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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-02-13 03:37 pm

[ SECRET POST #3328 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3328 ⌋

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Re: Transcript by OP

(Anonymous) 2016-02-14 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
it's diverse, but it's not actually that diverse

This is where our experiences of Omegaverse differ, is guess. In my experience, it really is that diverse.

Personally, I've read quite a few Omegaverse fics that squicked me the hell out, so my defense of the Omegaverse is not coming from a place of loving everything about it. I dislike gender essentialism, and I dislike non-con. Those things are very much not my kink, and they do show up a fair amount in Omegaverse fics. But I love knotting, and I love mating urges fics, so I kept reading and the more I read the more diversity I found.

I guess if you really hate the idea of a strong top/bottom dynamic in your slash fics (which it sounds like you do?) then Omegaverse really isn't for you. But I've read plenty of Omegaverse fics where the Omega likes to top sometimes - just usually not when they're at the height of their heat. So if you wanna call one character bottoming most of the time a het dynamic, yeah, I guess Omegaverse does have that. I disagree that it has anything to do with "icky vaginas" though.

I mean, personally, my shipping history has been het OTP, het OTP, het OTP, het OTP, slash OTP. Suffice to say, I like female characters a lot. And while I'm not attracted to vaginas, I enjoy smut involving a vagina a lot. If anything, I think some women find Omegaverse hot because it's not anchored down by their own personal experience of sex. In that light, it's not that women find vaginas icky. It's that most women have a vagina, and therefore it's often harder for us to suspend disbelief when it comes to unrealistic sexual fantasies when they involve vaginas.

As for Omegaverse being Gor-esque...well, it certainly can be. I've read a few of those. But I've read more Omegaverse fics that reject or subvert Gor-esque dynamics than ones that accept them at face value and fetishize them. And of course, as always, there's a spectrum.