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AYRT Huge polyshipper with similar tendencies here (take out the het or make them all date, usually!) and I totally agree. One size doesn't fit all. 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. Of nothing else, surely my fellow polyshippers must sometimes dislike one of the characters involved and not want to inflict them on their faves? Surely? But I can see why it would get up the noses of people who have run into a different kind of annoyance than I have.

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AYRT

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.

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ayrt

Yes, exactly. I've felt judged by people who are really super against poly ships before, but I've also seen OT3s where I'm like "what, no! why would you?" or "eh well I guess? but I don't really care about one of them." So I can see how a bias in one's fandom circles for or against an OTP or OT3 could really get annoying, especially if there was bullshit about how not doing it the juggernaut way was -ist for whatever reason. Also, smugness is annoying (though I do find "being smug" to be one of those irregular verbs, where I have a happy-place headcanon, you are convinced your way of shipping is the best, and they are smug fuckers who need to be knocked down from their juggernaut high horse).

But agreed on prescriptivism. There's almost always an exception when it comes to the trends in how I ship. I mean, right now I've got a ship situation where I ship A/B, B/C, and A/C (also A/D, A/E, and C/E), including some of them concurrently, and I still have a hard time wrapping my head around A/B/C as a triad. Even though I tend to multiship and enjoy threesomes and various other poly configurations.