What are you doing here?
on July 5, 2016 at 12:01 amChapter: Sign of the Apocalypse
Location: Squad 128's apartment
In recent years, I’ve noticed a groundswell of Internet folks sayin’ how much they hate love triangles, how they’re awful and overplayed.
WELL TOUGH
I THINK LOVE TRIANGLES ARE GREAT
HAVE A SHITLOAD OF LOVE TRIANGLES
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IF YOU LOVE THEM SO MUCH WHY DON’T YOU MARRY THEM
whoa wait
Oh look, somebody is jealous.
Which is fucking weird because you’d think he would be more concerned about his sister going M.I.A and on the Train to full blown Crazy Town right now.
Walky ditched a mission so he could go find Joyce’s college friends and let 12 SEMME agents die horribly.
Prioritizing is not his thing.
Walky, you’re not doing a good job of making yourself look like a better choice than the guy who slammed a door in her face.
What we’ve got here appears to be a love quadrilateral at the very least.
Of course, I barely remember a thing about this comic, so it’s entirely possible that what’s going to happen is a piling of love triangles upon love triangles until we end up with a Dostoyevsky-worthy love fractal.
Eventually even the characters involved will require diagrams.
I’m rather a fan of the two-person love square, myself. Shame it only really works with superheroes and magical girl shows most of the time.
Walky, you started dating Dina because Joyce wasn’t what you were expecting, then chose Dina again to not break her heart. You don’t have much room to complain here.
He’s gonna do it anyways
Originally posted:
October 17, 2001
Also,
I seriously wonder how common love triangles, and other polygonal shapes (heck even non-polygonal shapes), are in real life.
Because I can count at least two that happened to me before I was 20.
I had three that involved the same guy. I ended up marrying the common vertex of the 3rd (long after that triangle had devolved into individual dots) and have kept that going for nearly 26 years so far.
I may have gotten the last laugh, though, as there’s a decent chance I may be the father of “his” child (completely accidental, I swear to god).
They are rather plentiful really even if we just limit ourselves to couples and not any polyamorous constructs and we eliminate one sided interests..
I like how you accidentally gave Joyce a way better boyfriend than the one she ended up with.
Seriously I luv Joyce/Walky but Joe/Joyce was so cool that I’m so dang happy it’s getting another shot in DoA.
I remember Willis making a blog post way back when he was thinking about doing a strip about college life again and how he missed the Roomies characters and such. He also wondered how Joe/Joyce would have turned out so we just might get to see it.
I ship it.
I ship Dina/Anything except a certain item that did quite a bang-up job. (I hate myself for that joke, and not for the first reason you might thing.
Perfect straitjacket posture there, Walky!
Love triangles? You should go for a love tesseract.
Well love triangles suck… but Poly triangles… those are amaz.
Threesomes solve everything.
Gah it’s summertime I don’t want to do geometry
Honestly I have more of a problem with how a lot of love triangles feel really inorganic and cliched. I don’t really have that problem with any Wakverse/dumbverse triangles.
For me the Walkyverse love triangles peaked when Mike created his own in Shortpacked! Just to screw with people.
All of them felt alright in Its Walky! Though. Shortpacked! Felt like it had some forced ones.
Love triangles are lame.
Five points. That’s where things go from ‘lame’ to ‘AWESOME’.
I was zoning out while reading the commentary, and I couldn’t figure out where all these triangles that you love were supposed to be.
Wait… so they dislike one of the most basic plots in existence because it’s “overused”?
That’s about two steps removed from hating a story because there’s a conflict in it and you think conflicts of any kind are hackneyed and overdone. It’s like… I mean, come on, people. Common plot elements are common because they have worked for sometimes thousands of years. Anyone who specifically hates love triangles gets as much notice as a valid critic from me as your average rabid badger.
That’s unfair to rabid badgers, I think.
I dunno, isn’t that basically what modern AUs are? “Hey, this story has stuff like an interesting setting and conflict, let’s throw them into a boring world where nothing matters.”
Past me was stupid, slice of life can be great.
(Also, love triangles are often poorly handled, but when they’re good they can be great.)
I thought of your love triangles more of ‘Emotional triangles that help the characters kinda grow as people and make the story more interesting’.
…having read through DoA, I can only think of one or two actual love triangles. Plenty of “will this relationship work or won’t it,” but actual triangles not so much, really.