POV: Every triangle is a love triangle if you really love triangles

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

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?

❌ Love triangle

✅ Lust pentagram

Hmm, you could have a Mulan situation with one of the pairings 🤔

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.

Is it a triangle if one of the sides is not straight though?

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

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!

Ouu. Spicy take (though I agree). Post it on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world and get banned in one easy step

Long long rule:

https://youtu.be/6-1Ue0FFrHY?si=x8bJ9mW_AyYZSDyW

Those sides should be bidirectional

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