Hello everyone! This is @song-system and we are a Black beta who belongs to a wonderful pack. Not everyone on my pack is on Tumblr, but @misces-pieces is!
Our identity is a very complicated thing which is why we're so attracted to miscanis. It makes explaining things a bit simpler. This is our pronouns. Some posts may be tagged with individual alters, some may not.
Speaking of tags! Here are the common tags I'll be using.
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- Mocha's Verse - This is our tag for talking about things that either we've made or have incorporated into our verse.
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hey. you have to love your trans brothers of color okay. and your trans sisters of color. and your nonbinary siblings of color. you have to okay. its simply non-optional
[Image ID: A set of 3 flags. Each flag consists of 5 stripes with the colors, from top to bottom: purple, light purple, yellowish pink, peach, and off-white. The first 2 flags also include a yellowish-pink circle with an off-white crescent that points downward with a symbol in the leftover space. The first flag has the symbol for "femme" and the second one has the Greek letter "omega." /End ID.]
Regarding the "Alphas don't submit to omegas" thing, I also HATE when in omegaverse AUs the Alphas just act like absolute jerks for no reason. If anything I think that said behavior often contradicts the role they supposedly have. Why would someone who should be a "protector" consistently therrorize those who are smaller/weaker than them?
Real and true, anon.
My thing with omegaverse is I'm always asking why. If so many of your alphas in your au/universe are genuinely scum of the earth bottom feeders who have never touched a willing omega in their life - why ? Why are they all like that ? And why is it normalized enough that people aren't doing anything about it ? These are questions that I always have.
You can have a lot of your world be alphas who only want to enslave omegas and betas or use them as servants or breeding factories or whatever, but I'm always going to have questions. Is that a normal way of thinking everywhere or is it just this one person ? Is it more common in a specific place ? Do female alphas think this way too, or just the males ? Does race play into it ? Wealth ? What do betas think of alphas who act like this ? Is it just alphas or do betas feel superior to omegas as well ?
If your answer is just bc alphas = men and men are bad and stinky and only like sex and nothing else - I am unsatisfied. Your AU sucks big alpha balls bro
Wishing intersex peeps especially an extremely amazing pride month, yall r genuinely some of the most awesome and cool people out there. Don’t let reality and the internet erase and silence you. You are so valid in whatever way you are built and identify.
GRAHHHHH leaving little gifts for a mate or for courting.... i think about this all the time... how it might vary depending on dynamic and depending on where they grew up... i would love to leave little rocks and SHELLS and buttons and etc. for someone i was interested in :< and make them little treats too
What are common local courtings gifts? Is it more common for areas with large flower populations for you to give wild flowers you picked? If youre by the beach do shells make more sense? I live where many people have pecan trees in their yards, how sweet would it be for someone to bring their courting partner a bag of pecans they spent time searching for and picking out the good ones!
Also how do your gifts change as you learn more about the potential partner? Starting basic, starting with what's common in the area. But as you learn you bring them trinkets you know they appreciate. You search for hours online and enter auctions to get that ONE gift to really show them YOU are the best mate-to-be!
Also what about outside of courting?
Maybe when youre together you still get them the first thing you gifted them. You always bring home a rock, and theyve grown a cute rock garden. You've both learned recipes for all the fruits you bring.
And your instincts beyond courting. How you gift to people you want in your pack. What's the difference in objects? Its such an intimate gesture. "I want you in my family" "I want you to be my second in command" etc etc
So sort of a more of a pack focus here, with a real anecdote that had me thinking about world building:
One of my close friends has a kid; he turned two like a month ago or something. And despite not being a very verbal kid, he still makes a lot of noises and gestures. And one of those is penguin pebble gifting! He’s done this since he was able to walk and grab honestly.
It started when another close friend of mine, who’s essentially his uncle, kept being gifted random junk. We’re talking food wrappers, toys, books, you name it. And every time, the uncle would say thank you and accept it. And sometimes, the uncle would give this gift back to the kid, and the kid would run back to his mom. So sometimes this kid would be entertained for like 20 minutes, just by running back and forth between, giving the gift to his mom, who’d give it back to him, then giving it to his uncle, and then getting it back, and so on.
It didn’t really hit until he started gifting me the random gifts and his mom saying “oh, look, he trusts you now” that… huh. This kid thinks we’re all a family. We must all be enough of an active presence in his life to facilitate being trusted like this…
And that, combined with these ideas of courting, really give me a lot of ideas! I wonder how packmates, especially new pups, handle the idea of courting. Like:
Would the pack be more scrutinizing of what the child brought to them? As in, they’re being trained from a very early age on what to hunt or scavenge?
What does that teach the kids about privacy and property? Does it teach them to be less aggressive with resource guarding?
How does this impact pups socially? Would conservative packs see this and think “this one will be an alpha” or like “they’ll be a hit with the ladies”? Because that behavior got normalized to being seen only in a romantic light? Would a kid begin to learn social boundaries by having friends at school reject those gifts? Would Valentine’s Day be more like a “courting day” where pups exchange little trinkets they made in art class?
Where and how do kids see and learn this behavior? For some, I imagine it’s natural, but for others, what if they suppress those instincts because their pack is very selective in what they use as gifts? Or what if they don’t give gifts at all, or reject every gift an outside party gives? How many romcoms and love themed episodes are based on courting gifts gone wrong?
Would there be economic consequences for this? Would corporations try to argue that you have better chances if you buy buy buy the best courting gifts? The most richest sourced food, the top competitor of nest materials, etc? Or would the capitalistic mindfuck be lessened, because they legally can’t have a business model that exploits instincts?
