Quinneapolis
[relationship stuff] know what would be nice forme to see, like, once, in anything that isn't specifically about it as a niche genre focus point
Quinneapolis
an endgame non-monogamous relationship
Quinneapolis
where it's not a weird kinky depraved sex thing, a villain thing, or both
Niamh Vibes
Just a normal chill relationship
Quinneapolis
have a fantasy action series with a core love triangle that ends with all of them together
Echo
Thank you, yes.
Quinneapolis
or hey! maybe a main romance arc but one of them is asexual so the other is still free to seek other partners on the side and they're both chill with it!
Quinneapolis
let me be greedy! feed me!
Echo
Girl Genius has been dropping heavy implications that it's going to go that way for years but 1. I'm still not sure I trust that until it's over and confirmed and 2. it's fucking Girl Genius, it takes forever to get through even one plot arc so it's probably not going to be over any time this decade.
Rama
I think I'm morally obligated to actually do this if I ever write an original story just because I'm so tired of the wink wink nudge nudge version
Quinneapolis
y'all monohets are so fed, let me have an entree instead of sifting through the finished plates for scraps
Rama
Agatha Heterodyne and the Two Boyfriends is a great example, though I'm positive it's going to be endgame unless Tarvek dies or something
Quinneapolis
I want my
I want my
I want my OT3
skerple
with Girl Genius, even if it does go that way - which would be amazing, don't get me wrong - a lot of those implications still have the feel of, like
skerple
'this isn't normal, but she's Agatha Heterodyne and who the fuck is going to tell her she can't have two boyfriends'
skerple
not exactly kinky sex depraved, but still like, That's Some Spark Shit
Quinneapolis
I'm going on a rant because I was talking about this and someone cited FF7R as a good example
Quinneapolis
it's not
Quinneapolis
it's barely even subtext
Quinneapolis
I want some fucking SUPERTEXT
moontouched
we've had subtext for long enough, just make it about as subtle as a giant glowing neon sign
Gabiluzbad
FF7R was a good example of something that COULD have been this
moontouched
stuck on the front of the building
Rama
Tangled The Series at least seems to be "if this wasn't a Disney show you better fucking believe we would"
Rama
But yeah there's no...text
Gabiluzbad
It's still subtext
Rama
I want text and I'm not even polyamorous
Quinneapolis
I'm not gonna give it the credit until Rapunzel kisses Flint and Cass in the same episode
Quinneapolis
in front of each other
Quinneapolis
and then flips off the camera for good measure
Quinneapolis
OK that last part's optional
skerple
I demand an actual canon instance of biceptual curls
Quinneapolis
of what
Gabiluzbad
Rapunzel flipping anyone off would be wildly out of character
Rama
Cass, on the other hand
Gabiluzbad
Yes
Quinneapolis
yeah cass can do it
skerple
Rama
Oh I get it
Rama
I thought there was some kind of keyboard problem there
skerple
nope!
skerple
that vine just lives rent-free in my head
Rama
Yeah I need to...hm
Rama
My problem is I never actually get through writing anything, and I never have the attention span for OC casts
Rama
Let me go over my NPC lists I guess...
Quinneapolis
At least in tabletop/OCmashing I can be the change I want to see in the world
Quinneapolis
Emery is putting in the work to get two girlfriends
skerple
emery is a treasure and I love them
Echo
Emery is a delight.
dragon time
Tanya Huff does this a few times and it rules
dragon time
Sing The Four Quarters is about a bard who breaks her boyfriend out of jail for a crime that he probably didn't do while her girlfriend attempts damage control
dragon time
The Fire In The Stone is a fantasy quest that ends up with a throuple - like the girl in the relationship is asexual but I don't read her as aromantic, they're all SUPER married to each other by the end and it's mad cute
dragon time
And I think about 2/3 her modern urban fantasy protagonists aren't monogamous BUT the way she writes them it is sometimes hard to tell if the characters are dating or not
dragon time
Not in the queerbaity way, in the way where I can't tell if they're really good friends who sometimes fuck or really good friends who used to fuck
dragon time
Fires Stone is the name whoops
big woop
I think I saw some indications from like, writer interviews a while back that the Leverage revival was going to make the Eliot/Parker/Hardison OT3 canon? But it's been a while since I saw that and I haven't seen much indication of that in the promo materials so I'm not sure if that's still the plan
dragon time
dragon time
It's about a warrior a wizard and a thief who have to go get a magic rock someone stole that stops a volcano from growing up and they all have character arcs and also they all fall in love with each other it's so solid
dragon time
And it's from like the 90s
dragon time
Get it together modern works of fiction
big woop
The original series ended with Parker and Hardison together and Eliot as their mutual very soulmatey friend/found family/business partner
kaylin
I've got a tumblr post somewhere of someone analyzing the bomb-disarming scene through the lens of Parker/Hardison/Eliot as OT3
kaylin
also, The Tarot Sequence looks like it might go with a throuple ending, but there's still seven books to go
kaylin
Lightning Bolt
There's actually a fairytale called Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree that ends like this
Lightning Bolt
Where the prince's first wife gets revived from her magic sleep and he tells the second wife "um no I'm not going to leave you, I love you both?"
RobotApocalypse
the Libriomancer book series by Jim Hines
RobotApocalypse
i haven't read it myself but i know book 1 resolves the love triangle with an explicit, textual poly triad
Quinneapolis
apparently all the god polyam food is in fantasy novels
kamikasei
I haven't read them but I think Ana Mardoll has more than one book/story out specifically with "queer polyam but centered on something else" as a selling point
RobotApocalypse
and i've read some of the author's other stuff and it's fun and enjoyable. plus hines himself is a really thoughtful, conscientious person who goes out of his way to make his books safe escapist spaces for as many people as possible
kamikasei
...Also, AFAIK, fantasy
RobotApocalypse
haha i'm pretty sure Libriomancer is urban fantasy so it's at least tied to modern reality as a setting
skerple
the October Daye series, also urban fantasy, recently had a poly marriage
skerple
specifically an already-married couple bringing a third into their marriage with the firm feeling he always should have been there but there were Complicating Factors only recently resolved
dragon time
oh shit I have been behind on the adventures of toby
dragon time
good for them,
dragon time
and sometimes sci-fi! it can be hit or miss
dragon time
murderbot diaries is primarily about a grumpy ace robot but also about the polycule of humans that adopts them/vice versa
dragon time
I think I have a copy of libromancer hanging around in my emergency book stash
kaylin
skerple : omg, I can't believe I forgot to mention that!
Gay Be Crime Do
IIRC Cable Girls did this in its first season, and one of the people involved was a trans woman
Gay Be Crime Do
But then S2...goes places and I don't know where it ended up because I dropped it for unrelated reasons
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