one big thing about polyshipping for me is, like. you know how some people will have their eyes opened to homoerotic relationships in media bc they'll realize, "wait, if these people were two different genders, i'd 100% assume they're into each other. i have a double standard that i never noticed"?
there's a polyamorous equivalent in certain media that's basically just. "if you didn't assume this character is monogamous, you would 100% believe they have crushes on & are dating all of their friends." OR, "if this character wasn't dating somebody else already, you would 100% interpret this new friendship of theirs as a crush/budding romance."
usually the creators of the media aren't thinking about polyamory when they make it! usually the creators of the media are thinking "i want this character's friends to be as important to them as their romantic partners, we don't get enough of that in media," which is great and true and also EXACTLY WHY IT WORKS AS A POLY NARRATIVE. people will be like you don't Have to polyship why can't you just let platonic relationships be important ugh 🙄 & i'm like i did my years in the "why can't two men just be friends why does everything have to be gay 🙄" trenches. you're not doing this to me. we're not doing it about polyshipping. we're skipping over that whole discourse cutscene because i am Too Tired For It. don't even start
sometimes characters are so full of love and affection and joy for so many people that i start gnawing off my hands about how polyamory isn't normalized. because i'll watch/read certain media and i'll be like. listen. this is a polycule. i know you don't know this because your creators don't know this and that is totally okay but you are a Wildly polyamorous person who's ambiguously trapped in the 2000s/2010s with Big Monogamy psyops eating your brain. please let me free you. please i can give you Everything .
PLEASE KISS YOUR FRIENDS
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i hope daniel hart knows when he wrote the lyrics ruin each other like star-crossed lovers your pelléas my mélisande he physically altered the structure of my brain
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listening to the locked tomb audiobooks is incredibly enriching (phenomenal narration, audio is best for me to imagine a book vs reading it) and so painful. what do you mean it's going to take me 9 more hours to finish nona. the stakes are just ramping up i should be able to demolish it in one evening as god intended.
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I just rewatched ep 4 (which was very healing for my soul, it had been too long) and I noticed for the first time that when they're at Tragic Mick's, Niko notices the bear charm and asks about it, and Tragic Mick very firmly tells her it's not for sale.
(In addition, when the boys first go to Tragic Mick's, the camera lingers on the bear charm then, too)
It's fun to see that plot point laid out so clearly from the start, and to know that the trinket that intrigues Niko on this first visit is what ultimately saves her. But it also makes you think, like, Tragic Mick was saving that until just the right person came along, someone who really needed and deserved it, and just by listening to his story, Niko became that person.
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Wait, hold that thought, let me discuss this with the voice inside my head. I'll get back to you in a moment.
(-Arthur Lester, probably)
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