Favorite sources with canon poly / Favorite sources for headcanoned poly. Tell us all about that media that makes poly shipping fun!Only canon poly today!
* Fairy tales and legends: more of them are good for poly that you'd imagine. My fave fairy tales with a canon OTP ending are
Gold-tree and Silver-tree and
Princess Badoura* Some webcomics! The first I read was
Chester 5000 XYV, an erotic steampunk story where the first part had a love triangle that didn't end up happily, and I was so happy when the second arc ended in a happy OT3!
And then there was
Muted, that ends up with the main witch girl escaping her abusive family supported by her two girlsfriends. And
Love me to Death, wher a necromancer is hired by a rich man to resurrect his girlfriend, and ends up part of their story when she comes back, but with a soulbond to him.
* Fantasy books! I loved N.K. Jemisin's
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, where god romances work by triads; only two of them, and there's risk for the balance to be broken. And also Jacqueline Carey's
Kushiel's Legacy, when the main girl is a sex worker and has a main love interest but it doesn't stop her from having feelings and sex with quite a few other people.
* TV shows! Everyone already mentioned
Sense8, which is perfect for poly, and there was also talk about
Our Flag means death, which had very good poly setting in s1 but didn't keep all its promises in s2. But I also want to mention
Black Sails, where the poly relationships are as tragic as the not-poly ones but they're diverse and they really work well. When we see Miranda and Flint in the first season, I was like, they're too intimate to be exes, too bitter to be friends with benefits, not intimate enough for lovers, what are they exactly, and when it was revelead they were in a poly relationship with the same guy and avenging him together it was
perfect, and there's also Jack/Anne/Max, and the outright fail that is Eleanor/Max and Eleanor/Vain in s1, but romantic and jealousy is
never the problem (they have a lot of other problems).