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So obviously, the F/K/V movement is sweeping the nation (read: my flist), and it's making me kind of sad. Not because I think OT3s are BAD and WRONG, which I very much do not, but because I'm kinda just... not that into it. Which is a sad thing to be in fandom, you know? Everyone else is all excited and busy and inspired, and I am the poor wallflower who is just not that into it.
And it's not just Due South, either. No matter how well written and awesome a story is, I am really not good at enjoying threesomes. Maybe it's the same issue I have with OTPs, come to think of it. I'm completely in favor of freaky rarepairs and alternate readings and playfulness; and yet with certain fandoms, all that fun and creativity just doesn't seem accessible to me, because I'm so busy worrying about what the other member of the pairing is doing. (Harry Potter and popslash are examples of fandoms that are polypairing for me; Due South and Stargate Atlantis are not.) It's not that I won't read stuff on principle because it's not my OTP, but it's pretty consistently true that messing with my favorite pairing messes with my enjoyment of a story.
GroupSlutFics and orgies do not hit the same blah buttons, for some reason – I guess because they are almost always Porn with a capital P. But a long-term, happy, viable romantic relationship between more than two people isn't something I'm wired for.
And the thing of it is, I hate that I have strict OTPs. It cuts me off from a lot of great fiction and writers, as well as aligning me with a certain breed of fangirl that I happen to detest. It's limiting, and lame, and closed-minded. But there it is.
And it's not just Due South, either. No matter how well written and awesome a story is, I am really not good at enjoying threesomes. Maybe it's the same issue I have with OTPs, come to think of it. I'm completely in favor of freaky rarepairs and alternate readings and playfulness; and yet with certain fandoms, all that fun and creativity just doesn't seem accessible to me, because I'm so busy worrying about what the other member of the pairing is doing. (Harry Potter and popslash are examples of fandoms that are polypairing for me; Due South and Stargate Atlantis are not.) It's not that I won't read stuff on principle because it's not my OTP, but it's pretty consistently true that messing with my favorite pairing messes with my enjoyment of a story.
GroupSlutFics and orgies do not hit the same blah buttons, for some reason – I guess because they are almost always Porn with a capital P. But a long-term, happy, viable romantic relationship between more than two people isn't something I'm wired for.
And the thing of it is, I hate that I have strict OTPs. It cuts me off from a lot of great fiction and writers, as well as aligning me with a certain breed of fangirl that I happen to detest. It's limiting, and lame, and closed-minded. But there it is.
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The only OT3 I've ever read and really liked was original fic by a couple of former fanfic writers who are now publishing their own (and others) original stuff. It's probably because I was introduced to those characters as a threesome whereas in fanfic I'm a dyed in the wool OTPer in most fandoms I read.
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Period. End of sentence. I'm just stubborn that way.
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this describes me as well. I quite like a slutty threesome (particularly John/Rodney/Teyla-or-Ronon, or team!sex) but it's the romantic part that doesn't jibe with myself sense of rightness. Porn is for the hotness, but a romance is too much dance between two people, a duality, for me to really buy it happily. One against and with another: it's why I enjoy reading romantic fic.