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a poll tournament to decide tumblr's current fan-favourite love live! rarepair! | propaganda encouraged | N girls, non-idols, and cross-unit ships encouraged | SFW only | no inc^st/ped^ph^lia/besti^l^ty

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love live! rarepair tournament

hello and welcome to the love live! rarepair tournament! this will be a poll series where we as fans determine tumblr's current tastes in love live! ships, EXCLUDING inc^st/ped^phil^a/besti^l^ty. that said, ship-bashing will not be tolerated when it comes to pairings that are included in the tournament and non-harmful popular pairings outside of it.

this poll tournament will not be judging which is the most underrated, as many entries will be on the same level of nigh-complete obscurity. this will be for tumblr's favourite.

ships will be user-submitted. pairings can be cross-unit, include N girls, and even include non-idol characters (such as ships including non-idol students like shizuku osaka X niji's drama club president, or adult/adult ships like kotori's mother X maki's mother)!

you're free to make and share as much propaganda as you want when the relevant polls are up and running. share stories, ramble, analyse, show pictures, create art/fic, whatever!

it'll be a bit before I have everything set up, but feel free to submit your love live! rarepairs now using the askbox or the replies/comments/tags on this post!

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rurika tsubaki x anzu takizawa from school idol musical please!!

I've not got an image for them, but they're in!

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HI IS NICOPANA IN ALREADY BY ANY CHANCE? If not then I shall submit them cause I love em smm <33

it is already in! thank you for your support

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how many pairs can we submit? and if its only one can i submit another one if i already submitted a pair but it turns out someone already submitted them?

you can submit a small handful! I've had a few people submit several already, but have asked them nicely to let other people have a turn so that they don't completely dominate the submission count. try to keep it to about 3 or 4 max for now.

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would diariko count? im not much involved in fandom so im not sure but i remember being really into them when i was younger

I wasn't totally sure, so I asked the person behind a large percentage of the tag on ao3 (Infiniteleft on ao3, infinLL on twitter) and according to her and her fellows yes it does count. it's not the rarest of rarepairs, but it does count.

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OH RIGHT she's on tumblr too I almost forgot. please go follow @infiwrites !

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sorry for not answering all the asks I've gotten over the past day, I am Suffering for several reasons and it's hard to do much at all. I will get back to the rest of you as soon as I can!

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would diariko count? im not much involved in fandom so im not sure but i remember being really into them when i was younger

I wasn't totally sure, so I asked the person behind a large percentage of the tag on ao3 (Infiniteleft on ao3, infinLL on twitter) and according to her and her fellows yes it does count. it's not the rarest of rarepairs, but it does count.

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I unfortunately tend to get stuck when considering rarepairs in Love Live, because I always second-guess myself on how rare the pair actually is. Are there guidelines for rarity, or is it just anyone this side of the Established Pairings? Like, I figure NicoMaki, NozoEli, ChikaRiko, and YuuPomu are probably out, but how obscure are you looking for?

Should be a fun tournament, anyway!

if you have to think hard and ask yourself "does this count as a rarepair?", you should consider submitting something else instead.

there are quite a few pairings outside of The Big Ones that are still popular enough to not count as rarepairs in my opinion. ultimately I'll be making the calls, but if people disagree with my initial judgement I'll try to look at evidence such as fanart/fanfic tags on various sites and and reconsider.

I'm glad you're looking forward to it!

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Ruby/Karin? havent seen anyone else ship it before, but it occupies my thoughts on occasion and wont leave. bonus n girl & cross unit: emma/rakshata?

I've not got images for either, but they're both in!

fun fact that has haunted me for years: emma and rakshata are in a "baref^ot group" (censored jic) that consists of just the two of them, in which they practice dancing with no shoes on. emma's N cards have 3 homescreen quotes about it. for some reason. anyway, still cute! nothing inherently wrong with it, and it's something to bond over I suppose.

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(ive never submitted an ask before so i hope this is right haha)

just some ideas: shizuai or shiosetsu? karindia? or if we’re really breaching crackship territory…riko’s mom and yoshiko’s mom? (they’re friends in the anime lol)

this is right, yes!

shizuai, shiosetsu, karindia, and riko's mum X yoshiko's mum are in. I had a queued post where I explained in more detail, and yes, adult/adult ships like shipping the parents with each other is allowed. can't seem to find an image for this particular one, but still.

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someone sending in an ask for a fumi ship made me very happy ^^ anyways you/karin

same tbh, and I would like it if we maybe gave other people a turn for a little bit now but yes you/karin is in! no image, sadly, but they're in.

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wow, tumblr was waiting for this one, huh? I've gotten a few submissions via discord too! bracket's gonna be kiiiinda stacked~👀

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setsuna/emma!

it's in!

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is youkanan a rarepair? i shipped it hard as a kid. also mutsuki and fumi :3

I don't have an image for mutsufumi, but both it and youkanan are in! I don't see much youkanan at all, so I do consider it a rarepair, but if there's a Scene I've somehow missed then I would like it pointed out!

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N I C O P A N A

they're in!

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sorry for sending in so much submissions but i think MariYou should join the battle

that's ok, I welcome them! MariYou is in

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Tsubasa/Nico and or Erena/Umi

not got images of either of those, but they're on the list!