Screw the masses. I always assumed that I just wasn't a very good writer in comparison with the people who drown in feedback - then I wrote one less-than-rare pairing and found myself bombarded. And you know what? Rather than being encouraged to keep writing more mainstream characters, it instead made me feel rather protective of my rarepairs, and more determined than ever to keep writing them.

*ponders* Now that I think on it, I've written rare pairings in the all the fandoms I've been in - not deliberately, but because I tend to be most interested in characters who aren't conventionally handsome/pretty, and that's something that most smut-writers seem to shy away from.

Rarepair Writing: It's often a thankless job, but somebody's got to do it :-P