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Or even better, a ‘love square with an x in it’. Everyone loves each other. Everyone is gay at some point.
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It's true. Without any homosexuality it isn't a love triangle, it's a love > >

This guy gets it >

I devised a theorem, It occurred to me while I was watching a YouTube video on Shakespeare's relatively lesser known comedy "Twelfth night"
"Any form of love triangle is impossible without some homosexuality"
 If it doesn't have any one attracted to the same gender at a it's not a love triangle.
It's a love bent line >

A love angle >

A love acute angle...
How a-cute >

A love triangle is when two people are competing for the affection of one person. Are you thinking of polyamory or menage a trios? >

I think they mean A loves B, but B loves C, but C loves A, while A doesn't love C, C doesn't love B and B doesn't love A. >

That's unfortunate. >

I mean, I see your point, but it's not a showerthought. You're trying to change the definition of a clearly established trope. >

Well, unless op thought about changing the definition of a clearly established trope while in the shower. >

That's not how showerthoughts work... does anyone actually read the rules?
Also happy cake day >

Thanks, but also, I didn't actually think op had the thought in the shower OR was trying to change the definition. 
Though the realization is one many have had (and so may violate the rule about the thought needing to be original), the realization that "love triangles" as we use the phrase does not represent an actual triangle may have been new to them and felt unique enough (from their perspective) to post here. >

What if one of the guys is secretly a crossdresser and the other has a crush on that secret identity unknowingly? >

It's late enough that I don't want to check, but the movie She's the Man may include a similar triangle >

Intersex people exist so, if they also consider themselves gender fluid and have both working parts...that could work right?