POV: Every triangle is a love triangle if you really love triangles
128Accute 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
85Non-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.
39The fastest way do get from A to B is not a straight line but to bone C.
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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?
65Ah, a triangle with a platonic base.
71Technically 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.
16I vote that it should. Sounds like good drama, the kind you'd expect seeing a love-triangle tag on a fancfiction site.
8That 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.
5I had to remind myself that n-gons wasn't a self-censor.
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❌ Love triangle
✅ Lust pentagram
63I'm more into the Orgy dodecahedron
18This is the way
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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.
23A 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.
35Very 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.
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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.
7You and I have a different definition of interesting.
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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
15Brightlord Highmarshal Stormface is not in love with anyone, he just lets himself get dragged around so he can brood in different places
8Something something build bridges not walls
3Yeah but would he say that in front of Leshwi?
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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.
12If the love triangle in question does not have the potential for a threesome, it is not a triangle.
11Wait 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!
9Just make sure you can Chekov a Sociopath isn't the newbie who'll be the Pave looking for "you."
You need someone That Kind of technically superior like some fantasy futuristic.
3Sounds like a plan!
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I love you, but I can't promise your wife will love me :(
2Ok we gotta get this to work. But first questions first. Are you now or have you ever been a hottie? If male, is your penis at least 7.5"? These are very important questions. She's a hottie but it doesn't matter because you're supposed to love me, not her. But she's supposed to love you. Can you sign the backstreet boys songs? Or the songs from Pink? Are you a gambler but you keep your cool and regularly make a ton of money in the stock market? Anyway, as for me, I got the sad bod going. I'm not too tall, not too short, 6" penis. I'm at a good age. And I love to be loved. And I love to love. So we will definitely click. Man, this is going great 😃. So yeah, tell us which end you'll need from me and which end she can get from you! LOL.
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Ouu. Spicy take (though I agree). Post it on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world and get banned in one easy step
8Those sides should be bidirectional
7Is it really a triangle if the sides are vectors?
Maybe briefly
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Long long rule:
7Correct
6...which instance is accidentalpolyamory on
5If 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 solutionsMaybe someone cleverer than me can figure out how that maps on to love and gender.
5Why is she hogging the corner?
Those two dudes wanna smooch in that corner!3This is how I thought love triangles must work when I was a kid bc obviously, a triangle has 3 lines
2There's the German movie Drei by Tom Tykwer which is a perfect triangle in that sense
1Haha straights dumb haha
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