wait are you for real the person that came up with omegaverse
the nature of fandom is collective imagination and evolving tropes, so "came up with" would be disingenuous to claim. pack dynamics, knotting, and even the terms alpha/beta/omega were already common tropes in werewolf fandoms and AUs long before I wrote I ain't no lady, but you'd be the tramp.
but yeah, I was the first (as far as I know) to apply it to a non-werewolf alternate reality with multiple genders, and I got a little deep into it because I'm a nerd for biology. then it got picked up within the (in retrospect) weirdly enthusiastic bestiality zeitgeist in the cw/spn fandom as a more palatable alternative to dudes getting fucked by dogs. (my opinion: that was the key to its success, much like the destigmatization/normalization of rps happened because j2 was a palatable alternative to incest ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) (on another note: lord I miss the cw/spn kinkmemes - they were the wild wild west of kink and nothing has matched them since.
even then, I can't take credit for the concept - I was responding to a kinkmeme prompt asking for a human version of lady and the tramp with "doglike sex."
Hello, will you spend most of your life writing love stories about Tom holland and jake Gyllenhaal, and Peter parker and Quentin beck?
(This is an ask I’m answering without the sender’s name attached, because I don’t want anyone to possibly bother them because of anything I say.)
Hi!
First off, your enthusiasm for this ship is great! It's so small and seeing people excited about it is always a boost. I'm really glad that you want people to keep writing for it.
However, I think your approach to discussing this ship with others could use a little readjusting. You see, at this point I have now received this question, and very slight variations on it, 12 times across four different platforms. Friend, I'm very happy that you're enjoying this fandom, but that is excessive.
Especially since I have answered you twice before this. We even had a conversation that perhaps has slipped your mind.
I've gathered from several others that I am not the only person you are repeatedly contacting, and I'd strongly suggest you to back off a little. With the repetition and frequency, it comes off very bot like and rather pushy. It seems you also have very specific ideas of the fics you would like to see; we've all been there, trust me! But when someone is not interested in writing that, continuing to ask them is kind of rude. You might have a better go of it if you find someone willing to take commissions.
The other thing is – the best, the absolute best ways to support and encourage creators, to keep them creating, is to interact with their work. To comment and kudo and like and reblog their works – nothing is better than that. If I have two fics I'm thinking about writing, one that is wanted by a person who's left a lot of comments and reblogged, the other wanted by someone who has sent a nonspecific ask... the first one is going to win.
I don't say this to be unkind or pressure you, but as far as I can tell, you have never reblogged anything I've done, never kudo'd anything I've written, and the two comments you left said absolutely nothing about the fic they were left on. This seems true of other creators as well. That is very discouraging.
I hope you don't take this as an attack, because this ship can always use some more cheerleaders. But if your end goal is to keep spiderio writers writing for the rest of their lives, your approach could use some adjustment.
anyone else who is fandom old spectating the degree of outrage on tumblr and going... “ah, this again.” I can’t summon an ounce of concern or upset, tbh
sometimes I find myself falling for a character and part of my brain is like “ugh he’s SUCH a stereotypical fandom woobie, I am such a predictable woobie slut” but it never does any good. I fall for the woobie every time.
what can I say, I like my fictional men emotionally locked down and unable to communicate their deep unending pain.
guys...I’m so ready for a new fandom. you don’t even know - I’m like...BEGGING the universe for a new fandom. I have tried all the things that people seem to think are worth trying. I’ve struggled to rekindle the flame of fandoms past.
I neeeeedd it. I need a show I'm dying to watch on repeat until it’s memorized. I need to obsessively examine interactions and subtext of a new ship. I need to fall into an endless pit of potentially-amazing fic.
for the love of god, someone produce content that excites me. anyone. ANYONE AT ALL.
re: Smallville, rivkat has a few nice ones. but I've been tempted to go back to SV and studiously avoiding it, you might just drag me with you if you start bookmarking it, oh god /o\
yeah, I was delighted by the discovery that she used to write it :)
you know, usually I keep bookmarks private for a while when they’re in a fandom that embarrasses me until such a time that they’re buried enough so as not to be embarrassing, but now that I know I will be dragging you down with me, I will post them all publicly FORTHWITH.
