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Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago

So we all know about love triangles right? What if we add another party to the mix? Love quadrangle or love square?

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So we all know about love triangles right? What if we add another party to the mix? Love quadrangle or love square?

Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago
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  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
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    Spend enough time in polyamorous spaces and you see love shapes you cant even imagine

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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      You cannot grasp the true form of Polycule’s love!

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    love pyramid scheme where every love interest contributes two people interested in them but which they are disinterested in.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    It’s more a love V really

  • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    The generalization of a love triangle for n people is a n - 1 dimensional love simplex.

    • One person: Love point
    • Two people: Love line segment
    • Three people: Love triangle
    • Four people: Love tetrahedron
    • Five people: Love 5-cell (also called hypertetrahedron, pentachoron, etc.)

    Of course, more complicated shapes probably exist too

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      Love Klein bottle

    • mathemachristian [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      my problem with this is that these relationships cannot be adequately modeled as complete, nor even undirected graphs. A love K_3 has no conflict that is to be resolved, thats just a throuple, how is one to make a drama out of it? Same for a love K_4 or indeed any love K_n where n∈ℕ. We need more interesting graphs for romantic storytelling, more precisely, digraphs with lots of single directional edges that can over the course of the story be worked into a collection of disjoint complete digraphs where the K_1 is only permissible if it has a loop. Preferably the selfcentered inlaws.

      • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        That’s a good point. Perhaps an ordinary love triangle must also be presented as a directed graph, and thus all generalizations should be a directed graph which would be equivalent to the above shapes if the graph were undirected and complete.

  • himeneko [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.net
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    love tesseract

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Sounds like my kind of Saturday night.

  • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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    love pyramid

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    love tetrahedron

    • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]@hexbear.net
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      4 Dimensional Pentachoron of Love, Hate, and Indifference

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    love hendecagon where each side is one type of liberalism according to Mao

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Love hexadecagon

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Love dodecahedron

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    Love tetrahedron

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    love Feynman diagram

    >~<

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    and what if you add Samoa Joe into the mix

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      disaster

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    CCS hitting us with the Sakura and Xiaolang both crushing on Yukito while Tomoyo crushes on Sakura before Xiaolang switches over to crushing on Sakura, which I guess isn’t strictly a love square so much as a… uh… hmmm… (geometry isn’t my strong suit)

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    Lovagons.

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