sometimes i have strong opinions but they're also so inane that halfway through writing a post i'll be like "yeah, this is Absolutely not worth the energy it's taking" and delete everything. but then the opinion is still in my head. and i still want to share it. so within five minutes i go "you know, i bet i can phrase it more succinctly this time" and anyway. you all see where this is going. sometimes i do this four times in a row before i give up on the specific inane opinion and instead write a vague post about the concept of opinions as if that'll satisfy the urge to post the entirety of my inner monologue online. may or may not be relevant to what you're reading right now. and now all our lives have been enriched. you're welcome
unofficial english translation (by fluff) (I apologize in advance if there's any errors, please let me know if there is!!
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EP 1: (will link when finished)
(note: using "-" notation for dialogue and ** for sfx, () for thought bubbles)
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[A portion of the contents have been adapted based on the flow of the original work.]
Have you ever gotten really, really into something?
I don't mean simply,
"Oh, this is fun",
But something that leaves you with a deep, lasting impression..
(text inside brain: i'll buy it i'll buy it i'll buy it xN)
Something you've even spent time and money on.
To give an example...
I mean something you're willing to buy merch for.
<Darkness Exploration Records.>
It's an internet ghost story universe that's been a viral hit sensation lately.
Why? It's a collaborative, open-source universe filled with various ghost stories, where people can create and contribute their own stories as they like.
This niche site used to only be visited by high schoolers in the early days,
but now its popularity has exploded like crazy after getting picked up by the wetube(youtube) algorithm.
Filled with exploration records of a wide variety of supernatural phenomenon referred to as "darknesses",
It now consists of hundreds of thousands of ghost stories.
It happens to be really fun...
-I see you're sleeping here. *clack*
-You sure are working hard, aren't you.
...to read at work.
Should I say that doing anything other than work when you're at work is all fun?
So just like that, I've gotten totally sucked into this universe,
and I've even arrived at the point where I've contributed my own original ghost stories.
And I've even ended up coming here...
to "That Place".
*vine boom*
*bam ba-ba bam!*
*ba-bam!*
(sign: WELCOME, EXPLORERS OF DARKNESS.
forecast of the end/Prophecy of the Apocalypse
Dark Exploration Records)
*bump*
-Ah! I'm sorry~
-Ah, what're u doing~ -.-
*loaded...*
-wow, he rly bought a lot
-isn't he one of those upsellers/scalpers?
-it could be a present for his nephew/niece?
KSE: (It's all mine...)
KSE: (how did I end up getting in this deep?)
Is my everyday life at the company without even a hint of dopamine the problem ?
I didn't know at this point.
sign: Forecast of the End(/Prophecy of the Apocalypse): Dark Exploration Records. START
That in my everyday life,
completely lacking that thing called dopamine--
*peng-glglglglgl... (spinning wheel sounds)*
sign: 1st Place Prize *tick*
--Something like this
would happen.
(id card: Daydream | Inc.
Field Exploration Team
Kim Soleum
employee)
-Do you like it? You're going to cherish it close to your heart, right?
-KSE: Yes.
-Liar. (/You're lying.)
(pixel text:)
you are now (you are now)
going to experience something new
we(/i) hope you like it
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(*utf code for: "I was suddenly struck by a wave of dizziness")
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(Title: Even if I fall into a Ghost Story, I still Gotta Go to Work
it looks like spambots are back on tumblr in droves. so, here's a reminder:
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the same goes for accounts posting nothing but IRL NSFW material! BOTS!
do not interact with these accounts! do not click on any links they post! THEY ARE SCAMMERS! report them as bots and block them.
anyway been writing omegaverse this week for the first time in uhh *checks notes* 11 years and have to say something i find interesting about it is that it's this like. frankly very normal fetish thing that's just breached containtment to a bizarre degree?
on 2 separate occasions i've had conversations with people where they've mentioned something they don't Get about omegaverse and I've been like 'well it's like that bcos it's a fetish thing' and they've been like 'it's a what??'
it gets treated as this like stock fandom AU and i'll see people like 'i don't understand why anyone wants to read this' and i'm like yes that's bcos it's pretty intense* fetish content & you don't have the right assortment of fetishes for it? there's a bunch of other similar Stock Settings that just haven't breached containment.
*intense as in like, Density of fetish content involved rather than intensity of fetish if that makes sense?
im alright with fetish ideas 'breaching containment' because then its less stigmatized but like its still fetish content and its a little perplexing how people could read omegaverse stuff and not realize its fetish content?
SO i think i've observed 2 separate but related things going on:
firstly the aforementioned demographic of people who have somehow genuinely failed to clock that it's a kink thing
but also a second demographic of people who seem to have taken its like. prominence in fandom spaces as a sign that they're somehow 'expected' to like it? i've not really seen this attitude with any other kink.
ppl will talk about it the way they might talk about say high school/college AUs or coffee shop AUs which are very common and i guess are sometimes presented as things that everyone finds fluffy & relatable? when in reality it's more like idk. piss kink. it'd be pretty weird to read a piss kink fic and go 'ewww why does the author expect me to find piss sexy??' well they don't. they expect people who already think piss is sexy to read the fic.
In the name of historical accuracy here is the actual origin point on omegaverse:
Obviously there was a process of development leading up to it but this kink meme prompt led to whats generally accepted as the OG. Ultimately the brain child of this anonymous poster. Have they ever identified themselves??
An important thing to remember here is that while I appreciate why some people find world building heavy omegaverse puzzling or irritating, the fact that someone is writing primarily or exclusively SFW social commentary w world building omegaverse does NOT mean it's not a kink thing for them. Maybe world building is their kink. You don't know.
this post is going around again so have an additional Thought:
the omegaverse belongs to an genre i have mentally dubbed 'speculative kink'. there are various other types of speculative kink; a well known example in fanfiction spaces is the dom/sub AU, a kind of precursor to omegaverse where the premise is 'what if everyone was biologically a dom or a sub'.
however: there various other shared speculative kink settings out there. unfortunately I cannot get into this too much without discussing some uhhh Devils Sacraments I have attended so you will have to trust me. but I'm aware of several other demographics out there doing speculative kink worldbuilding.
a major difference between omegaverse and the other speculative kink settings I'm aware of is that omegaverse takes itself much more seriously. omegaverse works are often aiming to be understood as serious commentary on gender roles with legitimate worldbuilding. in contrast other speculative kink is typically very open about the fact that the worldbuilding is complete nonsense that exists in service of getting to the kink as soon as possible.
this is something that I think really adds to the Confusion around it! to be clear I do not think it's a bad thing and the fact is, yes you can use kink to explore social themes. but there is sometimes an apparent contradiction between the implied aims of an omegaverse work (to comment on gender roles) and the basics of the setting (Turbo Gender Roles).
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