Polymorph by Ari (explicit)

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Fandom: BUFFY
Pairing: Willow/Tara/Fred
Author on LJ: wisdomeagle
Author Website: various intentions (under construction)

Why this must be read:

I simply love Ari's metaphor for a threesome--a Venn diagram. And it makes so much sense to me that Fred would envision her relationship with graphs and charts. The POVs intertwine in such a way that the story itself is a Venn diagram, and it has a writerly, and stylish execution that I can really get behind.

Fred catalogues them in analogues, as antonyms, as like and unlike terms. She arranges them vertically, makes a Venn diagram, and in the overlapping center she writes the word "GIRLS" then crosses it out and replaces it with "WOMEN" and a thoughtful "?" as punctuation. In the circle where she and Willow overlap she writes the words "we have been with men" and draws crude stick figures of their respective men. She writes tiny fractions and derivatives in her and Willow's part of the circle, and decorates it with arc tangents and hamburgers, since in the Tara-alone circle, she's written the word "vegan" in her best script. Tara's circle is filled with lavender colored pencil and soft script and words like "sapphic" and "soft" and "innocent." At first she'd written "innocent" by Willow's name as well, but that night, Willow had scratched and bit and, her shoulder still throbbing and bruised, Fred has erased the word, leaving a purplish smear between Willow and Tara, along with "magic" and "loved each other first." She tries to draw magic, but there aren't enough shades of purple and gray in her set of colored pencils, not enough greeny blues to convey the way they sit and swirl elements around them, the way they summon the forces of nature.

Polymorph