[ SECRET POST #1896 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1896 ⌋


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 115 secrets from Secret Submission Post #271.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

16. http://i42.tinypic.com/zjuipj.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Wait. So do you hate all threeway poly relationships or just this one? Or just ones with certain pairings? I can understand disliking certain pairings, but to say you hate all poly pairings ever....is a little generalizing and prejudiced.

[(Anonymous)]

That can be annoying when a fic starts out as one pairing and then switches to another, especially if you aren't aware of it beforehand (although, maybe the author didn't exactly have it planned out that way and it just sort of happened organically?). I enjoy polyfic, but I can see it being irritating if you aren't expecting it.

Is there a lot of other fic for the pairing you like in your fandom? I'd say give the story a break for awhile, read other stuff, then go back to it if you're still interested.

[(Anonymous)]

Not a fan of poly either.

[(Anonymous)]

Not gonna lie, I find your butthurt hating quite unsightly. It's okay, but don't be a dick about it, you know?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind threeway fic for my casual ships, but I don't want it with my OTP. I read for my OTP, not for my OTP + one.

But yeah, hating all threeway fic ever is a bit much.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, so what you're saying is that you dislike poly ships as a whole? Why is that a secret? As far as I knew, that wasn't an unpopular opinion, so why the secret? Or is this secret just to complain about a fic? 'Cause...dude. The author is allowed to do what they want. Should they have warned for the poly ship if they didn't? Yeah, they probably should have, but it's still their fic. Besides, no one is making you keep reading it.

...And...yeah. To me, at least, you seem to be over-reacting either way.

[(Anonymous)]

What kinds of fish are those? o_0

[(Anonymous)]

What fandom is this for?

[murderershair.livejournal.com]

Apparently I'm the first non-anon to comment on this secret!

If the writer never said in summaries or tags that it was going to be a three way relationship, I can see why you would be annoyed, OP. That's kind of uncool. But you shouldn't take it out on all OT3 fic- I promise they're not all "Character X and Character Y were happy... and then they suddenly decided to bring in character Z!"

[amethyst-rei.livejournal.com]

I'd love to know what this fic is.

[(Anonymous)]

I hate that A/B/C fics are seen as " a way to resolve the triangle~!" or "now everyone's happy~!" No, dammit, they are their own thing; you can like it or not, but please stop pretending loving relationships between more than two characters are just love triangles without jealousy.

/would ship more OT3 ships if people understood this

[tasogare-n-hime.livejournal.com]

...I wish fic for my OTP would turn into threeway ship fic... Hell I wish there was just more fic of my OPT to possibly become threeway ship fic, or that I could write it myself, and actually, you know finish and post it Damn you brain, at least try to work with me on this..

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Seconding the question of "do you hate triad fics in general, or are you just annoyed at this one because it messes with your OTP"? Because if it's the first, don't like, don't read. Every other shippy fic ever is geared towards dyad-lovers, and those of us who don't work like that get to have our little corner of the fandom, too. Just scroll right on past.

If it's the second, then yeah, it's a little annoying when a fic starts out as one 'ship and changes to a different 'ship halfway through, especially if the author didn't mark it as such - and yes, a triad counts as a different ship from one of its component pairs. This is one of the reasons why I don't post unfinished fic - sometimes the characters decide to go someplace completely different in Act 3. But there's nothing stopping you from setting it down and just not reading it, OP.

[xenafox.livejournal.com]

Man I have just NEVER been a fan of three-way relationships in fanfic. I don't know why, it's not like I have an issue with it irl. But I guess when I have a fandom OTP...idk. I just can't read them being with anyone other than each other.

[(Anonymous)]

...Yikes. Yeah, definitely listing the OT3 my WIP becomes when I start posting it...

(A and B have mutual attraction, basically canon, B ends up removed from the story for large parts of it, also canon. A and C end up working together. C has a huge crush on B, also canon. A and C start having a sort of friends-with-benefits relationship that turns into an actual romantic relationship. When B returns, C is basically resigned to being alone again, A is massively conflicted because he is in love with B but has this relationship with C, B is the one who goes, "Uh, boys? There's an easy solution here...")

