cats in the library

i love girl genius they went the funniest possible way with the love triangle (polyamory)

Even before it became clear that poly was a viable and indeed preferred option, the fact that Girl Genius was super uninterested in having the dreaded YA trope of "which boy do I choose oh no" be a major plot point/character motivation/source of angst/timewaster did so much to endear it to me.

Agatha's approach of "I'm not dealing with this. I'm busy. I have work to do. You two deal with it" is iconic.

And that the plot and the characters have been given time to deal with it - to drift into the solution everyone will be happiest with, quite naturally, because that is what works for them - is something that quite frankly should be studied in schools.

Oh, there's LOADS of trope analysis on Girl Genius Tumblr. Stick around. We do that. ;) I wish I'd tagged it consistently on my page so I could direct you to some of it; unfortunately all I can do is gesture to the whole blog and say "have fun".

Fellow aroace here. There are multiple points at which I fell flat on my face for this series, but this page right here...

...down I went. Bought my loyalty forever, right here.

I'm here for the OT3 - I am so very much here for the OT3, I want to see them get there and be happy (and terrifying), endgame or we riot - but I am also so very much here for the OT3 having work to do, and doing it.

Me @ my friends: hi, I know you want something short, but have you considered reading this series that's been updating on a weekly basis since the year 2000 at the least.

The thing you need to understand about Girl Genius before you consider getting into it is that it's the sort of comic whose authors are 100% willing to pause the action not only mid-scene but mid-dialogue with a little note to the effect of "hey, we need to take a few days to go over our scripts and sort out some potential continuity issues with the back half of this arc, so in the meantime, here's a short non-canon side story to tide you over!", and then it's five months and sixty-seven pages later and that short non-canon side story is still going, and shows absolutely no signs of getting to the point any time soon.

You also need to understand that this isn't a hypothetical example. It's happening right now.