love triangles are weird

[demeter918]

I think I'm getting old, but I'm always a little mystified by love triangles in fiction. It seems to be most prevalent in young adult fiction, but there's definitely plenty of it everywhere else.

I mean. Come on. It's difficult enough these days to find one person who's just for you; how does one even deal with two? Wouldn't it be incredibly hard to find yourself in love with two people? Yeah, you could say it's 'romantic' or that there's just a part of you that will always be with the other person you didn't choose, but... I don't think that's a good thing.

Love's pretty crap, man. It's like this horrible thing that punches you in the eye and then uppercuts you like a pixelated scene from Street Fighter II when you're staggering back in excruciating pain.

Or this could be the crankyoldmaid in me talking. WHO KNOWS?

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[demeter918.livejournal.com]

Twilight plays a huge part, but what's really interesting is that, if you think about it, a lot of female-oriented fiction and media does that as well. Including those that aren't targeted at the younger females, which I initially thought was the major problem.

I was looking over the recommendations of a Young Adult Reading List, and a lot of them had that dreaded three-way love triangle, which surprised me. Though it shouldn't, because yeah, of course, these are young adult novels and it's just a fantasy; most outgrow the idea and know that it's silly, that it doesn't really work like that, that drama is waaaay over-rated.

ARGH, what am I even talking about. Sometimes I confuse myself.

I'll have to look up his works! I actually have a graphic novel version of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" that I got as a gift, so I need to crack that open!