Hiii!!! You can call me Luxo!! (I love nicknames by the way so feel free)
(Little warning im bad at phrasing things DX)
Identity: Iām a lesbian and you can use any pronouns you want (usually she/they). Iām neurodivergent, mixed, and pretty silly person overall!! Iām an artist, I cosplay, I make edits, and occasionally I write. Iām also American (sadly. Free me.)
Fandoms: Iām so many fandoms I canāt even list them all! Iāll mostly post about what Iām hyperfixated on at the moment. Main fandoms right now are ā Ted Lasso, Naruto, Cookie Run, Slime Ranchers, Fnaf, and South Park!! (I have many more!! Just ask if you wanna know.)
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Homophobic, Sexist, Racist, Ableist, Antisemitic, and over all hateful people. (BIGOTS)
Toxic Religious people. (If you are religious I donāt mind at all, but please donāt try and push anything onto me or others around me.)
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Trump supporters. (I will not explain further.)
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āwhy do you ship them? I thought the ship wasnāt canon?ā bro weāre talking about fictional characters, who donāt actually exist in real life, from a media that focuses solely on fictional events that are not real either. so what if these two made-up characters didnāt kiss in their source material? they have lots of nasty gay sex on archive of our own and thousands of novel length slow burn enemies to lovers fics written about them. the fanon content at this point far exceeds the whole canonical franchise. the problem isnāt āitās not canonā the problem is that you donāt allow yourself to let go of canon and enjoy the wonder of fan contents that are just as good / valid
pt 1: a brief exploration of their physiology and function in early humans
along with reproductive cycles and mating bonds, a heightened sense for interpreting scents and pheromones is a pillar of the omegaverse. this series uses language that describes scents in a way that we can understand, but the effort to describe scents/pheromones in reality is much like an effort to describe the color red to someone whoās never seen it. āitās like orange but warmer and darkerā might bring someone to red, but it could also bring them to brown depending on their perspective. scents are similarly intangible, and the descriptors used in this series are an abstraction rather than a one-to-one concrete description.
how do scents and pheromones work?
in the omegaverse, humans have glands which produce their individual scent. the scent carries the pheromones most frequently related to emotional state. messages from the scent glands are picked up by the vomeronasal organ (VNO), which is a paired organ located on either side of the septum, near the nasopharynx. the VNO receives pheromonal messages and sends appropriate responses to the brain. as a part of the autonomic nervous system, the VNO functions unconsciously.
these scent glands and chemoreceptors evolved before humans developed language in order to communicate basic messages and strengthen pack bonds and cooperation. they alerted the pack to a danger detected by a scout; demarcated the boundaries of nomadic packsā claimed territory, preventing needless interpack conflict; and signaled pack membersā emotional or physical distress, creating opportunities for packmates to offer assistance or comfort. they also gave basic information about an individualās age, primary (alpha, beta, omega) and secondary sex, and their mating status.
study of early human remains has shown that betas tended to have larger scent glands which would create a stronger scent that traveled further and lingered longer. this would have supported their function as scouts for a pack. complementarily, early omegas had larger VNOs, which would have allowed them to better detect both pack scents and messages from beta scouts. after humans developed agriculture, betasā strong, lingering scents were no longer necessary, and natural selection gravitated toward milder scents. omegasā large VNOs, however, still had purpose and function.
as agriculture developed and settlements became safer, pups gained independence. they were expected to help tend the packās fields and animals, and their play extended to the settlementās full physical boundary rather than the small territory a nomadic pack might claim for themselves. they often wandered without supervision, and omegasā larger VNOs, paired with their strong āprotect pupsā instinct, allowed them to track missing pups more efficiently than any of the other sexes.
crawling out of my nest afterā¦four months to write pt 2 of the scent post
scents and pheromones
pt. 1: physiology and function
pt. 2: scent messages
along with reproductive cycles and mating bonds, a heightened sense for interpreting scents and pheromones is a pillar of the omegaverse. this series uses language that describes scents in a way we can understand, but the effort to describe scents is in reality much like the effort to describe color to someone who may never have seen it. scents are intangible, and the descriptors used in this series are abstractions and metaphors rather than direct concrete descriptions.
review
to briefly summarize the first entry in this series, humans have scent glands present all over the body, with higher concentrations in certain areas (e.g. the palms, neck, and groin, among others). the scent carries pheromones which are interpreted by the vomeronasal organ (VNO) and decoded as basic information about approximate age, dynamic and phenotypic sexes, mating status, and pack health.
