The three of us started a We are a polycule AMA. Comments have stopped flooding, so it's time to look back over the last three days.

We said in the intro post we wanted to "raise awareness" as Pride Month had started... but it was actually more on the subject of consensual incest than onto polyamory 😏 So it's been consanguinamory all along!

At least we didn't kill Sparky too.

We had to deal with a lot of hostility. Of course we expected it, but it was still harder to take than we thought. Matt, in particular, spent the second day alone managing the responses, and that's when we received the most violent attacks. He was emotionally a wreck by the time Elise and Solene got home in the evening. He soon recovered thanks to intensive cuddling treatment, so don't worry.

We suspected that a lot of the comments would be about incest, but we didn't think it would be this much. Almost all the comments were about it, even though we'd hoped to talk a little about the rest of our polycule. We were also expecting questions about Solene's sexual orientation. Which goes to show that when you're surrounded by friends who accept you as you are, you forget that most people have a visceral mental block about incest.

Matt got banned from r/polyamory after crosspublishing there. He forgot incest is forbidden there. His crosspublication on r/polyamorous was also removed (without explanation nor ban), even though incest is not forbidden on this subreddit. (Edit: Just got banned from r/nonmonogamy too but we don't understand which rule we're breaking.)

The exercise was therefore difficult, but not without interest. Some people were nicer than expected, we had some real discussions, and someone even seemed to change their mind a bit. We also received some very nice and supportive private messages (alongside other ones incredibly hateful, but that's life). We're thinking of doing it again in a while, maybe some months, assuming from the outset that we'll be talking about incest (since no one's interested in our polycule anyway 😢 ).

The prize for best punchline goes without a doubt to our Snarky Queen Apolline!

A guy who turned out to be pretty cool: Appolline is only 20. That’s quite young and she still needs her mom’s guidance and a safe space through early adulthood, not to be having orgasms together.

Apolline: Dude, I'm telling you, my mom only gives me orgasms when we’re in safe space and those guide me to heaven.

(Solene wants it noted that if she'd known it was a contest, she'd have applied herself and won - these two are insufferable, always bickering, we have no idea how they manage to be such good friends.)

This sub has grown a lot this last weeks, we're really happy to see this! In just over a month, it has more than doubled in size, which is impressive! We hope the commu will keep growing. Love one another, and never forget: the good thing about incest is that you keep it in the family.