With often wildly inconsistent rules/world building. Some people are really in to "my biological clock says we must fuck now, random stranger" and some are into "the smell of you means you are my true destined mate forever" but you can also probably find a fic to fill in any point between those two ends, which might themselves sometimes be the same fic.
Not so much sex pollen because in its most classic form the A/B/O designations shape interpersonal relationships and societal structures in their entirety, the heat/rut phase is just one part of that.
If you want to get down to the historical nitty-gritty, it's actually a merger of influences from, on the one hand, the Vulcan Pon Farr lore in Star Trek canon, and on the other hand werewolf lore, which I'd guess at the time was at least somewhat influenced by Wolfstar (Remus/Sirius) fic tropes in Harry Potter but of course werewolf fic has older and broader origins.
The first omegaverse fics in the sense that we think of it today came out of J2/Supernatural RPF.
I'm sorry you really want to give unsolicited slick bussy to random strangers and people are saying you should maybe rethink that position. That must be quite difficult for you.
I mean, I've never actually written omegaverse in Yuletide, I just think it would be okay to write for a blank sign-up. But I've also never written anything that's just like canon in Yuletide, and unless the recip actively requests it, I'm not going to.
Busybodies on an anon meme saying I need to rethink my approach and getting their parties in a bunch over it isn't difficult for me at all. If they're not receiving the fic they want and they also feel unduly pressured by being told 'then actually state your preferences and DNWs', that's very much a them problem.
Re: so who's trying to bang out their assignment before the US election
I mean, the terms "alpha" "beta" and "omega" are what they are, and the abbreviation is used less now that people have become aware that it's a slur. I do think it's telling that no one ITT but the omegaverse hating coalie is actually using it, which tells me everything about them that I need to know.
I'm currently using This Podcast Will Kill You, Black Box Down, Scary Interesting, Well There's Your Problem (if you can handle the news segments), and Calamity! (if you can handle the not-great recording quality) as my bedtime reading. But there's others.
⬆️ this is why you shouldn't write omegaverse unrequested, it's basically a crossover with a huge and complicated fan-created universe that makes no sense without context and the sort of people who do blank signups are likely to be too oblivious to live (no offense, coalie).
Hey, same! Only I'm hoping to write a treat, and am therefore faced with the dilemma of never having a works count of exactly 100 if I have two Yuletide fics revealed together.
It's a combo of soulbond, pon farr, d/S AU, werewolf kink, and mpreg, basically. And occasionally other stuff dropped in just for fun, there's often little bits I recognize from Sentinel AU too. Except at this point there's such a huge variety of stuff put under the tag that basically all you can guarantee is there'll be at least one character who is called an "omega" as an extra gender category.
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