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A space to chat fandom! Anon!

Got a WIP you're excited about? Want to rave about your fave? Or is your fandom absolutely in love with a character who detracts from every scene they bumble into, and you need somewhere to vent? You're in the right place!

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From: (Anonymous)

When surprise A/B/O started showing up in all my fics, in all my fandoms, at first it was sort of interesting (if you skipped the weird sex) because there were clearly a lot of young women and girls kind of exploring how they felt about gender (actual gender) through stories in which both sex classes were men (and thus, people). It would then get strange and messy if they tried to include any actual women, and odd things would happen where all the women would be Betas, and none of the men would be (because only the Omegas and Alphas were interesting to them) and I’d just think about the endless essays you could write about what this all said about cultural depictions of men and women, and emotions, and sexuality, and these young women’s self-image.

Of course, most of those young women probably don’t identify as women anymore, and maybe those essays will be even weirder and more interesting when historians finally write them. And when surprise A/B/O shows up in my fics now, it seems to be more aggressive and sexually unpleasant. But then, that seems to be a pattern in fics across a few fandoms in general.

From: (Anonymous)

I tolerated it for awhile until all the f/f a/b/o had girlpeen. WHY. My unpopular opinion is that all the dick that started being written into femslash was a (mostly) unwitting psyop by certain bi fic writers to normalize MTFs being "real" lesbians.

From: (Anonymous)

It’s all psyops, all the way down.

From: (Anonymous)

I remember reading some early (het) a/b/o where, unlike male alphas, the female alphas didn't have girlpeen and knots, rather some sort of elaborate tentacle system that was internal until arousal. Kind of wish that's where the a/b/o female alpha physiology descriptions had stayed.