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Poly! Poly! Poly! Poly!
MONO FTWOlive branch handed, friendship received.
Don't pollute this with polyps.
They are rather nasty creatures when you study them better.
What? Do people think I'm being sarcastic or something? I'm genuinely happy with this guy for picking this up, and thankful for any other groups that pick up the series I left hanging. I never said anyone had to contact me for permission or anything.didn’t they mention you lot made an PUBLIC post? way contact you if you are already announce to stop translating?!?!
My only guess is that they didn't realize because their English needs work.What? Do people think I'm being sarcastic or something? I'm genuinely happy with this guy for picking this up, and thankful for any other groups that pick up the series I left hanging. I never said anyone had to contact me for permission or anything.
Jokes aside it definitely gives off a certain vibe when folks push for poly stuff, idk why but it's giving harem fetish disguised as poly representation, at least when it's said about characters who would lose half their development arc or characterization if they just went and said "forget this person I've been pining for, group relationship! With the one she loves most and I'll be happy to be treated as a well-loved consolation."Olive branch handed, friendship received.
Don't pollute this with polyps.
They are rather nasty creatures when you study them better.
As a poly person myself, the reason I often hope for a poly outcome is that it has virtually no representation in anime and manga.Jokes aside it definitely gives off a certain vibe when folks push for poly stuff, idk why but it's giving harem fetish disguised as poly representation, at least when it's said about characters who would lose half their development arc or characterization if they just went and said "forget this person I've been pining for, group relationship! With the one she loves most and I'll be happy to be treated as a well-loved consolation."
Like let's keep it real, the majority of these girls want standard monogamous romance. Settling as a harem member who is able to be attracted to the main wife isn't poly rep, it's just male gaze harem given a sapphic coat of paint. I will die on this hill.
Respectfully I don't think you heard me at all lol.As a poly person myself, the reason I often hope for a poly outcome is that it has virtually no representation in anime and manga.
Yeah, there's harems all around, and isekai has given us a lot of questionable polygamy, but actual polyamory? Nowhere to be found.
Which is kind of what you were saying: you don't like harems masquerading as poly. I don't either! That's why it would be so great to see stories actually go a poly route. But it seems Japan isn't ready for that yet.
But you make a bad assumption about how a poly story would develop. Why would it have to end up as a "real" relationship and an "also"? Yeah, if that's how they did it, I'd be disappointed too. That's not what I'm asking for when I want a poly outcome. I want to see a collection of strong and meaningful relationships develop between characters, without forcing characters to focus on one because that's what the "rules" say.
You know why so much fanfiction is gay? Because the interest is not sated by what's commercially available. Well, the same can be said for poly romance. There's a considerable demand which goes continually unfulfilled. So of course, whenever a situation arises with the potential to work out that way, the people starving for poly stories are hoping that maybe, maybe, this time...
But it never does.
Just wanted to let you know you're very, very wrong about this. People do get disowned by their families for it. People can lose their jobs. It is not a protected characteristic (speaking from a US perspective).Like yeah, society doesn't really praise open/poly relationships, but you don't have folks going "I might have more love than for just one person" and getting bigoted reactions.