[ SECRET POST #5810 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5810 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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05. [SPOILERS for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever]




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06. [SPOILERS for Sandman]
[WARNING for discussion of rape/sexual assault]




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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #831.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, OP already stated one of the appeals of the trope in their secret: "explorations of politics of such worlds". The worldbuilding in A/B/O fic is one of my absolute favorite things, too.

A little less explicitly stated in OP's secret is that A/B/O gives you new types of queerness to explore, e.g. A/A fic or O/O fic or top!O/bottom!A.


Other elements common to A/B/O fic that I particularly love:

Scents as an integral part of human communication, both to distinguish whether characters are alphas, betas, or omegas, and to convey information about characters' emotional states.

Ruts and/or heats that lead to pining and desperation, e.g. an omega or alpha locking themself into a room with a bunch of sex toys to ride out their heat or rut alone, and the other half of the pairing is right outside the door, and they can both hear and smell each other and are going half-crazy with desire the entire time the heat or rut lasts.

Dominance/submission as an assumed part of A/O relationships, that the characters in the fic variously embrace or reject or have complicated feelings about, etc.


And then there are all the elements common to A/B/O fic that I'm not hugely interested in, but that some readers certainly are. The first response to your comment covered most of them. Then there's also mpreg--including in the context of f/m relationships, which is different from vanilla mpreg fic outside of A/B/O; fpreg in the context of f/f relationships; and dual genitalia (aka the big new trend I've been noticing in A/B/O in my fandoms).

[(Anonymous)]

OP here. You've hit the nail right on the head! There's so much to explore about the concepts that make up the A/B/O setting, especially when the characters are allowed to have actual personalities. I'm not really into it for the kink aspect (I actually find the stuff in the first reply mostly unappealing, but I can live with them), but I love the worldbuilding and, well, the porn can be a nice bonus.

[(Anonymous)]

The only a/b/o fics I've ever enjoyed where the A/A, O/O and beta-centric ones. Omegaverse feels like an extremely heteronormative universe most of the time, and it's a breath of fresh air to explore pairings considered queer in the universe.