invisible third

[wisdomeagle]

Working on the endless importing of all my fic into Ao3, and #Invisible Third why am I the only person using this tag? Is there some other phrase for it of which I'm unaware? ("Triangulation," but that only has one use.) Surely people frelling/kissing/dating/marrying each other because the person they're mutually interested in is unavailable/

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[ginevra_alessa]

I don't think of that often and I didn't know there was a phrase (or more than one even) for it. It makes me think of Alice and Lara on the L Word and I guess Rayanne and Jordan on MSCL? There are probably a bunch more examples in various media that I can't think of right now, but I don't think I've ever found it in a fanfic. Sounds interesting. You learn something new every day!

[raedbard]

*tries to remember either 'triangulation' or 'invisible third' (I think I've used 'triangulation' before to describe this kink but possibly only in my head?) when I next write Sam/Huck*

Which seems to indicate that I didn't know there was a name for it. Yanno, other than 'this fucked up this that I write sometimes ...' which hardly narrows it down.