Are you mundanely monogamous? Humdrum-ish or not, if you’re only seeing one person, you’re a few steps south of old fashioned. In order to catch up to the culture, you might want to speed right past throuplehood and embrace the modern paradigm of the “polycule.”
From Bustle.com:
A portmanteau of “polyamory” and “molecule,” polycule refers to a connected network of non-monogamous relationships. This could be as small and simple as a vee relationship (aka a relationship involving three people, where one person is at the center of the V and is involved with both partners, while the other two partners who are not involved with each other), or it can be a complex, widespread network of people, all connected in some manner. Component parts of a polycule are sometimes referred to as “molecules.”
Such an atomically-oriented association was recently highlighted by Libs of TikTok. Via a provocative video, participant “Savvy” reviews her romantic roster:
“This is our polycule. … Me and Kyle have been together for eight years; we’ve been poly the whole time. … Me and Kyle are in a triad with Kit. We have been together, the three of us, for three years. … Me and Sam and Kit and Katie met around the same time. I started dating Sam — and Kit started dating Katie — around the same time. … And then…a little over a month ago, we moved everyone in together. So everyone lives in the same house now.”
To recap:
Triads
- Savvy, Kit, Kyle
- Savvy, Kit, Sam
Couples
- Savvy, Sam
- Katie, Kit
If a triad goes away from the group, is it considered a gonad? Savvy doesn’t make that clear, but she details the dynamics between those not eminently entwined:
“Katie and I…don’t really have, like, romantic feelings towards each other. We have a huge platonic love for each other, and we’re really great friends. Kit and Sam are literally the same person, and they’re best friends. … [T]hey don’t really have a romantic love, but they have a platonic love for each other.”
Two members are maladroit:
“Katie and Kyle — I won’t speak for them; I really don’t know. … They’re the two, like, ‘awkwards’ of the group, where they just, like, finger-gun on each other all the time, you know?”
As for Kyle and Sam, “They just bro it out.”
Savvy makes sure to profile each participant’s pronouns:
- Savvy = she/her
- Sam = he/him
- KT (biological female) = they/them
- Kit (biological female) = they/he
- Kyle = he/him
Societal collapse pic.twitter.com/nlOM6cERB1
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 11, 2022
The quintet’s clustering is no surprise; regarding relations, humanity is on the move:
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For those wondering how Savvy’s molecular mob sleeps, it seems flexibility is part and parcel of a polycule:
“(It) depends on, like, work and schedules and everything. But for the most part, the goblins — who are Katie and Kit — they sleep in the same room. Me and Sam sleep in the same room. And then Kyle just rotates between the two rooms and…the upstairs room — because he has insomnia and never sleeps. … We also just, like, rotate through…”
Bottom line — beware the polycule dutch oven:
“[I]t just gets really hot if a lot of people sleep in one bed.”
Hopefully, they’ll all stay cool — all seven of them; the carnal coalition also includes a couple of children:
“We…have two kids, but we don’t show them on TikTok. … [Kyle and Kit and I] have one child together, and she’s five. … [S]am has a son, who also moved in.”
Savvy totals up the creatures cohabitating. The liberal lovers, apparently, also love animals:
“[T]otal, there are five adults, two kids, two dogs, eleven cats.”
Maybe the bunch rotates Litter Box Duty as well. Either way, people used to say, “Three is a crowd.” These days, perhaps, five is fantastic.
-ALEX
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