[(Anonymous)]

That would annoy me, too. I like reading OT3 fics occasionally, but I want to know that I'm reading them. If some fic I'm expecting to remain a fic with my OTP suddenly gets a third person thrown in, yes it's going to upset me. It changes the whole dynamic when you add a third person; it's no longer "these two fit so well together" because the third person turns things around so much.

[zombieroadtrip.livejournal.com]

That would bother me immensely too. Especially if it happened before. Plus there's a lot of attitude in some fandoms that if you like A+B, you must also like A+B+C, or that it's an easy way to 'resolve' jealousy, or that you're immature if you don't want to read trio ships involving your favorite pairing. People will write what they want to write though, ultimately.

Nothing against poly people irl, I'm glad differing relationship set-ups exist for people, but I can't relate to that at all and don't particularly want to read it.

[(Anonymous)]

There are so many variations of a three-way relationship, no two look or function the same. At least not in my experience (I happen to be involved in one myself, and know of others.)

The idea of hating all three-way relationships seems a little extreme to me. They're just another kind of relationship- outside the social norm, sure, but not inherently different from any other kind of romantic and/or sexual relationship.

Obviously slightly biased here, but I do find the dynamic of a three-way fascinating, and, when well-written, can be an interesting lens through which to view the characters involved, and their individual relationships to one another, as well as to the triad.

That said: except in very rare cases where I think canon supports the subtext of at least some interest between all three parties, I don't agree with using a three-way as the magic solution to a love triangle in fiction- it is a complex relationship, not a fix-it solution.

[piepeloe.livejournal.com]

I understand why you're annoyed.

I personally don't like reading poly fics, because I don't get/like the dynamics of it. Maybe the idea of that 'one perfect person' has been drilled into me too much, I don't know. I don't know anyone in a poly or an open relationship, but I'd like to think I'd be cool about it. I wouldn't get it and might ask awkward questions, but that's not bad, right?

But I mainly understand because I like knowing what I get into when it comes to fic. A header doesn't need to give away the entire fic, but some basic things like pairings and a decent summary aren't that much to ask especially if it's a long fic that you've been following a while.

[duae.livejournal.com]

I think you have every right to be annoyed. I don't like reading het fics. Nothing wrong with them. There's nothing wrong with baseball, but I get no enjoyment out of watching it. So I would be incredibly annoyed, if, say, I read an advertised John/Rodney fic that started John/Rodney only to have them breaking up and Rodney getting together with Keller.

Not to mention a lot of 'love triangles' are set up so you're Team A(AntiB) or Team B(AntiA) and you have reasons you want these two to get together and not those two, so just saying "Hey, if all three of them bang, it's perfect!" No, no it's not.

[(Anonymous)]

OT, but does anyone have any OT3 film recs that have relationships that are fluffy and lasting?

[azure15.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a fan of threeways either, just because I have the crippling paranoia that one will end up getting left out. But each to their own!

I do feel you on the pairing/relationship changing halfway through. I remember there was this YGO author back in the day who wrote nothing but Kaiba/Serenity, but would always put a different pairing in her summary. Only for the start of the fanfiction to be 'lolz, [insert pairing here sucks], it's Silentshipping!!11'

[(Anonymous)]

Don't like it... don't read it

[(Anonymous)]

Late to this but, frankly, there's nothing wrong with disliking a certain pairing, set of pairings, or whatever in fic, OP. It's bullshit for anyone to say that you're somehow "wrong" for not liking something or that you're prejudice. Fic preferences does NOT (always) equal real life beliefs and/or choices and it's stupid to automatically assume they do.

On a personal note, I really disliked threesomes for a long time (despite having close friends who were in a happy, healthy poly relationship; I found them ridiculously adorable together) but then I finally stumbled onto a fic where the pairing just clicked for me in a big way and I enjoyed it immensely so I wouldn't completely shut out the possibility of one working for you someday too.