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I've been thinking, since Ani asked me what it was I liked about writing threesomes, quite what the appeal was to me. I've only just successfully pinned it down.

It isn't the threesome at all - I'm not particularly interested in three of my favourite guys together, oddly enough - what fascinates me is the dynamic that such a fic allows between the canon love interest and the fanon one.

I can point to many examples of this: Jack/Will/Elizabeth for example. Where the pairing that actually interests me is Jack/Elizabeth, but I can't divorce that from Jack/Will and Will/Elizabeth.

And it isn't only there. Obi-Wan/Anakin/Padme. Viggo/Orlando/Kate. What fascinates me is the creation of a dynamic that accepts that those two people don't belong together without the man that they both love. And yet still allows them to have sex. And at one level he doesn't have to be there. I want to write Sibylla with Godfrey and with Tiberias, for example.

I've played with writing this dynamic myself, but it's something I only very rarely get to read because so few other people do.

So: can anyone recommend me threesome fics (or pairings, where the central he isn't there) with this dynamic? Or does anyone just have an opinion to pass on it?


EDIT: Darling Razzle just wrote me Viggo/Orlando/Keira GUH!