[ SECRET POST #2538 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2538 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

09. http://i.imgur.com/L8VUKyB.png

[forgottenjester]

I'm sorry. All I can think about when I see your secret is the Power Puff Girls because of your font. It made me really happy.

As for your actual secret? I don't mind them if they're done well. The problem is that a lot of times I feel like writers shove one in even if they don't really fit the story because it's what expected of them. So they're not done well as a result. But a love triangle itself doesn't have to be bad. Like any literary tool it's how it's used that matters.

So don't worry about it and ignore conversations about it. Less stress on your end that way.

Secret 9 - Love triangles in fiction

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is a drawing of a triangle with the "W" and "C" corners in love with the "F" corner, plus a bunch of red hearts bubbling up on the right.]

Seeing love triangles everywhere made me hate them, but I think I'm starting to get sick of people complaining about them.

And maybe I don't actually mind them too much.

Re: Secret 9 - Love triangles in fiction

[(Anonymous)]

I dislike love triangles, "will they, won't they" themes, and pretty much anything where some contrived obstacles are introduced so that the romance plot can be dragged out longer.

TBH, I like romance in books, but I'm not big on "romance for its own sake" in TV and movies. I'd prefer that the shippy stuff be a sub-plot, not the main focus.

Unlike many people, it seems, I also like "established relationship" fic more than fics about the start of a relationship.

I can recall only two "will they, won't they" or "love that takes a long time to finally happen" stories that I actually enjoy, and that's Jim/Pam on The Office and Mary/Matthew on Downton Abbey.

[elaminator]

I'm trying to remember a love triangle I didn't hate. So far I've got nothing. Most the time I absolutely loathe them. So...sorry if I contributed to this problem?

[(Anonymous)]

Initially I thought this secret would be about the Powerpuff Girls. Huh.

[feotakahari]

I always find myself wishing they would just have a threesome and get it over with.

[charming_stranger]

Same, except I wish for poly relationships.

ETA: Although I even more often wish the person in the middle would choose someone else entirely, or stay single. Funny how, when two people keep fighting over a third person, none of them usually seems like an ideal romantic partner.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind love triangles, but so many times when they show up, they're just love angles, like in your secret. a-->b-->c-->a is interesting in fiction, a and b --> c really isn't, imo.

[(Anonymous)]

I think a and b --> c can be interesting, but it's way overexposed because every YA book since Twilight had to have it.

And I'd like a and b -->c better if it weren't always from c's perspective. I don't think I've ever seen a book with the a-->c<--b perspective where c chooses a and the book's from b's point of view, for example.

[feotakahari]

Not a book, but the movie The Baxter explores b's perspective.

[(Anonymous)]

I love love triangles in theory. But I hate them in fiction, because uhg why bother even being a triangle when it's completely obvious who the MC ends up with in the end anyway?

The type of triangles I like the most anyway, are A->B->C . Even more so complicated shapes like A->B->C->D->A

[feotakahari]

I can't remember the title, but there's a great MLP fic where each of the six main characters is in love with one of the others, and they all plan to confess their love at their get-together that night. It ends sadly, but hilariously.

[(Anonymous)]

Aw too bad you can't remember! I would absolutely love to read it!

[diet_poison]

I wish I could see that!

Who was in love with who? Do you remember?

[feotakahari]

Finally found it! It took more than half an hour to dig it up. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/43469/icebergs

[diet_poison]

wow, thanks for finding it!

I read it all and...there...wasn't an ending? It was kinda good (even if not all the characters were written very well) but I expected some kind of explosion, not this...nobody knows what happens or what they said lol

[feotakahari]

Shortskirtsandexplosions is infamous for only giving his fics a proper ending if the main characters die horribly. (It's one of the reasons I don't follow him, even though he's relatively popular.)

[(Anonymous)]

The prevalence of people complaining about love triangles in fiction is much more annoying to me than love triangles in of themselves.

Maybe that's because I basically like love triangles, though, and only get annoyed at them when I can't find anything to read that doesn't feature them.

[ninety6tears]

I like love triangles okay. I think it's irritating that we even need the label for something as vague as one person having more than one "love interest" (an even vaguer term) when that's a just plain realistic thing. Obviously the way that marketing has made it into a big THING (like in YA novels) makes a number of the stories feel too contrived but I'm tired of hearing people trash the whole concept like it's impossible for it to be written well. Especially when it's like "As if romance is gonna be significant to anyone in a post-apocalyptic setting." When people are dying and emotions are running high, why the fuck couldn't it be? (Also, The Stand always comes to mind when people say that, because the resolution of a love triangle in that book manages to be a spectacularly significant moment of character growth and I will stan that subplot forever.)

[purpleseas]

I usually don't like them because I can't see what the big deal is about the person the other two are in love with. There's a sort of developing one in Hannibal, but that's really funny/scary because the guy who looks like the better option from the outside also happens to be a cannibalistic serial killer, oops!

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I dislike them because usually what is labeled as a "love triangle" is two people fighting over who will get the third person. I tend to find stories of that type either tiresome or downright upsetting if I like both of the competing characters.

Guess what I RP? A poly V. Two people share a third! They don't fight over him! Yay!

I also am a huge fan of threesomes.

(Note: All relationship models depend on exactly who the characters involved are. I may like a triangle story if the winner is the person I like with the one being fought over. Some pairings I cannot see either of being willing to share the other with someone else. Some threesomes just don't appeal to me.)

[(Anonymous)]

I get annoyed at love triangles when it feels like some female jealousy or just plain "women always need a romantic plotline" needs to be shoehorned in to a story that doesn't need it. Glad Thor 2 managed to not go too far down that route. On the other hand, in Witches of East End, I am fine with it because I feel like its significant to the unfolding mystery. As for the Hunger Games trilogy, I don't know how it ends and don't tell me, but I feel it's a bit "meh" - I love the main character but am not super-invested in which awesome-but-so-different-from-one-another boy she ends up with. Preferably neither, just for kicks.

[(Anonymous)]

"women always need a romantic plotline" needs to be shoehorned in to a story that doesn't need it."

WORD. I really dislike that type of thing.

[diet_poison]

eh I generally don't care for them, with some exceptions, but they're not like The Worst Thing Ever to me.

are the letters in the triangle supposed to stand for something?