QZGS
RARE PAIR WEEK

Our tags are: #qzgsrarepairweek #qzgsrpw2025

On AO3, you must add your fanwork to the QZGS Rare Pair Week collection (specifically for this year). You may tag it with QZGS Rare Pair Week 2025.

We do not mind if you post out of order or late, but the collection will close by the end of March, so we'd prefer if you submitted your works before then.

Including a contribution to RPW in an existing work that is otherwise unrelated to RPW is no longer allowed.

Adding on to an existing work that is related to past RPW events is also no longer allowed.

The main objective of RPW is to increase the number of works under rare pair tags, so we prefer that participants submit NEW WORKS to the event.

Han Wenqing/Ye Xiu

Yu Wenzhou/Huang Shaotian

Yu Wenzhou & Huang Shaotian

Everyone/Ye Xiu (AllYe)

Everyone & Ye Xiu

Ye Qiu & Ye Xiu

Su Muqiu/Ye Xiu

Su Muqiu & Ye Xiu

Su Mucheng & Ye Xiu

Gao Yingjie/Qiao Yifan

Zhou Zekai/Ye Xiu

Sun Zheping/Zhang Jiale

Xu Boyuan (Blue River)/Ye Xiu

Wang Jiexi/Yu Wenzhou

Wang Jiexi/Fang Shiqian

Wang Jiexi/Ye Xiu

Han Wenqing/Zhang Xinjie

Huang Shaotian/Ye Xiu

Fang Rui/Lin Jingyan

Ye Xiu/Yu Wenzhou

Qiu Fei/Sun Xiang

Han Wenqing & Ye Xiu

Sun Zheping & Zhang Jiale

Common pairings may be referenced or featured as long as they remain background characters. Please tag pairings as (background), (minor), or (past) accordingly. Other indicators are fine as well.

When a pairing, rare or otherwise, is indicated as a minor ship in a work, that work will not count among those dedicated to that pairing.

"Ships" are platonic or romantic, but if you tag a work blorbo/bleebus and blorbo & bleebus, it will count as ROMANTIC unless you categorize it only as Gen. In short: works about strictly PLATONIC ships must be categorized as ONLY Gen.

The above does not apply to queer-platonic relationships, one-sided relationships, or mutual pining, which we expect to see outside of Gen.

If a romantic ship is merely implied (an "if you squint" situation) in your work, please categorize it as Gen in addition to M/M, F/F, M/F, or Multi. Use non-relationship tags to denote ambiguity.

We filter Ye Xiu/Everyone and Multi when looking for M/M, F/F, and M/F ships. If your work is about blorbo/bleebus specifically, we recommend you don't categorize it as Multi even if it features/implies Multi ships.

A work tagged as YX/blorbo/bleebus won't count as a YX/blorbo work as far as we are concerned. Remember to categorize your OT3s and moresomes as MULTI.

Avatar/avatar and avatar/player pairings are permitted, but avatars should have distinct personalities and traits compared to their corresponding players.

At the moment, we are only considering ENGLISH-language fanworks (art and writing) in our counts. Mark your artwork as English if you post. If you don't, we won't notice it when we review the numbers next year. (It goes without saying that we don't count outside of AO3.)

All NSFW and sensitive themes must be tagged accordingly, especially Underage.

Respect other participants and ships.