POV: Every triangle is a love triangle if you really love triangles
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This but unironically /s
Youre using POV in the wrongest way to hang a lantern on it and Im here for it.
If you really love triangles, it becomes a new sexual orientation.
Accute Love Triangle: Two people who are boning, but they wistfully pine for a third person from afar.
Obtuse Love Triangle: Two people pinning for the same third, when they'd be better off hooking up with each other.
Equilateral Love Triangle: When there is no age-gap discourse in the polycule.
Right Love Triangle: When the odd-couple finds the perfect person to square them off.
Stereographically Projected Love Triangle: A romantic Isekai
Non-euclidean love triangle: Both people who are currently together wish they were with the same third person who lives too far away for a relationship to work.
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The classic love triangle was with Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere, where both guys wanted the girl but were also best friends. Does that not qualify?
Ah, a triangle with a platonic base.
Great joke man! The unrelated Greek term plausibly masquarading as another geometical term, brilliant!
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Technically the triangle just refers to 'relationships' and not 'romantic relationships' so two male friends and one female love interest works as a triangle but one woman with two male strangers doesn't with because that's just a V.
I vote that it should. Sounds like good drama, the kind you'd expect seeing a love-triangle tag on a fancfiction site.
That is the standard of the love triangle. The two love rivals have to be friends with, or at least know, each other or else there is no tension between them for their love of the 2nd party. Or else every person talking to multiple people on dating apps is in a love n-gon. And love should never intersext with n-gons.
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❌ Love triangle
✅ Lust pentagram
I'm more into the Orgy dodecahedron
This is the way
Hmm, you could have a Mulan situation with one of the pairings 🤔
Where the dude is into effiminate guys, or ...?
The dude went to a drag queen show without understanding what the whole concept was
Gotcha. That accounts for one pairing. What about the other two? You'd need at least a double mulan situation in order to have a chance at an actually straight love triangle.
A = straight man who performs in drag shows, interested in B B = straight woman, interested in C C = straight man who doesn't know what a drag queen is and thinks they're women (a genderswapped Mulan situation), interested in A's drag persona
I have no idea if this is what python actually meant by "a Mulan situation" but now this feels like I'm trying to solve a sudoku or something
Huh. That'll do it. What about a triangle where each person has to decide between the other two (as in Hollywood where the girl is trying to choose between two guys, but with an actual triangle as noted in the image), but still remains straight?
Two drag queens, that each only know each other's persona, plus a straight woman?
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There's some Interesting graph theory problem somewhere in here about finding out if a network of N people in M relationships must include at least one gay person.
A relationship graph which requires no gay relationships is called a bigraph (honest, I'm not making this up) or bipartite.
That follows because if you can two color the graph so that edges only connect different colors, you just assign male to one color and female to the other.
This means there's a tone of mathematical identities describing this. Wikipedia has a good introduction.
Very neat. But the fun part of this is that if you're poly/into more than one person, you are now a part of the LGBT group, not the straight one.
Note the above image, where the triangle shape requires that every person be into another person, with the tension being that if it's cishet, they have to choose only one person.
We aren't checking to see if a shape with LGBT people works, we know those do. We are checking to see if a cishet triangle is even possible.
A relationship isn't LGBT; a person is. A cishet man who has two bi/pan female partners who date each other isn't LGBT because his partners are queer.
isn't cis het an identity, therefore someone could identify as heterosexual an be in a polycule, only fucking members of the opposite sexual.
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Even numbers are pretty easy to solve at least. They can be straight or lgbt.
I posit that any love shape that includes an odd number of participants requires some form of deception, or at least one LGBT person in order to be valid.
Is it a triangle if one of the sides is not straight though?
If all the sides are curved, it's a love circle
Or they are geodesics in non-euclidian space.
I.. don't know what this implies.
I'm a part of a love Calabi–Yau manifold.
Kalodin, Adolin, and Shalan (spelling is probably wrong, audiobooks of fantasy series) in the storm light archive are the greatest love triangle because each arrow is bidirectional
Brightlord Highmarshal Stormface is not in love with anyone, he just lets himself get dragged around so he can brood in different places
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I remember when I was a young lad seeing a magazine about some drama or another involving a 'love triangle', and, confused, asking my mother if one of the members of the triangle was gay, since I couldn't conceive how a love triangle could work otherwise.
If the love triangle in question does not have the potential for a threesome, it is not a triangle.
Wait this is great! I love my wife but she doesn't love me back! So all we need to do is find a person who she loves that then loves me so we can have threesomes!
Oh can't wait! I wonder 🤔 who this person will be!
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Correct
If we're just talking math, triangles can be defined in terms of 3-element subsets of all 3 (A)ngles and 3 (S)ides:
SSS - unique
SAS - unique
ASS - may be unique depending on the lengths of the sides
ASA - unique
SAA - unique
AAA - infinite solutions
Maybe someone cleverer than me can figure out how that maps on to love and gender.
...which instance is accidentalpolyamory on
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