I think this is true 80% of the time: I do think that the "Never love triangles, always OT3s" statement is more of a broad-strokes general statement of being sick of overdone stupid love triangles than a literal belief that every single love triangle is best solved by polyamory.
But I also understand why it can hit people who have been evangelized to as an obnoxious one-size-fits-all statement. I have certainly been in fandoms where there is an expectation that OT3s solve everything, in alllll the meta and fanworks, and usually I enjoy the OT3 but there's no room for genuinely not liking one of the ships or characters in the love triangle and wanting to do something with two of the characters on their own. So even without someone anonymously insisting they're doing fandom wrong, I understand people getting annoyed with the implied/unconscious prescriptivism that comes across.
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Re: wank containment area
Date: 2018-08-10 10:43 pm (UTC)Yeah, exactly.
I think this is true 80% of the time:
I do think that the "Never love triangles, always OT3s" statement is more of a broad-strokes general statement of being sick of overdone stupid love triangles than a literal belief that every single love triangle is best solved by polyamory.
But I also understand why it can hit people who have been evangelized to as an obnoxious one-size-fits-all statement. I have certainly been in fandoms where there is an expectation that OT3s solve everything, in alllll the meta and fanworks, and usually I enjoy the OT3 but there's no room for genuinely not liking one of the ships or characters in the love triangle and wanting to do something with two of the characters on their own. So even without someone anonymously insisting they're doing fandom wrong, I understand people getting annoyed with the implied/unconscious prescriptivism that comes across.