I really wish more people remembered that a three person relationship is NOT just one relationship.
I suspect a lot of people who are swept up in new-fannish joy have no practical experience with polyamory and haven't thought about the practicalities of the attendant issues as much as we wish they would. (Note that this sentence is true if you substitute just about anything in for "polyamory"; I'm not judging OT3 fans specifically.)
I've become rather more invested in having poly relationships in fiction that at least somewhat resemble the ones in real life. Gosh, I can't think why. ;)
I think part of why so many of my stories are (relatively) open-ended without implying that everything is going to be okay forever, world without end, is that that's my conception of *real life,* and I find too much tidiness un-suspends my disbelief.
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Date: 2010-04-14 05:51 pm (UTC)I suspect a lot of people who are swept up in new-fannish joy have no practical experience with polyamory and haven't thought about the practicalities of the attendant issues as much as we wish they would. (Note that this sentence is true if you substitute just about anything in for "polyamory"; I'm not judging OT3 fans specifically.)
Gosh, I can't think why. ;)
I think part of why so many of my stories are (relatively) open-ended without implying that everything is going to be okay forever, world without end, is that that's my conception of *real life,* and I find too much tidiness un-suspends my disbelief.