites attract ships, but Rarijack's stuck with me like a brain worm because they have the perfect chemistry. The way they show they care, or do things for each other, I've always read it as the truest representation of romance in the show.
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the inherent homoeroticism of examining antique gowns, as a female researcher
oh you're looking at sweat-marked dress shields basted into a bodice? you want to trail your fingers over the indelible stains left by the warm body of another woman, surviving even after that body is cold and withered in the grave?
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obsessed with Kim kitsuragi and how good he is at hiding his wetpatheticsadness. he's so so good at it he even fooled Harry can opener du bois. he even fooled himself. he's a tin soldier. nothing but thin walls and hollow insides. he has hobbies but only indulges them so privately that no one else knows about them. he doesn't even make time to eat unless you bat your eyelashes at him. he wants to punch the little cardboard pieces out of the new board game but won't let you know until after you've already done it. he asks you if doing speed helped you be a better detective not to reprimand you but because he's considering doing it himself. he has a little blue notebook containing all of his thoughts that you can never look inside (blue is for mystery. / the blue heart. don't look into it). he falls so madly in love with a complete disaster of a messy bear within 4 days of meeting him he can take a bullet for him and defend him against his own institution and nurse him back to health while sitting vigil for 2 days with no sleep. all because the guy is fun and likes to get to know him and thinks he's cool. he thinks about Harry's girthy biceps for what is assumedly at least a day or two. he only lets himself have one cigarette a day unless harry doesn't suggest he transfer to the 41st, a rule he never breaks otherwise even when he was concussed and alone. he even has autism
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