individual scent
individual scents function exactly as they sound. they are unique markers that help distinguish one person from another. they are the core of a personās whole scent, and they contextualize all the sensations and underpinnings that carry the broader information about age, sex, etc. these scents are most frequently described with comprehensible reference points: honeysuckle, burning wood, vanilla. there are dynamic sex stereotypesādark and earthy for alphas; light and floral for betas; warm and soft for omegas. in reality, individual scent is not influenced by a personās dynamic sex. an alpha is just as likely to smell like chocolate cupcakes as they are to smell like petrichor or citrus.
what does dynamic sex smell like?
this is difficult to describe. dynamic sex can be described almost as a sensation more than a scent, the way that spice and sourness are sensations that can be carried by flavors without imparting flavor on their own. with that in mind, consider the following descriptions.
alpha: heavy, blunt, magnetic
beta: electric, sharp, vibrant
omega: bright, round, slow
the sensation of a dynamic sex underpins an individualās scent. a warm, woodsy scent might be underpinned with vibrance, which would communicate that it likely belongs to a beta.
the scent of age
it may be more accurate to say that scent carries an approximation of an individualās life stage. upon birth, infants of all dynamic sexes carry a primarily watery, milky, or powdery scent underpinned by the scent of the parent who carried them. the older a child becomes, the more their baby scent gives way to their individual scent. by five or six years old, a child may carry a watery floral scent.
at the onset of the first soft cycle, the dynamic scent sensation begins to emerge. here, a pup may have a bright, powdery, honeyed scent. the presence of the first two sensations communicates that (1) the pup is likely an omega, (2) the pup is young, and (3) the brightness and powdery scent combined mean that the pup likely has not reached their first hard cycle.
the closer a pup becomes to reaching their hard cycle, the more their pup scent fades. a strongly milky scent combined with the dynamic scent indicates that a pup is very near to their first soft cycle, while a scent that is strongly individual with only traces of milkiness suggests that the individual is approaching their hard cycle.
mating status and pack health
this information is strongly inference-based, as mating only slightly changes an individualās scent and pack health does not directly affect it at all. bite-bonded matesā scents will carry traces of their matesā individual scents. on their own, those scents are not enough to communicate who someone is mated to, how strong the relationship is, or any information about their mateās sex. they only communicate that a mate exists. more detailed understanding of both mate and pack health comes form scent marking.
in healthy packs, members are regularly marked with each otherās scent, creating a āpack scentā shared by all members. bite-bonded matesā scents tend to appear stronger or more intrinsic to their mates because they are emphasized by the āmateā scent marker the bite imparts.
most people infer from a personās lack of pack scent that their pack is unhealthy or distant, or that they have been shunned. pack scents that are tinged with anger, frustration, or other strong emotions aid in inferences drawn on relationship health.
emotional scents
much like dynamic sex, emotions add a sort of sensation or undertone to a personās scent. in general, emotions like contentment, joy, and relaxation tend to add warmth, brightness, or softness to a personās scent; while emotions like sadness, loneliness, or frustration tend to darken, sour, or muddy it. because emotions are complex, however, it would be dishonest to say that ājoy brightens the scent,ā for example.
there are some universal markersāfear and pain are distinct and consistent scents that can be identified by infants in their first month of life. but while broad emotional strokes can be inferred by near strangers, more nuanced and complex reading of a scentās emotion requires familiarity. just as you may be able to distinguish your partnerās polite laugh, surprised laugh, and delighted laugh easily, close relations tend to have an easier time distinguishing the scents of frustrated determination, frustrated confusion, and frustrated resignation.
how can any of that information be decoded?
scents carry massive amounts of information that the brain decodes in fractions of a second, providing understanding. to describe how that information might be decoded, consider music.
most people can determine whether a singular note was played by a stringed instrument, a keyboard instrument, or a wind instrument. a skilled violinist may be able to determine whether that note came from a violin, viola, cello, or bass due to their familiarity with and repeated exposure to those instruments.
musicians hearing a singular phrase can determine which mode and key is being played, and they may be able to describe oft-used chord progressions in that mode or genre.
repeated exposure to a stimulus, when that stimulus is important, creates ease in its decoding. while newbornsā vision is blurry and limited in its color perception, a seeing adult parses a myriad of visual stimulus each second, creates connections, and draws inferences, all without conscious thought. we can pick out a close relationās voice in a crowd because we know that voice intimately. parsing and decoding scents functions much the same way.
Scent description can be a big part of omegaverse. This is a master list of Alpha, Beta and Omega scents I've compiled. I will add to them when new things pop up for me.
Note: Just because I've put a scent in a certain category, doesn't mean you can't use it for one of the other second genders. š«¶ I kind of like that alpha a little more savoury, musky and deep. And omega are more sweet, fresh and light. But that's just my interpretation.
I'm starting with Alpha. I'll update the other two a little later.
